Meanwhile there have been serious riots on the North- West
frontier. The Morning Post correspondent at Calcutta quotes the Englishman as saying that Kohat is in ruins., It is said that there were two days of terrorism, that the police were overwhelmed, and that British cavalry and four companies of infantry were required to restore order. Incendiaries set fire to the town in many places. There have also been serious riots at Lucknow. In both instances the riots were the result of the hostility between Moslems and Hindus. In Lucknow the fighting, according to one version, was caused by a Hindu blowing a conch-shell outside a Mosque during prayers. Another version is that the muse was an attempt by Moslems to convert a Brahmin boy. Whatever may be the truth the much-advertised unity of Hindus and Moslems has broken down. Religious . passion seems to have greatly increased instead of being appeased, and everywhere there is an atmosphere that may produce dangerous incidents at any moment for apparently quite insufficient reasons.
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