MISCHIEF-MAKERS IN INDIA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2626, 23 November 1915, Page 5

MISCHIEF-MAKERS IN INDIA

[ -mm intriguers foiled NUMBER OP CONSPIRATORS SHOT Br Telegraph—Press Asaociatlon-Coiiyrlaliv London, November 21. In the House of Commons Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Secretary of State for India), in reply to a question, said that iu Northern India, where attempts had been mads by a member of an antiBritish association, with headquarters iu the United States,. to disturb the peace, tamper with troops, and upset the Government, the active loyalty of the people had been shown by their resistance. They had voluntarily offered their aid. The general conditions were substantially satisfactory. Differences had arisen in movements outside lijdirt. and the efforts of A small group ot extremists did not reflect the sentiment of the mass of tlio people. The Government had the situation well in hand. HEAD CENTRE OF INTRIGUE, Washington, November 21. Indian, advices refer to tlio execution of tweuty-four Hindus, twenty-seven others getting life sentences, this is only one of many similar affairs. ,Tha charges were based on anarchy, mutiny, and insubordination. The native Press has condemifcd tlie activities of disaffected elements, which, in some quar. tere, aro attributed to Gorman machinations.

The general tendoncyis to credit tha agitation work to conspirators located on tho Pacific Slope of America, who for years had been engaged on secret propaganda. Conspirators were dispatched as emissaries to India to stir, gp antagonism to British rule in tho Punjaub and Bengal. From Juno to September seventeen Indian cavalrymen had been sentenced to death for mutiny, making bombs, and cutt'ijig telegraph lines. Altogether seventy-one had jeceittid sentouccs of imprisonment.