INDIAN LOYALTY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2326, 7 December 1914, Page 5

INDIAN LOYALTY

NO RESPONSE TO TURKEY'S CALL (Rec. Decomber 6, 'i p.m.) Delhi, Decomber 5. All the great Native States have now expressed their regrets to the Viceroy that Turkey has joined Germany in fighting England, under whose benign Mile the Moslems enjoyed perfect religious freedom, AH wia tiillfiß Ffliieen K tgki) flis kflfsneat iat«esW

in the war. They have now subscribed about £19,000 to the Prince of Wales Fund, approximately £800,000 to the oxpenses 'of the war, including £400,000 from the Nizam of Hyderabad and £333,000 from the Maharajah of Mysore. A further sum of nearly £30,000 has been given by the chiefs to provide motor-cycles, binoculars, and telesoopes, and 245,000 of these have been given the Maharajah of Soindia and Gwalior, who also presented' motor ambulanceß consisting of forty-one cars for the use of the troops in Europe, and are arranging the establishment of a convalescent homo in East Africa. Besides these gifts many chiefs -presented large numbers of horses, inules, and camels, and even private motorcars. The hospital ship Loyalty, which left Bombay recently, splendidly equipped, was another of their donations.