HORROR OF INDIAN HATE
(N.Z.P.A.-
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Relics 01 Terror Sweeping The Punjab
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Reeeived Thursday, 9.25 p.m. LONDON, August 21. Of 1000 Moslems who lived in a village adjoining the 37-mile road bordering Pakistan and India, there was not one alive yesterday in the charred remains of the village, says the Daily Express' Lahore correspondent who says he saw in nearby fields the bodies of men, women and children whom the Hindus had slain as they fled towards the border with their helongings in hand carts. Dogs howl round the shrines in the village where a few inhahitants sought what they hoped would be a sanctuary. Some are still alive hut are dying. The correspondent says this village is ari average relic of the terror which is sweeping the Punjab, building up a chain of bate-filled reprisals which will last among the Moslems, Hindus and Sikhs as long as the Punjab is-artifici-ally split. The correspondent gives the _ various estimates of the casualties and ' damage and says many thousands are dead and hundreds of villages destroy.ed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 August 1947, Page 5
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