The New York herald., 1921-09-04
GIBBS WARNS WORLD.
india REVOLT WOULD.
MENACE CIVILIZATION.
Soviet Reds and Misguided
English Folk Fan Flame
of InsurrectiOn.
RELIGION AN ELEMENT
british Prestige Hurt When
RELIGION AN ELEMENT
british Prestige Hurt When
Nation Proved to Be Not
Inyincible in War.
CASE NOT LIKE IRELAND'S
American Clergy and Publi-
cists Urged to Advise Sim
Fein to Accept Offer.
BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS.

/ Special Gable to THE NEW York HEsAIp.
| Copyright, 1921, by THE NEW YORK HERALD
LONDON, Sept. 3.--Recent news OF
serious risings in India has excited
those alarmists who expect any day
to hear of a flaming insurrection
\ throughout the Indian Empire. 1t is
also a curious fact that many peo.
pie not altogether unprincipled or
bloodthirsty, but with ideas of lib
erty carried to excess, entertain
secret hopes that the Indian people,
as they say with extraordinary igno-
rance of all the races and peoples
within that vast continent, may lib
crate themselves from British OPP
preston" and establish "self-govern-
ment.'
| have heard elderly little ladies
jump up in English public meetings
and cry out in shrill voice. when
will India be liberated from British
tyranny" / have been heckled that
way myself and have smiled to find
that India was put with Ireland as a
country demanding republic rights.
Little groups writing communistic
and revolutionary tracts, secretly
printed and distributed among Brit
ish workingmen, prophesy that the
time is near at hand when India will
throw off the British yoke" and join
Russia in establishing liberty and
equality.
Many of these tracts are written
and circulated by young Indian stu
dents of law and medicine in Lon.
don University, who afterward go
back to India with theoretical ideas
of western parliamentary systems,
which they propose to adopt to In
dian civilization and with sense of
irritation against English society,
which treated them, with ill-dis.
guised. though unexpressed, conde.
scension. Many of them become
propagandists for revolt against
British rule, but would not have much
influence were it not for other forces,
far more powerful, at work to incite
revolution among the Indian races.
y BoIsheviISi Stirring Trouble.
There is no doubt, from recent in
formation which / have personally
received. that the Russian Bolsheviki
are actively stirring up trouble by
way of Afghanistan, in which they
have important centres of propa-
ganda, also the Turks are trying to
excite religious feelings in their fell
low Mohammedans because of the
Greek war, and the British opera
tions in Mesopotamia and Palestine.
In this way over many Oriental
routes Indian unrest is travelling over
wide territories and is reacting on
European interests in Asia Minor.
A general uprising in the Moham.
medan world will be a new menace
not only to the British Empire but
to all European civilization, for
what weakens the British Empire
would weaken all Europe in her pres.
ent state, and anything like wide
spread insurrection in India will be
one of the most CHASTITY episodes in
history which we have yet seen, in
cluding that Of Russia.
Now what is the chance of that?
My knowledge Of the present Indian
situation is only second hand but
have reliable information from
friends out there which breaks
through the secrecy Of the censor
ship imposed on the press and the
difficulty of telegraphing communica.
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