THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1907. THE UNREST IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8484, 11 July 1907, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1907. THE UNREST IN INDIA.

A writer in The London Times, who has worked 'for many years in the Punjaub, at'icl claims to know every grade of native life, takes a gloomy view of the unrest in India. The present troubles will pass, but beyond that he will not prophesy. The English must realise, he says, that the spirit of the Mutiny is not dead, and that a very large proportion of the educated classes hate them. Their hatred differs only in degree from the blood thirst of the Mutiny. This feeling is often personal. Educated Indians generally live in daily contact with Englishmen, and there can be few of them who have never been insulted, or imagined themselves to J be insulted, by members of the dominant race. "The English private soldier has almost as bad a reputation as he could have," states the writer, "and a reputation very much worse than he deserves. He can hardly speak to any man, or go anywhere, without his motives and his manners being suspected and resented." The whole English race, not merely English adiminstration, is attacked by the agitators. The writer says it must be borne in mind that the Oriiental mind is free from the trammels of logic. We find qualified native doc- j tors enforcing sanitary measures to ! which their own families are entire strangers., and astronomers who can predict eclipses, and who yet believe that eclipses are caused by a dragon swallowing the sun. Similarly, the agitator does not think that a policy of <&! rage against the English race is inconsistent with a desire that the arm of England should remain to protect him. The ultimate 'goal is to be an Indian Government

ruled by Indians, with an English array to protect them from invasion, and to ktep down the fierce warlike tribes who would sweep the whole of India were the strong arm of the British Government once lifted. The clock has been put back, according to this authority, and India has returned to about where it was after the Mutiny.