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Except when it is taken by us official of the House to St. James't! Palace at the end of sessions, the Mace of the House of Commons
“CLIVE OF INDIA"
GREAT DEFENCE OF
ARCOT
SUPERB CHAPTER IN
HIS STORY
(By Rafael Sabatini)
such heights had· Dupleix effort be made to raise the seige
is seldom seen outside Parlia Touch
ment.
coach.
Plan Adopted
His dating plan was adopted,
An exception was made at the and so great a potentate was he of an attack upon Arcot, the capi- Jubilee service at St. Paul's on become that he rivalled even the tal of the Carnatic. May & The Mace was taken to Great Mogul, whose prerogatives the Cathedral in the Speaker's he presently surped. For when. as soon happened, Mazzufar was Intrinsically the Mace has no murdered, it was not the Great and for its execution he was given great value. It is not the solid Mogul in Delhi but Dupleix who command of practically the entire (gold it looks, but silver gilt
appointed his successor, creating meagre force available: 200 Bri Sabat Jung (another son of tish soldiers and 300 sepoys, with Nizam-l-Mulk) Suhadar of the three light field pieces. Of eight
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LOYAL EXAGGERATION
of
officers who were to serve · under Deccan Other important pieces Of all that vast province, only him, six had never been in action, silver - gilt -- the Buckingham Trichonopoly. whither Mahomed and four were writers like him- Palace services-have been glori-Ali had retreated, remained un-self, who in turning soldiers had |fied as "gold plate" by a loyal ex-subdued.
followed his example.
With this ridiculous force, Clive, aggeration of long standing. He had been joined there, by
There is, for example, an enor-Captain Cope with a strong de-on the 6th of September, set out mous silver-gilt wine-cistern in tachment, and to- this
the forlorn: pre-from Madras upon was
the Royal collections designed by sently added another party under hope of saving the British from Flaxman, weighing 8,000oz and Captain Gingen, the remains of a extinction in India.
as much as four men can carry-body that had been put to fight At Conjereram, three days later, When King Edward VII. was in circumstances so ignominions as be learnt that Arcot was garrison- christened this vast vessel was to have brought the British name ed by 1,100 men. But not on that used to provide wine-cup for the into even deeper contempt than account did he panse; nor yet on Royal guests
that to which Dupleix had already account of the terrific weather. Lady Blomfield, chronicling the reduced it by comparison with his that swept down on them. He event at the time, wrote:
own brilliant successes.
sent back to Madras for two “An - immense gold vertel, more like a bath than anything else, containing thirty dosen off wine, was filed with mulled claret.
The China Mail The judgment of the Supreme The "gold vessel is over 43415 Court is a blunt reminder that long, 3ft wide and over 21⁄2ft
the President has been acting high.
on powers given to him by Con
Hong Kong. Wednesday, June 19, 1935 gress which it was not within
the competence of Congress to give.
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A few weeks ago, by a bare majority, the, Supreme Court of tional, the whole structure of his Smart women will soon be using one the United States saved the New Deal may come down with another's noses as mirrors. Government from financial dis- a crash. To some, apparently, A that would not be unwelcome, order of the gravest kind
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Big Passenger List For Changte
Loretta Young is given a big part in "Clive of India,” which will be screened at the King's Theatre next Saturday,
Sergeant: "Which of you have read New Deal might easily lose) Reczuit bookseller in civil He): Court came unanimously to a
what remains to them in the have read Nansen's "Through decision which plunged the in-convulsion which would prob... Night and lez.”
Sergeant: YOU dustrial administration of the ably follow any swift collapse of
are just the man. US into utter confusion. Ita gigantic experiment on which Go and report for snow shoveling."
* * ruled that the delegation of the so many thousands of millions
On Account have been poured out. Its par- "Eere's letter from Danleigh power of code-making to the!
pose has been twofold: first to asking as to send him part of what's President under the National promote national recovery, due, and enclosing a stamp for Industrial Recovery Act was second to initiate a New Deal reply. USE
illegal- More than 750 codes, in the relations between Capi- -OUR
covering the whole range of tal and Labour. A sudden set- American industry, were there back to the gains to either one MOTH by rendered invalid. and the or the other would be grievous. was A setback to both simultaneous- legal basis of NRA. PROOF destroyed. President Roose-ly would be a national disaster velt's New Deal had lost its Hence the wisdom of Mr. Rich- BAGS sanctions, and without sanc-berg's recent appeal to the tions how long "could it ́stand? American people to "keep the The codes affected the hours and gains and retain the values" of wages of 20,000,000 workers the New Deal, whatever may The force of the law stood behave to be jettisoned Mr. hind them, and the NRA was Richberg himself has now been yesterday: Mrs. A. A. Armstrong. the Magna Carta of the Ameri-jettisoned. But his, was sage Mr. Auning, Mrs. Abberton, Mr. E To complete the business and eighteen-pounders, and pushed on The Largest Sanitary Laundrymen. Dyers and Drycleaners in the Far East can wage earner Now, and counsel for the moment, and Bruce Berrie. Mr. E. G. Cranch. Mr. bring Trichonopoly into subjecthrough the torrents of rain that just at the moment when it the good sense of the American D. Cameron, Mr. Donelly. 3. W. tion, Chanda Sahib and the gallant accompanied the tropical: thun- was to be renewed for another people may be trusted to give Dent, Mr. 1. E. Francis, Mr. de Bussy were now advancing derstorm
Douglas. Mr. Douglas. Mr. and Mrs. term. it is torn up as so much the proper response. The waste paper-not by the exer-emergency, however, is not less Guthrie, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Glayde, upon the place.
Mis D. Higgins, Mr. C. Hislop, Miss cise of some autocratic power grave than that which confront-Harvey, Mr. M. G. Hewitt. Mr. and but by the supreme authority ed the President when he enter-Mrs. F. Herman M. J. Holmwood. It is at this moment, when Eng-stesdied his little force, so DOW which guards and interprets the ed the White House, and he will Miss A Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Moyland's fortunes in India seemed on something of his own indomitable sacrosanct Constitution of the need for its successful sur-Lady Luxton, Miss A Ladlow, Mr. the point of extinction, that the spirit communicated itself to his mounting all his own courage and Mrs. A. Leith, Rev. E. Meyer, centre of the stage is taken by that followers. He possessed, as was No wonder this has staggered and resource and all the backing Dr. E. S. Mansfield, Miss D. McKeown, clerk turned soldier under stress now discovered that rare and Washington, and is paralysing of a patriotic people.
Miss McMallien, Mrs. D. G. E. Men- dieta, Mrs E. Norman, Mrs. & V. of circumstances, whe hitherto has highest of all qualities in a com- commerce, for the most anxious
Norman, Miss Prendergast Miss V. been a very minor actor In this mander, the power of inspiring feature of the situation is that?
Pratt. 35ss S. Pratt: Mrs. Pratt, Mrs-Idrama. Even so, however, he had confidence and of arousing the remedies are so difficult and!
and Miss Payne. Mr. A. E. Purves deserved the warm approval of miration amounting almost to r. and Mrs. F. B. Pati Miss D Major Lawrence who by now had worship, so that his followers, have perday, Mr. Hugh Philp, Mr. A.
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a fixed and written Constitu- NINE-FOOT OCTOPUS
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Tentacles Wrapped
Around Wrist
San Jose (California). Joe Prentias, aged-12, almost
gress between them, in case of met death in the tentacles of a national emergency, to turn ang nine-foot octopus, when bunting! seemingly impossible corner for shrimps on the seashore at and successfully outmanoeuvre San Jose. the old bogey from the Federall point of view of "State ed by the octopus, which whipped Rights."
about which for one of its tentacles around his generations American políti
wrist cians were so touchy. It is the
The lad was suddenly confront
old boger, nevertheless, which Figating the creature with ar has fired this broadside into the iron bar which he had in his free NBA The strong centralising hand the boy shouted for help. tendencies which gathered 30 His father and other men rushed) much impetus during the pre seat regime are brought up with a sudden
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Together they aged shore the octopus.
The following
passengers left Hong Kong for Australian ports via Manila on board the s.s.. Changte
Kruse, Mrs. W. Lloyd. Mise S.
To The Fore
Ryan, s. 3. B. Sawers, Mrs. Jtion to the rank of captain.
Just as in those six days the discipline enforced by this young Iman of five-and-twenty had
Five Hundred Men
Prince, Miss Rogers, Mr. and Mrs retrirned to England and promo-no will but his will and become dis
a weapon for his hand, Stauber, Mrs. E, M. Thomson, Mr. F. He may not have been alone inwielded as he pleases.. Tagh, Dr. G. M. Version, and Mrs. G.
perceiving that unless something A. Weight
were quickly and boldly done the French would become masters of The very appearance of his five India, and the British be driven hundred men swinging forward out of even their negligible posses through the tempest to the attack, sions. But while to others nothing seems to have sufficed to put to abort of a miracle coula avert this fight the 1,100 defenders of Arest. consummation, to Captain Clive it. Unopposed, Clive marched into appeared that human intrepidity that city of 100,000 souls and took possession of the fortress, a vast.. might yet suffice.
Fortunately, in Saunders Fort stronghold a mile in circumferense; St. David had then a Governor of situated in the very middle of the spirit who was stirred by the city.
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