The notorious Indian Moslem agitators, Mahomed Ali and his brother
Shaukat Ali, were arrested last week, with some lesser firebrands. Mr. Montagu's patience seemed inexhaustible, but Lord Reading has apparently persuaded him that the Brothers Ali went too far when they sought to provoke our Indian Moslem troops to mutiny. At the Caliphate Conference at Karachi. in July they supported a resolution declaring that " it was wholly unlawful for any Moslem at this time to remain or enlist in the Indian Army or to get others enlisted in it." That was, and was intended to be, an open incitement to rebellion. Only two months earlier, after Mr. Gandhi's interview with Lord Reading, thaBrothens All had published-a written apology, regretting that certain speeches of theirs had " a tendency to incite to violence," and promising " that so long as we are associated in the movement of non-co-operation, we shall not directly or indirectly advocate violence in the present or in the future nor create an atmosphere of preparedness for violence." They soon began to explain away their apology, and then they broke their promise. These Turcophiles have imitated only too faithfully the methods of the Turk.
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