SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT
SITUATION IN PUNJAB
Rec. 10 p.rri, LONDON, Mar. 19. Reports from all areas of the Punjab are reassuring, except from the Attock district, where murder, arson and looting continue on an extensive scale, says the Lahore correspondent of The Times. Hindus are being ' murdered and their bodies dragged into the nearest temple, which is then set on fire. Military lorries are collecting refugees and transporting them to safe areas. A communique stated that large parties of troops and armed police are patrolling Attock. Conditions have quietened at Rawalpindi. The Exchange Telegi'aph's Peshawar correspondent says that 2900 Govern-ment-sponsored “ Red Shirts.” who. being avowedly non-violent, are unarmed, moved into the city to relieve 20 000 Hindus and Sikhs, who since Test Tuesday have been tranned in Hindu localities of ihe city. The Red Shirts intend to call the Hindus and Sikhs from their houses and guarantee protection to lives and property.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26415, 20 March 1947, Page 7
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151SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 26415, 20 March 1947, Page 7
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