INDIA
A WRITER'S INFLUENCE.
STRIKES AND RIOTS,
Press Association-By' Telegraph-Copyright CALCUTTA, July 24.
The cloth and copper bazaars and markets, and a majority of the Hindoo shops in Bombay, are closed out of sympathj' with' Tilak, the Nationalist) leader, and writer of seditious press articles.
Twenty thousand mill-hands have struck,
Further riots have occurred, which the military suppressed, killing one man and wounding several' other persons.
ATTEMPTED TRAIN-WRECKING.
MOB FIRED UPON,
Received 4.20 p.m., July 261 h. CALCUTTA, July 25.
The mob at Bombay attempted to wreck Curray Road station. They held the up train' and stoned a magistrate and the police, whereVpon the volunteers fired a volley, killing five persons and wounding 53.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13656, 27 July 1908, Page 5
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114INDIA Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13656, 27 July 1908, Page 5
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