Travancore State to “Cut Painter”

Grey River Argus, 21 May 1947, Page 5

Travancore State to “Cut Painter”

LONDON, May 19. A Daily Mail correspondent, states: Sir Ramaswami Iyer, Premier of Travancore, declared that with “ a unified India now a receding picture,” Travancore would remain independent. He pointed out that Travancore was practically self-sufficient, but from the sources of central revenue, which the present Congress-dominated Union Powers Committee had listed the Indian Government would yearly collect millions of pounds from Travancore, giving only a fraction in return.

The correspondent says that Travancore’s decision may be of the greatest importance to Britain, because its beach sand has been found to contain some of the world’s richest monazite deposits used in atomic research.

RELIGIOUS WAR IN LAHORE

NEW DELHI, May 19

A stream of refugees is fleeing from Lahore from terror and religious war, which intensified as more homes blazed and dead and wounded lay in the streets in the sixth successive day outbreak of communal violence .which brought all of the city’s normal activities to a standstill. On Monday morning serious communal trouble broke out in two villages on the eastern outskirts of the city. The police restored order, but clashes again broke out and they still continue. Five are reported dead.

35,000 REFUGEES IN PATIALA

New fires have broken out. within the city of Patiala. The State Government said that no further accommodation could be found in Patiala for refugees from the riot areas It is estimated that 35,000 refugees are already in Patiala