100,000 DEAD, 300,000 HOMELESS IN THE PUNJAB
LONDON, September 1. The Lahore correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: “An average guess at the number of victims of the Punjab civil war, computed on the basis of such facts as are definitely known, gives the figures of 100,000 dead and 300,000 homeless. • “The present state of public order in Lahore is exemplified by the fate of six Sikhs who were acquitted of murder by the district court. All ■were stabbed to death before they left the precincts, one while he was sheltering behind the judge's chair. “The waylaying of express trains to murder members of one community or the other has become almost a matter of routine. The ‘Frontier Mail,’ one of the. most important expresses run daily between Bombay and Peshawar, is regularly ambush,ed.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1947, Page 8
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