WELL CONTROLLED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 3

WELL CONTROLLED

ACTION BY POLICE & TROOPS AGAINST RIOTERS IN INDIA. REPORT ON CASUALTIES. (By Telcgronh—Press Association—Copyright) NEW DELHI, September 16. Sir Reginald Maxwell, speaking in the Central Assembly at New Delhi, made a statement on the casualties in the recent disturbances. Casualties caused by the police firing were 340 killed and 840 wounded, but these figures were incomplete. Casualties caused by military action were 318 killed and 153 wounded. The Government forces suffered 31 killed and a very large number injured, but most of the injured were not serious. The military personnel lost 11 killed and seven wounded. Of the civil officials, excluding the post and telegraph and railway employees, seven were killed and 16 wounded. He said the firing was controlled, and perfect discipline was maintained among the troops and police. There was no indiscriminate firing, and the magisterial inquiries into all the cases of firing reported that allegations of excess were without foundation. The Bihar State Government issued a statement today saying that eight persons had been sentenced to death for the murder of a man who refused to comply with a request that he should recall his brother from the army. This was the first trial before a judge appointed under the special ordinance to try cases arising from the recent disturbances.