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Show TO KILL ANARCHISM WITH KINDNESS ! NEW METHOD TO MAKE INDIA LOYAL ' h Well-to-Do' Bandits Are Dismissed Dis-missed by Court at Request Re-quest of Prosecutor. By Special Cable to The Tribune. BOMBAY, May 13. After two years or more of the utmost severity against Bengali agitators and wronpdoers. the Indian government govern-ment lins suddenly turner! round and dismissed a band of well-to-do bandits with a caution. India could hardly believe the news, for already there were comparatively mild newspaper editors edi-tors In jail or exile, while this KnK of robbers, though bclouginc to the .superior classes, had held up and murdered officials offi-cials with a brazen cruelty that left no room for palliation. But the prosecuting lawyer rose In court and said the government desired IJiem to be dealt with leniently, whereupon where-upon the chief justice gave Ihem a little lecture and let the whole joyful bunch so. on entering Into a bond to come up for judgment If called for. And now it Is freely said in ofllclal circles that Oils judicial somersault has conic about because be-cause India Is desired (o he loyal when King Georce and Queen Mary come along in the fall-Policy fall-Policy of Kindness. Anarchism is to be killed by kindness that loyalty may be created that apparently ap-parently Ik the government view. Most British observers consider the experiment a hold and dangerous one. calculated to breed more unrest. Others hail the step as the beginning of an era of better government In India and tho recognition of the national feeling among the people. Neither side conceals the fact that the outcome will be critical, one way or the other, and it Is certainly doubtful If the Bengali will get tho right Interpretation of the clemency. But India is. for all that, kconly Interested Inter-ested in the coming of the emperor. The native princes are having their matchless gems reset. Not only in India but in Paris. London and Antwerp, millions ol dollars worth of ornaments are bfing furbished up for the great event. There is some regiet expressed in the tendency of the native rulers to abandon Oriental settings and adont European models. One of tho uueerest coronation presents to the king Is that of lite maharajah of Pat lain. He ordered an aeroplane out from Europe, but when he got It neither he nor any of his people would mount In it. though lie had told how he would use II Tor duck shooting. So. finding It on his hands, he has given It to the Icing for use with the army in India. King Will Be Weighed. A picturesque feature of the durhar niogranime will be the weighing of the king when lie arrives in Calcutta. Till the scale is moved against his weight the local authorities will, pile gold Into the balancing scale. Then the amount so used will be devoted to Indian char-lllc. char-lllc. It is an old Indian custom for great events, such as royal marriages, the birth of an heir, or the accomplishment accomplish-ment of a great victory. .A new gold coinage will bo si ruck to celebrate the visit. At prosonl there is only one gold coin in muia. uiu hiunu , which dales back for centuries and Is worth 55. It is now proposed lo have a new coin worth $". For tho accommodation of the royal nartv there will be u sperial train run bv ilu Eastern Bengal slate railway, with the most luxurious e-.iuipmonl yet invented. M was redecorated only a few weeks ago for the tour of the German crown prince, but now tho best craftsmen of India, the most skillful in the world, havo been called In to so elaborate the tittlngH as to make the train a marvel of luxury. |