South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-09
BRITISH PROMISE
OF INDIA EQUALITY
IS UNREST CAUSE
Students Trace Present Dis
satisfaction in India Back
to Dutch Policy.

10 DuJcn OllCJ.
BY A BRITISH EXPERT N INDIA
written For The United Prcas.)
CHAPTER "
LONDON CBy MalJ Agitation in
India. now threatening 20 become
serious, may &c traced back for
nearly a Century. when the work OF
educating Indians 20 participate IN
governing their country was begun
Most OF the agltaSion may be
traced 20 students. brought 90 Eng
land 10 be educated. who have re-
turned 20 India and begun to stir up
their people.
It was the policy of the Old East
India Co. as it is of the government.
20 educate Indians so that they could
FIJI minor posts-Or better oues-in
India In time, thousands of Indians
We're educated according 70 Enslish
standards until there We're more edu-
Gated Indians than there were Official
posts They became school-teachers
and such and many Of them became
agltators.
Gandhi is the greatest Of modern
agltators He has been in many ways
a loyal subject. Tor instance, during
the South African war he was
stretcher BEARER and leader Of the
Indians attached TO the British army.
Later he demanded better treatment
for indians in South africa, and Just
before the world war was sucCessfuI
IN having many discriminatory Tegu-
latIons Removed.
National Hero.
He returned 70 India national
hero and became the unquesttoned
leader OF the Hindus
Some Of India's trouble IS due TO
alleged race discrimination. The
educated Indians are very proud, and
they resent along with the rest of the
people any idea that they are infer
/ ior.-- They are, or course, not
"colored'' race. Moderate Indians as
wen as the Candht- followers, resent
alleged discrimination in the African
/ Kenya Colony and the Rowlatt act
70 -repress disorder.
As 70 the first. the British govern
ment is torn between Rival claims.
| Indians want equality with other
British subjects There are 5,0oe
whites 10000 Indians and 100000
natives In the Kenya colony. The
whites want supremacy and claim
| the Indians cause disaffection among
/ the natives. The Indians, mostly
traders, deny it and quote the de-
cision of the Imperial conference Of
| 1921. which decided that there
/ should not be discrimination against
subjects OF the Empire by any Do
minion.
Favor Eor-c Rule.
/ AS to the Rowiau act. it was the
result Of years Of sporadic murders
and riots before the war. II was
/ drawn up as the result Of report
\ that cited hundreds Of cases Of polit-
1 ical murders and other crimes As
/ to the law itself. It. has never been
/ put in operation.
Now Gandhi. leader Of the Hindus,
/ has united with the All brothers, lea
I der OF the MISUNDERSTANDING fight
I ing for "sWaraJ' or home rule and
/ the other for KR!Iafat movement
/ really Caliphate. TO restore the Sui
/ tan. the Cal!pb Of the NahOmme
church. to power.
I The disagreement with Gandhi is
/ as to means, rather than TO extent,
/ of home rule. 1t is desired to give
India home. rule, but not to give 1t
too suddenly.
The disagreement with the Khila-
| fat group is one that must be attend
ed to The government of India, in
a cablegram to London few days
ago, urged Immediate revision of the
| Turkish treaty of the greatest inn
portance If we can settle that and
the Kenya question we will have
gone a long way 10 settle the entire
| Indian problem
Occupation Temporary
/ There are however. loOpholes in
l the proposals Of the Indian govern
/ ment. which they say are urgent.
I They are not new. The first recon-
mendation IS for the evacuation Of
| Constantinople, the second FOR the
| suzeralnty OF the Sultan over Ma
/ hommedan Holy Places. and the
third for the RESTORATION of Ottoman
/ Thrace, including AdrIanople and OF
| smyrna. Subject to The Safeguarding
of the neutrality of the straits and
I security on the non-Mosiem popu-
/ Iations." The quoted portion is the
| big loophoIe We have no intention
| OF occupying Constantiuople per-
I-manently. Y is question Of OBJ
tanning guarantees for the neutral
rTtv ofrhe straits ard the general full
flnment OF the SeTres treaty thar the
/ Allies remain. The occupation itself
Is 1T present the only guarantee. II
We returned Thrace and Smyrna
now. there would be no security for
The non=Moslen1 populations. As to
the Ecfy Places The two greatest Of
the--. Mecca ard Medina are under
. Moslem control-that o. the Hedl2z
y government which, however does
+not recognize the Sultan as head of
the Moslem faith Also not all In
dian Mahommedans are followers OF
\ the sultan. Some OF them recognize
Persia as the Mosleu Vatican.
END CHAPTER ~.