TRIAL CONDEMNED
INDIANS WHO JOINED JAPS
NEW DELHI, September 2. The president of the Indian National Congress Party, Dr. Azad, supporting Pandit Nehru's recent protest against the Government's policy towards Indian prisoners of war who joined the national army organised by the Germans and Japanese, said that the decision to try the leaders sounded ominous. Many of the men had believed they were acting in India's best interests. Therefore, as subjects of a country under foreign rule, they should be given the privileges of international law as granted to combatant enemies. General O. M. Maltby, the commander of the Hong Kong forces in 1941, who has arrived in Calcutta from a prisoner-of-war camp, stated that members of the Indian Army who collaborated with the Japanese did so under the severest duress.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 9
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131TRIAL CONDEMNED Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 9
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