CLASHES IN LAHORE
SPEARS AND HATCHETS IN USE (Recd. 1.45 p.m.) LAHORE, Feb. 13. Spears, hatchets, staves and tear gas were among the weapons used in clashes between the police and Moslem League members when Shaukat Ali, president of the Punjab Moslem League was arrested during demonstrations against the Government’s ordinance forbidding processions. Horsemen riding at the head of a procession at Sarghoda, 100 miles north-west of Lahore, who tried to break a police cordon, were scattered by a lathi charge.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 February 1947, Page 5
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