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Hira Singh

CHAPTER II
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Other telegrams stated that the Sikhs of India in particular had risen, and that Pertab Singh, our prince, had been hanged in public.

Many other lies they posted up.

It would be waste of time to tell them all.

They were foolishness--such foolishness as might deceive the German public, but not us who had lived in India all our lives and who had received our mail from home within a day or two of our surrender.
There came plausible men who knew our tongue and the argument was bluntly put to us that we ought to let expediency be our guide in all things.

Yet we were expected to trust the men who gave us such advice! Our sense of justice was not courted once.


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