UNREST IN INDIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15954, 23 December 1913, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA

HOSTILITY TO BRITAIN. A, SERIOUS PROBLEM. (Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables.) PraM Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 21. The Times, in the course of a special article on India, says that, simultaneously with accelerating progress of all kinds, hostility to British rule has developed with even greater rapidity. The propaganda assumes many forms. It i 3 both obvious and shrouded by secret societies. After referring to the attempts on the lives of two Viceroys and other crimes, the paper adds that there are districts where British law does not now run, where security of life and property can no longer be guaranteed, and the undermining of British authority is rapidly proceeding. The teeming millions of uneducated natives have been taught to hate the handful oE British officials and residents. The change, says The Times, :s due to the intervention between the Government and the masses of a small but steadily-growing disaffected minority. Western education has produced many valuable Indian officials, but it has also led to the production of a yearly increasing class who are devoted to the spreading broadcast of the seeds of disaffection.