INDIAN DISQUIET

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 241, 12 October 1942, Page 3

INDIAN DISQUIET

Further Reports Of Trouble

In Provinces

HINDU LEADER'S SUGGESTION Rec. noon LONDON, Oct. 11 Three people are believed to have been killed and a few wounded, also 12 policemen injured as a result of a disturbance at Mardan yesterday, says a Peshawar message. About 100 Red Shirts including Abdul Azis, a congress member of the Provincial Legislative Assembly, rushed the courthouse, aiming to damage the records, but the police ejected them. Red Shirts and city hooligans stoned the police, who fired a few shots. The situation is now quiet.

Qazi Attautlah, a former Minister of Education, was convicted under the Arms Act and fined £250. When he refused to pay an equivalent portion of his property was attached.

The Premier of Sind, Allah Bakhsh, has been relieved of his office by the Governor of Sind. says a message from Karachi. Three members of the Sind Council of Ministers resigned following the dismissal of Bakhsh. The Governor suggested that Bakhsh should resign, but he refused.

The Governor made a statement that he had discussions with Bakhsh about the Premier's renunciation of British honours, after which he had no option but to inform Bakhsh that he no longer possessed the Governor's confidence and that he 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.

The President of the Hindu Mahasabha, Mr. Savarkar, cabled to Mr. Churchill and urged, the immediate establishment of a national Government in India. He claimed that the Mahasabha has succeeded in producing a national demand on fundamental points which are: First the immediate recognition by Britain of India as an independent nation' and, second, a national coalition wartime Government leaving General Sir Archibald Wavell free to conduct military operations. All constitutional controversial details are to be decided by an all-party conference after the war.

In view of the British Governments repeated assurances, said Mr. Savarkar, it should immediate! v transfer power now that a joint national demand has been framed bv the Indians. This would enable India to develop a wholehearted and unstinted war effort in defending herself against invasion.