FRENCH INDIA
ASSURANCE OF NO INTERFERENCE LONDON, October 24. The Indian Government has advised the French Embasy that the authorities' at Madras have been instructed to see that Indian citizens did not interfere in affairs in French India, says the Associated Press New Delhi correspondent. - • The embasy spokesman said the assurance was given in response to an embassy protest that thousands of persons who crossed the border into Mahe had caused disturbances.
Six persons were injured in clashes between Communists and French Socialists during municipal elections in Pondicherry, reports the Associated Press correspondent.
People elsewhere in French India stayed indoors to avoid trouble. A plebiscite on the incorporation of French Indian territory into the Indian Union will follow the municipal elections.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 13, 26 October 1948, Page 3
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