FRICTION IN INDIA
MOBS AGAIN AT WORK
(Rec. 10.45) NEAV DELHI, Sept. 25 Planes on five occasions machinegunned mobs during the recent disturbances, General Hartley told the Council of State. The attacks Avere mostly along the railways near, the eastern frontier. Planes patrolled the raihvays ahead of trains and resorted to machine-gunning only when Verey lights failed to disperse the crowds.
It has been revealed that 1400 special police are guarding the railways in Bihar at an annual cost of £41,000. It has also been revealed that 453 persons have been arrested in Delhi since tlie beginning of the Congress campaign. The police fired twice last night in the Badar area of Bombay, where students demonstrated. Crowds stoned the police, attempted to stop buses and trains, and started bonfires in tlie streets with hats, neckties, and other European clothing. A homemade bomb exploded ill a Bombay mill without causing damage, and another exploded in a shop in Ahadabad, causing slight damage. The police fired over a mob in Aliadabad Which stoned a police party preventing the hoisting of a Congress tricolour on a school building.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 255, 26 September 1942, Page 5
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