RETURN TO NORMAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1942, Page 3

RETURN TO NORMAL

REPORTED IN INDIA SOME ISOLATED INSTANCES OF ROWDYISM. IMPROVEMENT IN BOMBAY & DELHI QUIET. LONDON, August 14. The latest news of the situation in India is of a general return to normal, though isolated incidents of rowdyism continue to be reported from widely separated places. Delhi is definitely quiet and the shops are reopening. There is also an improvement in Bombay, where there has been a further resumption of bus and tram traffic. I MOSLEM DEMANDS i ; EQUAL VOICE WITH HINDUS WANTED. ! CONGRESS POLICY DENOUNCED BY DR. JINNAH. ' (By Telegraoh—Press Association—Copyright) BOMBAY, August 14. Dr, Jinnah, president: of the Mos- ■ lern League, interviewed, stated ; that Moslems were agreeable to 1 join a provisional government for j the duration of the war, provided, I first, .that they exercised an equal ; voice with Hindus; and, secondly, ; that Britain agreed to concede | Moslem autonomy after the war. ! “Congress is not only holding a pis-; tol at the British Government: it is i also holding a pistol at me,” he said, I “We hope the British Government will I not make concessions to Congress by i sacrificing the Moslems. That would I be the last straw for the Moslems. We | will not submit to any central gov-j eminent with a Hindu majority. We. envisage the separation of Moslem India from Hindu India. Sind, Baluchistan and Punjab, the north-j west frontier provinces, form a Mos-; lem State or Dominion, and Bengal; and Assam form another.” Other People’s Ideas P'

STRONG ATTACK ON CONGRESS LEADERS. MADE BY FORMER PREMIER OF MADRAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, August 14. In a statement, condemning organised hooliganism in India, Dr. Rajogobalachari, a former Premier of Madras, who resigned from the Congress Party Working Committee at the time of Sir Stafford Cripps's mis- ] sion, said that those who directed activities involving such mad destruction and disre-j gard of human safety were deluding them-' selves and destroying the progress achieved.; Printed incitements to sabotage of public; property, clothed in Gandhi language, were; being widely distributed and plans to dis-, locate social order were afoot. If the auth-: orities failed to check these disorders,, mob * rule of the worst type would be established. | PASSIVE RESISTANCE YET TO BE RECKONED WITH. ACCORDING TO OBSERVERS. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 14. , Although rioting in India is dying down, observers do not think the Indians are calling off their campaign to oust the British. They forecast that the present violence will be replaced by Gandhi’s pol-

icy of passive resistance. j There were no disturbances either | in Bombay or Delhi today. Official figures show that 40 persons were killed in disturbances in Delhi and 55 injured. Casualties in Nagpur to last night were 6 killed and 15 injured. Madras Province is quiet. There was some interference with traffic in Calcutta, where the police had to disperse processions in parts of the city. Eight persons were admitted to hospi-, tai after the police had fired on an unruly mob. The crowd reassembled and stoned a motor-car, injuring five occupants, including a military officer and a woman. Of a total of 64 mills in Bombay, 53 are now working, compared with 37 yesterday. The Chinese Central News reports : that Pandit Nehru, on the eve of his | arrest, sent a message to the Chinese j pledging that India will keep faithj with China whatever happens, not j only because China’s freedom is prec-1 ious to India, but because: “With China j not free, our own freedom would be i endangered and worth little. We be-: lieve this great war is a mighty re- ; volution which will only succeed on | the basis of freedom for all peoples. I Without India’s freedom it will fail in! its purpose.”