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Show nuns i mi TO BRITISH EMPIRE Efforts of Germans to Stir Up Serious Trouble Have Failed. POPULATION IS GREAT People Are Mostly Quiet Agriculturists, Who Sup-port Sup-port England. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Jan. 22. All efforts of th Germans to stir up serious trouble for the British in India have so far failed signally. The few seditious movement noted have had their origin In Hindu organizations or-ganizations which antedate the great war. When it Is considered that the population popula-tion of India 315.000,000 Is mors than three times that of the United States, tho relative Insignificance' of the few outbreaks out-breaks In the last year and half la evident. evi-dent. In such a frreat nation disorders ar inevitable. In either war or peace, Just as tne United States or any other nation Is never quite tree from labor troubles causing caus-ing loss of life or property. All the Information, In-formation, official and otherwise, received here shows that the Indian empire is profoundly pro-foundly quiet, except for the ever-restless warlike border tribes of the northwest The rulers of the great native inds-pendent inds-pendent or semi-Independent states, from the iizam of Hyderabad, with his 14 000 -000 people, down, are loyal to their emperor, em-peror, King George V of England. They have contributed liberally of their publio and private means to assist Great Britain against her enemies. Manv of their relatives rela-tives are active members of the British army. Loyalty Unquestioned. The Mohammedans of India, far from being au element to be distrusted, ar the greatest bulwark of British rule. Thl minority of 75.000,000 has always sided with the British as Its protectors against the more numerous Hindus. It is staled here that no Mohammedan has ever been convicted of complicity in a treasonable enterprise In India. Itm,ust be remembered that of the 300,-000,000 300,-000,000 people in India, at least 250,000 000 are quiet, uneducated, gentle agriculturists, agricultur-ists, quite uninterested in politics, asking from their government only a chance to till their little farms in peace and caring no further as to the character of their rulers. It must not be concluded from these facts that the world war is without Important Im-portant effect on India. Tha Hindu Intellectual Intel-lectual leaders see tha growing prominence promi-nence of Canada,, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand in the empire. They know that the British dominions will soon ask a place in the councils of the empire and a voice In the peace congress which shall follow the war. Will Demand Voice. They believe that the time has com for India to have a voice in the empire, too. They demand a further degree of autonomy for- India, something approximating approxi-mating the freedom of England's white dependencies. This was clearly set forth by the Indian In-dian national congress at Bombay on December De-cember 30, which unanimously adopted a resolution demanding self-government for India. At the same time the delegates to the congress heartily applauded Baba Suren-dranth Suren-dranth Bannerjee when he said: "India's devotion to the throne during the war lias been unsurpassed." India, like other eastern nations, la permeated, too, with the spirit of "Asia for the Asiatics." Despite the long hostility hos-tility between certain nations, notably China and Japan, there is developing a fellow feeling in Asiatic nations against European dictation. An illustration was an incident which occurred la Tokio la December. Escaped to America.1 Two young Indians, British subjects, received re-ceived thirty-six hours' notice to leave Japan, the reason being their alleged complicity com-plicity in German plots to foment disturbances dis-turbances In India. The notice was so timed that the only vessel by which the deportees could sail was bound for Shanghai, Shang-hai, where they were liable to arrest by the British consul. The Indians laid their hard case before sympathizers In the Japanese press. Leading Lead-ing Independent politicians were approached. ap-proached. In a few hours a formidable agitation was afoot. A deputation waited on the foreign minister and asked that the order should be withdrawn or altered so as to permit of the Indians boarding a ship bound for America. The minister refused. Whereupon the government was defied. A leading member mem-ber of the diet who delights to act the part of a "ronln," or free lance (literally a warrior without a lord), took the Indians In-dians to his home and kept them there till the time specified in the order had expired. The authorities drew a cordon of police around his house, but did not risk entering enter-ing and removing the Indians. Next morning they covered up their capitulation capitula-tion by saying the Indians had escaped which nobody believed, the efficiency of the Japanese police in the matter of surveillance sur-veillance being well known. The Indians probably have sailed for America- |