Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-06-17
CAMPAIGN OF SEDI7ION
IN INDIA; SENSATIONAL
SUITS IN GERMAN COURTS

London, June 17.--According to re-
liable dispatches from Simla the cup
Of the disaffected section of the native
Press of India is now nearly full.
These journals, having done their ut
most to excite mutiny and bring
British officials into contempt, have
now turned against the King himself.
z he most notable documents in this
latest outbreak are two open letters
printed in the newspaper India" pub
lished at Gujranwala (Purjab). which
address the King Emperor again and
agin in insulting terms. In one place
population of England were armed
and mustered here, three hundred mil
lions of Indians could drive them out
of the country with the aid of sticks
AS the law here now stands, British
protection is extended to men who
make regular living from the pro-
duction of such dangerous poison for
ignorant readers. And the postoffice
organized and paid for by the British
Administration. has no choice to dis
tribute it broadcast. The desire of
succeeding British Parliaments to
maintain the freedom of the Indian
Press has prevented the Government
of India from dealing effectually with
this always grave evil, which has now
become intolerable.
TIE European Defense Association of
Calcutta, representing the nen-official
white community of the capital, pub
fishes an address to the Government
of India calling it's attention to the
continued boycott of British goods in
Eastern Bengal and the racial friction
which is still being stirred up, and
demanding that Government action be
not deferred to a point where illegal
license becomes more and more diff
cult to repress. This only expresses
the general opinion for Europeans
throughout the country, for, although
outward order has been restored, the
campaign of seoition continues.
June rs will bring the decision in
one of the most sensational suits that
ever engaged the German courts. Re.
Gently the preliminary hearing of the
petition brought by Baron Won Eek
! bardtstein, formerly First Secretary
of the German Embassy in London
for divorce from his wife, Baroness
vor Eckhardtstein, daughter of the
late Sir John Blundell Maple, was
heard before rthe First Civil Court OF
Berlin.
Privy Councillor Kempner for the
petitioner, said that the case was
clear, but was complicated by his
clients Instructions to avoid assailinf
the reputation of the mother of his
child After recounting Baron vor
Eckhardtstein's complaints agains
his wife, counsel declared that variou:
incorrect statements had been made
before the English courts-for in
stance, that the case could not CONS
on for hearing in Germany for nine
months, The petition, he continued
was not based on disobedence on tn,
part of the Baroness, but on the viola
tion of what was due to her own ant
her husbands honor.
pr: y9hinson, for the respondent
declared that he must have been mis-
understood, as he had never mad,
certain statements which were attrih
uted to him in the British court
gounsel denied the charges which
were brought against the responder,
He also claimed that Baron Won Eek
hardtstein had left the diplomati
service and was. therefore, not dom
ciled in Berlin Baron Won Eckhardt
stein affirmed that he was still in tn
dir'17atic serv, md was only O
90.
cr--n until June 2