EQUAL VOICE ASKED

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23717, 15 August 1942, Page 5

EQUAL VOICE ASKED

MOSLEM LEAGUE’S CONDITIONS

SHARE IN PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

(Received August 15, 12.20 a.m.) BOMBAY, August 14. The President of the Moslem League (Mr M. A. Jinnah), in an interview, stated that the Moslems were agreeable to joining a provisional government for the duration of the war provided that they exercised an equal voice with the Hindus, and also that Britain agreed to concede Moslem autonomy after the war. “'The Congress Party is not only holding a pistol at the British Government, it is also holding a pistol at me,” said Mr Jinnah. “We hope the British Government will not make concessions to the Congress Party by sacrificing the Moslems. That would be the last straw for the Moslems. “We will not submit to any central government with a Hindu majority. We envisage the separation of Moslem India from Hindu India, Sind, Baluchistan. the Punjab, and the Northwest Frontier Provinces will form a Moslem State or Dominion, and Bengal and Assam form another.”

HEAVY FIGHTING IN KIANGSI

CHINESE ATTACKING LINCHWAN (Received August 14, 9.30 p.m.)

CHUNGKING, August 13. • Heavy fighting continues in the Kiangsi Province, in which 1500 Japanese have been killed and wounded. About 20,000 Japanese are desperately holding Linchwan against Chinese attacks. Marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the Battle of Shanghai, the Chinese Army newspaper “Takung Pao” says the nation is determined to counter-attack soon and regain the city. , ,

The “Daily News,” lamenting that China has not had a large air force since 1937. believes (hat the tide is definitely turning with the arrival of United States airmen. The newspaper expresses the hope that they will drive the Japanese aeroplanes from the skies of China and carry battle to the enemy in his own islands.

A Chinese Army spokesman, quoting intelligence reports, said that Japanese transports carrying more than 20,000 troops, had been sighted in the Gulf of Tonking, in the South China Sea, on August 7. Their destination was not indicated.

SABOTAGE IX FRANCE

LONDON, August 13. A wave of sabotage is again sweeping occupied France. The Paris region and the industrial north seem to be particularly affected, states a message from Stockholm. Many German soldiers wore killed and wounded in an explosion following a collision between a German troop train and a fuel train on the DouaiArras line. Forty-four trucks, 19 tank cars, and two engines, were wrecked. A similar incident at Lille recently resulted in 100 Germans being killed and many injured. Twelve motors which wore ready to go to Germany were destroyed at Denain. The main line railway embankment was blown up at Aulnay-sous-Bois, north-west of Paris. Many people were arrested and bicycles and radios were confiscated as a reprisal. A lamp factory was burnt out at Ivry-sur-Seine, on the south-eastern edge of Paris, and the promises of a motor-car firm, Chenad Walckcr, also a paint factory, were burned down at Gennevilliers. The damage is estimated at 35,000,000 francs. A German ammunition train was blown up at a railway station in the Ferieure department. Seven hundred hostages have been arrested near Hazebrouck. on the pretext that parachutists were seep there. Patriots cut a ditch across a road and wrecked a lorry and killed one German officer and six soldiers and injured six soldiers.