DENOUNCING the demand for a partition of the Punjab and Bengal as `a sinister move actuated by spite and bitterness`, Mr. M.A. Jinnah, President of the Muslim League, in a statement in New Delhi on Wednesday night [April 30] said: `I do hope that neither the Viceroy nor His Majesty`s Government will fall into this trap and commit a grave error.` Mr. Jinnah reiterated his demand for the creation of a Muslim National State consisting of six provinces. `The transfer of power to the Pakistan and Hindustan Governments,` Mr. Jinnah said, `must mean a division of the defence forces. This is a clear cut road and the only practical solution of India`s constitutional problem.` Mr. Jinnah also envisages that an exchange of population will have to take place and `the Constituent Assemblies of Pakistan and Hindustan can effectively carry out the exchange of population wherever it may be necessary and feasible`.

[Meanwhile, as reported from Peshawar,] His Excellency the Viceroy`s reply to the address presented by the Afridi Jirga at Landi Kotal today [April 29] said: `I am delighted to visit the Khyber again after 25 years and to make close acquaintance with the tribes.` Dawn Delhi