DANGER IN INDIA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 79, 3 April 1911, Page 4

DANGER IN INDIA.

The spread at motationary crane in India Sa u§ extremely ominous f«t that not even the moat optimietie advocate of (British supremacy tier*, can r*?«d to overtook. It doe* no, good to insist that 4ke people of India are far better .off, uflder, «vi ruje tbufcn. they wquJ4 '\& if left *o themeelves. The, point ii that ppfex tlje. old dais, of rapine and servitude rather than; the weU-pEderedj juat, and peaceful system of government-that we have iatrotluoeiL ibenefits we have, conferred upon them do not. appeal s,tronsy to them; whU,e, in epite_ pf. their lack of administrative ability or poHtipal genius, thej are as fqr independence end autonomy as the most painjtip race pfthe. world. It ja of couwe open to England to reply that it would be bad <oir the people of India to. attempt to govern themselves, and that they shall nbt get the i&ance. &iit whVa w « say" 4his we, must n6tj shut out «yee to the iwft that' *ye cannot persuade them to eobmit simply by repressing them, and that Orient*!* are, as a rifle,' prepared to go to almost any conceivable length" tf> «?#"*' their e,nds. \Sft do np,t suppose that the people of India, ' irrespective of" race and creed, are ye* bound together in one great conspiracy to subvert the British Raj and drive the white mi^ v |he'ies. r Ifut' the "British authorities cerfcewiy , cannot affprd "to laugh at the leaflet which, according to our cable message, is now being etreuJated tfcroiigiiogt the country uipging the aativee to nee and massacre (he whole white population of India. We must remember that before the terriWe outbreak ot lS5f few people could be Relieve that the eepoys trained under British officers feqd Wind by the strongest personal ties to the white men would evejr tufn against them. She records 'of *h> Chre»t SipUtiny should be to Englishmen for all tkne a twarning of the folly of trusting to a superficial knowledge of iramari 'nature in the Bast, or aesuiping that anything in the way of treachery and ferocity is impossible to tfcfehtalfc when tU,#r racial orejudioea are once fairly rousea. The Great Mutiny cannot repeat itself in the same rfiape as half a century ago; tot recen* ienpdeitc* certainly gejes to show that dwaffecftkm is widespread through this huge country, 'with its population of three hundred'millions', and that the efforts biiawrto made to piit it down haVe rather aggravated and iotenaifisd it and rendered the preachers of sedition eyenroore dejpej*i6 as 4 eanguJnflrjr tbau tefore-