PAKISTAN AND INDIA

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25932, 12 October 1949, Page 5

PAKISTAN AND INDIA

I CURRENCY DISPUTE CONDEMNED I “ INTER DOMINION TRADE AT STANDSTILL ” I 'Rec. 8.30 p.m.) KARACHI. Oct. 11. ; Pakistan's Minister of Commerce I 'Mr Fazlur Rahman) alleged to-day | that India had “instituted unfriendly i and discriminatory practices'' against Pakistan. I Mr Rahman said that India's failure ito recognise Pakistan's decision not to i devalue its rupee had brought interDominion trade to a standstill. i Mr Rahman continued: “India has • set herself to force down the price of : raw jute by unilateral decisions • which, if successful. would involve ian unnecessary sacrifice of dollar ■earnings for the sterling area. India [will see that her interest lay, not in ' crippling trade with Pakistan, but in ■ expanding it.” j INDIAN COMMUNIST OFFICES RAIDED j POLICE SEIZE PAPERS (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. October 10. I The Bombay correspondent of the I Associated Press says that the headquarters of the Indian Communist Party in Bombay was raided to-day by squads of plain-clothes police, who seized “objectionable literature." A statement issued by the Communist Party said that police also raided the offices of the Communist Textile and Railways Trades Unions and threa publishing plants. PANDIT NEHRU GOES TO WASHINGTON (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. October 11. The Prime Minister c* India (Pandit Nehru) left the London airport early to-day for Washington in President . Truman's private aircraft. Special security precautions were taken before Pandit Nehru's departure. Armed officers of the United States Air Force stood guard, together with Metropolitan Police. TIBETAN FEARS OF COMMUNISTS REPORT BY AMERICAN BROADCASTER (Rec. 9 p.m.) CALCUTTA. Oct. 11. The Dalai Lama and the Regent of Tibet were anxious to know what help they could expect from the West to prevent the Chinese Communists from overrunning their country, said Mr Lowell Thomas, the American writer : and radio commentator, who has ar- [ rived at Calcutta from Tibet. According to the United Press, Mr ’ Thomas suffered a leg injury last ’ month, when he was thrown from his • horse while returning from Lhasa. He j was carried by natives to Siliguri, in ! West Bengal, and was flown to Cal- '■ cutta in a United States aeroplane. There was no chance of Tibet ac- ■ cepting Communism voluntarily, Mr ■ Thomas said. It was one of the most t anti-Communist countries he had ever seen.