The outbreak of disorder in India has been checked, but
there is still some -unrest in the Punjab, where flying columns have been employed to arrest rioters. The Moelem rowdies in the Punjab are said to have been incited by revolutionists in Turkish and German pay, who, in India as in Egypt, are a day after the fair, since their employers' cause is lost. The co- operation' between Moslem and Hindu agitators at Lahore, where Hindus-were admitted to the mosque, did not last. The responsible Moslem authorities repudiated all share in what they regarded as an outrage. The Punjab Hindus, for their part, have organized a protest against cow-killing, in regard to which they are poles apart from the Moslems. The Government seem to have surprised the unruly by their firmness and prompti- tude. The Montagu-Chelmsford Report had led the agitators to believe that they were governed by phrase-making Babus.
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