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Show MOB Of 2000 INDIANS KILLS POLICE FORCE News Reaches London of Slaughter by Nationalists at Ohauri Chauri ! LONDON, Feb. 6. By The Associated Asso-ciated Press.) A mob of 2,000 Indian I Nationalist volunteers and Villagers at- tacked the police offices at Chauri-1 Chauri on February 4. and killed the! 'en' ire staff of officers, the watchman and eight armed pollc who was sent j as reinforcements, says a telegram re-1 jcelved by the Indhi offices here today j I from the British commissioner at I Korakpur, in the northeast of the United Provinces The police offices were burned and, th- bodies of those killed wi re s! ripped and burned, says the telegram. Two of I 'the volunteers were killed and st-ver;ili I Wounded. The India office communique de-J 1 scribing the event characterizes the si'- luatlon as very serious. A subsequent! message gave the number of police; I killed at 17. two sub-inspectors of po- i lice and fifteen comtablcs. |