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In the House of Commons, replying to Sir John Randles, Mr Montagu sunced that a commission would be appointed to examine, with reference to all the interests concerned in the future fiscal policy of the Government of India, including the desirability of adopting the principle of Imperial preference. He emphasised that no decision with regard to it- perial preference could be taken until the commission reported.
Joynsen Hicks asked if Montagu would whole-heartedly support the prisciple of imperial preference.
Montagu replied that be was very anxious that in any fiscal arrange. ment devised for the Empire and India, India should take her place as a free partner in the British Empire and follow the general imperial practice. (cheers).
MORE DAVIS CUP CHALLENGES.
New YORE, March 24 Czecho-Slovakia and the Philippines have entered challenges for the Davis Cup.
LÄTI-TRUST LAW PROSECUTIONS.
NEW YORK, March 2. Seventy-four big cement corporations and 40 individual officers employed by them have been indicted by the Federal Court charged with violation of the Sherman anti-Trust Law.
BYLILECTION RESULT.
LABOUR LOSES A SEAT.
LONDON, March 2.
The Woolwich bye-election, occasioned by the resignation of the Labour member Crooks, was won by Mr. Gee, Unienist, with 13,724 votes. Ramsay Macdonald, Labour, ran him-closely with 13,040.
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Though I never had the smallest hesitation in the matter, I made careful inquiries ten years ago, in quite another connection, about whether a Jewish Viceroy would be acceptable to India. Representan e Hindus and Mahommedans aluse laughed at the very idea that such a question should be asked. Last year the greatest Rajput pricces, in India
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PEX 1 do not expect to see Bolshevist Scallywags and Turkish catch 'em
THURSDAY, MARCH 3. alive-ch's under Mustapha Kemal marching side by side through Asia Miror. They would be scuppering were earnestly asking for a jew as Samshti and Wachow
Swatow, Shanghai and North China one another before they had advanced Viceroy.
To say that Mabommedans would Heibow Eve miles. Persia is undoubtedly under some danger of further Bel-not Eke it is nonsense. I write of sbevist menaces, but Russia has been what I know, and it ought to be swatow, Amov and Foochow threatening Persia for a hundred remembered that Akbar's ablest "Straits and Bangkok.
Minister was a Hindu, Todar Mal, khilippine Islands
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When I bear horrific stories of India wants a good Viceroy, and will Shanghai and North China Bolshevist Eerdes massing in Turk not care a straw, whether he is a Jew shanghai and North China.....
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Естра Dhanushkodi the mighty ramparts of the Him. Reading will never be Indian. They
via MAESHILLES. Hegistralicu5 p.iz. Have you heard of the are British, and they are wrong
Saturday, dub Letter: 8.30am. Denemen slayas.
The Parcel Mail will be closed on whispering-galleries of the East?
Frias, 4th March, at 5 p.m. There is not a big bazaar in India which does not know how the Balsbe vists have treated Bekhara. The Afghans have bad enough of Bolshe fare. I am quite certain that he Jars Ports via Batavia vism, and we have just sent to Kabul would be enormously popular with Sestow, Shanghai and North Coins a thoroughly good man, Sir Henry Indians, and if he would consent Straits, Bangkok, Calcutta and ADEN Dobbs, knighted on Saturday,
Nor, though I touch wood as I write the words, am I worrying very much about the position in India. The people of Great Britain most make np their minds (as I believe they are quite willing to do) that henceforth Indians must play a far larger and more direct part in the control of their own affairs. They will probably govern themselves far less efficiently than we have governed them, but it will be madness to resist the spirit of the times.
The period of transition will be anxions and there may be grave trouble during the coming year, but
I think the appointment of. Lord Reading would probably turn out to be an extremely good one, and worder nobody thought of him be:
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of action we do not know, and I have Amoy. *Shanghai and North China.... some doubts, but it must be remem-watow, "Amoy and Foochow bered that he would be brigaded Straits and Bangkok vermeze zorganize we must keep cool about it if it arri with Lord Rawlinson, the new Com- Amoy and Philippine Islands. ves. Mr. Gandhi and his Mussulmanmander-in-Chief in India.
The qualities of the one man Halhow and Haiphong allies are wild, unbalanced men, of whom we have by no means heard would fit in admirably with the Shanghai. North China, Japan, Canada, United States, Central and South the last, but there are immense silent qualities of the other, and as the last
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1.30.11. this country knows but little. In my Reading, 1 think they would make judgment these forces, in conjunction an extraordinarily good combination. Satow, "Shanghai and North Chine with the vast in furrce of the So long as the chief of the Imperial princes and chiefs, whose interests General Staff keeps off the grass, we resemble our own, will eventually could be easy in our minds about steady, India, perhaps after an interval India. of sporadic turmoil. But there must be no more Dyerism, nor is there any need for it:
It is said that the Earl of Reading may be the next Viceroy of India
Ihad meant to touch of many other topics, but the East "draws all men like a magnet," and once one drift into Asia it is difficult to get away from it. The rest will keep, and
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
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CRIME IN 1920.
NEW POLICE METHODS.
SCOTLAND YARD'S MANY CAPTURES.
Last year was remarkable for the
The mounted police, too, under Colonel Laurie, have been reorgan- ised, their equipment improved, and the men mounted on some of the finest Under the horses in the country.. new organisation a large body of mounted police can be concentrated in any part of London within half-an- hour.
The effect of these improvements
number of dever captures that have has been seen in the extraordinary been made of burglars, pick-pockets and other criminals. The Bying General Horwood, the Commission-squads of detectives attached to New er, is a firm believer in the import Scotland Yard, working independently detectives, under the "Big Four ance of motor-vehicles as an aid to have done well in rounding up house. the police, and it is in this direction breakers and breaking up gangs of that the improvements have largely thieves who infest tubestations, traine
and, omnibuses, been carried out.
Uniform and detective superinten-
Detective work in the divisions has been strengthened by the introduction of a better system for classifying crimes and by other methods.
His Honour Mr. Justice Gompertz, dents have now their own motor-cars Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C.n which they can rapidly go from one
New Scotland Yard has reason to O.B.E.. Hon Mr. S. B...C, Ross, point to another of their large dis-
tricts
be proud of its record for 1920. Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, Hon. Mr.
Motor-bicycle side-cars are kept at There still remains, however, the im- Lau Chu-pak, Hon. Mr. Ho Fook, Mr. S. B. McElderry, Mr. R. E. various police stations for the use of perative need for bringing the staff of Lindsell, Messrs. Kwok Chun-yeung, cfficers in case of emergency and chief dotective inspectors up to the. Chan Seng-sam, Li Fung-shan, Tong divisional detective inspectors have proper strength. The appointment of Lai-tsun, S. W. Tso, Li Yik-mui, their motor-bicycies and side-cars to a cheet detective for England is an-
consideration. Wong Yi-tung, Ho Kom-tong. Wong drive to the scene of a crime or to other reform which demand's earnest Yung-kai, Tong Yat-chun, Ho Kwong, visit outlying stations. Tee Yan-chi, Yung Tsz-ming, Chin Chau-sam, Mok Kon-sang, Lau Yu- fong Li Ping, Lau Kwan-po, R. Kote wall and M. K. Lo.'
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