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Letters, Correspondence, and Articles 61 would have come to grief. Even if it had landed safely it would have been attacked by gunfire and destroyed by the Jatha, before it had had time to fly. ( c ) It has been said that this plane carried and used a wireless transmitter to communicate with villages in the area. Wireless messages need trained operators and receivers and receivers need batteries. The villages alleged to have been communicated to, have been destroyed and are now in occupation by Sikhs. Where went the operators and where were any receivers or batteries found ? ( d ) It was said that Ahmadies attacked a nearby village called Mahara and killed four Sikhs and that curfew was on that account imposed on Qadian. The report was quite false. There is no village near Qadian called Mahara or Mahura. There is indeed a village called Khara. This is a Muslim village and was attacked by Sikhs. In the fight which ensued four Sikhs were reported to have been killed. So curfew was imposed on Qadian only because a Muslim village nearby had exercised its right of self-defence. Could not the Central Government have asked the local officials to point out the village Mahara and why is this Mahara or Mahura not mentioned in Government revenue records or any official map or list ? This would have exposed the local reporter at once. ( e ) In an official communique it was also said that sixteen Ah- madies in military uniform and driving a weapon carrier attacked a Sikh village. The facts are that 16 Hindu soldiers stationed at Qadian were out on patrol. They were attacked by Sikhs and over- whelmed. More military from Qadian went to save them. Next day again the Military went to the attacking village to punish the villagers. The direction in which this Military went was the same as the one mentioned in the official communique. They were also same in number. The fact can be ascertained by a reference to the official daily report which the local Military are ordered to send