The Calcutta Weekly Notes November 28 1949

It was indeed remarkable the way the work in the Dacca High Court was carried on by the Judges who not only maitained the high traditions of the judiciary but also inspired confidence in the way justice was administered. [...] If the prsecutrix complains to her friends of the offence or offender say two years after the occurrence it will be impossible to say that the statement was made at or about the time " of the occurrence even when it appears that it was not at all possible for her to make a statement a moment earlier. [...] be found in the first part Of the section but the still better course would be to forbid the use of 'this sort of usually fishy evidence altogether by deleting immet diately the entire first part. [...] The Pest of Provincialism The Bengal Press Advisory Committee is reported to have adopted a tentative code for the guidance of newspaper editors to fight what it calls the " growing menace of provincialism." Certain features of the code deserve mention. [...] The Press Advisory Committee has not formulated anything startlingly new in its so-called code." During and for some time after the communal riots of 1946-47 it was the practice of at least the more rputable papers whether at the instance of the Press Advisory Committee or not we are unaware to publish news of incidents and casualties studiously omitting any rference to the communiti