SOME KILLED, MANY INJURED IN RACE RIOTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17830, 26 April 1926, Page 15

SOME KILLED, MANY INJURED IN RACE RIOTS.

BRITISH POLICE AMONG VICTIMS IN CALCUTTA. TROOPS ARRIVE TO QUELL SERIOUS OUTBREAKS. By Telegraph.—Pres* Assn.—Copyright, Reuter's Telegrams. DELHI, April 24. Reports from the northern parts of the city of Calcutta show that a large number of assaults on individuals took place to-day, with the result that the number injured and admitted to various hospitals now totals forty-nine. Ihu assaults were entirely confined to tabbing and other attacks. No organised lighting occurred. The riot situation is still considered grave. Further casualties reported include three deaths. The police have organised living squads, and hat e the situation in hand. CALCUTTA, April 24. Despite police precautions a Communist clash occurred this morning. With the coming of nightfall the northern part of the city bore a deserted aspect, most of the"shops having closed at the suggestion of the police. | Two armoured cars paraded some of | the worst streets and a high military officer inspected the affected area at dusk. Solitary cases of assault and looting continue. It is reported that two Hindus were found dead in the streets bearing marks of severe dagger attacks, while in Canning Street a Hindu was attacked by a party of Mohammedan hooligans and before death was disembowelled. One police constable was severely wounded whilst on patrol in the Burra bazaar, and it is now reported that an English police sergeant named Kirby received a gunshot wound in an affray earlier in the day. A hundred armed Gurkhas from the frontier have arrived. A crowd of five hundred Mohammedans armed with pick-axes, crowbars, Sticks, swords and stones march ed down the Mechua bazaar street to the accompaniment of drums. Two police sergeants tried to dissuade them from proceeding, but vainly. The sergeant snatched and broke a drum, and brickbats were then thrown at him. He whipped out a revolver and dispersed the mob. Meanwhile large crowds of Hindus armed with knives, crowbars and axes assembled and a fusillade of brickbats occurred between the opposing parties, lasting about an hour. The police firing blank cartridges, dispersed the combatants. The total casualties and deaths to date are fifteen dead, forty-one injured.