A DANGEROUS ORGANISATION.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12467, 17 February 1909, Page 3

A DANGEROUS ORGANISATION.

Received Feb. 16, 10.30 p.m. London, Feb. 16. < "The Times' '" Dacca correspondent states, tnati the :new Aotryhas converted the sooieties in Eastern Bengal named the National Volunteers, into secret - societies., - with ramifications far and widely -Y.y . The Dacca branch includes several thousand Brahmins, and high caste Hindus, but no Mahomedans. -The, sociitie? are modelled on the Russian style, having three ciroles, the, inner circle being tbe . really active one, with an agent in every village. At present the societies only commit occasional acts of dacoity to obtain funds, but they are in close touch with tbe anarchist organisation at Calcutta.