UNREST IN INDIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 22 December 1913, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA.

A SERIOUS SITUATION

GLOOMY FOREBODINGS.

A Mt OABLI—PREBB ASSOCIAttOH-tiOPYIiaHX.

(Received Dec. 22, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 21. The Times, in a special article on India, says with the. accelerating of "progress of all kinds hostility to British rale has simultaneously developed with «yen greater rapidity. The propaganda Assumes many forms, both obvious and <shrouded in secret societies. After-in-ferring to the attempts on the lisas <rf two Viceroys and other .crimes, jt -adds? There are districts, wher© British. law. •does not now run, •wjiei-e^ieenrity to life and property, can.no .longer be~ guaranteed. The undermining -of. authority Jomb been rapidly proceeding, *nd teeming millions uneducated are taught to hate the handful of British official residents. The change is due "to-the intervention between Government and the masses .of a small but steadily growing disaffected minority. "Western education has many valuable Indian officials, but has also led to the production yearly of an increasing class devoted to spreading broadcast the seeds of, disaffection. The Times, in a leader, further says that it cannot be too strongly emphasised that there are influences at work which may. -at any time produce ahost startling results in a land, which, as specially liable to waves of excitetnent, which spread like wild fire,— •Sydney Sun special.