The Dominion. THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1914. CRIME IN INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1964, 22 January 1914, Page 4

The Dominion. THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1914. CRIME IN INDIA.

The'unrest in India is becoming so serious that it is imperative that the Government should ~-• takepsevere. measures to prevent crimes-of7yiov leiice and the preaching o£ ; 'sedition.'; Towards the end of the year -1912 a; sensation was-caused throughout the Empire by an attcmptjto assassin-, ate the Viceroy- (Lord ' Hardinge);;.. and this, combined with other rages directed against ;persons.;,,.in.: authority, has given rise-to sidcrable amount \of which has been increased by the.-fact' that the police have found -it..extremely difficult to bring'the; perpe-.i trators to justice, ■Attention isoneej. again drawn to the actiyities.'of.rtliisj seditious clement in liidia,-.jby£the; murder of a police.inspector'rJiri'Vth'e; streets of Calcutta';- The; fact'Hliatthe inspector hadpart in political ca'rasTiu'dica teethe'; existence of .' an .'organised Tplanfe-ofj attack on I he police believe- that;. tar crimes 'hare';beei):;p!aniipd-i;and'; there are said ■ conspiracy iiu■.■N(u;i)ip , vjiiViCialeiiita i : i f This latest ontbvfNtkj-.oCeririicVtakejnil in conneelionwiihSroecnt'ftliappcuji ings in districts, shows that, : ' ? iiiile!sjoff('cti\;,if measures with lawlessness'of -,this-:Clmi'actei'^?;i ? position may" n'rise.f which*.wi the authorities-a bio and aiixiety.-fj.jLehieiicjgimftucliJ cases is regardc^l : nc=s, and on!y;,cncoi!nigcs¥thi;.; ; that impunity. ■':!to:^^:i^f^ ;^^s^A It has bceo*fßt'rpn'sl,v^ i i; i c6ii.tc.ndt!t?,i that thelargo Hu;asurOfVfEsponsibic'£for'f'?tiiCj-

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:' : There.:-is%nrgenfc':,nc'ccU'fpr a.'.nio.re resolute ...spirit in the Government of India,.and 'the^announccment ;,■ that LoRDi>IuTCHENER.,wiII'.; be Viceroys hastglvcri' gcneralrsatisfac-, tion) "■ LoßD ! ;;KrrciiEJiEft understands' the Eastern];inind vand .... knows ;-'thc: rpeoplevpf could ; be"relied. upon"; to,;supprcss;;s.la\ylossnJ2ss;..' with an';;:unflinclnngthand ;. ! {but j'hc S'alsp' posscsscs.'ajiigli,sqns.e'.pf : jirstioe l i , com-. bined with:titct';ancl~sympathy,''>hich'': is bound.to"win ; 'thflJsrespect'andcouT ;i jeets".;.: 'He,'lias;.ali , eady.,i'(ipr!e.s'plendid work-in ■hearts.:-of'"the^Egyptians'?because-is'*;.' striving; : ;A : tO;j;Jimprove&|ttlieir .10t...;.? But, yfff" impbrtaint.jy asfJjShis .work ptjfchasv jii.bcen;s'?«,, fanimorc, rcsponfiible;sphercyfprc;t.he: exereiso';of ;il hi sjs great ruler and statesman', awaits diim ■ in A v jis'r needed, ■■ati the'?prcse;nt:/juncture;land. iS it; is the general, opinion throughout'the jvmpire that' Lord 'Kitchener : is'; just .the■ nian-.that'-is-fwanted, ivantl.'that ■ hev-wi.lliheibiibfof, ; --.the/greatest' of;thc' : .dis^ngliisllcd' ; ;Empire-buildersg:who , have held .jhc" position of'.Viccr.oy.-.of