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India Ponders Over Gigantic Jigsaw
(By ALWYN TEBBITT)
India is a living muscum. She is the only coun- try in the world where the whole picture of évolution of man, from the Bronze Age to the present day, can be soon at one time, Within a few hundred miles of one another are cave dwellers who dress in skins and use bows and arrows for hunting and, whose only tools ore made from bones, wood and stone, and luxury flat-dwellers, who ride around in the newest Americon cars.
As ons of both the oldest and two differences In marriago eye- newest countries in the world, toms; the Valsbyn or Buaya, the India must try to reconcile these shopkeepers (Gandhi was a bunya two extremes in the framework of her new Constitution, over which she now busy.
Pandit Nehru la Kashmiri Brahmin); and the shuden, the! the #weepers (street cleaners. poopla ebasto the heave chores in shoemakera ani private houses).
The Shudra manual workers. (70,000,000) are the Untouchables
mut wants the entirety In 1949, and in an attempt to de it aha le drawing on the ex portance of the whole world. The new Constitution will be aor Harijans, "Children of God," an
Parts Gandhi named them. composition document.
will be drawn from the Ameri- can Constitution, the French Swedish, Swiss, and parts of Britain's unwritten
LION.
The Origin
The new Articlo in the Constitu-! constitution merely makes it illegal to
stop them from using the wells in i the villages and from going into the temples which were hitherto reserved for the other three castes. The origin of Untouchability was
Because of her enormous popw. ation with Ita
complicated social fabric and its widely diverse re- liglons, India cannot be dogmatic. Each article taken from a foreign constitution has to be carefully lapted to suit conditions in India. It is impossible for her to lay down"
Taw about education," for instance,
Squatters Go From Former College Site
Squatters numbering nearly matter of hygiene. It was con- idered dangerous to come lulo 2,000, who had been occupy- close contact, or cat food, toucheding the former Queen's Co- by twople who did dirty work and who were known to wash only!ge, since the end of the war, were finally evicted yesterday,
it
is im; ossible even to take a proper census of the hill tribes who live In exnetly the same fashion s
their ancestors did 2,000 years ago. and where news takes six months to arrive.
Polyandry
It is equally impossible to lay down hard and fast laws about marriage (one man, one wife) when Monon law says a man may have four wives (there are 20,
in India) and 000,000 Monlems
of the hill tribes in the South some have a system of polyandry, wife has two or more
husband
on
You only
racely.
practical effect the par Articlo will have will be that the wealthy Brahmins in the vill
Ken will have new private wells dug and will go only to privately owned temples.
India has a population of about 400,000,000 and only about one in 10 can read or write. There are 222 languages and..dialects, some of which have no written form at all, and out of all this India is adult trying to evolve a system of suffrage (votes at 21) which in swindle-proof, and get it ready in time for the next elections in 1951. She is also trying to find a way to earn chance to It is part of the Congress Party to give everyone
The living a decent
average doctrine that India should have
an Untouchable are tatal prohibition. But some of the earnings of un tribes of Assam use a very power-less than £20 a year, and on this bo has to keep a family of any ful drink in their religious obser- vances, and Christians (6,300,000) number from about six to 16.
"unsound mind" are People of use wine as part of their religious ceremonies, and provision has to be pot to bo given the vote. The pro- blem Je, how is insanity to be de made accordingly.
cided and who is to decide it?
The problem is not so cany in
where
the insane are not
The Sikhs, who are against pro- hibition, as they drink heavily, want smoking forbidden in the new a country indlo, s It is against their
En
religion. An amendment put forward out are allowed to
One
they
where HOT.
will. And in a is a by .il. is more word.
usking for trouble to delegate the task to, the village head-man or the local polica
problem chief. But the
must be it will be. the Constituent Assembly meet again on
May 16 they will have 225 Articles to approve and amend, dealing with everything from
forbidding, cows to be slaugh tored to guaranteering publia holi- dava for religious festivals.
ward on behalf of the 7,000,000 country Sikhs was lost, and as retaliation they maintain they'll take no notice of prohibition even if it is incorporated in the Constitution.
of the
the most important Articles, passed unanimously, was the
of Untouchability. banning of but for all practical purposes that caste system will go on exactly the same way as for the past thousand years. No Government minutes if it tried to, do bway
with caste.
would
2
has
Jast 10
Articles in the now Constitution The most important all the
deals with what is to be the future
There are four main castos- the Brahmins, originally the priestly caste; but now they do almost anything but manual work; s
state of India. It has been un- animously decided that she shall bo a "Sovereign Independent" Re- President at her down that tho
It is laid
the Chattri, originally the fighting with caste, but now almost parallel with President must be able to read and the Brahmins except for one or write, while
auto to
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under the direction of the Health Authorities.
Durbig the eviction, anquad from the Emergency Unit was present.
The huts were pulled down by the occupants, and the alten were found to be in a most unsanitary state. The burning of the refuse, which started at 8 am. will con- tinue today.
The area cleared yesterday ums said to be very congested in the Central Area. Many of the! huls had been previously raided by the Police in their search for oplum divans and brothels, it was stated.
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It is understood that some 300 huts former Belilios Girls' School at Shing Wong Street will be cleared of squatters in a week's timme.
Surgeon Finds Hong Kong Impressive
To Dr. P. E. Prudhoe of the 53. Corfu, who is making his Brst visit here, this trip is "break" after several years of strenuous sea and shore work. The 29-year-old surgeon of the P. and O. ilner joined the ship when she was refitting at Glasgow last December, "for a trip to the
Dr. PRUDHOE
the bad
Photo shows squatters removing boards which once were the their homes. Police were. supervising the removal of aquatter huta.-"China Mall" Photo.
Austria Today Longing For A Treaty Of Peace
(From ANTONY TERRY),
Just The Man
Hồng Kong Is Looking For
A men has arrived here who can" erect 70 houses in one day,
of
1. Mr. 3; Frank Barrett of the Barrett and Hip Construction Company of San Francisco: sald ibat during the war his company used to erect 70 profabricated houses in every 10-hour day.
"At Portsmouth, Virginid, our project was the largest of its kind-3,000 four-room homes. In six months,”
Mr. Barrett arrived hero by. Pan American plane from Bang- kok and Manila, yesterday. He will be leaving for Ban Francisco next Saturday.
Mr. Barrett: Epent several
· Mr. WCB, Dickman, and `ME. "A Cabill, the home construction engineers accompanying lilm, put up n large number of pre- fabricated houses or the Stan- dard Vacum Oil Company.
During his work-long stay in Manila Mr. Barrett said he had an opportunity to form a pleture of the housing needs of that elly, He said: It looked as if a great deal could be done there,
Mr. Barrett expressed a keen Interest in Hong Kong's housing shortago, and sold. he would sur-
hore,
Ton-year-old Hormann Tiotz slipped through the vey the situation during his vizit
ice while skating on a backwater of the Danube in one of Vienna's waterside areas this wook. Hormann was frightened and his
A
cries brought an Austrian policoman, who Mrs. Tavares,
throw Hermann a ropo and pulled him out.
One of Vienna's Four-Power Police radio patrol Old Resident,
cars happened to be passing. The British
military policeman on board quickly stripped Laid To Rest
young Hermann of his soaking clothes, while the Russian member of the patrol gave him a brisk rub down.
Clothed in the French patrol- I think gloomily that their presence man's jacket and overcoat Her in an emergency would not make mann was driven at high speed much difference. in the patrol car by the Ameri- can driver to his home and handed over to his mother by a Four-Power deputation of MP'S.
But while "Business as Usual -Despite Difficulties" remalņi Austria's motto, mast Viennese are in favour of a treaty—their attitude to the British and Ame: ricans, expressed by the old song "We Don't Want to Load You, but We Think you Ought
to Go"
This is just one of the dally occurrences in the queer contradic- tory Four-Power ite of this city. There's little left of the glamour
Meanwhile, the Viennese A of Congress Dances" about. Vien more interested in what is going na today, and the
Four-Power on nearer home, Huge crowds police is about the only example gather daily round a hole in the of Soviet-American-British-French road on what was ep-operation which still works painlessly and pretty efficiently. Hermann Tietz proved that it has its unes.
and
once
"Via
Principalis," the main street of the erstwhile Roman encampment of Vindobomum. Today the road le right in the centre of present nna. The hole has grown Vienna doy
a
ten foet
A large attendance was pre- sent at the funeral of Mrs. Julia Antonia Ozorio Tavares, which took place at the Roman Catholic Cemetery yesterday, The Reverend Father, Spada and officiated at the chapel graveside.
The chief mourners were the deceased's sons, Joe, Alva, Gussie, One son, Arthur and Alberto. Fernando, is in Australia.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Cotton, Mr. C. Neves.
Mr. F.V.V. Ribeiro, Mr. II.A. Silva, Mr. V. Neves, Miss C. Never, Mr. A. Botelho, and Mr.
and
many
F.. Noronha were among the crowd present at the burlaï...
Wreaths were sent in from Tille, Carlos and, Brby Cari, to dearset Avo from Dick, Josephine Wal- and Tony. Joe and Corinne. Iaco, and from E.J. Spradbery, Slow Recovery
Mrs. Tavares is survived by 50 greatly in the last few weeks
bor
six sons, a daughter Hilda. But while four Powers quar that traffic has had to be diverted,
a broken water son-in-law Carlos, daughters-in- law. Alberta, Genuina, Betty. main it has turned out to bo
Queente, rel over her destiny, Austria Starting from
Gertie, getting slowly to har feat, back on to a pescaful, peacetime completo Roman house basla. Bembed and burned-out below the street level where Fauldren and great-grand- ruins of the last savage battles in alan jeeps and British staff earw Mrs. Tavares, who died at her
Nazie and normally run, The Vienna elty residence, 4 Caine Road, yester the capital between Russions four years ago still discounell has cleverly excavated the day morning, was born in 1800, figure the centre of Vienna. Piles site and is turning it into in and was one of the oldest rest- of rubble oppsite historie St.
museum below street level, with
dent in the Colony. Stephen's cathedral In- the heart stops going down-from-the-para- of the old elty are only disappear 1ment
Just ing gradually. Yet
"Red long snouted, single-docker UD the atreat is fashionable Kaerntner besos started to run again through Strasse,
one the streets of old Vienna. where (at a furs, and of them have been resurrected can buy elegant clothes, hastily from o car dumps, roconstruct Jewels. Above the shops,
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In
Most
twenties,
ECONOMIC BENELUX UNION
and
The Hogue, March 13. Belgium, Holland Luxembourg have decided to make. their proposed Benelux ments of the Marshall Plan, according to a communique issued here today at the end of the Benelux Ministerial coniererice, MJË, ARIN Better Food
Provisional unjon will start-on complete odd 80
restaurants in July 1, 1940, and a Viennu city today one can eat union will come into fores on better food at cheaper prices than July 1, 1950, to coincide with
Marshall aid allocation dates. of Austria's neighbour in any countries, Communist visitors
A protocal agreed at the con- ference was signed by the three from surrounding Czechoslovakia,
Mr. Paul. Hungary and Poland are surprise. Foreign Ministers, Dr. D.U. ed how little of their propaganda Strikker (Holland), about Austria starving undor Mar Henr! Speals (Belgium) and Afe,
(Luxembourg), shall Aid is true. They gladly Josepti Back
Ieuter. tuck in to rump steaks in Vienna restaurants and return to repeat the same stories of the starving
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rebuilt with modern chrome and ou wrecks and bits and piecas left concrete
front by black-market over by the retreating Wehrmacht builders, are sull blackened shells in 1946. By other standards they of burned-out houses and tottering look like something that went out
of service in tho walls.
early In cafes up in street at the But to the Viennese they are economic union fit the arrange- kings of the black market-Hun-sign that things are getting better Up to the time of garians, Czech, D.P of all very day.
their arrival any Viennese who nations, with of Noris still hoping for another wanted to traverse the old city had Fuchrer and a return to the "good to do so on foot or by taxi.
days." Drinking "livo (Yugoslav, vodka) and Far East" and, incidentally, cele black coffee, they buy and sell any brated his birthday at Singapore thing, hands hundreds of thou
sands of pounds' worth of dollars on March 2. .Dr., Prudhoe look to sea during and Swiss francs every day in an the war, serving aboard a RNB unofficial bourse" which nets craft in the Mediterranean and fabulous prodita with hardly any participating in several invasions, risk.
Four-Power control spoils "We had quite a busy time en route from London. Most of our
prosperity to the Kerntnor Strassa apĺva. While it lasts, patients were women and children, apparently affected by
Minister of Interior Oscar Hel weather," said the
the ship's surgeon.
mer's Austrian policemen oan not be bothered to arrest city. by a nursing sister who tondant.
some D. P. who will ask away Unfortunately the delectable and an
with it through having a “pull", odours which rise from restaurant "Hong Kong is the most beauti
with one of the Occupying, kitchens in the square mile where Powere, or rich friends who can Congress once danced are, tact a buy h
him, aut. Result the black fair guide to Austrian prosperity.
An 16-year-old electrician Vi market and a half-respectable Not that Vichina feeds better than Yun-kau of the Cathay Electrical brother the grey market run the rest of Austria. Visitors from Company, Jaffe Road, fell from the third floor, while repairing Tyrol and other parts of Western hinder Vienna recovery. Dio to feasts, super steaks and real- the Yee Yuen Restaurant, Np, the unpredictableness of the tus cream trides unseen since pro-war 235 Hennessy Road, about 11 a.m. slans many Austrian business days. Some of Britain's economie yesterday. firms have quietly evacuated into observers, and some of the more. The ambulance was sent for the American, British and French for seeing Austrians, rate with but he died on his way to tria's Marshall Ald' is going -Imo Lang Viravel! Bhist of the zones, more than a hundred miles rome misgiving that much of Aus hospital. Royal Siamese Air Force passer to the West. Its too much of a
-the
recultiuk though the Colony yesterday on risk to stay where the Russians her etamach, and his way to Washington, DC.. may confiscate a factory on the feeling of well-beings going where he is to take a six-month grounds that it la former Gortraight to her, boad,
coalition curso la mechanics at the ex-man property." The motto of the Despite the dimculties, Austria's
enterprising Viennese businosa conservative - Socialst pense of his Government.
man today is "Go West, Young government is doing a good deal to get the easygoing Austrians to Man"
Austrians, hopes are stop drinking-wino and singing"
"the Modern Feat Pad contred on the London Treaty sentimental songs and, get down to. Conference. But some, like Aus work Unfortunately Car the gay requires NO ELECTRICITY, tria's six-foot Foreign Minister, emment's good intentions the NO HOT WATER, but Karl Gruber, foal Aleteia, will be an election due in October. This two tablespoons of cold wat come second Czechoslovakia, indang a pre-dection: "pay-off" is to produce heat, an Britian and American Tous the Austrian voter and Jens Mar
troops over the form of Increased. Tallonie for LIGILININGPAK gives quick pull out. “Tiley! moe
ful port. I've seen so far on this.
HK English Forum, first post-trip, It looks very orderly and the
war meating, No. 1, Caroline Id., 6 p.m.
Bridge Drive, European YMCA, B.
p.m.
HK Women's International Club extraordinary and generni meeting, 1st, jfr., Gloucester Bidz 1.45 pm. Urban Council meeting, GPO
Bldg. 4.15 pm
HK Rotary Club Luncheon, talk on "Burma Today," by Mr. LB. Allen, Roof Garden, HK Hotel 18.30 pam
WEDNESDAY
environments aro very impressive 19. a newcomer like me," Dr. Prudhon remarked.
Personalia
.
DIES AFTER FALL
Vienupation also helps to Austria Apook of gargantuah Le lights on the sign boards of
"
LIGHTNINGPAK
Toe H. Club meeting, Talbot House, 60, Macdonnell Road, 8.30 p.m.
Mr. J. Muckle Manager of An- Legislative Council meeting, 2.30
dersen, Meyer, and Company, Limited, returned to Hong Kong HK Soomal Service sponsors talk yesterday by Pan American pinne
on "Family Case Work by from Shanghai, He was accom Miss M.S. Watson, PRO Lec- | panied by Mrs. Muckle. fure Room 6.30 p.m.-
·* THURSDAY.
A. (John) Arculli, the Indian St. Patrick's Day, Wreathslaying RC. Cricketer will be leaving for
ceremony at Cenotaph by England today, by the es, Corfu strength of the ghcircling Comhall Aid for badly-seeded recon-starting, long-lasting heat for
periods up to ten hours. Keep- Konk. 11 and Dinner and the solicitor,
Better to have an occu- bad however, Austin would soon the deseral Mr. and Mrs. George Wolcott pathon, they lay as long as the rooyer, hor prosperity in pedopr Kowloon Hotary Club Luncheon, Malory Arrived, in Hong Kong British and Americans are here to ful world and shrewd, cónagry
22 RELY CHEMICAL Feninsula Hotel, 2.30-0. yesterday by Pan American plane protect as if the Comiquitate, try five-minded pocket-sized, Austrian Y's Men's Club or Ytong Kong, from drankenaikan som ger fit any Itfaksejs Pramica point to Fiel is right" whet fin, Estgues
luncheon Root Garton, Ith Mr, Maliny 18-4o trodome U.3. the small numbers of British and "Empty the Communist meetings 1 Rooms, kia NauDURIKUAM
Hotel; 12.40 ptas beverag
American troopn/in Austria and by dlling the wage packets.”
St. Patricks Society (of Hong He is the son of Mr. A, el Arculi, anualat" claw,,renching forward - itrüetione su „, the muÊÊN PADISE, DIS hand-for: addód -
Vice-Court) herojungtis
Hungary and Czechp With a peace
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