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Hindustan Ghadr for February,1940.
Page 7- 11•    Open letter to the troops*
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(Note:- This open letter is "being distributed to the
troops "both inside and outside of India.    The authors of this
letter earnestly appeal to all patriots to endeavour to deliver
this letter to soldiers wherever possible and to tell our
military comrades to read it and pass it on to others to read).
Dear military brothers,- just consider, for whom are you
wasting your valuable lives?   The Farangis have reduced your
"beloved homeland -to servitude.     They have robbed the India which
was once fabulously wealthy and made it the poorest country on
earth.     With the loot of India they have made England wealthy
and powerful.     Every year these Farnagis take av/ay from India
to England about one hundred crores of rupees in the form of
commercial profits, interest on loans, pensions, salaries, etc.
With your help they have kept India in bondage.   With your
help they have enslaved China, Burma, Africa and other
territories.      Indian soldiers, what is the use of dying for
strangers?     Out of Indian loot these Farangis pay your wages.
For every rupee they rob India they give you out of it about
four annas.     The remaining tv/elve annas they take to England.
To-day these Farangis tell you that you are eating their salt.
How misleading!     The Farangis themselves eat the salt of India
but are disloyal.     They have reduced India to slavery and are
robbing the country.
Dear military brothers, you are eating the salt of India, not
that of the Farangis.     You should be loyal to India.    Fight for
the independence and defence of India.     To-day India is in
bondage.     To-day when you fight for the Farangis you are doing
dishonour to yourselves, and to us far more.     The world calls
us the slaves of the Farangis and spits in our faces. Come,
for God's sakel     To-day when people look at photographs of
you they say "There go the slaves of the English."     7/hen they
see your photographs your own Indian brethren hang down their
heads for shame.     Come, brothers;    there is more than enough
already;    do not cause more confusion.
Dear friends, the Farangi Government is once more entangled
in a European war.     The Farangis will call you heroes and will
try once more to make use of you.     Be careful not to be misled
by their soft speeches and to be entangled in their toils. You
are not enemies of the Germans.    Tell the Farangis that you eat
the salt of India and can therefore fight only for the
independence and defence of India, not for anything else.
If willy-nilly they take you away to the War shoot blindly
and when opportunity offers desert to the other side with
your arms.
Dear soldiers, India is behind you.      Indian patriots
have passed resolutions to the effect that if the Farangi
Government does not give independence to India no
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assistance will "be forthcoming.      Dear "brothers, you get
much less pay than English soldiers.    To-day you are the
slaves, the Farangis are the masters.     To-day throughout
the world the Farangis are respected, "but you command no
respect.      If India "becomes free the whole picture can "be
changed.      To-day in India the "biggest positions are filled
"by Farangis and they have the biggest salaries. After
securing Indian independence you will have those "big .
positions and salaries.     The wealth which goes to'England
as loot will no longer go.     The material lot of all your
Indian "brothers will "be improved. .
Dear military brothers, the time to decide has arrived.
The English are bound to have you slaughtered somewhere
or other in this war.      If you have to die, then become
martyrs fighting for independence..     Slaves attract no
notice if they die, but the whole world pays homage to
those who sacrifice themselves, for freedom. Indian
patriots rely on you to fight for India's independence.
V/e are,
Your comrades
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Soldiers in the war of independence.