TROUBLE BREWING

Evening Star, Issue 24293, 7 September 1942, Page 3

TROUBLE BREWING

PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS FARM PRICE SAFEGUARDS (Rec. 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 6. The Associated Press of America says that leading senators predict in strong terms that a grave breach may occur between Congress and the President if Mr Roosevelt in to-morrow’s speech brushes aside the safeguards for farm prices. Senator Moore said: “ If Mr Roosevelt makes a mistake like this it would raise hell in Congress. The only result would be a fight between Mr Roosevelt and Congress, and such might lose the war.” _ Senator George said he did not believe Mr Roosevelt would attempt to set aside the law to accomplish even the most worthy purpose. He added: “If the President intends to change the parity price of provision's I expect he will ask Congress to ratify any action he might propose.” [According to the Associated Press of America, Mr Roosevelt is reported to intend to use his war powers to limit wages and farm prices, although the price control law prohibits a ceiling for farm prices until they have reached 110 per cent, parity.] DISORDERS IN INDIA POLICE FIRE ON MOBS

NEW DELHI, September 5. Three instances of the police firing on mobs are reported to-day. Thre.e were killed at the Lakhisarai railway station, in the 'Mongbyr district, and one was killed at the Jhankanpur railway station. The police also fired ou an armed and violent mob at Belsand. in the Muzaffarpur district. B. Ramarao, editor of the ‘ National Herald,’ in Lucknow, lost his appeal against a sentence or six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 750 rupees for a conviction as the result of a defamation suit filed by the superintendent of the former Lucknow camp gaol. Ramarao’s paper, which is owned by Pandit Nehru, alleged that prisoners were badly treated. FIFTH COLUMN ACTIVITIES LONDON, September 5. Now that the disorders ■ due to the Congress campaign are under control it is possible to refer to the serious threat from “ fifth columnists.” Rioting and street demonstrations have been merely a nuisance compared with attempts to sabotage communications and war production, Mobs led by agitators,obviously acting according to a plan, burned down a number of railway, stations, tore up the rails, and wrecked trains, but prompt police action prevented the sabotage from being more extensive. Nevertheless, transport-for a time was dislocated over a large area of country. The trouble persists,. but the most dangerous agitators are now in gaol. MANY INDIANS NOW CO-OPERATING TIRED CF BUSINESS DISLOCATION (Rec. 12.35 p.m.) Sept. 6. After four weeks it is clear that the first round of the trouble in India is almost over, says the ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ’ correspondent at New Delhi, Many Indians, tired of the dislocation’ of their business and private lives, are now co-operating with the authorities. The Bombay police fired on and wounded two people after a Congress attempt to start a procession. Tho following collective fines were imposed for civil disobedience and disturbances;—Baramat ie £3,750, Cawnpore, Bnlandshahr and Bartabgarh a total of £4,000. - Mr Jinnah urged the exclusion of Moslems from the collective fines which were being imposed ou districts where disturbances occurred. • Ho said ' the Moslems obeyed, and"were still obeying the instruction to dissociate themselves from the Congress move.

BORDER BATTLE IRISH GUNMEN AND POLICE BELFAST, September 4. A 15-minute gun battle between police and. members of the I.R.A. occurred at dawn at the Belleek Police Barracks in County Fermanagh, on the EirS-Ulster border. It is_ believed that there were no casualties. The raiders, after the battle, escaped across the border. , _. . Gunmen at night fired on a. police car in Belfast. ‘'The.'police returned the fire, and one man was wounded. The area was cordoned off. _ A widespread search is being continued for the* perpetrators of a bomb . outrage at Randalstown, where two police officers were buried under the ruins of « police station. The British and American army authorities have been . asked to take extra precautions for guarding army stores. Most of the _ arms discovered in secret arsenals raided this week were of British origin, and most of them were stolen from barracksQuantities of stolen arms are still missing. , Gerald Adams, aged 16, fired <m the police in Belfast with a revolver, and wounded a policeman in the foot. The* police returned the fire, and Adams wa* wounded and sent to hospital. Another youth of 16 was detained and charged with being in possession of illegal documents. Two men were also detained after a search of_ a house in which a revolver, ammunition, and three Mills bombs were found. POLICEMAN KILLED IN AMBUSH (Rec. 8 a.m.) BELFAST, September 6., Several men ambushed a police patrol at crossroads in Strabane. They shot dead a policeman and wounded two special constables.

DEATH OF CONSTABLE (Rec. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, September <5. One of the special constables who wa» wounded at Strabane later died, EXECUTIONS IN PRAGUE HIGH CHURCH DIGNITARIES WASHINGTON, Sept. 5., The Berne correspondent of the New York ‘ Times ’ says that the Gestap<» has executed four high Orthodox Church dignitaries at Prague after a. public trial by a_ special tribunal on charges of having murdered the former chief of the German S.S. in. Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, and of having sheltered, enemy parachute' troops who landed in the protectorate. ''