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LORD IRWIN AND
HIS CRITICS
come together and because we trine, of British · trusteeship for seem to have discerned in his policy Indian well being. On that doe in India and files words both there trine, to which
appeal is often and in this country an expression made, Indian intereste must and of the Christian spirit. We have should come first, for the same rea followed with the utmost empathyson that he would be regarded as BRITISH TRADE" AND INDIAN the policy he has so persistently and an indifferent and reprehensible
AN UNREAL INDIA.
INTERESTS
courageous
pureeds
Lord"Irwin,
trustco who used his position of trust to advanor his own interesta in proference to those of which ho was placed in charge...
Fleet Street, London, July 95- Lord Irwin bad a great recep
Anyone who has seen anything áð close quarters
arters of what missions. tion to-night when he spoke on
have done and are doing in The Greatest British Interest. India at a crowded meeting held in India (said Lord Irwin) would. the Central Hall, Westminster, realise the privilege of meeting I can feel no doubt that any at But, apart from the moral side,
under the auspices of the Center-
like this. In spite of the tragedy tempt to pursue a policy of regard ence of British Missionary So Fanks, they are doing work of quite to Indian is foredoomed as a prác of disunity within the Christian tö 5 British interests in preference tica. In fact, he had two recepincalculable value to India. People tical proposition to failure. After tions, for the whole audiences here have been lately puzzled and all, the greatest British interest is to grect, his appearance on the platform" and again when he began Gandhi on this subject From my British Empire, and you will never
distressed by remarks rande by Mr. contented India within his speech. It was a wonderful moeting, and significant
the fact
owledge of Mr. Gandhi I can only any this. It would require very
secure that on a permanent basia
if you give cated to, India to think
WAR SECRET REVEALED
GREATEST HAUL OF U-BOATS
FIVE TRAPPED IN TWO
WEEKS,
BRIAND TO REST
A MONTE AT COUNTRY HOME
IN, NORMANDY
Paria, July 31.-M. Briand has been ordered to take a complete rest cure, and left Paris to-day for his country home at Cocherel in Normand, where ho will probably remain for a month
For sheer drama, few episodes of
M. Briand has never completely tha Great War" compare with the Amer sequel to the sinking of the German at Geneva in Marchately he has repovered from the cold he caught.
C. Bywater in a London journal brought on by the series of inter- submaring UB:110, writes Hector been suffering from great fatigue Although thirteen years have pass national negotiations in which ha closed. I am now able to give the prevented from sleeping by asthma. fail narrativo. ed, the facts
have never been disins taken part. He has also been
that audience, representing mans strong proof to convinco me that that in the policy she pursues Great markings on a chart in the wrecked from. physical depression and high
ch
Yesterday M. Briand was too Within a fortnight five enemy sub indisposed to attend the Cabine marines, particularly sought by our
reting. After consultation with naval authorities, had been sent to his ordinary doctors and a specia their doom, thanks to the secret list, he was found to be suffering he, who one bithe greatest Britain is influenced by
and raised UB.110 having been blood pressure. social reformers Indie has known, self-interest rather than by the in- 110 was one of a large group
understood and acted upon bad failed to recognise that the terest of India,
calork of Christian missions was poles asunder from proselytising as commonly understood.
her ̈dwn
to do any work and is to follow.
The Foreign Minister is forbidden of medium-type submarines built strict diet, including the remun in 1917-18 She was completed in tion of his only self-indulgenc the late spring of 1018 and com- cigarette smoking. J missioned by Lieut. Comdr. Für,
A Rough Time...
Christian Churches, showed unanimous approval of all that the Archbishop and the ex-Viceroy said. The many Indinas present on the platform or in the body of the half
Take trade, in regard to which must have realised how rapidly
it is sometimes said that Govern- British opinion on the Indian" |ques-"'"
ment should take direct action in tion has advanced during the past
The task of adjusting Indian support of British interests. Leav two or three years,
aspirations (Lord Irwin went on)ing aside the qucation of how far bringer with a grew of three officers The Archbishop of Canterbury with what Great Britain will right the diminution of our import trade and 31 men. She dieplaced 510 spoke with great earnestness and feel to be her responsibilities is, to India is due to general, economic tons on the surface, where her speed with a firm, strong voice that belied we may feel certain, no going to conditions-and I believe the cacet was 133 knots, and could make a the fragility of his looks. We be casy. I do not know whether of these is for greater than that crash dive in 30 secs. Her arma have met as fellow-citizens," ho Mr. Gandhi will decide to come to of any propaganda against foreignment consisted of one in-gun and Baid,
deeply interested in the London or not, but I believe that cloth, it is surely evident that five torpedo tubes. welfare of India and impressed both he and Indian nationalist trade can only flourish and develop with the solemnity of the trust that opinion generally will recognise the when you have willing buyers, as bas been given to us. We are now necessity of special provisions in well as willing sellers, and that, in approaching the day when we must the future Constitution to suit the other words, it must rost on the face the crowning task of all that special circumstances of India and basis of goodwill. Where this is we have sought to do for the good will not be unready to welcome the lacking you cannot force its flow any of this people. It was useless to assistance in many directions of more than you can force water to minimise the gravity of the difficul- Great Britain when they fully uns run uphill. And the surest way to ties. If the representatives of the derstand that Great Britain, by aggravate these difficulties in the East and West at the Round-table meeting India in free and equal trade sphere is to suggest that Conference draw apart and think conference, is giving the best Great Britain should take some only of their own interests then ne earnest of her, anxiety to see the political notion to coerce India into solution would be possible and is fruition of India's constitutional buying what she wants to sell. is difficult to think in such a case hopen and that we do not seek in
On the other hand, if Great dive. without apprehension of the future what we here, say or do, to pro-Britain is propared without reserve of our relations with India. It is mote anything but the interests of to show that she is only concerned attack shipping in the North Sea. On July she left Zeebrugge to. not upon intellectual qualities, but India.
secure the true interests of Scarcely had she left the German upon spiritual qualities that the
India, she will find India 'very much i mine barriers astern when she was success of this great enterprise de
more willing to meet her in sighted by our patrols and heavily devising practical means by which depth-changed. That was on July the partnership may operate to the mutual advantage of both parties.
Welcoming Lord Irwin, the Arch- bishop raid, "We want to come so far as may be in contact with his personality, because we believe that
.
Our Partnership With India..
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First there were sheets of sil-
:
houettes showing the appearance of every German war vessel then im commission, from the newest battle-, ship to the latest submarine, Every alteration in rig and general profile was clearly andipated, thus enabling us to identify every enemy ship might sighted. Copies of these silhouettes were circulated withoub delay to the Grand Fleet, all other naval cqmmands, and the Royal Air Forced to c
In June, 1918, UB.110 sailed from Wilhelmshaven to Bruges, the head quarters of the Flanders U-boat flotilla Those were the days when the British counter-attack against the submarine menace was steadily Secondly, the UB.110's log-book increasing in intensity and effective gayo mess, and the ill-starred UB.110 about the German minefields and ub invaluable information,
was destined to feel its full weight other obstructions, all of which Even during the short run from the were duly transferred to our wer Bight to Flanders she was bombed charts, by British seaplanes and forced to
6.
From then onwards she was never out of sight or hearing of qür watchful sentinels.
"An Important Find.
all, there was a large, short of the
Thirdly, and most-important of
narrow seas, with flues drawn on it in red ink and numerous mar ginal annotations. It took hours of export scrutiny to discover the secret of this chart, but at, Instit was solved,
It is sometimes suggested that these words in the interests of India," which found place in my agreement with Mr. Gandhi, were badly chosen and take no recount
The red lines showed the favourite Blind and Deaf Critics. it has been given to him to see of the right of Great Britain to
Jolt via te
routes followed by five U-boats, great vision of the way in which safeguard her ou interests in any
The real difference between many
On July 18 she managed to tor whose captains-all of them sub- in the achievement of this tremen-settlement that may be reached.
pedo an oil tanker off the Yorkabira marine acos were apparently of the critics of the policy of his roast. Inimediately afterwards she personal friends of Comdr. Für dous task, the East and the West We are here faced with an issue is that, they appear to believe that round her, no less than twenty-six these lines on his chart to show Majesty's Government and myself
found depth-charges exploding all bringer. They had evidently draw of great importance, and it is essen-British interests of this kind can tial that we should search the be secured by loud assertions of possible that these repeated con enfest path to the Atlantic Ocean, detonations being counted. It is him what each considered to be the foundations of our thought if we determination and vigorous action cussions caused damage to the boat by the north-about route round are to avoid dangerous confusion.
As I ace it, Great Britain has whereas I think that if they are to
on the part of Great Britain, or machinery which was not noticed Scotland, weighty obligations in India, which be. permanently strengthened, and
at the time. she cannot ignore in such matters as defence, financial credit, the protection of minorities of what ever kind, and tão future treatment of services recruited under the authorities of Parlia ment. She ins also great and vital interests on the economic side.
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The routes, differed according maintained it must be, nad can only bringer sighted a convoy near chosen because it provided a pum
On July 19 Commander. Farrontes dif
to personal preferencu. One was be, on the basis of mutual under Roker, off the Durham coastline her of safe resting places on the standing and consent.
bed of the son (the exact intilude and longitude being given in each case); another was selected because it avoided areas where British patrol craft were busy or was, well clear of our minefields. Each route,
The truth is that the people who are disposed to question and even
With great courage having regard to his previous experiences-he pre- ceeded to attack. He fired on torpedo, which missed, and then his doomed was upon him.
While soft, below the surface
condemn the whole policy of trying to reach agreement with ⠀Indian Conference and blame the Confer salve of depth charges exploded it appeared, was regularly used by thought through the Round-table
ence plan for everything that goes near the boat, damaging her diving the German submarins whose num-
in an unreal world wrong are living in an
rudder. This brought her to the ber was printed below the redunk They resemble the man who is be full speed by the destroyer Garry, which is no longer true to the facts surface, where, she was rammed at line. ginning to go deaf or lose his eight
Britain, with her industrial popula tion dependent for their daily bread on trade overseas, to secure as large a shore of the external trade of India as she can. It is not
Three of the U-boat commanders less a vital interest for India that and complains that his neighbours out of control, her oil track was cularly anxious to cut short their Plunging down again, practically who travelled these routes had done Great Britain, on whom she is at do not speak distinctly of that the followed by M.L. (motor launch) careers. Once the significance of so much damage that we were parti."
present bound to rely almost ea-light is bad. And all the while the 2c, which let go, more depth the captured chart was realised no
fault is nearer home. {}|
There is
is no good supposing, how
tirely for her naval defence, and largely for her land protection, shoud be economically strong dough to fulfil these functious dieter or you may wish to do behalf of India, until India can as-
"that you can" recreats the India pf
mord than it i ten years ago any sume responsibility-for-them-her-
charges and gave UB.110 her death. blow."
As the wrecked U-boat lay within easy distance of the coast the Ad
time was lost in taking the obvious
measures.
Our minelaying squadrons in the North Ses were given instructions. and special orders were conveyed. to the hydrophone trawlers and all
area, As a result of these disposi tíopa engil of the safe routes. marked on the chart was heavily sown with mines, E
self, and that would ultimately be possible for us to recapture the miralty Salvage Corps was instruct anti-submarine patrols in a certain,
impossible for Great Britain ex- cept upon the basis of prosperous trade
πο
ed to raise her. This proved to be a difficult task.00)
Documents Recovered.
atmosphere of childhood which wistfully remember. When we have failed in our history fin, facirig Im perial problems it has been prin. At length, after weeks of labour And indeed if the implications of cipally due to lack of the just spins the battered wreck was raised to any of these things are dispassion of faith and sympathy, which, not the surface and towed into port ately examined. I believe it will be making light-of-real obstacles, Iras The senior naval officer made found that when any association yet at other times, docording to thorough examination of the interior, has grown so close as that between the law that Trust begets trust, held and found a number of documents, Great Britain andinding it is im- for us the secret of success. possible to dissociate the real and The meeting concluded with immersion
sodden and discoloured from long
permanent interests of one partner, litany for Indio, dig series of
These were forwarded to the In- from the other. But that is a very petitions for the welfare of the telligenes Division of the Admiral. different thing from daying that people of India for her leaders tv, where experts succeeded in de Great Britain is morally entitled to (and there was a special prayer for siphering the almost illegible log- impore conditions en Indian con- Mr. Gandhi, that he might be book and charts. It was at once stitutional development which are wisely guided), and for the Bound not to the advantage of India, in the | table Conferences and finally an ad interests only or primarily of Great ditional, prayer for the statesmen Britain, Bpth an attitude is indeed of -soveral countries-now-meeling anco-3- wholly inconsistent with the doc in London.
apparent to Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, the I.D. chief, that we had made a "find" of supreme import
Continued on next Column.)
"
At irregular intervals a curtain several miles right across cockt of high explosives was strung for course. Clusters of mines were also placed in each of the comfortable friends Ind Facommended. And rosting places which. Fürbringer's
dhore the hidden ambuscades the
months after the UB.110 50 Was-patrolled-by-destroyers and drifters. We
was raised every one of the five U-boats shown on her chart had It is understood, indeed, that been destroyed.
T
all were accounted for in less than a fortnight.
of the war and it is on record
This was the greatest U-boat haur-
that the German naval commandi was thrown into consternation by "the mysterious" and "singit simul
fanequa disappearance of five their best U-boat captains.