INDIAN ASSASSINS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 190, 6 May 1908, Page 7

INDIAN ASSASSINS.

« INCITING LITERATURE. PLOT TO KILL LORD KITCHENER. THE BOMB FACTORY. ' BY TELEGRAPH —FRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIRIOET. Calcutta, May 4. . One of the Muzaffarpur assassins—who ■ killed three persons by means of a bomb— declarod that he was inspired to the act by a study of the vernacular press and the lectures of Bepin Chandra Pal. Tho latter is a notorious sedition-monger. London, May 4. Tho Simla correspondent of " The Times" says that a grave responsibility will rest on Viscount Morley (Secretary of State for India) if he refuses to sanction legislation to suppress the publication in the newspapers of incitements to violence. TIIO Calcutta correspondent of the " Daily Express" states that unconfirmed reports are in circulation that the documents seized in tho bomb factory, which was' discovered in Calcutta, revoal a plot to kill Lord Kitchener and other high officials. A "SACRIFICE OF WHITE GOATS." Last year Bepin Chandra Pal was sentenced ,to six months' imprisonment for contempt of court, tho High Court rejecting an appeal. The daring yet subtle nature of his appeals to the worst passions of the population may, be gauged from the following summary of one of his addresses, taken from' tho Columnsof tho'"Spectator":— ' "Mr; Pal went on to recommend the formation in every town and village of organisations for the performance pf the Eakshi Kali poojah every Amabashya night. 'With drums, torches, music,, and fireworks, vast congregations should assemble and sacrifice a hundred and one white living goats.' Such meetings' would not. be prohibited by the Government, and would have a grand meaning and do wonders. Then follows a passage of "sinister significance. 'As they all knew, at one time chupatis had dono wonders.' Our readers ivill remember that tho circulation of chupatis, or small cakes, from village to village, was the precursor ,of the mutiny." The "Spectator" goes on to comment:—"lt is .a curious irony of fate that mild gentlemen of pacific Nonconformist opinions should be brought by their sentimentality and ignorance to co-operate with, or at any rate to support, such sinister persons as Mr. .Pal,'with his blood-rites and his- invocations of Kali, the goddess of destruction, on whom men call when the blood-lust is upon them. Sentimentality, peaco at any price, and the dread of ruling . firmly certainly make strange bedfellows. PeoElo' are very apt to talk about tlio brooding last, but- they forget that .what ; the Eastbroods upon are often things that could hot possibly bo inserted in-the-report of a Sunday school or a church magazine." ' ' The Indian vernacular, journal "Yugantar" does not hesitate to advise war:—"Tho longer do the foreign rulers reign in tho. country, the greater will be the destruction of the people; ■ Save" the subjects of the . mother country, and fall to work at once. By war, -heaven is attained: whether you fall or win. Without war lifo will not be saved.". The bomb that killed Mrs. and Miss Kennedy and the coachman at Mazaffarpur was probably intended for Judge ICingsford, who had sentenced some of the Calcutta rioters to flogging. In Englaud a protest against the flogging sentences was , lodged by the Indian ' -'Humanitarian - Committee. A .reply - was 're- : ceived to the effect that "wjiilo expressing'no .'opinion as to the suitability of whipping as a punishment for the kind of offence referred to," Mr. -IJorley: "does not propose to take any exceptional actionwith regard to the sentences passed by tho courts of law in India."