द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

162 THE INDIAN STRUGGLE
a quarrel with the Superintendent, Major Flowerdew (now
the Inspector-General of Prisons, Bengal), whereupon I was
transferred to Insein Jail. My transfer to Insein proved to be
a godsend. On arrival I found as Superintendent, Major
Findlay, who had been the Superintendent of Mandalay Jail
for some time. He was painfully surprised to see the condition
of my health. After keeping me under observation for three
weeks, he wrote a very strong note to Government about my
health. On receiving this note the Government were forced
to act. But they were still opposed to the idea of releasing
me. In the meantime they had made an offer in the Bengal
Legislative Council saying that if I wanted to go to Switzer-
land at my own expense, they would release me and put me
on board a ship at Rangoon sailing for Europe. This offer I
had rejected, partly because I could not accept the conditions
attached to the offer and partly because I did not like the
idea of going to Europe direct from Burma for an indefinite
period. After the rejection of this offer, the next order that
I received from Government, was for my transfer to Almora
Jail in the United Provinces. Once again arrangements for
my transfer were made with the utmost secrecy and early
one morning in May 1927, I was removed from Insein Jail
to a boat sailing from Rangoon. On the fourth day I reached
Diamond Harbour at the mouth of the river Hooghly. Before
our boat reached Calcutta, she was stopped and I was met
by Mr. Lowman (who was then the head of the Intelligence
Branch of the Police) who wanted me to alight. Thinking
that he wanted to smuggle me out of Calcutta, I refused.
But I was assured that His Excellency the Governor had
placed his launch at our disposal and that I had to appear
before a Medical Board who were waiting for me there and
I then agreed. The board composed of Sir Nilratan Sirkar,
Dr. B. C. Roy, Lieut.-Col. Sands and Major Hingston, the
Governor's physician, examined me and sent their report by
wire to the Governor at Darjeeling. I spent the day in the
Governor's launch and next morning Mr. Lowman, with a
telegram in his hand, came to inform me that the Governor
had ordered my release. Saying this, he handed over the
official order of release. It was May 16th, 1927, but the