ALMOST NORMAL AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5

ALMOST NORMAL AGAIN

LIFE IN BOMBAY

(By Telcerapli—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, August 11. A message from Bombay states that the city has almost completely resumed normal life. Few of the 70 mills are shut down. It is clear that the Congress Party is not receiving support from the other parties, and it looks as though the Government's promptitude has crushed civil disobedience. Last night's curfew completely cleared the streets. Anyone abroad j was immediately arrested. | The mob element was again busy in! some areas this morning. j Many shores are closed in Calcutta,j and work is interrupted in some of the jute mills. At Nagpur, students struck and shops shut. Crowds in New Delhi were in an uglier mood than on the previous day. They forced the remaining shops— mostly Moslem—to close down. The police did not interfere beyond guarding banks and other buildings, pushing rioters off the tramlines, and enabling empty trams to move on. Most of the local leaders have disappeared to avoid arrest, and the mobs were virtually leaderless. A crowd which tried to reach the Viceroy was led by women. The New Delhi correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that at Cawnpore police opened fire after being stoned by an excited mob. Eight persons were taken to hospital, two iii a serious condition. A Government order forbids newspaper headlines reflecting editorial opinion and requires the registration of all correspondents. It reiterates the determination to prevent the publication of any matter arousing sympathy for the Congress campaign. Sardar Baldev, Development Minister in the Punjab, stated that the Sikhs would not tolerate any subversive movement calculated to weaken the war effort.