INDIAN UNION HAS NOT YET PACIFIED HYDERABAD STATE

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1948, Page 5

INDIAN UNION HAS NOT YET PACIFIED HYDERABAD STATE

(Rec 11.20 a.m.) NEW DELHI, October 12.

Although it is three weeks since Hyderabad State surrendered to the Indian Union, the pacification of the State is nothing like complete, says The Times correspondent. An Indian spokesman said. today that gangs of Razakars are still active, especially in the eastern districts. They are preying on the local populace and even Indian tioops, but, generally speaking, they are on the run and being steadily dispersed. Communists Cause Trouble The Indian authorities also say that Communists are causing -trouble in the south-east districts adjoining Madras territory, where, it is reported, the Razakars have handed over their arms to the Communists, who are attempting to challenge Indian authority. . x • +u „ The official view is that in the light of developments the present army rule must bo maintained and earlier expectations of installing an interim Ministry within a few weeks are proving false. The military gov•ernor will probably continue to enforce martial law in the trouble areas until both the Razakars and Communists are liquidated. Meanwhile, the Indian Union has appointed an election commissioner to expedite the drawing up of electoral rolls on an adult franchise basi s. Jammu and Kashmir

The Government of India has received advice that a special convention of 300 representatives of Jammu and Kashmir, meeting at Srinagar, unanimously voted for Kashmir s permanent accession to India, says the Associated Press correspondent. Kashmir acceded to India in October, 1947. following an attack by raiders across the border. The Srinagar decision is apparently intended to confirm the provisional accession, thus avoiding the long drawn-out plebiscite formula and ending the present standstill uncertainties.