The ties that bind the average Indian Mohammedan to the land of his birth are such as to make sympathy with Turkey more or less purely academia His interests are to live peacefully with his fellow countrymen, Hindus, who are four times as many as the Mohammedans. The Indian, Hindu or Mohammedan, has prospered under the British flag. During the past eight or ten years, he has been gradually acquiring political righto, and he hopes to become a part of the Empire, bearing its full! burden and sharing its privileges and responsibilities, like Canads or Australia. A community of interests, political, tradal, economic and social, has been built up tween the British and the Indian —Hindu or Mohammedan, and the Indian cannot break away from it without enormous damage to himself. Of that fact he is well aware. His Highness the Aga Khan voiced the feeling of all Indians when he said the other day at " meeting in London:
"All Indians knew that if Britain was ever weakened India's aspirations, India' whole future would go to piscos On the other hand, India was an la. ethaustible source ' of man power snd wealth in nataral resources to the British Empire, She asked no more in return than that the Queen's Proclamation of 1858 be kept in the letter and the spirit."
It is to the interest of the Indian Mohammedan to act in unison with his brethren of other religions in India. He knows now what the cleavage in the past between him and the Hindu has been rev ponsible for, and for how long it has put back progress in the country. The hope of every Indian—Hindu or Mohammedan—to-day is that his country should take its rightful place in the British Empire He sees that Britain hae shown her fairmindedness in in-yiting the Indian troops so sla Japan to fight side by side with British soldiers, and that she is the antithesis of Germany, who "The Health and Vigour of a0 individual depend upon the quantity and quality of the blood. When the tissues have been work, there are thrown into the blood waste products, and if there be not eliminated but (through any cause) detained in the blood, they influence nutrition and tune tion and finally produce organic disease. The Humanitarian. In cases of Scrofula, Scurvy; Ecsema, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood Diseases, Pimples, and Sores of all kinds, the effects of Clark's Blood Mixture are marvellous Thousands of wonderful cures hers been effected by it. Clarke's Blood Mixture is sold everywhere at 2%. 9d. per bottle. Beware of worthless imitations and substite. tes—Apvr.
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