New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

4,k On behalf OF the government, ad-
nirtsa la, considerable number of the
rts-ne PERSONS ARE students between
the sgss Q. eighteen and twenty-one-"
Al another recent session Of the Legis-
aurs, the same Deputy, Bhnpendra Nath
H,H siiressed a series of twenty-six
rsri-s to the government Several of
rae t'low;
Ar h.erned persons ever placed before
l1sr.tes before or at the time they are
=.ls3 to make any statement?
lns fact that some interned persons
M hndcufed and put in prison dress?
8 he government aware that there is
t:sprad belief in the country that in
RID persons are being subjected TO tor
IN.
z he government aware that there IS
v:sr.si feeling Of alarm in Bengal in re-
n: to the daily growing list Of internments
L: operations, and that no explanation IS
'':::a.ed to the public as 70 such intern
-sa ard deportations?"
u. representative Of the government
'sisi the report that political prisoners
II bsing subjected TO torture, but failed
= answer most Of the other questions.
l.is,y Kamini Kumar Chanda, describing
:. rate Of uneasiness pervading India,
PIE as follows Of the manner in which
E1.!-be revolutionists are seized by the
':Ar authorities:
4 nsn can never be safe, and feeling OF
LATE las been aroused throughout the coun-
u E'Fs especially in Eastern Bengal What
sally happens is this: A young man who
F''ssztng his studies in school or col
q o. IS working for his livelihood, not
y i'' himself but for his family, finds his
',''' 'ss.eged one fine morning by a posse
i'Assmen or constables- A police officer
.',I pounces upon him and marches him
re thsna. % his utter bewilderment.
= a-ily lose al clew as 20 his where
''is- and he is as ignorant as they as 70
= asss Q; this.
"a nay 70 On for some days, or even
ia His relations do not know what ne
"''' and, 50 far as he is concerned
-'g Il communicated 70 him except that
"-''-sn asks him some questions regard
va associates AID his astecedents. Per-
'"''sw days after he may be discharged
As o. mistaken identity, or because
"a hot sufficient case against him. but
frequently what happens is that he Is
-" T" Danish himself from that part OF
WITTY ard take himself Of 20 a distant
E'H town, no matter whether the condi-
H. inmate suit him or not, and he may
'' an allowance which IL bound 20 be
''h Tor his own maintenance. not 70
~ re maintenance Of his family. That
- asppens in dozens. II not in scores, Of
Ana', every week"
"npy % The above charges, the repre-
N4s Of the government read writ
'~S'nent by an arrested Indian reyo-
- disclosing the fact that arrange
asd been made, supposedly With the
-. ~ Germany, for rising in India. An
81 d the revolutionisrz confession
;., ''is extremely anxious % keep our
=. secret a. possible up 70 the last mo-
|at our success depended 1olely upon
= As government unswsres. Numerical
: A.. A'asht We were sufficiently strong
e. Vim NE troops IN Calcutta and
|s,,.m ias only thing No feared was rein
No. from the other parts o. India
~. we're sufficiently strong.
s,i NN expectations ~ about fifty thou
~. : !'ihlhg IN The hrs, rising; they
N. r., 'Nn "a from oil parts Of Bengal.
h, 4. = ~sntsd upon about FIVE thousand
su :. Nisa''s itssf " start .sh. rebellion,
ma every hope Of nearly twenty thou.