SAVAGE LAHORE RIOTS STOPPED BY BRITISH TROOPS

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1947, Page 5

SAVAGE LAHORE RIOTS STOPPED BY BRITISH TROOPS

(Rec. 9.50). LONDON, May 18. British troops were rushed to Lahore, where they brought rioting and fire-raising crowds undei’ control, says a Reuter correspondent at Lahore. Rioters' used a four-hour relaxation of the curfew for an orgy of stabbing, fighting, and stone throwing. Police opened fire on one pitched battle. They killed two rioters. A crowd, before the police arrived, sprinkled one victim with petrol, and burned him to death. Stabbings caused two other deaths last night, bringing the total killed in four days of communal rioting in Lahore to forty-eight. (Rec. 10.50). LONDON, May 18. ’

Several fresh cases of arson are reported from still smouldering Lahore. The general situation there to-day appeared quieter, says Reuter’s New Delhi correspondent. Fire brigades worked throughout the night to fight spreading flames.