CALCUTTA RIOTS
TRAINS SET (Ml FIRE GOVERNMENT ASSAILED “ NOTHING BUT MURDER ” (Rec. 7.10 p.m.) CALCUTTA, Feb. 14. Mill workers who demonstrated at Kankinara burned down a railway station and three trains ivhich were held up .on the track. The passengers were forced to get out, after which the carriages were set on fire. A Moslem League. Calcutta newspaper called the Morning News’ printed accounts of the disturbance on the front page under the heading “Murder, murder, nothing but murder.” The article says: “ Murder is now the order of the day under the accursed rule of the Government of India and its representative in Calcutta, Richard Casey.’ The Congress Party and the Moslem League combined in the Legislative Assembly at New Delhi to pass a vote of censure on the Government because the New Delhi police on Tuesday handcuffed and chained 37 Moslem League and Communist Party members. The Secretary of External Affairs. Mr H. Weightman, announced to the General Assembly that six persons were being detained “ for reasons of State.” He added that those detained were all connected with previous dynasties in Afghanistan and had been implicated in efforts to subvert a neighbouring friendly Government.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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