New-York tribune., 1921-08-29
Famine Menaces District


ated Press The India Office reports
that the entire disturbed area of Mala-
bar is row threatened with famine.
Martial law has been applied to the
Walayanad, Ponnani, Ernad, Calicut,
Wainad and Kurambranad districts
A party from the British warship
Comus has been landed at Calicut
The rebels in the Calicut district have
increased TO $4,000, and the area of the
rebellion has been extended, says dis
patch to The Daily Mail from Alfalfa
bad The expectation of famine is due
10 disorganization in trade and CON-
munication.
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
from Bombay says the whole of the
beautiful forest tract surrounding the
Niambur Palace has been laid waste
and every Hindu house in the district
looted. One of the rebel leaders has
established himself in the palace as
ruler. \
Evidence is accumuiating, says the
dispatch, that the success of the rebels
in obtaining arms and munitions was
due to treachery of individual members
Of the native Indian police and former
Sepoys.
From The Tribunc's European Bureau
Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc
LONDON, Aug. 28.-The British
9ilitary has temporarily gained the
upper hand over the Moplahs, or Ma
hometan Arabs of Malabar, who have
poured down from the Nilgiri hills
Foward the west coast of southern
adia, attacking the populace and loot
1ng the countryside, according to ad-
and Bombay. The situation is still re-
sarded as serious, although in the
clashes between the revolutionists and
ne British there have been compara-
-ively few casualties The latest esti
mates say that the dead are twenty
aen of the Leinster regiment and the
missing are seventeen Indian policemen
Several Europeans have been mur.
fered The rebel losses are fixed at
zoo killed or wounded
The British have nipped the at
'empted uprising by landing troops
rom cruiser at Calicut. on the west
coast, the principal city of the affected
district, and rushing soldiers from the
9earest inland garrison at Bangalore
200 miles away.
The uprising got a good start before
ne British could bring up adequate
Military forces. and as result the
insurgents are now thick in the Mala.
Se- district IN one town alone there
are reported to be $4,000 of tbs
Noplahs.
In the outlying districts, which ale
almost inaccessible. the outrages and
disorders continue. At Podanur, far in
the interior, column Of British troops
broke UP body OF rebels with machine
gun FIRE.
Mahometan Against Hindu
According TO reports received here
ne uprising began as search for
some natives who were wanted by the
.'oplahs. AS the Arab hillsmen pushe ID
down into the valley there were sew
ga. clashes with the Hindus, in which
30 Iadian policemen were killed. The
Aop.en movement took on the nature
q Nshonetan crusade, directed large
y against the Hindus Several agita-
tors Visited Calicut and other cities
'ryins TO stir up unrest there. The
.ooting that has been carried on seems
. be designed chiefly to enrich the
Aanon etan treasury.
apparently Ghandi, the Nationalist st
lsader Of northwest India, whose policy
oi noa-cooperation has bafied the Brit
lsn authorities in that area, has had
70 par. in inspiring the unrest in Mala-
Gar Although Ghandi in his great
ssvoit Of 1919 identified himself with
Saaometan religious movem mcnts, it is
po'n.et ont mere that his creed is ma
.tonabstic and anti-British, whereas
ne present disturbance is primarily
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