It is a thousand pities that the English newspapers have not reproduced in full the evidence recently given before the Hunter Commitiee. The extracts and summaries hitherto laid before the public have been misleading, owing to their incompleteness, while many of the letters written by correspondents have been worse.
For example, a letter appeared in the "Times" the other day, signed by an Indian gentleman named Kunsru, who made capital of the fact that several of the Delhi offi cial witnesses agreed that there was "no evidence of an organized conspiracy to rebel against. the British Raji." Mr. Baroon, the Chief Commissioner (if his evidence is correctly reported), "'did not suggest that anybody from Delhi stirred up the disturbances in the Punjab or vice versa," though Mr. Orde, Superintendent of Police, admitted that there was "a general Hartal all over India on April 6," and everyone who knows anything about India knows that the proclamation of a Hartdl or general closure of business is one of the strongest weapons in the armoury of the Indian agitator, as Hartdl automatically fills a city with gangs of idle hooligans ready for anything in the way of disorder, violence, and loot.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.