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Zurich Herald, 1929-06-20, Page 7A Secret of Indian. Blois Is Revealed Communist Activities Organ ized Largely, If Not ' Mainly, from Berlin 13y SIR MICHAEL O'DWYER (Formerly Lieutenant -Governor of the Punjab) Sir Michael, O'Dwyer, formerly, Lieutenant -Governor of the Pun- jab, is one of., the best -informed and most aceoznplishecl critics of Indian affairs. ,Recent information he leas re ceived has tended to oonfirm that -as he shows ih the special ar ticl below -Communist activities in India, .such as have lately re. suited in riots and deaths, are or• gauized largely, if not mainly; from Berlin. When the German War Lords, in .April, 1917, transported Lenin "in a sealed' truck like a plague bacillus" from Switzerland to Russia, they se- cured the speedy downfall of Tsarist Russia, the defection of Russia `from the Allied cause and the establish- ment in Russia of the ruthless Coni- inunist tyranny under which she is groaning to -day. But effective as the German move was at the tithe, the War Lords did not then realize—though Ludendorff ruefuly admitted it later—that it would redoil on the Fatherland as a boomerang. Recent cables, from Ber- lin described vividly the Communist I rising which began "according to plan" under Moscow's instructions on May 1st, and led to a "state of siege" with all the panoply of armored cars, machine guns, barricades, c,rsenals of •sans, etc.; attending a dangerous revo- lutionary outbreak. The outbreak is believed to be dir- ected by a Bolshevist leader, three Cheka organizers from Moscow and three officers of the Red Army. Doubt- less German efficiency and discipline will prevail now, as in past years, against the forces of world revolu- tion; but some may see in the pres- ent disorders a retribution for having let loose on the world the poisonous propaganda of the Third International. For to -day. Berlin is the advanced' base of Moscow, and from there the revolutionary propaganda of the Third; International is being effectively dis- seminated East and West and in par- ticular over the British Empire. A Nest of Indian Revolutionaries During the war, if not befdre, a strong colony of Indian. revolution- aries was established in Berlin, and 'formed an active and well -subsidised branch of the German Foreign Office. Their function was to peep in touch with every seditious movement is In- dia itself, to corrupt Indian troops— and prisoners—at the front and in 'India, to incite the Indian Princes -- to whom alluring letters prepared by Indian experts were despatched over the signature of the German Chancel- lor—to revolt, and generally to pre- pare the Indian masses for revolution and rebellion. Those men are well-known to the authorities here and India: they are still active. The collapse of Germany in the war for a time frustrated their designs. The new German govern- ment had no direct use for them but it continued to afford its late trusted agents asylum. Presently, when Bol- shevism became a world -force, these Indian revolutionaries offered it their allegiance, which was readily ac- cepted. Since the war the old nuc]e- ous in Berlin has received fresh re- cruits from India direct and secured others, by corrupting some of the enaver Indian students sent to Germ- any. for technical instruction. Some few of these men are probably genu- ine. Communists; others have joined the cause tempted by Bolshevist gold; and their masters see to it that they earn their pay. Tiley aro just the type the Bolshevists want, possessing brains and knowledge of India, but lacking any moral sense or moral rez straint. Serest of them are Madrasis or Bengalis. The judicial findings in the many recent conspiracies against the Brit- ish Government in India peeve that the brains and direction are largely centred in 13erlin. The mysterious figure of the Ben- gali, M. N. Roy eaprominent member of the Third International), flits ac- ross the stage between Berlin and Moscow, working the controls which produce murders and anarchy in In- dia; and it is well known that the German Government has been giving these Indian revolutionaries—whether in ignorance of their designs or not-- many' facilities for moving from one headquarters to another. These frequent strikes and sabot- age in Indian mills and railways, and the sanguinary outbreaks in ;Bombay, since February have cost 200 lives. W s The murder of Mr, Saunders at La- hore a. fcw months ago and the bombs which wrecked the Delhi Assembly last month are cleaned by them as. the work of the' organization they direct; they even profess to specify the individuals by whom these and similar outrages' were petpetrated . Indeed, they Make no secret of their programme, which, as adver• tised by the organs of their Moscow pavinasters, the Pravda and Isvestia and the "red" leaflets scattered broadcast in the Botnbay strike area and the Delhi Assembly,• is to create throughout India a spirit of deflatiee of 23t•iilsh authority. 'Up to tills point they area at etre with. the. Indian Cot. geese Swaralists, who, under the direction f Messrs. Gandhi and Moti Lal Nehru, have publicly announced that there will be a general revolt, ! against the law unless their propos, Leroux ,demands are conceded by lie- eeinber 31 next,. Lessons of the 1919 Rsinge Here it may be noted that Moti Lal acid his son, iawahir Lal, who openly and unchecked preach the subversion of British rule, last 'year visited Ser= lin on their way to Moscow. The defiance Q. the law will, it is hoped by the Berlin conspirators, pre- pare the way for widespread internal rising on the day, sometime in 1932, if not earlier, when war breaks out between the 33rltisl "Empire and So- viet Russia, and the bink of the Brit- ish Indian Army is massed In the Punjab and N. W. Frontier to resist invasion from the north. That game was tried in the spring of 1919 when the revoIutionarieer shrouded their designs 'behind 'Gand- hi's Civil Disobedience. It failed then because the internal risings in Bom- bay, Delhi and the Punjab wore sup- pressed before the Afghan and tribal offensive was reedy. But the revolutionaries and their Bolshevist masters will profit by that lesson., and, as in 1919, the extremist political leaders in India are consci- ously ox unconsciously playing into their hands. Meantime they are Elaborating their plans and vigorously pushing their Bolshevist propaganda from theirsafe asylum in Berlin.—"Montreal Stan- dard." Ford to Operate Plant In Ra ssia Agreement Said to Have Been Signed to Build Factory at Nijni-Novgorod Moscow—Newspapers here express great satisfaction at the news of the Ford agreement by which the Amer!" can, it is reported, will build a large automobile factory at Is ijni-Novgorod ! and supply the Soviet Union Workers • with his technical manufacturing secrets. The authorities which plan the rapid industrialization of the coun-, try expect to learn much from lir. ' Ford's rationalization methods. Leo Hinchuk, vice-president of the Commissariat of. Trade, said that the agreement was a continuation of the', policy of the rapprochement between the United States and the Soviet Union ,the latter being anxious to em-: ploy American skill and machinery.; Mr. Hinchuk declared that the Ford .agreement was especially valuable be -1 cause it .iwould• enable the Soviet, Union to deirelop the infant automo-! bile industry according to the latest t Methods. Youth a State of Mind "Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will, al quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, "Youth means a temperamental pre- dominance of courage over timidity,! of the appetite for adventure over the, love of ease. This often exists in a man of 50 more than in a boy et 20. t "Nobody grows old by merely liv- ing a number of years; people growl old only by deserting their Meals. "Years may wrinkle the skin, but' to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. "Torry, doubt, self -distrust, fear and despair—these are the Iong, Iong years that bow the heart and turn the greening spirit back to dust. "Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of won- der, the unfailing, c1ildiike appetite of living. "We are as young as our faith, as old as our doubt; as young as, our self-confidence, as old as ,our fear; as young as our hope, as oldas our des- pair. The Wheat Crisis Quebec Evenement (Cores.): (Free - dent Hoover has used $100,000,020 of treasury money to buy a luindred mil- lion 'bushels of wheat at a dollar a bushel. The President's policy is not a new one, for it dates from the time of Joseph, son of Jacob and Rachel, who profited by seven years of abun- dauce to accumulate great stores of Wheat to preserve Egypt from the seven :'ears' famine, which he fore- saw, But we have to admire the practical mind and clear vision oe lir. Coolidge's successor at Washington, By buying one hundred million bushels of .wheat Mr. Veneer is hot only pro- tecting the Anerican farmer, but later on he will be protecting the consum- er. Where Hands Across the Border Honor Heroes Memory. BRITISH AND CANADIANS HONOR MEMORIAL DAY Representatives of the Canadian legation and the British 'embassy before the Canadian cemetery where they honored the empire's war heroes o n Memorial Day. Ni rwegia a Vessel Had Eventful Trin Ranenfjord Was Damaged by Ice on Voyage Across JETTISONED CARGO 'Fore Hold Filled With Water - and Pumps Disabled. With her fore hold full of water, the Norwegian -American Line's freighter Ranenfjord came into Mont- real recently following a thrilling though hazardous 16 -day voyage from Sweden via England. Leaving Sweden with a cargo of pulp, the Ranenfjord was caught in a big field of close pack ice some of which she hit. It was not until the vessel left England, however, where she had called for bunkers, that the damage was considered serious, for she began to make water in No. 1 hold. As the days wore on and the anxi- ety of all on board increased, the pumps which had been put in action in order to reduce the inrusheof water, were rendered useless owing to the pipes.;beiug choked by pulp. The ves- sel, because of the weight of the added cargo sof water, was down by the head. CARGO OVERBOARD. Finally, it was decided that soiree of the cargo should be jettisoned and ac- cordingly the watch on deck were employed throwing bale after bale of pulp overboard, considerably over 100 tons being sacrificed in this manner before the water stopped gaining. • The fact that the weather during the voyage across was good andthe sea moderate favored the Ranenfjord, for had there been a rough sea run- ning at the time it would have been impossible to uncover the forward hatch and reach the cargo, and the vessel would have continued to make water. The vessel and canwill, be in- spected by the surveyor and it is con- sidered likely that she will have to be dry-docked for repairs. • A vicious circle is iike an express train: You cannot step out of it when you like.—Capt. Alfred Dewar. • Intensive Immigrations Quebec Soleil (Lib.) : We shall soon comb to the conclusion that life will not be liveable in this vast Canada of ours .if we clo not soon put a limit to the ituniber of its inhabitants. Trow then is it possible to live and pr oslier in Europe, where on an area about equal to that of Canaria a population fifty times as dense can exist? Sure-' ly there must be an excessive egoism soniewhere in 'this? Should: we leave unproductive the immense natural re• sources which Providence has entrust- ed d to tis? We should remember what 1tappene to the lean who hides the talent which Inas been entrusted to him instead of Making it produce mora, tttcygm awe to think b tie start, • 01055 " Y l in ' Arlington urcoDFre Bch Agreement on a, Syrian, order Foreign Officers to Undertake Elaboration of Treaty of Arbitration and Amity Paris—Elaboration of a treaty of arbitration and friendship with Tur- key is being undertaken at the Qui d'Orsay. Aristide Deland, Foreign Minister, will take the matter up on his return from the League Council meeting at 'Madrid with the Turkish Ambassador here, Fethy Bey, and Franco -Turkish relations will be cry- stallized on an amicable basis. Announcement from Angora of an accord in substance on all outstand- ing Franco -Turkish differeces arrived at by Tewfik Rusbdi Bey, Foreign Minister, and the French Ambassador, Count Chambrun, has given great sat- isfaction here. The semi-official Temps speaks of the event as narking an important date. That feature of the convention to which most attention is directed is the successful delimitation of the Turko-Syrian frontier. Gain or loss of this strip of territory was not so vital to the French as that frontier conditions be regulated on account of the internal situation in Syria. Diffi- culties appear lessening in Syria for the French as mandatory power but the disturbed frontier has presented many difficulties ,and open intertribal raids have aggravated French troubles with -•hives. Removal of all danger of a military coup on the part of the Turks to fix the line to suit only their owa interests and guarantee of appeasement on all other points has , created a favorable atmosphere for the proposed pact. Jug . slay Unity Moves a altingly Slaying of Croatian Editor Laid to Opposition to Reign of Dictator Zagreb, Jugoslavia—The recent as- sassination of the Ieading editor and publisher in Zagreb, and the police and juridical investigation connected with it would seem to indicate that one should not be too sanguine in regard to the ability of the dietator- ship to preserve peace and tranquil- lity and to unite all the nationalities in a single -nation. it seems to be certain that the • deed was committed for political rea- sons by persons opposed to the pres- ent regime. 'The editor, Tony Shlegal, who was assassinated, was a personal friend of General Zivkoviteh, the I Prime Minister, and the chief expon- ent in Croatia of the present atrsolu- tism. He advocated a united Jugoslavia in opposition to the separatist de- ' mends of the Croatian patriots. He was slated for a high position in the present Government. It is probable [that his enemies favored Croatian autonomy and opposed Serbian rege- mony. Air Mail in the U.S.A. Sherbrooke Tribune (Lib.). Each year American pilots fly about 36,000 miles. The United States are es- tablishing airports and installing everything that is needed for the lighting of aerial routes. . , . An in- ltense propoganda by the sight of i 'planes and by press articles is making the public familiar with aviation and ' inviting them to make use of its pas- senger and postal facilities for cora-, mercial purposes. Claim` to Earldom of Egmont Made . London Baker Lacks Only One Document to Assert it London, 'Eng. --Claimant to the Earl- dom of Egmont, a castle in Baine. shire, and an estate worth :$614,000, James William Perceval, of Birkbeck' road, Hornsey, Ne. works in itis baste house for another baker. Mr, Perceval is a dignified, soft spoken, bearded aian, Aged 66, lta has unusual. bearing and personality. As he talked about his claim he showed a silver snuff-box, embossed with the Egmont crest and polished by age, which he said had been the property of his father, w His claim 'to the earldom, be ex plained, had been brought forward bf his son, Augustus Perceval, who also lives at Hornsey and who works in the City of London. "The claim is' held up by the lack of ono document—my birth certificate," said Mr, Perceval. ,"The matter has been under discussion for some years, and in 1907 a i]i'm of solicitors had - it in hand. Among the documents they had was my baptismal certificate, granted at Trinity Church, Bowen, Queensland, when I was four years of age. "Tbe members of the firm left Eng land and the document was lost. Our present solicitors, however, have agents in Australia who are snaking inquiries. "I am a son of Augustus John Per. ceval, a son of a brother of the 6th earl "My fattier was the heir-presump. tive, but he died in 1896, a year be- fore the death of the 7th earl. He was buried at Hove, and it is record- ed on his grave that he was heir: presumptive to the earldom." It is not certain whether Mr, Per- ceval was born in Brisbane or Sydney, as for private reasons his father con- cealed the details of his birth, There are, it is stated, important documents in existence which throw considerable light on this. Old photographs, inscribed Bibles, and other objects in Mr, Pereeve 's possession „,are considered to be int. The present holder of the title, Frederick Perceval, the "Rancher Earl," was a ranch owner in Canada when the 9th earl died last January. .:+,.. 1,. year -eta son and took up his residence at Avon Castle, Ringwood, Hampshire, the y zona id's Briefly Told Born the son of a poverty;stricken farm laborer in an obscure Scottish Ifishing village in 1867. Largely educated self by reading and also attended night school while working ss clerk in London. I Entered politics as secretary to a ! Liberal member of Parliament, but later turned to Labor party. Elected to Parliament in 1906. Driven from politics by anti -war attitude in Great War. Re-elected to Parliament in 1922, be. came leader of Labor party and was named Premier when Conservative Government fell in 1924. Swept from power in Labor down fall of 1924. Purged Labor party of its Come munistic elements and bided his time, Becomes Premier again in 1329 after Labor party had polled greatest vote in its history. Agricultural Education Winnipeg Liberte (Ind.) : The most efficacious weapon we can use against the soourage of rural depopulation is a more efficient and thorough training given to country children—training which mill develop in then a rural mentality. Woolworth's and the hat chock girls are about the only people left who in- sist on cash, Mother was entertaining company in the drawing room when Betty clat- tered noisily down from the nursery. "Go upstairs again, and come down very quietly," said her mother. A short pause followed, and Betty re- appeared, saying, "You didn't hear me this time, mother, did you?" "No," re- plied her. mother, "you carne down without a sound, as every lady should, Betty." "Humph!" returned Betty, "1 slid down the bannister!" England Soon Will Compete With Zeplin Flight MEN INSTALLING ENGIN1*3 fly DRITAIN'S Mechanics installing propeller' oft ono of the big 1 ollsRoyce 'engines which will fly front flingland to Canada.. Lindbergh Asked To Bieriot Fete First Flier of Channel tb Cele- brate Anniversary July 25 Paris—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has been invited as the guest ofhonorr when France and England fete Louis 13leriot on July 25 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bleriot's flight across the channel. Tite invitation was extended by Bieriot in a letter asking the first trans-Atlantic lone flier to be his guest on that occasion. "I wrote to L]ndbergit asking him to arrange Itis honeymoon so as to be here for the end of July, for his presence would make the celebration very agreeable to me," Blerlot told the United Press. The plane in which Bieriot flew the channel for the first time, soon will be brought from the conservatory of arts and trades, in Paris, where it has remained shite his epochal flight, and will be taken to England for exhibi- tion, The French in Ontario Le Canada (Lib.) : If the Federal Government is succeodin„ frrepatriat- ing French-Atnericans to establish themselves in Ne* Ontario, we can only offer them the wannest congratu- lations, for :this means, an increase in the good stock of Canada, and it is What we need most of all, whether in Ontario,. Quebec or anywhere else, It is gratifying also to see that the French-Canadians of the Province of Quebec, wilo wish to Cstablish thein - selves in another region. prefer.11ertll Ontario to the United States, GIANT AIR LINER, THE R-100 rlarylebone Man: My wife and his On the R-100, world's largest dirigible, wife are always having indifferences 1 --having a few words together.