INDIAN LOYALTY

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 111, 13 January 1915, Page 5

INDIAN LOYALTY

(Rec. 9.15 a.m.) Press Association —Copyright. DELHI, Jan. 12. Lord Hardinge, in a speech in the Legislative Council, said Enver Pasha was under German compulsion. He betrayed Islams’ interests, and abdicates the sovereignty of Turkey, placing it in the hands of the Germans. When the character of the motives for the war were known, any religious sympathy of Indian Moslems might bear would be swept aside by a feeling of unanswering loyalty to the Empire. A towering wave of patriotism would sweep over India from shore to shore. This was one of Germany's miscalculations. India has despatched or is despatching two hundred thousand men overseas while maintaining enough troops on the frontier to meet any emergency. That India was able to do this was a supreme mark of his absolute confidence in the troops and the loyalty of the people—a confidence that was daily being mere justified. He appealed to the Council not to discuss any controversial question at a time "hen all minds were fixed on the projection of the Empire only. The 'eelins' most prominent was the necessity for united action to conquer a •emmon enemy.