CONGRESS CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1942, Page 5

CONGRESS CAMPAIGN

EFFORTS BY YOUNGER OFFICIALS

LONDON, . August 15. Civil disobedience in India is slowly being driven underground, says the Bombay correspondent of the "New York Post," Most of Gandhi's leading disciples- are in prison, but younger officials of the All-India National Congress Party who are little known to the public ore trying to take over the campaign. The more conservative members of the party have been bewildered and inactive spectators of the past week's violence. It is reported that in a new outbreak of disorder at Dakor the police fired on an unruly mob, killing five and injuring four persons. AVBenares one person was killed and 18 injured, including two Magistrates and four constables, when the police fired on a crowd which refused to disperse. ' . In CfTifiivta the police used revolvers to ci,/..rse rowdy elements. Several Indi...i.s were injured. The streets of Nagpur have been largely cleared of obstructions, and the shops are reopening, but nervousness prevails. The police and the military jfired on three gangs of hooligans who set fire to a hospital mortuary, barricaded roads, and ■ looted buildings. .: ■ Gopiiitith Bardoli, a member of Congress and former Premier of Assam, has been arrested.