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Show HINDUS PUT TO DEATH IN INDIA People of Northern Part of India Remain Loyal to Great Britain. London, Nov. 18, 5:30 p. m. In northern India, where concerted attempts at-tempts have been made by members of the anti-British association, having Its headquarters In the United States, to disturb the peace of the country, to tamper with the troops and to upsot the government, the active loyalty of tho people of the province waa shown by the resistance they voluntarily offered of-fered and by the aid they gave the civil powers, was In part the answer of J. Austen Chamberlain, secretary for India, "to a request mado in the house of commons today by Sir Edwin Cornwall for Information concernig ufavorable reports were of enemy country origin. "As regards the general condition of India," Mr. Chamberlain ndded, "my information is that it substantially substantial-ly is satisfactory. Such difficulties as have arisen had their origin in movements move-ments outside of India, or in an effort ef-fort of a small group of extremists who do not reflect the sentiment of the great mass of tho people and of whom many aro fugitives from justice. jus-tice. The government of India has the situation well in hand." Washington, Nov. IS. Mail advices reaching Washington today from India In-dia told of tho execution of 21 Hindus Hin-dus and tho sentence of 27 others to servitudo for llfo by a governmental commission at Lahore and described activities against the British government govern-ment among certain elements In the Indian population moro extensive than has been officially admitted. According to tho roports the Lahoro affair was only one of several others that recently have been brought to an issue in India with similar results, all the prosecutions being based upon charges of anarchy, mutiny and insubordination. in-subordination. Tho native press, while speaking of tho loyalty with which India responded to tho call by tho British government upon the natives na-tives for militan' service, also was referred to in terms of condemnation of activities in tho disaffected elements ele-ments in tho population, which in some quarters are ascribed to Ger man macninations. Tho general tendency, however, is to credit the mutinous agitation to the work of a band of conspirators alleged al-leged to havo been located on the Pacific Pa-cific slope of America for several years and actively engaged in secret propaganda. These conspirators are declared to havo dispatched emissaries emis-saries to India who have been stirring up antagonism to tho British rule there. The most disquieting feature of the situation, according to the roports, is the uncertainty of the extent to which the native troops have been tampered with. In the Punjab and in Gengal, between the middle of June and the middle of September, seventeen Indian In-dian cavalrymen wore sentenced to death for mutiny, making bombs and cutting telegraph wires, and 71 others oth-ers were convicted of similar offenses |
