MANY ARRESTS IN INDIA OF COMMUNIST LEADERS
WIDESPREAD TROUBLE WAS PLANNED FOR MARCH 9
NEW DELHI, Feb. 21 (Rec. 6 pm) —Five hundred arrests have been made throughout India in the last two days of Communist ring-leaders who planned to attack power houses, workshops, signal boxes and bridges on railways and other communications, says the "Daily Herald’s” correspondent. A high official of the Home Office said the Government had definite information that the Communists wanted to us? the railway strike, called for March 9, for extensive sabotage. Secret circulars detailing Communist intentions to use explosives against vital installations have been discovered and led to the roundup.
Some postal telegraph workers, who planned to strike on March 9, also have been arrested Armed police are guarding key points, patrolling tracks, watching pumping stations and power houses. The Government has banned the Communist paper "People’s Age,” in West Bengal. Arrests over the week-snd bring the total number of Communists detained in India to about 1600. The Indian Government is expected to introduce a Bill making strikes in essential services illegal, when "promoted for party ends.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 22 February 1949, Page 5
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