SAVAGE MURDERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1942, Page 3

SAVAGE MURDERS

COMMITTED BY INDIAN MOBS SINISTER CONGRESS THREATS. ATTEMPTS TO INTIMIDATE POLICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON! September 24. It was disclosed today in the Indian Central Legislative Assembly that a mob massacred the surviving members of the crew of a military plane which crashed on August 25 west of Narayanpur, in Bihar Province. The pilot was the only man killed as a result of the crash.

One British officer and four other ranks, who were part of a protective detachment, were ambushed at Marhowrah. in Bihar Province, and speared or beaten to death. Two Royal Air Force officers who were ordinary passengers on a train and who were not identified with the disturbances were hacked to death by a mob, which stoned and later burnt the train. The bodies of the officers were paraded through the town on a cart and then thrown into a river.

Two persons were killed and two injured when a bomb exploded at Aligarth station in the United Provinces. A passenger left the bomb in a box, and the police thought the box was lost property and were removing it when it exploded. The police in Bombay are said to have unearthed a secret press where Congress bulletins were being printed in four languages. Eleven persons, including the owner of the press, a paper merchant, and a local professor, were arrested. Congress is continuing its efforts to intimidate the Indian policemen and members of the Public Service. The latest issue of a cyclostyled newsletter, which has been appearing every two or three days in spite of the efforts to discover its source, threatens the policemen and the Indians who constitute a large proportion of the staff of the Government Secretariat. The newsletter, after describing the arrest of Congressmen by a policeman “who behaved like a British barbarian,’’ states, “In plain words, we tell these men that this is not safe for them. For every hurt a. Congressman receives there will be retribution.” PLANES IN ACTION AGAINST RAILWAY-RAIDING MOBS. SOME FURTHER VIOLENCE. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) NEW DELHI, September 25. Planes on five occasions machine-gunned mebs during the recent disturbances, General Hartley told the Council of State. The attacks were mostly along railways near the eastern frontier. Planes patrolled railways ahead of 'trains and resorted to machinegunning only when Verey lights failed to disperse crowds. It is revealed that 1,400 special police are guarding railways in Bihar, at an annual cost of £41,000. It is also revealed that 453 persons have been arrested in Delhi since the beginning of the Congress campaign. The-police fired twice last night in the Badar area of Bombay, where students demonstrated. Crowds stoned the police, attempted to stop buses and trains and started bonfires in the streets with hats, neckties and other European clothing. A home-made bomb exploded in a Bombay mill without causing damage. Another exploded in a shop at Ahmadabad causing slight damage. The police fired over a mob at Ahmadabad which stoned a police party preventing the hoisting of the Congress til—cclour on a school building.