SERIOUS RIOTING.
MANY KILLED AND INJURED IN BOMBAY. SHOPS LOOTED AND SET ON FZRE. MALTREATMENT OF HINDUS. CALCUTTA, May 16. The riots in Bombay are so serious that four armoured cars from Poona and police from other districts have been rushed to the city. There was more rioting in the morning, when 15 were killed and 180 injured. The totals now are 50 dead and 580 injured, many seriously. Since Saturday, eighteen shops have been looted and set on fire. Hindus have been dragged from the trams and assaulted, and many sections of the city are completely cut off. MOBS DISPERSED. POLICE SET HEAVY TASK. CALCUTTA, May 16. Further riotous scenes have occurred in Bombay. Hindu and Moslem mobs looted shops and stores and set fire to dwellings, mosques and temples, causing thousands of pounds damage, despite the presence of strong forces of police, who dispersed the crowds on six occasions with rifle Are. A police order has banned the public carrying weapons for a month. The Hindu and Moslem leaders are endeavouring to restore peace. Elaborate police precautions, including trenches with barbed wire and armed pickets, frustrated a Congress attempt to raid the Government salt depot at Wadala, Bombay. Thirty Congress followers were arrested.
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Wairarapa Age, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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