THE DAILY PROVINCE
JANUARY 30, 1915

KOMAGATA TROUBLE MAKERS BUSY
STILL
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Propaganda Held Responsible for Derailing of
Punjab Train.

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Scheme Discovered to Subvert Loyalty of Indian
Regiment.

------------------London, Jan. 30--A despatch to the London Morning Post from its
Calcutta correspondent reports that the Punjab mall was derailed by the
removal of a rail, the blame for the occurrence being thrown upon the disloyal
propaganda of the ringleaders of the Komagata Maru affair, who are still at
large. The nature of the propaganda was revealed by the prosecution of seven
men, three of whom are said to be returned emigrants from Canada. In
addition to the weapons found upon them, they had forceps for removing the
nuts holding rails in place. A scheme was also discovered to subvert the
loyalty of an Indian regiment and to overcome a newly arrived regiment of
Territorials. They returned emigrants asserted that they had been badly
treated in Canada.
No less than five ruling Indian princes are at the present time, on active
service with the British army, all of whom belong to the Rajput race, famous as
the great fighting land-owning and ruling caste of India and from which a
large proportion of the recruits for the Indian army of today are drawn. Four
of these, the Maharajas of Bikaner, Kishangarh, Jodhpur and Sir Pertab Singh
are with the Indian expeditionary force and France; the fifth, the adopted son
and successor of Sir Pertab Singh as ruler of Idar, is serving in Egypt. Colonel
Sir Ganga Singh Bahadur, Maharajah of Bikaner, has served outside his own
country, in command of his renowned camel corps on many previous

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occasions and was recently gratified to receive from General Sir J.G. Maxwell a
message appreciative of the signal service the camel corps has already
rendered in Egypt.