SITUATION IN INDIA

Evening Star, Issue 24284, 27 August 1942, Page 5

SITUATION IN INDIA

LAWLESSNESS SUBSIDING LONDON, August 2b. The New Delhi correspondent ot ‘ The Times ’ says that the wave ot violence in India is rapidly subsiding. Law-abiding sections in some areas are co-operating with the troops -and police in rounding up looters. Demonstrations in Bengal continue on a reduced scale. There have been individual instances of damage to Government as well as public utility property in Madras. A stay-in strike at one mill in Coimbatore led to a riot in which two-people were kilted. The police at Cawnpore fired on a crowd, resulting in four casualties.

It is premature to assume that there will be no more trouble. Clandestine Congress tracts are being circulated widely. Congress members in Bihar are distributing pamphlets calling on public servants ■to resign. Congress supporters in one area in Bengal are urging non-payment of rents ami taxes, and free manufacture of salt.

A Lucknow communique reports that in two instances in which police were forced to fire eight people were killed. Collective fines of £1,500 and £560 were imposed on two villages. A communique issued by the Government of Bihar and Orissa province says that J 7 people were killed on August 19’ in the Buxnr area when police and troops fired on crowds. There were serious riots at Katra and Asanol, troops firing on crowds. Sixteen people wore killed at Sasaram on August LI, when the authorities fired on a daeoit-led mob.

ARCTIC CONVOYS

LOSSES HEAVY

WASHINGTON, August 25. Captain Lovett, Navy Director of Public Relations, reveals that the losses in convoys to Russian Arctic ports sometimes reach 50 per cent, of the supplies. “It is difficult to get guns, ammunition, and food supplies to Russia,” he said. “ In some convoys via Munnansk and Archangel there has been a loss of 50 per cent, of supplies, but wo still feel it is worth while if we get the rest through.” lie added that the United States lias not lost a troopship since entering the war.

E-EOATS SET ABLAZE

AIR FORGE ACTIVITY

(British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 26. The Air Ministry says that single aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked targets in Western Germany and Holland in daylight yesterday.

Last night aircraft of the Coastal Command continued attacks on e my shipping. Two ships in convoy off the Frisian Islands were hit, and docks and shipping at La Pallice were also bombed. From these operations one aircraft of the Bomber Command is missing. An enemy aircraft was destroyed near the south coast this morning.

A Hurricane bomber made a lone attack on seven German E-boats only two miles off the French coast, during the night, leaving one of them in flames. Two 2501 b bombs were dropped on the last boat, which was left blazing.