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DECEMBER 28th, 1928. 1 □##ƑANTATBAĦRA PRICE: $3 PER MONTÉ
INDIAN PRINCES AND PARIS EATS 50,000 HORSES
THE CROWN.
A YEAR.
HEALTHIER THÂN CATTLE FLESH.
DIARY OF EVENTS.
THEIR FUTURE IN THE EMPIRE.
PARIS.
France, the paradise of gour.
To-day. (December 28th.) Christian Fellowship Meeting:
The writer, who is an Indian mand, and the land of rare sauce Helena May Institute, 10.30 m.
[BY NAOROJI DUMASIA... Journalist and Publicist, discusses in this article the future of Indian Princes, the loyal allies of the British Government, expecting the British Nation to uphold their treaties at all costs according to its
inherent love of fair play.]
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consuines more harme meas than any other nation in the world. Paris alone ate 30,000 horses last year. The rest of France five times 25 much.
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The unwary diner need not avoid France for that reason. Severe penalties await the restaurant pro- prietor that serves horse meat with Colonel Tad, the author of Rajs out clearly designating it as such on the menu. In any case, it is only Rajpus chivalry, in his dedication the poorer restaurants that use it to King William IV., desired that The housewife is protected as well. his Majesty's throne might be sur-All butchers dealing in it are com rounded by Indian Princes whopelled to hang a horse head- would act up to the principles of wooden one over their shop." fealty maintained at all hazards by the Rajputs. He recorded his em
phatic opinion that neither the love'
of conquest nor false views of policy
The taste for horse meat was deve loped during the war being encour ged by economiste and physicians, the superior
should tempt the British to subvert the latter emphasis meat, the:
the independence of these States, some of which had braved the storms of more than ten centuries. He solicited for the gallant race of Rajputs the full measure of the sun port of the English Monarch, pro- phesying that in return they would
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St. Peter's Church Y.M. Club Dance, 9 p.m.
en' Queen's Theatre: "The Divine
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Star Theatre: "Paris at Mid- night"
Ten Dances H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, & p.ro.
Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel, B p.m.
Saturday.
"December 29th.) Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club: Menagerie Race or Re-sail.
Industrial and Commercial Bank 12th Ordinary general meeting, 2 p.m.
Prof. M. I. Panisset, twenty Cricket:-Division Ier Chinese r. years ago read & paper before the Police (F), Craigezgower 1. In- sity of Lyons, pointing out that Civil Service (L, Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine of the Univer- dians (E) Division II.: Kowloon
than beef and was especially good Electric . Indians (F), RAS.C. v. horse meat was easier to digest C.C Recreio (L). Hong Kong for anyone who sufers from R.A.O.C. (F). anaemia Prof. Panisset's observa- tions have since been borne out by the investigations of others.
While this prophecy was fulfilled in a striking manner during the dark days of the Mutiny, and more recently during the Great War, for the winning of which the Princes made immense merifices, they have been complaining since the transfer to the Crown of encroachments an their rights. These are now in fur-ECHO OF ther danger owing to the enlarge- ment of political opportunities in
MR. A." CASE.
British India, leading to the adop-NOTORIOUS SOLICITOR GETS tion of a policy, at the dictation of A FARTHING DAMAGES. political agitators, which has result ed in - further attrition of their powers, causing infinite harm to the economic interests of their States. This has the inevitable result of minimising their anthority and utility to their own Statea as well as to the Empire.
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Queen's Theatre: "The Divine Woman."
World Theatre: Seventh Heaven."
Star Theatre: Paris at Mid- night."
Tea Dances H.K. Hotel, and Peninsular Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
William Cooper Hobbs, the soli citor, who was intimately associated with the "Mr. A" case was award- ed a farthing's damages against the Evening Liverpool Express for a libellous article in which he
was described as the most remarkable Dinner Dances Lane, Crawford's character in the criminal world. Restaurant, King Edward Hotel, The case was notable for the more and St. Francis Hotel, 8 p.m. less cross-examination by Mr. Nor- European Mails-Inward: Europe, man Birkett, K.C., in which Hobbs
ria Siberia (Pres. Fiion). Out- financial dealings with Prince Hariward: Europe vit Marseilles Singh, the Maharajah of Kashmir, (Kashima Maru), 9.30 s.. were fully disclosed.
As that great Indian statesmot, the Aga Khan, has frequently point- ed out, these Frinces are the real bulwarks of the Imperial authority and an insuperable barrier to the success of the sinister designs of those who are determined to wreck Hobbs was described as a person the British power in India. They so worthless that it was impossible stand as sentinels between Indian for him to suffer damage. The disruptionists and British authority newspaper was allowed costs. Con in India. The extremists therefore set for the newspaper had paid into seek to subvert the traditional Court £1. Amusement was derived authority of the bereditary ruler, from the point that it was 195. 11 whom their subjects regard with too much. veneration scarcely conceivable to the Western mind. Their game is that when the hour strikes they should throw off the mask of non- violence, that the subjects of the States should then rise, simultanċ- ously in open revolt, and thus render easy their task of driving away the hated, "foreigner" from India.
be defined on a legal and equitable basis according to their treaties with the Crown,
Sunday.
(December 30th.) Concert and Dance: Peninsula.
Hotel, Filipino Community of Hong Kong, e p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Madame Pompadour."
World Theatre: "The Quarter-
back,"
Star Theatre: "The Magic Flame."
European Mail-Inward: Europe ria: Negapatam (Kum Sang).
Monday: (December 31st.)
New Year's Eve. Sale of Crown Land Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2102, 3 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Madame Pompadour,"
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King | Edward Hotel, & p.m.
Dinner Dance: Bt. Francis Hotel, 8 p.m.
What Is Asked For.. They ask that they should have s machinery by which they could While the Princes, and their sub, assert their voice in deciding issues) jects have been doing everything to of vital interest to their States. uphold the British connection, it is They ask that in the case of a dis- painful to well-wishers of that con- pate with the Government like the nection to see the Government play-one on which the maritime States ing into the hands of their enemics. of Kathiawar are now engaged, and World Theatre: "The Quarter- To avert any policy likely to be toon which the very existence of cer- back." the detriment. of the States, Lord tain States depend, there should be Star Theatre: "The Magic Irwin, whose wise statesmanship an independent tribunal to decide Flame."' has been acknowledged by the the rights of the States us guaran
New Year Carnivals:-Hong Princes, granted Committee of teed by treaties; that the features Kong
Hotel (SpeciL) Dinner Inquiry, presided over by Sir Har- of the system of dealing with the Dance), 8 p.L; Repulse Bay Hotel court Butler, whose selection is as Princes which struck King Edward (Carnival); Lane, Crawford's Bes wise as it is generally acceptable, as quite wrong should go. "If taurant (Special Carnival Dinner for it is not unknown that as political Indian States are to be preserved," Dance); "King Edward Hotel secretary in Lord Minto's time he he wrote to his mother, Queen (Special Dinner Dance); Ornigen- was responsible in securing the de- Victoria, daring his Indian tour in govtr Cricket Club Dance claration by that Viceroy of the 1875, this system should be ab wise policy of non-interference in olished. For more than fifty years the internal affairs of the Indian the system has done great harm to States. It was proclaimed from the the States. These reasonable de. seat of the most venerated Gadi in mands do not flash with Imperial Hindustan in November, 1900. It interests; nor do they involve any may parenthetically be added that surrender of new rights. The digal that policy, which was productive fied outlook of the Princes is in con- of much benefit, has now been trast with the hostile attitude of shelved,
those who have decided to destroy And what do the Princes want the very machinery erected by the from that Committee, or failing it Parliament for the political advance from the British Parliament and of India. The Princes earnestly. The whole town shares in the British Nation? They only ask that offer to co-operate with the British will of Frank Humphry, a Crow their rights and status as defined by people in framing "a policy in con-borough lawyer, who left property treaties guaranteed by the British formity with modern requirements. valued at roughly $111,320. through the declarations of three They only desire a policy which will Firemen, fire messengers, chatis successive Sovereigns should remain add to the strength, stability, and ters, bellringer, posten, telegraph. undisturbed. They urge that the contentment of the Empire. Will boys-and the town band, too— interference of the political officers British people listen to their advice receive gifts of varying amounts in the internal affairs of the States or to the glamour of the professional under the will. should be removed; that their dieta politicians t torial attitude should be put an end to, that wronga indicted on the States through busty actions should bé rectified, and finally, since the war were in vain 1 It cannot. And Other bequests include 810 for political power is slipping from the I feel sure it will not. It would be each year of service to each of the bands of the Civil Service to the against all the traditions of a nation officers and firemen of the Crow hands of professional politicians as which has won the world's confid borough fire brigade; and 66 to each a result of the declaration of the ence because, above all things, it postman, and 82.50 to each tele policy of 1917, their future should like to see fair play."-London graph boy at the Crowborough post,
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Choristere, the organist, organ-. Will the British nation give the blower and bellringer will get 823. Princes of India cause to complain each, and each boy in the choir will, that the sacrifices they made in the
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