CONGRESS ACCEPTS

Grey River Argus, 26 June 1946, Page 5

CONGRESS ACCEPTS

BRITISH PROPOSALS For Indian Federation (Rec. 10.40) LONDON, June 25. The New Delhi radio says that the Congress leader, Dr Azad, announced that the Congress accepts the British Cabinet’s long-term proposals for a Federal Union in India of the British States and the States of the Native Princes; a union wherein the States would have all of.the power? except those over foreign affairs, defence and communications, which would be vested in the Central Government. NEW DELHI, June 24. “Police opened fire to disperse crowds in the third day of demonstrations at Nadura against the arrest of Pandit Nehru,” says Reuter’s correspondent in Madras. “The demonstrators attempted to throw burning oil-soaked rags on to house roofs. Railway traffic was dislocated for four hours because sleepers were lifted from the tracks. “The police fire killed two persons and injured two. In the last two days the police have used tear gas to disperse crowds near the mills.” COLOMBO, June 24. The Ceylon iSndian Congress Party has called off J strike of 40,000 Indian labourers in the Kelani Valley rubber plantations, which is stated to have demonstrated sufficiently the depth of feeling of Indian labourers on the franchise and citizenship rights.