INDIAN NAVAL MUTINY
OFFICERS’ INACTION CRITICISED REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY LONDON. January 20. “The commission which investigated the four-day Indian naval mutiny in February. 1946, in which nine ratings and ope officer were killed, expresses the view that the Flag Officer Commanding at Bombay (Vice-Admiral J. H. Godfrey) and his officers did not realise the gravity of the situation early enough,” says Reuter’s correspondent in New Delhi. The commission said that ViceAdmiral Godfrey and his officers failed to take immediate steps to reassert their authority with firmness and to alleviate the complaints sympathetically. It added that but for these omissions “the great catastrophe might never have happened.” A Government resolution, passed simultaneously with the issue of the tepbrt to-day. said that it was intended to take all steps to right the grievances. The Royal Indian Navy was being completely nationalised, pay. allowances. and conditions were being investigated, and officers and men were being instructed that, although every man was entitled to his personal views, participation in party politics was Inadmissible to members of the service.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25089, 22 January 1947, Page 7
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