KARACHI RIOT
GOVERNMENT VIEW. BOMBAY, Wednesday. The Government has issued a communique dealing with investigations into the recent firing by British troops on a riotous Moslem mob at Karachi, when 27 were killed and 134 injured. The opinion is expressed that loeal officials made every possible effort to prevent serious rioting, and a situation of grave danger was averted only by the discipline and steadiness of the troops, who, had they not fired at the critical moment, would have been overwhelmed by a fanatical mob. The Governor- of Bombay, Lord Brabourne, discussed the question with the Viceroy', Lord Willingdon, who concurred in the Bombay Government’s findings and its opinion 't'hat'ho useful purpose-.would, bo served in conducting a public enquiry, as it would tend furthem to embitter Hindu-Mosb'm feel-
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 April 1935, Page 5
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