COLLECTIVE FINES
CALCUTTA. AREAS SEQUEL TO DISORDERS DESTRUCTION IN BIHAR (10.30 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 20. The Governor of Bengal has issued an ordinance safeguarding life and property in the Noakhali and Tippera districts in east Bengal, the centres of tlie October riots, says Reuter’s correspondent in Calcutta. The ordinance makes offenders liable to expulsion from the area. Another ordinance involves special precautions to gather the rice crop, which is now ripe, from fields whose owners (led during the riots. Forty-one areas in Calcutta were collectively fined £SGOO as punishment for communal rioting, reports Ihe New Delhi radio. A member of the Indian Interim Government said: “What we saw in Bihar was beyond our imagination.” Reliable evidence placed the number killed at five figures and the damage at several million sterling. Refugees were presenting a difficulty long after food and clothing were supplied. The police arrested a member of Subhas Chandra Bose’s Forward Bloc Party and two Italians who ■ are suspected of having gone to the Punjab on a mysterious mission, says the Exchange Telegraph. The police took one Italian to Lahore fort and the other to the police station and seized certain papers they found in the nouse of a member of the party. The three-months-old curfew at Dacca has been withdrawn. The ban on carrying weapons and holding meetings remains in force.
The president of the Moslem League, Mr. Jinnah, in a letter to the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, requested an indefinite postponement of the Constituent Assembly meeting on December 9, says Reuter’s correspondent in New Delhi, Earlier, it was stated that tire Constituent Assembly to frame the new Indian constitution on the lines laid down by the British Cabinet mission would meet on December 9.
The Calcutta Corporation has decided to erect a statue to Subhas Chandra Bose, who headed the provisional Government of Free India formed at Singapore in wartime and the organiser of flic Indian National Army which fought for the Japanese.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22184, 21 November 1946, Page 7
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