The Nome daily nugget., 1915-01-06
INDIANS LOYAL TO BRNT|An
 IN WAR DESPITE FEARS

been much volunteering, and the local companies of militia in every city have | been much strengthened
 1 In country so divided by social and religious differences as India. if would l be strange if there were unanimity in such whole hearted expressions of by alty as the foregoing There is a sec tion of educated India which gives a very tempered expression of it's en- thusiasm for the cause of the empire. i It is inclined to sympathize with Aus tria in its vigorous stroke to end the plotting of the Serbs against the dual monarchy. and to honor Germany for her complete loyalty To her ally when Russia took up the cause of Servia. The idea of England fighting on the same side with Russia Is highly displeasing.
 Vague rumors of renewed frate!niz ing of Germans and Turks have filtered through the one strictly censored cable open to Europe. which have made the intentions of Turkey vital issue to India. If Turkey throws her German staffed and German equipped army in with her Teutonic friends. thus forcing the British empire. with more Moham- medan subjects than any other govern ment, to oppose her there would be al the least be uncertainty about the at titude the Mosiem leaders of India would assume At present. however, the Moslem press Is affirming the loy- alty of it's community in carefully chosen terms
 The Comrade of Delphi, their leading paper. after bringing in question the consistency of Great Britain's pre- vious relationships with Turkey. Persia and Morocco, the fairness of the treat ment accorded Indians in other parts of the empire, and the efforts of Lon don to secure justice for them. the sin cerety of the government of 1ndia's promises of greater privilege to it's sub iects, the necessity for the sacri- flee of Mohammedan shrines and tombs in public works projects. and after airing various other grievances. sums up it's position as follows
 We say that, irrespective of any or all these considerations, or rather be-
 
 against the one supreme consideration. our need of England and her tutela8e at the present stage Of our national and communal growth. and found her good exceeding by a very great deal her evil, we shall remain loyal 10 her as only free men can remain loyal. with a sin cere devotion and an unbought sub mission. and this whether she crushes the naval power of Germany and be- comes a dictator to Europe, o" the last ship of her mighty armada sinks in the North sea and her last soldier falls down and dies around Liege or Lon don"
 AS for the economic effects of the war India is suffering with the rest of the world Thanks to the prompt measures of government. the banking situation is sound and the value of money is being well maintained, even though the issue of gold has been stop ped For all that India is Great Bri- tains, a very considerable portion of ! the trade with the west has been car ried on by German and Austrian steamers. E.nemy's vessels have been seized in Bombay, Calcutta, Rangoon and Colombo. and sailings of many English ships have been cancelled. A rise of prices in foreign goods has thus 1 been natural. but there have been en- tireiy unwarranted advances ill the