ALL-INDIA CONGRESS
A FORMER PRESIDENT EXCLUDED FROM OFFICE BOMBAY, Aug. 11. Chandra Bose, ex-president of the All-India Congress, was excluded from executive office for three years for holding , Congress meetings throughout the country without permission. Congress deplored the action of the Government in sending troops to the Near East and Far East as likely to involve India in war. INSTRUCTIONS TO MEMBERS BOMBAY, Aug. 13. (Received Aug. 14, at 0.15 a.m.) It has been reported that the Congress members have been instructed not to attend the Central Government Legislature because Indian troops were sent to Egypt and Singapore in contravention of declarations by the Congress and the Central Assembly with regard to sending soldiers abroad. INDIAN TROOPS AT SUEZ CAIRO, Aug. 12. (Received Aug. 13, at 11.55 p.m.) Seven thousand Indian troops will land at Suez on August 14 and will be despatched to the EgyptianLibyan | frontier.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23886, 14 August 1939, Page 9
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