INDIAN SABOTEURS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1942, Page 4

INDIAN SABOTEURS

ATTEMPTS TO HELP ENEMY.

SELECTION GF STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.3 b p.m.) LONDON, September 13. A “Sunday Dispatch” special corr e 'sonnd'nt says that, from military viewpoints and particularly from the viewpoint of an attack from the East, the recent sabotage in India, which supposedly amounted to political demonstrations, could not have been more valuable to the enemy if it had been organised by a Japanese staff officer. Congress followers, the correspondent adds, systematically attempted, not only to paralyse India’s general war effort, but also to hamper immediate operations against the Japanese by interfering with the all-important communications between Bengal Presidency and Assam province. . The correspondent asks why civilians” chose as a scene for demonstiations provinces that might have been selected by an Axis staff officer, where a few acts of efficient sabotage could have blocked communications and thus stabbed in the back our forces in the Assam mountains. The concentration of acts of violence into Eastern India showed clearly the greater design.