Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-10-07
SEVEN MILLION
FIGHTERS READY
TO LEAVE INDIA
HEAD OF MOHAMMEDANS SAYS
THAT WOULDN'T BE MANY
MEN TO SUPPLY.

LONDON, October 7-"Germany
made a mistake about India, as it
did about Ireland And anybody who
counts on India to be false to Eng
land will come a cropper.'
In these words his hfghness the
Aga Khan, the recognized temporal
leader over 10000 900 Indian Moham-
medans, summed up to me today the
Indian empires status in the world
war
The Aga Khan has directed the
Khoja Moslems, who alone number
several millions and over whom he
is the spiritual as well as the tenn
poral head, to place their personal
services and resources at the dis
posal Of the government, and has
volunteered 70 serve himself as a
private in any regiment of infantry
Of the Indian expeditionary force.
The Aga Kahn laughed heartily at
the suggestion that Germanistic pro
paganda might undermine the loyalty
OF the Indian subjects of the king
emperor He remarked smilingly.
Many of my fellow-countrymen
have been in Africa and seen the
German administration in the east and
southwest African colonies. They
know what the Germanization of
India would mean and they know.
too, that If England we're driven out
Of India, Germany, should she be sue
cessful In this war, would step in.
THE thinking element among In
dians of all classes realize that our
country, divided as it is. into hun
dreds of principalities, each inclined
70 be jealous Of the others, could not
hope TO stand alone even If British
I rule were Withdrawn. Germanys
| two.fold purpose in striving to create
dissension in India is, first, to give
trouble to England, which might cost
her victory in the war, and, second
to seize India as part of the kaiser's
dream of world empire
This scheme is as well known in
India as at Berlin, India needs nc
assistance from England to Illustrate
it, because they fully comprehend tbs
peril OF being crushed beneath the
mailed fist of Prussian mlitarism.'
Then the Aga Khan continued
gravely
After ALL the one hope of India
government There will be no united
India until England has finished he
work of knitting together into on,
strong nation the confusing iumbl
Of races, religions, and castles sh'
has governed successfully for Is
= years. An apt comparison is tn
American domination in the PHILIP
pines but there exist now between
England and India affections and ser
timents arising from long communit,
Of interests not yet found between
the Filipinos and Americans.
Such a feeling | believe TO be in
comprehensive to the Germans.
seems TO me that they totally lac
> the sense of proportion arising fror
"a sympathetic understanding of tn
needs of another people, 1t is il
comprehensive to them that Belgium
should have resisted their advanc
into France Apparently they ia
utterly to understand the feeling tina
for instance, would aetuate Amer
cans IL an alien nation attempted
q send an army through the Unite
Z. States to attack Canada.
= Personally, my antipathy is ne
against the German people, who pc
sess many fine qualities, but againi
the Prussian school of Bernhar
Nietzsche aud the kaiser's gener
staff school designed basically f,
q the crushing of liberalism and ind
pendence of any kind, whether maj
y tested in Germany or abroad"
"Will Indian troops be able