UNREST IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9134, 6 July 1908, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright,

AN EDITOR SENTENCED,

CALCUTTA, July 3.

The editor of the newspaper "Hindswarajya," was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for publishing seditious articles.

An Indian expert, writing in the London Daily "Mail," says—The revelations concerning the widespread conspiracy in India 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 been known to the authorities. There is more than one such centre in London also, and an Indian newspaper is printed every week in England, which, for virulent attacks upon Great Britain, is hardly equalled by any journal in Bengal. This newspaper, the 'lndian Sociologist,' is sent out to India in considerable quantities, and is widely quoted in by the native journals. It is printed in English, but receives much attentionirom vernacular journals. The Bombay Presidency is the real danger spot in India, despite its surface quietude. It is the home of the Mahratfas, tne last race which actually held great cower. The Mahratta Brahmins, are notorious, even among Brahmins,,lor their capacity of 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 Bengali agitator.- received their first impetus towards viohnt measuresjrom Poona. The Poona Brahmins do not figure prominently in the agitation. Unrest has become £0 general in India that it has more or less permeated ajl district? 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 has occasioned much comment. It is not really difficult, however, to smuggle either arms or explosives into the country. Such a vast extent of coastline cannot be easily protected, and the probability is that modern arms are far more numerous in India than is p pularly supposed. Many young Indiins are known to have gone abroad in the last year or two to study the manufacture of arms. Most of them went to Japan,. Little more than a year ago an extraordinary o/ganisation for sending young Indians to Japan to learn the use of arms aiu the way to make them was discovered and dispersed. The young men, sometimes of good family, were induced tj commit aacoities, and the organisat.on turned the proceeds ,of their thefu into cash. When a youth had stolen jnough for his maintenance he was sent to Japan.