An India-Pakistan War Said To Be Inevitable

Chronicle (Levin), 5 February 1948, Page 5

An India-Pakistan War Said To Be Inevitable

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• ' WFLLTMgtG^ Ffeb: 5./ . "I tfiihk it . very likfeiy thjtt Paklst£tri aiifi IhdM will b'fe dfficiali| at War By April or'Majt." 1?Tiig vietir i^as' e'xbfesSfeci ifi ari intfefviSiv b'y MM,jor W. J. A. H. Aucbihifeck, a cb'ttsiii of Fieid-Marshai afr uiaudfe' Aticiiifiifec'k, aiid a iiieiiibef of His persohal staff i6t threp of the 2z yfe'krs he itds sperit ih Iridia. It tvds, he, skM, thjs gfetier^l bpinij'h in Ihdia thar Kashmir shdiiia have gorie tb Pakistari. Mdsife'ifts ih this state Wete ih tbfe' hiajolTij' ih tiiei.commtinit^, jb.fit their rulSr, HSri $lri^h, tytts Hiridu ahd ehip'lQyed Hihdu soldie'rs. ihe people ih this st&te Were being as truly opprdSSe'd, ih the wufst sense 6r the worci, aS ari^ people in history. Even naturai liuiiriefs ravoured a KdshmirP'akistan allience, " ahd - he tiioiight ' tliat when the ( one pass into Kashmir f r'Oiii liidia was closed by snow, which would aiso preveht troops and supplies beihg landed by air, Paicistan v/ould taxe the opportiinity and go in and grab Kashmir. The Lahore-Amritsar line was aire&dy lined with tribes who had no other oeeupation than guerrilla warfare. Living, Mr., Gandhi had been.a restraining and moderalmg innuence 011 his own side, but now, in addition to that influence having been remov-ed, his death had given excuses for other faptions to start up. Major and Mrs. Auehinleck ,intend to seitle in New Zealand.