GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24912, 27 June 1946, Page 5

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

SCHEME FOR INTERIM REGIME ACCEPTANCE BY MOSLEM LEAGUE *(N2. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10.25 p.m.) NEW DELHI, June 25 The working committee of the Moslem League has sent a letter to the Viceroy (Lord Wavell), announcing the league’s decision to join an interim Government. By its acceptance of the British Cabinet Mission’s shortterm plan, the league has now accepted the mission’s proposals in their enThe president of the league (Mr Jinnah) had earlier conferred with the Viceroy for two hours and a half. The Congress Party’s working committee, after accepting the British long-term proposals, instructed the Prime Ministers of the eight provinces in which the Congress Party is in gower, to prepare candidates for elecon to the Constituent Assembly. INDIAN RESISTANCE LEADERS SOUTH AFRICAN COURT SENTENCES (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) DURBAN, June 25. Three leaders of the Indian passive resistance movement who established a camp on corporation land as a protest against the law restricting land purchases by Indians, were sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment with hard labour, but the sentences were suspended for three months on condition that no similar offences were committed within that period. The Court cautioned and discharged the other 95 arrested men, including the Rev. Guthrie Scott, who said the land law was irreconcilable with Divine law and natural justice. MUNICH NEWSPAPER PENALISED CRITICISM OF CZECH GOVERNMENT (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 25. The American News Service in Germany announces that the Munich newspaper “Suddeutsche Zeitung” has been ordered to reduce its size from six pages to four for 30 days because of an article criticising the Czechoslovak Government’s treatment of Germans. The newspaper publishes 400,000 copies daily. The article said that the Czechs were brutally treating Germans expelled from the country. An American spokesman said that German papers in the American zone were not censored, but the editors had been told that criticism of the Military Government, the Allied Powers, or the United Nations could not be tolerated. YEAR’S IMPRISONMENT FOR HERMAN DID NOT STAND DURING NATIONAL ANTHEM (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 25. »A Military Court at Hanover sentenced a German to one year’s imprisonment for failing to stand up during the playing of the National Anthem at a concert. The Court also fined the man’s wife and mother-in-law £25 each for the same offence.

BRITISH FORCES AND BASES IN EGYPT

STATEMENT BY SIDKY PASHA

(Rec. 8 p.m.) CAIRO, June 25. The Egyptian Prime Minister (Sidky Pasha) declared that “there will not be a single British soldier in Egypt after the conclusion of the treaty,’* says the Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press. “All British establishments will be turned over to the Egyptian Government,” said Sidky Pasha. He denied reports that. Britain would keep military bases in Egypt. Sidky Pasha announced that Egypt’s sterling balances, accumulated during the six ■ years of the war, totalled £440,000,000, of which £250,000,000 was in Treasury bonds and bills, £5,000,000 in British securities, and £185,000,000 in current accounts credits. NEW SOUTH WALES DAM PROJECT POWER AND IRRIGATION NEEDS (Rec. 8 p.m.) CANBERRA, June 26. Work will begin immediately on a dam at Jindabyne, in New South Wales, to confine the headwaters of the Snow river. This was decided at a conference between the Commonwealth Government, the Premier of New South Wales (Mr W. J. McKell), and the Premier of Victoria (Mr J. Cain). The new dam will enable a decision to pe made later whether to divert water into the Murray river as proposed by Victoria, or into the Murrumbidgee as proposed by New South Wales. Mr Cain says~that the Victorian plan would save 1,000,000 tons of coal a year by providing increased hydro-electric power, and would also irrigate lands in three States. Mr McKell claims that apart from power generation the New South Wales scheme would enable the development of 5,000,000 acres of land.