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Waikato Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2488, 29 December 1921, Page 5

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* FIGHT TO A FINISH GHANDI THREATENS VIOLENCE By Cable-Press Association-Copyright DELHI, Dec. 27. A serious riot occurred in the Mohammedan quarter of Calcutta between Mohammedans and Anglo-Indians following an altercation with a hawker. Passers-by took - sides, and fire-arms were used till armed police interfered and dispersed the crowd, after 25 had beon wounded, one mortally.

A general attack by Mohammedans on the Anglo-Indian quarter was frustrated, 44 being arrested. On Boxing morning a constable was found battered to death after escorting a prisoner to the lock-up. While the police were searching for the murderers some houses and a mosque were set on fire. Wild reports were circulated that the polico were looting and firing buildings indiscriminately and shops were hurriedly closed. Twenty-four arrests were made, and' the situation has now calmed down.

Following a long campaign of antiBritish vituperation and seditious incitement the authorities took action against the newspaper Independent, all the editorial and managerial staff being arrested, and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Despite this the newspaper appeared in manuscript form from the house of the imprisoned leadei', thousands of copies being distributed. After the first issue the new editor was arrested and sentenced to a year's rigorous imprisonment. Further arrests of extremists are reported from various parts of India. At the Extremist Conference at -Ahmedabad Gandhi declared that he; intended to pursue his activities unabated, and if unsuccessful would abandon fJka --- -•" nrnrviTiTrnn» TitA W jjS