| Show I 1 A AND ITS PEOPLES KOPLES by copt capt L L R claud robinson a A NARROW ESCAPE fin day tile the riots broke out in am T TUG ritza la in 1118 1918 1 I happened to 4 be m kin nn an inspection of a govern government merit fodder factory one of the many I 1 ada responsible for in the punjab which wire we re engaged engage din in pressing up tiny hay into hales bales for or dispatch to the armies in mesopotamia and balestine As III luck luch would have it the first place visited by the mob of several thousand who gathered intent on tile the destruction of the white allun of 01 lia ills pr property wits this particular factory fortunately a wall eight or more feet high surrounded tile the place and my friendly indian contractor DS the hist first sounds of the approaching babel ireae readied aed our ears quickly picked inched and boiled the double entrance en trunie kales gates then greatly hi cully agitated tie he informed me of 0 tile the likelihood d of attack and the aroh ability of iny rapidly approaching dooni doom calling ailing one tit rf its his coolie laborers tie he instructed instituted nah to pline place a u ladder against tile the wall mull opposite the entrance and aind pointed tills this out to tile me as my only weans of est estape escape ape and begged nie me to adall mys nil elf of it immediately I 1 was enough for the rions tie he wits s taking for my nofi weir ire ore us its it prevented the nece of having li to in make ame my in own arrangements for pus pos slide bible flight and thus displaying tin nn tine 1 alch I 1 was as certainly beginning n g to feel I 1 did nut at this time know the or ruthlessness of nn an in illin noih or it Is icky I 1 inight tit decided d to leave there and then lien I 1 was nr I 1 tied however and a gd iid runner run rier and I 1 fill fell sure that it if my sis alt proved of if no avail I 1 could easily jiahe my escape Alean Jille the III uproar of the approaching jimb had in cr eased until we could tear ear out selves speak there 1 liere wits something inhuman and unearthly in those thou calida salida ol of wildly clamoring voices in which passion tind lack inck of all were klen given free piny I 1 I 1 instructed my loyn loal contractor lon trailor hinl this its that if tiny effort wits ft as made to force fone an entrance lie he wits as to attempt to ninke make himself beard and tell them ehni tile the property propel tv was tits his and not tile the government governments ern ments s it was probably only a matter of seconds though it seemed tit at the little minutes after my giving these hestrue hi instructions that the tumult beached it u dror detif ening roar followed by loud clattering on tile the gates and deminds for entrance for fully ten minutes oopal pill das attempted to make inake himself heard I 1 stood beside him and heard his appeals and his I 1 repeated cries of byee byee kill apke byee bee kl ki bola brothers brothers it Is your brother who speaks at length the lie din subsided sufficiently for ills his voice olce to he be I 1 leard curd lie told ibea that tile the property was ills own on that no saheb lill wits is within the nulls vall and implored them to leave him ikpe in pence nee so eventually they moved nn in I 1 have in my possession letters from firm my good friend nopal gopal ons ans I 1 I 1 believe if necessary he dhave given tits life for we me that lay day |
