MR. ANDREWS AND ABDUL GAFFAR [To the Editor of THE
SPECTATOR.] SIR.--I think Mr. Andrews has done me some injustice in his interesting letter to The Spectator of January 25th. I am accused by my friend, Of (1) "Attacking the Khan Sahib's character " ; (2) I ha*, it seems, " defamed " him. In my first letter, I simply gave a short extract from Mr. Andrews' article in The Spectator. In that article, Mr. Andrews instructs us that the Mum Sahib and his "Red Shirts" were "non- violent," and in no way revolutionary. • In my reply, I gave Sir Harry Haig's reply in the Assembly, which showed Mr. Andrews is wrong. The then Home Member proved that the "Red Shirts" had been guilty of appalling crimes on the frontier. I also referred to the conviction and sentence of the Khan Sahib, in January last, by Sir H. Dastur, the Chief Presidency Magistrate of Bombay. I find that Mr. Andrews has not quoted correctly an extract from the Khan Sahib's speech delivered in Bombay to an assembly of Christians in Christmas week. In the course of that interesting speech, the Khan Sahib (according to the magistrate's judgement) accused the Government of deliberately butchering 200 men, women and children, without cause, just to preserve their prestige." The speech must have been violent indeed, for Mr. Andrews admits that it "contains many things to which I should take strong exception."—Yours,
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