DEMAND IN INDIA
GOVERNMENT LEAD TO END DEADLOCK
BOMBAY, August 17. There is a growing demand"' in all responsible quarters for the Government io take the lead in dissolving the Indian deadlock, Proposals have been made for a conference on a wide basis of non-party leaders. After the statements by Mr. Rajagopala Chariar and Sir Tej Sapru, trade and commercial associations of Bombay have sent a message .to the Viceroy urging him and the "Government to open negotiations. Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Spalding professor of Eastern religions at Oxford University, pleaded in Benares today for a provisional central Government consisting of Indians of all communities and political parties, having entire freedom in the internal, administration except in war matters.
Reports from various centres again show that the disorders have considerably, abated. An improvement is reported at Nagpur, one of the worst areas, where the post office and the Central Co-operative Bank were set on fire and gutted and Government money stolen. Seven more persons were ax-res ted this morning at Bombay, where conditions are now quiet. Nine persons were injured tonight at Calcutta' when the police fired on a mob. They also charged a mob in a bazaar with lathis.
The secretary of the Punjab branch of the Indian Spinners' Association, New Delhi, warned workers who joined the Congress movement to sever their connnection with the association.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1942, Page 5
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