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... do not exactly understand this phrase. Does Mr. Garth mean that it is the Mahomedans who are being plundered, their men wounded and injured, their women outraged, while the officials give their assailants a free hand and are busy repressing any attempt at self-defence? That would be the opposite of what the Bengali papers represent. But Mr. Garth then assures the world—which ought by this time... time to be quite dumb with awe—that he, Mr. Garth, is quite satisfied of the absolute falsity of the charges against the local officials. He does not pretend—this easily-satisfied Mr. Garth—that there is a single fact or the smallest fragment of evidence to disprove these charges which the officials impugned have Page 392 not tried and the Anglo-Indian journals have not been able to disprove... disprove. No, the inner consciousness, the subliminal self of Mr. Garth has assured the outer barrister in him of the innocence of Messrs. Clarke, Loghman and Co., and they are acquitted. Mr. Garth is equally cocksure that the Mahomedans did not begin any of the recent riots; no, it was the Hindus who went and compelled them to riot and plunder and worse, so anxious were the people of Jamalpur and Dewangunj ...