MORE TROOPS AND POLICE MOVE IN
Received Tuesday, 11.15 p.m. NEW DELHI, Sept. 9. Several thousand additional troops and police moved into New Delhi where unofficial estimates put the death roll during the last 24 hours hetween 300 and 400, says Reuter's correspondent. Pillars of black smoke hillow high over the city. Mr. Nehru, who drove through the trouhled area last night, stopped his car to pick up four young Moslem teachers whose lives were: threatened. The BrHish United Press correspondend reports that pitched battles were still being fought in the Moslem quarter of New Delhi early today after a day and night of terror. The curfew has paralysed the city's normal activities but looters, seeking new victims, disregard it. Fires still raged after midnight in the Moslem quarters where looters smashed windows and took valuahles worth thousands sterling. The correspondent adds that he saw very little evidence of the police and troops carrying out the official warning that looters would he shot on sight. Armed with rifl.es and bayonets they watched the looting and offered little resistance to it.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 September 1947, Page 5
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