THE CHINA MAIL, ́SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1934.
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(Continued from Page 12.) His invincible progress knocked the stranger sideways, tumbled "And In the evening, stranger?" him over with Harilal; so that both gasped Harllal.
were sprawling. The iron grip on "Perhaps in the evening we shall the old man was released, and his reach the pool, said the stranger. limp body was catapulted far from "We have tili midnight, after the steps to the pool. The shock. ali..."
the sudden instinct to preservation,
FAMILY DOCTOR AND SCHOOLS
Advice To Parents Resented
STRONG PROTEST MADE
Family doctors are annoyed at The police now close the barriers gave Harilal hack the use of his the dictatorial attitude which, it is from the bazaar, and. the pool was legs, and he was on his knees, alleged, is taking up by many used exclusively by the marching scrambling forward, before the schools with a regard to the medical tribes, of high caste, from the other stranger.
treatment to be given to boys or bank. They marched in brave ar- And in that instant some vestige girls during the holidays. ray, with caparisoned elephants, of consciousness returned too, and A strong proteat by Dr. Lindsey carrying their idols on platforms of his eyes opened, his brain began W. Batten, Hampstead, Is published gold and cost wood. Or others alowly to grasp his surroundings in the "British Medical Journal" marched proudly naked, bearing in Floundering, stumbling, he went General agreement with Mr. Bat- their hands the girdles from their forward, tell. headlong-down the ten's views was expressed to a ré- loins. In ecstasy they waited at narrow steps where the shoes were presentative of the "Morning Post") the top of the steps for the signal being shovelled towards the cattle-by an officer of the British Medical
Association. of their leadors. With wild ories washing, trough. they flung themselves under the
"The custom seems to be growing He was bruised and stunned, buti waters. Thousand after thousand the cold water shocked his brain, among head masters and mistresses Dr. Batten they surged through the pool of and with his immersion there came and house masters,"
to to his heart a great flood of grati-states, "of writing to parents at the Har-ki-Pairi. Harilal slipped
tude, of thanks to his gods, end of term somewhat as follows: It was the stranger who rescued Splashing the tainted water over We are sorry to find that your him from the threat of stampeding, his head, he sang his jubilation, child's tonsils are in a very un- bare feet. As the last rays of the His brain did not comprehend the healthy state, and we trust that you aun reluctantly alid behind the tall strange fact that he was alone, that will have them removed at the houses of the bazaar, there had the holy waters of Har-ki-Pairi earliest possible moment." been more frequent movements seemed acrid and bitter:. His soul Or, something like a command among the mob. The limp and the alight, he stumbled from the cattle may be issued, he suggests, that the suffocuted were being passed mere trough, dragged his weak limbs child in question should be taken
the back to the bazaar.
to see a heart, lung, nerve or gland frequently over the heads of
the ground.
surviving. Men were becoming And who is there brave enough, specialist without delay. Savage with thirst and fatigue and in all the brave North-west Fron- Often, Dr. Batten asserts, the the sense of impotence. They were tier Province, to suggest that family doctor is perfectly well ruthless to those who slipped down Harilal, the devout and respected aware of whatever the trouble may among them, tepping over their bent business-man
who Bells cheap backs, Aghting to reach the pool. petrol, is not the holy man that he thinking that active interference
Harilal found himself dragged to claims to be? his feet, while an arm like a strong
For he made the pilgrimage to also, he is not circumvented at all, vine of the jungle clutched him Har-kl-Pairi, and bathed in what but merely ruffled. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, round the middle.
B.M.A. On Etiquette to him was the sacred water.
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The darknes came down, and with it the screams of tortured men and women, fighting vainly far back in the alley, were intensified.
!
FERMENT
IN FRANCE
(Continued from Page 8)
be, and has excellent reasons · for
would be bad for the child. Often,
"The family doctor an arbiter whose judgment should be invokéd jon all these occasions owing to his '
intimate familiarity with the medi ¡cal history of the child concerned," was the comment of the British Medical Association,
"A school doctor," it was emphas
There were some who`charged for- Already the Socialists and Comized, "holds the position of a medi- ward with flaying fists, beating munists, who are outside the Coall-cal inspector, and, although he has down the helpless, trampling on the tion, have formed a united front. to act in an emergency when there fallen, so that they might receive This is not to be wondered, at, with the family doctor, it is always Ia little time for communication the sanctification of Har-ki-Pairi.
since Marxism is their common
desirable on other occasions that
thim.
moderates by the extremists.
The Communists, under the direct
In front, the leaders sprang past inspiration; but the overwhelming consultation should be sought with Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengots and Cargo to Con- the police guards, crawled and vote of the Socialist Congress for antinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Forta by steamers of the scrambled their way to the steps union, 3,471 against 866, is
of the pool, to sing in exultation astonishing, because, as soms Soci- there is no reason why these two "With good will on both sides when they could kneel and splash list leaders pointed out, the inov-individuals should not work har- the troubled waters over their table result must be the overthrow, moniously together for the benefit parched heads, drink lustily from if not the absorption, of the the depths which gave salvation.
of the boy or girl concerned." Harilal was now a dead weight on the stranger's arm. He
had orders of Moscow, were determined long been unconscious through to establish an alliance with the fatigue of standing for twenty Socialists. The Soviet Government, hours, and in his brain there only anxious about the possiblity of a danced a confused medley of hopes, war with Japan, and fearing that, fears, desires. He had forgotten if this occurred, it would have to why he was here, loat the inspira-deal in all probability with B tion that had driven his old lega Germano-Polish bloc, was resolved The Panama Canal celebrated the down the Grand Trunk road from to have the entire French working twentieth anniversary of its open- the North, The stranger could class on its side in such an evening to marine traffic on August 15, see the cleared square now, could tuality.
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By the side of the steps was a upon from this point of view; hence £19,241,000 (28.3 per cent.) has mountain of shoes, kicked off by the determination of the Com-been derived from British ships. the pilgrims as they raced for the munists to secare an alliance at all Of the total of 80,090 vessels holy approach to the water. The costs.
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the exit from the pool, and the the Right. When in February the Among the first British vessels pilgrims chose the beat they could latter, with the whole of the Press to pass through the Panama Canal And as they emerged. Armfuls of behind them, could have placed the after its opening on August 15, the shoes went tumbing down, government in the hands of a 1914, were ships bringing the Pathan shoes from the North, word Mussolini had there been one, the Anzacs from Australia and New shoes of great beauty and work- elements of the Left, with the pro-Zealand to the European battle manship, cheap shoes from the vinces in revolutionary mood at field. great cities of the South.
their back, equally failed to take
In that last half hour of the holy advantage of the dangerous situa-increasing hardships, will not stand period for the washing away of tion their extremists had long any tightening of the hold of the eins, the million pilgrims were in- yearned for.
Conservative possessing classes, spired with a savagery that drove
Between a hundred and a kun- There are many injustices in them towards the pool no matter
dred and fifty thousand men France, none more glaring than tha what the cruelty to their weaker
affiliated to the extreme. groups Incidence of taxation, through neighbours. Harilal was carried
gathered in Paris, but all they whose meshes the very rich often forward by the surge of those who
did was to form processions pass. If the taxes paid by each in- beat and struggled behind: ́ The
under the eye of the police, dividual are published, as they are stranger's arms still supported
very tame affair.
in the United States, if the "publi- him, but his eyes were closed, and
Of late, the better-organized Leite fiscale" comes about, as many his thin legs dragged. His feat groups of the Right have been are demanding, then there will be were bruised, and he was raving evolving, as has been sald, away trouble. The small bourgeoisie will side with the masses against a Still they advanced, three inches from extreme courses,
Everything depends upon the system whose, weakness was reveal-
at a time; suddenly they were up
to the barrier, pressed for a terrible strength of the Government and ed by the Stavisky scandal, a form moment against the stout wood its power to govern. In the opinion of Government too susceptible to the until oven the stranger gasped for of many, It has failed to a great influence of the rich and powerful, breath; then under the great extent to carry out its pledges. plutocracy in which practically wooden beam
Reforms have not materialised, the whole Press save the Socialist scandals have not been probed, the and Commantat sheets is in the The pool lay ahead.
economic altuation is steadily get hands of the moneyed interests of Relieved of the supporting press ting words, and, indeed, It Is dif the Right...
of neighbours, Harilal was an add ficult to see how it can improve From the moment that there is ed burden, but the stranger hurled under the discal and economie syrellef from the German menace and himself forward, dragging the limp tem to which the present Govern the French people turn their whole body. Stumbling, fighting for ment, is wedded.
Jattention to their own aff
ficult
at the top of the steps, in
breat
he lunged across, "the A Drift To The Right – In another yard he would
from the
weakening of
scrambling, Bangal
dangerous sin
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