Moormen. A few people were killed, and several injured. The 

 police and the regulars (Punjabis) were called out. Many arrests 

 were made and the rioters dispersed. There was a lull in Kandy 

 itself, but the disturbance spread to the suburbs and neighbour- 

 ing villages by some of the rioters running there. The regulars 

 were sent after them in motor-cars to places such as Katugas- 

 tota, Kadugannawa, Getambe, Wattegama, Kahatapitiya 

 (Gampola), Teldeniya, Talatuoya, Galagedera, Matale, Pera- 

 deniya, etc., where they severely dealt with the villagers. In 

 Kandy, Mr. Dassanayake, a clerk in the Government Kachcheri, 

 who was walking along the road in the evening, was stabbed 

 by a Moorman, Omerdeen, who was himself killed by the 

 Sinhalese. At this stage, leading Buddhists began to be 

 arrested who had had nothing to do with the riots perhaps 

 because they were Buddhists. Among them was Mr. F. B. 

 Walgampahe, Basnayaka Nilame, the Lay Chief of the Ancient 

 Temple of Gadaladeniya (Gampola), circ. 1371. He was taken 

 into custody by Punjabi soldiers. On reaching Kandy he was 

 found to be dead. Gampola is only a few miles from Kandy. 



5. Sunday, May 30th. 



The rioters came to Gampola, where the lawlessness was 

 taken up. Coast Moor bazaars were broken up. While the 

 police and the military followed, rioting spread to the villages all 

 along the Kandy-Colombo line down to about Mirigama (a 

 village in the Western Province, about thirty miles from 

 Colombo), where Coast Moor bazaars were broken into and 

 their property destroyed. 



6. Monday, May 31st. 



Things were quiet in Kandy on Monday. In Colombo a 

 dispute arose at a bazaar where refreshments are served between 

 some Sinhalese workmen of the Government railway yard at 

 Maradana and a Coast Moorman who owned it. The Coast 

 Moorman was assaulted. Complaint was made to the police (the 

 police headquarters are quite close to the Government railway 

 yard), and an attempt to identify and arrest the assailants led to 

 a serious disturbance in the railway yard. When the men left 

 off work they went round to the other workshops in Colombo 

 (including the Government factory), speaking to the men. It 



