KARACHI RIOTS
SHOOTING OF MOSLEMS CABINET VIRTUALLY CENSURED. Press Association Electric Teleizrapb—Copyright KARACHI, Friday. The Delhi' correspondent of “The Times 5 ’ states that the Government was virtually censured when a .motion adjourning the Assembly in order to discuss the Karachi shooting was carried by 67 votes to 52. < The opposition alleged . that tho authorities failed to take sufficient precautions to prevent developments arising in a situation which was foreseen for several days.. Sir Henry Craik, Home member, said that a Karachi magistrate’s report showed that the mob did not intend to rebury the-body, but merely to inflame feelings against Hindus. The mob "stoned two officials, overwhelmed the .police, and actually seized a soldier’s rifle. If the soldiers had not fired the whole population would have suffered; as the Hindus did in 1927.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 March 1935, Page 5
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