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Sir Austen Chamberlain Cazon "Dick" Sheppard were the guests of honour at the Detection Club's dinner at Grosvenor House, London, on May 1
"CLIVE OF INDIA"
AUDACIOUS SOLDIER
OF FORTUNE
LAYING FOUNDATIONS OF
INDIAN EMPIRE
(By Rafael Sabatini)
HEN Monsieur Paradis, the could be accomplished by Eure-
W audacious and skilful Swiss pean discipline and European mili-
The Detection Club draws its members from what one of them soldier of fortune hi the service of tary science. called the "better-class detective the French, with a single battalion story, writers.” It was founded smashed the army of Mahfam by Mr. Francis Iles, and has Mr. Khan, ten thousand strong, be ac- G. E. Chesterton as its president.complished two things: he trans-
AN OATH AND A CURSE
Mr. Woodthorpe had to take the path. He had to swears
in India.
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With a battalion made up of 250 French and 700 Sepoys he performed the miracie, of rout- ing the Nawab's army, after
an under- enough to come to standing with: Dupleix. If Dupleir could so easily re-
A strong master of the thriller muted into awed respect the con-thick the Nawab was ready aristocracy was present. Appro-tempt in which the Indian Princes priately enough, some of those had held the Europeans, and he who form the raw material of their supplied for the later use of Mr. stories were present, in the shape Robert Clive, a penniless clerk in podiate his own undertakings, it of members of Scotland Yard. the employment of the East India follows that he was not the man to Owing, however, to the ingenuity Company, an object-lesson to which be. troubled by scruples about re- of their beroes, others, equally in-Great Britain owes her Indian Em- podiating those of another. After Madras had capitulated OA the dispensable, were unable to attend. pire.c
reasonable terms exacted" by La That was in 1744, when the war Bourdonnais, Duplekt, as Governor of the Austrian succession beof. Pondicherry, rafused to be tween France and England in bound by the thems which the The main business of the club Earope was having its repercus-soldier had made. There was 20 was the introduction of 2 newsicas in the trading settlements longer any question of discussing member Mr. E. C. Woodthorpe, which the British and the French 2 ransom. Dupleix simplified the author of "Death in a Little had established a century earlier matters by seizing all the property Time.**
of the East India Company as prize of war. Ignoring that the The explosion, when it came found the British as unready as surender of the British had been To play fair by his readers. To follow the King's English, the French were prepared. There made upon parole, be carried off To make his detectives detect, was more than French foresight the Governor and several of the Four years principal officers of the company and not rely on feminine intuito account for this. tion, or Act of God.
earlier, as a result of repelling a to deck the triumph with which at |Pondicherry he impressed the the French raid A solemn curse is pat on cath-Maharatta breakers: It concludes: "May Governor of Pondicherry had been natives
Pen And The Sword DEATH-
quently eighteen months in other authors use your plots, and given the rank of Nawab by the arrear. The delays led to the may your pages abound in mis-Padishah, who ruled the empire
that No parole given upan terms D'ALMADA E CASTRO-At her men getting into the hands of prints"-a most appropriate fate from Delhi: He conceived
the princely dignity demanded of which had been so grossly violated the money lenders and to SO residence. 16 Humphrey's
him a military State, and about a could be considered to bind a Building, on 17th June, 1935, much misery that the only
nucleus of French soldiers he prisoner. wonder is that they continued Emilia Maria (Millie), after al long
raised an army of Sepoys, arming azd painful illness to obey orders, and never failed On
and drilling them upon French Funeral will pass the monu-to put up a gallant fight.
methods. ment at 5:30 this afternooactive service there is no time for boredom And there was No flowers by request.
the relief of getting a share of the prize money which used to be allotted for the capture of an
The China Mail
Hong Kong Tunday, June 18, 1935.
Discipline And Mutinies
enemy ship.
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Your Daily Smile! "You are decidedly the best. lun- cheon speaker I ever heard, old man. How do you do it?”
"Oh, it's quite easy I just prepare beginning and an ending, and then see to it that nothing gets in bet-
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Televisionist The lady from the country entered call.
There did occur, however, in the old days of sailing ships two famous mutinies. the confiden-then left the box.
telephone box: she gut ber
Ten minutes later she fled, 210 tial records of which have also set again took of the receiver.
just been published. The most
juotable was the "Mutiny of the The adventures of the Hai Nore," which was partly caused
"No, I didn't want a pumber," she explained, in an agitated voice, "birt I left my new umbrella behind just now; it isn't here I suppose you
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Spring!
Acme of Styles
"These shoes I bought from
other.
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"Our establishment, madam, doer
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ALLEGED ASSAULT CASE
Among those who, disregard- ing it, escaped from Madras was Robert Clive. Disguised în na-
A scene from “Clive of India,” which will be screened at the King's Theatre next Saturday.
the following year (1741) this Governor, Monsieur Dumas, was succeeded by Joseph Francois Dupleix, a Frenchman of a genius, who first conceived the idea of a European empire in India under the shadow of the existing native Powers
tive dress, and accompanied by another Edmund Moskelyne, writer in the employment of the East India - Company, whose sister Clïne was liter to marry,
Sen and the Hai Chi are natural by lack of pay, and partly by haven't seen it, have you, please?” ly of the keenest interest to a savage scheme of punishments local shipping, though there is that no force in the world would no evidence that they are at all put up with to-day.. In fact. "I can assure you," said the pha-f inclined to do wanton damage the result of the publication of losopher, "that a woman's thoughts A naval mutiny is always more the papers is that the modern rise above dress."
"That's right," agreed the difficult to deal with than any reader sympathises with the “She's probably thinking of a new sort of disciplinary breakdown men. They demanded their batte on land, for the simple reason pay, and the removal of certain # that a ship is always mobilised particularly brutal officers All that is needed is to weigh whose sentences were found on. anchor: if the ship is properly enquiry to be indefensible. The are too flimsy to walk in " provided she carries her own demands were granted, and the not pretend to cater for pedestrians.” provisions and ammunition with men returned to duty; but the her; there is no chance of being whole incident was more a
-What Price Politenes? "And remember, politeness coste starved out by being surrounded strike than a rebellion, for and deprived of supplies or throughout they obeyed their nothing.
"Doesn't it? Just try putting *7! transport. To judge from what own selected leaders; and while remain your obedient servant at the happened on the previous occa- the mutiny was in progress the end of a telegram!“ sion when the mutinous ships King, Charles II, actually took a: came over toward: Hong Kong,royal visitor down to inspect the the object is to make a demons-flect. lying in regular lines at tration which will over negotia anchor with a red flag at each tions and lead to redress of masthead; and as he passed grievances. The protest does along the lines he was cheered! not appear to be against the The old sailors could neither ships officers, but against the read nor write, and life as seen supreme command, as in the on shipboard was practically the 'former incident. At the same only life they knew. Appalling time there is nothing more use-as the hardships were, the men less than a disaffected fleet, for had no standard of comfort to
them there is the chance that it may compare
with Our fail its employers when its modern ships require a certain It level of education for efficient loyalty is most required. would be far better to employ working, and trouble is more the money ashore.... jlikely to come through a failure A scene at Ealing Broadway by not more than some three hun-the sword, and it may be believed There is no country that can to explain the reasons for an railway station, in which a com- dred troops. It lay at La Bour that he did so without either He had afford to boast that it has had unpopular order at least it has pany director was alleged to have donnais's mercy, and he proceeded hesitation or regret. no experience of mutiny. Apart been said that in the most restruck a railway police officer, to attack it. But since Anwar unknown no happiness in the factory from the necessary gunnery cent instance of a refusal of was described at Ealing Police Din, the Nawab of the Camatic, of the company; indeed, he had had forbidden hostilities under a found so little joy in the life to practice and the routine of navy-duty the blame should be put Court last month. gation, it is the rule in the long on those who merely intimated
threat of opposing the aggressor, which he saw himself doomed that intervals of peace that the crew a cut in "separation allowances? The company director was Har Morse, the Governor of Madras, once already he had actually at- will have plenty of leisure for without a word of preparation. old Kingsbury Smith, aged 42, of now appealed to him for protec-tempted to take it. There was im the discussion of any grievance; There were those who pro Chatsworth crescent, Hounslow. tion, forgetting, however, that his nature a melancholy strain, of and it might be said that the phesied some years ago, before He was accused of assaulting Al such an appeal could succeed only which even in those early days his main cause of mutinies is simply the war, that torpedoes and big fred Jones, a detective-Inspector if accompanied by a a present. boredom. Amongst the gries- guns between them were so in the Great Western Railway ances that will be most discuss scarifying a form of "battle police
Police constable Brooks gaid led it is natural that the with and sudden death" that no dis
holding of pay dre the most cipline would hold throughout a that he saw Smith and Jonse galling and the most rely to modern battle That has not struggl
Scene At Ealing Broadway
the young clerk made his way to Fort St. David, where the Bri tish flag was still kept flying by Major Stringer Laurence, in command of the troops of the East India Company. To Clive
On the outbreak of war the French Admiral La Bourdeanzis held the Indian seas Madras, founded by the British and beld by them as zaminders, subject to clerkship. The circumstances in rental, was practically without which he now found himself com- London fortifications and was garrisoned pelled him to exchange the pen for
COMPANY DIRECTOR AND POLICE OFFICER
TUGS &
unite all hands. Quite re
proved to be true for it ignored
with
LOCOS
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of the difference between hot
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the official
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published:
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THE
DMINISTRATION
Schtle Duplex
It was easy:" theref subtle Dupleix to thede Nawab's indignation
"and disobedience by a promise to Lake Madras over to him when it shouli Ave surrendered, so that be ita, might exact a ransom for it from charged the Britial
after Mad
had expitulated.
this was the end of
rugged countenance bore the stamp, but it was not the melan- choly of the long-suffering, his disposition was pugnacious, DAS- |sionate, self-willed and beadstrong qualities these which had been a source of some trouble to him
out his boyhood, rid of more trouble to those
education IT ster baly who had;
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