CHITRAL ACCEDES TO PAKISTAN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25309, 8 October 1947, Page 7

CHITRAL ACCEDES TO PAKISTAN

ALLEGIANCE WITHDRAWN FROM MAHARAJA

(Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW DELHI, October 6. The mountain State of Chitral, in the Hindu Kush range where India borders on Russia and Afghanistan, has withdrawn its allegiance from the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir in whose territory an interim Moslem Government has been set up. Chitral, which has a population or 80,000, has declared for Pakistan without consulting the Maharaja’s Government, which is expected to join the Dominion of India. CHINESE EXCHANGE DEALINGS

NANKING, October 6. In a 15,000-word report, the Chinese Control Yuan alleged that "privileged corporations,” headed by relatives of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and the former Prime Minister, Mr T. V. Soong, had obtained more than their allowable quotas of foreign exchange. The report, which has been submitted to the Executive Yuan, contained the findings of an investigation demanded by the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. The corporations, according to the report, haa imported luxury goods which others were barred from importing, and had taken advantage of diplomatic passports to facilitate business travel abroad. The report recommended that Mr Soong should be held responsible for “mismanagement of foreign exchange funds.”, The Control Yuan is one of the five yuans which comprise China’s National Government. '