Shaukat Ali, the Indian Moslem leader at the Indian Round Table Conference here, who has been reported to be the leading figure in the movement to proclaim the Turkish ex-Sultan Abdel-Mejid as Caliph with his seat in Jerusalem, is to-day stated to have repudiated the movement so far as the Indian Moslems are concerned, and characterised the whole suggestion as “absurd”.
Shaukat Ali’s repudiation of the movement is attributed to the hostility which it has aroused in leading Moslem circles. The Turkish Ambassador in London is stated to have made representations against any restoration of the ex-Caliph, after the Turkish people had deposed him, and the non-Moslem Indian delegates to the Round Table Conference are said to resent the Mosleme turning to Pa-Islamic union. At the end of September the matter was already causing sufficient uneasiness for the Aga Khan to deny in his broadcast that the Indian Moslems were loyal to any organisation but the Indian Government.
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