INDIAN NAVY MUTINY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24814, 2 March 1946, Page 7

INDIAN NAVY MUTINY

AT LEAST SIX BOARDS OF INQUIRY

ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY SOUTHERN COMMAND (Rec. 9 p.m.) BOMBAY, Feb. 28. The Southern Command has announced that at least six boards will soon investigate the recent Royal In? dian Navy mutiny. Experienced and impartial naval officers would preside. The members would include ’British and Indian lieutenant-colonels. The Central Command, in a statement on the strike of 250 sepoys in the Jubbulpore, said disciplinary action was being taken in two cases—one of a unit refusing to provide guards over a few arrested for military offences and the second of men who marched on to Jubbulpore, attracted a crowd, elected a “strike committee, and returned, whereupon the ringleaders were arrested. There was no correspondent reports that the strike of sepoy signallers at Jubbulpore ended peacefully after the district magistrate had heard the mens demands for better rations, pay, and the release of Barhud Din. A Southern Command communique said all extra troops brought in to deal with the rioting had now been.withdrawn, except for a small contingent reinforcing the city police. Ratings in Royal Indian Naval establishments were carrying out their normal duties. Dr. Mavlana Azad, the Congress Party president, condemned without reservation the action of a party of students, who stopped a car in which the Governor of the Punjab (Sir Bertrand Glancy) was driving, says Reuter’s correspondent at Lahore. The students tore the Union Jack off the car and broke the windscreen.

Bela Imredy Executed.—Bela Imredy, a former Hungarian Premier and Minister pf Finance, was executed by # firing squad, fie had been con? vict«<4 of war crimes and anti? Jewish acts.—Budapest, February 28.