OUTRAGES IN INDIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1943, Page 3

OUTRAGES IN INDIA

DENUNCIATION OF CONGRESS TERRORISM ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. FIFTY-THREE KILLED SINCE AUGUST. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, February 10. Since last August 270 schools have been attacked and 53 Government employees, chiefly police and railway officials, have been killed, and 186 injured, according to information which has been given by high Government officials emphasising the extent of the outrages by the followers of the Congress Party, says the “Daily Telegraph’s” New Delhi correspondent. Thirty-one men and four children were killed in the bomb outrages and 232 were injured. The correspondent comments that the Congress mass disobedience movement is dead, but it has been succeeded by a terrorist campaign against the Government and the public officials. He continues: “Congress has established its influence by terror. It has shown all the characteristics of Elackshirt-Fascist organisations in rule of fear.” ■ ... Gandhi’s son left the editorial column a blank in the “Hindustan Times” as a protest against the detention of his father and the censorship of the paper. Expressing unqualified disapproval of the fast, the “Statesman” said in an editorial: “By normal criteria, tHe present drama seems but a mean device to recapture the limelight by a politician who is conscious of his miscalculation and gathering obscurity.”