RIOT CASUALTIES
IN NORTH-WEST INDIA
MOB ATTACK ON COURTHOUSE.
REPELLED BY POLICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) PESHAWAR, October 11. Three persons are believed to have been killed and a few wounded, and also twelve policemen injured, as a result of a disturbance in Mardan yesterday. About 100 Red Shirts .including Abdul Azis, a Congress member of the Provincial Legislative Assembly, rushed a Courthouse aiming at the damage of records. The police ejected them. The Red Shirts and city hooligans stoned the police, who fired a few shots. The situation is now quiet and in hand.
Qazi Attautlah, a former Minister of Education, was convicted under the Arms Act and fined £250. Fie refused to pay. whereupon an equivalent portion of his property was attached. RISING APACE IN SPITE OF DISORDERS AND STRIKES. INDIAN OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, October 11. India’s August munitions output was a record, says “The Times” New. Delhi correspondent. It included seventeen new categories of shells, bombs and explosives. and a record amount of special alloy steel. The figures were achieved despite the Congress disturbances and the fact that steel works were dislocated by strikes.
RELIEVED OF OFFICE THE PREMIER OF SIND. ACTION TAKEN BY GOVERNOR. KARACHI, October TO. The Premier of Sind, Mr Allah Baksh, has been relieved of his office by the Governor of Sind. Three members of. the Sind Council of Ministers resigned following Mr Baksh’s dismissal. The Governor suggested that Mr Baksh should resign, but the Premier refused. The Governor in a statement said he had discussed with Mr Baksh regarding the Premier’s renunciation of British honours ,after which he had no option but to inform Mr Baksh that he no longer possessed the Governor’s confidence, and therefore could not continue in office.
It is believed that a coalition government will be formed under Sir Ghulam Hussein Hidayatullah, who was Premier of Sind in 1937.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1942, Page 4
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