MORE DISTURBANCES IN INDIA
NEW DELHI, Octobers. Demonstrators at Midnapore burnt down the Government revenue office, the sub-registrar's office, and the excise shop, and damaged other Government property. •■■'.„• * A mob at Kykrahatta, near Midnapore, set fire to government buildings, which were gutted. A mob at Sutahatta raided a police station and burnt the records and also kidnapped the sub-manager of the Government revenue office.
A mob in the Manbhum district burnt down two police stations. The police at New Delhi arrested 30 persons who were posted as pickets at various points in the city. The Premier of Bengal has invited 30 leaders of the Hindu, Moslem, and other communities, belonging to various political opinions, to an informal conference at Delhi on Tuesday with the object of "devising ways and means of solving the present political impasse." Mr. Joshi, secretary of the Indian Communist Party, has sent a message to the Communist Party of Britain stating that the Indian Communists are carrying out a nation-wide campaign to unite the Indian parties in order to secure a national Government.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1942, Page 5
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