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Hongkong Telegraph. Story
FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937.
by Robert Westerby
Felipe stared straight ahead Felipe.pressed himself harder. of him. The plain rolled away against the ground, his eyes before his eyes, rocky and bar- shut, sweat running down his ren, for miles. In the distance, cheeks. Close beside him there. in the foothills, he could see the was a scrabble of loose stones white twin towers of a church. as a few men staggered to their The world seemed wide and feet. They turned toward the safe, being at war, suddenly officer, calling feebly, and Felipa nothing.
heard him laugh. The gun "Halt! Five paces, I said." roared out again bitterly. The line of men wavered and "Oh, the poor fools!" Felipe "Oh, sweet Christ, let me lie whispered. "It was a trick, and still..le still..." Felipe stared Standing still, with hunched I knew! I knew! And now they 'at a stone lying just by his right shoulders, Felipe felt death wait- are dead." ing behind him as the officer's fingers went to the trigger of the gun. His heart was beat- ing loudly and quickly as if it
stopped.
Cautiously he opened his eyes. He could only sec with one It
was funny. The other seemed
eye. Two feet, heavily booted, stopped in front of him, almost filling his small world.
"This one?" the officer's voice
said, and Felipe's stomach con
would burst, and for five long Reconds he waited, swearing. not to be there, but there was tracted a chill as of water on his
Then, shatteringly, the gun
spoke.
no pain.
appears on this page to-day. WRECKING TACTICS But, although fiction it de- That the inauguration of scribes events that are tra- India's new Constitution should gically true, happening at be marred by the calling of a foolish strike is a circumstance this moment less than 1,000 which reflects no credit on thosq
miles from BritainTM who appear to have set their minds, from the very outset, to T was hardly light when
spine. render the new plan of govern- the corporal came for
"Sweet Jesus! Let it be ment unworkable. It must be
Blood, was them. As they were led
trickling slowly quick!" he prayed. He stared obvious to the meanest intel-
ácross his face, and where be dully at the officer's boots. They outside the prison was silent, ligence that full self-government
fore he had seen the plain, the were old, split and starved for as if it, too, were waiting cannot possibly be granted over-
The hail of bullets swept along mountains, the little church, ais polish. Through a crack in the night to a country such as India,for death.
the line of prisoners, apat up world was now small.
leather he could see grey stock- with its conflicting racial groups. Felipe raised his eyes and dust and stones, tore through Three or four stones, a scratch. ing.
and bone. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. That way, disaster would lie. stared dully around him. The flesh
Writhing in the carth where a bullet had The third boot, that of the The least that Congress leaders stiffly pleated mountains looked grotesquely in their pain, the passed, his own right hand, and man shot down next to him, lay York Building
could therefore do, in the in- blue in the distance, with small men fell to the ground in a wave. a foot which scraped feebly in still. The ant craweld around terests of their own people, clusters of trees lying at their The earth was damply cold to the dust, as if in agony, as if it in his wound, torturing him, but would be to accept the new feet, Hungrily Felipe looked at Felipe's body, the stones-hard-were a live thing-For-a-few-he clenched his teeth,-frozen- Constitution as the first instal- them. Behind them was his and sharp against his face. He seconds it would remain still, with fear, and remained motion-
lay flat, his chest pressing the then it would twitch again. lesu. ment of larger reforms to come, home.
over An officer came from the pri- ground, and
him the An ant crawled laboriously to co-operate in making it a
"You're right," the officer success, and to gain thereby ex-son, buttoning up his tunic. He shrieking bullets tore through across the stones toward him. said. "He's no more dead than
He felt it as it climbed over his I am." perience in government. All was small and sailow, but with the air.
Abruptly the roar of the gun forehead. The little insect's along the line, the Pandit Nehru, a sort of swaggering smartness
There was a whistle as a stick President of the Congress Party, about him; his cap was set at a ceased, and Felipe heard the fect were like needles, and ran swung sharply through the air, has made desperate efforts to rakish angle.
scrape of the officer's boots across his face until they reach- and a thud. The third boot secure the opposition of the rank "How many are there?" the against the stones. A few yards ed the open wound over his eye.twitched violently, turned over and file of the party to accept-officer said, shouting, as if to away a man was screaming, his Footsteps crunched towards and writhed sideways in the
voice impossibly ́ ́shrill-tnen him and there were ance of ministerial office under keep up his courage.
voices. dust, just missing Felipe's face.
Then there The corporal saluted. "Thirty, the officer's voice, raised in a "There's one!" "Where?" The
was a shot, the new Constitution. In these
shout: "All right! Get up officer sounded excited, like a second's pause, and the boot. wrecking tactics, he has been senor capitan," he said.
"I'll use the new gun," the Get up! All those still alive will small boy who is hunting for kicked upward and dropped back. supported by the Congress
birds' eggs or butterflies.
Somewhere above him Socialists. Other
of officer said, and called loudly be freed."
heard the officer laugh. the party have not, however, over his shoulder, displayed the same intransigient stand. It was hoped, further
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Felipe
"It is a good gun," his volce said. "Not many were missed, even the first time, and there are many to come."
The feet crunched away, and But her retort was swift and un- answerable, "Oh, if it's so nice to be Felipe was alone. here with God, you stay here with God and lel me to mammy."
The doctor's little child watched
their special powers, was obvi- prison, carrying the now gun of what we call the humour of ating any new stations with, "Get wound. He
screams
ness for compromise, would be he said. able to evolve a formula which
The officer flushed angrily. A would enable Congress to acceptes, the new gun," he said.
than it intends. It is the adult office, but the decision eventual-"I'll use it myself. It will kill who perceives and enjoys the humour ly reached, which required ad- the whole 30 of them in a wrapped up in many of the sayings
of children. And this is natural. It her father using the stethoscope upon ants swarmed into his open The sun came up and more vance. guarantees from Gov-second or two. You will see." ernors concerning the use of Two men came out of the is the unperceived, the instinctive, the chest of her young brother,
the unexpected, that lies at the root At length she interposed
tried to startle He ously one which could not be in silence. they set it up on its child
them, but he could not. An Inspector of religious know-seemed to have stopped being accepted. Clearly, no Governor short tripod opposite the line
ledge was questioning some bairns. who wants to see the new Con- of prisonera.
A little brother and sister were Among other questions he asked, "I himself any longer. The sun chatting together when the boy said," all the stitution working properly would It seemed to stare at them, I wonder what we are in this world all the bad people were black, what hot. Time went by slowly.
the good people were white, and was hot, burning, shrivelling misuse those powers, which the dully shining new gun, and torl" "Oh," said the sister, "we are colour would you be?" Some ons
Everything that had happen- are designed to cope with the man next to Felipe-no, not here to help others, you know."wered "white" and some, answered
to emergencies and which, given man, he was not yet 20--began was the lad's reply, and there was quiet child and inquired, What have been a year ago...the.
Then what are the others here for?" "black." The Inspector turned to a ed the day before seemed mutual co-operation, would to pray out loud, crossing him- philosophy as well as latent humour colour would you be? "Please, ar, fighting in the streets; the seldom if ever need to be evoked, self, muttering. The sweat was in the query.
she replied. "I would be streaky" The tactics now being indulged running down his face like
which is
of the wounded; his true and honest a mbro An English Bishop entered a vil- confession than many adults would father's white face...the Moors in by Congress can only bring water being squeezed out of a lage and stepped from his car be ready to make.
closing in...but he'd get away fresh disaster to India, if
surprising the children who gathered carried to the point of actual op-
round with a vision of gaiters; apron,
now...first the prison...thon The officer walked over to the shovel-at, and long cloak. They A conjurer who was drawing eggs the gun...then the officer... position to the Constitution, and, machine gun. His face was were not very familiar with Bishops from a hat sald to a boy in the then the ants.... so far from helping the country serious now, businesslike, and down there, and a boy tried ir. Ean't get cays without hens, enn to front of the audience, "Your mother towards eventual self-govern he crouched behind the gun, ad-
describe the visitor to
His eye rolled feebly round to
effect. The last campaign of Then he looked up...
"O we keep ducks!" dust. and civil disobedience left India in a "About turn he shouted, lander in mourning."
out with, "I know, he'll be a High- Willie's
one morning eald mother
There seemed to be no power to him, "Just run and Beo how state of weariness and economic and the line of men turned
old Mrs. Thompson is." He was left in his fingers, movementa stress. Just now, prosperity is round raggedly and slowly.
soon back with the message, "She were hard, hard and painful, returning to the Indian people,
A small girl found difficulty in says it's none of your business." yet, setting his teeth, Felipe "Five paces forward!" and a sincere effort to co-operate officer jerked out, and terrified, to be taken downstairs. The father to her?" "Just what you to how did closed it until the small clenched the getting to sleep one night and crled "But, Willie, whatever did you say gradually closed, his hand- would aid that process. From as if in a trance, the 80 men mentahe told her she was naughty; he was then were playing at stones.
went upstairs and used all his argut- ald you wanted to know how old cvery standpoint, the attempt to lurched over the rough ground.
fist lay outstretched on the wreck the Constitution before it
that father and mother were tired Some children and, should be allowed to rest; that housekeeping. One said, "You can For four weeks he had fought has been given a fair trial is to becomo Impressed on those she would soon drop off to sleep; and, be the mother and I will both for what he believed in, for four be deplored. Let us hope that, whose tactics at the moment that he was not alone, for God was are going to have plenty of money, weeks he had been a man..
in any case, did she not remember father." Another retorted, "No, we even at this eleventh hour, the promise nothing but turmoil and with her in the dark, and therefore and we won't need any father." realities of the situation may trouble.
sponge.
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