The Qadian Diary — Page 89
Letters, Correspondence, and Articles 75 and Major G. A. Wright were good enough to permit us to work two of our mills. 10. On the 2nd of October our College and our Research Institute were taken away from us and the Police was posted there. 11. On the night between 2nd and 3rd October, 1947, our Principal Mosque, the Masjid Aqsa, was the scene of outrageous desecration when from the neigh- bouring non-Muslim houses a bomb was thrown in it wounding one Ahmadi youth. On the 3rd October shots were fired in the mosque by a Police man who can be identified, resulting in the death of two of our people who were helping some of our women-folk to escape into the mosque and seek refuge there from Sikh hooligans. Lt. -Col. Gurbachan Singh, Major Wright and the Magistrate saw one of our dead men in the mosque, others having been removed by the Sikhs and the Police. The same day three of our Mohallas, viz. , Darul-Rahmat, Aqsa and Fazl were attacked by overwhelming Sikh Jathas actively helped by armed Police constables who not only looted almost all the houses completely but also killed a large number of Ahmadies. 12. On the 3rd October all our Ahmadies living in six Mohallas had to flee for their lives and take refuge in the T. I. High School Boarding House. Several thousand women had to be crowded in a small space while our men were compelled to stay out during the night. All these men and women had had to quit their mohallas almost in their shirt sleeves, most of