MORE FIERCE CLASHES

Chronicle (Levin), 4 September 1946, Page 5

MORE FIERCE CLASHES

Press Assn.-

Bombay Casualties Rising DRASTIC MEASURES ORDERED

By Telegraph

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Received Wednesdas-, 9.55 a.m. BOMBAY, Sept. 3. The police and military opened fire several times to-day when fierce clashes occurred in textile factories north of Bombay. Police headquarters sent radio advice to police stations to adppt drastic and most striking measures against the riots. A considerable reinforcement of British troops has arrived. It is unofficially estimated that 100 persons have been killed since the start of the disorders in Bombay. The official estimate places the casualties in the last three days at 71 killed and 262 injured. Six hundred have been rounded up.„ A report from New Delhi states that armed police and lorry-ioacL of tear-gas squads watched members of Congress and the Moslem League demonstrating outside Pandit Nehru's offices after the swearing-in of the Government. There were no clashes. Pandit Nehru said he was in no mood to" be jubilant. He regretted that the Moslems had "taken the other path." Speaking at his office in Delhi after the swearing-in of the Interim Government, Pandit Nehru said: "We enter this enterprise in order to achieve our objective — complete and full independence for India. Foreign elements in the coutry will have to go. India is going to be run by Indians for the benefit of the Indians." Pandit Nehru was greeted by cheering crowds when he and his colleagues drove to th.e Vice-Regal Lodge. Later some of the new Ministers went to Mr. Ghandi's hut in Delhi to receive his blessing.