NEW DELHI: A Press Note says: Recent recruiting figures emphasise how rapidly the Indian Air Force is growing. The number of airmen recruited in March was nearly 600 per cent, greater than the average monthly recruitment over the whole of 1942.

Figures for the last three months show that the Eastern area leads the recruiting drive. Bengal and the United Provinces have each provided good quotas and Bihar has enlisted six times as many men as hitherto.

The most striking increase is in the Western area. March figures show an increase of 112 per cent on February figures and an all round increase of more than 1,000 per cent on the numbers recruited in this area last year.

R.A.F officers training Indian recruits say that not only the quantity but also the quality has improved. Many more men of good family and College education are entering the ranks from all parts of India, mixing happily and working together as true comrades-in-arms.

[Meanwhile, as reported from Karachi,] At a public meeting of the citizens of Karachi held this evening [May 23] under the joint auspices of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Congress, speeches were made paying tribute to Mr. Allah Baksh, ex-Premier of Sind, who was recently assassinated in Shikarpur. — Dawn Delhi

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2018