INVASION OF HYDERABAD

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25609, 25 September 1948, Page 7

INVASION OF HYDERABAD

NIZAM’S ACCOUNT OF EVENTS

(Rec. 7 p.m.) HYDERABAD, Sept. 23. The Nizam of Hyderabad, who is a Moslem, in a broadcast over the State radio, alleged that before the* Indian invasion his State was taken over by a Moslem clique with “Hitler methods.” A campaign of terror, arson, and looting was waged in Hyderabad, and provoked the Indian invasion.

The Nizam said that his Prime Minister and oth*»r influential Moslems had vanished wi.?n the Indian Army was marching on Hyderabad City. “This left me to save the situation as best I could,” he added. "Last November a small group unde'- Sved Kazvi Razvi (the Razakar leader) forced the incumbent Ministers to resign and took possession of the State by terrorism. This clique made Mir Laik Ali Prime Minister. They vanished when the Indian Armv was' about 40 miles from Hyderabad City.” Reuter’s Poona correspondent quotes an Indian Southern Command communique which announces that 30 casualties were inflicted on a party of Razakars yesterday. The communique says that the Razakars in plain clothes, attacked a railway train near Zahirabad, but were overpowered by Indian troops before they could do any damage. The communique said the Razakars continued to be "uprooted” in all districts. It was announced in Paris to-day that the Nizam of Hyderabad had sent a cablegram to the United Nations, withdrawing his country’s complaint against India. The Nizam said that the Hyderabad delegation to the United Nations “has now ceased to have any authority to. represent me or my State.”