INDIAN CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 258, 30 July 1942, Page 5

INDIAN CAMPAIGN

Congress Delay Urged NEW DELHI, July 28. Members of the Congress Party itself are pressing Mahatma Gandhi and the president, Maulana Azad, to suspend for a time the threat of civil disobedience. Satyanarayan Sinha, a member of the working committee who is also the party's Chief Whip in the Central Legislature, suggested to Dr. Azad that the disobedience decision should be jKistpoued till October, when a now Congress committee is to be elected. Mr. Sinha argues that the most important decision should rest on the committee that is charged with implementing the policy. It is Had beyond measure that Mr. Cripps, acting as a devils advocate, should make such statements to America, said Jawaharlal Nehru, the former Congress leader, in commenting on the recent broadcast.. “He. lias injured British-Iu dian relations more than any other Englisnniii could have done. He picked out passtiges from Gandhi’s statements with out reference to the context and built, up a ease for British Imperialism. Cripps completely misrepresented the Congress position. The Congress cleaily stated that a free India would defend the countrv in everv way, and by nrtned force. The question of non-violence had not arisen. Dr. Amltedkar, leader of the depressed classes, in an article in th® “Times of India,” says: "Gandhi’s present move is irresponsible and Insane.” EXTENSIVE BOMBING IN BURMA i British official Wireless.' RUGBY, July 28A New Delhi communique states that R.A.F. bombers yesterday attacked railway. river, and road trans|)ort in central Burma. The main railway line between Mandalay and Rangoon was bombed. Seventyfive miles south-west Of Mandalay, engine sheds, trucks, sidings, and the permanent. way were bombed. Mytinge also was bombed, while bombs were dropped among barges.