RAIDS ON COMMUNISTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1947, Page 8

RAIDS ON COMMUNISTS

POLICE ACTION IN BOMBAY

AND DELHI

SEQUEL TO RECENT AGITATION

LONDON, January 14. The police raided the offices and houses of Communist organisations and their leaders in Bombay and Delhi following publication of an article in the People’s Age which allegedly disclosed certain military instructions, reports Reuter’s correspondent in Bombay. The New Delhi radio reported that the Bombay police had arrested the editor and assistant editor of the People’s Age. Communist headquarters declared that the military document published contained details of measures to check an Indian rising should the British Cabinet mission have failed. “Yesterday’s police raids on Offices of the Communist Party and the allied organisations throughout India did not surprise those who follow Indian political trends,” says the Delhi correspondent of The Times. Communist. and Left Wing agitators have boon trailing their coats for months past, arid since the Interim Government's advent, to office in September their efforts have been concentrated on persuading illiterate workers class war is more necessary, to which they say. Ihe Congress Party is aided. “The” consequence-has been,” the correspondent adds, “that there has been a succession of strikes and labour disputes culminating m last week’s serious trouble among the 1 Cawnpore millworkers. Clearly some action was due if the rot was to be . slopped '’

NOT DIRECTED BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

(Rec. 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Jan 15. The Government of India has announced that the widespread raiding Communists’ offices and homes yesterday was not by direction ol the Central Government, but at the re•mest of the Bombay police investi.mtirw a Bombay newspaper. The Associated Press correspondent n-s Lliut yesterday’s raids were m -■wired of a Communist pamphlet ournorling in contain extracts from Indian internal security plans, as wpp rs copies oi the newspaper, the People’s Age, containing an original article on. the subject. COMMUNISTS SUPPORT burmesegangs RANGOON, January 14. If Ba Pe, senior member of the Burma Executive Council, said that, a state of rebellion was spreading m the Yamcihin district. “Dacoit gangs with Communist support are fighting a regular war against the police, the military, and the Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League,” he said. “The fighting Aias paralysed the administrative machinery, and according to the latest reports the situation is witffial, The rebels rule large parts of the district, taxing the people and maintaining police anti law courts. “The Government proposes to send -Enforcements to suppress the Communist gangs, who are terrorising people and revolting against the legally constituted Government.”