The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-04-19
AN EVIDENCE OF THE
UNREST OF THE INDIANS
Calcutta, India Feb. s, 1872.

This morning large number of
, Indian policemen under several Brit
ish sargents searched the place where
the new school has been started for
the students who left the Government
schools when Ghandi called for boy
cott Of the all Government institu-
tions. This school here has been
searched time after time as the head
quarters Of the Monco operators
4 movement and they have arrested one
or two of the men who have served
as secretaries from time to time. This
morning a crowd gathered as the
search was being made and when
they came out without anything the
crowd yelled for Ghandi as the police
rode away. They did nothing then to
try to drive the crowd away This
afternoon after five o'clock Welling-
. ton Square, the park just in front of
the place where l am staying was
the scene of a rather unusual sight.
Large crowds had been gathering all
the afternoon and there must have
been fully three thousand people
there when l first looked out and saw
the great cOncourse of people gather
ed in the park and around the fence
on the outside. l was first attracted
by the noise of the shouts "Victory
for Ghandi" and when l looked out
there were people running back and
forth and | was at quite loss to
know what was happening at first.
Then l saw uniformed policemen. of
three kinds all about over the park.
The Indian policemen were in white
with red turbans. The British sar-
gents were in blue with white he'll
NETS and were armed with good sized
sticks, the Indians had bamboo poles
as long as their height, and then
there were what they call the civil
police. These were uniformed in
white foreign clothes and had black
bands around their arms. They were
as are used in America. The British
were severe with the people whenever
they gathered in little punches and
often were they seen to strike men
with force using these big sticks. The
crowd did not at any time make any
effort at self protection, and only
seemed to vince when they were hit.
In fact it seemed to me that they did
not even show any decided sighs of
resentment. They did not leave the
place, however, but simply moved
back and forth from one part Of the
park to another. Whenever the police
would move from one part Of the
park to another those of lesser cou-
rage would run back and forth to
avoid the blows that were delivered
without favor upon the first man that
fell in the way, but many of the peo-
pie stood their ground and these were
rarely struck, it was the fleeing
crntIy6 that tho1y o1uyo1J y,,,,.o,,oJ 10
attempt to scatter the crowd was
kept up for over an hour, and finally
more people were present than when
they began and yells for Ghandi were
constantly heard. I noticed that
there were several men lying on the
ground and I saw one being carried
out of the park and taken away on
the shoulders of some six or eight
other men. There were at least two
others down on the ground, whether
they were really hurt or not do not
know as they may have been feigning
injury to get sympathy or glory. For
it is now considered quite an honor
to get hurt or put into prison for the
salvation of the country. Ghandi has
been preaching this right along and
many there are who are put into pri-
son and count it an honor to be able
w oay tiloC eilCy nave CIiS
much for the glory Of their mother
country. Later on in the afternoon,
noticed that the foreign police seem
ed to be using their hands bouncing
the people rather than striking them
with sticks. The Indian policemen
were never observed to strike a single
man during the whole afternoon and
their chief job seemed to be following
up the Britishers and giving them
"moral" support. The people often
argued with the Indian policemen and
if trouble comes I would hate to be
dependent upon the loyalty of these
men. The mob was orderly and we'll
behaved. I went out among them to
see just what the feeling was and
there was nothing out of the way at
all as passed back and forth among
them. The day will come, however,
I fear when this will not be the case
and there is going to be bloodshed on
big scale. Unless the Government
takes n firm hold now and exercises
this hold fearlessly, the Indians are
going to attribute their lack of ac-
tion as fear of them, and then the
trouble is going to come compounded.
Ghandi says non-violent but he can
not control the mob once it gets
started.
Prof. N. Gist Gee.
Calcutta, India.