INDIA'S REDOUBLED EFFORT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 191, 2 May 1918, Page 5

INDIA'S REDOUBLED EFFORT

OPENING OF WAR CONFERENCE (Rec. May 1, 10.30 p.m.) Simla, April 80. Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy .of India, speaking at the opening <;f the conference—representative of all the official department?, provincial government?, and ruling chiel'6-to discuss the British Prime Minister's recent appeal to India, to redouble lier war efforts, reviewed at length the position.of tho war and ita effect on tho East. ITo said that Germany had long cast her eyes Eastward, and. concentrated her diplomacy on its moral and political capture. She-hoped that the Indian Moslems' allegiance to Britain would bo shaken, and that she would secure (in unmolested path to the Persian Gulf. Tbo Russian revolution had opened the door for Germany through' Southern . Russia, to Eastern. Persia and Afghanistan. India, must guard this opening. Lord Chelmsford urged tbo need, of assisting the Amir of Afghanistan to maintain that neutrality .'lnch so far ho had unswervingly maintained. He eloquently appealed to the-conference to provo that India was not one whit behind any other part of tho Empire in her determination to win tho war.The conference appointed committees to report on the question of India's man power mid resources.—A.us.-N.Z. Cabla Assn.