FIERCE RIOTING IN CALCUTTA.
India Celebrates “Hartal.”
SERIOUS CLASHES WITH POLICE. (United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received April 16, 8.40 p.m.) CALCUTTA, April 16. Additional details of the rioting show that tramcars were stoned in Bhowanipore. Nine were injured, including a woman, who is in a grave condition. Several cars were wrecked. The police arrested twenty persons, and discovered dumps of stones hidden on the house tops. Fifty people, including fifteen British police sergeants and Indian constables, and eleven firemen, were injured in the rioting yesterday. Two Sikhs were taken to hospital suffering from bullet wounds. Miss Anna Dench, a British girl, who was pulled from a motor-cycle and stoned, was rescued by the British police, while being dragged away by Sikhs. Armed police cleared the streets by using their bayonets, while the fire brigade manned the noses.
Many roads were blocked by dismantled cars, and fanatical students held up the trams by lying on the rails.
A “hartal” was celebrate*! throughout India yesterday. Students absented themselves from the schools and colleges. Foreign cloth was publicly burned.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18546, 17 April 1930, Page 9
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177FIERCE RIOTING IN CALCUTTA. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18546, 17 April 1930, Page 9
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