INDIA'S MASS MIGRATION
Received Thursday, 12.53 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 10. The mass exehange of refugees between East and West Punjab is neariy eompleted, says th(J» Times' correspondent, at Amritsar. Alore than 8,00(),00o cvossnd the bordgr. since the partition of India. It is expectgd that the lasi Hiudu-Bikh eonvoy will arrive in India on Deeember 15 and the last Alosieni eonvoy will reach Pakistan a few dfiys later. The military evacuatiou organisations will then be dissolved except for two small sections which will endeavour to trace and reeover tens ot thousands of abdueted girls. Thousands of shallow grt»ves bordei'ing the roads bear wilness to the eost in liuman lives of tlie migration.
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