BOMBAY RIOTS
FIFTY-SIX PERSONS INJURED
ctifil’tw on DLR IMPOSID. PROHIBIT (ON POPULAR. By Telegraph—Press Associat ion —Copyriglt tßeceived This Day. 1.20 p.m.) LONDON. August 1. The “Daily Mail's" correspondent al Bombay says the riots resulted in injury to 5G persons including 27 policemen. A curfew has been imposed for a fortnight. 'lhe prohibition celebrations included,:! demonstration by a hundred thousand Moslems and Hindus singing funeral hymns of the demon drink, a figure representing which was burned by school children, a mass ■.■ reeling congratulating the Government on the institution of prohibition. The police, with fixed bayonets, are watching strategic points, with orders to fire on rioters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 6
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