CONSPIRACY IN INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 194, 11 May 1908, Page 7

CONSPIRACY IN INDIA.

THOBODOHLY ORGANISED. .. PLOT TO KILL LORDS MINTO AND ' . KITCHENER. MANUFACTURE OF BOMBS. HT TELKCBAPn—PIIESB ASSOCIATION—COPiaIGOT (Rec.'■'May' - 10,'4.18 p.m.) V ' London, May 9. The." Daiiy Mailreports that a conspiracy, to murder Lord Minto (tho .GovernorGeneral of. India) and Lord Kitchencr, and krraisoa rebellion, has been discovered. It ; has as its- instigators Maharatta. brahmins, whoso headquarters at Poona provided the Bengalis' supply of weapons.. The "Tolegraph's" Allahabad correslpondent - states, that the police have discovered a quantity, of literature showing that the scheme, had , been thoroughly organised, and. the headquarters are described as a colloge, .' and . that divisions had ' been mapped out throughout India, it was intended that each division should send to this college twp men,-to be instructed in the' manufacture cf bombs, and jin 'general, revolutionary measures:-' " '; ' . '- .. • .':ThB Mahrattas inhabit a good part of central and'western India, infth6 region known as Maharashtra, and including an area'of 120,000 square miles, with a population of-about; 12 millions. The name embraces .people of, all races living in this 'territory, butVthe Mahrattas are essentially Hindus in religion and caste ordinances. , TheMahratta Brahmins havo' proved themselves in modern times, the most- able and ambitious of all : the in the Indian Empire.'; Nana Sahib, of infamous .memory, who took a leading part in tho war iof the'mutinies, wa3 : a Mahratta. Poona, in the Deocan, has been the, scone of many stirring - events in Mahratta-history.