The police took quiet but elaborate measures throughout India to preserve law and order on the occasion elabration of "Independence but. reports from both Northern India "ang Southern India show that the proceedings everywhere were orderly except Bombay this evening.
Processions of "Congress voluntin the principal cities, the ing of the National flag ove: Public buildings and the passing of Independence" resolutions formed the mainstay of: the proceedings.
In Calewtta a feature of the processions was the absence of posters beating revolutionary inscriptions, while in Bombay, Moslems were consricvous by their sat sence at the celebrations. Crowds in that city occasionally jeered at the police in the vicinity of, meetings, bat the latter ignored the processionists, who' sang national songs ang hawked home-spun_ cloth.
In Ahmedabad, Mohammedans were onlookers, but did not partic-mate in: the. processions—Reuter.
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