THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TRIDAY, JULY 29, 10 38.
A BREATH OF ENGLAND
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PEACE
COMES TO WAZIRISTAN
66
Q
UITE romantic It's a great country if you
eyes
up here-out- don't care much about living. A hard sun on hard hills-suck- post of Empire, ed out, soulless as coke, with and all that. men more like lizards belly down Surrounded by two barbed- on the hot rocks, their wire entanglements and fixed lizard-like on the nullahe high walls guarded by below. And in the winter
the searing cold when you'd think It is no longer necessary to work all machine-guns,
no mun had ever been here be of
fore.
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PHDAY, JULY 28, 1938.
THE POOR ARE STILL WITH US
That's from a young man I know in the Air Force.
He's in Waziristan.
He wants to catch the Fakir of Ipi..
Mad Mullahs, knives, bullets stinging through the bright air like the plucked wire of a guitar -Waziristan has a monopoly of melodrama.
But there's monotony in it. S., like the British Army, has For twenty years it has been been in Waziristan some time. the same story. Snipers attack up, a Unlike the British Army he is a convoy, troops move
handful of officers and men are pretty contented.
slain, a huge list of appoint-
The British Army is getting querulous about the Fakir. Cold
| weather stopped play at the end the Army, of last year. Now snilling spring, feels it's high time to be after Ipi again. The shooting senson is about to be- gin.
The Army has sent a warning Lo the Mackia Khel tribe
The Hongkong Government's threatening punishment for har- scheme for providing accommo-bouring the Fakir,
SNOW WHITE AND THE dotion and foul for the poverty-
SEVEN DWARFS
IN ILLUSTRATED PORTFOLIO
By Peter Grieve
When he assures his people "The latter are grand to watch
well-known tribes- that "The bombs of the Infidels us various men's houses are burned or shall be turned into sheets of blown up--and a hostile village paper" he does not altogether being destroyed is a terrific believe it, nor does he altogether sight and can be smelt quite wish it.
The Fakir of Ipi It is sincerely to be hoped the stricken section of the com Army will not disturb by any un ments, promotions and awards high up!" munity, which numbers many cauth action the friendly rela- "for valorous services in the thousands, will naturally com-tions that exist between the military operations" appears in mend itself to the general public. Fakir and the people of this the London Gazette. It is a generous and wholly country. praiseworthy effort; and while
The national affection
it is admitted that it is in the well expressed in the verse of nature of an experiment, thereTimothy Shy of a London news- is no question but that it will be
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of the health of the Colony generally and put an end to much misery among the poor. There is only one criticism. The sites selected will not meet with the complete approval of the public.
When the Telegraph first en- deavoured to get authority to act to relieve a situation which was rapidly increasing in
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build such a sanctuary as the Government now has in mind somewhere in the New Terri- tories, where there would be plenty of room for expansion and
The Fakir of ipi is certainly
k
comes pence
to
Forty thousand troops and
Again I quote S.:
"An early morning air inspec- my friend S. and his companions tion may reveal culverts destroy- want the Fakir of Ipi.
ed and barriera across the roads or rocks rolled down. It's And the Fakir grins in his
amazing what a mess they can secret mountain fastness as he make of a road between dusk
Uneasy was Waziristan.
The bomber has come, too. We And a first mention in writes to Jawaharlal Nehru in and dawn. April, 1925 "Aerial operations the plains of India- have attained a significant men- have success. They sure of proved much more economical than ground operations."
When we drop him a bomb He's never at homtb. Well, perhaps courteously he will be at home this time.
Then the Army will be happy and my friend S. just a little disconsolate.
Seven months later London Gazette described "Air Blockade" thus:
the
"We've just finished blowing "You may rest assured that
up a village as a punishment for until we dislodge these invaders a mile of road and ten miles of from our soil at the point of our telephone wire and posts des- sword there can be no peace." troyed in one night.
The "point of our sword" is an somewhat rhetorical. The Fakir drop and put them on bonfires under '
"They collect any dud bamba we
has better weapons.
"The object of this method was to harass the tribes con-
tinually, to give them a general feeling of insecurity, uncertainty and discouragements, and to Who or why, or which or what, is prevent pursuit of their normal the Akond of Swat?
activities."
Doen he sit on a stool or a sofa or chair or squat, the Alcond of Swat?
Edward Lear, Nonsense King, who wrote this memorable piece, had a good idea who and what
was the Akond of Swat.
the culverts!"
Wanted, New Route to Learning HE system of imparting know their University course, and
the ledge by means of lectures is a system whereby professors and lec- turers deliver à humber of lectures more or less integral part of our does serve to keep students upon a modern University life. It is a relie Axed course and prevents them from of the days when books were scarce wasting unnecessary energy upon the and printing was expensive.
less Important parts of their studies. Yet surely the time has come whèn Again, where the lecturer is ablo certain degree of en- this antique
should beto Infuse a system
thusiasm into the minds of his abolished. There are more efficient listeners, the student Inevitably bene- "Our jobs," he writes, "are ways of lectures. Besides, what adfts by listening to such a teacher and co-operation with columns mov-vantages the system does possess are perhaps catching a sparif, no matter ing through the hostile parts of the slightest, and are entirely out-how small, of that enthusiasm. weighed by its disadvantages.
Undoubtedly students must come under the influence of teachers in
Night flying, it was stated, had also been employed and had "proved disconcerting.”
where the indigent might grow vegetables for their own use and He was a forerunner of the either on road building or puni-
tive expeditiona thus lighten the burden of Fakir, a doughty war-boy who responsibility upon the Colony.played havoc on the Afghan | But the Government has decided frontier and a revered figure in GRIN AND BEAR IT for reasons of its own to place legend.
these refugee camps within the
urban areas. In this there may
more
be some risk. It is not going to of the Colony segregated: the please the residents in the dis-authorities will be enabled to tricts where the camps are to be watch their health and guard established to have
far some against epidemic hundreds of idle indigents readily than has been possible in
past, Just camped at their very doorsteps. the
the
same, Obviously the camps will not be whether it is true or not, there is the last word in sanitation, and bound to be a feeling that the there will be a feeling amongst camps are potential breeding the population which lodges in places for disease and that they their vicinity that they cons should be removed from the im- titute a menace to the general mediato vicinity of ordinary health, just as the street sleepers homes as far as possible. Why do at present. It might besites in the New Territories were advisable, if it is not too late, not selected rather than the' for the Government to reconsider central areas proposed, is not the question of sites. For one known. Presumably the decision thing property in the vicinity of has something to do with the the camps is going to lose some--| administration of the project. thing of its value, and from the But, in the circumstances, it is house-owners' point of view this by no means certain that Lie is a matter of some gravity. most satisfactory solution to this Thoro is, of course, this ad- grave problem of Hongkong's Én I vantage in getting the destitute 'destituto has been found...
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Demands on Concentration
Yet how much better it would be both for students and teachers were some alternative system to be set up. Listening to lectures requires a much
By Lichty enter amount of concentration than
The Chief have not to use the Be-detector to-day-fust read him a
jew chapters from The Life of Washington?
the mere act of reading a book, and when a student is expected, not only to listen, but also to take down notes of the lecture, his task becomes well- high impossible.
I have met very few really effelent note-takers among students. There are some who take down a phrase and a sentence or two there; others make a vain attempt to write
here
down every word that the speaker ulters; while a few more sensible students prefer to devote all their attention to listening to their notes. afterwards. But none of thes sys- tems can be called perfect. Alternative Method
I should suggest the following mathod of working. Let euch class of students meet once a week, when a general outline of the week's work could be given by the lecturer or professor. At this same meeting printed sheets could be handed out containing a brief synopels laid upon the more important aspects of it.
Students could also be given fre- quent opprotunities of consulting their professors and lecturers upon the more difficult parts of their studies, and of thus benefiting by personal contact with their tenchiers.
I realise that such a system could not easily be applied to the work of science and medical students, yet in the case of art students Its effects would be most, beneficial,
And surely it would be infinitely preferable to the present 'antiquio system of dally lecturan?
Bludent.