KARACHI: Scenes of great rejoicing and enthusiasm greeted the address to the Pakistan Constituent Assembly on Thursday morning by Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India on the eve of the birth of the new sovereign and independent Dominion... . ... The Viceroy who spoke for 20 minutes facing a glare of flashlights was heard with rapt attention in complete silence.

Cheers broke out as he ended his speech... .

[Meanwhile, it was also reported by the Dawn special correspondent that] Formed with the object of providing cheap house plots for minority provinces Muslims who want to settle down in Karachi, the Bombay Muslims Co-operative Housing Society Ltd, Karachi, has gained great popularity within a few months of its existence. There has been such a heavy rush for membership of the Society that the directors have been forced to ask the shareholders` permission to increase the sharecapital of the society from Rs. One lakh to Rs. 25 lakhs at the first annual general meeting which is to be held on August 20, 1947. Dawn Karachi