Mohave County miner., 1916-12-16
CFrom Tuesdays Daily AinSr.)

Indian province of the Punjab, with its 25,OOO,OOO inhabitants, today is peacefully pursuing its affairs; the sturdy men of this vast district, the Spartans among the many races of the peninsula, are either bearing arms un- der the British flag or are carrying on their agricultural work and business at home, and there is no outward sign that they were put to a crucial test of loyalty to Great Britain only few months ago as the result of the elab- crate revolutionary plot which had its inception among the Indians on the Pacific coast of America.
 This anti-British conspiracy, which is said to have been the most preten- tious since the never-to-be-forgotten mutiny of 1857, allied because of lack of support in India, and many Of the arch schemers have been punished. At a time when this country was virtual Iv denuded of troops, which had been sent to the various theatres of war, the Punjab ship of state, with Sir Mi chael O'Dwyer, the British lieutenant governor, at the helm, safely wealth cred a storm that might have swept all India had the conspirators met with the sympathy which they had ex- pected among their people. The story of the plan of revolt, which has hither- to been told only in brief official para graphs, was related to a representa- five of the Associated Press by Sir Mi chael O'Dwyer.
 "The history of this conspiracy IS one of the most remarkable in the an- naIs of India, and it is a history with a moral" began Sir Michael. "lt demonstrates that while there are po- Iitical aspirations in India, as there are and must be in any country which allows freedom of thought and liberty of action, yet the vast majority of the people have no sympathy with revolu- tionary ideas. The failure of the plot is an answer to the many stories which have been published abroad to the ef- feet that the powder train was laid In India and needed only the application of fire to set it of. |
 'sThe conspiracy in question had as its two main centers San Francisco and Vancouver, the former city ulti- mately eclipsing the latter. The plot goes back to the beginning of 1913, when one Bhagwan Singh, notorious Indian seditionist, went to Vancouver and began to lecture among the h. dians there, most of them ignorant men who had lost touch with their re- igion and traditions and fell easy prey to spacious agitators and sedl- tion mongers, against the British gov ernment in India. The grievances of the Indians, real or imaginary, in re- gard to the immigration regulations had prepared the ground. After short time Bhagwan Singh was de- ported; but he had sown the seed of sedition before he left.
 NThere also arrived in San Fran cisco about the same time seditlon- ist by the name of Hardial, the real brains of the conspiracy which was de- veIoped. Hardial, who, by the way, IS now believed to be in Germany, IS man of great intellectual attainments and a brilliant speaker, but unfortun- ateIy interruptions. He was educated at Oxford as a state scholar by the l government of India and appears while in England, and perhaps even earlier, to have become imbued with a passionate race hatred which devel- . oned into monomania. After leaving Oxford he devoted his energies to teaching his countrymen the same race hatred which he himself pos sessed. He eventually ran from the limited States when proceedings had been taken against him as an anarch- ist. and proceeded to Germany, but not until the conspiracy which he had engineered was perfected.
 aHardial first lectured in San Fran cisco on atheism, but the result ot his uresence there was to inoculate his h. dian hearers with seditious political ideas. There were numbers of Indian emigrants in California and Oregon and the flame of sedition began to spread through these states. As ! have already said, the ground had been prepared in Vancouver and tnls and neighboring places also proved fertile districts for HardiaPs propa- ganda.
 HDuring a visit to St. Johns, Ore gon, in 1913, Hardial proposed to start a revolutionary paper which should be called the Ghadr (Mutiny). This plan -I -;4I, annrova1 and received moral l.