The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12


 homes and offices are located. Troops and armed police are guard ing the New Delhi sector.
 At Delhi, military truck carry ing soldiers was surrounded by a mob near the New Delhi railroad station. Stones and dust were thrown at the truck.
 At Lucknow, constables and civic guards were injured when the crowds stoned the police outpost of Aminabad. Two police cars were damaged by stoning. A dozen per- sons were arrested.
 At Lucknow, the united provinces government issued an ordinance providing stern punishment for rioters. The punishment ordered was greater than normally permit ted under the penal code for cer- tain classes of offenses. Any one found guilty of causing mischief" by fire or explosives will be liable to the death penalty or to whipping
 The same penalty will apply to anyone damaging buildings, vehi- cles, machinery, etc., which is used by the government or by communi- cations lines.
 At Nasik and in the Bombay presidency, 14 persons were killed in the last two days and at Delhi Il were dead.
 In Madras, police fired in self defense against mob that stoned them, wounding three.
 One man was killed and seven were wounded at BasSein, 20 miles from Bombay.
 Police fired on a mob at Cawn- pore and 60 persons were arrested.
 Disorders also were reported at Poona, but details were lacking. Fourteen persons were killed here yesterday and II died at Delhi, the capital, and before noon today there had been five fatalities at least in three other cities.
 Nationalists brought knives into play for the first time when they attacked police taking prisoner for trial to court at Nasik, 110 miles northeast of Bombay.
 Members of the police party were stabbed. Other police opened fire and there were casualties as yet un- estimated. The prisoner escaped.
 Despite stiffened police and troop activities here, rioting broke out anew soon after the curfew had ended at dawn. Rowdies started roofing up trees and iron fences and making barricades of them along with boulders and smashed furniture to stop traffic and impede the police and troops.
 Adopting new tactics, the defense forces went on the attack them selves and forced the rioters to re- move obstacles.
 Squads of police and troops, whenever they detected rioters am- pushing in houses, charged them and, sometimes in face of resistance which resulted in casualties, dragged them out.
 In addition to casualties so far known, there were others at Parma, Madras, Poona and Lucknow.
 Gandhi in Luxury
 Poona, India, Aug. 12 -(UP)- Mohandas K. Gandhi, the mystic whose life has been one of bodily privations, today is installed in one of the worlds most luxurious pal aces, the home of the fabled Aga Khan.
 Despite a surrounding dominated by Persian rugs, beautiful paintings and other Oriental luxury, Gandhi made two complaints. He was dis satisfied with the mosquito netting on the veranda, and 1t was changed at his request. The beautiful linen napkins of the Aga Khan also were rejected by Gandhi because they were not of handwoven home-spun khadi. These too, were replaced.
 The three-story palace with its beautiful sunken gardens, flowing fountains and neat lawns, overlooks the city and has been rented by the government to house Gandhi and the few followers permitted to be with him. Outside the lawns, how ever, there is a barricade of barbed wire, and troops are in evidence to prevent any effort to deliver Gandhi.
 The leader, who in the past has forced the Britigh to releagA him