Maulana Mohani justifies the looting of Hindus by Moplahs as lawful by way of commandeering in a war between the latter and the Government or as a matter of necessity when the Moplahs were forced to live in jungles. Maulana perhaps does not know that in the majority of cases, the almost wholesale looting of Hindu houses in portions of Ernad, Valluvanad and Ponani Taluques was perpetrated on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of August before the military had arrived in the affected area to arrest or fight the rebels even before Martial law had been declared. The Moplahs had not betaken themselves to jungles at the time as Moulana supposes nor had the Hindus as a class done anything to them to deserve their hostility. The out-break commenced on the 20th of August, the police and the District Magistrate withdrew from Tirunangadi to Calicut on the 21st and the policemen throughout the affected area had taken to their heels. There was no adversary to the Moplahs at the time whom the Hindus could possibly have helped or invited, and the attack on them was most wanton and unprovoked. MADHAVAN NAIR. APPENDIX IV Proceedings of the conference at Calicut presided over by the Zamorin Maharaja. VI. That the conference views with indignation and sorrow the attempts made in various quarters by interested parties to ignore or minimise the crimes committed by the rebels such as _a._ Brutally dishonouring women; _b._ Flaying people alive; _c._ Wholesale slaughter of men, women and children; _d._ Burning alive entire families; _e._ Forcibly converting people in thousands and slaying those who refused to get converted; _f._ Throwing half dead people into wells and leaving the victims for hours to struggle for escape till finally released from their sufferings by death; _g._ Burning a great many and looting practically all Hindu and Christian houses in the disturbed area in which even Moplah women and children took part, and robbing women of even the garments on their bodies, in short reducing the whole non-muslim population to abject destitution; _h._ Cruelly insulting the religious sentiments of the Hindus by desecrating and destroying numerous temples in the disturbed area, killing cows within the temple precincts putting their entrails on the holy image and hanging the skulls on the walls and roofs. APPENDIX V Petition of Malabar Ladies to Lady Reading TO HER GRACIOUS EXCELLENCY THE COUNTESS OF READING, Delhi. The humble memorial of the bereaved and sorrow-stricken women of Malabar. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR GRACIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE LADYSHIP. We, the Hindu women of Malabar of varying ranks and stations in life who have recently been overwhelmed by the tremendous catastrophe known as the Moplah rebellion, take the liberty to supplicate your Ladyship for sympathy and succour.