Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
INDIAN LEADER
PLANS REVOLT
ASSASSINATION OF BAR0NET
ONLY FIRST STEP
ISHNAVARMA READY TO TAKE
WAR INTO BRITISH CAPITAL
Teacher of Rebellion Declares That
His Main Aids Have Been Given
Him In the British
Isles
BY w. HAMILTON RHODES


LONDON, Aug. 21.-The assassina-
ton of Sir William CurzOn Wyllie by
the Indian student, Dhingra, has
| opened the eyes of all England to the
dangerous condition of affairs exist
ing In the Indian empire. Every eff
! fort is being made to ascertain Wheth-
! er the murderer acted on his oWr initi-
ative or as the agent of Conspirators.
The documents found upon the pris-
oner and in his lodging throw no light
on this problem.
! Apart from native newspapers in
which treason is openly advocated, the
| discriminating documents are in Dhin-
gra's own writing. These letters and
! manifestoes show clearly that the en-
| gineering student had fallen under the
| influence of men not only in India but
| also in Europe who exert every effort
and employ every means to poison the
| minds Of the youth of India.
| Dhingra accepted as his leaders men
| who in Europe profess peaceful agta-
ton and I'm India urge treason, In In
dia these men are the leaders of parties
so small that they would be insignif
cant and incapable of harm were it not
for the support, moral and financial,
| that they receive from some native
princes. The names Of these princes
are known to the government. One of
them not many weeks ago, explaining
his position at a London dinner table,
remarked: Il wonder if ever I shall
return to England after I leave this
time I doubt If the government would
let me-if they knew" The govern
ment officials know. but cannot act
upon their knowledge.
Interest in Arch-Consprator
Englishmen today are more inter-
ested in Shyamaji Krishnavarma than
in almost any other living individual |.
At present he is living in Paris, and
ne will plot revolt and incite to murder,
retail and wholesale, so long as a gov
erning Englishman remains in India.
And Englishmen have helped him to
this end. So far his best friends have
been his hated enemies.
The British permitted him to organ
ize his conspiracy effectively and un-
trammeled, allowed him and his ennis
saries to come and go without question
while they prepared a dose of terror to
be administered on their own door
steps. India is remote, and assassina-
tions there have had but little effect
on the English heart.
"WeI, then" says Krishnavarma,
I'VE will kill them at home. India is
governed from London-we will kill in
London"
Early last December, while interview
ing Krishnavarma at his headquarters
on the outskirts of Paris, distln-
guished French editor was informed OF
the Indians conspiracy to drive the
British from India. Look here" said
the arch-conspirator, as he held up a
small printed sheet little larger than
| theater program, this is What l.
| frightening England"
| The sheet was the Indian Sociologist
a monthly paper printed in English
by an English firm in England, for sew
| eraI years circulating free and untram'
! meled among the Indian students II
London, and until recently widely dis
tributed in India.
self-Exled from England
Eighteen months ago Krishnavarma
having arranged his finances, Volun-
tarily exiled himself fror- England and
every other part of the British en-
pire, and took up his residence in
Paris, where he gathered together his
colleagues In treason. Since that time
he has been active in disseminating his
teachings and in completing the or
ganization which is to terrorize Eng
land.
Krishnavarma was born in the year
of the Indian mutiny and is, conse-
ouently, over 80 years of age. His
complexion is swarthy, he IS man OF
great stature and he dresses like a
Clergyman. His black hair and beard
are we'll streaked with white, and ms
lips are snappy and pertinacious., His
study is burdened with books and pa
pers lying around in apparent grea.
disorder, but a wonderful memory
trained in his youth by Brahmn
priests enables him to place his finger
Immediately on any quotation or manu-
script required.
His early training was along the
ancient Indian lines. Later ne made a
special study of Sanscrit, which he read
and wrote perfectly before he was 80
wears of age. In 1878 he was appointed
assistant professor of Sanscrit at on
ford. and became the first Indian NJ. A.
at that university. The secretary or
state for India sent him to the Oriental
congress at Berlin as othclal delegate
and on returning to India he held OF
flee as prime minister successfully in
three Indian states. This is the man
who today is the implacable enemy
of England. NJ co..
the emancipation of India much soon
err" he said during a recent converse :
tion. "but for one fact. | regarded
Herbert Spencer as my master. II /
had organized openly for the freedom
of India during his life, it would have
been said that his teachings were re-
sponsihle, and much unpleasantness
might have attended his old age IN
consequence. Almost Immediately
after his death ] laid my plans.
KrishnaVarma eagerly turned to a
marked passage in "Ivanhoe," in which
allusion was made to the tyranny eX-
ercised by the Norman Conquerors over
Saxons. He paused for moment, and
his face lit up with the light of the
fanatic prophet as he added-"and the
seed sown will be harvested soon.'
The prophecy has been fulfilled. and
the harvest" has begun. After the
murder of Sir Curzon WYllie, Krish-
navarma declared that it was extremely
unfair that he should be held to be in
any way responsible for this
tragedy. There was he argued, no more
logic in such a proceeding than there
would be i'm holding a newspaper re-
sponsble for a crime committed by a
person who had read therein an ac-
count of similar crime.
Krishnavarma was asked how would
India get on alone if the English left it .?
"Well." he replied, take the case of
a little child. If 1t We're always car
ried it would never learn to walk. Set
it on its feet: 1t may have some falls
and bruises. but II will walk at last.
So it would be with India.
The English have passed through n
troublous training, what with the civil
war. the commonwealth and the reVolu-
tion. and now they are as independent
as they possibly can be. So it was
with the Franch after series of revO-
lutions But the English had this ad-
vanta ge over continental nations, that
they had not known invasion for GEN.
trries and this has left them in peace