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THE MOTHS ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME
M
LONDON.
customer. WID
Lint nuinber of
TOTIS are making A coupons be could buy another 6,66u| hearty meal of 600 yards yarils of material, enough' for 2,509 of knitwear cloth on the costumes. shelves of a wholesale house in Cavendish-square. London, W.
This manufacturer, Mr. E. Seton Cotteri, had to give up coupons Mr Paul Rolande hought the before the mills would deliver. He fabric from the mills 12 months will have them refunded only when
go on condition that it was the articles are sent abroad made into gowns for export.
But where is his market? Before
But the moths arrived before the war, two-thirds of his businers was with the United States, "Today the orders. This is why.
Many foreign markets have closeri against British clothing
all I get are charity order." says Mr. Cotterill. Ifis total exporte
by TOM SHAW amount to only six
imports and, in the countries. that can still buy, the colour shades Mr. Rolande has in stock have gone out of fashion.
per cent. The ren- sons he gives? America, he says, has a prejudice Painst British goods. The development of fashion and design; over there has gone off on a different the from ours. They prefer loose, alemanaker styles TO CIL Infinred
time, which
art more expemAVE
The Hosiery Control at the Board of Trade refuses to re. to make.
altered. lease the cloth for the home Popular pattern have
Herrin-bone So Mr Rolande's girls trade.
designis, ordered became unfa: hton Mi are kept busy spraying DDT onthe auto, insecticide o stop the moths before he got delivery.
Americans are suspicious of our extending Their front. In 2
Taruis,
50 per cent. expenses prat donger are another 4,000 yards prices et egnede velvets, bravades, in ing price, Suits and conls were siang well at 18 guinea, until bur and crepes.
Stafford Cripps put price on them at maine. on the American bayers wat "Why
matild the pay more?"
01
otit. markets.
with: touch
and
world
ves,
£12 ceiling
3pe Pilk kandjo
RNSING DAIVEAL
AND
"The C. O. tells me he's had a lot of letters from nasty little soldiers who've suddenly discovered they wanted to be engine-drivera since childhood.”
THE
THE
FUTURE SIKHS
violence. The preaching
suffered grievously
Clothing, exporters up down the country have a simi- lar problem. The total value
This made British manufactures i They saved the of these idle stocks is too vast tur consetous."
of materini at Into THE exact role played by the trade last scrap to. Estiante, but
"It is only when you see the Bikhs in the tragic organisations claim that their pent.
events in north-western Turcoph-Imade clothes that you realise members are being put out of just how we skimped them, says India jast summer was not an business by unreasonable res- CT HE
Some British firms spoiled the easy one to determine. Trictions imposed by ollicials 4 Ameisen mackel, Uuring the foreign correspondents in the first boom of getting British woollens Punjab were later bitterly eri- out to the States, much of the buying ticised in Hindu circles for hav- was done by cable, ani ming people; sent out inferior goods. That hasing put too much blume on the Sikhs. for having suggested slone great deal of harm
that there had been a Sikh is the Whosale
Short Of Money ing. They were charred with Textile Association sent a
having, either through mualice or deputation to the Board of
LSEWHERE, exporters have found: incompetence, given far more Trade with test figures from
Scandinavian
European publicity to what the Sikhs did 12 manufacturers who had contries are short of money and to Muslims in the East Punjab Bunk £300,000 of their capital will not accept luxury imports.
The Colonia Office nos circularised than to what the Muslims did buying silk, rayon and wools
like Malta. Cyprus. to Sikhs and Hindus in the Weat from France and Italy for re- Cabraltar. West and East
Africa Punjab and elsewhere. export as made-up goods.
Test Figures
RECENTLY
thent 11ot
now
.
savate
i
lend
verate tem Phu My Mens
than that they have Kft. To immiteeds nee suffering from a peute seas of bitterness, ng als are the Skle already a tie East Punish, all of hot hind close ties with their brethren in the west.
נין
Led for restraint 'ami, wise states- chip, they suffered from a com- late dearth of constructive leading
Hitherto in weeps of Thalistan, months previous to the lup. For
Sikh Arte, has been no more outbreak the Sikh leaders had been the
Sikh: had than a Zionktie Bipe-dream, put fors Who leaders In the March ward by
extremist riots in Mullan and Nawalpindi and wanted a return to the old days of Sith suntem in the Pemkab. Now, the Sikh leaders whipped up
desire for revenge amongt for the feet toes it entering the
realm Their
The of practical politics.
publicly the Sikhs in Pre Lust Pustult. most influential lender. Master Tara Sih lenders dienvoy it
Itme to time, but nothing is Singh, is a dangerous fanatle, sweet from
a reasomble enough private mor eertala than that, once the conversation, but an uncontrollable period demagogue when addressing a crowd of his own prople.
The Sikhs are a strange and Finating Their religions
fus-
race.
is
an attractive one.
the
of eemoftre dislocation onst, Khalising will become a really live isstac
By a Special Corres-
pondent
of the
"Eastern World" who
was recently in India
Although
they are on the same side in this com- munal war. no great love
Jost between the Sikhs
the There innerBUN or Silch frictions
Hindus.
were
cases
Hindu
the Punjab, but these
in
usually arose out
on
חן
the irritations exasperations
a form of Hindu- In which WHIS Any to buy
and puried from Britain to
The fact remains that there wis a pur
by strengthened Markets were assured when quantity of gouds
Sikh rising in the East Punjabs round re
challenge of South Africa, who took big sup- about
This observer the they bought, but by the time preserve the sterling balance,
August 15.
Mohammedanisin would not go so far as to rurgest Mo the fabrics were delivered it olies after the royal tour, is
the that it had the backing of intential inevienting
martial virtues. was no longer possible to sell, heavily over-stocked.
wanted 1) And although most exporters are groups in India who
Their altet is said Omrials turned down their requeal
doing only a trickle of business wreek Pakistan at the very outset.
10 De the- best to sell the materials In Britain. was argued: "You must try to find abroad, the Government is divertins: But he estimated that during the
month of August, whatever were the Their diet is id La torent huver. We are doing all still more goods for export.
Air H. C. Scott, another London total casualties in the Punjab--and balance of any in India and they western observers who know Indla
oflen magnificent physical well say that the fifths will we en to reopen clused maketa 15
to turn on the Hindus in you all have the ponds in as the wholesale, was promised from the estimates have varied between 50,000 are
excellent hesitate makt milk six lengths of woollen clath. al 150,000-more than 75 percent specimens. They Hune we will evi .. the position."
vietins of Sikh angres- Mustin Meantie, calmente are dating an sustable for the hour trade. Samples were warehouse cuplaourds, deteriorating were made up on models, and his ston. It was the Sikhs with for the farmers, elever mechanics, and are much that same way that they have
travellers booked oniers for all the fist time in the
warfare place, TENE 210 prock that it would make.
Then officials said: "Those roils
with a
to be the best caused by a violent upheaval. Many
to be found as contractors and busi- turned on the Mallan.
not only all over India. Brase 11 an exter
ster- It is not unty the cloth which
East but in routheast Agio as well. They "frozen." Une New Bondi-street must go jer expoil And the orders Panjabs the tire of violence swung to have a long record of service in thự maker of women's early and muts had to be cancelled.
han 20,000 roujaar, tied up in reÁN Meanwhile the moths have it all navegades es fest kaarawanting, for an overstig_the_pwon_wagt.
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
m
1-
minatory scale.
the From
the West Punjab. Thence eastwards Indian Arm. As rolders they had again, to Delhi and the western in the record of being prone to intrigue
diets of the United Provinces Even
-and-led-man_to_command, superb ir Bell, as in the Calcutta killings
matuck but inclined to crack which at 1916 Suds played a part in the disturbances out of all proportion to this were gur bacity. thele numbers.
WELL ORGANISED
States
of Pakal
Silh
ke Tar
S
71
BUFFER STATE
and
nol
who
22121
is not posible yet to forsee how Khalistan will take shape, whether will be inter dhe netis of the ambitinur-young-rulósof_Patiala.or uler the religions lenders. Much will depend on the course of rela- Sian politics are devious and ab Hous betwen Haba und Pakistan and seemne. Their 'religious and political also on future developments inside Thele moși India. if there is it protracted state organisations overlap.
political leaders are of tension er semi-warfare between THERE were two reasons for the unential
as well. India and Pakistan, India may find disproportion in the casualties in usually religious leaders
The rising [1 it convenient to have a strong mill- the earlier stages of the outbreak in the Punjab. Firstly, the Sikhs in He then boils some THEY sat in a bay-window, in the ground
ob- fucing each other in the
Jungle-weeds, which the warrior's the East Punjah were well organised August had many of the outwas farid buffer state on their north-
lenders may place no favourite wife drinks. This makes and sell ained. with conferable hates of a caretuhy praaned western frontier, in which case the in the realisation, of Sikh dusk, "What are you thinking her violently sick. All the females unbers of firearms. They had been and directed operation, but it was Indian
rming secretly since 1942. Many
Hindus think of about, de Courcy ?" asked Vita
of the tribe then start to yell and
Popular sepert on both ambitions. Many agency was. Brevis.
ascribed the the Sikhs as a people who in the dance in sympathy. This wakes the of the arms had eam via the not easy to say what that directing stacles
and Faridkot, males, and they join
them and the in. The sick
Secondly, the Sikhs and Hindus in sides of the frumer
directed of the rising to past stood between Rets "You," sald Foulenough, whe was
man, unable to endure the din,
when threatened, military thinking about a certain importunate up and goes off to be quiet some-the West. Puniab.
organised themselves far better than "General" Mchán Singh, who form Mohammedhu. invaders bookie. "It's ridiculous," said Vita.
where. The witch-doctor then "Can't you see that we have nothing nounces that the patient is cured, id the Muslims in the east. There ed and commanded the 1st Indian may do so again. Similarly if there
is is widespreati fragmentation was a great contrast between the National Army in Malaya und in common?" "Yes," sald
Foule and there is a feat lasting a day
Amritsar. Former .disintegration in India--and the pre- trickling little groups of Muslims
now Jivitu "but
we we married and a night. nough.
westwards, extremely vulnerable to
the 1.N.A.. including sent tendencies are in this direction- should have." "Meaning my
attack, and the vast well-organized members of
erstwhite then the likelihood increases money?" asked Vita, with a curling Fun at the blackboard
columas of Sikhs and Hindus from some of Solan Singh's as crudely "If you like to put it
with heutenants, were uusiartery Plus State emerging and of it trying as thut." auld Foulenought. "And IT is the women police who have the West Punjab trekking how would you d Foulenough. witchery into
put all these ideas of beauty and spearmen on horseback guarellin the mud se pare in the disturbarse wine to extend is filluare, beyond t put it?" "What's
the Banks, advance guards reconnoitring t of the heads is mine,"
on elaborate system soldiers of the yours
every village, before you can of Ingle-enils, That sounds more affectionate."
the women and there was U feet Once more Vita asked herself how get your nostrils out of a filter we
chBitron riding an ox-earts in the Nolan Singh's participation. she, a delicately nurtured girl, could shall have the teachers swaying and centre of the enlumns. It was lin
feeling of affection slinking and gliding round the black-
possible not to admire the organisa-
It is wrong to blame the Sikh en- in the afe hot to boards, one hand on hip, the other tim behind there gigantic caravans.
for what happened tirely sdmit that etc.. etc.. etc. See any fiddling with a cigarette-holder
Ever since the partition of India T. is worth while considering the Punjab and it is an over-simplifieu- long
complex as a mint-pole. Buckless
of an exceedingly effect on the Sikh community of tion with no brenne Inevitable, the Sikhs have macintoshes, treen sandals
in a mood of perplexity, trust-
to concentrate exclusively soles, toenails painted yellow. been
on the part they played. Even if "Ilodney, what is the capital, of ration and fear. Parition of India the present transfers of population. problem
of the Punjab There is now, for the first time since witch-dector is the Ceylon, actually?... Inspector, take involved partition
the Sikhs the British put an end to Sikh rure the Silds had which, was bound to hit
most restrained-states THE Ahaha
most important man in the tribe your arm from my waist."
hard. It meant the splitting of the of the Punjab in the first hang of the and the
in the been this savage
contite Sikhs after the headman. Ile wears thick
$ community and the inclusion last century, a solid concentration of ship, there would probably still have trousers of rhinoceros-halde
in. Pakistan of many of their most more than 4,500,000
East Punjab, Alany have come from the Muslina and Hindus. But it is to understand the key macaw feathers stuck to them, and a
MAN who had just finished a sacred shrines, much of their pro canal colonies, the richest and important
wijch was in fact played by bit of meal
restaurant perty, and several rich caual colonies the covered with painted
It's amall and Us head is
walter, and with which had been pioneered by Sikh in all India, and are now having part
to it into the already crowded dis- tree-bark and dirt. When a warrior called the head
.0 tricts of the West Punjab, where the munlty. is the witch-doctor ties two cro- old-world courtesy suld, "Give my settlers. At this crucial moment in
their fortunes, when there was codile tully together and sticks them compliments to the groom."
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I'LL SAY
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