Indian soldiers unload a wagon. The caption on the back refers to the soldiers helping the Allies by 'unloading their baggage,' but Indian soldiers fought on their own. © American Press Assciation
Reverse:India's army which is helping the allies unloading their baggage. (C) American Press AssociationSEP 14 1914
"— Jacques G——, seconded for duty as inspector with the Sûreté Générale, is keeping a watch on Indians in Paris. There are wealthy native Princes who are trying to foment a rising in their country. Cases of arms destined for India have already been seized in France. And I have heard of an Indian Princess who is being closely watched by a woman police spy specially placed in the hotel as chambermaid."
Undated entry from the diary of Michel Corday, a senior civil servant in the French government from the end of April, 1916. In Dublin, Ireland, the first blow for independence from the British Empire during the war, the Easter Rising, was being crushed by British forces. At Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia, a British-Indian army surrendered to Turkish forces on April 29, and was going into harsh, ofter deadly, internment as prisoners-of-war.
The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 160, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934
1916-04-30, 1916, April, India, Paris, independence
