UPHEAVAL IN BOMBAY.
HIMD’JS v. MOSLEMS. ANXIOUS TO TAKE REVENGE. DISTURBANCES CONTINUE. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. CALCUTTA, May 20. There are no signs of an abatement of the communal warfare at Bombay. The city and the mill areas are paralysed. Thousands of Hindu workers are anxious to take revenge on the city itself for Moslem atrocities. They are now engaged in guerilla tactics against ail Moslems in the suburbs. The police and military arc firing at sight of combatants, but their task is difficult.
In the rioting last night 132 people were killed and 1000 were seriously injured. The Bombay Light Horse and an auxiliary force of artillery have been called out to aid the troops and the police In coping with the rioters. Miss Madeline Slade, devotee of Gandhi, has been released on the completion of her sentence of three months’ imprisonment for participating in the civil disobedience campaign. She was refused permission to interview Gandhi in the Poona gaol.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18642, 21 May 1932, Page 5
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