It has developed that notwithstanding the fact that the owner of the
land was a Hindoo, there is no really bad feeling between the Hindoos
and the Mohammedans, but that both have combined against the Europeans.

It is distinctly an anti-European feeling. British authority is openly
defied by the natives, and the situation is regarded as very grave.

In Simla, which is the summer home of the Viceroy of India, there has
been more rioting.

A mob tried to seize upon a mosque, but the police and soldiers opened
fire on them, and a serious fight ensued.

The mob was finally repulsed, and the leader arrested.

Simla, which is one of the most fashionable of the Indian summer
resorts, is built high up among the Himalayan Mountains.

The seat of the government of India is really in Calcutta, but the heat
there is so intense during the summer months that the Europeans cannot
endure it.

For fully half the year the Viceroy, who is the representative of the
Queen, moves up to Simla, with his council and household, and the
government is carried on there.

That riots should have occurred at the seat of government makes the
Europeans still more uneasy.