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 reply a categorical denial of any lawless repression. In this connection I urge the public and Government care- fully to consider the following facts whose substance is beyond challenge :-(!) official shooting at Entally in Calcutta and the callous treatment even of a corpse (2) The admitted brutality of the civil guards(3) The for- cible dispersal of a meeting at Dacca and the dragging of innocent men by their legs although they had given no offence or cause whatsoever (4) Similar treatment of volunteers in Aligarh (5) The conclusive (in my opinion) findings of the committee presided over by Dr. Gokhul Chand about the brutal and uncalled for assaults upon volunteers and the public in Lahore (6) The wicked and inhuman treatment of volunteers and the public at Jullundur (7) The shooting of a boy at Dehra Dun and the cruelly forcible dispersal of a public meeting of that place (8) The looting admitted by the Bihar Government of villages by an officer and his company without any permission whatsoever, from any one,, but, as stated by Non-co- operators, at the invitation of a planter, assaults upon volunteers and the burning of Khaddar and papers belonging to the Congress at Sonepur (9) The midnight searches and arrests in the Congress and Khilafat offices.

I have merely given a sample of the many infalli- ble proofs of official lawlessness and barbarism. I have mentioned not even a tithe of what is happening all over the country, I .\\psh to state, without fear of; successful contradiction,. that the scale on which this lawlessness had goae on. an so many provinces ofj India puts into shade the inhumanities that were practised in the Punjab, if we except the crawling order and the

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