Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1911 — MEMORIES OF MUTINY [ARTICLE]

MEMORIES OF MUTINY

■CENES THAT RECALL HORRORS OF INDIAN OUTBREAK.' Massacres by the Treacherous Nana Sahib—Black Hole of Calcutta and ' Other Placaa of That His- . t % toric Nightmare. At Cawnpur was a large native garrison, and when they mutinied, Nana Sahib put himself at their head. The Europeans, including more women and children than fighting men, were beseiged for two weeks, and then, trusting to a safe-conduct from Nana Sahib, they surrendered. They embarked on boats on the Ganges, the boats were set afire and shot at by the natives from both banks, and only four escaped. The women and children were massacred a few days later, some of them being pitchforked living upon the bayonets of their murderers. Delhi was beseiged for months from the surrounding ridge, over which I have walked and driven, but it was' only in September that the Kashmir Gate was blown in, and Nicholson fell at the head of the storming party. The chief commisioner of Oudh was a Lawrence, and not a Lawrence for nothing. He prepared for a siege in the residency at Lucknow, and was mortally wounded there, but his intelligent provision saved his companions till at last Lucknow was relieved. It Is one of the ghastly nightmares of history to see that Black Hole of Calcutta, that well at Cawnpur, that cellar in the residency at Lucknow, that grave-dotted ridge at Delhi. Women and children outraged, suffocated, pitchforked on bayonets, burnt, stabbed, starved and strangled; it is a horrible tale. Say what one will of all that, it is British business, British vengeance, not ours, but it is a disgrace to the whole white race that British callou&ness, and lack of taste and reverence, should permit these graves to be overgrown with weeds, should suffer that miserable little graveyard on the ride above Delhi, should allow the lettering on the Kashmir Gate to become defaced. The only monument In all India that is not a travesty is the statue of John Nicholson, and more than one of the statues of the white empress and the white emperor of India are black!—• EYom “Mughal to Briton,” by Price Collier, in Scribner’s.