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Show in and popometiilk Indian Mussulman Presents Aspirations of People to Benedict. ROME, July 2?. Mohammed All, head of the Indian Mussulman delegation, dele-gation, hns been received by Pope Benedict, Premier Giollttl and Count jeforza, the foreign minister, and presented pre-sented to them the aspirations of his pi ople After his audience at the Vatican Mohammed reported that the pontiff had heard his statement sympathetically sympathetic-ally and hud expressed pleasure nt tho spirit of tolerance toward other religions re-ligions now being shown by the Indian In-dian Mussulman. Mohammed said his prinelpal pro- iicsi w-ns uecause EuiBJiaiKi nsa noi maintained the pledges made with respect re-spect to the holy places, having instead in-stead practically abolished the caliphate cali-phate nnd placed the holy places all under direct or Indirect British domination." domi-nation." After declaring that the entire east has fallen "Into the handJ of Lloyd George," Mohammed declared: "We cannot tolerate British and French mandates over places where the Mussulmans Mus-sulmans consider themselves as God's mandatories." Mohammed then explained the program pro-gram which the Indians intended carrying car-rying out against Great Britain as follows fol-lows Kirst, the return of all decorations and titles received from the Biltlsh covernmcnt - second, the resignation I of positions occupied by Indians in the British administration; third, the L realgnatlon of all Indian soldiers and f policemen which would prevent Brit- I F ish occupation of Mesopotamia and J Palestine, and, t Fourth, refusal to pay taxes. If these actions were not sufficient, Mohammed added, then a holy war would be proclaimed. |