INDIA'S TROUBLES
STRIKES AND POLITICS BOMBAY, March 8 Tim Red Flag Union has appealed to the All-India Congress to intervene in the textile workers' strike, wliieli began on .Monday and which affects 140,000 people. It is reported from Delhi that the secretary of the Congress Socialist Party, Jaiprakash Narain, a friend of Gandhi, has been arrested after an anti-war .speech, Pandit Nehru, formerly president of the Congress, in a statement after the arrest, said it was A*ita! news of the deepest significance. " It means that the L'unjab Government is determined to declare war against the Congress," he said.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23602, 11 March 1940, Page 8
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