The Qadian Diary — Page 58
Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad 44 solemnly affirm that both allegations are baseless and somebody has concocted this story to poison the ears of the authorities against us and therby deprive us of the only means of contact with the outside world. It is a pity, however, that in spite of our repeated denials the story is still being believed to be true. If the authorities be inclined to reconsider their decision we are prepared to abide by any reasonable restrictions that they may consider necessary to impose with regard to the use of our aeroplanes and we are even willing to bind ourselves not to use the aeroplanes except when a soldier detailed by the Military posted at Qadian accompanies the plane. 3. Another allegation made against the Ahmadiyya Community of Qadian is that during the recent disturbances one of the neighbouring village signalled (the recent version states that it “wirelessed” and so the story continues to grow and swell) to the minaret at Qadian that “more ammunition was required”. This allegation was first disclosed by Brigadier Thimaya who visited Qadian towards the end of the last month and we tried to convince him that no such signalling was ever done. The fact is only this much that one of the threatened Ahmadi villages which could not send a messenger owing to the great danger on the way once signalled by means of a torch stating that the village was in imminent danger and that any help (in the form of Military etc. ) that could be arranged should be immediately sent to save Ahmadi lives; and we actually persuaded the local Military to send out a patrol to the village which was thus saved by this