MR. H.S. Suhrawardy, Bengal Premier, at a Press Conference in New Delhi on Saturday [Oct 12] expressed the Bengal Government`s determination to fight the Government of India`s decision with regard to jute prices and added that even if the Muslim League entered the Interim Government and if the present policy continued he would have to fight it for the sake of the cultivator. `Whatever happens,` he said, `the jute-grower must not be crushed and deprived of the fruits of his labour and I shall not have the least hesitation in advising the jutegrowers in Bengal to hold on [to] their jute and not to sell it to any one unless and until the Government of India revises its policy.
[Meanwhile, as reported from Peshawar,] Ghulam Nabi Khan, President Khurram Valley Muslim League and leader of the Deputation of Kurram Tribes, who recently went to Delhi to meet Mr. Jinnah ... has issued the following statement to the Press: `The Deputation of the Tribal Territory leaders headed by me recently went to see the Qaed-e-Azam at Delhi in order to assure him that the Tribesmen are with the Muslim League in the struggle for Pakistan the Independent Islamic State.`Dawn Delhi