REFUGEES' FLIGHT IN PUNJAB

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25304, 2 October 1947, Page 7

REFUGEES' FLIGHT IN PUNJAB

- FLOODS INCREASE . DIFFICULTIES LONDON, September 30. “The main effects of the flooding of the river Beas and two other rivers have been to increase the difficulty of moving and supplying the mass of refugees who are fleeing from the disorders on both sides of the IndiaPakistan border,” says Reuter’s correspondent in Lahore, who to-day flew 1 over the border. The roads between Lahore and ! Amritsar remain unaffected. Eighty > thousand Moslems yesterday passed 1 through Amritsar and thousands more i have passed since. The Air Ministry has announced in < London that at the request of the Gov- 1 emments of India and Pakistan, four ' York aircraft of the Royal Air Force Transport Command in the last week, : in two round trips daily, loaded tb : capacity, have transferred both ways ' 2000 refugees, including women, children, and* baggage. A child was born : during one flight. The New Delhi correspondent of the Associated press says that armed raiders from adjacent villages broke into the Safdarjong Hospital, near New Delhi, and killed four patients < and wounded 12. Non-military hospital i guards, some of whom were unarmed, failed to repel the attackers. The Goveminent has announced that the officer in charge of the hospital guards has been suspended and that disciplinary action, is to be taken against superior ranks for negligence.