RIOTING IN NEW DELHI

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 270, 27 August 1946, Page 3

RIOTING IN NEW DELHI

RECEPTION OF INTERIM CABINET .FOUR KILLED : 64 INJURED < (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 9.30) NEW DELHI, Aug. 26. Officially reported casualties from the rioting which broke out in the Old City after the announcement of the interim cabinet are now four killed and 64 injured. Armed police are patrolling the city. , Shouts of “fight to obtain Pakistan” igreeted Field-Marshal Lord Wavell when, after flying from New Delhi, he visited the Moslem refugee centre during a tour of Calcutta’s riot areas, says Reuter’s correspondent. Later when he entered the Hindu refugee centre he was met with shouts of “victory to India” which is the war cry of the I.N.A.

The centres organised for riot victims, reek strongly of DDT and other disinfectants. They house 7000 of a total of 12,000 refugees. Lord Wavell left for New Delhi this afternoon. ■ Seriously injured, a victim of the riots is. at present recovering in hospital after nine days in a sewer. He was found about a mile from the place where he was attacked. Forty-five bodies have been recovered fi'om sewers. Moslem League Attitude The president of the Moslem League (Mr M. A. Jinnali) has criticised a broadcast on Saturday by the Viceroy of India (Lord Wavell) in which the Viceroy urged the Moslem League to reconsider its decision not to participate in Pandit Nehru’s new interim Government. He said that Pandit Neliru and his colleagues were anxious that both main parties should be represented in the Government.) . Mr Jinnali said that Lord Wavell had said nothing to alter the attitude of the league towards the intentions of the Congress Party in the Constituent Assembly. In addition, Mr Jinnali referred to conversations that he had had with Lord Wavell during the last few weeks. He emphasised that the Viceroy had spoken of “equitable” and not “equal” rights in the proposed Assembly. , Mr Jinnali added that the Viceroy had not stood by earlier assurances about safeguards covering certain issues very vital to the Moslems, ill view of which there was no prospect of the League accepting the proposals.