Arizona republican., 1916-11-27
Copyright 1916 by The Associate,
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 SIMLA, India, Nov. 26.-The great Indian province of the Punjab. with it's twenty-five million inhabitants. to- day is peacefully pursuing it's affairs; the sturdy men of this vast district, Ihe Spartans among the mauy races of the Peninsula, are either bearing arms under 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 Co Great Bri- tain only few months ago as the result of the elaborate 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- UOus since the never-to- be- forgotten mutiny of 1857, failed because ct lack of support in India, and many of the arch schemers have been punished. At time when this country was virtu- ally denuded of troops, which had been sent to the various theaters of war, the Punjab ship of state. with Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the British lieu tenant governor. at the helm. safely Weaihered q storm that might have swept all India had the conspH'ators met with the sympathy which they had expected among their people. The story of the plan of revolt, which has hitherto been told only in brief off cial paragraphs, was related to a rep resentative of The Associated Press by Sir Michael O'Dwyer
 ''The history of this conspiracy is one of the most remarkable in the an- nals of India. and it is history with a moral began Sir Michael. It demonstrates that while there are po- litical aspirations in India, as there are and must be in anv country which allows freedom of thought and liberty of action. yet the vast majority of the people have no sympathy with revo- luti0nary ideas. The failure of the plot is an answer to the many stories which have been published abroad to the effect that the powder train was laid in India and needed only the ap- pliCation of fire 10 set it off.
 The conspiracy in question had as its two main centers San Francisco and Vancouver the former city ulti- mattel, eclipsing the latter The plot goes back to the beginning of 1913 when one Bhagwan Singh. Q notorious Indian seditionist. went to Vancouver rr hesan to lecture among the In- clans there most of them ignorant fitH-H no Ntl lONt tOutn With lDFlT religion and traditions and fell easy prey to specious agitators and sedi- tion mongers against the British gov ernment in India. The grievances Of the Indians. real or imaginary in re gard to the immigration regulations h1d prepared the ground. After a short time Bhagwan Singh was de- UOrted, but he had sOwn the seed O. se7ition before he left
 There also arrived in San Fran cisco about the same time sedition- ist by the name of Hardial the real brains of the conspiracy which was developed. Hardial, who. hv the way. is now believed to he ir Germany. Is a man of great intellectual attachments and g brilliant speaker, but unfoT . turatelv entirely interruptions. He was educated at oxford as state scholar by the government or Indi7 and appears while in England. and UerhaD even earlier. tC have become imhued with passionate race hatre which developed into monomania. After leaving Oxford he devoted his energies tO teaching his couutrymen the same race hatred which he him self possessed. He eventually ran ~0m the United States when proceed ings had been taken against him as n anarchist. and proceeded to Ger many, but not until the conspir;i " which he had engineered was per fected.
 "Hardial first lectured in San Fran cisco on atheism but the result Of his presence there was to inOculate his Indian 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 this and neighhoring plares also proved fertile districts for Hardiars propa- ganda.
 During a visit to St Johns Oregon. in 1913. Hardial proposed to start a re- volutionary paper which should be called the Ghadr (Mutiny). This plan