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April 12, 1946, No. 103 Impartial -- but by no means neutral Price One Guilder
INDONESIA OFFERS RICE TO INDIA
Half A Million Tons
Textiles would be
welcomed in turn
BOMBAY, Friday.
PREMIER Shahrir, on behalf of the Republic of In-
donesia, has offered 500,000 tons of rice to India's
starving millions, states the Bombay "Free Press Jour-
nal," quoting its foreign correspondent P. R. Subra
Mani.
High Indonesian circles
— the correspondent sta-
tes — desire that Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru come to
Jakarta in person to nego-
tiate the terms of the offer.
Should Nehru, however, be un-
able to leave India at the present
moment, it is suggested that Nehru
send an envoy armed with his
personal authority.
Mani quotes Premier Shahrir as
saying that he was "deeply con-
cerned and sympathetic over the
famine situation in India".
In return, he suggested that
India send textiles to Indonesia to
help overcome the clothing shor-
tage.
Premier Shahrir pointed out that
Indonesia was expecting a bumper
harvest this year — the best in six
years — and could easily spare the
amount he had offered to India.
Pandit Nehru's requests to visit
Java have been repeatedly refused
by the British authorities, the last
such refusal having been made
at the time of Nehru's recent tour
of Malaya. — IPN.
Cloth For Burma
RANGOON, Friday.
The Government of India has
offered to release immediately —
in anticipation of the quota in the
later half of 1946 — about 12 mil-
lion yards of cotton textiles for
Burma to meet that country's
urgent need for clothing during
the monsoon.
This is over and above the quan-
tities which have been and are
being procured by the Army and
Commerce Department.
These additional 12 million yards
will be made over to private trade
for import and marks another
step in implementing the Govern-
ment's policy of restoring trade to
normal channels. — IPN.
Marshal Zhukov
Being Replaced
BERLIN, Friday.
THE appointment of General
Vassili Sokolovsky as Soviet
member of the Allied Control
Council in place of Marshal Gri-
gori Zhukov has been announced
at a meeting of the Control Coun-
cil here.
Marshal Grigori Zhukov was
Deputy Minister of the Armed
Forces in the Soviet Union and
Commander-in-Chief, of the Soviet
Land Forces.
Sokolovsky has informed the
Council that he has been appointed
Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet
Occupation forces in Germany.
Recently the Russian-controlled
evening paper "Nacht Express"
was suspended for one day and
and fined 200,000 marks (£5,000)
for publishing two stories suggest-
ing that Zhukov was to be recalled
to Moskow to be replaced by So-
kolovsky. — IPN.
Seven more nations have taken
Russia's step and paid in full their
contributions to the United Na-
tions' Working Fund. France, Tur-
key, Australia, Canada, Yugoslavia,
Peru and Honduras have come
across with their payments to
boost the United Nations trea-
sury total to more than eight mil-
lion dollars.