REVOLT IN INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1921, Page 5

REVOLT IN INDIA.

A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK.

TROUBLE DECREASING.

REBELS COLLECT ARMS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 31. 1.30 a.m. Delhi. August 29. Columns from Malapuram. Calicut and Tirur are converging on Tirurangadi. Reports from some districts show that thd disturbances are slowly decreasing, and a favorable turn in the situation may he expected shortly. Attempts by members of the Congress Party to pacify the Moplahs have apparently completely failed. The local newspapers point out that it ts a significant circumstance that the rising is not merely against the Government, but against all non-Moslems. Official* and private individuals in Qujlandy and Other places are organising bands of Hindus and Christians to beat off the rebels. The magistrate at P&lghat reports that one span of the Thuppanad bridge is broken. The Mannarghat and Nuttukhal police stations were looted and rifles, carbines and ammunition carried off. The rebels are also forcibly collecting arms from license holders.

Major-General Burnett Stewart has been appointed commander of the whole martial law are^.—Reuter Service.

iROOPS AND REBELS CLASH. MANY LOSSES TO REBELS. Received August 30, 9.20 pan. Delhi, August 29. A mobile column returning from Malapuram fought an action with rebels at Pukkatur. The Moplah casualties were about 400 killed, and ours were two killed and six wounded. Martial law has been proclaimed in the BUb-districts of Calicut, Walluvanad, Ponani.. Kurumbrand and Yyanad in the Malabar district.—Reuter Service. A GRAVE FEATURE. EX-SOLDIERS JOIN REBELS. London, August 29. Indian experts in London view as a matte/ of the utmost gravity the implication of Indian policemen and ex-sol-diere with the Moplahs. The extremists all along openly avowed their intention to obtain support from the Sepoys. Hitherto, happily there has been little response, but this feature of the Molplah rebellion will necessitate greater prejautions. The outrages against Hindus and Mohammedans are weaking Hindus’ sympathy with the Khalifat agitation MILITARY CONTROL RAILWAYS. FLIGHT OF REBELS. Delhi, August 29. The latest reports of the Moplah troubles state that Malappuram has been relieved. The military has assumed complete control of railway traffic and the rebels are fleeing to the interior, but there is some extension of the trouble in the southern districts.—Reuter.