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NOTES OF THE DAY
CASE FOR AIRSHIPS
MARCH 26, · 1935.
BROUGHT ORDER TO
CHAOTIC INDIA
-By R. J. MINNEY
The Very Idea!
THOSE FREE TIPS!
By Horatio ("Forgey"), Bogg
Sinco the disaster to the R-101 more than four years ago, England has turned her back on airship con- struction and any plans therefor. The crash at Beauvais was such n shock to official and public opinion
these lax times to think of when Bombay got drawn into war that the idea of building aircraft
was India as a country with millions of with the Mahrattas and he decided the part of people who pro- of the type of the R-101 abandoned, The R-100, the grent natives laughing in the sunshine, to go to her nid. Though seriously fess to be "in the know" to dirigible which crossed the Atlantic happy in a Paradise into which the embarrassed financially at the time,
NOME people may be apt in He was moat bitterly opposed
WE notice recently a
growing inclination on
the best brains were sacrificed and space, the unhappy breathing iter what they did to the British. most generous thing wo have
gonistic.
a short time before the R-101 British burst with sword and pistol be sent troops from Bengal on foot furnish free tips on the
Farve and which to crush the guileless peasantry through hundreds of miles of un-Races. of pride across the United-under-their-beel
explored India. The Indians were States and Canada, was ordered But ten minutes' with any history impressed and were glad to make Next to giving away broken up. Great Britain felt that book will show you that for 4,000 pence. They realised that no mattual money, this is about the
with scarcely auch experiments as these, in which years,
never peoples of India they could
conquer our ever heard of, milliona in money apparently wast wore pounced upon, sinuglitered, spirit,
As one whose circumstances Wellesley comes next. He was ed, were not worth attempting and ravaged by every swaggering So the K-100 was broken down and adventurer who cared to come the elder brother of the Duke of necessitate our looking to the made into aah-trays and the R-101's through the mountain passes of Wellington, who was in India with Races to recoup a declining per- twisted, shattered skeleton was Afghanistan-Mongols, Persians, him. During those years Napoleon sonal fortune, we feel extreme- enrried andly, away froin Beauvais. Greeks, Huns, Arabs until India was so intent on the conqueat of ly grateful, but magnamity, Two tragedies. Emotion, says an was no longer a country but a patch-India that he actually set out for when it comes to imparting eminem British authority, Mr. work quilt of racial remnants, an the East, but, thanks to Nelson, valuable secrets and transferring Gerald Barry, ded to that decision: ethnological museum of types as never got farther than the Nile fortunes to the pockets of others science had nothing to do with the varied as they are mutually anta-Through agents, however, u need where they may well be trans-
trouble in India to keep scrapping of the R-100, and the
When the British landed as Wellesley embroiled in wars.
ferred into one's own, is beyond turning of that costly metal frame
To Wellesley the Indians in the our savvy. Into neh-trays. There was ample traders, they met with opposition evidence to show that the blame not from Indians but from other territories beyond our frontiers But perhaps the gentlemen in for the R-101 disaster was largely European traders.
appealed for deliverance. They question are so embarrasso den political. The fight to India had It became obvious that out of the beheld the benefits of Brittal rule riches, that they fcel they been rushed, vital tests were, cur- choos of warring claimants for and wanted to be freed from the must share them with others. tailed and the craft was sent off Indian thrones, of dissolute prince | shameful misgovernment, the chaos, If, their action is really under- into, weather for which she waslings covetous and false to their | and indescribable evil of the native slood, as being prompted by a kind- not fitted. It is worthy of note promises, of brigands roving the tyrants.
Iy. neighbourly feeling, which is that, following the loss of the countryside unchecked, some sort of He found himself at the start embodied la the saying, "Live, and American dirigibles, the Akron, the order had to be evolved.
confronted by three formidable | let others live.” Los Angeles, the Shenandoah, and
enemies, likely at any moment to These tipsters must be among the Macon, and all the apparently The men who made India were combine against him. He decided The first people to depart from a wasted lives and dollars that went mon of initiative and daring, not quickly and neted. Despite the tradition whose restraining effect in those disasters, the Administra- afrakt to decide and. to act. Of dangers, he set out against the has also been summarised in tho tion has announced: "These misthem all, Clive's name must stand Nizam of the Deccan, who had a anying that charity begins at haps will not affect the United lightest.
vast army under French command. home. States policy with respect to He was no more than a shabby, By a clever stroke of diplomacy dirigibles."
Charity ramping abroad, un- Certainly not. If poorly paid clerk when the French and an impressive military demon-checked, as is being threatened by Germany has been able to build a conquered Madras and made the stration, to the astonishment of the complete untying of the purso- vessel of this type which inonth entire population their prisoners.all, he had the Nizam's entire army trings of these folk, should make after month can cross the stormy Clive, by blackening his face and disarmed and disbanded. Atlantic Ocean, maintaining a redonning the disguise of an Indian, bold move saved the situation. gular schedule to South America,fied to the nearest English settle-Wellington proceeded instantly
In which event, It is to be feared Great Britain, and the other powers, can do it also. But Germent and offered to lead a rabble against Tipoo Sultan and disposed that the money market will be comi
pletely upset, and that more money NOT CONSISTENT many has been experimenting with band of soldiery, a mere handful, of him in two months.
to the capture of Arcot, capital
may go into anfe-keeping than the this sort of building longer than stronghold of Southern India, no Another Hastings--the Marquess New Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Mr. Mackie and Mr. Cassidy, any other country. She has a bet-less! He marched his little army of Hastings-dealt with the third alt can possibly hold, big no it in their speeches at the Cham-er trained and larger expert all night through a blinding rain of Wellesley's enemies--the Mah-
personnel. These things make a storm. The Indians, accustomed rattas, lawless hordes of armed. Fortunately we are spared this ber of Commerce meeting yes-difference. They may make just to calling a truce when it rained, hornemen, numbering many hun-calamity by the simple mathe terday, would appear to have the difference between failure and left the fort and fled in alarm.dred thousand, who had for not possibly win, and that for the matical truism that everybody can- laid themselves open to a charge disaster, and the splendid success These were not men, but devils, who turies spread terror through India,
whick the Graf Zeppelin has were coming against them.
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TUESDAY, MAR. 26, 1935,
dirigibles entirely.
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"THE MONCOLS OF
MANCHURIA”
of
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This
millionaires of us all.
It was a fierce struggle. Again many who do, others will have to and again aur soldiers were hem-carry the baby. At Plassey, to cross the river med in-at Kirkee, Sitabaldi, Kore- For which reason wo forvently meant almost certain annihilation. but the Mahratta menace pray that not all the free tips will With the British army destroyed was finally stamped out and Brit-prove true to prediction. We af the entire white population would in became the paramount power firm this even at
With
prophets.
the risk of
Imagine the consequences for us
If we make a fortune on these free tips. We shall have to buy that farm we have been long planning.
Next the job of running it. Ther the various problems that will in- evitably face a farmer. What if the cows don't come home? What if it ain't gonna rain
no mo'? What if the chickens should take it into their darned heads to lay off, when they should continue to produce those unhatched eggs on which we are counting our other chickena?
of inconsistency when dealing achieved. Surely we are too near with Imperial Preference and to success to scrap the idea with America's silver policy, The burden of their speeches, in relation to the silver question,
be at the mercy of the Indians, ut in India. Every native State was damaging the reputation of these, was that the United States had
whose head was the evil Suraj-ud-compelled thereafter to forget its been actuated by a policy of self-
Dowlah, who had but lately enused hereditary feuds and live side by We have read this book, "The the ghastly death. by suffocation of side in harmony. interest; they were apparently
Mongols of Manchuria." In these 123 British people In the Black And so we come to Dalhousie, forgetful of the point that, when days it is a pleasure indeed to find of Celves of his own wife many ways most important of all.
of Calcutta.
youngest (he was only 85) and in closely analysed. Imperial Pre-a book written upon so obscure, in- ference
(the full benefits of volved and important a subject as and child at stake, Clive did not He governed India from a sick bed, which they are anxious that the Mongols written with authority. hesitate to cross the river and defy but he governed India well.
Very few Europeans know Chinese: the Indian hordes-60,000 infantry, The scoundrelly Governor
of Hongkong should enjoy) is do any know Mongol? Mr. Owen 20,000 cavalry and heavy artillery Multan, who had defaulted in his founded on a like consideration. Lattimore; who spent his childhood with at his command a mere 800, accounte, caused two British off- For that matter, Britain's adop in China, knows both fluently, and plus a handful of half-caster and eers to be hacked to death, and is recognised as the outstanding natives, amounting all in all to liberally rewarded the murderers. tion of tariffs may be said to authority upon the Mongol question no-more-than-3,000. He dared-Dallousie did not wait for com rest on the sume basis. The in all its complexity, of which most and won.
mlitees of inquiry to advise and Warren Hastings was Europeans hardly know even the plain fact, of course, is that we existence. This book must be read years Clive's junior and served in books. He acted at once.
seven issue their reports in massive blue are living in an age-when econo- by all who wish to have any know-India under him. He had to con said: "The Sikh nation has called mle nationalism is rampant;ledge of the problems of the Far solidate the three provinces Clive for war, and on my word, airs, they and economie nationalism, with East, and, above all, of the real, had acquired, and found the exist- shall have it with a vengeance." of government They did. But Sikh loyalty has put question, has its roots in ignicance of Manchukuo. The ing machinery
author analyses with akili appallingly corrupt. Indians in been such that ever since they have self-interest. The economic, the motives of Chinese policy high places filled their own pockets remained the truest of all in India, monetary and financial policies through the past. He points out with the revenues, lied and in-and, with the Gurkhas, the finest
NEW DEAL that the period familiar to us,trigued. Warren Hastings did not fighters in our Army. of Governments to-day are not when her maritime frontier has shrink from acting against the They came to our aid during the
[The laws of Contract Bridge are primarily designed for the com- been the most important owing to most exalted. Members of his own Mutiny, which was stirred up chief.shortly to be revised.]
"Your deal, Ramsay,” said mon good of humanity. Fach the impact of Europeans, is a pass-Council, from motives of jealousy, by Nann Sahib, a descendant of Stanley, with a sidewura grimate ing, modern phase, and that thethwarted and badgered him and the dispossessed Mahrattos. In nation puts its own interests swing has already gone back to the championed the corrupt. But de- that grave moment In our history, at the score-sheet. first; that is perhaps, only Great Wall, her plyot through the spite all these humiliations Hast- we still had men capable of meet- "I think not," said David. natural. It may, where its centuries.
ings went resolutely on. The peo-ing a altuation of appailing danger. ples of India were protested, given Sir Henry Lawrence primary objects are not likely
peace and security.
(Continued on next eviumn)
to be stultified by such action, THERE WILL BE WARS modify its policies in the event | Those spreading plains and
time
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of hardship to others being deserts through which it runs are established; but, in the fifal destined again to be the theatre of
tremedous result its own well-being will be between three empires, for now
conflicts, this the predominant consideration. Japan has become a continental
Mongols are The United States silver policy power. The is admittedly an artificial in-secular hatred of the Chinese, vigorous, fighting nation, with a
terference with the free flow of closely connected with Manchu his- commodities, but that is equally tory. A Manchu Emperor is to they can understand There is a such measures, whether they be compact mass of 2,000,000 of them. enforced by America, Britain in the province of Hsingan in or any other country. The ideal Manchukua, a sort of buffer state condition, of course, would be within a buffer state. The princes complete freedom from restric-of the Mongols to-day are descend- ants of Chinggis Khan, to adopt tions of all kind, permitting each the
the author's spelling, and it is in country to develop along lines their traditian to lead. In best suited to its resources and the past, circumstances have divided skill. But that ideal is still for the Mongols, but there are grounds from being realised. It is true for believing that they are acquir- that America's silver policy, ing political capacity. A nation of which has caused the price of 8,000,000, with a cavalry tradition,
only the metal to rise out of all pro-well exercise a decisive influence in they could combine, might portion to the rise in commodity eastern affairs, in which the corona prices generally, has increased tion of the Emperor of Manchukuo the difficulties of China's ex-opens a new chapter. port trade, but that is incidental,
and not of specific design.
If
Foreign restrictions on imports against hasty generalisations from China, by way of tariffs which may lead to an illogical or otherwise, have precisely the outlook. To suggest, even by same effect. But wo Imagine implication, that the American either Mr. Mackie-nor-Mr--silver-policy is the outcome-of Cassidy would seriously sug-muddle-headed theories put for- gest that, by reason of ward by amateur theorists, is this fact, Britain should surely somewhat presumptuous. admitChinese. goods duty- It may be based on self-interest, free. In all these matters, just as the policies of most It is wise to preserve a sense of Governments are nowadays. values and to be on the guard | But that is quito another matter.
WAN
He
now do
These are problems which we wish to avoid if We can do so. The best thing we can speaking for ourself alone, is to shut our eyes to those tempting free tips.
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there,
"Didn't you hear me ask for a now one7"
"It was a nice party, but I can eat a whole trayful of those
little sandwiches and stül..be. hungry.
"A new one, David? But why?" David chuckled. "Law 10," he said. "Playing with an imperfect pack. And that—his well-known smile broadened-"that is putting it kindly."
Ramsay, scowled. "What's the matter with the pack?"
"I tell you," answered David. "Too few Aces, for one thing. Cards Inclined to stick together. What for, I wonder? Some of the pack just consists of suits, with voids in them. And then, Ramsay, I don't like those cuts of yours. Something seriously wrong" "With them."
"They've been followed," put in Unele George, "by a most extra- ordinary shume.""
"That's it," and David. "Firat the cut then the shuffle. So I .. say, let's have a now deal.”
Too bad," said Ramsay hotly. "just as we'd taken a trick???
·David grinned. "Taken a trick, have you? Then now's your op- portunity. Turn, old fellow; turn and quit."
Ramsay glowered at him.
with his coolness, courugu," and determination, to save India,
But with the Invention of tho telegraph there began the era of Whitehall meddlesomeness. The men on the spot were shorn of their initiative and became the vic- tims of busybodies for different in temper and outlook from the great figures who built up the glorious British record in India,
names" as
Happily, down to our own times, there have been anch Curzon and Dyer to be placed worthily beside those of the mon who have made. India.