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3- Saturday, May 29th. 



On the following day, the disturbance of the previous night 

 led to bitterness of feeling. 1 The Buddhists of Kandy particu- 

 larly resented the interruption of their Perahera by the Coast 

 Moormen. They smashed up some of the Moorish bazaars. 

 The Coast Moors shot dead a Sinhalese boy in Colombo Street, 

 Kandy. The murderer was not arrested. This was the first 

 blood shed in the riots. The murder deeply stirred the Buddhist 

 crowd. There was vigorous rioting, but no personal violence 

 was done to anyone, and though the shops in the bazaars were 

 damaged, there was no looting. Sinhalese bazaars were also 

 attacked by Moors. 2 Moorish buildings in Katugastota and 

 Mahaiyawa, suburbs of Kandy, were damaged. The Kandy 

 police took no steps to put down the rioting. Additional police 

 were brought from Colombo. 



4. Sunday, May 30th, Kandy. 



All Moor bazaars were closed in Kandy. Additional police 

 and the military (Indian Punjabi soldiers) were brought up from 

 Colombo. 3 Leading Sinhalese, Tamil, and Muhammadan 

 residents* attempted a reconciliation. They waited in deputa- 

 tion on Mr. Vaughan, Government Agent of the Central Province, 

 and asked for his assistance. After discussion, they were taken 

 to Mr. H. L. Dowbiggin, Inspector-General of Police, Mr. 

 Vaughan, the Government Agent, being present. The interview 

 lasted a considerable time. While the proposals of the Inspector- 

 General of Police were being discussed, the crowd outside in the 

 streets began rioting. The purpose of the leading men was, if 

 possible, to calm and disperse the crowd, with the co-operation 

 of the officials, before it was too late. According to the Press, 

 the crowd was moved by the outrage on a Sinhalese woman in 

 Mahaiyawa. 5 They began to destroy the bazaars of Coast 



i. Numbers of Buddhist pilgrims come from all parts of the Island to worship 

 at the Temple of the Tooth, the Dalada Maligawa, at Kandy on Wesak Day, 

 which is celebrated throughout the Island by the Sinhalese Buddhists. 

 Special trains are run ; the principal streets are decorated, and Buddhist 

 Peraheras, attended by crowds, go to the Temples. 



2. Ceylonese Newpapers. 



3. The troops now stationed in Colombo are Indian Punjabi soldiers, some of 

 whom are Muhammadans. The Punjabis have nothing in common with the 

 Sinhalese. 



4. They included Messrs. William Dunuville, Authur Perera (Advocate and a 

 Christian), Savarimuttu (Member of the Municipal Council of Kandy, Tamil). 



5. Ceylonese Newspapers. 



