LEAD DEMANDED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1942, Page 3

LEAD DEMANDED

IN ENDING DEADLOCK IN INDIA VICEROY URGED TO ACT IN OPENING NEGOTIATIONS. CONDITIONS MAINLY QUIET. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) BOMBAY, August 17. There is a growing demand in all responsible quarters for the Government to take the lead in dissolving .the deadlock. Proposals have been made for a conference on a wide basis of non-party leaders. After the statements by Mr Rajagopalachariar and Sir Tej Sapru, trade and commercial associations of Bombay have sent a message to the Viceroy urging him and the Government to open negotiations.

Sir Sarvepalli Radhakri Shanan, Spalding professor of eastern religions at Oxford University, pleaded in Benares today for a provisional central Government' consisting of Indians of all communities and political parties, having entire freedom in the internal administration except in war matters.

Reports from various centres again show that the disorders have considerably abated. An improvement is reported at Nagpur, one of the worst areas, where the post office and the Central Co-operative Bank were set on fire and gutted and Government money stolen. Seven more persons were arrested, this morning at Bombay, where conditions are now quiet. Nine persons were injured tonight at Calcutta when the police fired on a mob. They also charged a mob in a bazaar with lathis.

The secretary of the Punjab branch of the Indian Spinners’ Association, New Delhi, warned workers who joined the Congress movement to sever connection with the association.