PLAN TO DIVIDE INDIAN ARMY
PARTITION BETWEEN NEW DOMINIONS
LONDON, July 1. Plans for the division of the Indian Army between Hindustan and Pakistan have been published in New Delhi and London. The partition of the army will.be in two stages. There will be one supreme commander under two defence councils, but he will have no authority to use the troops to maintain order without permission from the defence councils. Units with a Moslem majority will be moved to the Pakistan area and those which are mainly Hindu will remain in Hindustan. It is hoped that the separation of the army will be officially completed by 1948. An Army Reconstruction Committee is to be established under General Sir Claude Auchinleck. who will also be a member of the two defence councils. Other members of the committee will be Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Miles, commander-in-chief of the Indian Navy, Air Vic4-Marshal H. S. P. Walmsley, the Air Force Gomman-der-in-Chief in India, and LieutenantGeneral Sir Robert Smith, Chief of the Indian General Staff. The Viceroy (Viscount Mountbatten) put before the Indian leaders today likely provisions of an act of Parliament which will establish the ! two Dominions in India.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25226, 3 July 1947, Page 7
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