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lements, in the largest sense of HUBERT THE HIPPO CIVIL WAR “FOR
the word, which ensure the per-] mancy of programmes, the fixity of methods, the security of per- sonal situations (sic), and the possibility of nadequately prepar- ing any scheme you have in view and of not seeing it materialise before
And the time is ripe.
NOW HOLY
LITTLE WHILE?""
Extraordinary Career of Use of British Troops As
South Africa's Pet.
Mercenaries."
STRANGE ANIMAL.
GANDHI'S ADMISSION.
war
and
secondly, the single-mindedness Hubert the Hippo Is again in There may be civil of its servants with their serious the news. This strange animal serious communal strife when we bent in everything in life, their] which, for no reason that can be get "swaraj," but only for a little his while. If your Army will not help energy and disdain of routine ascertained, suddenly left
home in Zululand in November, faa mercenarias), then it may and the strong individualism of 1928, and has since wandered perhaps end itself in the exhaustion the Anglo-Saxon race. His own down the whole length of the or destruction of ons community or method, he admits, resembles and Natai coast, has been made a god the other. But it is better that we vet varies considerably from that by the natives of the Eastern should fight our own battles.
the Johannesburg This was the sense of a passage Cope, writes adopted by the British colonists.
the correspondent of
Morning in an interview which a Statesman He has, in a number of ways, Post.
representative had with Mr. Gandhi sought to apply in French His present place of residence in Karachi.
a few mile
Mr. Gandhi had previously agrand colonies British methods, British is Mount Pleasant,
Imand from the port of East Lon-that the Indian Army would need hygiene, British comfort. British dan. No hippo has been seen in some British officers, and perhaps regard of the social, recreative the Cape for half a century or vome British regiments, and the
and thus and sporting needs of his men. 90,
to the natives Statesinan representative had asked Where he has differed, however. Hubert, lumbering over the horf him why he expected they would
zon from the north, is holy.
serve under an alien Government, from British methods, has been He is now universally looked He replied: "Well, we have known in the role that France has set upon as the reincarnation of a of mercenary armies in Europe in an emblem of the past, and though the inspira- out to fulfil in regard to the great chief and native population. Whilst hold-peace, progresa, and the advance-tion of patriotism
has supplanted ment of the natives through edu-pure morcenarism, the soldier, still ing every possible amdiration for cation and culture and not through asks for and receives the monetary British colonisers and fully violence. His benign presence is wages of his service. Why should a greater pacifying he not be willingly to lend his ser- aggreeing, for instance, with the thus having
effect than all the efforts of the vices on similar terms for the conclusions reached in Seeley's Native Affairs Department.
common good of humanity?" "Expansion of England," he Some weeks ago Hubert must Hy stated that he was open to holds that methods that are ap-have struck a bad patch, for he conviction that Dominion statua was plicable in one century are not unceremoniously crashed through better for India than independence the fence of a farm-house at and, that if he were thus persuaded necessarily applicable in the Blaney and helped himself, like at the Round-Table Conference le next. That is why the political any common tramp, to the con- would do his utmost to bring the and administrative role that tents of the dustbin.
Working Committee round to that France has in view when deal-settled down
Since then, however, he has way of thinking. He could not con-
to the comfortable ceive of that possibility, however. ing with her native populations life of a country gentleman at He agreed that the Idea of colonisation. It is only the re-ia perhaps rather different from Mount Pleasant, where he grows "equality of partnership" with Bri- Which has fat on mealies and what not, in tain meant It semi-contractual sults which, to an impartial ob- that of Britain.
between dips in the Nahoon River. alliance as Britain has with France server, are able to reveal the been the most successful from
Everyone in the district respects for certain purposes of war, "but system which may be said to be every point of view must be left his solitude, and no one ever dis- for more things than war."
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educational, social, moral, and Industrial influences, and in the development of such country ac-| cording to the tenets of modern civilisation.
In this connection it is
amble down from
GUILTY BUT INSANE
QUICK VERDICT IN THE MURDER CASE.
CORREA TO BE DETAINED.
Martin Gonsalez Correa, at the
Assizes yesterday, was foundl
pect furmers' fences, and he now racial ideals, and the subversive burrows under them instead of movement against our Imperis walking straight through them. policy, Great Britain has ensurça
Trek from Zululand. an almost unbroken peace in her
The only thing that disturbs posessions, is itself eloquent of the even tenor of his way is when the soldity and honesty of her natives come to worship him from in-colonial policy, old-fashioned and afar off.
"Guilty, but insane," in connection teresting to refer to the speech unyielding as it may sometimes
In his twenty-eight months with the murder of John Harrison which Marshal Lytauey, the
Zululand aboard the Empress of Russia, on Hubert has covered approximately February 24. He was accordingly famous soldier and most dia-
400 miles, and has become South rdered by the Chief Justice (Sir tinguished of French colonial ad-
Africa's national pet. The early Joseph H. Kemp), to be detained ministrators, delivered at the
stages of his tour were something at the King's pleasure. opening ceremony of the French
After the prosecution closed Dr. Colonial Exhibition at Vincennes yesterday. In summarising the 14 p.m. 86. policy on which his success as an administrator was founded, he
be.
News in Brief.
The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 75 degrees. The humidity at 10 am. was 85 and at
TALLEST MAST. STEPPED ON YACHT OF THE,
KING
in
the
nature af a Royal
more DT
A
full on Hubert.
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usual homicidal tendencies and de- Town Council Scattered, lusions and illusions which were symptoms of the disease, when he Without waiting to be introduc applied tests to the prisoner. sprint to the Town Hall, ed, the councillor made a record Witness then explained some of
There the tests. he met a few more councillors Correa had told him he remember- and the Town Clerk. Thus re-ed Aring the shot aboard the ship. Inforced with the full civic au- Prisoner was interested in spirit- thority, the Town Counc!! advancuallam, but witness did not think ed in a body to inspect the visi- he was a "medium."
He also said
that
progreRS. Special correspondents G. V. A. Griffiths, Medical Officer from the papers followed his at Victoria Gaal, who had the pri every movement, and photographsoner under special observation ers clicked at him from every from February 28, gave evidence. A youth, Tam Wing (14), who corner.
His opinion was that on occasion was taken to the Government Civil After he had displayed his dis prisoner was definitely out of his declared that colonisation must Hospital on April 30 auffering from taste for publicity by trampling reason. He meant the word in its be essentially constructive and injuries as the result of jumping off on a few cameras, however, he fullest menning. He had refused' beneficial. The colonising Power a tramcar which was in motion in was
less left alone. to see his lawyer, to take food, er In his condi- ahould display force to prevent Tin Lak Lane, died at 2.25 o'clock Special Provincial gazettes made to wash or bathe.
this morning.
injuring him a statutory offence,tion, it would not be surprising if the use of force, and the right
and his passage through the varl he were subject to homicidal ten- way to treat the native was to Alleged to have Inflicted a wound) ous villages was recorded more dencles. show him consideration. Now in his mother's throat at 229, Des after the nature of a trans-Atlan-
Cross-examined, witness could Central yesterday, tic flight, with brief Pross mess not say there is no greater admirer of Vœux Road
how long prisoner had such 08 "Hubert passe been in this mental state. British colonial methods than Fung Yu-chung (17) was removed ages
to the Government Civil Hospital through here at 6.30 this morn
Specialist's Evidence. Marahal Lyautey, and he con- for observation, as it is alleged, ho ing."
Dr. M. O. Pfister said he had Hong Kong. Thursday, May 7, 1931. fegsed, in a recent interview is insane.
Hubert's last great exploit was made a special study of mental when he was suddenly seized with diseases, published in "Overseas," that he
at Heldelberg and Pe- A large rock became dislodged a taste for town life and paid a king. His opinion was that Corren had tried, where possible, to COLONIAL POLICY.
on the hillside of the Chiu On parsing visit to Port St. John. was suffering from a mental affic- imitate those methods, or to Quarry at Kowloon Teal yesterday Shortly after dark one evening ation known as dementia praecox: apply them with suitable modi- and fell on a stone breaker, Fung town councillor was on his way Whilst it was not possible to say Where the Colonial policies of fications, in the French colonies Fat (43) who was digging earth to attend council meeting. when it began. In the present case two great Powers are pursued in under his administration,
immediately bolów, The man was Crossing a grass-covered plot in witness thought it had been por Ac-rushed, off to the Kowloon Hospital the Market Square he flashed his sistent for about six months. It countries practically contingent quiring his first practical experi-suffering from injuries to his head electric torch on what he thought might have existed to some extent to each other, having similar ence of colony building in Tonkin and face, from which he succumbed was a stray ox-and the beam fell for some years. He had found the peoples, customs, geological and and Indo-China, he had
BB his at 3:p.m. other natural difficulties to over-mentor and his guide. General come in the struggle for develop-Gallieni, a man who, in his opin- ment, it is perfectly just to ion, possessed all the qualities of compare the advancement made an empire builder. In the mean- by their respective policies and time he had frequent occasion to to judge which has proved the admire British methods and,
MADE OF SILVER SPRUCE. most successful and the most from what he saw in India and suitable. In illustration of this the British colonies In the East,
Rugby, Yesterday. The tallest mast ever placed in tor. Hubert resented the battery After a short address by Mr. one could have no better example, he realised more than ever how a yacht was stepped yesterday, in of torches directed on him and d'Almada for the defence, the jury perhaps, than that provided by the British Empire came into the Britannia. It is 176 feet long. charged. The Council adjourned returned their verdict as stated, those two great Colonial Powers,
in two sections of 105 and 71 feet sine dis.
after only three minutes' being.
Unlike the now, maats of the Great Britain and France, whose
Hoping for a return visit, the ment. Britian, as France, might have Shamrock and Candida, which following night saw most of the Overseas possessions and man-
were constructed of high tensile townsfolk hidden: In the purlleus dated territories exert a mutua! her politicians and no, politi-steel and are 164 and 165 feet long of the Market Square. They were influence over nearly every conclan ever created an empire respectively, the Britannia's mast not disappointed. A local solici tinent in the world except Aus but where she differed from has been, made of silver spruce, tor, passing a gap in a hedge of tralia. In the Carribean French France was that she rarely allow-and although hollowed out, weighs, the cutskirts, suddenly encounter Galana finds a British possessioned them to nullify the efforts of gs her neighbour; in North her men of action. The colonial Africa French Buzerainty chal-policy in short, that Britain has
Through the trees and on to the lenges that of our Soudanese ilways followed has been charac
darkened Market Square blunder and Egyptian policies, whilst in terised by a wonderful unity, and
A Chinese who recently arrived ed. Hubert, to be.met with,,the-sud.. Indo-Chins the governance of continuity, not only in plan, but
der den glare of numberless motor from America when charged this | morning before Magistrato Lindaci! Asiatic peoples is open to com-n method, a circumstance to be Bust during the past two years at car headlights and torches, And with having unlawful possession of parison with the British Imperial attributed in the main to the total cost of $4,500,000, the an army of barking dogs, shout
Dominion Government's huge new inx men, and soreaming women bayonet, 10 75. of alugs, said that
Cry"Dalay," "enic-gun, a dummy. system as it obtains in Malaya enormous advantage of having a grain, elevator situated on reclaimed Nonplussed by this unexpectedly bought the gun as a toy for his and Hong Kong. Both systems Colonial Office at Home whose land on the St. Lawrence River, ordial welcome, the poor fellow children. He did not kapsy that baye a great deal to be said in personnel does not change with three miles east of Prescott, is now promptly sat down
his
ktheir favour, a I perhaps nearly every new Govern
completed and ready for the open-haunches ip the centre of the wea; unlawful, to possess an air bis much against their favour,The power of British colonial ing to a height of 250 feet at its out.
Ing of navigation in April. Tower, Market Square to think things un in Hong Kong, The Magis
trate tapezed fine of $10 and whiley each is in many respects enterprise, he belleves, is made loffiest
ordered the confiscation of the guny Point, and extending Then, majestičally be prose radically different from the up of top things its institutions diagonally riverwards for die tarned his back on his admiring and slugs for three months, at the ther, being based upon unlike and the single-mindedness of its tance of 1.840 feet the great audience, and slowly passed out end of which time the defendant structure forms an impressive place into the night, shaking, the dust could claim thera on production of principles and conceptions of the Servants. First the Institutions, of skyline. Its capacity 13 5,500, of Port St. John from his feet for a permit from Canton authorising
him to take them there.. usefuln
of with their fixed und aristocratic [000 bushels, purpose
!
unrigged, 84 tons. The cutter is ed Hubert's head thrust through being fitted out with a new Berthe hole. The solicitor collapsed, mudan rig, and the greatest in into a thorn bush while Hubert terest is being taken in the work ambled pusty by the King, who hopes to sail her at Cowes again this season British Wireless Service.
evermore.
On
Ten Years Ago.
retiro-
[From the "Chinn Mall" of May T. 1921.1
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