DISORDER IN INDIA.
FIERCE HINDU-MOSLEM RIOTS. POLICE COMPELLED TO FIRE . . ON MOBS. BALUCHIS OFFER- ASSISTANCE. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Tuesday, 7.50 p.m.) DELHI, August 5. Seven were killed and over 150 injured in fierce rioting between Hindus and Moslems in Sukkur, a town in Sind, which is at present overcrowded by refugees from flooded areas. Hindus stoned a Moslem mosque, upon which a crowd of infuriated Moslems, arm, ed with axes, knives and bamboo poles, attacked the Hindu merchants and looted their shops. The combatants Were eventually separated by the police, who fired on the mob. Five more were killed and many injured when the police fired to quell a riot between Hindus and Moslems at Ballia, a town in the United Provinces. A Hindu procession of several thousands, which passed a Moslem mosque in defiance of the police ban, was attacked by.hundreds of angry Moslems armed with bamboos. Baluchi landowners of Dera Ghazi Khan have offered the Punjab Government two thousand men, including five hundred horsemen, for use considering the disturbed conditions throughout the country. The landowners state that the Baluchi’s faith in British justice and their loyalty to the Crown is steadfast and unshaken.
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Wairarapa Age, 6 August 1930, Page 5
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