The Times of Monday publishes some details of the recent
rioting at Rawal Pindi. Immediately after three Indian pleaders had been cited to appear before the District Magis- trate on May let to explain seditious speeches they bad made at a meeting on April 21st, two other pleaders called a second meeting. The notice from the Magistrate was flourished before the audience, who were invited to attend the hearing at the Court on the next day, May 1st. During the night the ringleaders of agitation worked up native feeling, but in the meantime the authorities had decided to postpone the healing. Over two thousand natives nevertheless collected outside the Court and hooted every European. The crowd then proceeded to destroy European property, as has already been reported. One strange fact is that the American Mission suffered worse than other Europeans. The Mission brings money into the Punjab and takes nothing out. It seems, then, tbat the rioting was to some extent anti-Christian. Some poor Indian Christians were ill-treated. But it would be idle to analyse all the motives in the senseless acts, which included the wrecking of a high school lately given by a rich native.
