THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938.
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TO WAZIRISTAN
It's a great country if you
UITE romantic up here-out- post of Empire, ed out, soulless as coke, with and all that. mon more like lizards belly down
don't care mucly about living. A hard sun on hard hills-suck-
hot rocks, their Surrounded by two barbed- on the
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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1938
THE POOR ARE STILL WITH US
That's from a young man know in the Air Force.
He's in Waziristan.
He wants to catch the Fakir {of Jpi.
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 of last year. Now the Army, snifling spring, feels it's high time to be after Ipi again. The shooting season is about to be- gin.
By Peter Grieve
"The latter aro grand to watch
When he assures his people
as various well-known tribes- that "The bombs of the Infidela 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 #
terrific believe it, nor does he altogether sight and can be smelt quite wish it.
The Army has sent a warning Khel tribe Lu the Maddu The Hongkong Government's threatening punishment for har- scheme for providing accommo-bouring the Fakir.
The Fakir of Ipi It is sincerely to be hoped the dation and food for the poverty- stricken section of the com- Ariny will not disturb by any un- ments, promotions and awards high up!" munity, which numbers many couth 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
it is admitted that it is in the nature of an experiment, there is no question but that it will be
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affection was The national well expressed in the verse of Timothy Shy of a London news- paper trou remember?):
The Fakir of pl is certainly dipl.- When we drop him a bomb He's never at humb.
Well, perhaps courteously he will be at home this time.
Then the Army will be happy and my friend S. just a little disconsolate.
Uneasy peace comes to Waziristan.
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 barriers across the roads or rocks rolled down. It's amazing what a mess they can make of a road between dusk and dawn.
And the Fakir grins in his The bomber has come, too.
secret mountain fastness as he We find a first mention in writes to Jawaharlal Nehru in April, 1925 "Aerial operations the plains of India have attained a significant men- sure of success. They have proved much more economical than ground operations."
Seven montha later the London Gazette described an "Air Blockade" thus:
"The object of this method was to harass the tribes con-
and
"We've just finished blowing "You may rest assured that until we dislodge these invaders up a village as a punishment for 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.
"They collect any dud bombs we
The "point of our sword" is somewhat rhetorical. The Fakir drop and put them on bonfires under has better weapons.
the culverts!"
tinually, to give them a general Wanted, New Route to Learning feeling of insecurity, uncertainty THE system of imparting know-thele University courser and the discouragements, and to ledge by means of lectures is a system whereby professors and lec- Who or why, or which or what, is prevent pursuit of their normal more or less integral part of our does serve to keep students upon a modern University life. It is a relic fixed, 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.
the Akond of Swat?
Does he sit on a stool or a sofa or chair or squat, the Akond of Swat?
Edward Lear, Nonsense King, who wrote this memorable piece,
activities."
turers deliver a number of lectures
Yet surely the time has come when! Again, where the lecturer is ablo- this antique system should be to infuse a certain degree of en- abolished. There are more efficient listeners, the student inevitably bene- thusiasm into the minds of his "areways of lectures. Besides, what ad- fits by listening to such a tencher and
Night flying, it was stated, had also been employed and had "proved disconcerting.”
"Our jobs," he writes,
ing through the hostile parts either on road building or puni- tive expeditions.
plenty of room for expansion and had a good idea who and what co-operation with columns mov-vantages the system docs possess are perhaps catching a spark, no matter where the indigent might grow was the Akond of Swat.
weighed by its disadvantages.
of the slightest, and are entirely out-how small, of that enthusiasm.
Undoubtedly students must come Demands on Concentration
under the influence of teachers in
vegetables for their own use and He was a forerunner of the 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
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 some against epidemie far more hundreds
of idle indigents readily than has been possible in camped at their very doorsteps. the past. Just 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 mediate 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 contral arcus 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 the is a matter of some gravity. most satisfactory solution to this There is, of course, this ad-grave problem of Hongkong's mam vantage in getting the destituto destitute has been found.
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Yet how much better it would be both for students and teachers were some alternative system to be set up.
By Lichty Listening to lectures requires a much
The Chief says not to use the le-detector to-day just read him a few chapters from The Life of Washington!"
greater umount of concentration than 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- nigh impossible.
have met very few really efficient note-takers among students. There are some who take down a phrase here and a sentence or two there; others make a vain attempt to write down every word that the speaker utters; while a few more sensible students prefer to devote all their attention to listening to their notes afterwards. But none of these sys- tems can be called perfect. Alternative Method'
I should suggest the following method of working. Let each 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 game printed sheets could be handed out.
meeting containing brief synopsis laid upon the more important aspects of t
Studenta could also be given fre- quent opprotunities of consulting their professors and lecturers upon the more dificult parts of thiol studies, and of thus benefiting by
personal contact with their teachers.
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 would be most beneficial.
effects
And surely would be infinitely preferable to the present antique Bystem.of.dally lectures
Student.
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