PUNJAB ACTION MAY TAKE SERIOUS TURN
LOXDOX. .Tan. 26. • TI ic I'unjab v c rn i: : '*:it I as dc.-id al to withdraw the c.ises ngahau the eight I'unjab Moslem. lea lers vho were- arrcsted for passivelv resistiug the poliee. They bu'lude Sir Firozkhan Noon, w ho w as arrested 011 ITiday, aird t h • 1 l-'haii of Ma ndot . the ptv id«-nt of the I'uiijab Moslem League. Tiie poliee today anested a further (W) Mo-Jeins, iueludiug si\ town coun cillors, wheu 1 iiey were inarehitig in ].roM'Ssioas-to j . i ot e>! against ihe arrest of the leudeis. Fi ft y-fou r more personwere arrest ed during the day. A di.-pal eli from .luilundur said that loito Moslems s! ornied the maia gate of tlie dist riet gaol as the ]>oliee led in 34 peo|)le wlio had been iiri'ested for del'ying tiie ( tovernnient 's hau on proeessiotis. The erowd stoned the police until reinforee.'neuts dispersed the demoiisf mtors l»y a lathi charge. Spejlking in Karaehi today, Mr. .Titi nah, Ihe MoMetn leader, stiiil that unless the Yietiny t Lord Wavell; intervened immediately, ihe situation arising from tlie I'unjah Go . erniuent "s laui on the Moslem Xational Guards was likely to 1 aJv e a very seiious tuni, for which the entire responsil'ilitv would -rest on the Vii-eroy tuni his Majesty's ( ioveriiment. M r. .linnah denied tlnit the Moslem Xational (iuards fonned the basis of a private tirmy. It was not clear whether the I'unjal) Minist ry i ti Gongres.s Uuionisl -Sikli eoaitioii; or the Govern or (Sir Hvan Jenkinsi or hoth were respon-dbie for the arrests. ile hoped that the I'remier of Ihe Punjab (>Sir Hi/.an Ifyat Ilam, wdio was absent in ] lelhi, would explain his position without ibday. The Xew Delhi radio quoted Mr. Ilussein Suhraw tirdy, the I'rime Minister of Bengai, as saving that the iirrested Moslem League letiders, by their stierilice, had advaueed the Mos Jem ntition to I'akhtan. The action would '-inl'use m life and vigour into the orguiii-at hui and induce voung Moslems to enrol in tlie Xationtil (iuards".
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 January 1947, Page 5
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