Azad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 1 February 1945)
Front page of the English edition of Azad Hind, dated 1 February 1945. The lead reads 'Britishers enact reign of terror to suppress Indian revolutionary activities' (a loaded label doing the work of an argument), and the war news is Domei dispatches reporting only Japanese-side claims ('Foe suffers big losses in Luzon area'), while the editorial forecasts 'Gloomy Future for Anti-Axis Nations' and asks Indians to help 'Nippon achieve final victory'.
Propaganda techniques used in this newspaper page
- Date
- February 1, 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Indian Independence League Headquarters (Azad Hind, organ of the League, printed in Japanese-occupied Singapore, called Syonan)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- South Asia
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Provisional Government of Free India
- Leader
- Subhas Chandra Bose
- Audience
- Diaspora or minority
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (uploaded during the Subhas Chandra Bose 125th birth anniversary celebration), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tags PD-Azad Hind, PD-SG-edition, PD-Japan; issued 1945)
Azad Hind (English edition), Vol. 2 No. 27, 1 February 1945; via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
[handwritten ink notes at top, partly legible] [illegible] 4 P.M. ... [illegible] 1030 [illegible] UNITY FAITH SACRIFICE AZAD HIND 161 & 163, Cecil St., Syonan. ENGLISH EDITION Tel. Nos. 3491 & 3492 Ext. 7 Organ of the Indian Independence League Headquarters. Vol. 2.—No. 27. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2605, SYOWA 20 7 Cents [left column] TODAY and TOMORROW Gloomy Future For Anti-Axis Nations TODAY, in every country in Europe outside Germany, not only in France, Italy, Belgium and Greece, but also in Yugoslavia, Poland and elsewhere, the people are divided into two irreconcilable parties, the Rightists and the Leftists. The Rightists think that they have in Churchill a champion who will put them in power, while the Leftists feel equally certain about what Stalin will do for them. ... ... It is the duty of Indians and the peoples of entire East Asia, therefore, to help Nippon achieve final victory in this War. [headline 1] FOE SUFFERS BIG LOSSES IN LUZON AREA Enemy Advance On Clark Airfield Checked By Nippon Resistance A Nippon Base in the Philippines, January 30 (Domei)—Our sustained fierce attacks against the right flank of enemy forces advancing along the Luzon front have completely checkmated his advance at the northern vicinity of Clark Field. ... [headline 2] Present Day India Vast Prison Camp, Says Mrs. Pandit Release Of Political Prisoners Urged In Washington Rally Lisbon, Jan. 30 (Domei)—The Indian Independence Day meeting, held last night in Washington by the National Committee for India's Freedom, passed a resolution urging the United States Government to take steps to convince Britain of the necessity of releasing tens of thousands of imprisoned political prisoners in India, according to a Washington dispatch. ... [headline 3] BRITISHERS ENACT REIGN OF TERROR TO SUPPRESS INDIAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES Loot Before Rout; Estate Duty To Be Enforced In India The British Government is hatching further hideous plans for the inhuman exploitation of India. ... Peoples' Leaders Sentenced To Death Or Shut Up In Prison For Life A very belated admission of the extreme intensity of the anti-British revolution which followed in the wake of the famous Quit India Resolution of the Congress in August 1942 is contained in the latest reports received here. ... [bottom row] Stilwell Warns American Public Prolonged Pacific War Predicted Enemy Landing Party At Kangaw Attacked & Forced To Fall Back
Read from the 1280 px page image. Only the masthead, the headlines, the opening and closing sentences of the left-hand editorial, and the opening sentence of each lead story are transcribed; '...' marks omitted body text. The two handwritten notes at the top are partly legible and are not reliably transcribed.
