KASHMIR IMPASSE
FORCES BOGGED DOWN BOTH SIDES REORGANISING (10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 14. Declaring that the military situation in Kashmir has now reached a stalemate which may continue throughout the winter months, the Times correspondent in New Delhi points out that after more than six weeks’ hard campaigning the Indian forces failed to attain their objective of re-establishing law and order in the State. During the winter the Indian Army will consolidate its forces and build up supplies but reliable intelligence indicates that the insurgents and raiders are also organising their columns for prolonged operations. Tribesmen are being recruited on a regular basis and any large offensive mounted by the Indian Army in the spring may well be able to be resisted. Some military commanders believe that India has created another NorthWest Frontier. The Indian Defence Ministry s night communique on the Kashmir reported that the Indian forces killed 76 raiding tribesmen and wounded 30 in an encounter in the Uri area. Indian artillery shelled concentrations of raiders in other localities- . Ten people were killed and 77 injured in communal clashes which began at Bangalor on .Friday and continued yesterday, despite the rigorous enforcement of the curfew, says Reuter’s correspondent. Twenty people were injured in Calcutta in clashes between groups of Bengali and North India Moslems after an argument over whether Bengali or Urdu should be the State language in East Pakistan. Indian Army troops killed more than 320 raiders in the Uri area of southwest Kashmir- in the last three days, says the Indian Defence Ministry communique. Indian forces also suffered casualties. .. _ ~ T , The Governor-General of India, Lord Louis Mountbatten, speaking at a State banquet at Jaipur, said he was a strong believer in the unity of India and felt sure the Indian States’ accession to the new Dominion of India would be to the advantage of both and have an important stabilising effect.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22511, 15 December 1947, Page 5
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