INDIA'S VAST MIGRATION
(N.Z.P.A
. — Reuter,
Over 8,500,000 Have Crossed ® Border
CoDVriaht)
Received Monday, Noon. LONDON, Dec. 21. Over 8,500,000 refugees during the past four months have crossed the Indian-Pakistan border, says the Daiiy Telegraph's New Delhi correspondent, quoting an official announcement. The non Moslems leaving Pakistan totalled 4,362,000 and the rest were Moslems leaving onC^a" Refugee trains moved 300,000 but the majority fought their way through hostile country m bullock cart convoys. The authorities are giving land in East Punjab ante-lndian States to nearly 2,000.000 people from Tosrfnnn' r11 is esHmated that 1,250,000 relugees are still in camps in India. The last Moslem refugees travelling on foot from East Puniab endSCd ^akistaii at the weekAt least 400,000 people have been slaughtered during this movement of millions.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 December 1947, Page 5
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