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APRIL 10, 1929.
September the Bill was rejected at Delhi by the casting vote of the President of the Assembly, but dur ing the current session the Govern ment secured a majority of eleven rates for reference of the Bill to & Select Committee. The fight was renewed in the Assembly when the Bill emerged from the Select Com mittee. There is no doubt that events since inat September, cul minating in the Bombay riots with a death roll of 140, have made more... members of the Assembly realise Convicted oa charge of thelt that "Red" propaganda has been of two raincoats from the quarters at the root of some of the disastrons Strange, a Chinese was sentenced
of Sanitary Inspector E. E labour troubles. It was significant by Mr. E. V. Hamilton yesterday that Mr. M. K. Acharya, a Swara, te two months' hard' labour: jist from Southern India, should admit that when he attempted to the local Registry of the forthcom which they should have travelled Announcement has been made at
The Southend United football team, having missed the train by intervene on behalf of the workers ing marriage of two Shanghai re for their match at Swansea, chanter- in the recent South India railway sidents. The parties are Miss Mayed a special train, sad by changing strike, the labourers.or their leaders Fuchs of 63, Szechuen Road, and in the train arrived ca the ground WILLIAM T. DUNN, to ERNEST told him that they had been advised Mr. Carl Schwender, of 136, Sey-just in time to play the match and ·
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that, if they went on strike, they would get paid for six months with Russia money. He was, therefore, convinced that foreign Communists must be kept out. The existence of the Communist evil was admitted in more than che quarter of the House, but many Indians bélieve that India and Hinduism possess in themselves their own defence against the poison."The charge that the pro- visions of the Bill might be used againat members of the National Congress has been" met by the ex clusion of Indian Communista from the operations of the measure, which is now likely to be carried in the
BIEKS. Assembly
Hoge Koxe, Arai 10, 1929.
REVOLUTIONISTS IN INDIA.
THE two men responsible for the murderous outrage at Delhi are at
It is the fashion among ardent young revolutionists in India to blame Britain's connection with the country for all its troubles. The
were women...
A world's record piece of 6,000 furniture, consisting of a Queen guineas was paid for a suite of Anne settes and six chairs, at the Lord Brownlow's collection. A total sum of £16,840 was realised.
sale of furniture and china from:
| avoid a fine,
unsound mind was returned at an
A verdict of Suicide while of Selfish Suicides, inquest at Gateshead, Newcastle-on-said Mr. Oswald, the coroner, at People who take their lives;" Tyne on the body of George Wil-a Hammersmith inquest, do not Ham Steel Mason, a Newcastle always consider the trouble they solicitor who was found dead in bed with a piece of gas tubing near his mouth. "
An on the Masso service made a Captain Harris, of the as. Sui report to the police last night that a Chinese age 32, committed suicide by jumping overboard. The de ceased was later discovered to have been a shroff employed at the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank.
running water, the house boy at No.
Bearing an unusual sound of
4, Granville Road, Kowloon, went out to the yard where he saw a man just leaving the premises. He gave chase and caught the man and hand- ed him over to the police. The water-pipe tap was found in his possession.
are going to cause others Their act is one of the most selfish they can possibly perform. Apparently- they lose all sense of logic and pro- portion." The dead man was John Albert Lynch, aged thirty-six, an omnibus driver, who was found by a schoolboy son dead with his head in a gas oven. It was said that Lynch's wife was in hospital, and that he was in arrears with his rent. A verdict of "Suicide while . of unsound mind" was recorded.
Women and "Gancerphobia."
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This woman suffered from what you might call cancerphobia; she. thought that she had cancer, when, in fact, she had not," said Mr. H. R. Oswald, the coronet, at a Ken- aington inquest on Mrs. Ethel Winifred Drewry, aged forty-eight. the widow of a solicitor, of Mar- Mr. Hoover has decided to pay loes-road, Kensington, who flower, and render the officers avail- brother-in-law said that during the off the Presidential Yacht, Mag-found dead in a gas-filled room. A able for service in the new warships war Mrs. Drewry worked in a in order to save £70,000 annually. munitions factory at Acton and bank. It was the flagship of had been treated at the London The Mayflower was built at Clyderontracted T.N.T. poisoning. She
Spanish Fleet at Manila Bay in Drewry had told his wife that she
loud demands for independence-or Dominion status-are based upon the theory that British rule is the barrier to national development Yet at the last meeting of the Indian PUNDIT MOTILAL NEHRU, and othere spoke some bitter truths about the 1888. development. Caste, communal dis chief hindrances to India's national
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"I did it; here is my pistol!" said one man, on surrendering himself to the police. Moreover, in addition
Mr. Frank Dadd, the artist, who ago. A verdict of “Suicide while... to the bombs, hurled into the Legissensions, the pardab, child-mar- bat died at his home at of unsound mind was recorded.
riage, remarriage of widows, paly Teignmouth, aged seventy-eight, lative Chamber from the gallery a gamy, and immature parenthood, was a noted black and white artist. Apathetic Londoners.. leaflet was thrown down explaining and not the British connection, His picture, "Gold Lace has a are the forces preventing India, Charm for the Fair," was purchas- in detail what was being done, and according to these leaders, from ed by the Chantrey Fund. He why. It appears the 'Socialist Re-taking a nobler place in the completed his last picture, public Association, "fully realising ling evils denounced by Indian death.
world. If all of these appal- ing Home," a few days before his its responsibility"-which is open leaders could be swept away in to doubt had ordered its army'
twelve months, there would be some
A Chinese detective arrested a purpose in talking about. Dominion man sitting in a car near the Star to throw the bombe as a protest status, or even independence, bat Ferry Wharf, Kowloon yesterday
sort a Association declares it is inevitable work to be accomplished in a year glass and a case. The owner of that individuals must be sacrificed or a decade, or even a generation, the car-Mr. Rouse, of the P.W.D. and which will be carried through was communicated with and claim at the altar of the great revolution all the more slowly if the British of the electric light. The man will
be charged at the Kowloon Magis power suddenly weakens. Nobody, "which will bring freedom to all, of course, doubts for a moment the tracy this morning with larceny.of rendering the exploitation of man sincerity of the Pundit, or of Mr. the light and unlawful possession of
amount spent by all the authorities: GANDHI, or of Mr. SEX GUPTA in by man impossible." There is a this laudable crusade; their personal
the sun glasses...
totalled £36,073,806 in 1924-25 very familiar ring about these exlives are a testimony to their good north-eastern part of Kirin Pro-1927-98 being 254. Bethnal Green "A large deposit of coal in the rates, the total general rate for Poplar heads the list as regards CHRONICLE Pressions, which are as crude ge
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at the County Council election last them and spend their money March only 35.6 per cent of the electorate voted; at the borough elections in November 32.3 per cent. and at the Guardians' elections. merely 18.4 per cent. Yet the
the home-made bombs and in-life is heard with the greatest ining to a report made by engineers comes next with 22x 40. effective pistol. Nevertheless the patience by a Congress eager only sent there for the purpose, the ex- Rebel's Head Displayed to Public,
tent of the productive area is 10 fact that the bombs were not paradise and not caring a scrap total output of 30,000,000 tons of
to create an entirely new political square miles with an estimated the head of a rebel chieftain on The medieval custom of placing capable of doing extensive damage, about the materials of which it is cost number of private com- and the pistol refused to fre
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mercial interests are organizing 4 Mexico, aroused such protest from took place in the city of Queretaro, more than two shots, does not National Congress might accom
Important work that the Indian company to develop the area with the citizens that the authorities 4 franchise from the Provincial ordered the ghastly relic to be buri minimise the seriousness of the in-plish better than any other body has Authorities,"
ed. The head was that of Casimiro cident. That this demonstration no attraction whatever for the im
patient young men of the new Con-
The General Post Office grant to Queretaro State insurgent leaders, Becerra, one of the most able of CHINA, JAPAN, COREA,, INDO. was not accompanied by serious loss greas. Unless these young men can tion, which is £850,000 for the year federal troops. Becerra's body WER the British Broadcasting Corpora- who was killed in a battle with CHINA,
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sacrifice was offered at the altar of and many others, put it bluntly estimates for the Revenue Depart brought to the State capital. The Mr. GANDEI is frankly told that mente. There is an increase of Each Member can obtain, upon Ap-COMPREHENSIVE AND COMB This Large Volume of approximate. | the great revolution, but two mis Congress has no further use for him £80,000 in zalaries, wages, and al bead was placed on a tray and dis
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or for the other advocates of social lowances for the Customs and played conspicuously in a public park. The grim relic was observed to the Usual Lists of Firma, an Alphabetical List of Reddents attempted to make such a sacrifice says Forward, at the programms muneration for additional Old Age by numbers of school children and numerous adults. So shocked were in the Far East containing thewill have to answer for their actions aur acceptance is enough to con- The Air Ministry have decided to
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that delegation visited the 20,000 FOREIGNERS.
at the bar of justice: Sir Jovince all Congressmen that it is establish air ports at Hull, Har governor of the State and made a
no more than a revised edition of Arranged, with the initials as well Sox was in the Chamber at the the much-talked-about constructive been selected at Hull, and negotia Advance, Australia į s
I wich and Leith. A suitable site has vigorous protest. as Surnames in strict alphabetime of the outrage. For many programme of 1922, which put a tions for possession are already tical order so that any name months he has been in India in-
brake on the fighting spirit in the can be found instantaneously.
nation. We are told that removal proceeding. No sites have yet been The managing Editor of the decided on at Harwich or Leith Sydney Suz sends us a photograph vestigating the working of the ad. of such evils as purdah, polygamy: The greater part of the river of his paper's new office magni- CLASSIFIED LIST ministrative system and the develop. immature parenthood, and the pois banked by property owned by and the tallest structure in the city. untouchability, child-marriage and suitable for the purpose at Harwich ficent building of fourteen floors, meat of representative.governmental pularisation of khaddar, village, the London and North Eastern The Sun is a very enterprising IMPORT AND EXPORT institutione. It will be interesting and drugs, and so forth,"aro all; the railway company will show any of 215,000 in e State which has only organisation, prohibition of liquors Railway. It is not expected that evening paper, with a circulation MERCHANTS ··
to learn Sir Jpur's views of this excellent things in their way, but great enthusiasm for the scheme, two million inhabitants. In twenty particular incident..
these items figured prominently in owing to fear of possible competi- years the Sydney Sun Eas reached a the old Congress programme not tion.
position of which its owners have The Legislative Assembly had just many years ago."
It failed, it
every reason to be proud. It has passed the Trades Dispute Bill when seems, because it did not and A shareholder at the annual meet the largest circulation of any daily the bombs were thrown, and the convince the
Cannot capture the imagination or ing of the L.N.E.R., in London, paper in the Commonwealth, and intellect These said that as a result of the failure has acquired a controlling interest President had risen to announce his journals tell us that "what is want to pay a dividend on some of the in the Daily Telegraph, & Sydney ruling as to whether the debate oned is a fighting programme" shares a large number of people morning paper. Two pictorial. the Public Safety Bill should be nothing so tame as the saving of the were suffering great hardship, and papers and a Sunday paper are postponed until after the Court pro- children, the elevation of woman some shareholders were starving also published from the Sun office. ceedings in the Meerut conspiracy hood, and the removal of customs Mr. William Whitelaw, the chair- Sydney is a "live" city, and in the case. The decision will be now given that not only permit but encourage man, in reply, aid: "It is Sun it has a live newspaper by the President next Thursday." the exploitation of man by man. melancholy fact that a good many quick with the news, and koen with The Bill is a Government measure Bomb-throwing will not bring about of the people who hold shares in its comment. We hope our enter designed to deal with the growing the freedom for which young India the junior stock are poor, strug pricing contemporers will continue, activity of Communist propaganda is so desirous, and will delay the gling people. It is a pity they do to flourish, and before another frem abroad, and, has met with introduction of reforms which would not have their money in better twenty years has passed will find it strong opposition from the Indian be otherwise more readily establish stock having regard to the posi- necessary to make further exten members of the "Assembly. ·Last ed.
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