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The
IN MALAYA.
CONFUSION OF FIRST TERM DAY.
Interests That Must Be Defended.
1 BAD RELATIONS.
Calcutto, March 18.
:
responsibility with which it has
the Assembly encourages the spirit been charged and sacrifice every of recklessness in that body. Such interest which has been acquired an answer is not convincing. All by its own people in the subject Indian opinion looks in the near country. The Indian Viceroy or future to increased powers for its the British Cabinet are not free to representative bodies. The will to deal with Indla as if it were their grant these will grow lukewarm private property. Not even the before repeated demonstrations British Parliament could 'grant"
Gandhi and his 79 volunteers
11
SOCIAL EVILS IN BOMBAY.
PLAN TO "CLEAN - UP ”
THE CITY.
PATH TO MARRIAGE.
Following the example of Madras, "I think it la right that relations that the considerable powers al-Dominion status to India without Bombay has decided to tackle the constant demand for between Europeans and the educat. ready possessed are used rather in providing adequate safeguards for social evil, and an official Bill has been European women teachers. ined Indian classes are worse than the mischievous spirit of school- the protection of legitimate in introduced in the Bombay Council by | Malaya is not due to the climate they ever have been," said Mr. J.boys than in that of grave legisla- terests of the British and other the Home Member, with the object of
or to the presence of man-enting G. Ryan presiding at the annual tors. Every act like that of Satur foreign people in the political and amending the Prostitution Act, says, tigers and other jungle terrors. general meeting of the United day strengthens the cause of those economic life of this country. And the Allahabad Pioneer.
The Bill is directed towards putting The loss to the profession by Provinces branch of the European who argue that India is unripe the primary thing here would be marriage, on the other hand, is so Association of India.
an and to the houses of Ill-fame that even for the measure of self- reasonable guarantee of the capa abound in certain quarters of the city. dieorganizing to headmasters that "It is held that we are exploiting government it has already, re- city of those who would come to Bombay has a very evil reputation in the head of a large Malay boys the Indian, that we are doing our ceived."
political power in India with the this respect, and needs cleaning up school recently told a visitor that best to prevent his advancement on Mr. Gandhi's Campaign. grant of Dominion status to pro- badly. in future he would indent for his his OWN lines and that
tect these British and foreign In- we
Respectable citizens, who object to European kindergarten mistress in make promises and immediately re-have now been a whole week, on terests, and as an essential condi. the existence of this blot on the city's triplicate, In the hope of getting coll front them. We know we do their march to Mandi (a seaside tion of it to maintain peace, and fair name, have beon agitating for one to remain for at least a year. not deserve that accusation but we village) to offer civil disobedience order within their own territories is a sequel to the endeavours of the
some time past, and the present B Most of the Government schools have to consider whether we are through salt, which they intend to and prevent outside invasion. Un-
Vigilance Committee. are at present for boys, and have doing all that in us iles to bridge manufacture through bolling ses less Parliament is convinced of Three Minutes From Ferry. Under European Management.
a European mistress in charge of the gulf between the Indians and water. The party expect to reach these, it could not be expected to
Warmly Welcomed. EXCELLENT CUISINE- MODERN APARTMENTS.
the preparatory department with ourselves."
the "promised land" on April 1. agree to a 'grant" of Dominion solf-Blil a warm welcome, and in particu The Council as a whole rave the TERMS MODERATE.
Asiatic women to assist, while the Mr. Ryan intimated his... In- No one who, has any sense of Cable Address: "AIRLIE.”
lar the speech of Miss Dickinson, the rest of the school is run by two or ability again to offer his services as existing actualities or understand-
new woman member, was powerfully three European men graduate as chairman and nominated Mr. T. ing of elementary political prin-
argued. The Select Committed, to sistants and several Asiatics. The Gavin Jones as his successor. bir.ciplea or laws could take Gandhi
whom the Bill has been referred, will headmaster to responsible for pre- Gavin Jones said?
seriously. It requires Himalayan
be able to weigh the advantages of paratory, Junior and senior school.
direct action along the lines suggested,
to have the desired elect
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but
our readers are, warned to look out for occasional phonetto spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
34
18
25
7 18 19
批
13
247125
34
39
17
43
22
45
146
47
48
19 150
52 53
54
56
59
60
63
164
65
bb
67
HORIZONTAL (Cont)
64-Huge snake
55-A number
-abbr]
68-Fairy
HORIZONTAL
1-Confined to certain
limita
B-A fire-mountain
12-Ireland
13-Chlef
14-To wager
16-Upright 18-Gloomy.
19-To obstruct 22-On account of 24-A meadow 26-A government In
Rusala
27-Native Hindu ruler 28-German for Mr.
29 Personal pronoun
30-At a distance.
· 32-A 'river in Arizona
and Now Mexica
34-East Indiem' (abbr.)) 36-Closs.companion
96-Not in
-38-A dance
40-Prefix="three"
·43+Above
48-Interjection of
rapret
·47-A vegatable 48-Interjection
149–81iii opan tò dis
cursion
61-Mislaya
52-A saural
VERTICAL (ConL) 21-To spotl |22-A cigarette.(ulang)
[56-And so forth (Latin 23-A North Central
59-Mistake
61-Zoal
63-Man's name
65-Wings
| 66-Nastest-
State of U. 8. 26-To lick up
28-Head covering
31-Deadly 33-Money
| 37-Father of the King
of Italy
| 67-A wine of Madeira, 36-Apt
Iniunda
VERTICAL
1-Lltheroma 2-Farious Civil War
general (U. S.) 3-To weary 4-Bound
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7-Interjection
3-Auction
| 40-Teixi
41-Possenalve pronoun |42-Leader of First-
разм
Crusade 44-Of Inferior quality 46-A native of a coun- 47-An inact 48-Luminous aircis
around the moon
a-Annerling-chamber 50-Rowed
In
85-Woddy plant
glans factory 95-Yields -Cage of an elevator 10-Gill'anamo- 11–8mallest of the
Grout Lakon
13-A word
17-To seal with wax:
20-An Inland sex in Turkestan
67-To summon
| 80–Japaness nash
82-To batter
64-A province of Cani lk #da (aħbr.);
05-Associate of Arta
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.);
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In the many mission schools
age.
government to India."
LESSON-SERMON
First Church of Christ, and to ascertain whether it is likely
Scientist, Hong Kong-
on
"If any
The Golden Text was: raan be in Christ, he is a new cren-
The law as it stands_is_admittedly incomplete; it allows loopholes through which mercenary-minded and depraved
sons may escape.
Madras has taken the bull by the horns, and her Brothels Act is now in operation. Bombay is almost certain to take similar action.
ture: old things are passed away; Calcutta to put
It will then be incumbent upon her social house in
to be hoped, will spread throughout the country,
"The first fruits of the Viceroy's faith in the Mahatma to bellave statement has been that the Con that he himself clearly understands European women take posts to greas Party has now declared for the things of which he speaks, or teach even the senior boys, and Independence and is now frankly a the cause for which he stands. In may find that they have candidates revolutionary body. The outburst plain English the objective of the "Doctrine of atonement was the for the junior Cambridge examina- in the London Press attributed to present Congress is, on its own con- subject of the Lesson-Serman in all tion of anything up to 30 years of the Congress Party a power
fession, independence; and the ob- Churches of Christ, Scientist, and influence which it does not possess Yious meaning of this independence Sunday, April 20. The school hours are light com-for it represents only a very small is complete severance of the British pared with those at home, lessons and dwindling body of opinion. connection. In other words, those lasting from eight until one o'clock, Having now committed suicide as for whom Gandhi speaks desire the with a short break at eleven. So an effective political party it can immediate elimination of British keen are most of the pupils that safely be ignored and left to the power from the politics and 24./ behold, all things are become new order and the movement, it is sincerely they will concentrate as keenly ample forces at the disposal of the ministration of India and of British during the fifth hour as the first. Government to deal with it as a capital and enterprise from the A day likely to be memorable for revolutionary organization. It is economic and industrial develop n teacher newly out from home, far bettor that the Congress Partyment of the country. To the man and one to be dreaded even by a should be in the position it is now in the street it means the expulsion more experienced teacher, is the than camouflaged as a constitu- of the "British Army of occupat first day of the school year, which tional party working for constitution," both civilian and military, as well as merchants and tradors, is at the beginning of the January tional reforms. term. it is confusing enough to "The Congress Party, however; is from the country or in any case have a form of new pupils who can the only party in India that has from their present position in the speak a little English, but those built up any organization that will newly admitted to the school pre-appeal to the masses. sent greater difficulties.
The Moderates must give attention to Sikhs, and a few others less easily tions. If they neglect this they in fact, what the man in the street. That they may all be one, as thou, Yuanchow and taken to Lienkua.- children-Chinese, Tamils, Malays, this and make their own organiza. identified-are sent to the form will do so at the peri! of their own
room, and the teacher
The
Government and Administration of the country and the economic and industrial life of the people. This is what the crowd desire. This is,
brought up in current political
tremists both.
(II Cor. 5:17).
Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come: glorify thy Son, that thy son also may glorify thee.. Holy Father, keep through thine given me, that they may be one, as
cwn Dama those whom thou hast
MR. AND MRS. PORTEOUS. Energetic Steps For Their Release.
Nanking, Saturday, The Klangsi Provincial Govern-
we are...Neither pray I for thessment reports that energetic efforts alone, but for them also which shall are being made to secure the re believe on me through their word. lease of the missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Porteous, kidnapped from Canton News Agency.
that they also may be one in us; that
Father, art in me, and I in thee,
the
the
book,
with
the-world-may believe that thou hast sent me" (John 17,11,20,21). The Lesson-Sermon, also included passage from Christian Science -text- "Selenco and Health Key to. the Scrip- tures," by Mary Baker Eddy: "Man is deathless, spiritual. He is above sin or frailty. He does not cross the barriers of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with God and the universe" .(p. 266).
WEI-HAI-WEI RENDITION.
Nanking, Saturday.
expected existence as a political power.
slogans and fed by the prevailing to fill in their particulars in the
_and_anti-European- "It is absolutely necessary that anti-British" register. It is a wise plan-to-have we should have propaganda to feeling, wants. a few older pupils, one of each counteract the propaganda of the
An Impossible Demand.
following As pointed out by a prominent nationality, to act as interpretera, Congress Party. This is the most for although later the boys learn important work ahead for the Indian Liberal in a Calcutta news- to converse in English and Malay, moderate parties. Your Associa paper, the demand for immediate many of them know only their tion is endeavouring to raise funds grant of Dominion status is sup vernacular-when-they-enter-school. for this purpose and hope to be ported by every school of current One tiny Chinese boy could not able to do their share in this Indian polities, Moderates and Ex- be understood by either of the work." small Chinese interpreters," one a Colonel J. D. Crawford, the
"But.It is difficult to believe," Hainan, the other a Cantonese, who European Association of India, who continues this writer, "that Mr. were told to ask him "Have you was also present, reminded the Gandhi and others who are at one been to school before?" He wept meeting that it was in response to with him in this demand do not while search was made for a boy a motion of the United Provinces know or understand the impossi”, who spoke the same somewhat branch at their Association's 1928 bility of it. Dominion self-govern- obscure dialect. At last a boy was conference that he proceeded to ment cannot be granted by
The Wei-hai-wei agreement hav found who could talk to him, and London last year to prepare a plat- suzerain Power to a subject people, his tears censed; the answer to the form for the expression of the by a stroke of the pen or an execu ing been discussed between the important question was "He not views of the Association on the tive order or even by an ordinance Foreign Minister and Sir Miles the Lampson, British Minister. was problems which would be discussed of the legislature, unless Even in the early stages it is following the issue of the Simon legislature, unless the former designed yesterday. The text will be possible to distinguish the salient Commission's report. The Euro- cides to wash its hands completely published on Tuesday.-Wah Tsz characteristic of the different races pean Association, re-stated, was of all the political and financial Yat Po. collected together to learn our the only political force which language and share our Western would be present at the knowledge. The Chinese are clear proposed round-table_conference and tidy in themselves and their in London to defend the work, ever courteous, always pre-interests of the European com- ferring to say what they think you munity. would like to hear rather than what they really think. The young Tamils are anxious to ingratiate themselves; the Sikhs show noticeable pugnacity; the Malays are a typical product of a rich country, and are satisfied to sit idly swinging their little legs.
know."
No Grant for the Army,
There was an amusing episode after the Government had been de 4feated by 5 votes in the Legislative Assembly and the Army budget de mand reduced to one rupes.
When President Patel put to the House the motion that one rupee From the first many of the hoya be granted, the Opposition cried are filled with an earnest desire to "Aye," while some members of the make good progress, not from any European Group shouted "No." love of learning for its own sake The President said "The Noos have but in order to pass the junior orit" twice, and, as no one challeng senior Cambridge examination. Ifed, adjourned the House. Just then they can pass one of these Bandit Madan Mohan Malaviya' examinations, they are eligible for (the leader of the Opposition), the position of Government clerk thinking that the President had by With this end in view their parents mistake said "No" for "Aye," said provide them each month with The Ayes had it." The President school fees: if the boy succeeds, remarked that the hon. member did the whole family will be able to not challenge in time. So, even the live in esse on his salary. This one rupee left for the Army De- being the chief object of thepartment was voted down, and no parents in sending their sons to grant at all was made to the De- school, it will easily be understood
partment.
why there are, comparatively, so The rejection of the
total few girls' schools.
military budget by the Legislativa
The boys are far more democra- Assembly will have no effect, of tie than those, at home.. There. Is course, for the power of certifica more racial feeling than class con- tion rests with the Viceroy and sciousness, and in school it is by must obviously be used. no means unusual to find a Kuki's "The members of the Assembly son the chosen companion of the knew that when they gave their sony of a Towkay millionaire. votes," says the "Statesman" of There is no real class distinction Calcutta In an editorial article, between them, for riches are quicksand had they not known it not one: ly acquired by the successful, and of them would have dared to de- a Chinaman entering Malaya as a clare for leaving India without a rikisha coolie may become a mil-soldier for its defence, which else- lionaire in a few years by success-where would have been the normal ful speculation in tin; the real and immediate consequence of "Mr.", Scullin,...... in a speech at aristocrate of China rarely leave their action. The majority might Melbourne, on Australia's problems, their own country,
if they chose bave said all that said that the Government proposed
As the Cambridge local examina- they had to say and might have to encourage all who intended to tions are the goal of each pupil, defeated the Government just as produce wealth through Industry. all the teaching is In English from effectively had they moved for a cut _the_beginning, and children who in the Budget of a hundred rupees. |_ Allegations of having written first spend several years in a ver: The fact that they were not content ““vile"""anonymous felters were nacular school) find themselves with less than the total. Budget made by the prosecution against a very backward, when they are sent gives an appearance of utter woman defendant in a caseat to the English school. To them Irresponsibility that gravely dis- Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, English will always be a matter credits the Assembly in the eyes of
ves of translation, while those who re- reasonable mén everywhere.
4. In addition to Botticelli's "An-gularly use it from the beginning The Journal continues: "We are nunciation, several other pictures achieve a romarkable faculty in aware what the answer to that will balenging to Glasgow Corporation conversation and composition be by ardent Nationalists. They are to be treated for defecta Malay Mail
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