25 JULY 1931, Page 2

Communal tension in India continues to cause sporadic outbreaks, the

true gravity of which lies in their implica- tions as danger-signals rather than in their immediate local effect. In The Times last week there was a signifi- cant juxtaposition of two news items. A large and representative Moslem meeting at Multan, in the Punjab, passed resolutions viewing with alarm the " prospective changes in Indian government," and urging that in their initial stages " the European element in the Imperial Services should remain undiminished." At the same time the Hindus at Sikandarabad were reported as begging for a British official to protect them in case of a renewal of communal trouble there.