BENGAL ASSASSINATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1650, 17 January 1913, Page 5

BENGAL ASSASSINATION.

. POLITICAL SUSPECT DONE TO ':'.'• '."'. '-DEATH. , By Telegraph-Prosu ABSoolation-Oopyrlghl .'■ (Rec. January 16/10.35 p.m.) , ."■ .'•■';. Calcutta, January 16. Two unknown men have assassinated Mr. Debendra (P Arabindo) Ghose, the well-known political 6uspect, in Eastern Bengal.' The police recently, 'arrested thirteen'persons on charges of .preparing a political daooity, and it is believed that Ghoso's companions thought that he gave the information to the police.

The Ghose family have Jong been prominent in the unrest in India. Mr. Arabindp Ghose is one of the most remarkable'figures that the movement has produced. ''Tho Times" 6aid of him a few years ago; "Educated in England, and so -thoroughly-that when he returned.to India: he,found it difficult to express himself in Bongali, ho is not only a highcasto Hindu, but he is one of those Hindu mystics who believe that: by tho practice of,the;most extreme forms of Tonga aseeticism .man can transform:himself into a:super-man, and he has.constituted himself the high priest of a religious revival which has taken a profound hold on tho imagination of the emotional youth of Bengal, His ethical, gospel is' not devoid of grandeur. . , . For him British rulo and the Western civilisation for which it stands threaten the very life of Hinduism, and . therefore British rule and all that it stands for must go, and in order that tJieyjnay. go every .Hindu 1 must be up and doing. '.That Mr*- Arabindo Ghose himself holds violence arid-murder to.be justifiable forms of activity for achieving that purpose cannot ba properly alleged, for though ho has : several times: been placed on, his trial and,in one-instanco for actual complicity in political crimenamely, in the Maniktplla bomb' the law has so far acquitted him. But that his followers, have based upon his teaohing a propaganda by : deed'of tho most desperate character is beyond dispute. .It has been openly expounded with fanatical fervour and pitiless logic in a newspaper edited by his brother, Barindra Ghose, of which the flic constitutes one of tho most valuable and curious of human documents." -