The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-26
INDIAN MASSACRE,
SECOND TO SEPOY
UPRISING, FEARED

London, June 24.-The British are
facing a crisis in India, the like OF
which is only to be found In the Sepoy
mutiny of 1856. Forty-three natives
nave been arrested at Calcutta charged
with conspiracy to incite a revolt
among the native troops, with the IN,
tent1on OF m~aSsacring the British a.my
oiiscers n their families, as well as
AL other British residents in India.
me wholesale slaughter of British
was scheduled to take place in the fan
OF this Year. Among those arrested are;
jewelers., merchants and some of the
Bengai nobility. Their arrest at Bar
1sal and at Calcutta was due to the
activity Of Raj Jamina Das ahadu
deputy magistrate OF Midnapur, who
caused the house of his son at Dacca
to be searched.
There a quantity Of ammunition. val
liable jewels obtained in a robbery and
d HuInper or papers some in cipher
were discovered. Ihe documents con-
tanned proposals for the seducing of the
Gurkha, Punjabi and Mahratta soldiery
ana the establishment of military CEN
ters and a suggestion for the whole
SAFE massacre in place of the present
isolated murders.
Conspiracy is Nationwide.
These PAPER also gave the names Of
the of the society. AS the re-
suit Of this investigation the police
searched other houses and found q
la OF still more discriminating evil
dence which proved that the conspiracy
was nationwide and had the financial
support and backing of some of the
most prominent of the native princes.
Moreover, there has been q recrudes-
cence OF outrages in the last 12 months.
On July . a year ago an attempt was
made to derail the train In which the
governor Of Bengal was travelling. On
december %, 1912, an attempt was
made on the life of Viceroy Lord Hard
lnge, in which he was wounded and
ms attendant killed as he was entering
Delhi in state.
In March of his year a bomb was
hurled at a British official and it's pur-
pose was only defeated when it prema-
turelyt exploded, killing the would-be-
assassin. In April threatening letters
We're sent to all the British editors in
the province as well as the larger
cities.
Whole Empire in Fear.
The whole empire is stirred with
fear, that there will be a, repetition of
the mutiny of '56. Much of the present
trouble in the province has been brew
Ing for several years. In fact, the ma
tlves have been restless ever since the
R~uSso-Jap war. Following the success
OF the japanese the Japs flooded India
with moving pictures Of the war.
For h first time the yellow mar
saw the white man conquered by his
race. Some of the pictures were faxed
but the effect was the same. The
films pictured a condition that the yell
low man never could have understood
for a minute otherwise and consequent
ly he became greatly agitated.
These films penetrated the most OBJ
scure corners of the Indian empire.
They have been supplemented since by
the activity of princes of the interior.
Vigorous steps are to be taken to
stamp out the rebellion in it's incip-
iency. The death penalty likely will be
invoked for all found guilty, but the
widespreadness of the conspiracy has
caused a wave of terror to sweep over
the empire.