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Rioting between Hindus and Moslems had broken out again in Bengal. There was more burning and looting than killing, but the pattern was frighteningly like that of 1946. As in 1946, some of the worst scenes took place in filthy, plague-ridden Calcutta...
Half a Million Hindus. From a population of some 2,000,000 before partition, Calcutta had in two years become packed with about 7,000,000 people. Biggest addition: the Hindu refugees from Eastern Pakistan, who last week were still crowding in. Five thousand Hindus were camped in Calcutta's Sealdah railroad station, ragged, stupefied and sick. In spite of efforts of relief workers there were 70 new cases of cholera, typhoid and dysentery every day. A volunteer made the rounds taking down depositions from refugees. One emaciated little man dictated haltingly: "My name is Harun Donath...
Trains brought 5,000 Hindus daily to Calcutta. On foot, other thousands trudged from the east. In little more than a month, half a million Hindus had come to West Bengal and most of them to teeming Calcutta...
...earth . . Facilities for acquiring intelligence from every portion of the globe will be more perfectly secured to this institution than to any other of our acquaintance. Correspondence will be kept up with persons in the service of the university living at London, Edinburgh, Paris, Rome, Copenhagen and Calcutta. Whatever is valuable in the laws and usages of nations . . . will be copiously poured into the lap of this institution...
Died. Sarat Chandra Bose, 60, chubby, British-baiting leader of India's left-wing Socialist Republican Party, elder brother of the late Subhas Chandra Bose, wartime Japanese puppet, younger brother of the late Congressman Satish Chandra Bose; of a coronary thrombosis; in Calcutta...