AGAINST CONGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 11

AGAINST CONGRESS

MOPLAHS OF MALABAB

REVULSION IN INDIA

Calcutta; 22nd Apni. " The Moplahs of Malabar who wers concerned in the graved rebellion of 1921 aro at present displaying intense opposition to the Congress propaganda, and a wave of loyalty to the Crown is sweeping a largo area which a decada ago was a hotbed of sedition. Congress agitators have been prevented from holding" meetings in the districts of Kittappara aud Pattambi, where Moplah priests are exhorting the villagers, who aro all Moslems, that it is irreligious to co-openite with Congress, which is engaged in disloyal pursuits. The Congress men were.told that the Moplahs had not forgot!en the manner in which Congress deceived them during the rebellion. Waving.Union Jacks, and shouting, "Let the British, administration continue," the Moplahs raised their warcry and drove the Congress agitators from the district. In August, 1921, a grave situation arose in ■ Malabar, .when unrest among the Moplahs, wild and fanatical Mohammedans, developed into active and widespread rebellion. British officers and native police were murdered, and the Moplahs bogan a campaign of pillage and rutlijless destruction. On 30th. August "the first major action of the rebellion was fought, when a British, column established contact with a. largo force o1" Moplahs, killed 400 of them, and put tho remainder (o flight. ]n 1 he following month large numbers of nVbels were captured in groups numbering up to 300. This success on flic part of the yutliorititts was followed up vigorously, until tho outbreak was suppressed. *