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Kitchener's Art Passion.
The remarkable exnibition of Chinese porcelain, which Mr. Frank) Partridge had recently arranged. reminds one of the expert's friend-i [ship with Lord Kitchener.
On the Thursday before Lord Kit- chener left London for his fatal voyage he sent for Mr. Partridge to have another chat on the ceramic arts, which he loved and understood..
At parting he said to Mr. Par tridge:-"You might buy that little bowl, enamelled with "The Eight Immortals, for me in the Kenner ley sale"-naming a modest price.
Memorial Purchase.
THURSDAY AUGUST
TO-DAY AT THE GATE
OF INDIA
IN THE ISLAND CITY
OF BOMBAY
MODERN
SCENE AND BACKGROUND
(By Sir George MacMunn.).
ITS
Many writers have given rein to the great merchants and their their descriptive powers in setting offices, the Bombay of colleges and down their sensations on entering universities and talking, arguing. the beautiful-harbour of Bombay, cricket-playing students; and then and seeing towers and spires come the Bombay of the hazaars, of the through the ruby haze, I came to fish-wives and coolle women with The Hampshire had gone down that queen of harbours again as their baskets on their heads and when the sale occurred, but Mr. one who has known the city well displaying that wonderful walk Partridge-mindful of the great for close an half a century. These
soldier's last request-not only
that comes from carrying them. I have seen it swept by faction Simple and staunch souls. bought the bowl at a much higher riots, devastated by plague and by. There are the bazaars of the price than had been mentioned, but war-time niñuenza, dlled with in-Arab presented it to the London Museum dignation about sinking vessels Afghans and the Pathans from the dealers and the an his tribute to the memory of a and German mines.. I have seen it frontiers, the folk who true porcelain-lover.
also glorying in "progress." lieved to earn their living by kid-' One of the pleasures of life snapping children to bury at the that of recapturing old sensations, foundations of great buildings, but
Fast Colours, Finest All Wool Yarns, Closely Woven to give Springy Stretch. Specially Designed Swimming Suits Will Fit Snugly, Retain Their Shape, They are Cut For Absolute Freedom in the Water.
SALE
PRICE $6.50
VERY SPECIALLY PRICED FOR THE GREATEST OF WHITEAWAY'S SALES.
Civil Disobedience Terminated.
of civil disobedience. The cam-
The Railroad Evolves
We have seen kerosene and gas
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An amusing jest has been played To me the first night in Bombay who are really out to serve upon the French income-tax au-forty-five years ago, after a month stokers on ships and as stevedores thorities by a millionaire chocolate on one of the old "Damn-you- and perhaps to bear a hand in any manufacturer.
soldiers" Navy transports, was The millionaire, who owed the right of paradise-the night under Then there is that most curious
a promising raid. State two million franca for income a mosquito net in the verandah of iof all Indian developments, the tax, recently called upon his local the old Watson's Hotel.
bazaars of the countless millhands, collector and presented his demand Could I recapture the old sensa-¡members of the depressed classes note for receipt.
tions with the old sounds-the caw-brought from their fields a genera- "You pay by cheque, of course?" ing of crows at early dawn-and tion or two ago, and who, torn said the collector.
the old sights, the waving banana from caste and confines, have. "Not at all" replied the mann-trees, the great red plantains that formed new groups of their own. facturer. "I pay cash."
come with he morning tea? Should with etrange demon goda. That is Whereupon he took the astonish-appreciate the heaven of a lime- the Bombay mill art, full of good ed official to the door, and showed squash as I did after hours in the and full of evil. The China Mail the official Congress attitude of him a long file of motor-lorries, each sun unloading a lighter of troop The great Mohammedan fast of barren negation has been flowing loaded with sacks of 25-centime baggage by the quay-side? the Ramzan is on, the Lent of the with extraordinary strength. In- pieces. Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 10, 1933 dian leaders and Press organs
A Queen's, Dowry
faithful, when only the renegade "They were found," explained the To my delight, at least half the eat and drink between sunrise and whose extremism used to be of millionaire simply, "in my automatic old pleasure was still there; not sunset, be it never so hot. But the the bitterest have been demand-chocolabe, machines. Please take quite so exciting, but still there it great feast of thanksgiving ap ing the unconditional calling-off them."
definitely was. There was an old proaches when the new moon is Madrass! servant grinning at me seen, her first thin paign has been, in fact, suspend.
appearance as the liner came alongside, and a telegraphed from East to West of ed since Mr. Gandhi was released "Mr. Gandhi has sealed his own from detention in May, on begin-
former staff officer to greet me. the land. Then comes the glorious political doom, and his latest acts ning his fast in protest against
So far A LIVING WITNESS
BO good. But what of opportunity for communal riots. 1 of his folly have effectively lost the treatment of untouchables by me or die in the attempt."
"Last night George said he'd kiss ever so fine a dowry brought to their quiet preparations.
mighty Bombay herself? • Was notice troops and police making him the devotion of a large num-orthodox Hinduism, and at the ber of those who formerly were Poona meeting the overwhelm-
Did he kiss you?”
British monarch as Catherine of Premeditated riots can generally counted in the ranks of his mostling weight of opinion favoured ing."
"Well, he was alive this mern-happy memory?
Braganza brought to Charles II. of be coped with leaders arrested ardent fellowers. His sentence its formal abandonment.
and bound over. lettre de cacheted of imprisonment, following 50 Gandhi may be, as ever, intract- Mr.
No penniless lase this, with for a few hours, or even, with some closely his rebuffs at the hands able, but the weapon which he
BUSINESS, NOT ART.
long-pedigree, but a lass with a sense of that humour with which island and of Congress during its recent forged has been shattered, and been following me around for an wealth as mortal man LONE GOLFER: Sonny, you've thereon, and such a
a great stone castle John Bull keeps the East out of session at Poona, marks the vir- the authority of leadership which hour. You'll never learn to play then dream of.
future of harm, sworn in as special con- tual termination of the civil he has misused so long can never golf by watching me.
could not stables! disobedience
The old Fortu- campaign. Mr. be the same again.
When Quarrels Arise Gandhi's attendance at the Poona
SONNY: I ain't watching you, arms of Portugal carved in stone and military are too far off, some [guesa castle still stands, with the If tempers really rise and, police meeting was his first public ap-
worms I'm going fishing. mister. As soon as you dig up more for all the world to see. pearance since his arrest in January of last year, when the
Though the rest of the great tragedy of 1930 is enacted. For shadow of the borrible Cawnpore walls of Bombay's fortified town the hysteria of the East is more present disobedience movement displaced by electric lights, and
have been thrown into the sea terrible than that of the West. was begun at his instance and horses yielding to automobiles. 99, His Majesty has been pleased to public place of importance of Braganza can quarrel, and it GOVERNOR OF PRISON: No. these 70 years, every business and That is how this city of Catherine with the enthusiastic support of Chemists have given us.new fabrics, commute your sentence to hang to lays within "The Fort." No other would quarrel more often had not the Congress. The position, is totally different to-day.
new plastic materiais, a thousand penal, servitude for life, This
CONDEMNED MAN: Well, sir, I found Bombay as ever, a little the London habit of efficiency and address is quite as good. And so the British police officers taught latest recourse to defiance of the nthetic products. But the rall- law has never been pursued with road is apparently what it was asthey say no noose is good news, and modernised, a little fuller, swept good temper to the Mahratta police all the intensity that was thrown automobiles, motor trucks, intercity
generation and more ago. Private I'm hanged if it isn't. into earlier efforts of the kind; buses have drained it of 70 per cent.
with thousands of cars, full of those marvellous wealthy
constables. and in the past few months It of its passenger revenues and about
chants in imports and export bullock-carts jostle with the motor- Normally all is peace, and the has become more and more clear 15 per cent, of its freight traffic. Atacant store with MacPinch paint little poorer-oh, yes, a
MACPINGH: Do you know of a Parsee and Indian, as before. A that there was no life left in it world that rides on rubber tyres ed on the window?
cars and the ghosts of the pair- There have been two influences at and uses gasoline engine seems to
Ittle work to stamp the situation with have passed it by. The manner in
poorer: not so much money
horeed victorias. At evening the to FRIEND: No' why? this character. In the first place, which it is seeking to adjust itself business.
spend on racehorses, or bespangled crowds, flock to the seashore, and the Government of India was to a
MACPINCH: I want to start in beauty, but still wealthy enough the King's peace is over all. The fully prepared to meet the chal-thoroughly discussed at the regent
speedier
for most things, though perhaps great business of trade goes on, by generation WAS lenge, when it came, with effecmeeting of the American Society of
aware that profits have dwindled day and night. from twenty to ten per tive measures which have been applied without there presented and now gathered Jove. It did make me start!
of repression, Mechanical Engineers. The papers a ghost story the other night animosity, but equally without into a whole number of The Railway hesitation or intermission. In Age should do much to prove thet
SHE: I wish I knew it! the second place, the policy of the railways have been merely slow constitutional reform adopted by rather than asleep. "A record of British statesmanship has been research and development that has steadily developed on the lines of made American rallways the world's free consultation and deliberate most efficient transportation system"
bay" they said, "has joined the MOTHER AND SON DROWNED. bonturable fraternity of dupes. planning that were laid down-The Railway Age's summary of Slam has been established by the for Mr. Gandhi and trying to rule ber son, Chan Chaf, aged 5, were Wireless telegraph service with She has found that while shouting A Chinese woman, Chan Sze, and from the beginning. Mr. Gandhi its number must make investors Indian Posta and Telegraphs De-a few European competitors and yesterday drowned by the capsizing and his followers might say all wonder why dividends have been partment. that distrust and ill-will could reduced or withheld. Yet the words suggest about the proceedings of are not too boastful. We see only
best they could the world depres of a small passenger-sampan in the fellow-merchants, combating
harbour. the second Round Table Confer-narrow ribbons of steel, 4,000-invented that can be used to do the The whole Gandh! agitation and consisting of four passengers, the -A covered cooking plate has been elon, she has been badly had The other occupants of the boat, ence in which he took part, and horsepower engines hauling passen- work of an oven over a gas range anti-British episodes have been to boat-master and his son, Chan Tong which declined to accept the full gers between New York and Chi-burner Congress programme at his dicta-cago in eighteen hours, 200-car |
cloak the clever manoeuvres tion.
of Sze, aged 3, were saved. Other Indian leaders freight trains, finer stations, lights
Mr. Gandhi's caste-fellows and The child was taken to the Gov- brought back from London a changing from green to red and back made from seaweed in Siberia by a "With ample capital, and great from the effects of immersion.
Several grades of paper are being compatriots of Ahmedabad, ernment Civil Hospital auffering different story; and political In-again. But what of the all-fissure process invented by a Russian en-acumen, they have put in the very dia became more and more im-detector car- laboratory on wheels gineer.
Chan Wing, master of the sam-· pressed by the fact that a-which led to the removal of 7,000 |
newest cotton machinery, and have pan, said that he was carrying four genuine and determined purpose defective rails? What of the sub-trides as new brake-shoes, heavier tions, and have upset the long-No. B. 10 to Hong Kong at about 7 started vast cotton milling opera-passengers in his boat from buoy of reform, was in course of de-stitution of steel for wood in pas-trails, springs, curves, train resis established millowners of Bombay. a.m. yesterday when a sudden squall velopment. The folly of non-co- senger cars, made possible only tance, freight-containers-the me-Serva em right you may bay caught the boat and capsized it. All operation became evident as by unflagging metallurgical study? chanism of a whole new transporta But a lot of the general prosperity the occupants were thrown into the never before; and the growing What of the increase of locomotive tion system has been evolving. The of Bombay city and port goes too." water and his wife and eldest son numbers who perceived it were tractive power by more than 60 per record is Indeed Impressive. It The same story is in many men's were drowned, his other son being not affected by the cry that the cent? In the last fifteen years the is one of which companies that mouths. British and Indian both rescued by a passing junk. measures taken against civil dis-railroads have, attacked collectively have struggled hard to serve the know it. But the great throbbing obedience ought to be relaxed, more than 3,000 technical problems publie in the face of a depression life of the island city goes on, ed the rescue of the four passengers, The ateam-launch "Peggy" effect As Indians living in India, they at a cost for research that can which began for them about ten men are born and dis each twenty- could understand the need of hardly be matched by any other years ago, and which is more than four hours in, many hundreds, and administrative firmness without single industry. How many have a passing phenomenon, may well be the funeral pyres of the seashore losing sight of the truth that a heard of the studies conducted by proud. It is one, moreover, which waft the souls to heaven and the new chapter of partnership be the American Railway Association shows that they have been keenly body to the dust whence it cams. tween their country and Great in its own laboratory at Purdue and alive to the aid that science can
Fair to showery with moderate south-east winds, is the wasther April the tide of impatience with Within their walls such seeming changed social and economic needs. there are Londons: the Bombay of servatory this morning,
There are many) Bombays as forecast issued by the Royal Ob
ECONOMY
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mer-
cent.
by shade, better, and promise ahead, HARBOUR FATALITY
Gandhi Duped
1 heard European trade?. A shade, just a
The Gandhi cap was barely in Jevidence. My banker had an ex-
Facts You Did Not. planation, and so had an Indian
Know.
business friend. "Poor old Bom-
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