1000 MOSLEMS DROWNED
FLOODS NEAR LAHORE LAHORE. September 29. Floods from the river Beas, near Lahore, have drowned 1000 Moslem refugees in a camp on the riverbank, says a West Punjab Government announcement. Reuters correspondent savs that the West Punjab Government, fearing that even a natural disaster such as this drowning would be blamed on Sikhs and Hindus, sent criers with drums through the streets of Lahore's old city to announce that the flooding was caused by heavy rains in the North Punjab hills, and not by sabotage. .• The floods put a power station and a water pumping station out of action for 36 hours and drove thousands in the low-lying parts of the city from their homes.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25303, 1 October 1947, Page 7
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