Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-24
100000 HINDUS
LOYAL TO BRITAIN
READY FOR SER VICE
Millionaire, Leader of East
In dian Mohammedans,
Declares India's Hope Is
With England.
LONDON. SAINT .,

LONDON, Sept. "a.
Germany made a mistake about india
as it did about Ireland and anybodv
who counts on india to be false to Eng.
land will come a cropper"
In these words his Hghness the Apa
Khan, the recognized temporal leader
of 600O0,000 of East Indian Mohamre.
dams, sums UP for the World corre.
spondent the Indian Empires status 4,
the worlds war.
The Aga Khan has directed thu
khoja Mosems, who alone number sew
eral millions, and of whom he Ia tbe
spiritual as well as the temporal head
to place their personal sehyices and ra.
sources at the disposal of the Govern.
ment, and has volunteered to serve him.
self as private in any regiment OF
infantry of the Indian expeditionarv
force.
The Aga Khan laughed heartily over
the suggestion that the Germanistio
propaganda might undermine the LOYALTY
of Great Britains Indian subjects. He
remarked smillngly:
MANY of my fellow countrymen bav.
been in Africa and have seen the Ger
man administration in the German East
and Southwest African colonies. They
know what Germanization OF India would
mean, and they know, too, that If Eng.
land were driven out of India, Germany.
should she be successful in this war.
would step in. The thinking element
among Indians of all classes realize that
our country. divided as 1t is into hum
dreds of principalties. each inclined to
be jealous of the others, could not hope
to stand alone, even IL British rule wero
withdrawn.
GERMAN PURPOSE KNOWN.
"Germany's twofold purpose in striv-
ing to create dissension in India is first
to give trouble to England, which might
cost her victory in the war; second. to
seize India as part of the Kaser's dream
of world empire
This scheme is as well known +,
India as at Berlin. India will need 10
assistance from England to frustratc it,
because the Indians fully comprehend III.
peril of being crushed beneath the mailed
fist of Prussian miitarism."
The Aga Khan's manner became moe
grave as he continued:
After all, the one hope of India as
in the King and Emperor and his G
ernment There can be no united l1ul
until England has fished her work Il
knitting together into one strong nation
the confusing jumble of races, religions
and castles she has governed so su.-
cessfully for $50 years.
IAN apt comparison is American
domination of the Philippines. BIT
Nl,....a .tF.t
India affections and sentiments arlsn;
from their long community of interes
which are not yet found between Fill
pinos and Americans.
BLAMES GERMAN VIEWPOINT.
Such feeling l believe to be incom-
rrehensble to the Germans. 1t seems
to me they totally lack a sense OF pro-
portion, arising from sympathetic ull-
derstanding of the needs of another
people. 1t is incomprehensble to them
that Belgium should have resisted their
advance into France. Apparently they
fail utterly to understand the feeling
that. for instance. would actuate an
American If an alien nation attempted
to send an army through the United
States to attack Canada.
Personally, my anripathy is not to-
NdIu llle 'ItTIIldH people, VINO possess
many fine qualities, but against ths
PrussIan school of Bernhardis Metz
sches and the Kaiser's General Staff
school designed basically for the
crushing of liberalism and independence
Of any kind whether manifested In
Germany or abroad"
"Will Indian troops be able to stand
against the German army, considering
they have never before been permitted
to fight white mem"
II think So" the Aga Khan replied
with quiet smile. If need be there
can be 100000 or 1000 OOO-that wouldn't
be- great number 10 offer from our
000Oo0 population. No. Despite the
effusions from Wlhelmstrasse. you may
rest assured that there is not the slight
est doubt as to India's loyalty to Eng
land"