INDIA'S LOYALTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 278, 22 November 1915, Page 5

INDIA'S LOYALTY.

ATTEMPTS TO DISTURB IT BY A SMALL SECTION OF EXTREMISTS. SITUATION WELL IN HAND. CONSPIRACY ON PACIFIC SLOPE (Received 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. In the House of Commons Mr Austen Chamberlain, in reply to a question, saiu that in Northern India, where attempts had been made by a member of an anciBritieh association, with headquarters in the United States, to disturb the peace, tamper with the troops and upset the Government, the active loyalty of the people had been shown by their resistance and voluntarily offered aid. Tlie general conditions were substantially satisfactory. Differences had arisen in movements outside India, but the etforte of a small group of extremists did not reilect the sentiment of the mass of the people. The Government had the tsicuation well in hand. Washington messages state that Indian advices regard the execution of 24 Hindus, 27 othera getting >.life sentences. This was only une of niany similar affairs. The charges were based on anarchy, mutiny and Insubordination. The native Press condemned the activities of the disaffected elements, which were in some quarters attributed to German machina- j tions.* The general tendency is to credit the agitation as the work of conspirators located on the Pacific slope of America, who have for years been . engaged in secret propaganda. The conspirators d-35 1 patched emissaries to India to stir up antagonism-to British rule. In the Punjaub and Bengal, from June to September, 17 Indian cavalrymen were sentenced to death for mutiny, making bombs and cutting telegraph Unas. Altogether 71 received sentences of imprisonment.