Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-23
Germany Has Attempted All
Kinds of Trouble Since War
Began With People OF India

latent movement of Extreme nation
alism in the Bombay Presidency and
other places; an unrestrained
'Ghadr' movement among Indians IN
the United States and Canada, and a
certain amount of Moslem dissatisfac-
ton in the north of India and along
the North West Frontier. l think it
was beyond the power of any German
to decide whether these phenomena
were the signs of a deep and wide
spread unrest or merely local surface
disturbances and 1 feel that in order
to interpret them the Germans con-
suited exiled and PARTISAN Indians
who were out of touch with India as a
whole and who therefore magnitied
their own views and feelings and those
of their friends and associates out OF
all reasonable proportion.
Germans Waited at First.
For the first few months of the
war the Germans waited for the In
dian storm to come of itself as they
had been led to believe that it would
come. To begin with our enemies
based extravagant hopes on Turkeys
intervention, but the Indian Mohamed-
ians as a whole took this with ex-
traordinary calm and resignation.
Then came the 'Ghadr' invasion from
the United States, Canada and the Far
East, but that broke itself hopelessly
on the good sense and feeling of the
Punjab public and on the resourceful
administration of that province.
Disappointed by these failures of
the Indian trouble to arrive automat-
ically, the Germans realized that they
must attempt direct assistance and
turned their attention to the Bengal
revolutionary party. After six months
or so of the war the Germans had es-
tablished regular bureau of disaf-
fected Indians in Germany itself,
among whom were included some
leading members of most of the dis
turbing movements already mentioned.
Under their advice grandiose schemes
were evolved for the supply of arms,
money and even German soldiers and
sailors to the revolutionaryies in Ben
gal and to the disaffected Moslem fan
atics in the north of India.
THE schemes all miscarried hope
lessly; remittances had way of get
ting intercepted by the wrong people;
ships on secret German errands kept
knocking up against the Allied war
ships, and last, but perhaps not least,
most of the moves in the plots were
promptly reported to us all along by
cur own agents. These plots are still
continuing but there is little sting in
them and l am afraid the Germans
themselves do not believe In them
fely olIOuSly.
Il should like to be able to say that
the Illustration of the plots has been
due to the Indian Police and to the
branch of that service under me but
gladly admit that it has been chiefly
due to the sanity of the great Indian
public which has withheld its sup
port. Plots and cOnspiracies ere very
severely handicapped when the public
environment is apathetic or hostile to
the conspirator. At the moment we of
the Secret Service are feeling very
comfortable but professionally we are
with the plots for India. |
We had hoped to learn a great deal
from their system and methods but |
they seem to us to have been clumsy,
belated, too theoretical and based on a !
of Indian character. |
AT the same time l believe the British |
Empire owes a great deal to the In
dian Polio in all its branches for it's
loyalty and zeal during
the gerat war"