INDIAN STATES’ AFFAIRS
LINKS with future dominions urged
(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW DELHI, July 26. . An appeal to the Indian States to Join with one or other of the new Indian Dominions was made by the Viceroy (Viscount Mountbatten) at a conference of Indian princes and their representatives. The three subjects of defence, external affairs and communications, he said, had to be handled for the States, lor their convenience and advantage, by the two larger organisations, and if states did not link up with one or other of the Dominions, they would be cut off from any source of supplies °i up-to-date arms. “The present link by which the subcontinent of India acted as an economic entity is now to be broken,” he saia. “If nothing can be put in its Place, only chaos can result, and the chaos will hurt the States first.” Ten Killed in Railway Collision.— kn persons were killed and 30 injurw i * D a ra ilway collision near EinsieQeln, which is on a branch line of the Zurich-Lucerne line.—Zurich, July 27.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25247, 28 July 1947, Page 7
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