MINOR DISORDERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1942, Page 3

MINOR DISORDERS

IN SEVERAL PARTS OF INDIA ISOLATED INSTANCES OF HOOLIGANISM. SITUATION GENERALLY CALM. f.-Vi- - (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.7 a.m.) RUGBY, August 21.. This morning’s news from India is that a few attacks on the police have been made in the Eastern United Provinces and the Central Provinces, while in Bengal students’ strikes have taken place. Some disturbances have also occurred in the Madras Frovince and at Orissa. Otherwise the situation throughout India is calm. The incidents have all been isolated instances of hooliganism. Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, member for information and broadcasting in the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India, has submitted his resignation, so that he may be free to take up the defence of the Indian States against the threat from the Congress Party. The Viceroy has accepted the resignation with regret. Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, in his letter of resignation, made it clear that he was in full sympathy with the action taken by 'She Government in the recent disturbances and that he was resigning only because he wished to be completely free to do what he thought necessary against mass action which would hamper the Indian war effort. ARRESTED IN BOMBAY PROMINENT A.R.P. OFFICER. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) NEW DELHI, August 20. The police in Bombay arrested a prominent A.R.P. officer, Dr. K. N. Narola, and allegedly seized firearms and ammunition from him. The arrest followed on investigations of recent dacoity near Bombay, in which revolutionary literature and firearms were seized..