Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-29
BRITISH KILL 700
NATIVES IN INDIAN
RIOTS At CAD.CUT
Many English Soldiers Reported
Slain; Reinforcements Halted
by insurgents.
WARsHIP LANDS MARINES

fsy Associated Press TO Every Evening.
Gaiicut. India. Aug. 2ss--Nearly 700
members Of the insurgent bands which
have been creating disorders IN the
district south and southeast Of this
city have been Killed IN fights with
British forces sent 20 auel1 the uD-
rising. Several Europeans have been
Killed. while 10 men of the Lenater
Regiment and II native policemen are
missing. Many IIindus have been
massacred
Indian troops are being brought
aouthward from cannanore. a military
station on the Malbar coast north Of
this city. and will - throtvn into
the troubled districts 20 quell the up
rising Of the Maplay tribes in the
neighbcrhood Of Ponani.
IT is reported that the insurgents
have destroyed bridges and felIed
trees across roads fot the purpose OF
obstructing troop movements. Blue
jackets and marines from the warship
Comus have been landed here.
British troops including cavalry.
arrived here from Bangalore SUNDAY
and proceeded to the disturbed area
Numerous refugees who have arrived
here from the Ernad district relate
pittful tales Of torture and looting
II appears the rebels have deserted
Tanwiand and other places and have
taken to the hills.
London. Aug Reports today
from the revolutionary area Of Maia-
bar. British India, indicating that
British troops and cavalry had ar
rived there tended to confirm the be-
lief in London that the uprising
would be confined to this area, al
though none here would deny the
seriousness Of the situation or its
potentialities for spreading.
The revolutionary area is more or
less isolated from the other portions
of India which might be expected to
lend cooperation in the movement
1t any were forthcoming. but IL
would not surprise official circles here
II NJ least the fanaticai nohanme-
dams along the northern frontier
should take this occasion to write
another chapter in their almost con-
tiruous warfare against the British
The trouble in MaIabar arises. II
is stated, primarily from religious
fanaticism and from the intense ha-
tired Of the Moplahs. or .fofamnle-
dams Of Arab descent. for Europeans
and Hindus.
Of politics and home rule they know
nothing. as they virtually are bar
barians. but the religious torch will
always stir them TO bloodshed as they
I've mainly for their religion and are
willing to die for it. SeIf-torture is
not uncommon among the Moplahs in
the hope that they will thus arrive in
heaven, and they believe that death
on the battlefield is the sure road to
happy hereafter.
Close observers here of Indian af-
fairs express the belief that the up
rising also is in part due to the wide
spread propaganda OF the native
Indian Nationalists. To this agita-
ton has been added reports of great
wrongs done Turkey and the calphiate
by the treaty of Sevres. This propa-
ganda has been spread not only in
the Malabar region but throughout
India, especially in the populous
Punjab and United Provinces. ana
along the northwest frontier among
the ever turbulent tribesmen.
Reports circulated among the
Moplahs that Afghanistan was send
ing troops 10 assist them apparently
were without foundation, but It is
not considered surprising here that
the Moplahs should have believed
them, since the Afghans are noted as
religious fanatics.
The situation for isolated Europeans
and Hindus in the Aalabar region is
grave, as the Moplahs in the past.
have halted at nothing in their fren-
zied hatred.