Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-09-03
HUNDREDS KILLED
IN INDIA BATTLES
NATIVE TROOPS ARE SENT To
SCENE OF TROUBLE WITH Or
DERS TO QuELL FIGHTS
Several Europeans Lose Lives And
Mary Hundreds Are Massacred
During Disturbance In calcut
BY lnsurgent Bands

Callcut lndia-Nearly 200 members
of the insurgent bands which have
been creating disorders in The dls.
trict south and southeast of This city
have been killed in fights with British
forces sent TO quell the uprising. Sev.
eral Europeans have been killed while
seventy men of the Leinster regiment
and seventeen native policemen are
missing Many lIndus have been
massaCred.
in'iian troops are being brought
southwark from Cannanore.
1t is reported the insurgents have
DESTROYED bridges and felled trees
across roads to obstruct troop move
ments.
Biuejackets and marines from the
warship Comus have been landed here
British troops, including. cavalry,
arrived here from Bangalore Sunday
anu proceeded to the disturbed area
Numerous refugees who have arrlv.
ed here from the Ernnd district relate
pitiful tales of torture and looting. II
appears the rebels have deserted Ia.
uur aud Other places and have taken
10 the hills
Acknowledgements Monday from the
revolutionary area of Nlalabar. Brit.
lsh India, indicating that British troops
and cavalry had arrived there, tended
to confirm the belief in London that
the uprising would be confined TO this
area, although none here would DENY
the seriousness of the situation or its
potentialities for spreading.
The trouble in Malabar arises, It is
stated, primarily from religious fana.
ticiSm and from the intense hatred of
the Moplahs, or Mohanmedans OF
Arab descent, for Europeans and Hin
dus.
or politics and home rule they know
nothing. as they virtually are bar.
barians. but the religious touch will
always stir them to blootlshed as they
live mainly for their religion and are
willing to die for it, Self-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
u happy hereafter.
Close observers here of Indian af-
fs'lrs express the belief that the I'D
rising also Is in part due to the wide
spread propaganda of the native In
dian nationalists. To this agitation
has been added reports of great
wrongs done Turkey and the Caliph-
ate by the treaty of Sevres
The situation for isolated Europeans
and Hindus in the Malabar region is
grave, as the NToplahs in the past have
halted at nothing in their frenzied
hatred. At the time of the projected
uprising in the Puniab at the out
break of hte war some of the most
cold blooded documents were issued
telling how Europeans were to be ev..
terminated to the last person.
The equipment Of the Moplahs for
fighting consists largely of two edged
swords, extremely heavy and sharp as
razOrs, and catapults with Il sprink-
ling of antiquated muzZle loading riff
les 1t is reported. however. that they
obtHined considerable arms and am
munition in recent looiing and through
the treachcrv of some of the native
police and former native soldiers In
fhe British army
A green emblem has hpen hoisted
mt Palipu. Nearly million Moplahs
are said to he back Of the home rule"
movement. Marital law has been dec
Jared throughout the affected area.