1000 PERSONS KILLED

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25270, 23 August 1947, Page 9

1000 PERSONS KILLED

RIOTS IN PUNJAB TOWN (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, August 21. About 1000 Moslem men, women and children have been butchered in Jullundur, a town in the Punjab, near the border of Pakistan and India. Trouble first began there on August 18. It was once a bright clean town; now it is a city of the dead, covered by a pall of smoke. A Moslem captain of the Boundary

Force told a correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph" that he could go into the town at his own risk, and said: "There are not enough of us to control this place. The local authorities are helping the rioters.” A correspondent of the Associated Press says that British and Indian Army officers of the special Punjab Border Force declared that they eould not fulfil Pandit Nehru's pledge of safety to thousands of members of the Mohammedan minority in the district. They said that crazed Sikh mobs were roaming the rural areas in a systematic campaign of extermination, which was taking a heavy toll of lives each day. The Lahore correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that he saw in fields near Jullundur the bodies of men, women and children whom Hindus had slain as they fled towards the border with their belongings