MUCH QUIETER
INDIAN SITUATION
RIOTING CONFINED
LONDON, August 11, The situation in India is reported to be much quieter today in x most cities, except in Bombay, where police and troops had to fire several times on rowdy mobs in the northern part of the. city. The Governor bf Bombay, Sir Roger Lumley, emphasised today in a broadcast that the violent outbreaks of the i past three days have been confined |to certain localities, and certain elements in those localities. He said he could not allow those disturbances to the life of the country to continue. "I am going to maintain order at any cost," he said. "To those, therefore, who may be thinking of going on with these disturbances I now give this plain warning:, the police and troops have orders to take the' strongest measures whenever necessary." The new preventive measures announced by the Government bf India include the application of emergency whipping and the drafting of several hundred police to Bombay from other districts. Today seven persons have been killed and 12 wounded. Two more prominent Indian leaders have condemned the Congress Party's campaign.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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187MUCH QUIETER Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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