Arizona republican., 1916-11-27
THE PUNJAb'S ANT|-bR|T|SH MOVE SEEMS OBL|TERATED;
 INDIAN SPARTANS 1T PEACE

met with approval and received moral and financial support in St. Johns, Bridal Veil Linton. Portland, Astoria and other places. There already ex- isted in oregon a local association which had cast it's lot with Hardial, and a second revolutionary society known as the Hindi Association of the Pacific Coast was formed to further the idea of revolt in India.
 Ut was decided to establish the Ghadr newspaper in San Francisco. and Hardial went to that city to or ganize the undertaking. The first is sue of the paper was dated November l, 1913. the organ was violently anti British and preached murder and mt tiny in every sentence. All Indians were urged to go home with the express purpose of committing murder, causing revolution and expelling the British government These facts we know not only from reading copies of the paper which subsequently, fell into our hands, but from evidence brought out at the trials here in India of the ring leaders of the conspiracy.
 "The work of distributing this paper in the various Indian dialects through out India and among the Indians of America and the Starit settlements was undertaken by the Hindi Association which formed branches at Portland Astoria. St. Johns, Sacramento Stock ton. Bridal Veil and in various other places. The association also took further measures to prepare India for @ revolution, these including an appeal to foreign nations to help.
 The holding of seditious meetings along with the propaganda of the Ghadr was decided upon and these meetings were continuous up to the outbreak of the war. The first meeting of this na- ture was held in Sacramento in De- cember. 1913. Portraits of famous se- ditionists and murderers were shown and inflammatory notices were dis played. Hardial made a speech in May. 1914. in which he told his audience that Germany was getting ready for war with England and that it was time for the Indians in America to return home for a revolution. This utterance of
 Hardial is significant in that 1t indi- cates that he knew Germany's plans some months before war was declared.
 We have no doubt of German connec-
 ton with the conspiracy to cause a
 revolution in India, but it is circum-
 stantial evidence of this kind upon whichSwe must depend to establish the fact. Hardial when compelled to leave the United States left an organization and agents behind him to carry on his revolutionary program.
 Meetings of a similar nature fol- lowed at Berkeley. Stockton. Astoria
 Fresno. Upland. Oxnard. Los Angeles Claremont. Jersey. Portland. Seattle
 Washington, Aberdeen and other
 places It was at meetings held al Jersey. California. early in July. 1914 that vows were taken to go to India to overthrow the existing government
 At a meeting at Oxnard near the end of July 1t was announced that the time 1 for the rebellion had come. The pre- diction was made that Great Britain would have to join the war and that 1 revolutions would break out in Egypt | Ireland. South Africa and elsewhere ! Funds were collected at this time and plans were begun for the return. The . leaders immediately started to beat uI : recruits in Oregon and California and hurried them towards San Francisco On August II several thousand Indians from various sections appeared for a
 meeting in Sacramento and at that
 time many of them agreed to return tC ; India for revolt
 1 You already know the story of the | sailing of the Komagatu Maru from { Vancouver in July, 1914. with the dis appointed and embittered Indians whC { had been refused admission to Canada when they attempted to land for tho 1 purpose of settling there after theil
 emigration from India This was in- | cidental to the main conspiracy. al | though the leader of the expedition Gurdit Singh, who knew all along thai Canada never would admit these peo- i pie. appears to have planned the triI 1 largely for the purpose of creating ar | incident which would inflame Indian 1 opinion against the British and thui divert attention from his own frauds Out of the ship load of men. most O
 whom were duped by Gurdit Singh b, promises of securing them admission
 to Canada. several, when their hope
 were not realized, did on their return