The news from India is more favourable. All last week
there were serious disturbances in the Punjab and in the Ahmedabad district of the Bombay Presidency. Several railway stations were burnt ; railways and telegraphs were maliciously damaged. Aeroplanes were used with good effect to disperse the riotous mobs. Mr. Gandhi, the agitator who advocated a " passive resistance " strike against the Rowlett Sedition Bills, was alarmed when he found that his followers interpreted " passive resistance " as riot and murder, and he declared the strike at an end. It is reported, credibly enough, that the revolutionary faction, aided by Bolshevik money, is behind the Punjab out- rages, which seemed to be planned with some care. The alliance of fanatical Moslems and Hindus which was noticed at Lahore is an ominous sign, but such an alliance cannot endure. The Government seem to have acted firmly and promptly in restoring order. All our much-enduring Territorials, who were at last under orders to leave for home, showed their loyalty once again by volunteering for service until the situation wars normah Their work, monotonous, but invaluable, in guarding India through the war must not be overlooked.
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