THE PENDING CONTINENTAL WAR
Singh, Bhagwan
The Pending Continental War All of Asia,— With The Excption of Japan, is Subjected to Foreign Domination. British Plan to Have Most Powerful Navy for Purposes oj Domination By BHAGWAN SINGH ASIA...
...It is quite possible for Asia to sacrifice twice as many men as Europe, and yet to be superior in numbers...
...France next...
...Nothing will be spared in the attempt to once and for all .place Asia under the yoke of British slavery...
...If these two competitors of Britain— Japan and America—can be forced into a war with each other, Britain will have become master of the last independent Asiatic country and America will have been so spent from war thr.t her competition with Britain will be at an end...
...further, every bit of racial hatred or immigration dissension which can be aroused or resurrected is being spread throughout the American press...
...Realizing that Japan is her competitor, she has set China against Japan by creating a Shantung question...
...Driven to Defensive Purposes...
...British Dominions Increased...
...Hindus have been used as mercenaries for a century to invade, conquer and hold, free and weaker nations...
...In return for the possession and exploitation of natural resources and human beings, Britain (which is the chief exploiter) establishes and forces upon the unwilling unarmed and, defenseless people a political despotism the chief aim of which is to render economic exploitation more efficient...
...But such trickery is leading to international disaster...
...From such a condition, all that is needed is an Asiatic Napoleon, a Genghis Khan (a tartar invader of Europe and Asia in the 9th century) to lead his armies to Europe just as European armies have been led and are being led today into the capitals of Asia...
...India, the seat and the stronghold of British imperialism, is going to lead in the uprising of Asia., Asia's battle line has already been extended to America...
...it means the arming of countless millions of the black, brown and yellow races who have learned, bitterly, that justice of the white man is only an ideal and an empty phrase —not a force...
...It is not our desire to arise at your expense...
...Not only is this true, but the enslavement of India is necessary for the domination of all Asia...
...Problems in India ASIA has for thousands of years produced sages who have taught human brotherhood and the settlement of disputes by reason rather than by violence...
...China will be forced into support of India and Japan because it is British and French money which attempted to destroy the Chinese Republic in 1915-16 and reestablished a monarchy which could be used, under the head of Yuan Shi-Kai as Emperor...
...But now we are arising to continue our contributions...
...By keeping European nations weak, and annexing them, if necessary, she has planned for fifty years to have direct railway communications with India, the strongest pillar of British commercialism...
...this, to blockade and starve any nation which opposes British naval supremacy...
...We present to you the only just and peaceful way to avert a continental disaster: that is to leave our country as rulers, to remain there, if at all, only as our guests...
...against America...
...Their policy should be abandoned as a matter of justice and decency...
...and the truth is an ugly thing...
...She plans to unite New Zealand and other Pacific Islands with Australia...
...Afghanistan and Central Asia are Mohammedan and there are 35 million followers of Islam in China...
...It means the destruction of the basic Asiatic contribution to history—the spirit of human brotherhood...
...And, if necessary, she will kill a few American missionaries herself as proof, or she will have someone do it for her...
...For this purpose she holds a chain of strongly-fortified coaling stations all around the globe,—from England to Gibraltar, Malta, Suez Canal, thus controlling the Mediterranean Sea...
...You are deporting our advance guards...
...Said the magnate to the lawyer: "I want to show that this law is unconst'tu-tional...
...Britain's part is to throw a snake at the chest of her enemies...
...If either the snake or the enemy is killed, it would be Britain's gain...
...It's the same law you had me prove was constitutional two years ago...
...Not only were railroads built with private British capital, but the British government in India guaranteed a profit to all investors, such money to come from the Indian revenues if the railroads did not pay for themselves...
...Many men, versed in British cunning diplomacy, saw it long before the war ended...
...Southern Persia at that time was placed, under British control and Northern Persia under Russian control...
...In an attempt to pacify "them, Britain is trying to maintain Turkey as a nominally independent power today...
...This is the just and honorable way...
...Britain will thus get French-Africa as her reward and the African Empire will have been completed...
...We have merely taken refuge here...
...But Britain does all these things...
...Britain will appeal to America to protect American persons and property...
...This has been done quietly—diplomatically—while Shantung has been held up to the world as another Alsace-Lorraine, although the Alsace-Lorraine comparison was not used when Germany took possession of Kiao-Chow twenty-one years ago...
...The Japanese realized this twenty-five years ago and immediately adopted western methods of self-protection...
...2) unlimited amounts of human material (cheap labor...
...4To build a third empire, Australasia, the » center of which will be Australia...
...Within the past 43 years, 37 such wars of conquest have been waged by Brit, ish imperialism from India...
...it means the arming of countless millions of the black, brown and yellow races, who have learned, bitterly, that justice of the white man is only an ideal and an empty phrase—not a force...
...Siam and Turkey are nominally independent, but economically they are subjected to Britain and France...
...Englishmen alone were killed and Europeans were not harmed...
...Up to this time Afghanistan has been merely a buffer state between Russia and Britain...
...There is a martial spirit which can , be brought into play...
...If by so doing we harm England, we cannot help it...
...The destruction of the Persian Constitutional government and the reseating of the Shah, a British tool, was consummated in 1S07...
...3) raw material for feeding the looms and factories of Manchester and Lancashire...
...This will, however, bring her into conflict with Spain, France and Italy, and this will render it necessary to set these three countries at each other's throats...
...a few irrigation canals have been built, not for irrigating the land, but for revenue...
...They enjoy nominal political independence only because European powers can't agree in dividing them up...
...If, on the other hand, the European parasitic nations, now sucking the life blood from Asia, are forced by their own working people to abandon their practices, and Asia becomes free and is left to itself to advance, to develop for the benefit of its own people, and the human race, to contribute its share**to civilization, the apparently imminent continental disaster will be averted...
...It is undoubtedly Britain's plan to later get control of the Panama Canal that her possessions in the Atlantic and the Pacific may be closely connected and her world circuit completed...
...cans on the ground of self-interest to stand against the exploitation and political domination of Asia...
...Britain's part is to throw a snake at the chest of her enemies...
...In dealing with the revolutionary movements in India, Persia and Egypt, she is enforcing the aid of European powers and America...
...British Naval Policy...
...ASIA is awakening and cannot be exterminated...
...Aden, Kerachi, Bombay, Colombo, Rangoon and Singapore, thus traversing and controlling the Indian Ocean...
...All of Asia—three-fourths of the human race —-with the solitary exception of Japan, is subjected to foreign domination...
...May not the time come in the far and distant future when men from America wili come to India seeking refuge...
...I know my ground perfectly...
...Racial hatred will be appealed to and used to crush the "yellow peril...
...China has been subjected...
...It has been mentioned in the British House of Commons that Mohammedanism is not so much a religion any more as it is a political faith...
...This action was a violation of the treaty forced upon Afghanistan by Britain in 1883, by which all foreign affairs of the former country were placed in British hands...
...The next war will be on two fields—Central Asia and in China...
...This means the brutalizing of three-fourths of the population of the earth...
...America will have little interest in such a conflict...
...This was a direct and vicious falsehood and showed the extent of British control of the Press...
...If you refuse, or are deaf or blind, we cannot be held responsible...
...Yet at the ASIA is being driven to adopt militarism for self-protection...
...Thus, Thibet, a Chinese Province, has become another so-called "protectorate" of Britain...
...Racial hatred and brutalization are walking hand in hand...
...But we speak for the independence of India—and thereby Asia...
...This will serve the double purpose of preventing any other European power from using the Berlin-Bagdad or any other route to menace British commercialism in India, and secondly, this new railway will separate Arabia from the Turkish Empire, and Turkey will be further emasculated as a factor...
...And American blood will be spilled for a crime which is British in origin...
...British Plan to Have Most Powerful Navy for Purposes oj Domination By BHAGWAN SINGH ASIA has contributed to civilization in the past, not only great literature, art, music and philosophy, but it has contributed the spirit of universal brotherhood and social science, of just and friendly dealings with individuals, communities and nations...
...Territorially, Britain still is master of China...
...Thus her fortified stations stretch around the world...
...One of those unwilling witnesses, Judh Singh, refused to testify against us and under the torture of a British Secret Service man, George Denham, was driven insane...
...She holds Canada in North America...
...Innocent European nations will have to spill their blood for the benefit of a few British exploiters...
...It is a sad commentary upon American idealists that we must point to the disaster in store for themselves if they do not force their white co-exploiters to release their strangle-hold upon us...
...American liberals are being pitted against Japan, on idealistic grounds about Shantung...
...An enslaved Asia will drag you into oblivion...
...It is up to' the men who will be called to fiht to meet us half way...
...Lancaster News Journal...
...But such trick ery is leading to international disaster...
...Although an international port, it is largely under British control...
...J NDER subjection, with all its attendant in-^ human evils, the people of Asia are being driven together as a unit, for defensive purposes...
...Refuge in America \\J E do no harm to America nor do we in-*» terfere in American institutions...
...She already controls more than half of this continent — over six million square miles out of eleven...
...If it comes to bloodshed, they can, if forced, prove '"equal" to even Britain...
...Now that Russia is no longer a "menace," Britain is at liberty to annex it on the slightest excuse...
...Those rights are those toward which humanity has been reaching from the beginning, — the right to freedom...
...their self-governing, democratic village communities have been destroyed and authority centralized in one head that exploitation might be more thorough...
...These Mohammedans have but two enemies—England and France...
...This means the brutalizing of three-fourths of the population of the earth...
...Today she is the sole independent nation in Asia...
...Countless millions have starved to death while food which they have grown has been shipped from their country...
...their schools have been destroyed and education denied them, save that which fitted them for ¦ubordinate clerical positions under European masters...
...Today India, Persia and Egypt are being held to earth only by the most inhuman brutality...
...She, and other European nations, will have to furnish the human material to wage such a disastrous conflict...
...You do not know how long it will last, because it (European) is fed upon the blood of enslaved peoples...
...WHEN the war with Japan and America is finally perpetrated by British diplomats, new factors will face Britain...
...Japan took this territory from Germany at the request of Great Britain in 1904...
...Only the enslavement of the Asiatic countries today prevents them from contributing their sb.;xe to modern culture, and only their complete independence can make this accomplishment possible...
...If these two competitors of Britain— Japan and America—can be forced into a war with each other, Britain will have become master of the last independent Asiastic country and America will have been so spent from war that her competition with Britain will be at an end...
...3To establish a British African Empire, • like India...
...They merely wish to still the voices which cry from the wilderness of Asia...
...Before Soviet Russia came into existence, Russia was also third enemy of Asia...
...The Mohammedan population will be warring in Central Asia...
...Easily," answered the lawyer...
...the armed, arrogant puppets, boasting of their racial superiority and of their superior civilization and mighty arms—let Asia but just shake her chains and from sheer force of numbers she can crush those who are working for her permanent enslavement...
...opium and liquor have been forced upon them by cannons with a four-fold purpose: revenue, easier economic subjection, easier political subjection, racial and cultural destruction...
...Nor will they be harmed unless the British find it politically expedient to do so...
...Asia is being driven to adopt militarism for self-protection...
...The annexation of Arabia will then be finally consummated...
...Your civilization is but 200 years old...
...It is a tragic example to set to a continent which is awakening...
...But even so it will not be ten years until she will be called before the seat of Mohammedan judgment to answer for her unpardonable crimes against millions of people...
...They fear that America might also awake and refuse to do the bidding of British diplomats...
...This is quite possible, since there are 13,000 Americans in India alone, many of whom are in British service...
...The isolation of Japan has been far-planned...
...Burma has been subjected...
...In this awakening Britain has three factors with which to deal: (1) the unity of Asia against white-manism...
...Do you think you can manage it...
...We were present at the beginning of civilization and we will be present at the end...
...A study of the map will reveal the fact that India is the geographic and strategic position from which all Asia, Australasia and Eastern Africa, may be dominated...
...From the Suez Canal, she will have a direct route to the Persian Gulf...
...All the Near East (now British conquests) is Mohammedan...
...We should not have to appeal to Ameri...
...BRITAIN'S world policy is not confined only to Asia, however...
...This excuse was furnished when Afghanistan asserted her full independence in April, 1919, by concluding alliances with Soviet Russia and Persia...
...The Berlin-Bagdad scheme of Germany was jealously regarded by Britain and finally her diplomacy succeeded in making the world destroy Germany that her own deeply-laid plans might materialize...
...If either the snake or the enemy is killed, it would be Britain's gain...
...R^e she will come into conflict not only with Holland but with Japan as well...
...God forbid...
...she does not compete in Chinese land-grabbing with Japan...
...Baluchistan, Persia and Egypt have been subjected, and the Boer Republic was destroyed...
...We do not come as beggars...
...railroads have been built and strategical harbors have been built for this purpose...
...Shanghai port is south of Kiao-Chow...
...We do not speak against England...
...The conflict which will start between Japan and America will develop into a racial war, when the whole Asiatic world will rise to eliminate the "white disaster," as white domination is referred to in Asia...
...The Mohammedan danger is imminent...
...India is the military and naval base of British imperialism...
...She holds more than half of Africa and she has control of Hong Kong and Wei-hei-wei, strategic ports in China...
...Yet the groundwork for these annexations has been laid for years...
...America is also a commercial competitor of Britain...
...Shantung is a strip of land 200 square miles, situated between Wei-hei-wei and Hong Kong...
...It is because of this that the British Government brought us to trial in American courts and, with British witnesses, brought under military guard from every corner of Asia, convicted and sentenced us to prison in America for attempting to overthrew British rule in India...
...there are seventy million Mohammedans in India, and the 220 million Hindus are united with them to a man...
...These armies have been manned by Hindu soldiers and the cost has come from Indian revenues...
...Well, go ahead and get familiar with the case...
...China is under British and French control, chiefly British...
...Britain is the chief master of Asia today...
...Racial hatred and brutalization are walking hand in hand...
...And the Indian revolutionists will make the final and successful attempt to free their country from foreign rule...
...All this,—not for Indian conquest, but for British imperialism...
...4) markets,—a place on which to dump the cheap manufactured trash of Europe...
...India, Persia, Arabia and Central Asia are now bowed beneath the British yoke and the independence of Afghanistan seems doomed to pass into oblivion within the next few years...
...The subjection of Persia, Egypt, and the routes to India were necessary only to hold India...
...France controls 3,000,000 square mile3 in Africa and is Britain's enemy in Africa...
...At the same time, all Persia, Egypt, Arabia, Central Asia, including German-Africa and German Islands in the Pacific, have been annexed to the British Empire...
...This treaty provided that in exchange or foreign affairs being placed in British hands, the Amir received $750,000 a year—all of which money was extracted from the Indian taxpayers and paid from Indian revenues...
...she will be but a tool...
...She will conclude Alliances, if she cannot secure her aims by conflict, with France, Austria and the weaker Balkan states to secure railway concessions through Constantinople into Asia Minor and to the Persian Gulf of India...
...That spirit is fundamentally Asian...
...The deportation of a few of us will not matter...
...We have seen Czarism and Kaiser-ism fall, and we shall soon see Britishism, also based upon the principle of coercion, trickery and force, fall...
...Bat, since Shtntang, in the bands of Japan, menaces Wei-hei-wei and Hong Kong and Shanghai, and since Tsingtao, the chief port in Kiao-Chow, is one at the greatest and most strategic harbors in China and will menace British commercial supremacy, the Shantung question has baen made capital of in an effort to create dissension between Japan and China...
...Asia and the Near East need only a spark to set them on fire...
...But Asia u by no means "pacifist...
...The future lineup in European affairs will be for Britain to use Germany against France, if she can, for revenge, and return the Saar Valley and Alsace-Lorraine to Germany...
...2To have communications established with • her colonies, particularly with India, by land as well as by sea...
...2) the revolutionary movements in India, Persia and Egypt...
...If the ruling class of England continues to dominate and exploit these peoples, disaster is in store for it...
...The Mohammedans will not submit to British rule...
...We Hindus held for deportation do not speak (Continued on page 6.) AMERICA is also a commercial competitor of Britain...
...We merely speak the truth about Asia...
...For this purpose she has her eye on Dutch Colonies like Java, Sumatra and Barneo...
...She will direct, encourage and aid the fighters, while at the same time she grabs all China and cripples Japan...
...same time the attention of China and the world was being directed toward 200 square miles of territory in Shantung, Britain was annexing over 700,000 square miles of Chinese territory—Thibet—to the British-Indian Empire in the form of a "protectorate...
...Even in reports of recent revolution in India in April, newspaper reports stated that Europeans were being killed...
...A LEGAL TURN The following is told of a late railway magnate and prominent Philadelphia lawyer...
...BRITISHISM in Asia goes further in its attempt to become master of the world...
...THERE are four main incentives for the subjection of Asia: (1) rich natural resources...
...We Hindus have seen many such civilizations fall —Greek, Persian, Roman, Turkish, Egyptian, Babylonian...
...Thus, England's 43 million people, (and partly France's 39 million) will be responsible for a war of millions...
...The question may soon be asked by them: "Why not conquer for ourselves...
...Japan, with which America hiks no unadjustable conflicts, is being made into an enemy of America, while Britain s:t3 in the background, playing both the Japanese and the American hand, directing the conflict and at the same time renewing her Anglo-Japanese alliance and attempting to establish a British-American agreement...
...American money has been loaned to subjugate India within the past year, and American soldiers will eventually be called upon to spill their blood to continue the subjugation and to collect the money for that purpose...
...They are learning that the white race understands only one thing—brute force...
...The plan in the head of British statesmen for the past fifty years follows, and this she will follow if left to her own course: ¦a To hold a navy as powerful as any two X • othsr nations combined...
...and the country which holds India is not only master of Asia, but master of Europe as well...
...We state our rights...
...Our spirit is co-operation on equal terms...
...Cannot Be Exterminated...
...As we come out of prison, British Consul-Generals in America are using American immigration laws to deport us...
...The subjection of India has been the source of this deplorable situation...
...Even now the whole Mohammedan world is in the first stages of revolt...
...There are millions of us left to take our places...
...and, as such is hated by the western nations, just as she is a living example of hope to Oriental peoples that an Asiatic country need not be a slave...
...By her naval power she controls the highways by sea...
...The idealism of Amei-ica is being used by Britain in an effort to eliminate Japan from the commercial field of Asia, and to destroy Japan's political independence and naval strength in order that England might dominate Asia forever...
...Their industries have been destroyed that they might not compete with Manchester and Lancashire and that they might remain producers of raw material...
...Strategically, as well as economically, India is the very heart of Asia and British imperialism...
...I'm already at home in it...
...In this she must face Belgium, Italy, France and Spain...
...During the war, in particular, Japan gained a strong commercial foothold in China and became Britain's first competitor...
...May Be Racial War...
...Once India is free, the backbone of Britishism is broken and Asia is released from bondage...
...The highways to India are now all British...
...She will eventually call upon America to suppress these movements, particularly the Indian revolution, on the plea that the Indian revolutionists are killing Americans and destroying American property...
...The isolation of Japan has been far-planned...
...The freedom of Asia will solve the problem and avert a continental war...
...If you do not support our just claims and rights, we must act as you would act if your country, as is ours, were subjected to a foreign and hateful rule...
...The greatest teachers known to history—Buddha, Con-fucious, Mohammed, Christ, and hundreds of others, have been Asiatics and have preached the Asian philosophy of universal brotherhood in one form or another...
...It means the destruction of the basic Asiatic contribution to history—the spirit of human brotherhood...
...In either case, the conflict will have been precipitated by Britain and British interests will be at stake...
...For Master of the World...
...She holds a net of Islands in the Pacific Ocean, including Australia and New Zealand, and Jamaisa, British Honduras and British Guiana in the Atlantic...
...Yet, let Asia but become fully awake and she is beginning to awake today, let her but look about her at...
...Instead, we have gained inspiration from American history...
...British naval base...
...Many men, versed in British cunning diplomacy, saw it long before the war ended...
...Reasons fcr Subjection...
...If she cannot succeed in this plan, she will go from England to Gibraltar, through northern Africa to the Suez Canal...
...Rivalry in China...
...Thus, all the Mediterranean countries including Italy, Greece, Spain and France must be kept weaker than Britain, that this control may remain British, India's enslavement was, therefore, the direct cause of the subjection of Persia, Egypt and Arabia and the emasculation of Turkey as a political power...
...That alone entitles her to a place among the "big five" today...
...Yet Britain will not bear the brunt of the fight with Japan...
...BY such methods, the British dominions have gradually increased, until Britain, during the war just ended, was able to annex pver 2,500,000 square miles to her territory without arousing one word of protest from America...
...The Hindu revolutionists are the advance guards, and Britain's mailed arm has reached to America to drive them from their refuge...
...The British do not wish us deported because they love us...
...To dominate the highways of the world...
...ASTILL more important factor in British-Asiatic affairs is the intense commercial, naval and political rivalry in China between Great Britain and Japan...
...Britain immediately took possession of the entire country...
...After the 1917 revolution in Russia the Russian armies were withdrawn, as well as all Russian claims upon Persia...
...she does not compete with Japan for naval supremacy...
...Yet America is being used every day by the master-diplomats of Britain to support the continued torture of Asia...
...She does not compete commercially with Japan in China...
...We have been in the darkness only during the period of your greatness...
...India is an example...
...It is British and French money and influence, aided by American influence, which is keeping China, the "sick man of Asia," that she may not become strong enough to oust her European land-grabbing enemies...
...this involved the subjection and annexation of inde-' pendent countries, like Persia, Arabia and Egypt...
...We are merely fighting in our own defense against an aggressor, we merely voice the ideals of human freedom...
...3) Mohammedanism- as a political factor...
...We did not start the conflict...
...Under this system of political and economic exploitation, Asia has endured three centuries of torture...
Vol. 12 • January 1920 • No. 1
