CONSTANTINOPLE AND INDIA.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—The Constantinople question is one of great difficulty. Let us hope that it will be decided without any further inter- vention of Mr. Montagu. Like a second Frankenstein he has thrown India into the hands of the Hindu extremists, and is now frightened at the spirits he has raised. Syud Hoss.ain one of the Indian Khalifat Delegation, in writing to the Observer, March ith,. claims the support of the extremist Hindus—B. G. Tilak, the bitterest enemy of England; Mr. Gandhi, the best intentioned of men, but whose name was the excuse for bloody riots at Amritsar and Ahmedabad; Mr. Malaviya, who resigned his seat in -Council because of the Rowlett legislation. There is no doubt that this agitation is being whipped up and utilized by the Hindu extremists, and if we give way to it we shall be playing into their hands. Are we to trust in Mr. Montagu, who kept England in ignorance of the riots in April last, and Who for some time held back the publication of the Rowlett Report? At any rate if he has anything to say, let him say it openly in Parliament. —I am,
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