HINDUS AND MOSLEMS.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, ALLAHABAD, Tuesday (3.50 p.m.) (delayed).

Hindu feeling has been stirred to its depths by the accounts of the atrocities perpetrated by the Moplahs. At Nambudri and “Purdah” ladies have been stripped naked, Hindu temples plundered, idols demolished, and cows killed in the sanctum sanctorum. Gopalachar, the non-co-operation leader, writing in the journal, Hindu, declares that it is no exaggeration to say that the acts of the misguided bands of Moplahs have inflicted a mortal wound on Hindu-moslem unity among the Hindus in Malabar. In man, woman, and child hatred and fear have taken the place of the new-born unity and trust. The Hindu community have lost faith in their Mussulman brothers.

The Leader, the moderate organ, observes that the ancient fanatical feeling of Moslems burst out against the mild Hindus in all its fury without the least provocation from them, and if the “Satanic” Government had not come to their rescue the angelic Moplahs would have probably shown to many more of them the shortest road to heaven.

The Pioneer comments on the Moplah conception of Swaraj, under which every “Kaffir” who refused to embrace Islam was to be murdered. It commends these things to the notice of Hindus who in their hatred of British rule fail to see that it is the Khalifate fanatics who have got control of the nonco-operation movement, and that Mr. Gandhi is little more than a convenient figurehead.