RIOTS CONTINUE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1942, Page 4

RIOTS CONTINUE

IN PARTS OF INDIA

ACTION AGAINST ARMED MOBS.

STERN WARNING ISSUED

IN BENGAL.

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.10 a.m.) NEW DELHI, September 21. Rioters in Calcutta today attempted io -wreck a tram and injured the conductor. , A mob rescued three political prisoners from the police at Nawangar. A military patrol had to use force to arrest the ringleaders. A mob numbering a hundred, armed with knives and guns, burned down a shed and killed an assistant inspector in an attack on a factory in the Madras Presidency. Rioters looted seven shops in another Madras district. New outbreaks in the Bihar Province included an attack by an armed mob on a party of seventeen policemen. Students attacked a police station.

The General Officer Commanding in Bengal has issued an order declaring that anyone failing to halt at a military challenge will risk being shot on the spot. The Central Committee of the Indian Communist Party, in a statement, has appealed to the Government to give up its “present policy of repression” and to release Gandhi and other Congress members, remove the ban on Congress organisations, and open negotiations with all parties for the establishment of a provisional National Government. SWIFT & VIGOROUS SUPPRESSION OF SIND TERRORISTS. FORTRESS PALACE DESTROYED. (Received This Day. 12.10 p.m.) NEW DELHI, September 21. The British mopping up of Hur terrorists in the Sind Province has been swift and vigorous. Forty-five of the terrorists were killed, fifty hanged, thirty wounded and 3,000 captured. Operations under martial law against these bandits continue. High-explo-sive bombs were not used, but in certain areas fire bombs were used to destroy the Hur’s encampments and huts. The Hurs’ headquarters at Prijogoth, namely the fortress palace of their leader. the Pir of Pagaro, has been demolished. The Pir’s residential palaces, harems and luxurious baths weie also destroyed. Only a mosque and other religious buildings remain.