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THE FUTURE OF BURMA.
WHAT IS SEPARATION WILL MEAN.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, APRIL 11th, 1931.
A marvel of the builders' art is this ornately decorated system of structures com- These are built by Buddhists, and prising one of the many monasteries In Burma. Virtually all of Burma's 13,300,000 people are of that faith, while the majority of Indians are either Hindus or Moslema,
Whatever results from the Boaltand Hangoon, its great seaport, is to violent crimes, the murder per- parts being very reports of the Round Table Con-, 790 miles from Calcutta and 1000 cent in some
Chicagoesque. ference in London on the future miles from Madrus,
But both British and Indians When it comes to the natives
in- guvernment of Indin, one thing!
Barma! themselves, they have no surt of have realized that Barma's virtually certain: will be separated from India and kinship with Ladians, whether the elusion in the government in India The Burnwu will given some sort of government latter be Hindus or Moslems. They is on anomaly.
differ from them in religion, lans! be given sotie measure which will end ultimately to
government and will have separate Dominion status within gunges, social system and customs
their own the Empire. At least, this will and national dress. The vast mass trained to hur
OWN military natives show of the Indians are either Hindus or service and Their happen when the
Although!
The mustier of defence is 『#t+44 enough progress to deserve that Moslems by religion.
Buddhism originated in India, to- forth of self-government.
Thus Rotina, which Air day there are cumparatively few not so important as in India, be- On the other! cause the only land approach on conquest by the British has been Buddhists in India. submerged as a mere province in hand, mud of Barra's 18,000,000 the northen 4 frontier has natural the Indian government, will ner people are practicing Buddhists,
more approste something like sep- arate nationhood, a status which I had for any centuries afore the British canne,
Has No Caste System
In India the Brahmins have set up a very rigid and complicated j
to he elvil
defences in the shape of mountain
ranges.
Expect Financial Troubles. Finance and customs will prove Indian waste system which has Padured a more thorny subject.
Helg
Buddhists, the
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The Simon Parliamentary cam- the centuries, In Burma, the pre money has been largely apent In Tulsion practically rec antended ple, fusing Buddhists, never have, the development of Burma and the Class antag-Indian government will, perhaps, the separation of Burn from In- bad n chate system. dia. The government of India onism is notable mainly by its com put in a demand that some part of
The Barne plete absence. From its earliest this money he returned. neked this up.
Then there is the subject of the Council unanimously declared in days, aside from the once royal
And now a committer house, Barinn has known aris interchange between Kurma and favour of it.
India. At present India coolle is considering the conditions which toerary.
have also been tolerant fabour laws freely to Burma, and would enable Burma to be separat. Burmese
of other religions, The people Burmese rice goes to ledie, ed from India.
Differs Widely From India men and women alike, are inere! This committee is not attempt. literate than the indian, thanks) and when they are separated, the ingle frame a new constitution to the sebrots kept by laddhist Indiana fear Burma may put up On the other hand, the Burmuese for Burma, but is dealing with the monies, but they are lacking in the the bars against Indian labour. Indians rear a tariff wall might be put up general principles which must go higher education ern the separation. Later, if Par. achieve.
sort of There also are darker sides toj against their rice, And Burmis Hament approves, suti
But these things can be regu- Statutory Costumission will be set the picture. The Burmese de tone vast rice held. up to report on the form of com ke hard work. Hence hundrevis
thousands of Fadia colies lated for the simple reason that stitution which is at present most
emigrate to Burma to do the heavy Burma will continue to need In- saltable for the country.
notidian labour and India will cor- Labor. The Burmese have
of
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There never was any real reasoni for Burna being included in the shown any particular aptitude for time to need Burmese rice. government of India exerpt one of business.
close
The financing of the country ilence Rangoa is more!
very great difalte, rough convenience. There were a pof an Indian than a Burmese city, presents no hundred
Burma with Europeans and then Chinese because Burma, independent of why reasons
Leoming
second, With India, would control for the first should have been kept separate. wung them its past history, its money they have come-easy go-tine her tariff, income tax, salt Hence they have been monopoly and railways, And the racial. religious, social and greasy ways. graphical differences, Burma is called the Irish of the Orient. They country is expable of infinite de- not India is any way, shape or have not shown themselves amen-jvelopment, because, though it has fashion. Geographically it is ent able to discipline. Hence there a territory equal to that of France, off from India y aca, mountain, are few Burmese military bodies, it only has one-third the popula and jungle. its land frontiers pre- the army in Burma and the milition of France, which for an Asia. sent a practically impassable iar tary police being mainly Indian the country is a very small figure rier. 1 ja usually reached by sey and British. And they are givenlinderd.
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