Jack Hobbs, the famous cricket-cer, has achieved fame of a kind he never dreamt of through the innocent blundering of a cartoonist on the London newspaper, the "Star." It appears that the Prophet Ma-home® appeared in the same cartoon as the latest hero of the sporting world, rather to the disadvantage of the former.
This attracted the} attention of some of the Prophet's adherents at Home, giving them great offence, and matter -received some publicity.
The news was flashed by cable to India and has caused quite a furore in hommedan circles. A poster reproducing a rough sketch of the cartoon from the "'Star," but omitting the figure of Mahomed, has been publish ed in Calcutta by' several Moslems, calling upon their ce-religionists to give unmistakeable proof of their] love of Islam by asking the Govern. ment of India to. bring the matter to the notice the British Government in order that the editor of the "Star" may ree the wigging he so richly deserves. The Mahommedans here are well aware that Hobbs himself has expressed great regret Jat the incident and one would have thought that they would have been content: to accept that apology. But no! The: faithful are out, for blood snd the unfortunate editor ° of the) 'Star" is the victim' they' have décid-to leave immediately for the front, in a letter to the General Officer Commanding the French troops in the Aleppo district, warned him that the fighting value of the batta~ lion under his command was extrem ely low. It had been formed at Marseilles a fortnight before men drafted from various colonial Unita, and the companies had never worked together.
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