LAST VICEROY: PLANS FOR POWER TRANSFER
(Rec. 11 a.m.) NEW DELHI, July 30
The Viceroy, Viscount Mountbatten, will transfer power to the Pakistan Constituent Assembly at Karachi on August 13. He will cease to be Viceroy on August 14 and hand over power to the Indian heads at New Delhi on August 15. He will then become Governor-General of the Dominion of India. There will be ceremonial parades in the capitals of both Dominions.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1947, Page 7
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