Show FIRED POINT BLANK natives bowed down by british artillery london aug 5 abe evening news this afternoon publishes a letter from a calcutta volunteer reiterating the statement that during the recent rioting there the artillery fired point blank at a mob oi mill hands who were marching to boin the rioters with the result that 1500 of the natives were killed the secretary of elate lor india lord george hamilton was questioned in the louse n commons on july jtb as to the oc curacy of the native report that 1500 persons were killed during the noting which bad just occurred in the vicinity of calcutta u one of the results of the stringent measures taken by the government officials to limit and stamp out the bubonic plague he replied that about seven persons were killed and that about twenty were wounded during the ciote referred to |