INDIAN FORCES READY FOR ACTION AGAINST STATE OF HYDERABAD

Grey River Argus, 11 August 1948, Page 5

INDIAN FORCES READY FOR ACTION AGAINST STATE OF HYDERABAD

I (Rec. 10.10) NEW DELHI, Aug. 10. Pandit Nehru, Premier of India, referring here to Hyderabad, said that that State had no choice but, to aceede to India. Such an accession would mean an equal partnership, he claimed. He added: “We do not require to take military action to bring about the accession of Hyderabad to our Dominion. We, however, have made full military preparations, because we cannot be inactive spectators of what is happening on the borders of that State and inside of it." Mr Nehru asserted that unrest inside of Hyderabad native state had changed the entire "complexion of the problem, and had forced the Indian Government to take drastic measures. INDIAN PREMIER THREATENS PAKISTAN [N.Z.P.A. —Reuter Cable]. (Reecived August 10, 9.55 p.m.) NEW DELHI, -August 10. The Hindu Premier, Pandit Nehru, told a public meeting: Pakistan’s “admission before the United Nations Commission on Kashmir that its troops were fighting in Kashmir meant that Pakistan’s case before the United Nations has collapsed. Mr. Nehru added: “This admission gives rise to Igravte issues. It is bound to have far-reaching effects on the relations of the two Dominions.” Mr. Nehru also said that, if forced by Pakistan, India was “quite determined to act strongly.” He said that Pakistan’s admission, after seven or eight months fighting proved that her activities in Kashmir were based on deceit and fraud. [N.Z.P.A. —Reuter Cable], (Received August 10, 11.26 p.m.) NEW DELHI, August 10. The Deputy-Premier of India, Sardar Patel, told Parliament the only solution to the Hyderabad problem was the accession of the State to India, and responsible government. There could not be a compromise, because a compromise would mean suicide. NEHRU’S COMPLAINT OF GUN RUNNING BY NIGHT FLYING PLANES LONDON, Aug. 9. New Delhi radio, quoted by Reuter’s correspondent said: The Prime Minister of India, Pandit Nehru, told Parliament that Lhe Government was in touch with the Pakistan and United Kingdom Governments about a flight from Karachi to Flydera,bad in defiance of the Indian Government’s instructions, by an Australian, Sydney Cotton. Pandit Nehru added that the Indian Government “took a most serious view of Cotton’s direct contravention of international rules and of the Government’s own regulations.” He said that the negotiations between the three Governments concerned the alleged night gun-run-ning flights from Karachi to Hyderabad. The British High Commissioners’s office said a plan is ready to evacuate 400 British nationals and others from Hyderabad State, if necessary. The nlan also covers some Americans, Canadians and Poles. He said Cotton used five Lancastrian bombers, three bearing British markings and two Canadian markings. The Government considered it would not be in the public interest to disclose what action it took to prevent'Cotton’s plane from flying over Indian territory. One of Cotton’s Lancastrians had crashed recently. Cotton, though born in Australia, has been a resident of Britain since the end of the First World War, and negotiations which had been started witn the Australian Government have been dropped.