Arizona republican., 1914-08-17
Undismayed by Failure of Delhi Conspiracy, Dissat- isfied Natives Are Trying to Promote an Uprising Against British
LIBERTY LEAFLETS
 ARE SENT AROUND
Address to Natives Hints at Murder as One of the Means of Getting Rid of Their White-skinned Op- DroSSOrS

CALCUTTA, August 16-Disaffec- ton is rife in India and secret but powerful efforts are being made to un- dermine British rule
 Quite by accident a copy of the lat est of the Liberty leaflets, which have loomed so large in the Delhi case. has fallen into the hands of the press. The sternest measures are talk en by the government to prevent the defamation Of the British Raj by this poisonous class of instruments, but none the less the circulation goes sur reptitiously on, and serves gradually to cloud the conception formed for them selves by the. masses of India of the governments good intentions. Obviously this class of appeal to the ignorance of the people can have only a comparatively small influence from the mere fact that it is couched in | English, the only ''lingua franca" by means Of which ntercommunication is possible between Martini, Punjabi and only make it's appeal to the class of | Indian readers familiar with English script-a number which is still infin- itesimal when compared with the 315.- i OG0,00e persons who compose the in- dian popula tion.
 There are four. points in connection with the leaffet to which attention is drawn:
 l 1. It shows- clear sign that the rigorous hunting down of the conspi- | racy is having its effect in deterring the more timid of the fanatical youth. l It is important to emphasize this point when Lord Courtney, speaking on the l India council bill has referred to the alarming unrest" in the country and 1 the need for making concessions to it. This anarchist activity can only be 1 rooted out by careful and persistent work on the part of the police and complementary measures in the courts. No one in India, whatever his political convictions. imagines for a moment l that any quantity of concessions of the order advocated by Lord Courtney will have the slightest effect on it. ,. The sample pamphlet contains | assertions to the effect that plague never before existed in the country. and that the White Ruffians" are de- liberately spreading it. This may be compared to the assertion that the , Europeans poison the wells and in other ways taint the water supply. The cruel irony of these untruths is only fully apparent to those to whose lot it has fallen to improve the conceptions
 of public health current among the
 masses in India
 3. The conspira tors refer to the | "Dacoit government" at moment
 when two different cases in the courts have shown during the last few weeks
 alone the anarchist leaders are them selves advocating and practising da-
 coity on even the religious men of
 their own religion; witness the mur- der of a priest in the Arrah temple case and that of the sadhu in the Ko-
 tah case. where both poison and stab-
 ping were resorted to.
 1. An open threat of murder is con-
 veyed not merely to the approvers who turn kings evidence in conspiracy
 cases but to all their relativesl ;irriis-
 criminately That open attempts at revolution in
 India may be expected in the near sfu-.
 ture goes without saving, but whether
 they will be successful or mot remains
 to be seen. At all events the British
 dread anything of the kind as' iSSs inn
 possible to tell how far the secrt 3prop-
 uganda may have gone
 Ram Das, a notorious political sus-
 pect, was shot dead by anarchists at
 Dacca last Sunday night. The de
 ceased is said to have seeded from
 the unrest party-and turned spN The
 murder took place on the river side
 Six shots were fired, and three took
 effect. One of the assassirs was
 seized by police orderly, whereupon
 the former turned a revolver on the
 officer, the bullet grazing his temple.
 The policeman fell ana the assassin
 escaped. A third man was also
 wounded. Six medical students were
 subsequently arrested
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