MORE RIOTS AND BLOODSHED

Chronicle (Levin), 8 September 1947, Page 5

MORE RIOTS AND BLOODSHED

Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 7. Troops were called out in Mysore eitv after a large crowd tried to storm the Maliarajah's palace, reports Reuter 's eorrespondent in Bangalore. The police pushed the« crowd back with batons, but the crowd barrieadqd the road with trees and boulders, smashed the street lamps, cut the telephone wires and stoned the police who then fired, killing one and wounding four. The authorities elosed the schools and colleges until September 14, and imposed a 4S-hour curfew. A military guard has been posted at the residence of Dr. R. C. Roval, Minister of Education, after student demonstrators tried to attack his housQ. The police earlier used tear gas and twice charged with lathis to disperse the processions. In a suburb of Bangalore the police twice fired on 'defiant crowds, killing two people. The campaign for the establishment of a "responsible government" began in Mysore on September 1. The Government on September 4 ordered the arrest of the leaders of th.e State Congress Party which was said to have organised strikes and proeessions as part of a civil disobedience campaign. Three w^re hbled and ten injured in an explosion in the railway carriage. of a train at Ne.w Delhi. main station. The police found knives, spears and a large quantity of explosives m the carriage after the explosion. Gandhi's s.ecretary said Gandhi before he broke his fast on Tkursdav warned the comniunity leaders who guaranteed peace in Caleuuta that if communal frenzy broke out again he would have to go on an ' ' irrevocable

fast" which could not be broken once undertaken. The Indian Government appointed Mr. K. C. Neogy as special Gabinet minister to handle the relief and reliabilitation of Punjab refugees. The Indian Cabinet also appointed a special committee, ineluding Lord Mountbatten, Pandit Nehru, Pandit Patel and Field Marshal Auchinleck, to deal with the Puujab situatiou. A later New Delhi message states that twqlve were killed and seven injured when Sikhs and Hindus looted shops in the main shopping cqntre of New Delhi on Sunday morning. Police fired on the looters.