PEACE OVERTURES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27499, 20 September 1950, Page 7

PEACE OVERTURES

India Denies Reports CITED AS MEDIATOR AP—NZPA—Copyright Rec. 0.5 a.m. NEW DELHI, Sept. 19. A spokesman of the Indian Foreign Ministry today denied reports that North Korea was negotiating for peace through Indian mediation. “The Government of India has not been approached by anybody,” the spokesman said. In Italy yesterday the independent newspaper Giomale d’ltalia said id a London despatch that the North Korean authorities were seeking to negotiate for peace. The despatch attributed the information to unofficial Indian circles in London and said that it came from New Delhi. According to this message, China and India would serve as mediators. Speaking in Bombay yesterday, the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, told the All-India Congress Committee that the risks of the Korean war spreading were far, less than they were two months and a-half ago, when he thought the chances were about even. He appealed again for the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. The whole question of what was going to happen in the Far East revolved around that question, he said. In New York the South Korean Foreign Minister, Mr Ben C. Limb, predicted that the Korean war would end by November 1. He said he did not think the conflict would spread to other countries, “ but that, of course, depends on the Soviet Government’s attitude.” Mr Limb is in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. Reuter’s correspondent in Tokio •ays that there have been persistent rumours there in the past 48 hours that the North Koreans have begun peace overtures.