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QUIET HAS returned to a sedate British Proper-
ties neighborhood after a tense four hour con-
frontation Wednesday between police from
throughout the Lower Mainland and a crowd of
angry Sikhs.

The Sikhs were intent on
stopping an Independence
Day flag-raising ceremony

scheduled for the front lawn
of the home of Indian Consul
General Jagdish Sharma

By LOUISE TURNER

They claamed victory after
they delayed
scheduled for 1O aim
Wednesday afternpoofi

Througheut the protest
there were scuffles with
police but while tensions were

the ceremony
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high. a feared full-scale riot
did not materialize

Between 250 and = 300
demonstrators began
assembling at 1045) Eyre.
mount in the British Propet
tics at about 8 a m= and 84 of
them managed to break
through a blockade of police

officers to occupy the front
lawn of the home where they
burned an Indian flag and
shouted protests

The rear window of
consul general's car was
smashed during an carly
altercation, and one man was
taken into custody and later

the

charged with muschiet

A second man was artested
in another incident
charges have not yet
laid

One protester who rushed

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