Kolkata where the fighting has completely subsided. A congress convened by the Congress Party that has left a mark on India's history is underway.

"If the princely state does not join the Union of India, its relation to the Union - there must be some relation - will not be an equal relationship; We demand suzerainty or supremacy. ”

"We protest against the division of our homeland by the Chinese, and an independent princely state within the territory of India will be a danger to the country, and every Indian who loves his homeland will not allow the princely state to have any contact with any foreign country or any independent government in terms of defense."

This group of guys, who became the losers of the political struggle after launching the Indian campaign in China, decisively raised the banner of 'One India'.

The Congress party is indeed one of the most 'modernised' in modern India. They are very clear-headed, a united India has a future, and a divided India will only become the next Middle East. No matter how rich it is, it can only be peeped at.

Mohandas has already stepped onto the political stage. Karamchand. Gandhi, officially, protested against the Chinese occupation forces in Calcutta: "We will not recognize any form of independent princely state in India, and any foreign regime that recognizes this 'independence' will be regarded as an unfriendly act by the Indian people." ”

Gandhi also made a formal statement at the Congress party meeting that the only option for the princely states was for the princely states to be independent or to form groups. Join the Union of India on an equal footing with the provinces. Gandhi declared that the declaration of independence by the princely states of India was "tantamount to declaring war on millions of free Indians." The All India Congress Party Committee immediately passed a resolution refusing to recognize the right of any princely state to declare its independence and secede from the rest of the country.

This kind of 'toughness' that is in direct opposition to the policy of the occupation forces is very difficult to show in the Indians.

And this meeting of the Congress party. It also formally adopted Gandhi's plan for non-violent non-cooperation and the party platform drafted by Gandhi, making non-violent non-cooperation the guiding ideology of the Congress Party. Striving for "India's freedom and independence" has become a realistic goal of the Congress Party.

In the history of Indian civilization published by the British 80 years later. John Bull spoke highly of the conference and the Congress Party, "The Congress Party has changed from a group of a small number of upper strata operating mainly by constitutional means into a modern bourgeois party with a broad mass base and relying on direct mass struggle for an all-round struggle against oppression." ”

The British praised Gandhi as a noble soul. Regardless of whether Gandhi was in the Congress party or not. He has always been a symbol of India's independence and has shaped the direction of India's national liberation movement.

In fact, as soon as the Congress Party meeting reached its political conclusion, as soon as they handed over their 'anger' to China, the authorities of the occupation forces in Calcutta immediately carried out arrests, and the newly elected Congress Party leaders led by Gandhi were arrested en masse. China is not Britain. The Congress party of the early 20th century was not the Congress party of the original time and space after World War II, and Gandhi had just emerged and had not yet gathered great popularity. More importantly, China does not seek domination over India at all.

Compared to the various concerns and greatness of the British in India. Today's China is completely different. We must not forget that after World War II, Britain has lost its traditional world hegemony and lagged behind the United States and the Soviet Union, and now China is the rising sun and shining brightly.

The arrest of the Congress Party did not cause much public opinion, let alone a media spotlight. India as a whole is still at war, and in such a situation, the influence of the Congress Party can only affect the upper elite of the state party that they themselves have been born into. And this group, or this class. In 1918 it was far less favourable than the maharaja class of India.

China does not need to compromise with these people in exchange for benefits, and India's indigenous princes are able to give China more benefits. At a time when its influence had not yet been widely extended to the entire middle and lower classes of India, the Congress Party was like a cannon party after the First Sino-Japanese War, and its real strength was just being born.

Even if it's their English dad. At this time, he was also more concerned about the fate of the British army in India. The parliament and the cabinet are nervously debating one proposal after another, whether they want to send reinforcements to India? Will the reinforcements be able to achieve their intended purpose after they arrive in India? If India is not reinforced, will it be like this to abandon the entire Indian region? Then the question of retreat would have to be considered. The retreat of people and wealth as a whole. This is an extremely troublesome process.

Commander-in-Chief of the Anglo-Indian Army, Horatio. Herbert. Field Marshal Kitchener telegraphed to London almost every day that the defeat at the Battle of Calcutta had shaken the British Empire's rule in India. The ensuing series of defeats convinced everyone that British rule was coming to an end. The regions of South India and Northwest India, which he still has control now, should be suppressed by harsh means. Just as he did in Omdurman to suppress the Sultan's army in the Mahdi, these require a clear reply from London.

With Kitchener's toughness and tenacity, it was also clear that the British rule in India was over. He must now think about the future and take a long-term view.

Although the British colonial government withdrew from the South Asian subcontinent, this does not mean that the British also wanted to withdraw from the South Asian subcontinent. For hundreds of years, the British had an influence in India that China could not match, and if this influence was fully maintained, it could win countless friendships for the British Empire after the war. Perhaps at that time, the countries of India, which was close to the powerful and incomparable Chinese Empire, also desperately needed the friendship of the Western world represented by the British Empire. This style is completely different from Omdurman's burning, killing and looting afterwards, so such decision-making power is not Horatio. Herbert. Kitchener, a field marshal, can make a decision.

While Kitchener was still thinking about how to reduce the losses of the British army, preserve the strength of the British army in India as much as possible, and lay a solid foundation for post-war international relations, what he did not know was that the entire British Empire was turned upside down by the complete defeat at the Battle of Calcutta.

Kolkata was a symbol of British rule in India and was the capital of British India. It is the center of education, science, culture and politics in modern India. In the 21st century, Kolkata was only the third largest city in India, but in 1918, it was the absolute largest city in India. Kolkata was lost. Will India still be saved? India is gone, can the British Empire continue?

To know. The news of the 'fall' of Kolkata half a year ago shook not only India, but the entire British Isles.

Add to this the loss of British soldiers in the ensuing series of battles and the fall of the Australian theater of operations. This has already fueled discontent among the British population against the government and the military. Just two thousand miles away in the partial war zone, the British Empire has already paid more than 100,000 excellent young people for it, if the war burns to Europe, burned to the doorstep of Britain, in order to resist the attack of the Chinese, how many British people need to die on the battlefield?

How many people are there in the whole of the UK? Conscription, from the very beginning of the youth, has expanded to the youth and middle-aged, if further failures continue. Wouldn't that send all the men of the British Isles into battle?

Therefore, the whole British society at this moment is in turmoil because of the defeat of India.

In front of Whitehall, tens of thousands of protesters gathered, mostly women, but also many elderly and children. They were outraged by the repeated defeats of the British army, believing that the government was sending their loved ones to hell. Even, some radical people directly called for a stop to the war and peace talks with the Chinese. We want the slogan of peace.

The British's own intelligence system immediately infiltrated and investigated the crowd, but did not find out the 'black hand behind it'. The people who gathered at Whitehall were mainly frightened by the successive defeats of the British and the huge losses of the British.

It's just a North American battlefield of China's partial divisions, which is still a few days away from a year's war, and it has swallowed up millions of British troops. The Britons who came to protest in front of Whitehall shuddered. Then they also thought of Austria-Hungary and Italy, which still shed a lot of blood in the war. How many young men have died on the battlefield, how many women have become widows, and how many fathers and mothers have lost their sons. The child has no father?

Fear is terrifying.

From the British, they thought of the British, who had been defeated in successive battles and had lost more than 100,000 soldiers. If this number is followed by a zero. God, the whole of Britain will disappear for a generation.

None of them wanted to see a large number of British men sent to battle. Then killed by the Chinese. They are not willing to send their sons, husbands, and fathers to hell of no return. In the end, will all the men in Britain die, and only the women remain?

These people who took to the streets absolutely did not want to see such a scene happen, so they asked the government to find a way, if they could not defeat the Chinese, then end the war as soon as possible!

It's just that the leaders of the British government think very differently from ordinary people. The people will only think in their own interests, and they, the elites of British society, need to think in the national interests of the United Kingdom, and even the interests of the Western world as a whole. As for how to face China's rise, this point has long been left without much consideration. Britain had to fight, because everyone, including the king and the prime minister, knew that this time the Chinese were also fighting this war with the aim of 'completely destroying all threats'. Summation has no effect on Britain. Unless the British are willing to watch the Chinese step on top of their heads to ascend to the throne of the world. If they don't want Britain to be completely defeated, then they have to fight this war.

At the very least, the world can be Chinese, but Europe must be European.

Although the current performance of the European armies is very embarrassing for all the Western belligerents. The Army's repeated defeats have dealt a serious blow to the confidence of senior leaders of various governments.

Until now, only the navy of the British Empire has not suffered a complete heavy loss, and the German and French armies have also maintained a strong combat power, these two 'existences' have made the entire Western world continue to fight.

Even if the British had sold the United States to China, the fact that Europe must be Europe was insisted on by the whole of London. Herbert. Henry. Asquith lowered the curtains, and the protesting crowd outside Whitehall made him feel very uncomfortable.

He believes that since he became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, he has always worked for the interests of the United Kingdom. The current situation seems to be seriously different from what he expected! He had put aside his son's death and let personal enmity give way to public affairs, but the entire Western civilization and the glory of the British Empire were still in danger of being destroyed. It's not serious at all, it's time for Britain to live and die now!

Whitehall is not 10 Downing Street, 10 Downing Street is the official residence of the British Prime Minister, and Whitehall is just a street in the city of London, England. But it connects the Houses of Parliament to Downing Street. In and around this street there are some important government offices such as the British Ministry of Defense, Foreign Office, Home Office, Admiralty, etc. That's why the British called Whitehall, which was destroyed in a fire in 1698.

In the middle of the road in Whitehall, a Peace Memorial was erected, the main war memorial in Britain. Every year on Invalids Sunday, the British hold a solemn ceremony here. In addition, there are several statues, all of which are famous figures in British military history. For example, Horatio. Nelson!

At this moment, the statue and the square around the statue that was originally to commemorate the great martial arts of the British are full of dense Britons.

All the members of the British Cabinet gathered here, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, John Brown, was here. Rushworth. Admiral Jericho, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, David Jellico. Lieutenant General Betty, Chief of Army Staff Len John. Denton. Pinkerstone. Field Marshal French was also gathered here, as well as Douglas, commander-in-chief of the European Expeditionary Force and commander of the First Army, who was already ready for the British Army. Admiral Haig.

Almost all the British military and political dignitaries gathered here, but all of them had very bad faces. Especially Jericho and French, they can feel that everyone's eyes are focused on the two of them, who made them the first people in the army and navy of the British Empire? Such a gaze made both of them feel a kind of shame from the bottom of their hearts, deep shame.

With the advent of Chinese aircraft carriers, the British lost Australia and now India, and now Britain suffered its worst defeat since the Napoleonic Wars. All of this made it very difficult for these first figures of the British Empire to accept.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have seen a large number of protesters gathered outside Whitehall, and I am sure there are many such protests in major cities across the United Kingdom, apart from London. The people are demanding that we end the war as soon as possible. But, do you think the British Empire can really get out of the quagmire of war? Asquith had a mocking look on his face. Ordinary people may think that if the war is lost, then it is enough to admit defeat, and it is a big deal to compensate the Chinese with some reparations. Just like the Qing Dynasty did to Britain back then, even the rules of the game for the Franco-Prussian War were the same. How do they know that the world has long since changed. What China wants to change is the set of rules of the game that Westerners have set up early on! (To be continued.) )