LAWLESS DISORDERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1942, Page 4

LAWLESS DISORDERS

SERIOUS RECURRENCE IN PARTS OF INDIA

TWO POLICEMEN BURNED TO DEATH.

MUCH DAMAGE DONE BY MOBS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) NEW DELHI, September 10.

New tension is resulting from the recurrence of demonstrations in India Picketing processions have recurred in Karachi, resulting in 250 arrests, including those of 40 women. Four persons were killed and thirteen injured when the police fired on a crowd attacking a police court at Khatav, in the Satara District. A collective fine of £11,250 has been imposed on Amalnar, where damage estimated at £4,500 was caused when the post office, the civil court and other property were burned down. Four villages in the Surat District were fined a total of £1,500, after the police had been forced to fire on « crowd of 3,000. attacking an outpost. Another villages was fined £6OO and four villages in the Belgum District were fined a total of £9,375. A United Provinces Government communique reveals that: “There is some information of extensive damage done by mobs in the recent sporadic disturbances. A police sub-inspec-tor and a head constable were burned to death outside a provincial police station. Crowds in the Ghazipur District seized a number of police stations, looted and burnt the tax collection office, looted the Collector’s quarters, destroyed his private property and damaged a native judge’s quar ters. The total damage is considerable Even more damage was done in the Ballia District. The tax office and : number of police stations, seed stores and other public places were destroyed. The house of a well-known doctoi was looted and a valuable stock of medicines was destroyed or removed. The doctor was wounded.”

The communique adds that order has now been restored in the Ghazipur and Ballia Districts.