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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1946, Page 8

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GOVERNMENT’S REPORT ON. ■ . KASHMIR ALLEGATIONS DENIED SRINAGAR (Kashmir), May 29. The Kashmir Government has denied the allegations by the Congress Party leader, Pandit Nehru, that Kashmir troops forced people to crawl and clean the pavements with their turbans 'during disturbances in the capital, Srinagar. The Government says the situation in Srinagar and the surrounding districts is almost normal. Pandit Nehru on. May 26 called for a halt in the “reign of terrorism and frightfulness” which is prevailing in the Kashmir valley after the arrest of. Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, and other leading members of the Kashmir National Conference (the recognised People’s Party in the State). Describing Srinagar, the capital, where a military administration has taken over, as a “city of the dead,” Pandit Nehru asserted that clashes were occurring daily. Seven women had been shot dead in the street and troops were forcing the people in some streets to crawl and clean ’die pavement with Iheir turbans. Dead bodies were not being given up to relatives, but were being soaked in petrol and burned.

COMMUNAL CLASHES IN BOMBAY BOMBAY, May .30. The police twice opened fire this morning after clashes between caste Hindus and Untouchables in the Worli mill area. No casualties are reported. Three textile mills have stopped work completely and 15 other partially as the result of clashes. Two persons were admitted to hospital with bullet wounds and 15 others with injuries from stone throwing. Relations between the caste Hindus and the Untouchables at. WorJi have been strained since the incidents in the middle of April, when Mr. Gandhi stopped there on his way to New Delhi to participate in the British Cabinet Mission’s negotiations.