The Archive · 1893

How It Began

If any one desires te know exactly I the disturbances bruke out, he only be informed that when the Mussuluian ne gregation emerged from the great Ju Blusjid which holds six thousand worsl pers, x certain number of them raised the ery of Din, din," and proceeded ut once the direction of a large Hindu Hanuman Lane, with the intent attacking and destroying it, The po: sibility of such an attempt being nent to the pi 'A considerable portion of the numerically madoqua force, upon whiny devolves the respousibility of protecting the lives and property of x city of eight hundred thousand inhisbitants, bad been kept on duty up to three v'eluck on Friday morning te guard against riot during the night, The p cautions taken are credited by the police with having postponed the outbreak, As it was, a small force of European and native police were at hand to interpose between the Mussulmans and the Temple, and give time for the arrival of reinforcements, which beat back the rioters,

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