DESPAIRING CRY FROM VICTIMS OF INDIAN TERROR

Chronicle (Levin), 8 September 1947, Page 5

DESPAIRING CRY FROM VICTIMS OF INDIAN TERROR

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Received Sunday, 11.0 p.m. NEW YORK, September 6. "Three weeks after the young flaga of India and Pakistan tiew for the first time over the two new Dominions the Indians' dream of freedom has turned to a nightmare," says the HeraldTribune's New Delhi eorrespondent. "Independenee Day should be written not in letters of gold but in letters of blood," said a bitter doetor in Lahore. "Freedom has brought ua nothing but mob rule," cried a young array officer in Amritsar. Their remarks are echoed by thousands of voiees of homeless and wounded in the Punjab and Calcutta. The eorrespondent gives a. grim general pieture of savagery, ; intolerance, fear and ehaos, addi'ftg: "EqUally dfsturbing alth'o.ugh ' eertainly understandable is the tendency on the part of the humble and unhappy masses to cry for a return of British rule and imply that they have been f orsaken by the protecting father. ' ' "Bring back the British Raj," is the popular slogan of thousands in refugee camps when a westerner appears and last week flowers deckcd the statue of Queen Yictoria in Lahore.