INDIAN AMY TO MOP UP RAZAKARS

Grey River Argus, 21 September 1948, Page 5

INDIAN AMY TO MOP UP RAZAKARS

(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter Cable).

(Received September 20, 10.50 p.m.) SECONDERABAD, Sept. 20. It is learned that Indian Army units have drafted Hyderabad State troops to help them to restore law and order in the State. The Hyderabad Civil Administration will also be used for this purpose.

Widespread mopping-up operations have still to be carried out to liquidate local pickets of the Razakars. Native State troops still guard the Nizam’s Palace in Hyderabad City. Indian Army troops have taken no steps to disarm or to replace them. Indians Kill Over Three Thousand (Rec 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept 19. It has officially been announced that Hyderabad State forces lost 600 killed during the Hyderabad operations. Reuter’s Secunderabad correspondent says: The Indian Army’s losses were 10 killed.

The Hyderabad Razakar’s losses are believed to have been 2500 killed and 1000 captured. An official announcement at New Delhi says that the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad will not be disbanded. A financial expert will examine the Hyderabad native State’s finances, which have shown a heavy deficit for 1948.

. ■ ‘T gambled and lost. I assume the full responsibility,” said the Razakar leader, Razxi, to-day. He has been arrested.

Indians May Deport 15,000 Arabs

(Received September 20, 11.0 p.m.) J.ijNDON, September 20. The Indian Government is confronted with a problem in the existence in Hyderabad of fifteen thousand tribal Arabs.

An Associated Press correspondent at Madras says that a highly-placed official said that India is considering whether these Arabs, most of whom are in the lower ranks of the Constabulary, should be deported.

Communists Against

the Nizam

(Received September 20, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 20. The Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press reports that the Moscow “Pravda” has published, in full, a declaration by the Indian Communist Party calling for “the .end of the bloody regime of the Nizam of Hyderabad,” and demanding the Nizam s arrest. '