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KERENSKY IN ENGLAND
Kerensky, who since his escape from Russia in 1918 hab made Paris
his headquarters, has arrived in London.
He intends to stay for some time in England. Hia object is to learn the English language, which he reads but does not speak
THE INDIAN PRINCES
AND SURRENDER ARGUMENTS THAT ARE UNASSAILABLE
VILIFICATION CAMPAIGN
(By Roland Wild)
London.
wall prefer to resist every intru-
be divided into two classes to, his race and his "darbar" is a
He is looking for a quiet home THE Princes of India can easily sion upon aile isolation. Loyalty In the country where he will have good and bad. Little is heard greater thing than participation in plenty of conversation practice. about the virtue of the good ones; a democracy that he does not un- When he has sufficiently mastered everything is public about the in-derstand.
More Material Reason
the language he hopes to make aquity of the bad ones, lecture tour in America.
This state of affairs is a tribute Kerensky, who looks far more to the success of a campaign of| And, there are more material robust than he did in the days of vilification that has been conduct reason for his objections. In a his Russian adventure, has two sons ed for many years in India by native State ruled by a conselen- In England. Both speak. English those who regard the Princee as tious overlord,, he knows where he perfectly.
thair greatest
obstacles. The stands. He is to live in peace The younger has just translated mud-slingers are the astute poli- with his fellows, oven though they Bulygin's story of the Tsar's mur-tigians who cannot get over the be of another religion. der into English,'
}big_(cardboARD) GAME
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He will not be beset by agitators,-- the States controlled by the good and although, thia being the Past, Princes.
fact that Indians are beat ruled in
Here is the unanswerable argu-
he will be conscious of corruption
He had an excellent time. At a persistent and relentless villica-
tion. Much of it can be disre garden party given by the Mahara-
Mr. Patrick Balfour, whose new book "Grand Tour" was published ment against what is politely call-in the administration, his life will last month is one of the compara-
ed "democracy" in India. And, run moderately smoothly, uninter- rupted by many of the upheavals tively few travellers to have visited finding no answer, the only course which disturb a
ed open to these politicians has been position in British India.
man of similar
He has a figurehead to worship jah for the British Minister soon garded; but some of the mud and obey-a necessary, part of his existence. He is imbued with after his arrival there was a pro-
sticks.
The Princes, to some extent, trong race-pride, and approves gramme of sporting contests. These were detailed in gold on pink paper, have become tired of the absurdity
have themselves to blame. They every regal gesture of his master. Is this the man who will gladly
as follows:
Shooting: at Wild. buffalo, tiger, of the attacks made upon them, admit the democratic Invader?
It would be humorous, if it were rhino, spotted deer, leopard; and in many cases they have been
too proud to reply. Sometimes not tragic, that there are English- Snapping at a vanishing bear;
men who endeavour to convince they have been amused; but, too Picking off a wũy ghazi;
the Indian ruler that pomp and Bursting balloons
late, they found that it was
splendour are extravagant, The laughing matter.
They are now anxious lest, in Princes are frequently accused of Bursting balloons on a dancing the event of a surrender to the personal vanity owing to the
peacock;
magnificence of their lives and the
goose;
on a Aying
no
noisy element of Indian politi
Burating balloons on a flying kite: Hans, they will be left without expense of their entourage, ·
Bursting balloons on pitchera.
The animals and birds were made constitutional protection against cardboard and moved on wires. the "foreigners" in British India.
Your Daily Smile!
A Request
Out Of Date Treaties
Their bills, indeed, for state oc-
Casions raake startling reading when contrasted with the com parative poverty of their subjects.
They have their treaties, it is Here again the agitators and true, but these were formed in scandal-spreaders have handy fuel other, far-off days when it was for, their allegations. They play She went to Dad and asked him for never presumed that a ruling havoc with these figures.
A brand-new sealskin coat, Prince would have cause to fear Said Pater: "Seal won't do at all," the favouritism of the British Gov- And so he got her goat.
ultra-modern flying machine. Everywhere it is the same; old EDGAR-At her residence, 39 times going, old manners chang- Stubbs Road, on 18th December, ling. Every old custom, no mat- 1934, Mra. Flora Edgar, aged ter how beautiful, is now called 52. Funeral will pass the upon to justify its survival by test question, Monument at 9 p.m. to-night, answering the
"What's the use?" No flowers by request.
How far does it assist in making men of more efficient, efficiency in this connection being interpreted as power to increase the production of material treasures? At the Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1934. capstan bars, warping their yes- Rel out into the stream, sailors sang chanties which people on the quays once stood to hear. When the steam winch took the It is reported that steps are capstan's place, the chanties
Overheard being taken to prevent the rush stopped, and the raucous. rattle
"I can't lend you $10-I've only of one form of modernism drove the people away. But the
under through the streets of Venice steamship gefs
weigh got $9.25."
"Give me that; I'll trust you for from carrying away the last gon-much quicker, and her passen-
the rest." dolier and all the romance asso-gers may be to England and back
It is would get there in now obsolescent trade.
picturesque windjammer. estimated that there are fewer than eight hundred motoran airship, by which much of the boats running up and down the beauty and romance of travel is
threatened Not!
with elimination, Grand Canal every day. only has their noise and racket would enable a passenger to X-mass. Production
"Crackers are now, being made suppressed the romantic tink-a-make ten trips in the time that
What's The Use?"
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ciated with his picturesque but in much less time than they The Difference
no
the more
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Strong Rule Of "Darbar”
ernment for self-seeking "leaders"
Before me, as I write, I have
·lof communitica across their
the text of such ap attack made borders.
upon one of the most enlightened These treaties were signed in an- and conscientious rulers. He is other, age of diplomacy and were accused of spending a small for- never intended to be interpreted by tune on "unmentionable excesses." either side save with scrupulous on investigation, the excesses $0 fairness to the spirit of the agree described were discovered to be a ment. Can the Princes depend on display of fireworks!
A pointed nose Indicates curio that interpretation to-day? Now
sity.
A flattened onè. too much.
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tink of the guitar in the gondola, one journey takes in a steam the rate of thousands a day.", but the wash from them is under-ship. So it goes on, and in
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mining the foundations of the humanity's ledger every such A Joy To Be Holed historic palaces and other storied change is, rightly or wrongly A golf ball. buildings lining the Canal banks, placed on the credit side.
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It is a choice, therefore, between with the picturesque and the the Venetians denying themselves beautiful? Is "What's the use?" up-to-date means of locomotion!
Must science always be at war Sadness At Weddings
An
Even the cake is in ilers.
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It is this type of calumny, re- At one time, an attempt was peated times without number dur- made to register these bistoricing the last few years, that has documents at the League of Na caused the Indian Princes to re- tions, to give them at least a semmain in no doubt as to the inten- at blance of formality. But they tons of these fanatics of British. were symbols rather than. authori-India if they are givon their heads. tative documents, and their phrase-They have done their best to pro- {ology-in many cases—would not],
voke strife between communities. stand the examination of a grasp in many an Indian State, and have ing antagonist without the sacri-already succeeded in more than
fice of all that the Princeshold
опе сабе. precious.
They have, however, found that. Is it any wonder, therefore, that whereas in British India these. at- some of the Princes are taking tempts to produce chaos have been new interest in their armed forces successful owing to the weakness those same squadrons of cavalry of British officials, in the Indian batteries of mountain guns, and States they have failed owing to
or bringing their city down from to be always the one and only Unlicensed Wireles
criterion of worth-while things? Listeners' sin. the picturesque eminence on which it is world famed to the Some people say there is no such level of the commonplace.
war; that there never has been, Motto For Lazy Men and never can be, an difference. When indolence is bliss tis folly camel corps which last saw ser the strong rule of the "darbar." architectural committee has re between science and beauty, beto arise. commended the banishment of
(cause science is truth, and every- the motor boat. This is said_to be for the sake of the founda-|
Had-Omar-Lived-To-day- thing that is beautiful has to be true. tions rather than of the gondola jecting this as gospel, there is
Before accepting or re- A flask of Gordon water 'neath What then? But in the view of many world Pilate's question to
the bough, inhabitants whose property is "What is truth?" And to all the
A cocktail shaker, Vermuth old,
and thou
answer:
What
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ASSAULT CASE
DEFENDANT AGAIN REMANDED
Ivice in 1914-19187 The precious
The Indian States prove, to the treaties, for long regarded as undoing of the agitator, that sacred, may be scraps of paper.strength means happiness to the man in the street. They provide the The Future Pictured
unanswerable argument One Indian Prince, decendant of against surrender. long line of fighting men, plesity, pride, and the exercise fured for me the future if he was these days to be somewhat out of of a strong rule are considered
a
a
ever obliged to discuss his rights date. But the Princes of India do with one of the clever, young, dem not, at any rate, make the mistake agogues who might well be elevat- ed to power by our surrender in India. He was brief and well to the point.
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not at stake. Venice might as scientists and all the philosophers Beside me miring in the wilder well be without its foundations that is still a puzzle. as without its gondolas. Either way, in the popular view it would truth one day may appear to it
science takes for
axiomatic Ah, wildernesh, thish gonna be no longer be Venice. That in
as mere illusion the next. these glorified canoes may appear once remains beautiful always. quite unsuitable" to carry the The conception of the stupendous traffic of a big city, to those who rhythm of our planetary universe remember the glory that was is overpoweringly beautiful, and Venice, if only through reading would remain so were the solar about it, does not matter in the system proved to be the myth least. If the gondola goes, with that science once believed if to Chi, charged with wounding Li Tit Appearing, on remand, Chung Wai it will go something that has be added colour to a world scheme beautiful when we see it, but how grievous bodily harm, was again only for show. They can fight.
We may know what la Sang and Ho Ho, with intent to do from which that element is fad-are we to know what is true? remanded for a week, by Mr. E. They might well fight to defend ing fast into the grey monotone in excluding from its considera-Wynne Jones at the Central Magie their frontiers..." of utilitarianism, as, "progress" tion everything but what it tracy this morning. goes on filling the valleys, level-regarda as demonstrably real, ling the hills, and making the progress may be sacrificing the
Detective Inspector J. Murphy deal of persuasion from even the It would, indeed, take great crooked ways of life straight end to the means, all the time still in the hospital and that Li Tit these men who have made such an
stated htat both complainants were most glib of Indian politicians The world cannot eat its cake making machines to make other
and have it.
I had just seen the pennants of his troops flying from a thousand lances; seen armoured cars wheel- ing in formation over the parade ground: seen the dust rise under the pads of his camel corps.
"Well," he said, "they are not
machines with. When all Sangla in a serious condition and impression on our own legislators As the prosale power-boat has the beauty and all the is not expected to live. driven the gondolier from the romance have been effaced from matter of no surprise.
to lead a proud native State sol- Venice canals, the motor bus and a materially perfect world man while progress may be no respec-brother of the studious, Intel- dier Into the belief that he was a And electric tram herald the dia will need another set of senses were may be reukes, lectual, Government, parasite. appearance of "the smiling rick to enjoy the perfection that and year in, year out, will push It would be a long time before shaw man," whose smile amidst science has procured for him on to its mysterious goal, a halt he would admit that his caste and the modernised traffic of the That the Venetians should regret now and then to save a flower of his race counted for nothing, and East is already a pathetic ana- the disappearance of the gondola aesthetician blooming on the that he must forgo these luxuries chronism Bagdad, the City of from their streets, even though track might not be time al in order to take part in the great the Caliphs, is now known prin- science gives them a motor boat together wasted. cipally as an aerodrome for the in exchange, need therefore be a
forthcoming scramble. He might
of many ignorant British "ex- perta" on India.
For their Highnesses are not at wants to be, quite up to date. all certain that India is, is or
in!! I got an invitation to party. It said: "Evening dress
"How did you enjoy your visit to London?"
must be worn. I started out la my tightshirt and got pinched!"