HYDERABAD (DECCAN): The suggestion that Hyderabad should be made a fully independent State after the war and the ceded territories restored was made by M. Bahadur Khan presiding at the 15th annual session of Majlis Ittehad-ul-Muslimin held last night (May 24) at Warangal. Over 50,000 Muslims attended the session.

If the British Government issued such a declaration, he said, it would not only strengthen the ties of friendship between the Nizam and the British Government, but would have a great effect on Hyderabad State’s war effort, which already was considerable. He suggested that the terms of office of the members of the Nizam’s Executive Council should not exceed three years.

[Meanwhile], a number of Rs. 100 currency notes ... caused a sensation in South Calcutta yesterday. They were picked up by shopkeepers and passers-by and when counted by a police constable are stated to have numbered 33.

Later the notes were claimed by a person who said he had started out with Rs 5,500 to deposit in a bank but found 34 of them missing.

The notes picked up from the road were deposited with the Police pending an enquiry. — (Dawn, Delhi)

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2014