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INDIAN GOVERNMENT DEFEATS CENSURE

Continuation Of Riots And Fighting

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

NEW DELHI, March 9

The Indian Government defeated, a censure motion 113-28 in Parliament today but food-agitation violence continued in West Bengal state and fighting spread in the wild tribal hills of South-east Assam state, the Associated Press reported.

Mrs Ghandi, the Prime Minister, had defended the roles of Indian troops trying to cope with the uprisings and urgently pleaded for peace so India could concentrate on feeding her 480 millions.

Agitators against food shortages in Bengal looted the rail road station in Bansberia. 30 miles from Calcutta, bu t were driven off before they could set the station afire.

Near Calcutta s Dumdum airport, passengers defended a bus from children who tried to burn it. Mobs burned the Congress Party leader’s house in Ranaghat and a government office building in Shantipur. In south-east Assam, a column of the Assam Rifles marching to relieve the town

|of Lungleh was reported ambushed and possibly wiped out by Mizo tribesmen. Reports said survivors of the 50-man unit surrendered. Other. Army columns continued their push through jungles thick with snipers hoping to free Champai and Lungleh, both overrun by the Mizo rebels. ! The Mizos are demanding i a state of their own, indej pendent of India.

In Bombay 40 buses were I damaged in stone throwing incidents by rioting strikers yesterday on the ninth day of . the work stoppage by 200,000 textile mill employees. The i strikers demand a bonus. > Police said 67 shops in the I industrial district had been • looted by the mob. They said 19 persons were arrested. ; Six policemen including two officials, were injured during police baton charges.

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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 17

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281

INDIAN GOVERNMENT DEFEATS CENSURE Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 17

INDIAN GOVERNMENT DEFEATS CENSURE Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 17

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