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A Bankrupt Oligarchy-optimism with which the State
HERE THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
A Famous Horseman.---
Lt. X. Bizard, the famous Inter- national horseman, has died as be would have wished-on horseback. It was almost exactly a year ago that he was seen for the last time. He was jumping in the French Iteam that won the Prince of
MONDAY, JULY 3, 1933.
NATIVE PRINCES
OF INDIA
ROMANTIC RULERS OF
VAST WEALTH
MODERN METHODS IMPROVE INDEPENDENT STATES
Wales's Cup at the International The Maharajak of Alwar left of his predecessors in the middle Horse. Show at Olympia.
India recently on two years' com- of the old-world city. His mount on that occasion was pulsory exüe from his State-the Arcachon, the beautiful animal on penalty of misgovernment. which he won the Canadian Cup in
Meanwhile the other native
£3,000,000 Jewels
Here were the wonderful Patiala
1929—an event he had won three Princes are facing one of the jewels, recently valued by Carlier,
of Paris, as worth £3,000,000 sterl- ing, the diamond-hilted sword given
years previously.
Although not quite such an old Oreatest crises in Indian history. hand at the game as Comdt. de The Government is playing with to his grandfather by Queen Laissardiere (the captain of the policy of surrendering India to the Victoria, and the one given to his French team, who has jumped at rule of native democratic institu father by King Edward VII. Olympia since before the war), tions in the Provinces. Such a and not possessed, perhaps, of the policy may, by imperilling the peace supreme dash of Lt. Talbot-of India, endanger the fortunes and Ponsonby, our present "ace," he even the lives of the great Princes. was one of the best stylists in the What are there "romantic rulers |ring, t
like? How do they livefTM What is There will be many who will their power! How cast is their miss the trim figure of this great|legendary wealth? little horseman.
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IDENTIFICATION.
That's the Dove of Peace-the jone with the black tye.
Roars of Laughter.
We bought a shirt that was vertised to "Laugh at Laundry," and it came back its sides spilt.
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fire brigade?
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Inadequate Steel Tariffs.
At the Bathing Beaches Now. The freedom of the see."
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Trouble Ahead.
By Lt-Commander J. M. Ken- worthy.
His Highness had to pay a visit of condolence to the fami- ly of a nobleman who had died, and drove off alone through the crowded, narrow streets of his city without ceremony or guards. But if he stamped his foot a hundred thousand Sikhs, the finest fighting material in Asia, many of them veterans train- ed in British regiments, would answer the call.
The popular conception of an. In- dian prince is a heavily bejewelled
The Gaekwar· of Baroda rules nabob riding on an elephant. over the third State in India.. An...
The modern ruler is a Western old man, he is the head of ■ educated, hard-working man of af Mahratta family, like the rulers fairs, who uses a Rolls-Royce where of Indore and Gwalior, with great ad- there are roads and a Ford in the military traditions. The Gaekwar the mafussil, or back blocks, where has spent his life in the arts of with paths are mud tracks in the wet peace.
season and dust tracks times of the year.
stone
at other
There are more schools, school- masters, scholars, and libraries in Eighty million Indians, of the great State of Baroda in propori every race, breed, and caste, tion to the population than in the owe allegiance to their maha-most advanced provinces of British rajahs and nawabs. Except India. in the case of gross misrule, and apart from foreign affairs, 615 States are as independent{ of the British Government as Greece or Bolivia
The largest States, Hyderabad,
are the size of Rutlandshire.
Only the agreement of a majorit of these States will make an All- {Indía Federation possible.
Richest Man In The World'
And now, going south, we come to the premier ruler of India, his Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, who is the richest individual in the world to-day.
He and his ancestors have been saving the greater part of their privy purse incomes and the immense TevenUCH from their private estates for
And, as the Mohammedan religion prohibits usury, their wealth is in bullion and jewels.
derives from treaties with the King-Emperor?
The late Prince Ranjitsianji, Jam
The Nizam could certainly pay off Sabib of Nawanagar, was unique inj that he was as well known in Eng a large portion of our American
debt. land as in India.
If some one had thought of invit- The most forceful of the rulers
The China Mail thority attacked the State De- partment for supporting it and} stated that Mr. Firestone's enter- And ally to rise”—
And use all the face-creams Hoover's campaign against the
The folks advertise. "British rubber monopoly." In
He'd Swallow Anything. present circumstances the
A Basuto nigger swallowed two Department regarded the loan pounds of iron nails, a piece of
small The Special Committee of the seems to require more explana-mirror glass, and a League of Nations, which was tion than their reasons for sup- hammer. This is the kind of man Kashmir, Baroda, are as large as charged more than two years porting it. Liberia is bankrupt; to whom it would be a pleasure to France or Germany. The smallest ago to assist Liberia to introduce her Government, never efficient, address election propaganda. administrative reforms, is in has degenerated into an unsuc session to consider a "desperate' cessful tax collecting agency; and situation. Since January, 1991, a long term European or Ameri-
*Blesing factory escapes," states What manner of men have wo when an International Commis-lcan mandate is probably the only
a century. Ja kecdline. Will any one who sees to deal with in these sovereign sion of Inquiry reported on the method of rescuing the hapless it please just drop a note to the rulers whose power existence of slavery and forced Republic from collapse. labour in the negro Republic, its Įsituation has gone from bad to worse. From its official founda- tion in 1847 the Government of the State has been an oligarchy.
"The whole trend of the Some ten thousand educated negroes, the descendants of im-times," said Sir John Beale re- The lovers met at their favourite of the larger States is his High-ing him to do so he could have kept He was tremblingness of Bikanir. His territory is Britain on the gold standard in 1931 migrants from the United States cently "is against 'unlimited com- trusting-place.
approximately the size of the Irish if necessary. of America, have lorded it over petition, and in favour of great with excitement,
The only exception he makes "Darling," he murmured, breath- Free State. two million primitive Africans er regulation and organisation of whom they have failed either to trade:" Recognition of this lessly, "did you tell your father we If ever the hungry riflemen de- against taking interest is to invest scend again into the plains from liberally in Indian Government loans conciliate or to civilize. The ex-truth has been slower and more were engaged?" posure by the Commission of reluctant in Britain than in more "Yes, dear," replied the girl. " their mountain fastnesses as they as a patriotic example.
This great State has efficient rail-
telephones, numerous scandals had the un-bureaucratic countries. But the rang him up on the telephone and have in the past whenever the
and postal Central Government has been weak Way, fortunate effect of increasing fact is generally accepted to day told him." the notorious and not unnatural among industrialists, and the "What did he say?! went on thejor divided, they will be joined by systems. Mines have
thousands of their fellow-Moslems veloped, industries encouraged, and disinclination of the two million great individualists of the past young man, eagerly..
a strong army maintained. - "bushmen"
The apple of his eye looked in the Punjab. to pay taxes to a generation will have their coun-
There are black sheep'among the The first impact of this northern Government which had taken terparts among the directors of pensive. much and given nothing. In the huge corporations which "Well," the replied, "I couldn't invasion will be met by Bikanir. Indian rulers as in any other body consequence of this tendency and alone can hope to cope with mo really tell whether he was replying His army, of the decline in trade, the dern competition. In the fronohether it was a breakdown on cavalry, and artillery, is first class. Liberian Government have been and steel industry, which Sir the line." * compelled to suspend the pay-John Beale represents, a great ment of the interest and amorti-scheme of reorganisation was is-In The News. zation of the loan from the sued last April on the instruc- American Finance Corporation tion of the National Committee. which was negotiated in 1927. It was designed to create me« This and other debt charges chinery whereby control of the! greatly exceed the whole estimat-home industry may be exercisedi
A good deal of U.S. Bay.
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Facts You Did Not Know.
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with its camel corps, of men.
been-de-
- But a tremendous change has
and Bikanir himself is every inch a manifested itself in the younger soldier.
men who now exercise their 'prince- Tall, athletic, a fine shot. he is aly powers or who are being prepared reincarnation of the old Rajput to succeed to them, chivalry.
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Sportsman Ruler
Next to him in the south is a alightly larger State, Jodhpur, famous for its horsemen, and ruled over by a young maharajah who is one of the best polo players in India. Kashmir himself, rules over the second largest State in area. The great majority of his subiecta are Moslems.
ed revenue for this year. The and agreements negotiated with Motor vehicle. registrations default evoked American diplo-producers abroad. It has been Italy have increased more than matic protests; and these were well received. But,much more per cent since 1923. accompanied and followed by di-tápid progress towards recovery plomatic incidents which culmin- would have been made if the Building bricks into which nails ated last January in the decision Government had been
more can be driven have been invented of the Liberian Government to whole-hearted in their accep- by Los Angeles man Ignore the existence of the tance of the dictum of the Im- American Minister at Monrovia port Duties Advisory Committee An English railway connecting against the Fan-Moslem movement If the dispute had gone no farther that a prosperous iron and steel two towns two miles apart is oper- seeking to unite all the Moham it might have been quickly set-industry is essential to the econ- ated entirely by one man. tled. But the Liberian Governomic progress of the nation. To
ment, smarting under an alleged insist that the industry should Four eggs can be poached at "Insult" - from the American reorganise itself on thoroughly once in a new pan that keens them State Department, have appealed modern lines was just and right, aquare to fit slices of toust. to the French Government for di-jbut the Government should have
plomatic support and have also seen that the protection during A German railway is experimen solicited British and German aid, this process was adequate and ting with a radio system to signal They have furthermore accused prompt. Even when the tariff to engineers of trains in fogs. Mr. Firestone (who obtained a was raised to 38 1/8 per cent, in vast rubber concession in Liberis April last year and confirmed
This Rajput Hindu holds the fort
medan countries from the Bosphorus
to Delhi in a vast federation.
PRETORIA'S NEW BISHOP
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Rev. Wilfred Parker Appointed.
FINE WAR RECORD
Preterin
The Very Rev. Wilfred Parker, But Kashmir stands in their way, who has been Vicar General during which accounts for the agitation the past few months for the and disorders in that State last year. Pretoria Anglican Diocese, has been These three modern rulers are elected Bishop of Pretoria in succes extremely hard-working, pay sion of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Neville great attention to public works Talbot, who resigned. and irrigation, have established After leaving Oxford the Rev. model schools, hospitals and pri Parker was Resident Chaplain to sons in their States, and manage the Bishop of Stepney and from to administer efficiently on a re-1908 to 1909 was Chaplain of St. venue raised by far lighter laza Frideswade Poular, Appointed tion per head of the population Domestie Chaplain to the Arch. than in British India bishop of York he held that office The Bikhs are bound to play a for three years up to 1912 He
in return for which the loan was for two years in October--it was raised) and the State Department not fully adequate. And the ear labour, The Tariff Advisory of being the chief cause of their lier delay had been fatal in allow-Committee gave a hint two present, plight. Mr. Firestone, ing the market to be flooded with months ago that they would be they say, forced their hands, and foreign steel which had flowed in glad to continue to render any the State Department lent him over, the previous 10 per cent. necessary assistance within great part in India's future, as they then came to Johannesburg but re their vigorous support; but these duty as though it had not been their power. Sir John Beale has have in her past. The premier turned to England in 1915 and be charges will not convince those there Recoganisation in the made out a strong case for such Sikh prince le the Maharajah came Curate of St. Martin's-in-the- who are acquainted with the long face of persistent dumping is as assistance taking shape in a fur-Patiala, tall bearded, handsome, and Fields, the famous church of history of Liberian misgovern impossible as repairing one's ther increase of a duty which has saturated in Sikh traditions. Trafalgar Square, up to 1919. ment. At the same time the house in a hurricane. Any fluc indeed helped to save the indus He drove me in his little racing During the war Canon Parker terms of the loan were admitted tasting rise in sterling even now try but has not availed to make car from his modern palace, with its sreved as a Chaplain to the Forces ly onerous; and the Liberians re-results in a new inflow of foreign it prosperous. But for the mo-electric light, European furniture, in France and Italy. He was member that nearly five years stuff produced in different cir- ment, apparently, the Tariff telephones, and radio, to the awarded the Italian decoration, the
historie fort which was the palace Croce di Guerra--Beuter ago x competent American encumstances and often by sweated Truce blocks the way.
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