United Provinces | An attempt to picket Muderwa bazar and prevent 1st February 1922 | sales of fish, drugs and liquor had been Chauri Chaura. | frustrated by police. Also an Ahir (gowli | caste) Government pensioner, who was a previous | convict and had become volunteer, was called up | and threatened with loss of his pension. The | volunteers, determined on Saturday, that is the | next bazar day, to forcibly picket the bazar | and overawe all opposition by their numbers. | The owner of the bazar is a loyal zaminder. The | volunteers proceeded to the bazar through the | police station grounds. They attacked the | police station with kunkars and bricks. | Eventually the police fired in the air. The | attack was renewed with greater force. The mob | rushed the police and they fled, some into the | fields and some into the buildings. A few | police must have fired on the mob in earnest, | but it cannot be said whether it was before the | rush or not. Buildings were set on fire and all | the force there except one constable and one | chaukidar, who escaped were brutally beaten to | death and then burnt. Also a little boy servant | of the Sub Inspector was murdered. Resistance | to the mob was, I fear, badly organised. Then | the mob tore up two rails on the line, cut | telegraph wires and scattered. | | Twenty-one police and chaukidars killed & two | rioters. | Bihar and Orissa | Two Indian boys quarrelled in Railway Works, 3rd February 1922 | Jamalpur. One as result being rendered Jamalpur. | unconscious. Action taken by Railway | authorities who dismissed two men did not | satisfy popular demand for removal of head | maistry and on 10th an attempt was made to | assault him in office which was stoned. Works | manager asked men in foundry either to work or | leave and as they refused to do either they | were locked out on 11th and stoned men | arriving. Crowd at Jamalpur was dispersed but | many workmen came in by local trains from