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INDIAN OFFICER'S CHOICE Roe. 9 n.m. NEW DELHI, Dec. 7. Captain Sehgal, one of the Indian officers accused of belonging to the ' Indian National Army, in opening the . defence, said that he joined the I.N.A. i because no one was sure of the British . ability to stop the Japanese advance. He said that the only solution was the formation of a strong armed body which, while fighting for the freedom .of India, would fight any Japanese effort to take possession of India. Another of the accused, Captain Shah Nawaz Khan, said, "It was a case of king or country, and I decided for the country." He said he had participated in the fighting under the independent government of free India, and therefore denied that the Court < had the right to try him. JAPANESE COASTER STRIKES ! A MINE JRec. 9 a.m. SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. ! Three hundred Japanese were drown-' , cd when a coaster carrying a work- ] ing" party of 459 struck a mine near I Singapore recently and sank in three .minutes. R.A.F. flying boats and warships picked-up survivors, and 60 of i them were admitted to hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 138, 8 December 1945, Page 7
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