Lord Northcliffe, in an interview at Bombay last Saturday, described
the situation in plain' terms. " To-day India is turbulent and suspicious and Mahomedans and Hindus alike, in my opinion, are preparing to make trouble." Lord North- cliffe thought that " the increasing anger of the Mahomedans " was the most dangerous symptom and that the outrages on white people were very similar to those perpetrated during the Mutiny. He recalled the details of the murder of an American engineer, in Bombay last November, by a crowd of Mahomedan roughs. Lord Northcliffe said that Mr. Gandhi's speeches had " the direct effect of stirring up the natives to crime " and that loyal Indians were wondering how long the Government would continue to tolerate Mr. Gandhi's seditious campaign. Lord Northcliffe summarized the demands of the Caliphate agitators and declared that his British informants agreed on " the urgency of a complete and rapid settlement of the Moslem impasse."
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