FANATICS ATTACK POLICE
TROUBLE AT ALAHABAD FAIR. By Telegraph—-Trass Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, Jan. 28. Tho hugo fair at Alahabad had its first real trouble yesterday, 100 people being injured when 5000 semi-nude Saddhus, armed with cudgels, stormed the police station and the headquarters of tho volunteer scouts. These Saddhus are known to belong to a quarrelsome sect which resented an order expelling them from a certain compound. A critical situation was averted by the police, a sub-inspector firing three revolver shots, whereupon lhe Saddhus reced off to thc’ir own huts.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1930, Page 14
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