Show ya E I 1 G N S IN INDIA the terror in which the british indian authora ties hold the hindu nihilists nihilisms lists was shown shonn at its worst when lord Hardi hardinge lige recently recent paid a visit to calcutta the capital of hindustan the literary digest states disregarding the ac counts penned by hindu 1 as likely to ey ex the alarm of their rulers quotations are taken from the englishman calcutta to indi cate the elaborate nature of the precautions on this occasion describing he journey from delhi to calcutta and back the paper owned edited and printed by englishmen for or englishmen in india and their rel relatives atnes in england E says the tha sections of the line between delhi and calcutta 01 er which tile the ilce sice roys train passed at night time were lit b by torch bearers standing at regular intervals neat calcutta the torch bearers were not many man apices apart ills his excel lenc came and went through a veritable avenue of torches prom from the same aut borit we me learn that the station at which the viceroy arrived and departed was swept bare of 0 its picturesque throngs tile the paper adds addi the following in regard to the comings and goings of the head of the british indian government while lie was in calcutta so far were thea the the people kept from the actual point of tile the road where his excellency was due to pass that they the dd not even have the satisfaction of catching a glimpse of him as lie shot by in a bulat motor car there were no crowds to watch tile the public entry into calcutta because the crowds were kept aua aw a his excellency was not permitted to aft northern calcutta at all the foundation stone of the school of tropical medicine which he hid had promised to la liv was anas not laid and the jenft como convocation cation was held at al government house bousa and not in the senate house where it usually took place there was nas a threefold three lold bar arfer of 0 guards around the government house and in short the person of the viceroy was more carefully watched and protected than the person of the czar car in the most troublesome of the revolutionary lutio nary periods in russia As to the reason why lh such unheard of 0 dons were taken tile tho englishman offers the fol lowing opinion the government because of its enormous sources of information has better means of knowing than the public the strength and range of the tha terrorist organization we can ho however Neer only judge of what the government does kno know w from the nature of the precautions it 11 takes it the precautions grow more and more elaborate the only explanation is that the police have baie more reason to be afraid one expected all kinds of things from the visit of tho the to calcutta but the on only thing tint that has emerged Is the tact fact that the govern goern ment has no off offensive ensle against terrorism and has therefore to surround itself with mth suc such a heay defens defensive he armor that its activities are either hindered or completely interrupted |