INDIAN ANARCHISTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9417, 13 April 1909, Page 6

INDIAN ANARCHISTS.

HEAD CENTRE IN LONDON. London, February 19. A grave Indian danger has arisen in London in a rapidly growing colony of young Indian Anarchists, who are financed and led by agitators in Paris. About 600 Indians of -the student type are now settled in London, and many of them are known to be extremists, who are openly working to undermine British prestige in India. The attention of the Government and the police has been called to recent attempts .to glorify political murder and to provoke sedition. An alarming tendency on the part of a few members of the colony to follow up words by acts has led the special branch of Scotland Yard to take precautions. ; High Indian officials in London have been guarded at their- own request since the two recent assaults in the West End on Sir William Lee Warner, a venerable member of the India Council. The official organ of the extremists is the “Indian Sociologist,” printed in London and distributed from Paris by the editor, Shyamaji Krlshnavarma, M A., (Oxon). A new London paper called Svaradj (self government) is to be issued in Lon don in a few days. The editor is Shrijit Bipin Chandra Pal, who formerly edited New Indian Calcutta and came to England after imprisonment in India for contempt of Court. Shyamaji Krisbnavarma edits the Indian Sociologist from a flat in the Avenue Ingres. Paris, but he has a London residence—lndia House in Cromwell Avenue, Highgate—where a number of bis Indian friends and pupils live Four scholarships have recently been awarded to fonr “deserving Indians” as a memorial to the Xonr Indian “martyrs” who were banged last year by the British Government for mnrders of two defenceless Englishwomen and a native. Many of these Indian extremists in London are barristers or law students. They meat at each other’s chambers in the Temple, and talk of “the second Indian mutiny. ” Most of them are mild-mannered, spectacled youne men, who confine their sedition to talk, but reports of their meetings are “communicated” to Anarchist papers circulated by stealth in India, and the natives are invited to draw their own conclusions. The moat violent of the extremists may be seen sitting in the law Courts In the Strand, side by side with their loyal countrymen, studying English and customs while plotting against the British. 2^: “Their idea is to fan a flame of discontent among the unlettered natives by misrepresenting England” said an English barrister. “They vilify the English whose hospitality they seek, and the ignorant natives, who believe that their statements are true, are incited to sedition. The publication, of anarchist papers, which are posted free to every Indian institution, should be suppressed in London, as it has been in India, as far as possible.” INTERVIEW WITH A LEADER. Mr Shyamiaji Krisbnavarma, who edits the Indian' Sociologist, __ is regarded as the chief Indian agitator. An elderly gentleman, with a short grey beard and gold-rimmed spectacles. he lives in a pretty flat in the Bois de Boulogne, one of the most expensive quarters of Paris. On the walls of his drawing room are portraits of Gladstone and Herbert Spencer. Indeed, Mr Krishnavarvma gave £IOOO to Oxford to found a Spencer lectureship. “So you were brought up and educated in England?” asked an interviewer. ■ “Yes,’! said Mr Krisbnavarma, “bfit I am England’s archenemy. You'see,” he continued, referring to the Indian “patriots,” “these men were not murderers, but martyrs They did not want to kill those ladies. They killed them by mistake. It was the risk of war. Their object the object of the martyr, was to “suppress” an English bureaucrat who bad sentenced hundreds of Indian partiots for various so-called offences. Why do English people come to * India? They come to exploit and rob the Indians, and if they die it la a risk of war. But they are not murdered ;.they are suppressed. “You see, I feel quite certain that Great (Britain will never give to India the? regime of Canada, Australia, or ,-South Afroa. and I am working for India’s complete Independence. To get it terrorist methods are necessary. But there are un anarchists in India. You must not talk about anarchists. By the way, will yon contradict the calumny that 1 intend to have English people murdered in Paris? Terrorism has its reasons in India,'hut not in a foreign country.”