The Archive · 1940

Statement Issued

Madras, Sept. 21.

Mahatma Gandhi, who is back in power as the leader of the All-India Congress, according to the Madras radio, is stated to have announced before his proposed visit to the Vichy, Sept. 21.

Twenty-five milliard francs were voted by the French Council of "Ministers yesterday evening for reconstruction and recovery work to be carried out during the next two to five years.

Of the total, 18,500,000,000 francs will be devoted to electrification of the state railways, improvement of waterways and canals, and modernization and extension of the French road, telegraph and telephone systems, Execution of all these works, it is age to some 150,000 or 200,000 men. believed, will give steady employ-

—Havas.

Viceroy:

"Assuming my interview is granted, I do not go to hold a pistol to the Viceroy's head, but to make sure that I am right in inferences that I have drawn from acts of the Government.'—Reuter.

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