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MAKERS OF INDIA
AMAZING EXPLOITS OF
ROBERT CLIVE
HOW BRITONS MADE ORDER
OUT OF CHAOS
(By R. J. Minney)
"Der Deutsche" was at one time the mouthpiece of the Christian trade unions. Ite editor was Herr | Stegerwald; "Minister of Labour,"
It paid its way,
a Paradise into which the British To Wellesley the Indians in the When the Nazis came into power burst with sword and pistol to crush territories beyond our frontiers ap- It was made the organ of the La- the rulleless pensantry under their pealed for deliverance. They be bour Front, the Nazi organization heel.
held the benefits of British rule and
HOME people may be apt in these got father than the Nile. Through lax timos to think of India as agents, however, he raised enough.
a country with millions of natives trouble in India to keep Wellesley, laughing in the sunshine, happy in embroiled in wars.
which Inherited the funds of the But ten minutes with any history wanted to be freed from the shame- Fold trade unions. Its editor was book will show you that for 4,000 ful misgovernment, the chaos, and,
Dr. Lay,
years with scarcely any breath- indescribable evil of the native It lost money.
lag space, the unhappy peoples of tyrants. Amoter Berlin newspaper which India were pounced upon, slaughter-
He found himself at the start con- was recently disappeared in the ed, and ravaged by every swaggering fronted by three formidable: "Deutsche Zeitung." Since the adventurer who cared to come enemies, likely at any moment to Nazi regime it has been the per-through the mountain passes of combine against him. He decided sonal organ of Herr Walter Darre. Afghanistan-Mongols, Persians, quickly and acted. Despite the Minister of Agriculture.
Greeks, Huns, Arabs-untli India dangers, he set out against the The disappearance of these two was no longer a country but a Nizam of the Deccan, who had ́ ́a. papers is believed to be a hint of patchwork quilt of racial remnants, vast army under French command. the approaching eclipse of Dr. Leyn ethnological museum of types as By a clever stroke of diplomacy and.
varied as they are mutually an impressive military demonstra
tion, to the astonishment of all, he antagonistic.
had The Nizam's entire army dis.. armed and disbanded. This, bold.
and Herr Darre.
CANADIAN CHANGES
Order Out Of Chaos #Another "New. Deal", outlined by | When the British landed as Mr. Bennett, Prime Minister of traders, they met with opposition Canada, comes at an opportune time not from Indians but from other for the Canadian Government.
European traders.
The session which opened last
It became obvious that out of the month is the last of the present chaos of warring claimants for In- Canadian House of Commons, which aian thrones, of dissolute princel was elected in 1980 for five years.
move saved the situation. Welling ten proceeded instantly against Tipoo Sultan and disposed of him in. two months.
Mahratta Menace
Another Hastings-the Marquess?
ings covetous and false to their pro- of Hastings-dealt with the third of It is also the last session at which mises, of brigands roving the coun- Wellesley's enemies-the" Mahrattas, Lord Bessborough, the Governor tryside unchecked, some sort of lawless hordes of armed horsemen.
numbering many hundred thousand,.. The China Mallbuting more to their sharehold-general, will deliver the Speech from order had to be evolved.
ers; the national trade returns the Throne, His term of office ende The men who made India were who had for centuries spread terror are better in practically every de- in the autumn.
men of initiative and daring, not through India. It was a fierce: Hong Kong, Thursday, Mar. 14, 1935. partment. An increase in the No plans have yet been made for afraid to decide and to act. Of struggle Again and again... our
over
Steady National
Recovery
number of agreements with for a successor to him. leign, countries promises fur- ther growth in trade. Money is
cheap beyond all previous experi
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ment and offered to lead a rabble And so we come to Dalhousie band of soldiery, a mere handful, to Youngest (he was only 35) and \ine
He governed India from a sick bed,"
hold of Southern India, no less!
The Daring Of Chiva
He marched his little army all night through a blinding rainstorm.
but he governed India well.
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The Sikh War
The scoundrelly Governor vór
Even He: "You know, you're not a bad-The Indians, accustomed to calling a Multan, who had defaulted in his looking sort of a girl.”
truce when it rained, left the fort accounts, caused two British officers She: "Oh, you'd say so even if you and fled in alarm. These were not to be hacked to death, and liberally jdidn't think so...
He: "Well, we're square, then. You'd men, but, devils, who were coming rewarded the murderers. Dalhousie
did not wait for cómmittées of in think so even if I didn't say so.”
*
+
* Tactless
them all, Clive's name must stand soldiers were hemmed in--at Kirkee, Sitabaldi, Koregaon-but the highest. ·
a shabby, Mahratta menace was He was no more than.
finally poorly paid clerk when the French stamped out and Britain became the ence, giving encouragement to] An old Yorkshireman, found wander. The Board of Trade returns he judged there is ahead a long Americans who import old-world vill-Clive, blackening his face and don-after to forget its hereditary feuds. fresh enterprise. So far as can ing in an American town, said her conquered Madras and made the paramount power in India. Every no idea how he got there. Wealthy entire population their prisoners, native State was compelled: there. for January have served as a period of steady national pro-ages could be poful out to ather ning to the nearest English settle and live side by alde in harmony. tonic. They speak of progress in recapturing little by little the gress. The temporary scare may up inhabitants with them. foreign and colonial markets. In have served a good purpose in demonstrating that irresponsible
Surpassed the whole table of British manu-political rumour is attended with "Tre, worked under the same boss the capture of Arcot, capital strong- many ways, most important of all.. factured exports there is not dangers beyond the range of for the last 20 years" one item that does not show in politics so long as the country silver wedding next; week."
"That's nothing. I celebrate my crease, and it is in the trades believes that prosperity is bound that are most important, and up with the continued strength that had been most hardly hit, of the Government that mapped that the chief gains are record-out the path to recovery. fed: The total increase in export- ed manufactures is £3,316,000
1934,
and January, £5,852,000 over January, 1939. Cómparing these figures with the export trade of other countries, Mr. Chamberlain might well des cribe them as remarkable. He sees no. reason why there should not be a considerable reduction in unemployment in the coming months, and the export figures bear out his contention that the most any Government can do to The Chinese YMCA Board of create employment directly by Directors. Secretarial staff, and The Quarry Bay School's Spring public works is trifling compared friends will honour., Mr. J. Festival will be held at 11 am, on with the effect of even a small McPherson, M.B.E...with a farewell Tuesday, April 9. Improvement in ordinary trade. dinner at the Kam Loong Restaurant
The January export returns on Tuesday next, in recognition and The annual meeting of the Hong 20,000 cavalry and heavy artillery grave moment in our history, we confirm the view that the disappreciation of his long years of Kong Society of St. George will be with at his command a mere 800, still had men capable of meeting quieting rise in the unemploy- untiring and constructive service to held on Monday, March 25, at 6.15 plus a handful of half-castes and situation of appalling danger. Sir kate mara: erytrong custment figures was purely season the Y.M.C.A.
Mr. McPherson Is D.m., in the board room of the Hong natives, amounting all in all to no Henry Lawrence was there, with his more than 8,000. He dared-and coolness, courage, and determina- al, and confined to home trade, leaving the Colony on the following Kong Jockey Club...
tion, to save. Indiap which may be expected to re Friday on retirement, after 30 years
Then Whitehall cover quickly. The recent im of service.
But with the invention of the provement in these figures seem-
Whitehall, meddlesomeness. The telegraph there began the era
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At Plassey, to cross the river quiry to advise and fase their re meant almost certain annihilation, ports in massive blue books. He Judge: Haven't I seen. you be with the British army, destroyed acted at once. He said: "The Sikh fore?"
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
So the entire white population would be nation has called for war, and on my that at the mercy of the Indians, at word, sirs, they shall have it with a whose head was the evil Suraj-ud-verseance. They did. But Sikh Dowlah, who had but lately caused loyalty has been such that ever since the ghastly death by suffocation of they have remained the truest of 123 British people in the Black Hole all in, India, and, with the. Gurkhas
the finest fighters in our Ármyknut
They came to your sid during the With the lives of his own wife and child at stake, Clive did not Mutiny, which was stirred up chiefly healtate, to cross the river and defy by Nana Sahib, a descendant of the the Indian hordes 60,000 infantry, dispossessed Mahrattas. In that
At the Central Magistracy this morning, Chan Lin-sing, a-Vaniṭhee,
default one month's imprisonment
of Calcutta.
won..
A Worthy Follower Warren Hastings was seven years
who have made India.
be placed
ed to give some solid background to that weakening in confidence Mr. McPherson's name and per- was committed by Mr, W. Schofield Clive's junior and served in India that had its origin in the specula- the growth of the YMCA. Alice its Court for returning to the Colony quired, and found the existing
sonality are definitely linked with to stand......his, trial at the next under him. He had to consolida men on the spot were shorn of their Criminal Sessions at the Supreme the three provinces Clive had initiative and became the victims of tive troubles in Minging-lane and Inception to the indispensable posi was fed by unfounded stories of tion. It occupies to day as regards the f
from bandishment.
busybodies far dierent in temper machinery of government appalling a political crisis. Mr. Baldwin's
ly corrupt. Indians in high places and outlook from the great figures the young people of the cornmunity.
who built up the glorious British re- denial of any thought of a Gen. He arrived in the Colony des compending guilty to a charge alled their own pockets with the cord In India. eral Election did not come until
stealing a quantity of copper wire venges, lied and intrigued. Warren rumour had worked on the nerves paratively young, man at the begin from à contractor's shed at the Hastings, did not shrink from acting Happily, down to our own times, af timid foreign holders of Bri- plus of the century to take up the South Chine Spun-crete Company, against the most exalled. Members there have been such names, as tish stocks, who threw some of Secretaryship in place of the Re Hung Hom, Chan Tin-pun, 26 of his own Council, from motives of
Curzon and Dyer their holdings upon a market that Through his personality and ad-
B. J. Southam, who was leaving year-old watchman, was fined $25 in jealousy, thwarted nad badgered him worthily beside those of the men had been steadily rising for months, and in which there hadministrative ability he gather by Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham at the and championed the corrupt. But been a good deal of buying with about him a group of loyal suppor Kowloon Magistracy this morning went resolutely on. The peoples of despite all the humiliations Hastings
small sales in the early days had whose premises grew from a few EXTRALITY TO BE WITHDRAWN and security. Corbe borrowed money. Comparatively ters and friends of the Association,
India: were protected, given peace depressing effect out of all room Institution rented on Deg
He was most bitterly opposed proportion to the amount of Vax Road, where the On Los stock offered. Recently, the ship of a few hundred to the
Yuen Cafe now is, with a member request to withdraw extrality in with the Mahrattas and he decided As à preliminary to, a formal when Bombay got, drawn into war WAS a recovery of confidence, with quotations climbing back sent large plant at Bridges Street government is reported to be embarrassed financially at the time Due to recent complaints ""re-
the country the Manchouku to go to her ald Though seriously to the levels from, which they which is dally, serving hur
planning to establish provisional he sent troops from Bengal on foot ceived by the Police four had fallen. Reflection had shown students. The Association courts at important cities to try through hundreds of miles of ex Chinese, including three that there is no warrant for a be- has a meŋbership of 2,486,
foreigners facing charges. lief that a halt had been reach furnishing them with many of
plored India. The Indians were
ents of the Chung Nam Coll pressed and were glad to make were prosecuted this morni ed in the country a rising pros- pleasantnesses
life... perity
Peace. They realised that before Mr. Wynne-Jone and work, to serve the students and matter what they did to the British, the Central Magistracy o
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