GERMAN INFLUENCE IN INDIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 2, 6 December 1915, Page 4

GERMAN INFLUENCE IN INDIA.

A very extraordinary account of the folly of some of the British officials in India was given recently'"by■ the London Morning Post. In Bangalore, the capital of the State of Mysore, a newspaper called the Daily PnsH-ed-rt-ed by Miss A. K. Dawson for fifteeen years, commenced last December-to publish articles pointing out the dan- 1 gor of German influence in India. In June last Miss Dawson hhiined the Mysore Government for its indnlerence to public opinion regarding tin?) presence of enemy subjects in the State, and complained, in particular,! that ‘‘from choice or expediency,” the Administration “cannot carry on its Agricultural Department wthont aj German in it, cannot use its much- ' advertised power scheme to light our streets, hut a German must he in, virtual local control, cannot provide schools to a large section of its residents without German aid. antl|to itsChristian population its national tongue cannot express the. text of the code and dogma Kultnr is attempting" to vanquish without a German to translate it.” Th ft Post a resolution in which-the ■ sore Planters’ Association Taljod; for the internment of all alien enemies, especially missionaries, and expressed’ alarm at the number of alien enemies in the employ of the Government. Suddenly the British Resident in M\-i sore withdrew Miss Dawson :s license to edit and publish the Post,- and a new editor was appointed. Ludei the. new control the Post apologised, for j its former pro-British and -antiirGey-j man 'tone. In publishing« these gxtracts the - Christcli-trch: l*-ress ; ■ that the Gentian peril inulfiAia must.j. Jmve been very strong, if? German in-| finance could I'orccCß ri ti sh > o jjl< 11 aJ s tq (behave in tips I