MOSLEMS AND HINDUS
A RIOT IN CALCUTTA ! CALCUTTA, April 6. i Eighteen people were injured in I clashes between Hindus and Moslems at Behala, a suburb of Calcutta, in ; connection -with the Moslem festival < of Bakr id. ; The dispute arose over Moslems tak- i ing two cows to a mosque for sacrifice, 1 to which Hindus and Sikhs objected. < Religionists attacked each other i with knives, sticks, and stones. The • riot was eventually quelled by the i police. } I WHITE PAPER ON INDIA < ( 1 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE. t c LONDON, April 6. The House of Lords without a di- t vision approved of a motion to refer 1 the White Paper on India to a select t committee of both Houses. i Air Winston Churchill declined to f serve on the committee. i
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 7
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