SAVE BLOODSHED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 187, 10 August 1942, Page 3

SAVE BLOODSHED

APPEAL BY MOSLEMS

Mr. Amery Hopes Action Taken

Overcomes Trouble

LONDON, August 9

The All-India Congress Committee meeting in Bombay endorsed the 'Quit India" resolution by a very large majority. All amendments Were rejected. There were 13 dissentients.

Speaking after the passing of the resolution Gandhi said: "We will make every effort to see the Viceroy before starting the non-violence movement."

The president of the Moslem League, Mohammed Ali Jinnah. later made a speech deprecating the Hindu Nationalist campaign. He said it Was impossible to believe that the Congress party leaders were not fully alive to the fact that the movement would result in bloodshed and the destruction of innocent people. He made an appeal to the united leaders to call a halt to this reckless civil war before it was too late. In a broadcast to the people of Britain, Mr. L. S. Amery. Secretary of State for India, said the Congress Earty's campaign would mean the etrayal of China and Russia and would leave the door open for Japan to enter the country. It would stop India's output or munitions and the construction of aerodromes and air raid shelters and would immobilise the armed forces.

The Congress party's plans to diminish the war effort were to be carried out by non-violence, but bitter experience showed how nonviolence led to terrorism, riots and bloodshed.

Mr. Amery said that negotiations in connection with India s status had broken down because the leaders of the Congress party demanded at the last moment that the Government of India should be handed over to a ggpup of Indian

politicians responsible to nobody. He showed how the Congress party represented only a fraction of the Indian community, and added that the Government had taken prompt action which he believed would save India from grave disorder.

As to the future, Mr. Amery said he was confident that, when victory came, Indian statesmen would take advantage of Britain's pledge, which still remained good, and so India would take her place among the British Commonwealth of Nations and in the whole world.