NO DISLOYALTY IN INDIA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2838, 1 August 1916, Page 6

NO DISLOYALTY IN INDIA

. _4 — , . A member op council on • GERMAN PROPAGANDA. Sirdar Baljit Singh,. a member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India, recently spoke to the London correspondent of the "New York Sun" on the situation in India. He is a consin of the Maharajah of Kapurthala, and his father was the younger brother of the ruler of that State a± the time of the Indian Mutiny, and led a. large army of Sikhs to aid the British. His father was also the first man to spread an education among his countrymen, and started a college'ut Amritzar.'. Ho himself has followed his 'father's example in this respect. • ' The Sirdar began by saying that 98 per cent, of tho population of India is wholeheartedly loy'al. "The various stories of tho imminence of revolution are spread throughout America," he said, ' are undoubtedly of German origin. iV number of returned Sikhs who had been duped in the United States weio astonished when they landed to find that India was still in British hands. The stories of drastic measures are unfounded. In 1915, throughout the whole of India, the number, executed for political crimes was 16, or one in 7,000,000, and 42 wero transported. Of some 6000 returned emigrants from America the total number interned on suspicion of connection with tho conspiracy was 292. Of these, 39 w.ere dealt with judicially; 117 who appear to'have returned to their senses and wanted to settle down have been released; while 1M are still interned. Even Daeoity has decreased during the .war." ;