1 OCTOBER 1921, Page 2

The Moplah insurgents are still in arms, especially in the

rough country of central Malabar, between the coast railway and the Nilgiri hills. Detachments of the Dorset regiment had some sharp skirmishes last week near Nilambur, which was the rebels' headquarters, and occupied the town on Saturday. We see from the Indian papers that the extreme Caliphate agitators are complaining bitterly of the use of force against their Moplah friends, although the Moplahs have murdered Europeans and Hindus and destroyed much property. Such .complaints illustrate the factious character of the Caliphate .movement, which Mr. Montagu unfortunately took to be the genuine expression. of Moslem feeling.