BOOING AT CALCUTTA
CHIEF OF POLICE ATTACKED SENSATION IN BUSY SQUARE DRIVER OF CAR WOUNDED ONE OF ASSAILANTS DEAD By Telegraph— -Press Asan. —Copyright. Rec. 12.45 a.m. Delhi, Aug. 25. Bombs were flung at the car of Sir Charles Tegart, Police Commissioner, as he was driving in Dalhousie Square, the centre of the European business quarter of Calcutta, at 11 o’clock this morning. Sir Charles was uot hurt but. his driver was wounded. A second assailant was killed, apparently by the premature bursting of a bomb in his hand. ’’ Sir Charles leapt from his car and chased one assailant, who subsequently was arrested. The assailant was carrying two other bombs. There are believed to be four assailants. Dalhousio Square is the busiest shopping centre of Calcutta. The four assailants were of the Bengali student class, about 25 years old. One is dead, one is wounded and perhaps dead, and the other two were arrested. The incident is causing great excitement among Europeans and little business is doing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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