Mohave County miner., 1916-12-16
INDIAN PROVINCE IF PUNJAB
 PEACEFULLY PURSUING AFFAIRS

1913, the organ was violently anti
 British and preached murder and mu-
 tiny in every sentence. All Indians
 were urged to go home with the ex-
 press 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,
 throughout India and among the h.
 dians in America and the Strait settle
 ments was undertaken by the Hindu
 association, which formed branches at
 Portland, Astoria, St. John, Sacra-
 mento, Stockton, 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 for 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 meet ing of this nature was held in Sac ramento in December, 1913. Portraits of famous seditionists and murderers were shown and infammatory notices were displayed. Hardial made a speech in May, 1914, in which he told his audience that Germany was get ting ready for war with England, and that it was time for the Indians in America to return home for a revolu- tion. This utterance of Hardial is significant in that it indicates he knew Germany's plans some months before war was declared. We have no doubt of German connection with the con- spiracy to cause a revolution in India,, but it is circumstantial evidence of this kind upon which we 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 pro- gram.
 ''You already know the story of the sailing of the Komagatu Maru from Vancouver in July, 1914, with the dis appointed and embittered Indians who had been refused admission to Canada when they attempted to land for the purpose of settling there after their emigration from India. This was in cidental to the main conspiracy, al- though the leader of the expedition, Gurdit Singh, who knew all along that Canada never would admit these people, appears to have planned the trip largely for the purpose of ere ating an incident which would infame Indian opinion against the British and thus divert attention from his own frauds. Out of this shipload of men, most of whom were duped by Gurdit Singh by promises of securing them to Canada, several, when their hopes were not realized, did on their return join those who migrated to India for the purpose of revolt.
 "It is not necessary to detail the departure of the various bodies of revolutionists from Vancouver and San Francisco. All told about 5000 or 5000 were recruited on the Pacific | coast and at Shanghai and Hong Kong, and these men eventually | reached India a considerable time aft CT the war had begun. Some 200 of | them, whom we knew as seditionists | from past experience, were detained | on their arrival at port, or in the Pun jab, but the majority of them, who were supposed to be peaceful subjects, were allowed to go their way and to the Punjab where, as it later, the most violent at once proceeded to start the revolt. Their plans were, however, consider ably disorganized by the fact that many of their leaders had been in- termed on arrival in India.
 "The objects. of the seditionists, as set forth by copies of the Ghadr and other evidence produced at the trials, were mainly these: the seduction of Indian troops and villagers, the mas sacre of loyal subjects and officials, the breaking of jails, the footing of treasuries, union with foreign enc mics, the commission of dacoities, the of arms, the foundation of secret societies and the destruction of railways and telegraphs."
 Sir Michael referred to a report of -he conspiracy trials, and continued:
 "Here are a few extracts from the notifications produced it