INDIAN SEDITIONISTS IN LONDON.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12259, 6 July 1909, Page 5

INDIAN SEDITIONISTS IN LONDON.

A grave Indian danger has arisen in London in a rapidly growing colony of young Indian Anarchists who are financed and led by agitators in Paris, says the "Daily Express" some months ago. About six hundred Indians of the student type are now settled, in London and many of thorn are known to be extremists who are openly working to undermine1 British prestige in India. Tho attention of the Government and the police has been called to recent attempts to glorify political murder and to provoke sedition. An alarming tendency on the part of a few members of the colony to follow np words by acts has led the spscial branch of.Scotland Yard to take precautions. High Indian officials in London have been guarded at thoir own request since the two rocent assaults in the West End on Sir William Lee Warnrr, a venerable ■member of tho India Cmncil. The official organ of the extremists is the •'lndian Sociologist," printed in London and distributed from Paris by the editor. Shyamiji Krishnavarma, M.A. (Oxon). Sbyanxaji ■ Krishnavarma edits the- "Indian Sociologist" from a flat in tho Avenue Ins;res,- Paris,, but ho has a London residence—lndia House, in 'Cromwell Avoniie. High gats—where a number of his Indian frends and pupls bvb.'", .'•'-.■ V

Four scholarships have recently been awarded, to four "deserving Indians" ns a memorial, to. the .four Indian "martyrs" who were hanged last year by the British Government for the niiirders of two defenceless English women and a native. The gentle Krishnavarnia also proposed to erect a,' memorial in India .House, Highgate, to the four murderers to opmmemrrats iheir 'Vleeds of darini? and self-devotion." Tlios© murderers were executed aft r dua trial for the bomb outrage at Muzafferpur iiV May, last, which ■...'.resulted in the <Ti?atl\",of Mrs aiul Mi^s Kennedy,, and the: niiirder ef the informer Gc^ain in fcb« Alipnr Gaol at the end of August.

, Tliofollowing is part of the appeal published in the "Indian Sociologist" "for funds for the'memorial: "The four, 'young ludiars who have been done t-> ■'flenth. three of them havinjr been hanged, by the British Government for '■attempting: to promote their country's •cstus? by 'braving all nVk*. pre:ent instances of absolute unselfViiiw*? mid thus offer an object-lesson to their fel-low-countrymen. Tli'eir d^e^a, which : tlm ■, onemw -of Ind'a have called : /crime.' must be regarded a* 'patriotism and 'virtue' by «U Indians who roally love ;ther;* roun* ry, ar><J we think thai rome sort of Indian Martyrs' Memorial should be raised out of respect to fheir. memory. ■ J Krij.hnav.irma hns since been disbnrred by the Sngli^h Bar, of which he ,was;-a-menibpr_,aiid the Herbert Spencer ;I<>otur?shin endowment th<vt he gave to ..Oxford has been cancelled.