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 ceaseless effort to regain control over the turbulent elements. This is a terribly true struggle. There is no room for sham or humbug in it. Before we can make any further progress without struggle we must cleanse our hearts.

One special word to my Mussalman brothers. I have approached Khilafat as a sacred cause. I have striven for Hindu-Muslim unity because India cannot Jive free without it, and because we would both deny God if we considered one another as natural enemies. I have thrown myself into the arms of the Ali brothers, because 1 believe them to be true and God-fearing men. The Mussalmans have to my knowledge played a leading part during the two days of carnage. It has deeply hurt me. I ask every Mussalman worker to rise to his full height to realise his duty to his faith and see that the carnage stops. May God bless everyone of us with wisdom and courage to do the right at any cost !

I am, Your Servant, M. K. Gandhi.

��III. APPE'AL TO THE HCOLIGAKS OF BOMBAY.

��\Mr. Gandhi issued another appeal, this time to the Hooligans of Bombay who brought about the terrible scenes of murder. The following is ihe full text of the appeal which was circulated broadcast in all vernaculars on Nov. 21. \

To Hooligans of Bombay. The most terrible mis- take I have made is that I thought non-co-operators had acquired influence over you, and that you had understood the relative value of political wisdom of non-violence though not the moral necessity of it. I had thought that you had sufficiently understood the interests of your country not to meddle with the movement to its detri-

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