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

LONDON, Sept "A,
Germany made mistake about rnd,.
as 1t did about Ireland and anybodv
VINO counts on India to be false to Eng.
land will come a cropper."
In these words his Highness the Az.
Khan. the recognized temporal leadey
of 6O,OOO,000 of East Indian Mohamna.
dams, sums UP for the World corre.
spondent the Indian Empires ststus q,
the worlds war.
The Aga Khan has directed tba
khoja Moslems, who alone number sew
eral millions. and of whom he In IN.
spiritual as we'll as the temporal bead
to place their personal services and ra.
sources at the disposal of the Govarn.
ment, and has volunteered to serve him.
self as a private in any regiment ot
infantry of the Indian expeditionarv
force.
The Aga Khan laughed heartily over
the suggestion that the Germanistio
propaganda might undermine the LOYALTY
of Great Britain's Indian subjects Hs
remarked smilingly:
MANY of my fellow countrymen hava
been in Africa and have seen the Gar.
man administration in the German East
and Southwest African colonies. Thew
know what Germanization of India would
mean, and they know, too, that IL Eng
land were driven out of India, GERMANY.
should she be successful in this war.
would step in. The thinking element
a mr. ND Nf oil ,1o
our country, divided as 1t is into hun
dreds of principalities, each inclined to
be jealous of the others, could not hope
to stand alone, even if 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Withdrawn.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 kaiser's dream
of world empire.
"This scheme is as we'll known to
India as at Berlin. India will need no
assistance from England to Illustrate IL.
because the Indians fully comprehend the
peril of being crushed beneath the mailed
fist of Prussian militarism."
The Aga khans manner became more
grave as he continued:
After all. the one hope of India lies
in the King and Emperor and his Gov
ernment. There can be no united India
until England has fiished her work Of
knitting together into one strong nation
the confusing tumble of races, religions
and castles she has governed so sue
cessfully for 150 years.
AN apt comparison is American
domination of the Philippines. But
there exist now between England and
India affections and sentiments arising
from their long community of interests
which are not yet found between Fill
pinos and Americans.
BLAMES GERMAN VIEWPOINT.
Such feeling 1 believe to be incom-
rrehensible to the Germans. 1t seems
to me they totally lack sense of pro-
portion, arising from a sympathetic un-
derstanding of the needs of another
people. It is incomprehensible 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 antipathy is not to-
ward the German people, who possess
many fine qualities. but against the
Prussian school of Bernhardis. Metz
sches and the Kaiser's General Staff
a 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 men?"
II think So" the Aga Khan replied
with a quiet smile. IF need be there
can be 10000 or 1000, ,OO0-that wouldn't
be a great number 10 offer from our
S20, 100000 population. No. Despite the
effusions from Wilhelmstrasse. you may
rest assured that there is not the slight
est doubt as to India's loyalty TO Eng
land