The Man Who Saved India In announcing a "magnificent response" to its appeal for public sybscriptions on behalf of General Dyer, the "Morning Post" observes:
A great wrong is being done to a man who has served his country well—who, by his courage and deci-ion in a moment of dangerous averted an immeasurable For this service the reward is—a broken career.
Generat Dyer, whose prompt and stern measures at Amritsar crushed a conspiracy against British rule in India as formidable as that which led to the Indian Mutiny, has been censured by the Indian Government and its nominees and deprived of further employment as soldier in India. This censure has been endorsed by Mr, Montagu; and the Army Council, over which Mr. Churchill presides, has increased the punishment for what they find to be "an error of judgement," by denying General Dyer any hope of further employment in the Army in this country, While Genera] Dyer saved India, the politicians are saving themselves at his expense. a burning reproach to the British nation that such a thin, should be possible. But the politicians have the power; and the only appeal is to the generous instincts of the people, In spite of the specious gloss put upon the case by those who, while reaping the benefit of General Dyer's action, find it convenient to escape the responsibility for it, there are thousands of men an women-in England who realize the truth—that the lives of their fellow-countrymen in India hung upon the readiness of a General Dyer to act as he acted. [t is to those men and women that we appeal, to do what is in them to redress the callous and cynical wrong which has been done.
General Dyer has been broken. A brilliant career as a soldier has been closed. More than that, he, a poor man—for soldiers do not get' the pay of politicians—has been put to heavy expense in the attempt to vindicate himself against official injustice. He is not only broken, but financially crippled.
In these circumstances, we have no hesitation in asking those who recognize and are grateful for his service, so ill-requited, to help in mitigating at least a part of the Severities meted out tohim. We forthwith propose to open a General Dyer fund, the subscriptions to which will serve a two-fold purpose.
In the first place, they will relieve a gallant and des>: tef: used soldier of a grievous amba' rassment. In the second place, and much more important, they will give him, in his hour of bitterness and tribulation, an assurance that some of his fellow countrymen at least extend to him, their sympathy, their confidence, and their gratitude, and dissociate
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