India’s Independence Wildly Acclaimed
Rec. 8 p.m. NEW DELHI, Aug. 14. . Members of India’s Assembly who had been waiting tensely for midnight rose with stirring shouts as the first stroke of the clock signalled the new dominion’s independence. A crowd of students paraded New Delhi carrying a dummy coffin labelled “ British Imperialism.’’ After the procession they burned it. The sirens of hundreds of mills and factories in Bombay, blending with whistling railway engines and blasts from ships, ushered in India’s independence at midnight. Milling men, women and chldren completely forgot racial feeling and surged into the floodlit streets, which had been turned into a riot of colour.
Huge illuminated tricolours—the new flag of India—were prominent' in the decorations. ; Almost continuous cheering from 1,000,000 throats rose in a crescendo until drowned by the sirens.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26541, 16 August 1947, Page 7
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