Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-03
INDIAN PRINCES ID
 SPEND EVERY CENT
 ID CRUSH GERMANY
War Has Been Great Uplifter and Liberator For lndia's Millions, Says Maharajah Sindhia.

GWALIOR. India. Correspondence of The Associated PresS) The Ma harajah Sidhia of Gwalior. one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the Indian princes. today told core | spondent of The Associated Press that he and the other rulers Of India were prepared to pour all their resources ! into the common war cOiler until Ger many was crushed. The Maharajah said that the world conflagration. by a common platform upon which all India could work. had done much to encourage cooperation among the ln- dian states and also to emphasize the essential unity of aims between them and the government of India. Gwalior whose people he rules, un- der the British government, is one Of the central states of India. with a population of between 2.000,000 and 8 100000
 The Maharajah is a major general in the British army and gave his per sonal services with the British eX- peditionary force to China in 1901. During the present war. affairs of state have precluded his leaving Gwa-
 
 been making great contributions to the British army. His troops have been in France. are fighting in East Africa and Egypt and are helping guard the Indian frontier from Quetta and Bannu.
 How much he has donated he will not know until the war is over and the final accounts are in, but he has thus far expended somewhere in the neighborhood of 300,000 pounds, Q,- 500.000 dollars) outside the upkeep of the hospital ship Loyalty. To this great contribution he modesty calls himself only a subscriber but, as a matter of fact, during the two years and more the ship has been in con- mission, he has financed it himself and spent on it nearly 100000 pounds. He is also eXpending 1000 pounds a month for the upkeep of convales- cent home for officers and soldiers which he established, at Nairobi, Africa, at the beginning of the war. The Mahrajah gives where he thinks the need is most pressing, depending on the daily papers and on his agents in London for information. Thus if
  sort is wanted badly he immediately to supply the deficiency.
 Today's interview took place in the, palace, and during the conversation His Highness talked freely on many subjects. Regarding Germany he was most uncompromising.
 q believe that the war will continue for IS months longer" he said. and hope, for my part. that it will go on until Germany has been crushed. l am sure that all India feels as l do about this matter; quite the reverse of the attitude Germany expected from us at the outbreak of hostilities.
 Germany firmly believed that India would join the Central Allies. What led the Teutons into this error 1 can not say, but they certainly misjudged the situation here badly. There never was a chance that India would turn against Great Britain.
 "I don't mean to say that there is no seditiOn in India. There is just as there is sedition to some degree in America or in any other country, but those who are plotting against the government are negligible. in number, and they are no more representative of India as a whole than were the New York bomb-throwers three or four years ago representative of the Amer ican public.
 But Germany thought, for some reason or other, that We were ready to severe relations with Great Britain and banked on our support in the struggle. Long before the war begun, Germany was busy trying to stir up sedition in India. l cannot prove this statement to you at this time but I know it to be true.
 The attempts failed and today Hindustan is standing Loyalty with the rest of the British Empire and will continue so to stand until the last gun is fired"