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War Speeches 048 |00 iCO = CM I CD CO HIS HONOUR SIR MICHAEL O'DWYER, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab. Lahore : PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT GOVERNMENT PRINTING, PUNJAB. 1918. .D " Revised List of Agents for the Sale of Puniab Govern- ment Publications. THI UNITED KINGDOM. ON THE CONTINENT. EBNBST LEROUX, 28, Rue CONSTABLE A Co., 10, Orange Bonaparte, Paris, Prance. Street, Leicester Square, London W.C. MARTINUS NIJHOFF, The Hague, KBOAN PAUL, TRENCH, TBOBNBB Holland. <fe Co., Limited, 68-74, Carter IN INDIA. Lane, B.C., and 26, Museum The Street, London, W.C. Manager, Imperial Book Depdt, Delhi. BBBNABD QITABITOH, 11, Grafton GULAB SINGH & SONS, Mufid-i-'Am Street, New Bond Street, London, W. Press, Lahore. Manager, Punjab Law Book T. FISHBB Depdt, UNWIN, Limited, No. 1, Anarkali Bazar, Lahore. Adelphi Terrace, London, W.C. RAMA KBISHNA & SONS, Book-sellers P. 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WILLIAM WESLEY & SON, 28, SUPEBISTENDKXT, AMERICAN BAP- Essex London. Street, Strand, TIST MISSION PBG33, Rangoon. Index of Speeches. on 19th 19 14 ... I 1. Punjab Legislative Council September 4th 1918 2. University Hall, Lahore, on May on 26th 1918 3. Punjab Legislative Council April 1915 ... 28 4. Rawalpindi Darbar on 26th March ... 30 5. Kangra Darbar on 25th October 1916 1917 ..- 34 6. Montgomery Darbar on 17th January ... 37 7. Karnal Darbar on 3 Oth July 1917 ... 40 8. Ambala Darbar on 1st August 1917 ... 45 9. Ludhiana Darbar on 3rd August 1917 49 10. Ferozepore Darbar on 4th August 1917 ... 11. Kasur Darbar on 6th August 1917 ... 54 12. Gujranwala Darbar on 8th August 1917 ... 58 13. Rawalpindi Darbar on 30th October 1917 ... 64 14. Jhelum Darbar on 1st November 1917 ... 74 15. Jullundur Darbar on 28th January 1918 ... 82 16. Hoshiarpur Darbar on 31st January 1918 ... 88 17. Gurdaspur Darbar on 2nd February 1918 ... 96 r 1 1 8 . Multan Darbr on 6th February 1918 ...10] 19. Dera Ghazi Khan Darbar on 18th February 1918 ...109 20. Amritsar Darbar on 17th April 1918 ...113 1 ... 1 1 9 2 1 . Ferbzepore Darbar on 9th April 1918 1 ... 1 22 . Ambala D jrbar on 1 t.h May 1918 25 23. Gujranwala Darbar on 3rd August 19 1 8 . ... 130 24. Sialkot Darbar on 5th August 1918 ... 188 THE HON'BLE SIR MICHAEL FRANCIS O'DWYER, G.C.I.E., K. C.S.I., Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab. 1 Speech in the Punjab Legislative Council on 19th September 1914. EESOLUTION IN REGARD TO THE WAR. GENTLEMEN, We have disposed of the ordinary business of the Session, but before we separate I feel compelled to refer to the one matter which is filling all minds and engross- ing all hearts. It is only six short weeks since we were all thrilled by the announcement that the Empire was at war not one of those local wars which we have seen in this or the last generation and which, however important in them- selves, do not raise the great issues which determine the fate of nations but the most momentous struggle on which the Empire has embarked since it saved the civilised world from the despotism of Napoleon. It is unnecessary for me to dwell on the causes that have led up to that struggle or to the manner in which India has shown her determination to take her share in it. These are summed up in the august and inspiring message which His Majesty the King -Emperor has addressed to the Princes and peoples of India through His Excellency the Viceroy and which, with His Excellency's permission, I will repeat to this Council. (The Council stood up when it was read) : " During the past few weeks the peoples of my whole Empire, at home and overseas, have moved with one mind and purpose to confront and overthrow an unparalleled assault upon the continuity of civilisation and the peace of mankind. The calamitous conflict is not of my seeking. My voice has been cast throughout on the side of peace. My Ministers earnestly strove to allay the causes of strife and to appease differences with which my Empire was not con- cerned. Had I stood aside when, in defiance of pledges, to which my Kingdom was a party, the soil of Belgium was violated and her cities desolated, when the very life of the French nation was threatened with extinction, I should have sacrificed my honour and given to destruction the liberties of my Empire and of mankind. I rejoice that every part of the Empire is with me in this decision. Punjab Legislative Council ''Paramount regard for treaty, faith and the pledged word of rulers and people is the common heritage of England and India. Amongst the many incidents that have marked the unanimous uprising of the population of my Empire in defence of its unity and integrity nothing moved me more than the passionate devotion to my Throne expressed both by my Indian and English subjects and by the Feudatory Princes and Ruling Chiefs of India, and their prodigious offers of their lives and their resources in the cause of the realm and their one-voiced demand to be foremost in conflict has touched my heart and has inspired to highest issues the love and devotion which, as I well know, have ever linked my Indian subjects and myself. I recallto mind India's gracious message to the British nation of good -will and fellowship which greeted my return in February 1912, after the solemn ceremony of my Coronation Darbar at Delhi, and I find in this hour of trial a full harvest and a noble fulfillment of the assurance given by you that the destinies of Great Britain and India are indissolubly linked." Gentlemen, His Majesty's words are an eloquent and the gracious recognition of manner in which the Princes and peoples of India have rallied spontaneously and unani- mously to the defence of the common interests of the Empire. 1 need not dwell at length on the splendid response which Province of the has made to our own Punjab the calLof duty. The response has been worthy of the Empire and worthy of the Province which justly claims to be the spear-head of the Indian Empire. the All the Ruling Chiefs of Punjab have offered not only their Military forces but the resources of their States to Government, and it is no longer a secret that a large number of the Imperial Service Troops have been selected from the leading States to go on active service and take their share in the defence of the Empire. also know that the We splendid Expeditionary Force, India has at which put the disposal of the King-Emperor' a contains very large proportion of Punjabis, and that in it are represented the flowei of the martial races of the Punjab Ghakkars, Awans, Janjuhas, Pathans, Tiwanas from the Northern the. Punjab, sturdy Sikhs of the Central districts, Dogras from the lower hills, Jats, Ranghars and other Rajputs from the south of the Province. 2 19th September 1914. These are the races which have carried the banners of the King-Emperor and spread the fame of the Punjabi soldier throughout the East from Pekin to Cairo and to have to win fresh laurels Central Africa ; they now gone for themselves and their country fighting side by side with the manhood of the United Kingdom and of her Colonies and Dominions on the battlefields of Euiope. The enthusiasm with which the troops called out responded to the call of duty is, I believe, only equalled by the disappointment of those who were left behind. I am told that in Amritsar, Ferozepore and other centres, when the reservists of certain regiments were summoned to rejoin the colours, the reservists of all regiments came rushing in. Those whose regiments were not ordered on service in many cases refused to return to their homes, saying they would not be able to show their faces in their villages when the war was going on, and some of them even insisted on joining theii regiments at their own expense in the hope that they might be allowed to take part in the campaign. That is the spirit in which the Army has risen to the emergency and it will, I am confident, be reflected in the keenness and enthusiasm with which recruits will now come forward throughout the Province to fill up the gaps the inevitable gaps caused by the war, and to maintain our Punjab Eegiments at full fighting strength. The spirit shown by the people of the Punjab, who have not the opportunity of proving their devotion to the Empire in the field, is not less admirable. It has taken various forms expressive of patriotic loyalty from piactically every community and association throughout the Province, prayers for the speedy and complete success of our arms, offers of service, of men, of money, of horses, of supplies according to the resources of the would-be givers who em- brace all classes from the Premier Chief of the Punjab His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala who is himself going to the front, down to the humble clerk, and the war-worn veteran.
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