THOUSANDS HOMELESS
MOSLEMS SEEK REVENGE MASS RETURN TO PAKISTAN Rec. 10 p.m. LAHORE, Sept. 1. More than 1,000,000 homeless and fear-driven refugees are estimated to be on the move in two-way streams between East and West Punjab. An army communique states that more than 100,000 non-Moslems crossed one river bridge during the last 36 hours. The Daily Express correspondent says there are Sikhs and Hindus whose turn has now come to flee from communal terror as Moslems in the Pakistan area of the Punjab open their war of revenge. It is estimated that 1,000,000 nonMoslems are moving out of Pakistan and leaving behind them burned and looted villages and uncounted mutilated dead. Armed Moslem bands are harrying them ceaselessly as they make for safety across the border in Indian territory. Their panic rush is a sequal to the arrival in Pakistan of 500,000 survivors of the Sikh war of extermination in East Punjab. The army communique claims that evacuations are proceeding more smoothly, but attacks on refugee caravans continue, with troops inflicting casualties on murder bands on both sides of the boundary.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26556, 3 September 1947, Page 5
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