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UNREST IN INDIA.
"WOMAN WITHOUT A SHADOW."
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"The
Richard Strauss's new opera, Woman Without a 'Shadow," will be [refrain from any conduct adding to performed for the first time in Vienna the burden of the Government. He Opera House on October 1 and at TROUBLE WITH AFGHANISTAN. refers to the sorrowful experience of Dresden on October 13. Strausa will
SIMLA (
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All is reported quiet on other frontier os MIRRIAGE PROBLEM.
In the Army of Occupation an
past invasions from the frontier, not conduct at either performance. from a repetition of which the Gov- The opera, instead of being con- Khan Kalat Messamed, agent for In the name of the King-Emperor, have a large number, and the whole ernment is well able to protect them.fined to two or three scenes, will the governor general of Baluchistan, to Viceroy enjoins all loyal people staging and management will be un- deploring the insensate conduct of to assist the Government to crush der Max Reinhardt, of the Deutsches Amanulla which must inevitably lead this enemy of the peace of India and Theatre The libretto, by Hugo von to his destruction, renews assurance to refrain from giving colour to the Hoffmannsthal, tells the story of a of unswerving loyalty. The sirdars falae stories assiduously disseminated. woman, half divine, who could have of Kalat, leaders of the Quetta com- munity of tribesmen have done like who left
Mc Loughlin, the last European no children because she had no sha wise. Martial law is declared in Peshawar after exciting experiences.
Aghanistan, reached dow, She descends to earth and Peshawar. The Afghan postmaster He says, the Bolshevists have taken man to surrender her shadow and eeks to persuade some human wo of Peshawar, grossly abusing. his position,
big part in the war movement in with it her hope of children. A wife bas been distributing Afghanistan. inflammatory literature, and is be-
is almost brought to consent to the coming the centre of an agitation of Landi Kotal reports say an air raid tiations because she realises that her No further operations are reported.bargain, but at last breaks off nego- the wildest character. A postmasteron Dakka (Afghanistan) on the husband's love is partly bound up is no diplomatic agent: he is merelyrinth had excellent results. The with her motherhood. Finally God head of the post office which as a special headquarters of the camp were rewards the efforts of the woman concession the Government allowed heavily bombed. Naib Salar of without a shadow by relieving her of Afghanistan to maintain.. The Jalalabad in command at Dakka was her half-divinity,and giving her a Peshawar postmaster left his office, seriously wounded. Direct hits were shadow. went to the city and surrounded obtained on the camps and horse. himself with a gang of armed ruffang lines. Tents were blown up and to me as "normal," neither as big as The orchestral work is described from the dregs of the Afghan po fires started.. A total of one and a that of "Electra" nor as small as pulation. He openly defied British quarter tons of bombs was dropped "Ariadne."-Daily Mail. authority. A secret cordon was on. Dakka which was for the time swiftly drawn round the city. The being evacuated. No further rein- postmaster and staff, completely aur forcements are needed. The Afghan prised, surrendered. Three Indian regulars are reported to have reached SOLDIER AND RHINE GIRL. agitators were also captured, thanks Khosta but there is considerable to the secrecy of the arrangements liveliness along the Kurram border. and the skill with which they were carried out. Peshawar, was cleared! areas. of dangerous elements. No loss of life occurried. But one Indian who vanced to Ash Khel, thereby deli Reinforced enemy troops have ad- was sent to the city to parley was berately encroaching on territory stabbed and dangerously wounded.
within British limits. A report has the Rhine there are already British It is officially stated that the been received that a small force of soldiers who wish to marry German position in Afghanistan changed Afghan regulars moved into Afghan women. One soldier, an artillery with remarkable rapidity. Disaffection Mohmand country to stiffen any sergeant, writes to this journal:- spread among the troops who tribal lashkars they may succeed demand vengeance for the murdered in raising,
As one of the Army of Occupa Amir Habib Ullah. Despite the feature of the present situation time at one place, and owing to my The most significant tion I have been stationed for some ostentatious unanimity with which is that the Amir's exhortations study of German have met a young the recent durbar executed Colonel failed to enlist the sympathies lady to whom I have since become Ali Raza and condemned Nasr Ulla of the independent tribes from whom deeply attached. I am anxious to to life in jail, it is now openly stated he doubtless expected immediate know how I stand as to the future. that innocent persons were punished support. The Afridi Maliks informed Can you please definitely state if, and the real culprits escaped. Amun the Political Agent at Khyber that when i ant demobilised, which will i Ulia, fearing rebellion, resolved on cur troops are welcome at Ali Masjid. think be soon, I can correspond with the perilous measure of embarking on They are picketing Chora, Kamado the lady and can she correspond with a war against India spreading false and points south of the Khyber me? Also, when would regulations stories among his soldiery of troubles Zakka Khel of Bazhr Vally has given permit of her coming to England for in the Punjab and depicting the an evasive reply to the Afghan the purpose of marriage?** rich bazaars at the mercy emissaries sent urging them to rise In the opinion of a Home Office of Afghan invaders. The Viceroy in the Mohmand country within official the writer would be well sent the strongest express British administrative limits. No advised to abandon any hope of message to Aman Ulla, a stern warn-lashkar has yet assembled and the bringing his German acquaintance to ing, but without success. Afghan Amit is accused of having hotheadedly England at least for ten years." troops are now arriving at various declared war simply on the strength Soldiers should be very careful, it points on the border. British troops of false rumours. are already
Reports from was suggested, not to enter into any moving to allotted India are that his emissaries received engagement to marry or correspond places for concentration. attitude of the tribesmen at the Both there and in Khost there is a
The no encouragement in Waziristan. with an enemy subject-Daily Mail. moment is admirable. The Afridis small but growing party who consider remain staunch. The Mohmands the talk of a Jehad is only a device told Roos Keppel they are prepared of the Amir to unite the people in to fight on our side. Much disunion his favour and that no further action is believed to exist at Kabul. Aman will be taken. The Government has Ulla is reported to have visited Nasr certain proof that some disloyal Ulla and Inayat Ulla in prison and agents in India have, been communi- offered them liberty if they would cating with the Amir.. lead an army against India. Both refused. Nasr Ulla, it is now believed, was poisoned in jail. Aeroplanes will probably play. an important part in fighting the Afghans. The
EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
British forces are rapidly nearing (Beuter's Bervice to the China Mail.) each other.
The Viceroy haa issued a proclama- tion wherein he desires to make known to loyal subjects of the King- Emperor the regrettable news that
GERMAN COLONIES.
PARIS, May 5. A communiqué state that the
the Amir, violating all treaties and Council of Three bus decided the
POLICE UNION AND RECOGNITION.
The National Union of Police and Officers have issued the following statement:
The official statement from New Scotland Yard is simply confined to the fact that the War Cabinet have decided that the Police Union should not be recognized. This is quite refreshing after the deluge of official out in the last fortnight. As a statements that have been poured matter of fact, the official statements
disregarding the steadfast policy of disposition of the "lete German have been so misleading and con-
his wiser predecessors, had resolved Colonies as follows:- on a sudden and wanton attack on
tradictory that the public really do Togoland and the Cameroone-not know from India. The Viceroy believes this France and Britain shall make a whether the police are
reading them, folly is due directly to internal events joint recommendation to the League whether they are asking for recogni on strike, in Afghanistan. There is also reason of Nations with regard to their tion, or what it is they are doing or to apprehend that the present breach | future;
have done. of faith to India is possibly the long
German East Africa-u mandante "The issue at stake in the present delayed fruits of efforts by friends of shall be held by Great Britain;
deadlock is not, and never, has been, Germany, and by Abdul, who failed German South West Africa the recognition of the union-that in an endeavour to seduce the loyalty mandáte shall be held by the Union will come along at
the proper of the late Amir. The viceroy holds of South Africa;
moment, and when that moment evidence showing that the Amir ex- The German Samoan Islands--a comes it will be for the Peace cuses his treachery by pretending mandate shall be held by New Cabinet to decide and not the War that India is in a state of revolution Zealand;
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Cabinet The deadlock is atili and which will react on Afghanistan.. The other German Pacific posses always has been, on the question of He also told his people that in India sions south of the equator (excluding the violation of the board by the neither property or religion.. was the German Sornoan Islands)-a Commissioner of Police, plus the safe. Relying on such falsehoods mandate shall be held by Australiu; he called Hindus and Mussalmans Naura-- mundate shall be given to show him allegiance. He also to the British Empire;
freely stated that Sikha had fired on The German Pacific Islands north British troops, that Germany was of the equator-a mandate shall about to recommence the war and held by Japan.
that the English would be destroyed.]*
The Viceroy also possenses proof
be
foisting of a scheme. of represent.
ation upon the force which gives
the force no voice in its ultimate || |
decisions. The force has already
shown by its boycott of the elections
its attitude towards the scheme, and
the authorities are now. trying by
various subterranean methods to
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newspapers. Inspired by futile hopes The General Steam Navigation he was seducing His Majesty's sub Co., Ltd., London, have taken over jects. The Amir comprenced military the business of Messrs. G. R. Haller, operations in suicidal folly. The Ltd., Hall, togather with their old- "We have every reason to believe Amir ventured to measure his established steamship service be that before long the case will be pre strength against a Power which had tween London and Humber porta; sented for judgment at the Bar of just emerged victorious from the ulso the business of Messrs. Loach the House of Commons, and if by so greatest war ever fought. The and Co., Ltd., London, EC. and doing an inquiry can be forced in the Government possesses overwhelming their steamship service between Lou face of official obstinacy and the facts strength and this criminal and don and Ghent, Both of these ship laid upon the Table, it should be wanton incursion will meet with the ping lines have engaged in their ravery plain to the man in the street speedy punishment it deserved. The Epective services for many years, and that the Polke Union, which has Viceroy having confided in the have become established amongst been so often held up by the authori people earnestly appeals to the not the leading costing liner of the ties as a body of anarchists, is not to believe false rumours and to kingdom,
such a terrible thing after all,”
1919
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