PEACE COMES FIRST

Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1947, Page 5

PEACE COMES FIRST

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— Reuter,

Industrialjsation Plans For India Shelved

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Received Tuesday, 11.20 ,a.m. NEW DELHI, Oct. 6. The Prime .Minister oi India, Pandit Nehru, today told a mass meeting in Delhi that the Indian Government had to shelve its industrialisation plans. which could transform the whole appearance of India in five or six years beeause of the more .urgent task of restoring peace. Pandit Nehru emphasised the great need for increasing the coun•try's production. Ways and meaps of obtaining a more equitable distribution of health should come only after they had reached the target of a reasonably high production. He warned the people not to forget that "industrialisation was essential even for waging war." The Moslems have not opened their shops in New Delhi today for the first time since the disturbanees began a month ago. Reuter 's Lahore correspondent says that the people of Kashmir State have set up a Republican Government, accorjiing to a telegram to the correspondent from Rawalpindi, signed "Anwar, President of the Republican Provisional Government of Kashmir." The telegram said that with the termination of paramountcy the ruling family had lost whatever right it claimed under the Treaty of Amritsar. "Anwar" is the Moslem leader, Mohammed Anwar, '.who has been campaigning for the accession of Kashmir to Pakistan.