THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1947, 1

INDIAN LEADERS GATHERING Preparations For Momentous Meeting Viceroy To Present

Moslems Parade

In London

London, May 25.

The Monken Letijene of Bri.

Cabinet's Plan

New Delhi, May 25.

Indian leaders were already gathering here today

for last-minute talks in readiness for the mo- mentous meeting, eight days from now, at which they will hear from the Viceroy the British Government's latest plan for trans- ferring power to Indians.

tain today presented a memoran-Mahatma Gandhi arrived here today by rail from

dura 17 the Prime Muister.

M. Cirineal Attlee, denmording

Pakirin without the partitioning | of Bengal and the Punjala

The emerantham," presenttal by the Presidend of the Moslem Laphe Boston, Ali Moham mel Kant, and to allege, de- scribed the Tareyess proposal for the bar fakul The majab Bod Bonpal

al site fant tv parrels to weaken Paki-.

Patna in response to a specific invitation fron

Government Pandit Nehru. The Interim

is anxious that Mr. Gandhi should be present at a special Congress Working Committee meel- ing called before June.

Egypt's Dispute For U.N.O.

Madagascar Rebels Hoped For US Aid

Pretoria, May 25.

According to letters received from Madagascar, the insurgents, who began the attacks on the French forces there at the end of March, have now lost all illusions that their movement with receive United States support.

The insurgents had been told

by their leaders that United States

air force find naval units would China's

move in to their aid.

Political Outlook

Letters writion from Madagas. Cairo, May 25.

car twelve days ngo report events The Egyptian Prime Minis in the south.enst, particularly in ter, Mahmoud Fahmy El Nok-

regions the

of Mokunmango. rashy Pasha, in to hend the Mabanaru ind Purafangon. The Egyptian delegation which will writers said that the rebels, realis. submit the country's disputeing that they are in their own, (Continued from Pape 6) with Britain over the revision have gone deep into the thick Nanking is not inclinest to of the Anglo Egyptian Treaty forests where purcuit in practical. ཟtitut tpo

many tears for the to the United Nations.

ly Impossible, but from which Shanghai businessmen strug- The The delegation will also in bands issue forth at night to m-| gling against inflation.

effect of the declining value of Pandi Nehra arriving involvers and double-harrelled, clude the Education Minister. fack nolated settlements.

The guerillas first cul telegraph the Chinese currency, it is con- [*] Haznak from here

runs, fedday paraded the streets; Abduj Musa Tomorrow

then with tender, in nat one-tenth marie, hill station in the fall of Peshawar. capital of the asha, the Commerce and In- and telephone wires.

wild shouts, attack settlers and powerful on the vast agricut- od Princes

Mahmoud Minister. Northwest Frontier Province, } dustry

section Works their native servants. killing all turni

cunpromising Riaz Bey, the Public in Peshawar despatch safe.

than RO pre cent of Thirty miles northwest. of Minister, Abdug Megaid Ihrn-erialnately.

The French allege that much china's population. Peshawar, Muslems Leagueril, hin Saleh, and Senator Ahmed, rn s. Issued to these "shock

One expert's. view is that foreign exchange so vital to the trueder merviy expresses the re- lationship between internal aud external prices which is bound to deteriorate as long as one continues to mount.

Admiral 1ard Manabatten won exported to leave for In día a Thurney with the plan approved by the Cabinet d Feiding.

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Sunhourl

received

troops," The They will be joined in New,

correspondence Einen here reflects the feeling among Altis rustici Pasha, Egyptian Ambassador the French in Madagascar that to the United States, and Mah-unless strong reinforcements are Two men. two women ant maud Fawzi Boy. permanent sent; it may take a ling time to was children, all Hindus, were delegate

N-suppress the insurgent movement, The rebel units, being ingred when a hand-grenade | tions. explored in Kohat last night, a

vibile, must be mopped up nyie. Frontier

process tital- Govern- Northwest

tically, which ment communique said today.

festly will call for many trons.

erdammited a fronter rout Ramzi Bey. bridge and smashed the win-{ The suwertesdum, after out-

As the stage was being pet dows of the judges court at York by yogtaphaal defrolicļ Serverige Thes

Pakistan iterated Mr. in Ses Talha for the meeting Marban, where there were in Jannah' de mail for a corridor. ast which the indian wanders will Zients that werk.

and be ended up to receive Bri Kapslara ek camerama atare aratorn la la la,

tain's plan for withdrawal and Barber balay, Be slogerows i eventually to make their

n India's future, the "Long live Jocab," "We will: Phoice la Far

"We : new wave of communal stoting. Pakostan

which has been sweeping Tredia From const To ended, santirnged Trabay

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I got pa tition Berral and the Purab were hewed by boliday Lovedores pa ayer In Tradio Modne prae want MA Jipat

the orch Wet Food

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Volunteer Army The Mixler Leapure "Volan Deck Army, sened with fes

Gandhi: "Freedom Is

In Our Hands"

New Delhi, May 25. Mohandas Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader, said to- night that the answer to the freedom of India was in the hands of the Indians themselves and "not in London.“

Returning Hona Patru, Gundlu | satd 31 a post prayer sqreech:

The Kohinoor of bdian free iqra in urban Nolly cau srately away from us 2101 even Russia, the collective Lore of Ainerien und Britain it as we for dijn 'prople who have to And Kulction f our prubiems."

Referring to Vinery Viscount Mountbatten's conversations with the Cabinet in Bondars, Gandhi salt it was no tese, for the Indians to look to London 6.2 u solution to their puliteal problems.

tindhi said he had heard of Betal plan for a sovereign proposed by Sarat Hop of the All-India Congress and 1LS. Sah. rawardy of the Mastrim League. but declined t elaborate on his previous statements

American 'Scapegoats' Protest

to the United

Date of departure of the de- legention for New York has het In Assam, where the Cons for been Bxedd. Reuter, arex Ministry in conlueting a Leanin against Madem ""matters," on preserved Janels, troom and elephants have been med to destroy 500 house built by ɖhe “aquatters,” Jegging about 1,500 homeless, accord-

Reuter

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Welles On Red 'India'

Washington, May 25.

ing to a member of the All Ju- Mr. Sumner Welles, former Under-Secretary of din Working Committer of the| Mordem League, quolest in L Cufrutta despatch.

Kashmir Trouble

State, stated in a broadcast today that Com- munism had recently strengthened its hold in all cities in India and was now rapidly spread- ing into the rural areas.

"It is significant that sugges. Mr. Welles added: "That solu.

in terms

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Stable Exchange

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A stable exchange rate is res garded as impossibile anal 12

hold Government's failure to the |ine Of 4N$12,000 2< US$1.00 is considered only on-i furals Wattled the failure hold any new line. The basle) chuse, emphasised and re-run- phasised here, in the civil war, with the disruption of rom- munications, movement: of goods and such evils as diver sion of food stocks to the army, shortage af manpower on farms dne to conseription.

Conclusiona drawn from 4 sarvey bent opinion is that,

no downfall of Chiang Kai- Government; secondly: #hek' no economic collapse as defin-|

clearcut cd; and thirdly, no overall victory by either side.

What 1948 holds is another,

perhaps just question, which now only a seer could answer. -Associated Press.

The civil disobedience move-tions are being advanced by some tion will only be found if and in 1947 there will be. firstly, ment startet by the Moslem indian leaders that the British when the Indian leaders are will Leagene against the Congress Government should

continue Ing to think

of India Party Ministry in Assum con- keep some British troops in in- rather than in terms of their own thued and demonstrators were din after the date set for Indian communities." These lenders must being arrested almost daily for independence AN one practical also be "willing to enter into, leading processions and shout-safeguard against anarchy," Mr. agreement

About д deferative ing slogans.

Welles declared,

system similar in principle to that An Fort to smooth over the

we evolved here in the United difficulties in the mesuntain "*11

inore is even

significant States, he concluded.--Reuter. leaders of some com. state of Kashmir was made to- that the day by Mr. J. R Kripaluni, munities and groups have in- Congress President, when called on the people of the state status would to drop their "Quit Kashmir" pational Munich. May 25.

campaign against their Mahara-sk cr Hindu domination. But it Three American civitions

jab. They should demand Is of course plain that arrange charged umnight that the Peoples State under their own mests such as these, even in the held by the Army "without

nler, he said. Congress had unlikely event the British Govern- charge for periods of fram

raised the "Quit India" slogun next could now consent to them, 10 to 90 days.

against the British as they would constitute only temporary were foreigners, but the raters. They would not repre. of Kashmir was a son of the sent any continuntion Soil and had every right to live solution of the problem," in Kashmir. Reuter.

Army lleith said they were charged with tampering with the registry of German auto nobiles and disappropriation of

Amy rations

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The men have been confined the Military Government the in- compound here while vestigation is being completed. The efvilians claimed they were being made "senpezronts” for high ranking officials and that the Military Government is attempting to discover the disposition of soane 100 Gernum | A Con- | automobiles which have disap-| res party already knew Jals perd

the frumo

German

According to Gandht, Subɛa. wardy son will see Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who will make a de cition The Bengal proposal.

Gandhi enghusland that Working C mätter of the

the

stand in the Ilian question, thus economy.---United Press. he would mut elaborate at ris ilm.

the way,

He came to New Delhi, he said. of the Congress af, the request Party because its leaders wanted him to be available during the forthcoming discussi-ns-United

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DIVISION OF INDIA-- DIVISION OF FORCES

New Delhi, May 25, division of India must inevitably result in a division of the Indian armed forces, Sardar Baldev Singh, Defence Member in the Indian Interim Government, said in an interview_to- day, adding: "If we have to nationalise and at the same time divide the armed forces, it is going to have a terrible effect on the army and the country." Such a division, he said,

communal problem unsolved, of either not in the interests

"If, however, the Moslem claim part of a divided India, but a for division must be faced, they divisjoni was inevitable as it would | cannot be allowed to engulf any "highly advisable" to have a minority, The partition of the joint army for Hindu and Moa- | Punjab is precisely being pressed Tem india.

for that reason,

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. So far, Suedar Baliey continued, a large part of the Indian

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was recruited in the Punjab. An overwhelming majority of Moslems in the army came from Rawalpind And Mooltan

#ivisions.

Partition Folly

that

"From the very beginning pl the present political talks, the Sikhs adopted the attitude if the Moslem League demand for Pakistan is to be conceded, then the Punjab must be divided, as the Sikhs will under no circum- stances agres to be part of Pakls

When the army is divided, the Pakistan (separate Moslem statel Slate will have to and funds to pay for all the Moslems in the armed ranks." Sardar Baldey add- tan." etl. "This will be a big drain on Pakistan finances and ita pinch will be felt by the Mosiom masses, who at this stage do not under- stand the implientida of the division of India."

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Dr. Freudenberg cited fact that the new international themselves. refugee organisation hus budget of only $150,000,000

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DP's. UNRRA had for the DP lask. fugees

And the PENINSULA HOTEL LOBBY He also questioned the right- Council's rupresentatives in-

and Swedish | Tela, 58330 and 8081-Ex. 22 neas of handling uprooted peo- clude Austrian ples in big general categories pastors and helpers from the "You belong to a category American Brethren Service and then you have no right of existence," he said.

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There are 80,000 Huch re- He said the methods of Al- fugees in France, who are aid- j lied "outscreening" of alleged ed by French Protestants-with! collaborationists from the Bill the support of the Council.

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to Republican Spanish! tic and displaced persona Germany presents a "challenge exiles in France has been too to the Christian conscience." ¦ meagre and he had recently naked by the Church Those put in this category are been abandoned by the Allies, suffer World Service, the Internation- hardships and sometimes arel American church agency, to "worse off than 'the Germans send money for training around them."

"Of course," he added, "war criminals must be punished."

Churches' Task

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courses.. Most of these Spani ards are Catholic, but since they oppose the Spanish Catholic Church they lack spiritual ties, he explained.

Ger-

In co-operation with the Dr. Freudenberg, himself a German who became an exile World's YWCA, and the World Alliance of YMCA's, he said, during the Nazi regime worked during the war to aid the Council also has field work- Sardar Baldey added that it was hundreds of Jewish refugees, erg among the millions of vari true that partition of the Punjab also criticised the constitutioned uprooted propter in

many.-United Press. would weaken both Moslems and

al basin of the IRO. In 1 Sikhs, "but we now and it im-

virtual reversal of the ill-fam- possible. to restore brotherly re-

ed Nuremberg laws, It excludes iations. We know we shall suffer and are

the from its aid all those of "Ger e prepared to face lesser evil.

man-ethnic origin." He said Of his own community, the

We also know that the Mos- that such a mechanical proce- Sikhs, ninety five per cent

with lems stand to suffer very much dure is not in accord whom live in the Punjab, Sardar

more," he odded.

the "In fact, Christian principles and that the Punjab we Baldey said

forened that the Moslems churches muat strive should be restored to them. The themselves will soon realise the that all injustices in categoris-nited States and the British Governinent was no longer folly of partition and will-chungs going to set

ing peoples do not become per- formal," paramount their present obstinacy." power in the Indian states.

manent. "If this is so, the Punjab ought to be restored to the Sinkhs from whom the British took it as n trust when they recupied

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Five Indian leaders to

Sardar Baldey is one of the "Big

whom Lord Mountbatten, the Viceroy. wl on June 2 present the Bri-

the Lish plan for the transfer of The Sikhs, he added, shared power to Indian hands. Reuter.

Indian province," he said.

the view that a division of India

solve

would aggravate and not Carmona

communal problem.

The reason is simple,"

he

sald. "Though there are certain areas in the northeast and north- west where Moslems are in' e

Promoted

~ Llabon, May - 25.

numerical majority, any division The President, General Anto

Moslems

"VERY FORMAL”

Batavin, May 25. Dr. Sutan Sjabrir, the In- donesian Premier, today de- the scribed relations between

Indo- Republic 48 "very

Unlike China, India, Britain The director estimated that

Uniter and Australia, the the 100-odd churches associated States have no direct relationa with the World Counchi have with the Republic and official special responsibilities toward correspondence always seemerl clone to 7,000,000 refugees and to be sent to the Dutch authori- displaced persons who belong ties who pass, it on to the Re to Protestant and Eastern Or-

public, Premier Sjahrir said.- thodox. denominations, the big Reuter.

In streams répresented Council. He said that of 13,000,000 to 14,000,000 Europe, half are Protestant or Orthodox.

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