INDIAN MOSLEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1942, Page 3

INDIAN MOSLEMS

MEETING OF COMMITTEE ADJOURNED GENERAL IMPROVEMENT IN SITUATION. REPORTED FROM ALL PARTS OF COUNTRY. LONDON, August 16. After a meeting of 2| hours in Bombay, the Working Committee of the All India Moslem League adjourned until tomorrow. Reports from all parts of India state that the general improvement in the situation continues throughout the country. GOING UNDERGROUND THE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT. YOUNGER MEN TAKING OVER. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, August 15. Civil disobedience in India is slowly being driven underground, says the New York “Post’s” Bombay correspondent. Most of Gandhi’s leading disciples are in prison, but younger officials of the All-India National Congress Party, who are little known to the public, are trying to take over the campaign. The more conservative members of the party have been bewildered and inactive spectators of the week’s violence.

It is reported that in a new outbreak of disorder at Dakor the police fired on an unruly mob, killing five and injuring four, states a London message. At Benares one was killed and 18 injured, including two magistrates and four constables, when the police fired on a crowd which refused to disperse. In Calcutta, the police used revolvers to disperse rowdy elements. Several Indians were injured. The Nagpur streets have been largely cleared of obstructions and the shops are reopening, but nervousness prevails. The police and the military fired on three gangs of hooligans who set fire to a hospital mortuary, barricaded roads and looted buildings. Gopinath Bardoli, a member of Congress and former Premier of Assam, has been arrested. It is officially announced in Bombay that Gandhi’s secretary, Mahader Desai, died of heart failure while under detention. Desai had long been an outstanding member of Congress. He was several times arrested and was sent to gaol for a year in 1938.

NEW MUNITION PLANT COMPLETED IN SPITE OF DIFFICULTIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 15. Despite many difficulties India has just witnessed the completion of an important munitions plant. This factory will produce alloyed steel not previously manufactured in. India and will facilitate the manufacture of field guns, anti-aircraft guns and light machine-guns.