CRISIS IN INDIA

Grey River Argus, 16 February 1946, Page 5

CRISIS IN INDIA

FAMINE & RIOTING . Police Shoot Down More Men CALCUTTA, Feb. 14 ’ The Indian Congress leader, Pandit Jawaharal Nehru said in Lucknow that he had advised starving peasants in the north central Indian province of Oudh that they should “rebel against the political and social conditions,” which had brought about famine and misery. Nehru said he would not submit to some people feasting, racing amt flaunting their luxury, while the mass of the people suffered the agony of starvation. If a heavy burden were, to be borne it would have to be shared equally. One millworker was killed and eight were injured when police fired on a crowd assembled this afternoon in Dundum Road, outside Calucutta. The casualties to mid-day were 41 killed' and 359 injured. Sir Frederick Burrows, GovernorDesignate of Bengal, who was due to reach Calcutta to-day has postponed his arrival owing to the unsettled conditions.

Casualties in the Calcutta rioting on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday total 33 dead and nearly 300 injured. Nineteen American soldiers were injured last night when a mob attacked a convoy of 75 lorries carrying troops to Calcutta.

Liquor stocks were looted and furniture set on fire by a gang which raided a Calcutta night club. ■ * LAHORE, Feb. 15

The Punjab Government, has issued orders for the release of 16 security prisoners and also of all political convicts who were sentenced to transportation for life and who had undergone full terms of imprisonment.

The Government cancelled’ almost all the orders for the externment (ex-clusion from a particular area) which had been served on political workers.