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Adopting a suggestion made at a meeting of the Yacht Racing As-' sociation, the owners of the big yachts have decided to paint their craft in distinguishing colours,
Last year all the big yachts ex- cept the Britannia-were-painted white above water. Only experts could tell one from another.
MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934.
ROBERT CLIVE OF INDIA
HE DARED TO REIGN
AND RULE
DID HE TOIL IN VAIN ?
(By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill.)
London. the most fearful atrocity which
Audacions Campaigns"
This year the Britannia will re- The fact that so many people Europeans in India have yet auf tain her black topsides and copper view the maintenance of the Bri- fered. At Madras even the most under-body.
tish Empire in India with indiffer sluggish officials were calling out But the Endeavour, the new ence, and treat the future great-for a man of action, and now the open man had arrived. At the age of challenger for the America's Cup, ness of our country as an
reaction thirty-two Clive became Comman will be pale hydrangea blue, and question, has in its the Shamrock will revert to an aroused a keen study of history der-la-Chief of the expedition to appropriate emerald green,
and a
popular interest in the Bengal. The Candids will be a soft grey, founders of our great Dominion. the colour of herring-gull's Many books and now a well-pre-
His campaign was waged by back, and the Astra a pale jade sented drama have turned
Eastern methods. Intrigue was. minds to Clive, his prowess, his mingled with audacity, and both green.
Only the Velaheda will remain achievements, his character, and, were carried to amazing extremes. {white.
of course, his faults. Both from the practical and the His qualities were rare. aesthetic points of view this inno-never truckled, to his vation will be a boon to the land-]he never waited for authority. He traitor undertook to desert to the lubbers.
created British India by a power English side before the battle.
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Catholic Diplomat
men's
He seduced Sarajah Dowlah's Glive!
leading general, Mir. Jaffeir, by the superiors; offer of his master's throne. The
of crisp, independent decision.
When Mir Jaffelr's courage failed. India at that time was controll.
him at the last moment, the odds ed by a court of directors in Lon against Clive were nearly twenty, Mr. Cecil Dormer, who has been | don--a cautious board of busi-
to one. After an intense convul appointed British Minister toness men, most of whom had neversion of soul he staked all upon im- Norway, is a Roman Catholic, like been to India; a stingy board,mediate. resolute attack.
He had barely a thousand Eng-
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so many successful diplomats. He which cut down salaries so tow spent four years as secretary of that its servants were compelled tshmen and two or three thou the Legation at the Vatican.
to take bribes in order to live; and Sepoys. Sixty thousand Or- His other posts have been less weak board, too timid to delegato iental warriors drew up under the congenial.
its authority or even to put one standards of Surajah Dowlah. In Caracas. Tokyo, and Bangkok man in charge of the East India a few hours the great host of Ben-- are capitals which involve defin- Company's business. Their megal was routed. Plassy was an ite exile for prolonged periods, althads were rapidly losing india to almost bloodless victory. Surajah greatest difficulty arises in res-though Mr. Dormer must have en-the French.
Dowlah was deposed and soon ex- pect of Soviet Russia. To leavejjoyed the shooting in Siam, where
From Clerk To Soldier ecuted. Mir Jaffeir, placed upon her out of such a Convention he has been Minister for the last
Clive arrived in India a pennithe throne, poured the wealth of Hong Kong. Monday, April 9, 1924. seems impossible, for Russia's four years.
abad Bengal into the lap of the
con jair strength neither could nor He is a tall, thin man, with dark less clerk. He had been
would be safely omitted from hair and a moustache. He pre-boy at school and had little edu.querors.
Honours and money were heap- the calculations of the Reich. fers a country existence to the at-cation. His parents devoutly hop-
ed they had seen the last of himed upon Clive. He became vir- Moscow's present pre-occupations mosphere of courts.
Įtually ruler of all Bengal may be deeply engaged with her. His wife is the eldest of Lord for many years. The one possi⚫ Far Eastern boundaries, but she Denbigh's seven daughters. She, ble friend to whom he had a letter Jaffair presented him with £200,- The moment JA manifestly also has a whole range of win-too, is a Roman Catholic, and has of introduction had left India be. 000 and subsequently with an an- fore he arrived. His lodgings were nual life pension of nearly £30,- critical in the Disarmament (dows looking towards Europe. a sister who is a nun.
jona. abominable, his pay a pittance; negotiations, for the French re-If this major difficulty can be
In this period of crisis the me- the future was dreary. Twice he ply to the British Memorandum surmounted, it would obviously
tried to blow out his brains, and dicine required to beal the disor is expected to mark the close of be an incalculable advance if
ders of India was energy. Clive- twice the pistol missed are. a chapter in these long negotia- the great Western Powers were
was its embodiment. Without de- tions. But, however disappoint-to enter into conference with the
A New Avenue To Disarmament.
Your Daily Smile.
PINCHED
A judge rules that a slap on the
ing the French "non possumus" express purpose of saving back is merely a "hail-fellow-well. may be, the British Government "European civilisation" from be met action. Detectives have do not mean to accept the fatalis-ing bombed to destruction by the other ideas about this.
conclusion that they are latest engines of European scien- thereby absolved from the duty tific inventon.
tic
of further effort. On the con-i
A Tale of a Melon
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From this despondency he was: rescued by the great perils in lay or consultation he attacked in which the entire English commun-turn the Northern Sirkars and the Dutch, with whom England was at. ity in Madras were plunged. In
an emergency he became a soldier, peace. He was utterly reckless of his "Heaven-Born” General life; stories of his bravery sprend Mrs. Newly-Rich was giving her far and wide among the natives, He chose to act even in the trary, Mr. Baldwin has bravely French Quota Dispute. order to her fruiterer from the and he became the idol of his Se greatest matters on his own ini- declared that this should be the
door of her car, and the frulterer moment from "redoubling our
ference to London, happily many efforts to get a Convention" by luctantly forced to take action in remarked, "We have some beauti-chance came.
The British Government was re-in an effort to help her selection poys. He was promoted captain, tiative, without the customery re-
and then, at twenty-five, his
months distant. In everything hợ other means and methods, if those of the revised plan should retaliation for the refusal of the ful melons to-day, madam."
The French faction in the Car-took the responsibility for mis- Mrs. Newly-Rich regarded the natic, urged It has been French Government to restore fully definitely miscarry,
on by the capable, takes as well an successes. suggested that Britain should the impart quotas for British goods, melons thoughtfully as she replied crafty Dupleix, were besieging his superiors in London were treat separate the military problem of and a duty of 20 per cent, ad valo- with a slight shiver, "No, I never Trichinopoly. Disarmament from the Air pro-rem, over and above the existing liked melons. They make my ears siege by a counter-attack. blem. That would be just as Customs duties, is now levied on so cold!" feasible as the separation of the certain classes of French goods en- military from the naval, which tering Britain.
But
Clive broke the ed with outspoken contempt. The With star of England in the East rose five hundred men he struck at Ar with his own bounding fortunes. cot, the English capital of the (Continued on Page 11). The Order impós-To-day's Short Story
Carnatic. His tiny force, march-l
through "Heaven keep you, darling," he ing on
& tremendous was recognised to be necessarying the new duty has been framed from the outset. The British with the intention of erecting a re-jsaid. "I can't."
thunder-storm, found the fortress Government would then, ex duction of imports from France as hypothesi, accept the impossibi-nearly as possible equivalent to the lity of reconciling the French and reduction of British exports to! "The modern young married of crumbling walls, for fifty days German attitudes to Disarma France caused by the present dif-couple take a long time to settle against the whole power of the
quota ment by regulated reduction on ferentiating
restrictions. down," says a vicar. They also Carnatic. the one side, and regulated re- After the suspension of the gold take a long time to settle up, addr armament on the other, and they standard in Britain the French a tradesman. would proceed to a new attempt Government imposed a 15 per cent.
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undefended. They seized and held NEW STRATOSPHERE.
FLIGHT PLANNED
the place, a circuit of over a mile
Romantic Marriage
The defence of Arcot is a. milf-
U.S. Marine Officers To Make Second Trip.
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Washington.
A new balloon flight into the up-
was
?
At this moment also the romance
height of 15 miles, is being, con--
per reaches of the atmosphere,
on the broad lines of the Italian exchange surtax on 'goods: Imported Last Week's Prize Headline
tary epic. It was also a master 15-MILE HEIGHT OBJECTIVE: plan.
In This differed from the from the United Kingdom.
"Ship blown on rocks by gals,"stroke of strategy. The diversion British chiefly in this, that principle the surtax was imposed in
enabled Trichinopoly to hold out. France should be asked to ac-jorder to compensate for the advant- FOOD FOR THOUGHT When the last formidable assault cept the limitation of her effec-age which the depreciation of ster-| I've wasted a whole evening upon the breaches at Arcot had tives and material of all kinds to ling gave to the British manufac-thinking... I read that a woman been repulsed Clive's fame possibly to the unprecedented their present figure, while Ger-turer. The principle was not ap-in Buffalo shot her husband be made. : many would be allowed a regu-plied with equal rigour to other cause she didn't like him. lated re-armament up to an countries with depreciated cur- I've wasted. a whole evening of his life began. A friend had aldered by Major Chester L. Ford- agreed figure: Signor Mussolini rencies, and there were strong pro-thinking.. And for the life of shown him the picture of an En-ney of the Marine Corps and holds that such a proposal would teats against the surtax; but they me I can't think of a better rouglich girl, his sister, Margaret Lieutenant Commander Settle of
the U.S. Navy.. be much easier for France to ac-were not pressed home until to-lson for shooting any one.
Maskelyn. Clive had said at once,
The two recently reached 61,237 cept, though there should be no wards the end of last year, Then
"Make her come out here, and I illusions as to the difficulties the French Government agreed that,
will marry her. When she start feet in a balloon whick landed final- which both France and Germany as from January 1, it should be
ed he was but a struggling clerk:y in a New Jersey marsh.
A higher record has been claimed would find in reaching agree-suppressed, Almost immediately. For various other categories the when she arrived he was the hero ment even on that basis, The
however, fresh import restrictions quotes were raised only to 75 per of the day. They were married by Soviet fliers, but their instru
ment readings were, not submitted: British view would naturally be were announced. For the first quar-cont The British Government amid his triumphs: that any limitation is better than ter of 1984 the amount of the exist-could not accept the discrimination When they came home together to the laternational Aeronautical none. Simultaneously, whether Ing quotas was reduced to 25 per in favour of American and Belgien he had already a considerable for Federation, and the Settle-Fordney this produced good results or not cent, and the quota system was ap goods and the retaliatory action in tune, He was received with much altitude stands as the peak attained the British Government would
This is the lamentable honour; he was rewarded and by man. plied, with a corresponding. reduc- the result concentrate their new endeavours upon securing an Air Convention ion, to a large number of goods not pass to which Anglo-French econo- toasted by the directors he des- In their first flight Settle and control mic relations have come at a time pined. Already they called him Fordney had a balloon of 600,000+ between the nations of Western Previously under quota Europe.
The basis would be Similar restrictions had been ap when French Importa from Britain "General" Clive." His stay in Eng. cubic feet capacity. They believe that parity in air strength, which plied to other countries, but soon have shrunk in value from 8,724, land was unprosperous. He soon that 15 miles could be reached with Mr. Baldwin is convinced is ab- afterwards the quotas for American 800,000f. In 1981 to 1,882,000,000f. squandered his money; his parlia. a bag of 1,600,000 cubic feet. solutely essential to the estab-and Belgien, goods were raised to in 1988 and French exporte to the mentary ambitions, were frustrat Major Fordney says one of the lishment of any sense of security 100 per cent, so that there was dis-United Kingdom from 5,048,000,000f. ed; his election to Parliament most important afras would be pene agdinat air attack and to the recrimination against this country. to 1,820,000,000. It has been which he had contrived at great tration of the so-called ozone layer." moval of all temptation to sur-After protests had been made the agreed on both sides for some time expense, was not aside on petition. This layer, once computed to be 35- prise attack. There can be no French Government undertook-on past that a new agreement for the But at the moment when Eng-miles above the earth, has been suggestion of Great Britain ac-January 10 to restore, 190 per cent, regulation of economic relations is land frowned India berkoned. The placed somewhat lower by more re- quiescing in her present air in- quotas for a "very "abundant list needed to appersede the, agreement tide of war had flowed against cent calculations, feriority, and presumably the of British goods. But when the Hat of 1882 The negotiations for the Company: Calcutta had fallen; Fordney belleves a 15 mile flight, Government would renew the was examined it, was found that for settlement of the dispute have made the horror of the Black Hole all might plence it and provide obser- proposal to limit the number of most classes of cotton goods the little progress so far, but hopes of ed all minds. Surajah Dowlab, the Vations of vast benefit. In future
ruler of Bengal, had perpetrated weather forecasting-Reuter machines to 500 ench The quote remained at 25 per cent, agreement are still held.
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