QUIT NOAKHALI OR DIE, GANDHI WARNS HINDUS
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New Delhi, April 7 (AP)
New York Times--April 8, 1947, Tuesday----Page 23, 148 words
Mohandas K. Gandhi, who has been attempting to insure communal peace in the Bengal and Bihar areas, said today religious strife in the troubled Noakhali section of bengal seemed to call for Hindus to leave or perish "in the flames of fanaticism."
Meanwhile, a one-day strike of workers throughout Bombay Province appeared likely to be called by the Provincial Trade Union Congress to express sympathy with the two-week-old strike of 8,500 transport workers in the city of Bombay.
Mr. Gandhi halted his walking tour of Bengal and Bihar at the invitation of the new Viceroy, Viscount Mountbatten, for discussions on departure of the British from India by June, 1948. Today he released telegrams from COngress party workers in noakhali, which is predominantly Moslem, in which they described attempts to burn Hindus alive.
http://www.eastbengal.org/april8_1947.pdf
(Source : The New York Times)
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Most of the times Gandhi ji took sides for Muslims.
But I was not knowing Gandhi ji warned hindu like this....
Thanks for letting us know.
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