PAKISTAN-INDIA REFUGEES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25365, 12 December 1947, Page 7

PAKISTAN-INDIA REFUGEES

“EXCHANGE NEARLY COMPLETE ” LAST CONVOYS EXPECTED NEXT WEEK (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 10. “The mass exchange of refugees between East and West Punjab is nearly complete,’’ says the correspondent of “The Times’’ at Amritsar. “More than 8.000.000 people have crossed the border since the partition of India. It is expected that the last Hindu and Sikh convoy will arrive in India on Monday. The last Moslem convoy will reach Pakistan a few days later. “The military evacuation organisations will then be dissolved except for two small sections, which will endeavour to trace and recover tens of thousands of abducted girls. “Thousands of shallow graves bordering the roads bear witnesa to the cost in human lives of the migration.” \

DEMONSTRATION IN CALCUTTA

ONE KILLED, 21 INJURED (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, December 10. One person Was killed and 21 were injured when a crowd of about 300 clashed with police outside the Bengal Legislative Assembly. The crowd was demonstrating against the introduction of a Special Powers Bill for the maintenance of law and order. The Calcutta correspondent of the Associated Press, reporting this, adds that police threw tear-gas bombs. The crowd threw back at the police bomba which did not explode. The demon* atrators dispersed after the police had