Word: chittagong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Despite the presence of extra police and two regiments which have been guarding Chittagong in Bengal since the attacks on Britons there last year, a white sahib's dance at Chittagong was broken up last week by Bengali who threw bombs, killed a white woman and two policemen, wounded six whites...
...Chittagong, a Bengal river port on the other side of India, a well organized band of armed raiders swept down on the town at nightfall, cut all telegraph wires, gutted the police armories and telephone building, fled to the hills. Seven were killed: two Europeans, two native police, three innocent-bystanding taxicab drivers...
...alarming tendency to transcend the pacific limitations imposed by Ghandi's program. The situation in India today can well be viewed with alarm by British officials. It has become necessary to remove all women and children from the vicinity of Peshawar where violence is at fever heat. At Chittagong an attempt to cut off all communications resulted in an indiscriminate massacre of Europeans and natives. At Simla some fifty casualties have been reported...