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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26544, 20 August 1947, Page 5

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NEW BOUNDARIES IN INDIA 1 JOINT EFFORTS TO RESTORE SECURITY NEW DELHI, Aug. 18. A joint statement from the Prime Ministers of Eastern and Western Bengal has opened the possibility of revision of the boundaries between Pakistan and India which the Boundary Commission announced yesterday and which have since been the subject of protests. The statement stressed that the leaders of all communities were pledged to accept the award, and called on their peoples to begin the task of reconstruction in an atmosphere of goodwill It added that there was nothing to prevent India and Pakistan coming to a new agreement in the future. . Pandit Nehru and Liaqat All Khan, after consultations yesterday on the means of suppressing disorder, issued a statement saying that India and Pakistan were arranging concerted and determined action to restore peace and security. Fewer than 200 persons remain in the old walled city of Lahore, where the population before the disorders was 200,000, mostly Sikhs and Hindus. The orgy of carnage and excesses has continued, in spite of assurances that the situation was improving. Considerable areas were reported to be on fire to-night. The Boundary Commission's award of Lahore to Pakistan has increased Hindu and Sikh feeling against the Moslems. Looters received heavy casualties from the fire of boundary force troops. Moslem refugees have, entered Lahore from the neighbouring Sikh city of Amritsar, and increased th| confusion.