CHANDRA BOSE DEAD

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 200, 24 August 1945, Page 5

CHANDRA BOSE DEAD

Indian Leader Who Went Over To Japanese INJURED IN PLANE ACCIDENT Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 23. Tokyo radio says that Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the Provisional Government which the Japanese attempted to create for India, died on August 19 in hospital in Japan from injuries received in an aeroplane accident. Tokyo radio added that the accident occurred on Taihoku airfield. Bose was flying from Bangkok for talks with the Japanese Government. Subhas-Chandra Bose, veteran Indian National Congress leader, fled from India at the end of 1941. He had been twice President of the Indian National Congress and had long been one of the loudest foes to British rule in India. A skilful lawyer and shrewd polemicist, Bose, who was educated at Cambridge University, spoke and wrote with logic and persuasion From somewhere in Axis territory he immediately began to preach Axis propaganda to the Indians by radio. His journevs took him to many parts of the Axis territory, and he even turned up ta Berlin m August, 1942, to seek Hitler's ail in freeing India In 1944 he was reported to be with the Japanese in the Imphal area. He had the headquarters for his Provisional Government of India at Singapore.