UNREST IN INDIA
WAVE OF EMOTION SWEEPING COUNTRY BRITISH SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS ASSAULTED (Rec. 11 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Feb. 11. The police arrested several students when 500 paraded the city demonstrating against the sentence ' passed on a member of the Indian National Army, Captain Abdul Itashid, whose sentence to transportation for life was commuted to seven years' imprisonment 'by General ; Auehinleck. The Moslem League organised) the demonstration. A similar demonstration for the same reason was staged in New Delhi ,hy 2,000 Moslems, _ who roughly handled a party of British soldiers and 6ome British civilians. Three British civilians were knocked off their bicycles and pelted with stones. The demonstrators stopped several military lorries. All Moslem shops were closed. The Secretary of War, Mr Phillip Mason, told the Indian Central Assembly that the Government was conscious that a wave of emotion was sweeping the country. The Government had decided to show clemency to all members of the Indian National Army unless they had committed brutalities. He was speaking on a resolution by Pandit Malayiya asking for the release of all mem- » bers and the abandonment of their trial.
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Evening Star, Issue 25715, 12 February 1946, Page 5
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185UNREST IN INDIA Evening Star, Issue 25715, 12 February 1946, Page 5
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