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Letters, Correspondence, and Articles 59 with them. Col. Chopra was escorted to Sialkot in a military truck by a nephew of the Head of the Com- munity, Major Mirza Daud Ahmad. From Sialkot other arrangements were made to carry him safe- ly to Jammu. Similarly some other Hindu refugees in Lahore were given protection by members of the Community for a period of about one month. The fact came to the notice of some communally-minded people who got some of our men arrested on false charges and the Police officer who arrested our men openly said that he was really doing so because our men had given protection to Hindus. To be frank we must add here that as facts reach us Hindus and Sikhs are even now living in different parts of Lahore with some measure of safety while no Muslim is able to live in Amritsar. 5. As we have said Ahmadiyya Community has always believed in loyalty to the State under which one lives, so much so that about 20 years ago the present Head of the Community said in answering a question that if Afghanistan and India went to war, the Ahmadies living in Afghanistan will fight for Afghanistan and Ahmadies living in India will fight for India. Only, they would try and persuade their respective Governments to avoid war and settle their dispute in a peaceful manner. 6. Ahmadies of Qadian have said again and again that they wish to stay in Qadian and suffer rather than evacuate. Ahmadies, therefore, fulfil both the conditions proposed by the Indian Union for such of the Muslims as wish to stay in the