Communist Party of India note on Travancore, with list of arrests

                        TRAVANCORE

                                        Calicut, 6.1.43

        1.  Meetings are not allowed

        2.  Almost all our important workers have been arrested both before and after
August 9th.

                a) Detention also
                b) Many of our comrades have been proceeded against for various offences
                   and cases are pending.

        3.  Our representative was told that the Government would co-operate with pop-
ular Food Committees and consider the question of releasing our comrades. But arrests
are continuing.

        4.  Government is far more strongly anti-Communist than the British Indian Gov-
ernments who have a desire to win the war.

        5.  No press will print anything for us because of the fear of the Government.

        6.  Police are carrying on anti-Communist propaganda. Complaints about police
threats and intimidations are unheeded.

        7.  Pro-fascist sentiments are rampant.

        8.  We are demanding release of Communists, Civil liberties for holding meetings
etc. for strengthening defence. Also intervention by the India Government.

LIST OF ARRESTS

        1.  M.N.Govindan Nair (case is pending)
        2.  P.T.Punnuse  (detention)
        3.  P.Jeevanandam        )
        4.  C.P.Elango           )  1½ years each for speeches
        5.  Karunakaran             1½ years for speech
        6.  Joseph Thelli (detention)
        7.  Varghese Vaidyan  (detention)
        8.  Puthuppilli Raghavan  (detention)
        9.  Sadasivan  )  Police [struck-over word; ms. above: framed up] a rape case against these two comrades and
       10.  Kesavan    )  the case is pending.