ABSTRACT
The Muslims were putting out some conciliatory propaganda about their attitude toward the Sikhs in their midst, but their intention was that of a sportsman who is careful not to disturb the birds he means to shoot. He believed the Muslims would try to make the Sikhs of West Punjab feel secure and then set about them in earnest. The staff of the Punjab Criminal Investigation Department had intercepted some letters written by Sikh leaders, had seized circulars sent to gurudwaras and sent a report with these documents as evidence to Governor Jenkins. Non-Muslim engineers and doctors had all left. Moreover convoys of Muslim refugees were entering the province every day. The Muslim League could not intervene officially in the Punjab before August 15. But Muslim police officers in the province who were aware of these conspiracies made arrangements on their own that the attack from Nankana Sahib and the destruction of the headworks could not take place.
