A HINDU FESTIVAL
MUD-SLINGING DIVERSION TWENTY-FIVE ARRESTS MADE. CALCUTTA, March 19. The Hindu spring festival called “Holi, ” -when a saturnalia of rejoicing is indulged in and red powder is thrown, has just been held. The festival sometimes leads to riots when Moslems are pelted with the red earth. The most elaborate police precautions were taken to ensure that there was no disturbance in the jute miles. Twenty-five arrests were made in Calcutta on a charge of flinging mud at passers-by.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20103, 23 March 1928, Page 3
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80A HINDU FESTIVAL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20103, 23 March 1928, Page 3
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