After several days of serious riot ing Calcutta has again returned to normal. Shops are again begin-ming to open and the city is slowly; but surely regaining—confidenee._ The Government announced that it had a black list of 1,000 bad characters known to be in Calcutta and that it was taking tops to arrest} as many of them as possible. This seems to have had a good affect and the goondas (hooligans) who came into Calcutta for the most part from up-country, attracted no doubt by the prospect of loot, are now making] themselves searce.' A disagreeable feature of the disturbances however, has been the number of isolated stabbings which have occurred in broad daylight and which continued for some time after the mass rioting, had stopped. From this spirit the vendetta it is quite clear that] the disorders have left much bitterness behind and it will be a long time before the Hindus and Mohammedans become once more recoreiled one another.
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