V MOVEMENT IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES INDIA AND IRELAND WORKING TOGETHER (FROM BOMBAY SECRET ABSTRACT OF 1906, No. 7, PAGES 109-111.) S. B., Bombay March 31st.—The following communication has been received from the C. I., Simla : — A copy of the New York, newspaper, THE GAELIC AMERICAN, of the 9th December 1905, was received by the last mail of January, addressed to "The students, 1st class, Madrassa, Calcutta, India." The first article in this issue is headed " India and Ireland working together " and runs as follows :— They have a common enemy and are at last adopting a common policy—Two remarkable Hindustani documents appealing to the native soldiers to stand by their own people—Indian salt and Irish example—From Scinde to Shannon. Ireland and India have a common enemy, which has succeeded in holding them down, robbing and starving them, by sowing division race hatred, and religious animosity among the people. Without the help of Irishmen in England's service no Irish effort for freedom has ever yet been put down, and the Indian soldier in England's pay is the chief obstacle to the emancipation of his own country. The Irish soldier of the British Army contributed largely by his valour to the conquest of India and to the suppression of insurrection and it is well-known that the English Government intends to use Sikhs, Gurkhas and Pathans against Ireland in her next struggle to shake off the yoke of England. The two documents in the Hindustani language one in Persian, the other in Sanskrit characters—which will be found below, each written and translated into English by a native Indian, have reached The Gaelic American from widely separated places, and will show how vigorously the gospel of liberty is being preached in India, and how rapidly the Irish and the Indian peoples are adopting concurrent lines of action. God speed the work. The first of the two documents referred to is in Hindi and is written in the Kaithi character; the second is in Urdu in the Persian character. Both have been reproduced by photo-zincography or some similar process. The text of the translation is as follows :— 1. The Touch of a Whip to an Arab Steed The Irish people in America and Ireland, and the American people also have great sympathy with the rising aspiration of the Indian 543 people, who are oppressed by the perfidious Eritish Government. We want to make it clear to the Indian people, and especially to the Indian seppys, that it is their own fault that their country does not belong to themselves. The cunning and hypocritical English Government makes the Indian people cut the branch on which they stand with their own axe. We, therefore, advise Indians to refrain from joining the British Army and not to aid the English in oppressing the Indians. It is sinful for Hindus and Musalmans to fight against their own countrymen on whose salt they are fed, for it is on Indian salt and not on English salt the sepoys are fed. The British steal the salt of the Indian people by force and give it to the sepoys to fight against their own flesh and blood and against other people in Asia—Afghans, Tibetans and others. This is a fatal sin, and the sepoys should not fire on their own people and their brothers in Asia when the English order them, but should go on the side of Indians and the other people in Asia. A word of advice to a sensible man is like the touch of a whip to an Arab steed. We hope Indians and Indian sepoys will take the advice to heart—India first—India last—-and India for ever. Hail Mother : Hail Motherland : See thy children walking hand in hand. II. Learn a Lesson from Ireland It.is superfluous to tell the people of India that the oppression of England in India has exceeded all bounds. The English have divided the people of Bengal with a view to weaken the strength of the Bengalis. It is superfluous to tell the people of India that the oppression of Parliament of England and trying to awaken the English conscience, they should appeal to their own men in the army, their relatives, and their officers in British service. If the Hindustani Army demands something, it is sure they will get as much in one day as the beggars of the Congress could not succeed in twenty years to get. What is needed is to approach the Sikhs, the Gurkhas, and Pathans—and not the Englishmen. The reason why the people have succeeded in Russia is that the officers in the army help the patriots 544 and well-wishers of the country, and the police officers overlook to arrest those that agitate for common rights. Recently in Japan, when the people rioted to show their resentment against the peace terms of Russia as accepted by Mikado, the soldiers and the police were sent to arrest them. But when the soldiers arrived at the spot, the rioters asked the soldiers whether they were no longer Japanese by being soldiers. The soldiers replied, they were Japanese undoubtedly. The rioters then said " you better walk here and there, and let us do what we please, for we do not intend to harm any one : all that we will do is to punish those that are a cause of our disgrace." Hence the Japanese soldiers kept quiet and themselves took part in the proceedings. Are there no such patriotic well-wishers of the country among Indian soldiers ? Cerjainly there are. It has been heard more than once from the Indian soldiers that personally and privately they are tired of the English. Their pay is much less than that of the English ; that is, the English soldiers are paid four times as much as the Indian soldiers. The English soldiers are given free board and lodging, the Indians have to supply their own board. But the Indian soldiers say, what can they do ? Their educated countrymen hate them ; whereas, if they advise them, they are ready to follow. Therefore, educated men of India, police officers, and officers in the army, if you happen to read THE GAELIC AMERICAN, think over this problem and try to act accordingly, for the liberty of India hangs on your decision. There are several other articles, mostly of a seditious character, on the subject of the relations between India and Great Britain, of which the following is an example :— Indo-Irish Conference The Gaelic American feels so strongly the importance, as well as the necessity, that the fight for the freedom and independence of Ireland should be carried on in alliance with all who are struggling against British oppression that it has decided to adopt the policy of concurrent action with the national movement now in progress in India, and to assist it in every way possible. We are ready to do the same for South Africa, so that with Ireland attacking on the West, India on the East, and South Africa in the Centre, it will go 545 hard if in afew years the three allies by concurrent action in a righteous cause cannot bring the brutal British Government to reason. Already its power is tottering. The infamous Milner, having turned a prosperous South Africa into a howling waste, has disappeared into the limbo of the lost. Curzon the earthen pot that collided with the iron pot Kitchner, as the two floated down the current of the Hindu Ganges, has gone to the bottom, leaving an execrated memory behind him. To finish all the two confederates whom a crass and brutalized people put to rule over them, Balfour and Chamberlain, have toppled from ppwer, while the British capital is the scene of processions of the starving, the hooting and jeering of royalty and its social and political parasites, and the dispersion by the police in the heart of the richest and largest city in the world, of crowds assembled to protest against the " charity " of Britain's land and money, thieves being accepted as a substitute for justice and human right With the enemy's citadel in the state of confusion which these conditions produce, we think it all the more important to carry on the attack with relentless purpose, and feel sure that with the multiplied force of a triple alliance and the concurrent action of Ireland, South Africa and India, the war against the tyrannical rule of the British can be brought to a successful and happy conclusion. It has been ascertained that the address on the wrapper of the copy sient in the Calcutta Madrassa is in the handwriting of Direndro Nath Mookerjee, a Bengalee student, now studying at Corcallis, Oregon, U.S.A. One of his fellow-students is Mahesh Chandra Sinha alias Mahesh Singh, and it is possible that he is the writer of both the sedtious documents. 2 THE INDIAN BRANCH OF THE GERMAN INTELLIGENCE BUREAU AT BERLIN (BOMBAY POLICE COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE FILE NO. 3120/H.) The German Intelligence Bureau the headquarters of which are at 28, Wieland Strasse Charlotteoburge, Berlin, has established an Indian Branch known as the "Indian National Party ". Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, son of the late Dr. Agher Nath Chattopadhyaya of Hyderabad and the brother of the poetess Sarojini Naidu is at the head of this branch and Chempakraman Pillai the protege of Sir Walter Strickland is one of the members. Har Dayal, who has also 546 joined the party, has been sent on a special mission to Turkey. The first work of the party was to decide who among the Indians in Germany should be interned and who should be enrolled as members to work against Britain in Germany and elsewhere.