FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1927..
INDIA'S AFFAIRS.
The
THE CHINA MAIL,
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GOVERNMENT HAS KEPT THE PEACE.
·PROGRESS APPRECIABLE.
Rugby, Yesterday..
ESCAPED FROM JAIL.
The lecturer, in this regard, Government of India was RECORD LAUDED. quoted the institution of the Satanic' Government, that as the Indian National Congress which agent of Western influences it He
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was not as old as he was. This had wrought evil in India. consciousness was a comparative. endeavoured to get the people of
morning, however, it appeared ly modern phenomenon. From India to boycott the Government
that the prisoners had escaped from what is known as the "New" sent political situation was the 1884 to the close of the century by refusing to pay taxes, by re-
jall building.on the other side of foreground. The geographical the political movement grew infusing to send their children to But the schools, by the lawyera refus-
Old Bailey. This building is sur- seclusion of India was not only a more or less modern lines,
rounded on four sides by high physical feature in India but it before -the-century-closed-there ing to practise in the courts. But
Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Chan-walls, and the only means of en- was also a representation in arose a prominent figure who be. he could not persuade the people physical geography of a mental lieved that the progress made of India that it was to their cellor of the Exchequer, speaking tering it is by a tunnel from the and spiritual condition.
from 1884 to 1897 was not rapid children's advantage to keep them at the Constitutional Club, review-main-jail building. It is bounded mind of India worked on lines enough and that the medium of away from achools or the lawyer ed the record of the Government. on three sides by the Old Bailey, and Shelley. and by methods different from the Congress was not enough to that he was benefitting by losing He said:"The Government was Staunton Street, those of almost any other part of persuade the Government that his fees. Neither could he in the elected to secure stability, and with Street, and on the other, slide by the world. Some of the difference the new political movement had majority of cases prevail on Mr. Baldwin at its head there was a narrow lane separating it from new semi-foreign houses was to be found, he thought, in begun to spread over the Indian those who had received civil and a belief that the nation would be some
the Old military decorations that they given that period of repose in order on
Bailey side, the dominance of the Hindu political landscape.
old were serving any good purpose by to recuperate so long urgently need- and the
Club Lusi- religion, in the fact that where. Religion v. Revolution.
returning them.
ed. Three years have passed, and tano Building on the Shelley other communities derived their But instead of adopting the guidance from secular custom or policy of constitutional agitation resistance whilst advocating that kept the peace.
Mr. Gandhi preached a policy of we have to say, first of all, we have Street side. The escape was We have kept effected over the wall overlooking Parliamentary legislation, the both in India and in London, no one should resort to force, peace abroad and as far as it lay in the lane into which the prisoners guiling force in India derived its Tyrah linked up the popular re- But he found that it was imprae- our power, we have kept peace at dropped, and then probably ran Sanctions from the ancient scrip-ligious beliefs of the peoples of ticable to preach to an emotional home."..
down Shelley Street into the Chin- tares of India,
Western India to the chariot of people in whom a political con- Those three years had been a ese quarters a little below. It is So much was this so, added the political reform and deliberately sciousness was growing to oppose period of revival, recuperation, and not conceivable that the prisoners lecturer, that in most instances taught the rising young Indians what they were taught to regard convalescence both for Britain and would have dared to run into Old where difficulties arose concerning in that part of the world that as a sin without persuading them Europe. Many would say the pro- Bailey in view of the close proxim- the Hindu community they did they were doing a service to their occasionally to twist the tail of gress had not been what was exity of the Police Headquarters. not seek a solution through country in attacking, both sin.
un- The result was inevitable pected or hoped. That was
While no one actually saw the amendment of the law, or other through the medium of the news- The Left wing broke away from doubtedly true, but the progress had escape, it must have been effect- secular sources, on which West paper and by more revolutionary his leadership. Throughout the been appreciable and had been con-ed in a similar manner to the one ern nations relied, but they sought means the British officers who years 1919-23 men professing to tinueds. By every test one could made from the same prison' five for it in the tenets of their own were adrainistering the Govern- be his followers were deliberately apply the world was more secure. years ago. It appears that the religion. In this particular, the ment.
using the motive power of the The prosperity of the country was first person to suspect some thing lecturer quoted the example of
movement to overturn the Gov-more advanced; and social and was amiss was acting Chief Ward- the Hindu community of Calcutta
The more economical dangers, which menaced er Robertson who found a pile of when it was discovered that the It was about this time that one ernment by force.
saw that us and still menaced us seriously, prisoners' clothing in a corner of clarified butter which was used began to trace in the policy of the level headed Indians
movement was had been held at bay. Nothing had the prison courtyard. A hurried for domestic and sacramental British Government in India the Mr. Gandhi's
based on
a fatal contradiction, been done which had weakened Bri-invesitgation was carried out, and purposes was an adulterated pro- idea that political India had come
By 1909 the idea had He was stirring up strong feelings tish, resources, and the Government it was then discovered that the duct. It was not until the matter to stay.
are missing. had been laid before a representa- grown so strong as to persuade and yet maintaining that they found themselves still with two four prisoners. tive assembly from other parts the Government to pass an act should not find expression. The years of life in this Parliament and Then the general alarm was and drastic treatment meted out developing existing legislative to the merchants concerned in the bodies and bestowing a measure Bale that the blot was deemed to of political rights. but it was in have been removed sufficiently 1917 that the real substantial from Calcutta for an amendment and almost revolutionary change to be added to the Food and Drugs was made in the fabric and struc- Act which would prevent recur-ture of the Government in India rence in the future. What to us in response to the general recog- an ordinary secular event nition of India's claims to some was to them one the consequences recognition for the unexpected of which could only be removed loyalty and co-operation during by an elaborate series of acts and the World War crisis and to the ceremonies provided by religion." now greatly, developed political
consciousness.
WAN
Power of Religion.”
Position in 1917.
In 1917, after prolonged ex- In referring to the power of re-changes of opinion between Lon- ligion in Indian life, the lecturer dion and Simla, the Secretary of said that he did not mean that the State made a declaration on the Indians were necessarily more House of Commons in which he, apiritual than the peoples of said it was the intention of Great Europe. Religion in India was Britain to secure the increasing not merely a code of conduct for association of Indians of all the individual or an attempt to classes in the administration of understand the meaning of their own country, and to estab- the invisible heavens but an fish in the Indian empire a consti- elaborate series of rules by which tution by which, through progres- the conduct of its followers wassive stages, the eventual ideal of governed in no matter what cir- Indian self-government would be cumstances they might find realised. The promise was trans themselves. It was to such an lated into the Government of India, accustomed through the India Act in 1919 and the new ages to rule their lives according legislature was set up in the win- to the prescriptions of religion, ter of 1920-21. that there had been introduced in recent years the political thought of Europe, and particularly of Great Britain
cept on the basis of English..
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When the newly constituted legislative bodies were set up India was in a state of seething turmoil. In fact it seemed
REVUES FOR KOWLOON.
a better chance than it had three given. years ago when it assumed the res- ponsibility of power.
Passed the Worst.
Carefully Planned. The escape seems to have been carefully planned, and it is ob- Įvious that the prisoners couki We had passed through the very not have succeeded in their get worst and, in some respects, the most malignant industrial troubles away, without assistance from which the history of this country outside. This was also confirmed and any podern State had ever wit-by the fact that the prisoners nessed the general strike and had left their prison garb behind prolonged paralysis in the coal them. The means adopted by the fields. These two events, he claim- prisoners in scaling the high wall! ed, had destroyed a great part of is not apparent, as they had left the improvement for which one no clue behind, but it is probable otherwise might have hoped. The that ropes had been thrown over coal subsidy had upset the Govern- to them from the unfrequented ment first year's finanec.
lane and made fast there whilst strike itself had destroyed the they climbed. The difficulty of second year's finance, and the the glass on top of the wall was aftermath of the strike, involving surmounted by the placing of a a loss of between twenty and
The
thirty millions sterling in revenue, bundle of rags over the glass. There are no scaffoldings inside
overclouded the country nt the pre-
CINEMA NOTES.
sent time. That the Government the "New" jail, these being erect- had been able to come, through this ed inside the mein prison where period without increasing direct rebuilding is going on, and these taxation, without restoring in scaffoldings are too well guarded direct taxation on necessaries, and for anyone to attempt an escape Miss Delia Vivienne,
at same time hail not merely retain from this section of the jail. charming member of Mr.
ed the Sinking Fund at fifty mil- Charles Chamier's London vau-
itons sterling, which was statutory, deville company, the new Oarbut had raised it to sixty-five mil- "Cabaret, which begins a sea-; son at the Star Theatre at 9.315- on Sunday next with "Hey! Hey!" The company will pre- sent a number of revues in Kowloon, each including many new songs, sketches and dances: Booking is at Mou- trie's and the Star Theatre at the popular prices of $3, $2 and $1.
of
ATTRACTIONS ON PRO- GRAMMES TO-DAY.
Hons, constituted an achievement of which no one need be ashamed.
Referring to the rassing of the Trades Union Act. Mr. Churchill declared that this hud been wel- comed by the large majority Trades Unionists themselves 18
Holiday-makers to-day will find only right and fair, and it had been that the Colony's three principal followed by a better spirit in indus-cinemas are showing pictures that are well worth seeing. The pro- Totalisator Machines,
Framme at the Queen's Theatre Mr. Churchill was asked in the includes Gloria Swanson's enter Congress party broke away from intentions of the Government
House of Commons what were the taining society love story: "The re-Untamed Lady" and the latest "Felix Bunts Into non-co-operation and decided garding the introduction of legis Felix cartoon,
try.
courses.
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Arrival Here From Shanghai,
Coming to India's political in to many that the new constitution stitutions, the lecturer referred was almost under sentence of to the fact that they were based death at its very birth, yet to-day on European model and comment-it was established permanently as ed that the demand for this the magnetic, centre of political came originally from the Hindus interest in India. This was at themselves. It was early realised tributable to two factors, (1) by Lord Macauly and others that the courage and loyalty of that the opportunities of the newylation to enable totalisator ma- Business": the attraction at the there was at that time no cxist- number of far-sighted Indian poli- constitution were sufficient justi- chines to be erected on ruce World Theatre is the famous story ing Indian vernacular which ticians who believed that Eng-fication for giving them a chance.
of the tragic clown, "He Who Get's could be used ne an adequate in-land would stand by the promise
He replied that the Government Slapped," in which Lon Chaney, strument for education in any she had given; (2) the forbear-
Attributes of 'Gandhi... had considered the report of the Norma Shearer and John Gilbert modern subject and that it would ance and courage of the Indian Frederick Whyte said it would be cided that if a private member's chief item in the continuous pro- In his concluding remarks, Sir Jockey Club Committee and had de-are, the leading players; and the be a waste of time to develop Government during the crucial an entirely untrue picture for him Bill, authorising the establishment gramme at the Star Theatre is "The an Indian educational system ex-years between 1920 and 1923. to leave. in the mind of his audi- of the totalisator on race-courses Spanish Dancer," the screen ver-
The consequence was that the Mr. Gandhi's. Influence.
and ion of the opera "Maritana," with ence that Gandhi was only a des- was introduced, next-session minds of students in India were) The lecturer then referred to tructive force.
the Pola Negri as the gypsy maiden. In politics, obtained second reading on
floor of the House of Com- submitted to influences not con- the movement for non-co-opera- Gandhi's leadership in India was
endeavour to genial to themselves and not be- tion led by Mr. Gandhi and said an absolute failure, but
there mons, they would
provide facilities for its adoption.
NEW OUR CABARET. longing to the soil from which that it could not possibly have was another side of the move-
Condensed. Skimmed Milk. they had sprung. Although the] been defeated so successfully if ment which was absolutely essen-
The Minister of Health was ask- consequences were not apparent it had not been for the fact that tial to the social progress of In-
ed whether he had ascertained that for over half a century, genera- the alternative in the new con-dia in the future. Gandhi saw the sale of condensed skimmed milk tions of rising young Indians stitution had represented such more clearly than any Indian or similar to that imported into this were brought into contact with substantial political gains as European the evils which were country from Holland, was forbid- alien forms of life and alien to make it worth while at least not political but economic. Many, den in Holland itself, and what re- forms of thought, particularly to try it as an experiment.
Mr. of these difficulties were inter-gulations regarding the manufacrived from Shanghai by thal political thought. Whereas in Gandhi and his followers had en-woven with the religious life of ture of this article were in force in P. and O. liner "Macedonia" this the past the Indian had not con- deavoured to prevail on India to the people. The fact remained Holland and Denmark? cerned himself with the Govern boycott the whole of the move that despite, all the chicanery, Neville Chamberlain replied morning were the members of Mr. the 'New Our ment of his own country he ment for setting up the new con- cruelty, bloodshed and corruption that inquiries regarding the condi- Charles Chamier's London Vaude- discovered through English his-stitution. They created such of the non-co-operation move- tions of production of condensed ville Company, tory that the English people condition that it was difficult and ment, the net sum of the move mark had recently heen made by "Hey! Hey!" During, ita visit to skimmed milk in Holland and Den-Cabaret, which opens a season in the Star Theatre on Sunday with regarded the function of govern- dangerous for any politician even ment left was on the whole good one of his medical officers and a ing as an act in which they had a to stand for the Legislative Coun- and went to the credit of its crea- mill inspector from his depart the Colony the company will pre- of light revues direct concern and in which they cil or Assembly. It was in re-tor. The doctrines he preached of ment and a Professor of the Uni-sent a number
which will include new songs, new ought to take some kind of remaining outside and demanding social and religious reforms were versity of Reading. He was aponsibility. Thus arose the others to remain outside that doctrines in which India stood in sidering in what forma he could best dances and new sketches.
ing is at Moutrie's and the Star of growth of political consciousness Gandhi and his friends had made most urgent need. The perman- submit for the information in the people and the translation a big political blunder. By acent effect of Gandhi's teaching members the results of those In Theatre at the popular prices of
|$3; $2, and $1. of that consciousness in the gov- cepting the new constitution out-would certainly be good. Whe-vestigations, including the scope ernment of the country. If the wardly and endeavouring to use ther he emerge again into Indian of the regulations in farce in those people of England could have it for their own ends they would politics or not, his name would two countries British Wireless
Service Won to themselves the right to have stood a far greater chance, be written in the Indian. history that responsibility, why, asked in the opinion of the speaker, of of the prat seven or eight years the Indian student, could not the bringing the constitution down in as a man who worked well for people of India do the same, ruins.
his country and he thought, that Political Consciousness.
con-
Mr. Gandhi's Mistake... on the whole it was not as well JAPAN'S GOVERNOR Mn.-Gandhi was not and never for all of them to recognise that
It was not until the end of the would be a politician, His real (Applause) nineteenth century that this new motive force was in religious and in thanking the lecturer for his phase had. any serious effect on social reform but in the course of address, the Vice-Chancellor said the policy of Great Britain in it he had found himself drawn he could entirely endorse w India. It was significant that in more and more into the main Frederick Whyte had said the proclamation of 1858, follow-stream of politics. Returning to the revolution was del ing the Indian Mutiny, although India after his advocacy of the the constitution, and he it was promised that customs rights of Indiana in South Africa them to take it from him would be respected and religion he found himself heralded as the that defeat Sir Frede not interfered with there was coming political leader and he played no mean part. (Appli not one word about the share of could hardly avoid leading the
the Indian in the Government of national movement: This had to
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