Mr. Subhas Chandra Bose was killed in an air crash off the coast of Japan, according to the Lyons Radio , quoting a Tokyo message.
A Bangkok dispatch to the German News Agency says that two leaders of the Indian community in Siam were killed in an aeroplane crash off Japan. They were en route to Tokyo to attend a conference of all Indians in the Far East.
Plane crashes while en route to Tokyo
Mr. Subhas Chandra Bose lost his life when the plane in which he was flying to Tokyo to attend a "Free India Congress" crashed off the Japanese coast, according to a Tokyo message.
With him were his adjutant and a number of other Indians. - Reuter.
A Tokyo message dated March 27 stated:
Eleven persons including four members of the Malaya Indian Goodwill Mission en route to Tokyo are believed to have been killed in a plane crash states the official Japanese News Agency.
The plane, which had been chartered by the Army, was last reported on Tuesday heading towards Tokyo. No news had been received of the plane since nor have any traces of it been found despite an intensive search.
It may be recalled that Mr. Subhas Bose mysteriously disappeared from his residence some time before January 26, 1941. Mr. Bose was at the tirne awaiting trial on a charge under the Defence of India Rules in connection with the publication of an article entitled "The Day of Reckoning" in his English weekly Forward Bloc .
Mr. Bose had been released from jail in the first week of December, 1940 and his disaopearance was noticed on January 26. For some days before that date it was stated that Mr. Bose had been observing strict silence in seclusion and spending his time in religious practices.
None of his relatives could say anything regarding his whereabouts. In November 1941, the Governor-General declared vacant Mr. Bose's seat in the Central Assembly, to which he had been elected from the Dacca division while he was in jail, on the ground of failure to take his seat for a long tirne.
