It is not easy to have patience with—those highest official sources," consulted by Reuter's correspondent, in their glossing over of the riots at Madras on the Prince of Wales's arrival, when it is admitted that five people lost their lives and property was destroyed. Nobody wishes to exaggerate these unhappy events. But that the Prince's visit to India has been Seized upon by the agitators in all parts to make trouble cannot be denied, and that it was pretty bad trouble is evident from the unwonted and_ refreshing severity with which the Government has been dealing with—seditionists. The point of importance is not whether the Babu, behaving after his kind, is rude to a_ perfectly innocent and _unoffending Prince, but whether Great Britain is going to rule India, maintaining the law, order and prosperity she has introduced, or allow it to relapse into chaos and bloodshed. Therefore it is all important for Britons to have full information not only about these riots but about the -state of sedition in India. But this, unfortunately, would not suit the champions of the Montagu-Chelmsford scheme. So the merry agitator riots and the "highest official sources" bury their heads in the san@.
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