GRAVE RIOTING
MILITARY CALLED OUT TEN KILLED AT LAHORE* MOB DEFIANT OF POLICE CROWD STILL MENACING SIKHS OFFEND MOSLEMS By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. •Rec. 7.30 p.m. Lahore, July 20. The Royal Scots were forced to fire four rounds on a huge crowd of Moslem rioters, killing ten and wounding many others, as the climax to a day and night of mob defiance, arising from a Sikh attempt to demolish a disused Moslem mosque situated in the grounds of a Sikh shrine.
The mob resisted police baton charges, smashed prison vans and threatened to overwhelm police under the cover of a barrage of brickbats. The troops were called out while R.A.F. planes circled overhead. The casualties are uncertain as the rioters carried off their dead, but three were later found dead. Fifty police, five of them British, were injured by the stone-throwing. When Indian cavalry charged they met a barrage of brickbats. One cavalryman was thrown from his horse into a drain, where he was trampled to death by his terrified mount. The crowd is still menacing. Despite the curfew they refuse to leave the streets, which armoured cars are patrolling.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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