INDIA REITERATES DESIRE FOR PEACE WITH PAKISTAN
SUMATRA DRIVE STARTS
New York, January 18.
Sir Girja Shankar Baipai, Socretary-Gontral of the External Affairs Ministry of the Govern- mont of India;, declared here today" that "so far as India is concernód, we have no inten- tion of resorting to war to settle any dispute with Pakistan, whother over Koshmir or any other question."
Jakarta, January 18. Republican troops have Sir opened an offensive against Communist-led guerillas in the mountainous region of Central Sumatra, reparts from Medan said tonight.
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The uffetiniye, It is hoped, will ellmax
started operations January 7 agamist regulins un- der the comannat of the summit
agitator, Jacid) Strega, in TIRI the
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The Republican high commutas expects completely to smash the cebel forces within 14 weeks, the informants sand
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been heavy and considerable num bers of painters bad been taken
Informants and the italy
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Girja, who is leaving today by air for India ofter
taking part in the Security Council sultations on Kashmir, told correspondents, when challenged about India's "fear" of hold- ing a plebiscite in Kashmir: "We had offered a plebiscite long before the dispute' came be- fore the Security Council and we have repeat- ed that this matter should be decided by the people of Kashmir.
"We can, however, say that accessary fur Ponditions the holding of a fan and im partial plebiscite have not thur- fr been created"
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the hope Telograph" said Pakistan end India boing friendly tarma is still far from
is, however, being fulfilled.
of
to bring
In the interests of Britain and the Commonwealth that every eep should be taken India
and Pakistan Into har many, It added
"M Bevin (Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary), there is good reason to believe, did als best al Culembo to reconcile the
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New Delhi, January 18.
Philip Noni Bakar, British Commonwealth Rela ilona, Minister, was Asked here today whether. Malays and other colonial areas un. der British rule will be rala- ed to Independent'status in the Commonwealth.
He repited, "We have de- clared that the purpose of our present presence in Malaya is to prepare, the way for self. government."
The
he great difflocity is, seid, that hitherto there has been no united Malayan na- tion. The Malays themselves, who constitute 50 per cent of
10 the population, have for not had any national cohesion. There Joint Council of Indlan Malays, Chinese and communities now in Malaya. "We are doing everything constitution to build up which will really create tlonhood there, and think It is the
the agreement of communition in Malaya that that present system is going forward."Reutar.
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DELEGATE ASKS FOR ASYLUM
Lake Success, January 18.
The Polish United Nations Uso Dorninions, but it is never delegate, Aleksander Rud- a drep zinski, has left his delegation quiirret unless ruth parties accept and asked the Secretary of Those où brih deles which require o
trusted adjudicator," the "Tetrga agile".
Wften have Samil, he N can feel that as soon as the Fralis. whe first inverted Kashmir, DICH Hie Pakistan troops
By well as De sovralled Azad Kacchini Troops have wildrawa, of primarias taken had been habilitated as metalica of the law out Republican Army
teenssat p yond rehabflation
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The United Nation Military abservars stationed at Colonel Kawiranga Medan headquar iere and at the West Coast port of Bibarga have been kept In formed of developments,
Blauwhere in Sumatra, guest- las led by the Sunutran Comm Dist Party etatis raakt, Aldui Karim, are reported to have been "politically neutralised, although
operations
some
Informants
inued in the South said Karr hud established henf- qum ters along the southern pros vier bundet United (5%
SEQUEL TO ACID MURDERS
Call to fight Malan policy
of
Apartheid
**Capetown, January 18. All opponents of the South African Government's policy of sagragation were tonight called upon to sign a "declaration of onconquerability," pledging them "to accopt any sufforing in fighting to praesorve the elements of democracy and freedom.”
The author of the call was 53-year-old Senator Edward Brookes, white representative of the Zulus in the Union's Upper House of Parlio-
ment.
He asked for a spirit of the whites for fear of political re- greatest militancy against what percussions. he called the "Herrenvolk Doctrine" of the Nationalist leader, Dr. Daniel Malan.
He was addressing a meeting of the South African Institute [/ Race Relations.
Senator Brookes predicted that only a few months might separate South Africa front becoming E semi-totalitarian State.
He called on all opponents of racial segregation "never to ne quiesce in spirit with laws which hamper fundamental freedoms or with political system which ex- cludes any section of the popula Lion from Parliamentary repre- mentation."
proposals
for
Government identity cards showing the racial origin of all inhabitants in the Union are expected to be one of the most controversial measures of the coming Purliamentary s
we sin with the position that there are ruults State, Mr. Dean Acheson, for slut, which opens on Friday
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In Karachi, the Pakistan
Minjeter. Finance
Mr ahulam tonight Mohammed, sald
that
the Columbo Conference had not discussed Pakistan's disputes With india or the Kashmir quration
econcile
commented asylum in the United States.
Unfortunate timo
For
were striatly enforced Indians, he feared thai there could be a passive alstance movement, Referring to the "present de- licate state of our relations with India," Mr. Brookes said this was an unfortunate moment to introduce what seemed like u "pass" for Indians similar to the passes now compulsorily curried by Atricana,
First-rate grievance
that
If registration were strictly en- forced for Indians, "there would be a first-rate grievance of inter- national dimensions."
On the other hand, if the sys- tem were not enforced for in- dians but strictly applied for Africans, there would be stron < African resentment, providing an-j other grievance of a kind which help to cuuse last year's riels
Urging opposition to the whol
scheme registration in on earlier speech. Senator national
that predicted Brookes predicted a new Indian Senati Brookes
10 half-caster as pamive resistatic campaign in by applying
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inany "blue-cycl national registra-century cause Government's Rud.
blondes" to be classed as colour.1 tion plans.
Sennfor Brookes ( formered while "dark-eyed, olive-skin- school principal in Nathi. said net persons with black crinkly would be "Europeans"-"
Mr. Rudzinski, who is counsel- a feeling lor of the Polish delegation, had the Soviet walk-out Pakistan that Joined in
Governorat from the United Nations Meeting Festile or another, on Monday. His Polish colleague. blamed in (reve of Nehru's India Borntynakl, confirmed Mr.
Khan's zinski's abrupt departure from rather than Liaquat All
a Pakistan. This dainaging susptelon his post. Mr. Dorntynski Joined is one winch the British Govern-the Soviets on Wednesday in their
that national registration could hair" oppor- walk-out from the Economie and shot take every
nut br effectively applied to Reuter. Employment Commission.
tunity to pel
The Telegraph. sard that the Latest declaration of Laugiat Ali Klun that has Gaveriment und Hut of dracu should at least agree eis concrete procedure for settling then disputes is welcome.
Both sides, no doubt, are suffer- ing from the quarel, and it would be paffibil 1 st were worsened The most impontent feature of indettatte playing for position,
the Telegraph.-- the concludes} Band been The Conference.
and Associated Press. "rvalisation on the part of every. Reuter body that the nationalistic senti ments of the people of Asta must) be respected" and the standards
people South and South East Asia
Parsed.
achtri. the Minister Vonterener how murderer, John George Haighealed that stability in the Near far sequel here today when Eastern countries ajudat pronounced "dead"
portant and necessary as in South doctor whom Haigh named as East Asin.
that one of his victims.
reunomies should be strengthmedi, Mr Justice Winer granted | Mr.
Mohurmurd
London, January 18. **** tria), conviction banging of the "acid bath"
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death of Dr. Archibald Henderson Ft was agreed that The new
be assisted to stabilise its eromany so that it would be a strong and beneReial government."
as having occurred. un on which Government of Indonesia should February 12, 1948. when he was last seen at a Brighton hotel with his wife and their red setter dog
He granted letters at druk:- | The Pakistan Finance Minister Istration of 15; flenderson's estatej to Mrs. Ethel Norman, his sister Part of Halgh's confession, reud, during his trial for the murder of Mrs Olivia Durand-Deaton lust summer, was harvard. to Justice
Willner
In
Haigh moich that he shot Dr. Henderson in the head with
leserland the Conferere great sucCESS
No anti-Red bloc planned
wrote
LAJ Mr.
to
Mr. Hudzinsky Acheson, asking for asylum be- Cause freedurn has disappeared He charged that the In Poland." Soylet walk-out is designed paralyse the United Nations,
The State Department spokes- Michael McDermott, said in man, Washington that the request for asylum is under consideration. Mr. Rudzinsky wrote to Acheson, on Monday that Poland -had undergone a rapid and pro- found transformation In the last few months, climaxed by the in- position of the Soviet Marshal Pollsh Defance Minister.
MONTGOMERY ON Rukovat as "MASTER PLAN"
London, January 18, Field Marshal Viscount Mont
Mr.
*During the last months the internal life in Poland has under- gone a rapid and profound trans- formation. The imposing of Mar slui Rokossovsky is only one of gomery, permanent Military long and systematic chain of Chairman of the Western Union less striking and lesser known Commanders-in-Chief Comincts, As a result, freedom hus tntiler, said here tonight that disappeared in Poland. That Impossible my further the master plan for ro-opera. makes
20171 within the
of work with the Pollah delegation group
with Western democracies must con- in the United Nations and
the Polish Consulute-General in tain plans for the milltary re
New York," Mr. Rudzinsky wrote covery of the nations of West
to the US. Secretary of State- ern Europe.
United Press.
Those nations must be as sured that the whole group re- gurds The Integrity ol Western Europe as dednitely vital for the safety of Western civilisation, He said that neither the
and that the whole group would. ference For
deliberations if necessary, fight to preserve the,
aren intact,"
the doctor's own revolver and put were aimed at creating an anti- him in a tank of neki Then he Communist bloe in South East shot Mrs. Henderson anvi put her Asia Recommendations had been in another tank of neid
Euch thine "I had my glass of blood," Haigh's confession rend «fruter
FINN ELECTION RESULT
Helsinki, January 18,
Viscount Montgomery, who was Apeaking at nude that economic
a banquet gives in and social hix honour by the English Speak- improvements should be made in
sold that Ing Union,
the two South East Asia on certain lines
pillars of great if the Governments
the English agreed to speaking world, the British Em- this proposal then anutber con- pire and Commonwealth and the ference would be called to make United States, must take further plans, probably in Aus-
into partnership. tralia.
Western
FLOOD MENACE NOW OVER
Chicago, January ¡18. Some 8,000 lowlanders fled of the from the flood waters
Eastern Mississippi River in Missouri, but the Wabash River dropped at Vincennes, Indiana, and the authorities believe the crisis is past.
the
Four
levee breaks
on
the whole group must thent Illinois side of the Wabash acrosą Further consultatione on aweld itself together into a close from Vincennes relieved the pres
sure of the water against the The final results in the Finnish Japanese peace treaty might lake knit, powerful,
freedom-loving battered concrete flood wall of entity. Only in this way could the city. The Wabash dropped Presidential election--from Kuo-Place in London, he stated.
Mr. Ghulam Mohammed praised a centrally-directed Communist plous subtracted one electoral the Ceylonese Prime Minister, the threat be successfully held, hol more than a foot in seven hours
and people added-Reuter.
vote from the total supporting
Ceylon Government
the present Preskient, Dr. Ph for their friendly welcome and kivi, u Liberal.
Dr. Paasikivi can count on 172 the effelency of their arrange- electoral votes against a Maxi-
28 for his mum of
potential
ments.
opponents. The final count In "Unwisdom of the East
Kuopio caused the re-allocation.
at one sent to the People's De- mocrats, the extreme left-Reu Lor.
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