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THE PILGRIMS MARCH

Maulana Salamatullah has topped the list. Convey congratulations to his relations and the members of Faranghi Mahal family. I hope they will feel as happy as I do. I am painfully feeling my absence at this juncture, but God destined so. Tell my brothers to rely on God and to strictly adhere to the creed of Non-violence. I am Starting at the earliest opporttunity.

MR. ASAF ALI'S MESSAGE.

DELHI, Dec. 13.

Mr. Asaf Ali, who was arrested on Monday along with 50 volunteers left the following message:

I am too ill to hope that I shall survive the rigours of jail life; but, I am proud to say that 1 have deliberately sought it for the sake of my conscience and my country. I have the profound satisfaction of feeling that I am, in my own humble way, fulfilling my duty towards the cause of Liberty.

Our bones may lie bleaching in obscure dungeons, built of sand and maintained with our nation's money, but over our unknown graves shall rise the noble edifice of our country's Freedom. We can vanquish the sin of selfishness and the crime of violence by selflessness