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India Talks on Kashmir End; No Accord, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 28, 1948.

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NEW YORK, Jan, 27 (AP)-Direct talks between India and Pakistan over fighting in Kashmir ended tonight without agreement.

Fernand Van Langenhove of Belgium, president of the United Nations Security Council, will report to the council tomorrow.

The council directed the two parties to hold private consolations, with Van Langenhove sitting in, after Britain’s Philip J. Noel-Baker said “The Alternative to war (in India) is settlement here.”

Spokesmen for both daemons expressed pessimism over the results of any future talks here and indicated they felt the whole issue now was up to the council itself. However, the possibility was held open that the council might order resumption of talks with specific instructions.

Both Pakistan and India submitted proposals, but were unable to close the gap separating them. Informed quarters said the two countries offered basically the same plans as they brought when the case first came before the council early this month and neither side made any concessions.

India Accuses Moslems of Slaying 130 in Pakistan

NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 (AP)-India charged today Moslem tribesmen had killed 190 non-Moslem refugees at Parachinar, in Pakistan’s northwest frontier provinces.

A press note said the raids took place the night of January 22, after repeated refusals by the Pakistan government to evacuate 1400 refugees. Fifty were wounded and a like number abducted the note said.

The note said the survivors had to pay prohibitive prices for necessities before finally being evacuated by train to an unannounced destination.

Prime Minister Jawharlal Nehru is flying Thursday to Amritsar, where trains from that area might stop. He was visited today by a delegation of Parachinar survivors who said they knew where 20 Sikh and Hindu women abducted from the camp were being held for sale by their captors.

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