SEDITION PLOT IN INDIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2459, 12 May 1915, Page 5

SEDITION PLOT IN INDIA

CONSPIRATORS ON TRIAL Delhi, May 10. An important prosecution -under the recent Defence of India Act is in progress a,t Lahore, against eighty-two persons, who are alleged to have indulged in seditious conspiracy against the British Government. The conspiracy is said to have been engineered by Indians returning from America, and the / origin of the conspiracy was found 'in a movement on the Pacific Const directed by one Sai Dyal, in the hope that the Administration would liave been weakened by the war. | Emissaries returned to India in considerable numbers and endeavoured to stir up trouble, mainly in the Punjaub and United provinces, where they sought to collect arms and explosives, circulate seditious literature, tamper with the troops, and obtain funds by robberies. A series of dacoities and murders took plnco. Owing to the vigilance of the police and the co-operation of the people, seizures of bombs were made and plans detected, and the ringleaders were arrested. Several of those implicated made full confession of the plot, which failed from the very beginning, the , plotters having failed lo win the synjpjthy of their own people in India. i Though a majority were Sikhs, tlio - Government had every assistance from . 4bo Sikh leaders, who keenly resented i the discreditable, proceedings. Attempt.? ; lujitje ta (WMlitcle His Moltaias / ~ meruit to join in the revolt