Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-24
100000 HTNDUS
LOYALTO BRITAIN !
READY FOR SERVICE
Millionaire, Leader of East
In dian Mohammedans,
Declares India's Hope Is
With England.
LONDON. Sent. >,

LONDON, Sept. a.
Germany made mistake about Tpd,.
as It did about Ireland and anvhod,,
who counts on India to be false to Eng.
land will come a cropper."
In these words his Highness the 40.
Khan, the recognized temporal leado,
Of 100000 of East Indian Mohamroo.
dams. sums UP for the World corro.
spondent the Indian Empires status 4,
the worlds war.
The Aga Khan has direeted t,.
Khoja Moslems, who alone number so,,-
eral millions, and of whom he In N.
spiritual as we'll as the temporal head
to place their personal services and re.
sources at the disposal of the Govern-
ment, and has volunteered to serve him.
self as private in any regiment NJ
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, Hs
remarked smllingly:
Many OF my fellow countrymen have
been in Africa and have seen the Ger-
man administration in the German Fast
and Southwest African colonies. Tbev
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
among Indians of all classes realize that
our country divided as 1t Is into hum
dreds of principalities, each inclined to
be jealous of the others, could not hope
to stand alone, even II British rule were
withdrawn.
GERMAN PURPOSE KNOWN.
"Germanys 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 illustrates 1t, ;
because the Indians fully comprehend the
peril Of being crushed beneath the mailed
fist OF Prussian militarism."
The Aga khan's 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 castes she has governed SO sue
| cessfully for $50 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.
prehensible to the Germans. 1t seems
to me they totally lack a sense of pro-
portion. arising from a sympathetlc un-
derstanding of the needs of another
people. 1t 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 IL sH- 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 Kaisers 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?"
"I think So" the Aga Khan replied
with a quiet smile. ''If need be there
| can be 100000 or 7.O0O.OO0-that wouldn't
be n great number 10 offer from our
| 39),OOO.Ooo 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"