TRANSFER OF POWER TO INDIA

Chronicle (Levin), 15 May 1947, Page 5

TRANSFER OF POWER TO INDIA

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PLAN OF PROCEDUSE flOT YET FINAUSED

By Telegrap 1

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Reoeived » Thursday, 10.50 a.m. LONDON, May 14._ The plan of pr-ocedure for fhe transf.er of power to India, to be submitted to the Indian leaders by the Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, on Jupe 2, has not yet been finalised, says Reuter's diplomatic correspon&ent. Further communication between Lord Mountbatten and Gabinet may be necessary . \ Her General Sir Hastings Ismay's return. '( General Ismay leav.es London tomorrow with the Government's reaction to Lord Mountbatten's report. The Com-mander-in-Chief in India, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, is not expected to return until next week. POLICE FIRE ON RIOTERS , Moslem women hoisted the Mpslem League flag above police headReceived Thursday, 10.55 a.m. quarters in Peshawar. Another NEW DELHI, May 14. group of Moslem demonstrators The police today opened fire from smashed windows and chairs in the rooftops in Lahore on a crowd of judicial commissioner's court. rioters armed with hatchets, swords Four bodies, including those of and lathis. The casualties in the two persons murdered in an exrioting are given as nine killed and press train, were brought from viltwenty injured. lages to Amritsar. A curfew was imposed in five Lord Mountbatten, when he reLahore areas for 24 hours after the turned to New Delhi today from an riots. eight-day visit to the summer A body burned with petrol was capitalj Simla, heard reports of the found in one area. riots jn Lahore, Hyderabad and The Mayor, after the disturb— pgghawar ances, toured Lahore and appealed ' . to street corner gatherings to re- : Mr. Gandhi left Calcutta today frain from acts of hooliganism. Ifor a week in B.ihar.