Violent outbreak of Quit India movement (contd-1)

Gandhi and other leaders were arrested on the morning of 9th August.
On that day, 9th August, there were disturbances  in Bombay, Ahmedabad and Poona , but the rest of the country remained quiet .
On 10 August disturbances spread also in Delhi and a few owns in UP, but no serious repercussions were reported in other places.
From August 11, the situation began to deteriorate rapidly. From then onwards, apart from the hartals, protest protest meetings and similar demonstrations. Outbreaks spread Bombay, Madras, U.P., C.P. and other places. The damages and destruction were confined to railways, P & T lines, in different provinces of Assam, Orissa, the Punjab, Bihar, N.W.F.P., etc.Attacks were on communication, transport, and Govt. Properties.
In U.P. 104 railway stations were attacked and damaged , 15 being burnt, 16 derailments were caused, about 100 instances of sabotage to railway tracks were reported. Over 425 cases of sabotage to telephone and telegraph lines. A 190 post offices were destroyed  or severely damaged , and 32 employees of the P&T department were attacked. !6 members of the police force and 332 were injured. arrests totalling 16,089 were made in connection with the disturbances through out the province."the  'total amount of collective fine imposed was Rs. 28,32, 000 which was promptly realised
The all India figures of damages and sabotages are as follows;
Railway stations ......                          250
Post offices attacked ......                      50
Post Offices burnt    .......                       50
Post Offices damaged     .....                200
Telegram and telephones cut  ...      3,500 places
Police stations burnt ....                         70
Other Govt.  buildings damaged ....      85
With the close of first phase of violent mass disorders three new tendencies became apparent - 1. orthodox non-violent, 2. dev. of serious crimes, 3. drift towards terrorism.
In some particular places movements took the shape of SWARAJ , for long or short periods.
As in Midnapore of W.B., Ballia in U.P.
But the quit India  movement ended in failures and Gandhi was destined to play any further activities inn India's Freedom Struggle.
Even Gandhi wrote to Lord Wavell on 27 July 1944 that he was prepared to advise the Working Committee to renounce mass civil disobedience and to give full co-operation in the  war effort if a declaration of immediate Indian Independencewere made available.
Gandhi and Jinnah talks started on 9th Sept 1944 but failed.