Bisbee daily review., 1917-02-02


 plans for causing trouble in India an, among Indians outside India during
 the war. My own impression is tha Germany thought India would neet very little eXtraneOus prompting an' assistance to rise against the Britisl if the latter were in serious embarrass ment owing to a big continental war and that therefore not very much d, tention was paid by the German gov ernment to instigation in India befor, the war. Where and how did the Ger man government get that idea? Was it conveyed to them by secret and un known agents or by their consular of ficers in India or by some over con fident Indian Extremist or by British
 panic mongers? It is difficult to say
 for certain but remember that some
 years ago an Indian Extremist leader
 'ised the following words to me:
 "'We shall certainly try to emhar
 rass you actively in India if you have
 war with a Continental power or
 with Afghanistan. Our feelings are
 firm on that point unless. indeed. self
 interest or some special reason die.
 -ates a passive attitude to some or all
 of us. But never again will you find
 such positive assistance as we gave
 you at the time of the Boer War
 My Extremist friend went on 10
 'ell me that We were foolish to think
 we could count on the Indian army.
 At the time thought my friends atti-
 Jude was pathetic in its self-delusion and time has shown that was right.
 After the war broke out the Ger. man government showed a willingness to spend money lavishly on Indian
 trouble, but there was no sign of financing of troublesome schemes of individuals before the war In 1913 and 1914 German viewing the situa- ion in India wath patriotic anti-Brit- ish eyes would have observed the fol- lowing phenomena: A rapprochement between a section of Indian Mohame. dans and the Yung Turk party in Europe: an anarchical revolutionary movement in Bengal with some ramifi- cations in the north of India; latent movement of Extreme nationalism in the Bombay Presidency and some oth- CT places; an unrestrained 'Ghadr' movement among Indians in the Unit ed States and Canada. and a certain amount of Moslem dissatisfaction in the north of India and along the North West Frontier I think it was beyond the power of any German to decide whether these phenomena were the signs of a deep and widespread unrest of merely local surface disturbances and l feel sure that in order to inter bret them the Germans consulted ex- fled and partisan Indians who were out of touch with India as a whole and who therefore magnihed their own views and feelings and those of their friends and associates out of all reas- onable proportion.
 For the first few months of the war the Germans waited for the Indian storm to come of itself as they had been led to believe that it would come To begin with our enemies based ex- travagant hopes on Turkeys interven- ton, but the Indian Mohamedans as a whole took this with extraordinary 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 PunjaD public and on the resourceful admin istration of that province.
 Disappointed by these failures of the Indian trouble to arrive automati- ally, the Germans realized that they must attempt direct assistance and turned their attention to the Bengal revolutionary party. After six months TT so of the war the Germans had es- tablished a regular bureau of disaffect- ad Indians in Germany itself. among whom were included some leading of most of the disturbing already mentioned Under their advice grandiose schemes were evolved for the supply of arms. ammu- nition, money and even German sol Hers and sailors to the revolutionaries Tn Bengal and to the disaffected Mos em fanatics in the north of India
 "The schemes all miscarried hope ! essly; remittances had a way of get ing intercepted by the wrong people; l ships on secret German errands kept | up against the Allied war 'hips, and last. but perhaps not least. | most of the moves in the plots were reported to us all along by | Dur own agents. These plots are still | but there is little sting in hem and I am afraid the Germans do not believe in them very