INDIAN TROOPS ADVANCE

Chronicle (Levin), 15 September 1948, Page 5

INDIAN TROOPS ADVANCE

Security Council To Discuss Hyderabad Received Wednesday, 9.55 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 14. The United Nations Security Council meets in Paris on Thursday afternoon to consider the invasion of Hyderabad. Sir Alexander Cadogan (Britain), the September president of the council, authorised the calling of the meeting after a consultation with United Nations officials. Zahir Ahmed, Secretary-General to Hyderabad's External Affairs Department, had sent a letter to Sir Alexander saying: "Every hour now counts." The letter followed an earlier Hyderabad appeal to the Secre-tary-General of United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lie, to summon the Security Council to deal with the Hyderabad dispute. The letter urged the council to act to restrain "the brutal, planned aggression launched against Hyderabad territory." Meanwhile, fighting in Hyderabad continues. New Delhi radio reported that Indian troops have reached a point 20 miles from Secunderabad. An Indian communique issued in Poona this afternoon stated: "Lightning advances along the Sholapur-Secunderabad Road carried the Indian forces to Rajasur, about halfway to Secunderabad. The communique said that Indian troops had captured the fortress town of Daultabad, eight miles north-west of Aurangabad, and secured Jalna, an important rail junction east of Aurangabad. The communique stated that bridgeheads at Kurnool and Tungabhadra, over the Tungabhadra River, on the southern border, had been consolidated. In Barsi enclave, near Sholapur, the towns of Osmanabad and Yermala were secured. Large numbers of regular troops and Razakars, including several officers, surrendered to the Indians advancing along the Sholanur-Hvderabad Road.