TO SCARE WORKERS IN INDIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 225, 24 September 1942, Page 5

TO SCARE WORKERS IN INDIA

JAP RECONNAISSANCE GROWS London, Sept. 21. “The indications are that the Japanese have temporarily abandoned the hope of fomenting fresh internal trouble in India,” says the New Delhi corresporldent of the Daily Telegraph* “This fact, combined with the increasing enemy reconnaissance over Bengal and Assam, may mean that the Japanese have decided to use direct action in an attempt to cripple India’s war production. Having failed to achieve the object by strikes, the Japanese may now be preparing to scare the workers away by bombing. “The possibility that the reconnaissance is being the preliminary to invasion is not supported by any unusual troop concentrations.”

KILLED AND WOUNDED IN DISTURBANCES OFFICIAL FIGURES GIVEN New Delhi. Sent. 22. Sir Mohomed Usman, who is leader of the Council of State, told the Legislative Assembly that the latest casualty figures since the outbreak of the disturbances were: Killed by police, 390; wounded, 1060; killed by troops, 331; wounded, 159. Eleven policemen and 32 soldiers had been killed and 40 trains derailed in which six were killed and 72 injured. GANDHI’S LETTER TO JAPS London, Sept. 22. Berlin radio to-day quoted a letter from Gandhi to the Japanese people before his arrest, in which it was declared, he expressed the hope that Japan would avoid attacking India as the British might be willing to give the Indians home rule. Rome radio, quoting a Tokio dispatch, says that Gandhi declared he had no doubt that if Japan really desire,] unity in India she would not interfere if the British were forced to abandon the country. A Buddhist priest, the radio said, took the letter to Japan.