A Shock To England.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 24, 1912:
It Had Been Hoped That Recent Reforms Would Pacify India.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 24.— The attempt to assassinate the Viceroy of India has aroused a painful impression in this country. The extensive political reforms introduced in India in the last few years had created a hope that this form of outrage would not recur, especially as the most determined agitators are ready to admit that a new spirit should now animate the country. The Times editorially says:
    "The attempt does not mean that these reforms are either inadequate or unappreciated. All reputable Indian politicians willingly recognize that they have received great concessions, for which they are grateful. The act which the empire now deplores was unquestionably the work of some members of that implacable organization of Anarchists which haunts the purlieus of great Indian cities and remains untouched by political concessions or imperial visits. "The attack on the Viceroy is simply an Indian counterpart of those crimes against crowned heads and others in high place with which Europe and America have become painfully familiar. Anarchism is no new thing in India, and those with knowledge are well aware that it has not disappeared. There have been several proofs of late that Indian Anarchism is once more reviving. The attempt to wreck Lord Carmichael's train in July and the murder of a police officer at Dacca in September were only the most conspicuous among the indications that conspirators were again at work."

ONE VICEROY ASSASSINATED.
Lord Mayo Killed by a Convict in the Andaman Islands in 1872.
    The only Viceroy of India who was assassinated was Richard Southwell Bourke, sixth Earl of Mayo, who became Viceroy in 1860, and was killed in 1872. He paid a visit to the penal settlement in the Andaman Islands in order to inspect it officially, and while examining the establishment at Port Blair on Feb. 8, 1872, he was killed by a native convict with a knife which the man, in some manner that was not explained, had been able to obtain.
    Lord Hardinge, then Sir Charles Hardinge, was appointed in 1910 to succeed the Earl of Minto as Viceroy of India. At the time of his appointment he was elevated to the peerage. He is 54 years old. He entered the diplomatic service in 1880, and has remained in it continuously, serving in Constantinople, Berlin, Washington, Bucharest, Teheran, and St. Petersburg. In 1904 he was appointed Ambassador to Russia, and two years later was made Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.