INDIAN SEDITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9086, 11 May 1908, Page 5

INDIAN SEDITION.

CABLE NEWS.

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PLOT" 'AGAINST THE VICEROY AND LORD KITCHENER. THOROUGHLY ORGANISED SCHEME. Received May "10, 4.2 p.m. LONPON, May 9. The "Daily Mail" reports that the conspiracy to murder the Earl of Minto, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, and Lord Kitchener, and to raise a rebellion has as its instigators Maharatta and Brahmins, whose headquarters are at Poona. The Allahabad correspondent of the "Telegraph" states that the police have discovered a quantity of literature showing that the scheme hud been thoroughly organised. The headquarters a,re described as a college With divisions mapped throughout India. It was intended that each of the divisions should send to this college two men to be instructed in *he manufacture of bombs and general revolutionary, measures.

Thirty natives arrested at Calcutta on May 4th admitted that attempts Were to b« made on the lives of the Viceroy (Earl Minto), Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, while the assassination of other firm and energetic officials was also under consideration. India has been much l disturbed and troubled for some timej'artd particularly since the partition of Bengal in September, 1905. In 1906 and 1907, three distinct movements were in progress:--(!) The Swadeshi movement, which nominally sought tp encourage Indian manufacturers by forbidding the,me of. British imported, goods, but which was really aimed at the Mohammedan merchants; v (2) the Swaraj movement, which demanded Home Rule; and (3) the National Volunteer movement, which consisted nil?, the brganisation and training of,semi-military ; bodies of Babus and Hindus.; Last year and this the native Press have published articles of: extraordinary violence directed aga.in.Bt British rule, and leaflets were circulated among the soldiers ot' the v native army, with the object of '"''sVducihg them from thtir allegiance. Many";-.assaults upon Europeans were committed as the result of the inflammatory articles in the" vernacular Press, and several papers were■"'s'u'ppressedj while several editors were imprisonec 1 . * Mr (now.yiscount) Morley made a firm stand ■'■ against the agitators, and speaking in the House of Commons, said that "Anarchy and bloody chaos would fojlow England's withdrawal from Ihilia." '