Modern Review May 1944

The much advertised efficiency of the railway the telegraph the telphone and the post office have all broken down to ridiculous and painful level at the stress of the war and every one of them is being utilised as an engine of exploitation not as machinery of nubile service Normal channels of trade and industry have been stifled_ out of existence. [...] The President of the League decended upon the Punjab to wipe out the Pact destroy the Unionist Party and attach the Muslim members of the Unionist Party to the cult of Pakistan. [...] eek of this month alleging— at an agreement has been entered into by the tndiiep Jute Mills Association for fixing certain maxima phew of for the coming 5141$013 (ii) That this has been done with the full knowledge of the Provincial Government and possibly of the Central Government as well" (iii) That the prices have been fixed in view of the expectation that the Government of the United States [...] () Whether it is a fact that the Government of the United Kingdom agreed not to purchase jute in the Indian market at that time in order to keep the prices at the level agreed to amongst the Members of the Indian Jute Mills Association. [...] That Government is pleased to prohibit the publication of the Bombay Sentinel." And why ? Because forsooth 'it is necessary for the pupose of securing the defence of British India and the efficient prosecution of the war' to impose the ban I No speckle offence is alleged against the paper though even a show of justice demands some specific charge.