ACTION IN INDIA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 219, 28 June 1947, Page 5

ACTION IN INDIA

CO-ORDINATING ACTIVITIES *t ■ (Rec. 11 a.m.) CALCUTTA, June 27. " The Moslem League working committee selected Dacca as the temporary capital of Eastern Pakistan. Fourteen states of the Rajputana Agency—the largest single Indian territory —formed a Union of the Rajasthan to co-ordinate the activities of participant States in certain matters of common interest. Rulers of the member States signed a covenant, in Adaipur, which stated the union had been formed so that, Avhile preserving the monarchial form of Government in the participant States, the Union might join the Union of India as a democratic cunit. Forty Shops Burned Out / Forty shops Avere burned out or badly damaged in Amritsar yesterday during communal disturbances Avhich continued beyond.nightfall. The fire damage is estimated at.£35,000. Raihvay Avoiksliopmen in North Bombay began a token strike to-day o\’er a Avage disagreement with the Government and stoned to a standstill all local services on the Governmentmanaged Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Police fired on stinkers stoning trains, killing one and wounding three. NORTH-WEST PROVINCE MUST LINK WITH PATHANISTAN PESHAWAR; June 2(3. Dr. Khan Sahib, Congress Premier of the North-west Frontier Province, said there Avas no alternative to the province becoming an independent State of Pathanistan, because the Punjob division made it physically impossible to remain with Hindustan, and the frontier people’s verdict in the last election Avas against Pakistan. “The solution is revolution, and it is our duty to direct the revolution toA\ T ards a peaceful settlement,” he said.