The Newtown bee., 1907-08-02
w. l.. Porter, A FORMER TEACHER IN
 UPSON SEMINARY,
 NEW PRESTON, Now A Missionary In India, WRITES OF DANGEROUS UPRIS-
 ING AMONG NATIVES. Missionary Comnound Attacked
Now A Missionary In India,
Missionary Compound Attacked.

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 The following letter from w. L. Por
 ter, now in India, will be read with in
 terest He was formerly teacher il
 Rev Henry Upton's school for boys a
 New Preston, graduated from Yale
 and went to India a missionary
 teacher He married a New Haver l girl Prof Porter writes:
 American Mission, Rawal Pindi, India
 May 2, 1907.
 As the message cabled last week from this place to the Board has nc doubt caused considerable uneasiness, especially to those who have friends in this city, an account of the disturb ance and it's causes will be welcome news.
 India is in great deal of unrest through political agitation. This has grown up steadily during the past few years, largely influenced by the effect | of Japan's victory This gave the h. dians hope to believe that they could do something. A speech by Lord Curzon, | in which he spoke of the prevailing | fault of the Indians -untruthfulness- s- l gave impetus CO CIlc dIlIl-IOI OlSI AiOES- ment by the indignation it aroused The partition of Bengal province l aroused the Bengalis to fierce and heated protests, which proving unavail- l ing, boycott of English-made goods I was inaugurated, and spread through out India under the name of Swades- han. The native papers published more and more bitter articles about all man ner of real and supposed wrongs Last l year on Empire day even the school | boys were so embitterea that they re fused to salute the flag. Some months ago leading native paper in Lahore published deliberate-lie calculated to stir up the Mohammedans, as the arti- cle stated that a native Mohammed, | an orderly, had been killed by his Euro pean officer for the refusal to carry | home a wild boar which the officer had shot. The Government prosecuted the editor and the owner, proving the state ment lie, and sentencing those re- sponsible to a heavy fine and six months each in prison. A riot took place in Lahore on the day of the decision and | Europeans were assaulted. All the Pun | jab was terribly angered at the de- cision and Hindus, especially Aryas, everywhere held big meetings of very seditious nature, that endeavored to spread disaffection among the farmers. | This was not very difficult as the re cent settlement raised the taxes a great deal-those in Rawa1 Pindi dis | trict being raised from 25 per cent to 40 per cent of the crops produced. Fiji nally the leaders tried to stir the | farmers to refuse to pay their taxes. l The Deputy Commissioner at once served summons on the presiding law yers to answer for their conduct. The hearing was set for last Thursday. At l the hour appointed, thousands of na- l tives went to the court of the Deputy Commissioner. Acting under orders | that official postponed the hearing. The people shouted @'Bande Mataram" " the national cry-"Long Live the Motherland". Then apparently under i the instigation of leaders who had a plan, they rushed in body to the house of the D.-C., where they hurled stones, breaking windows, flower pots, etc. Then they attacked the houses of the District Judge, where they did sim liar damage. Hurrying on they came to the house occupied by the men of the Rawal Pindi-Murree. Motor Car Company. They badly damaged the motor cars, burned up some clothing, 1 etc. Then they attacked the house oc- cupied by Prof and Mrs w. E. Nicoll and Prof and Mrs w. L. Porter. They had no warning until the attack be- gan. Prof Porter rushed into his draw ing room and drove out about 12 men who were engaged in smashing pie lures, book cases, chairs, and the piano, but he was set upon by a man with a club and was forced to retire. Tax ing his baby and Mrs Porter and Mrs Nicoll, he started across the com pound for the house of Rev J. H. Nor ton. Part of the mob followed, pelting them with stones, MT and Mrs Porter being struck but not injured. Mir Nj | coll was in Murree with his little son, William, at the time. The native 'tAyah" (nurse) caught up little LOT inner Nicoll and ran to the servant s houses with him and he escaped. The college boys from the boarding house ran out and tried to persuade the riot CTS to desist, and by the help of some Mission school boys kept them from at tacking the college and boarding house. However, the crowd stoned MT Morton's house, breaking many win dows and screens, and also smashed the doors windows and screens of the rooms occupied by Messrs Stewart and
 Barnes. Leaving the compound, they
 next went to the Mission church where | ,1@or D4 benches in heap and set fire to then in the church, broke up the organ and
 pulpit, and smashed the windows badly . The school boys persuaded them tt leave the Mission school alone. The Y
 M. c. A. reading room in the bazaar
 was broken into and was rapidly turn