CEYLON’S NEW STATUS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24896, 8 June 1946, Page 7

CEYLON’S NEW STATUS

FRANCHISE SOUGHT BY INDIANS

APPEAL TO PANDIT NEHRU

(Rec, 12.30 a.m.) COLOMBO, June 7. The Ceylon Indian National Congress has appealed to Pandit Nehru, the Congress Party leader, for his and India’s support against the denial of equal franchise and citizenship rights under the new constitution.

CANADIAN BORN JAPANESE

DEATH SENTENCE FOR ATROCITIES (Rec. 12.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, June 7. Kanao Inouye, a 30-year-old Can-adian-born Japanese, was sentenced to be hanged by an Allied Military Court, which is investigating atrocities against prisoners of war. Inouye, whose father won a decoration for bravery while serving with the Canadian Army in the 1914-18 War, was charged with beating two Canadian officers while serving as an interpreter at the notorious Sham Shui Po prison camp in Japan.

FRENCHMAN CHARGED WITH TREASON

FORMER SECRET AGENT OF DE GAULLE

(R ™ 7 'ir pm l o PARIS, June 6. The French Security Police have arrested one of General de Gaulle’s former secret agents and the technical adviser to the French Indo-Chinese Bank. Pierre Charles Bsstid, on a charge of treason. The Ministry of the Interior said; “Bastid has admitted that he worked Spain for German espionage during the occupation. He used French Resistance channels to join the Allies in North Africa. He wss then sent by General de Gaulle’s Secret Service on a- special mission to Spain, thereby accomplishing the plans of his German masters in every detail.”

Bastid was about to board a special plane going abroad when he was arrested.