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WHY I AM FOR
INDIA BILL
THE
NATURAL RESULTS OF OUR OWN TEACHING
RESPONSIBILITY ONLY CURE FOR PRESENT ILLS
THE
(By the Marquis of Lothian)
London. to our rule, and paraded military THE British people have heard all force and "ruthless" executions In
the arguments that can be sufficient numbers, India could pro- urged against the India BIIL : bably be "kept quiet" for a time.
They have heard that it is utterly But it would not help our trade The same privileges were extend-fantastic to suppose that the vast There would be a universal boycott. ed to dentists 20 years later.
congeries of races, languages, reli- And unless we changed the British The rarity of such actions is due gions and hereditary princedema Constitution into a Fascist Con- to a fear in the profession that 'law-which is India can possibly govern stitution; it would be inevitable that faults may damage a manța practice. itself on democratic lines, that the in a few years & Labour or Liberal
WINCHESTER'S CHAPLAIN
main political party-the Congress majority would come into office -is scheming to get rid of British pledged to abandon repression, at a
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"Say something, if it's only good
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Teaching Freedom
Only Practical Way
Nor
The Rev. 8. A. McDowell, who rule and British trade, and that the time when India would be so embit- has died at Winchester after near-only sane course is to stand firm and tered as to be unmanageable and ly 30 years as chaplain and science maintain practically intact the irreconcilable. There fa. no road to master, was once described as hav-majestic structure of the British trade or stability along the diehard ing "one foot in chapel, the other Røj for which the voiceless millions road.. in 'atinks building," and his head of India's 500,000 villages are said in the clouds."
The only practical policy is the He had a fund of natural good
policy of the India Bill. That Bill humour. On one occasion he read That is the picture so peraunaively is not perfect-far from it. a paper on Ducks to the Natural and eloquently drawn by Mr. does it fully satisfy anybody... History Society. An innocent: Churchill and his dichard friends. Nothing could he perfect or satisfy... · looking inquirer asked, "What is a Why, then, are the great majority ing which has to deal with so vaat cud-duck?" His smiling answer, "I of those who have been familiar and complicated a country as mo do not remember ever seeing one, with India in the last ten years in dern India. It may well require left honours easy.
favour of what is called "urren- amendment after a périod of trial Cud-luck" is Winchester slang der"?
But I believe it will be worked be for a pretty face.
There are two main reasons. The cause there will be nothing like us. first is because for exactly 100 years much agreement for anything else. -since Macaulay's famous Minute And If It is worked it launches "warm-water port" became
we have been teaching Indians India on the extremely difficult and national slogan and England's Lady: "Oh, please, constable, help me British ideals-that freedom is, the dangerous second stage of the move- anxiety for the protection of In- find my husband. I've lost him in the most priceless human possession, ment to full self-government under the position of antagonist. first dia forced her willy-nilly into crowd."
Constable: "How shall I recognise and that every race, and people is the only conditions which, have the him?"
entitled to self-government.
least chance of steering her safely in preventing the occupation of!
Lady: ""Well, he's got a picture of More than this. For the last 30 past the pitfalls and dangers which Constantinople at the Berlin Con- Britannis tattooed on his chest," years we have been actually develop lie ahead--friendly, co-operation be gress, then in protecting the in- dependence of Persia, The
ing self-governing institutions, from tween, British and Indians.. series of scares about "Russian Then here's the one about the new elected district councils, and munici Finally, as to Congress. The To-day the Japanese resigna-aggression" at Merv and Herat havetail who had his platoon march-palities at the bottom, to ten partly remedy for their extreme views is
ing away from him. tion from the League of Nations were the natural consequence. gone some distance and were headed and an elected all-India Legislative bility. Once they shoulder the res-
The men had responsible provincial Legislatures the old British specific of responsi- . takes effect, after the expiration That better relations would have straight for an embankment, and the of two year interval prescribed been possible was shown when a second lieutenant was speechless. A Assembly at the top. To-day there ponsibility for government, their menace created the last the regular army sergeant instruc. are 7,000,000 voters, and out of 43 temper, will change. Things look by the Covenant, and another greater
tor yelled to the new offset: step has been taken towards the "Triple Entente" But in the
in the Provinces 32 are Indians. Ministers and Executive Councillors very different when you are the ter
get for criticism, and not merely achievement of the ideal of the meantime Russia had been driven by
Finally, thanks to modern science the authors of It. I believe zaspon aggressive, military party of a further East, and the seizure of Far Eastern combination which Vladivostock set Japan arming
Preferred the Sla
and contact with the West India sibility is the only road by which... “Good morning!" said the canvasser, urgently needs those measures of India can be won to be a friendly”. is intended apparently to go be- and building a Navy. The search yond anything that could be call- for warm water had so nearly have here a simple gadget to pre-social reform and reconstruction partner in the Empire.
vent doors from slamming~~" - progress ed independence of or equality succeeded that the
which, proverbially, cannot be under. So I am 100 per cent. for the In-- "Not this door, thank you."
taken by outsiders.
dia Bill with the Western Powers,-80 Southwards towards Port Arthur much was secure by membership was a logical next step; and it
Repetition of the League, to an attitude of was certain that only utter de- Professor: "Havo. I told, this joke, In
It is utterly Impossible to go back defiance. There was at one time feat in war would compel Japan cines before?"
-Class (chorus): "Yes!"
on this long history. The demand, some hope that before the date to acquiesce in the existence of
Professor: "Good This will make too, for self-government le funda arrived more friendly counsels a great arsenal which was des- twice. The third time you will prob- mentally healthy, Practically the would have prevailed; but the cribed as "a spearpoint pointed ably understand it." notice of abrogation of the Naval at her heart." The alliance with Treaty showed that the policy of England prevented foreign in- isolation was to become per-terference from the Powers that manent It now appear's doubt had previously compelled. her tu ful whether any new Naval surrender Port Arthur after it Treaty will be negotiated. So had been seized from China; and far as practical limitation of the Treaty of Portsmouth esta armaments is concerned the ab-blished the very artificial settle rogation makes little difference, ment which somehow managed to
about their own country than the The second issue of the King's for all the Powers concerned have survive till the occupation of built as many ships by way of Mukden in defiance of the terms Loss of jewellery to the value of 600 members of Parliament and the College Magazine, Just to hand, is...
electors of this country, hardly any full of good things and reflects "replacement" as they had money of that Treaty. Once the com- 8640 is reported to have been stolen for the maximum force was promise had been upset it was from Capt. R. Henderson's residence, of whom have ever visited it; that great credit on both its editor and. they are even more concerned with its contributors. It has jet itself fixed at so high a level that most hardly possible that the CER: "Highlands", Austin Road, Kowloon, likely no more ships would have should remain as a Russian ad-sometime after 8 o'clock on Sunday its good government and the hapa high standard to be maintained.
piness of its people than we are-- baen laid down if there had been ministration in the midst of a evening.
Under the Auspices of the H. K. no agreement at all. The ad-Japanese Protectorate; but It The burglar gained entrance by having to live there; and that, pro- University Education Society Mr. vantage was that everybody does not look like any more per-breaking one of windowa. The vided an adequate number of knew the worst that could be manent arrangement that ajatolen fewellery included military ryots have votes and that there are G. Morgan M.A., B.Sc. will de
liver a lecture on "Education as a expected, and that & general Japanese railway should be the medale and a valuable pearl ring. adequate safeguarda agreement avoids the appearance link of communication, between
stability during the period of tran- Science," on Wednesday April 8 at of an "encircling" alliance Russia and a Russian port:
sition, Indians are more likely to .80 p.m. in the University Union. against any one or more Powers One is impressed in retrospect BOXING INSTRUCTOR solve the dificult problems of their Assembly Hall. All are welcome. left outside. The result of the by the interconnection of events! IN TROUBLE own rapidly charging country than similar withdrawal by Germany that are separated geographically
we are.. is that already in Europe there by many miles, and historically Found With Miniature is an appearance of a combina-by many years. The course of
Arsenal tion of Nations against her that history moves in broad sweeps. was not intended, and that re-Statesmen and Generals write minds one too forcibly of old their names on the record, but Pleading guilty to the charge of dians any responsibility at the cen- ligion to Ultimate Reality.” All conditions that were fatal to are they not often mere pawns being in possession of four small tre or responsibility for law interested are welcome. Ten will in a game played by forces over swords, three speers, an axe and and order In the Provinces be served before the Lecture at
not les-4.45 p.m.;
peace.
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whole of educated and political In- A meeting of the Sanitary Board" dia demands the right of full pro will be held at 4.15 p.m. to-day, vincial self-government and a sharo|-
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of responsibility at the centre. No The R.M.S. Empress of Aula left- party wants less: most want more. Shanghai yesterday and is due here- But, it will be asked, what about at 6 am on Thursday. She will the "voiceless millions"? The ansall for Manila at 6 pm. on the wer is that India is full of able menjame day. and women who know far more
the
to ensure
Force Of Nationalitan
There will be a Lecture at the University Union Assembly Room at 5. p.m. to-day by Dr. L.-E. Stuart, D.D., the former. President am for the India Bill is that the of Yen Ching University on the diehard alternative of denying In-subject of "Contribution of Res
The second main reason why
and
bitter and universal opposition., Schofield at the Central Magistracy! Nationalism is the, strongest poli- for returning to the Colony from tical force in the modern world. It banishment.
The terms of the sale of the which they have no control at three large choppers in the basement could multiply Chinese Eastern Railway have all? Already the Charhar-Jehol of No. 77 Hollywood Road, without sen the risks. But that would been initialled, and the three operations have been countered a valid license, Wong Fan, a Chinese simply be, after all the pledges that Sentents of nine months" "hard" documents are in transit to the by new Siberian fortifications boxing instructor,, was fined $80 by have been given, to drive the whole labour was this morning Imposed on Governmenta concerned. The that the key to the railway r. QA. A. Macfadyen at the Cen- of educated and political India into Lau, Chiu-fat, a banishen, by Mr. W. final transfer will mark another strategy of East Asia has been tral Magistracy this morning era begun in Japanese relations shifted to the Southern end of with the Sovieta. No railway Lake Baikal And Russia has has ever been the cause of so begun to secure a more distant much heartburning and strife. base by the sudden volte, face of It was the last lap of the long joining the League and making a RAINFALL ABOVE AVERAGE Odyssey of Tsarist Russia from whole series of treaties with her the Baltic to the Facific Russia Western neighbours that are Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 was always the Great Power of hailed as so many triumphs of hours ending at 10 am. to-day was the North, and for long was shut a policy of pacification. And in 1.71 Inches, The total since January up in the vast Inland steppes cidentally this movement towards 1 18 5.63 Inches, as against an aver till Peter the Grest inspired her peace has been countered by an age of 5.18 Inches. with the ambition of naval entente between Germany, Po
power by building St Petersburg,
land, and Roumania inspired by
But the ports of the Baltic are Lympathy with dreams of con-
closed by Ice in the
In any case a navy in that
can be easily bottled up! narro
Cattegat channel at the other end. So the search for
quest foreshadowed in Herr Hit the ler's Mein Kampf and there Has been quite a ation be
tween Germany and Japan on the not common ground of secession from Jelmpl
is growing with, immense rapidity -
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in India. It is said that communal The R.M.S. Empress of Russia ism cuts across nationalism. So it arrived in Vancouver yesterday. does, as between Moslem and Hindu, She is due to sail for Hong Kong but both are rationalist as against on April 6, arriving here on April" allen rule
[249] unitedly hostile India with our pre- For-lottering on the staircase of
We certainly could not govern a
sent methods. But no doubt if we No. 524, Fuk Wing Street at 3.35 adopted the methods of modern a.ml, yesterday, Man Chik, a 89– dictatorship and took over the Fress, old unemployed, and Chan purged, the universities, orented « a year-olds unemployed,
police, mui All elvili fined $75; in" "defau pertes and created
Kowlo
litical party to
Ind of political opinion not friendly this n ning
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