INDIAN ANARCHY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9118, 18 June 1908, Page 3

INDIAN ANARCHY.

ITS WIDESPREAD CHARACTER

The discovery of bomb factories in 'Calcutta is probably causing a great • deal more anxiety to the Government of India than the rising on the frontier (writes "An Indian Expert" in the London "Daily Mail')'. Refractory tribesmen can ba hammered into • obedience, but if the malcontents in Bengal propose to adopt a policy of isolated assassinations it will be extremely difficult to deal with them. Th' 3 revelations concerning the widespread conspiracy have come as . no surprise to those who have closely followed native political movements. Its operations are not even confined to India. The existence of a centre in Paris where young Hindus hatch plots ■against British rule in India has long oeen known *o the authorities. There is more than one such centre in London also, and an Indian newspaper is printed every week in this country which for virulent attacks upon CJreat Britain is hardly equalled by '""* ally journal in Bengal. Tuis newspaper, the "Indian SocioUj%«t," is sent out to India in convfrarahle quantities, and it is widely qjoted by the native journals. It is printed in English, but receives much attention from vernacular journals. It would be a mistake to suppose that incitements to violence and subtle conspiracies to undermine British rule are limited to Bengal. The Bengals ara the noisiest of agitators, but are not regarded as the nust dangerous. The fact that they have been daring enough to manufacture bombs is, indeed, rather a surprise. It is to the Punjab and to Bombay that we are more accustomed tt look for enemies of our administration who' are prepared to translate their words into deeds. The Bombay Presidency is the real danger-spot in India, despite its surface quietude. It is the home of the Mahrattas, the last race which actually held great power. The Mahratta Brahmins are notorious, even among Brahmins, for their capacity for guile and hatred. The city of Poona, • where they chiefly reside, is known to be the source of much of the mischievous propaganda now circulating in India. The Bengal agitators received their first impetus towards violent measures from Poona. The Poona Brahmins do not figure prominently in the agitation, with the solitary exception of the redoubtable Mr ' Bi\ Gangadhar Tilak, who brotte up th« congress at Surat; but they pull many of the strings. The Mahrattas, as a race, are aLill full of virility. The blood of warriors flows in their veins. Nothing reveals more vividly the widespread chai'acter of the unrest than the recent disturbances at Tuti«orin, the southernmost point of India. That the Madras Presidency would give trouble was never even suspected. It wa<* considered a sort of backwater, whose placid surface was never ruffled. Now the Madrasi is l'eady to riot with the best on very small provocation. The truth is that unrest has become 'so general in India that it has more <or less permeated all districts and all classes except Rajputana and the -■■ .Rajputs. The fact that the conspirators in Calcutta were able to collect such , •large quantities of high explosives hdi occasioned much comment. It, i? not really difficult, however, to; v smuggle either anas or .into the country. Such a vast extent ) >of coastline cannot be easily protected, and the probability is that modern iat*;r»3 are far more numerous in India •than is popularly supposed. Many young Indians ate known to Jiave gane abroad ia the last year or t\jd> to study the manufacture of iarvSs. Most of the n we it to Japan. L'dtie more than a year ago an extraordinary organisation for sending young Indians to Japan to learn the use of arms and the way to make them was discovered and dispersed. 'Xhe young men, sometimes of good family, were induced to commit dacolties, and the organisation turn«d the proceeds of their thefts into .cash. When a youth had stolen •enough for his maintenance he wds sent to Japan. The secret service uf the Indian is extremely efficient, ■»s Mr Kipling showed in "Kim," jandit was.through the exertions of rits agents that this in f rioas organisation was broken up.

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