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Show Potentials Are the Aged. Wrinkled Wrin-kled Priests: Most Active Aro Young Hindoos. , NUMBER NATIVE SOLDIERS DISCOVERED IN A PLOT Fanatic Hindoos Supply Their Anarchistic Envoys 'With Magic Charms. Speclnl Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Pob. 12. Following now evidences of sedition in "India as a result re-sult of the muzzling of the Indian press this week, the war office has begun be-gun to mass British troops about Calcutta. Cal-cutta. Cablo advices today say a plot has been discovered implicating a number of nativo soldiers wearing the king's uniform. Orders have been issued is-sued to tho Bongalcse garrisons to prevent pre-vent terroristic mass meetings and the police in the Punjab province now have full authority to use their firearms on tho sliglttcst provocation. Have Magic Charms. The war office has instructed a closer supervision of Sepots, and in future tho nativo regiments will not march or bivouac alone but will bo accompanied by detachments of English troops. The fanatic Hindoos are supplying their anarchistic an-archistic envoys with magic charms which aro supposed to keop tho wearor from harm. Among the Hindoo magicians, magi-cians, all of whom aro dealers in the Occult, strange rites are bemg indulged in. Pra3'.ers arc being said in the little village temples aud the strange gods of Orient arc being invoked to (Irivo out the whites with plague. So fearful aro the Hindoo laymen of these priests or "Medicine men" that tlioy fear lo disobey their orders. The Brilish patrols are breaking up religious gatherings where weird incantations arc being invoked. In tho Shadow. The shndow of insurrection now covers cov-ers all India. Strange to say tho leaders lead-ers are in contrast lo each "other. The potential principals' arc tho aged, wrinkled wrin-kled priests and tlie most active of tho followers are young Hindoos, many of thorn ranging iu years from 4r to 21. Tho viceroy is malting every effort to keep tho natives from securing arms and amtnuuitiou; but many guns havo been smuggled in across tho northern border. |