The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-14

Der. 1914. a most rigid postal censor.
ship. SO that every letter going to
or out Of India is opened and many
| letters withheld? The open and delayed
letters bear printed slips ''Opened by
censor or Opened under martial law
The newspaper n Government re-
ports show that since the wal 800 news
papers have been suppressed. Five thou
sand men have been arrested in Multan.
4,1so In Jhang. 400 in Lahore and several
thousand in Bengal The fact ia that
spontaneous outbreaks of the people
have occurred in spite OF. and partly
on account Of. the severest military
rule IN all parts of India. A notable
feature Of the unrest were mutinies In
several resiments. especially those sta
toned at Jhansi. Lahore. Ambala and
Meerut. A pitched fight occurred be-
tween the Bengal revolutionists and the
military In Orrisa. As a consequence
hundreds Of revolutionists have been
hanged at JhaHsi. Lahore. Meerut, Am
bala. Penares. Arab and other places.
Country In Turmoil.
Austen Chamberlain himself makes
a guarded admission that the activities
Of the revolutionis;s threw the whole
country into panic and turmoil. He
says: There was some withdrawal of
money from savings banks and other
evidences Of an unsettled state OF the
public mind" Ne also says that the
report of the Ghddr that 5000 profess
sors. students. &C. were informed in In.
dia is without foundation. (This state
ment originally appeared in Il SUM
Mr.. Chamberlain thinks the public
will believe him On account Of his high
Official position. We can only say that
our facts have been derived from ac-
counts published in midas papers. Al
the present time nothing can be pub
lished in Indian papers unless 1t Is
approved by the authorities. In spite
OF this a Hindu paper. the A. b Pdtrikd,
published in English at Calcutta, con-
tains the following in its Issue of Feb
ruary %, 1916, which pretty we'll re-
veals the present situation:
Not a week passes that we do not
hear reports Of fresh internments This
means universal unrest. The feeling OF
alarm and uneasiness has been height
ened by the fact that any one may be
; spirited away. 1t is to be deeply de-
plored that the Government has not
realized the amount Of mischief which
martial law Is producing in the u
try. The more the list OF deported Is
swelling the wider and more intense Is
the discontentment growing"
A. really important fact hat the world
does not know il that some OF the Hindu
Princes have been arrested for sedition.
The brother Of the reigning Prince Of
Daspala. Orrisa, has been sentenced to
transportation for life. The Rajah Of
| Kharwa. Rao Gopal Singh OF Rajputana.
has been imprisoned for two years.
Mr.. Chamberlain says: Not a penny
Of increased taxation has been laid upon
India because Of the war" In answer
to this I will simply say that India is
already taxed to the utmost limit Of en-
durance. A Hindu peasant Is forced to
pay from so per cent. to 20 per cent, OF
HE produce to the Government as land
tax. Consequently. the Hindus have be-
come 80 poor that the average annual
income Of q Hindu is twenty-seyen
| rupees 500. according to Lord Curzon.
and fifteen rupees $50. according TO
Sir william Digby. a Hindu soldier. a
school teacher or a policeman gets niile
rupees $50 a month. When invidious
legislation and countervaiiing internal
duties destroyed the Hindustan home In
d~ustries 100000 people were thrown
out OF work.
Htndus Are Starving.
ne.third Of midas revenue is spent
or ornaments and less than one-six-
teenth 10 spent on education and santa
tlOU. IL tulo 10 ~ tdSc INV "a ttc
Hindus live? The Hindus are not liv-
lng-they are dying. Nineteen million
died Of famine and 100000 900 died OF
plague and malaria. according to Sir
William Digby, in the last twenty years.
Sydney Brooks, an English Journalist.
writes In the North American Rerie,o
that 'The British Government neither
suggested nor invited the employment
Of Indian troops OF the battlefelds OF
E,trOnA II uaa forcod unOn them nv tho
repeated demands Of the Indian people
themselves"
This IL az untrue q statement AZ has
ever been published and a simple ref
erence to facts will prove It's a%bsurdity.
The news Of the declaration of war did
not reach the Indian press until two
days after the event. simultaneously
Government issued strict injunctions
that nothing should be published or
said regarding the movement Of troops
or any other subject Of military signif-
canoe.
The Indian troops received orders for
mobilization and immediate embarkment
on August Z. In other words. Indian
troops had been ordered 10 Europe long
before the people grasped the fact that
war had come. When did the people
a v the opportunity to beseech the Gov
eminent that their men should be per-
mitted to fight?
On the contrary. az soon as the ques-
ton of recruiting arose the people Op-
posed the movement s%tubbOrnly. Not
only were there serious rebelliOns among
the troops themselves. as at Singapore,
Hongkong. Rangdon and Colombo. but
even loyal newspapers wrote tliat re-
cruiting was forced and therefore re-
pugnant to the people. The Anaritd
Bdsar Of Calcutta wrote:
III india be self-governed under Brit.