BOMBAY RIOTS
Communal Frenzy
POSITION GROWING WORSE
THOUSANDS ARE IDLE
By Telegraph —Copyright. —Press Assn.
CALCUTTA, May 17.
Persistent rioting in Bombay has necessitated the dispatch of further troops to the city. The trouble is growing worse. There were further atttcks to-day. Seven persons were killed and fifty injured, making the total casualties over 70 dead and 730 injured.
There is tense excitement in the city, and the trouble is spreading to the. European shopping centre. The police fired three times on a Moslem crowd who had set fire to a Hindu dwelling, injuring many. The difficulties of the situation are increased by the temporary closure of 30 cotton mills. Thousands of operatives are idle in the street, ripe for mischief.
The communal frenzy reached a climax last night, mobs looting and burning shops and houses and making street bonfires of the contents. Many centres were practically besieged by Hindu and Moslem mobs savagely battling with knives.
The hospitals are filled with the jured and dying. Thousands are fleeing the city.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 123, 19 May 1932, Page 3
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