New Britain herald., 1917-02-09
RUIN FAILS ID STIR UP INDIANS
Eged With Attempting to
 OneDt Trouble Since 1914

fala, India, Feb. s.-From time {s- i'll the war right up to the pres
 moment Germany has never
 led attempts to stir the Indian em-
 to revolt, according to Sir Charles
 Ieland, director of criminal intel bee in this country, who made this ement to a correspondent of the i bciated Press. Sir Charles charac.
 ked the plots as "clumsy, belated, Theoretical, and based on a misun-
 Standing of Indian character" and
 Jared that the scheme failed chief eaecause of the sanity of the great
 ian public which has withheld its
 port
 ir Charles is reputed to know moro
 ut those in whom the secret service
 hrally would be interested than any
 er man in India. For years he has
 de a study of that class which fa.-
 Is the darkness of night for it's com-
 $ and its goings, and now as head
 the secret service, the government
 les upon him to check untoward oc-
 rences in any section before they ye grown into a serious menace.
 Trouble Not Serious.
 There has been some trouble in iia," said Sir Charles. but 1t has len very far short both of the pie fe drawn In enemy publications and the enemy's desire. The state of iia all through the war seems 10 ve exposed 8 very big miscalculation
 the part of the Germans.
 Tt would be interesting to examine W far this miscalculation was due
 misunderstanding of normal 1n- an affairs and how far to m1scar- lge the war. My own impression is at Germany thought India would ed very little extraneous prompting Id assistance to rise against the Brit , if the latter were in serious em- .rrassment owing to a big continent war. and that therefore not very uch attention was paid ey the Ger an government to instigation in In- | before the war. Where and now a the German government get that ca? Was it conveyed to them oy cret unknown agents or by their ,nsular officers? It is difhcult to " for certain but I remember that me years ago an Indian extremist ader used the following words to .e:
 55.s We shall certainly try to embar- lss. you actively in India if you nave war with a continental power or ith Afghanistan. Our feelings are rrn on that point unless, indeed, seT- ltercst or some special reason olc- ltes a passive attitude to some or alt us. But never again will you ind lch positive assistance as We gave ,u at the time Of the Boer war.
 Nv extremist friend went on to tell Ie that we were foolish to think we ,uld count on the Indian army. At ,e time I thought my friends atti- lde was pathetic in it's self-delusion Id tirae has shown that I was right.
 Spends Money Freely.
 "After the war broke out the Ger lan government showed willing ess to spend money lavishly on 1ndf- II trouble but there was no sign or financing of troublesome schemes or ldividuals before the war. In 1915 nd 1914 a German viewing the sit ation in India with patriotic anti ,fillSn GS WOuit ittSS ODSSi \S~ e'' Slowing phenomena: A rapproehe- lent between a section of Indian Mo- amedans and the Young-Turk party I Europe: an anarchical revolution ry movement of extreme nationailsm l the Bombay presidency and some ther places; an unrestrained 'Ghadr movement among Indians in the Unit q States and Canada, and certain mount of Moslem dissatisfaction i'll he north of India and along the orthwest frontier I think it was be- ond the power of any German to. de- idle whether these, tphepomena were he signs of a deep and widespread un est or mere!y local fsurface disturb noes and I feel sure that in order to interpret them the Germans consulted xiled and partisan Indians who were ut of touch with India as d whole nd who therefore magnified their wn views and feelings and those ot