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Is he a trypocrite? No one, even among his political opponents has suggested that. Colonel Wedgewood ears :-"He is no serious as a child and pure, One does not feel it bidsphemous to compare him with Christ; and Christ too, one suspects, gave infinite trouble to reasonable and respectable followers."
The judge who died him spoke very highly of his charactor as a
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TRIAL OF -SANDHI.
like to say
When, in the second week of March, 1922, the news was fashed India
over
THURSDAY:: FEBRUARY 70.1924.
FACTS AND FIGURES
THE NEW YEAR.
OUR OFFICE WIZARD AND
CORRESPONDENCE.
EDUCATION.
movement.
be his enemies, and he cannot help fouled by the corrupt and feckless mitted what to an ordinary man that circurentance. So it is held parliamentary Government they must appear to be grave offences that we may not harbour an evil nyo superseded. This alone would against the State. I do not forget suggest a reason for their taking that you have consistently preach- But this ed against violence and that you thought even in connection with course together, such persons. If we return blow rapprochement of two Latin natics have on many occasions, as I am Our office mathematician, ways [To the Editor of the Chino Mail.I for bigw, wo depart from the of the Mediterranean may be the willing to believe, done much to busy amid a labyrinth of figures,
Sir, I write to ondorse the prelude ul events of greater conse docaino of, ahimso, ...
quence, Europe is in the pelting event violence. But having re-
fusing our honest literary labours comments of Scholastic but I do teaching and the nature of manyents of vulgar fractions and con- say we should nos recent, I do not pot. Things generally are in such gard to the nature of political tying himself up in the entanglo- say that we should acquiesoo; but an unsettled state that no one of those to whom it was addressed, with acrobatic tricks performed by not think he goes far enough.
Three of Hongkong's news- by resenting I mean wishing that possibly say a day in advanco what how you could have continued to may happen next. Mussolini is some luum, should be ilone to that strongly unbuel, with the spirit of believe that violence would not be an elusive number nino, bas at last, inevitable consequence, it are pleased to announce, justified onenty, or that ho should be pul, Nationalism. He has decreed that passes my capacity to understand his existence and has given us some- Papers have commented at great. something which really attests to bis the proposed appointment of the out of the way, even by the action in the primary schools of his con- There are probably few people in thing which is pungent and striking, length and very unfavourably on of somebody else, or, say, by divina try. Italian shall be the one lange Indla.who do not sincerely regret claims as an arithmetical prodigy. New Director of Education, but
taught, even in those erstwhile that you should have made it im-
It was the firecrackers that did it. were If we harbour even this Austrian territories which
possible for any Government to
the ear-splitting and nerve rucking far reaching. thought We depart from the caled to Italy under the peace settle leave you at liberty. But it is so. Far from providing us with an iden, the line of action is not sufficiently
And I should mont, whore, hitherto, Gorman or
The Petition should be drafted In Slay kingungo prevailed. It is an
gentlemen who convened the on regret that, be cuorishes the in passing sentence that if the bangs have brought out a streak of
The Wizard was moping about public meeting, which was held at hope of seeing Italy the dominating course of events in India should genius in the figure wizard, which by a Committee from among those
ment to reduce the period and Powers of the Nediterranean. He make it possible for the Governo far, wo had failed to notice.
fellow with tooth-ache. It was by those who supported the is said to be casting covetous eyes release you no one will be better the office yesterday morning like a the City Hall last year and assisted on Corfu, whose temporary occupa
rining outside, firecekers wor driving us almost to madness and
Had the Committee that con- in was a sensational phase of his pleased than I.”
the Wizard's morbid presence put
It vened the public meeting carried recent quingrel with Greece, and
the lid on tho cheerful scene. although Anglo-italinn relations aro the-most corillai. in oredited with
would have been case for the out the whole of the programme ambitions in the direction of Malts.
that Police, with the Wizard the gory contemplated, we should not now With such a ruler in Italy, with a kindred spirit guiding the destinies Mohandas K. Gandhi had been victim on a stretcher, had not the find ourselves in the predicament of Spain, where we hold Gibraltar, arrested, there was a brief period den struck him. It struck him so we stand to-day and running the nan; but he had broken the Law, and with a third antocmt in alt but when the timid feared the worst. forcibly that we all jumpad with the risk of having another Cadet, foist name in M. Poincaré in. Face, However, nothing specially unprecision of a troupe of chorus-girls. ed upon us. It seems to me, Sir, "Non-violence," he kept saying, their peoples all Latins, and their toward occurred, and with Gandhi The dynamite bomb thrown through that while the petition is being "makes non-cooperation a religious three countries having a sen littoral in jail, the preparations for his trial the office window had done its work circulated for signature, a cable movement and throws man on God on the Mediterranean, more unlikely were rapidly completed. When, weli and for half-an-hour the should be sent to the Secretary of. things may happen than the align-on March 18, he appeared in the Wizard was silent at his desk, serib- State for the Colonies requesting at Ahmedabad without on reams and reams of paper that no recommendation regarding successor be confirmed until the as his only Rock and Refuge. By ment of those rontries soonet or dock non-violence the non-cooperator later in a new triple alliance. Such counsel, with characteristic sine of his nazes of marvellons, the apointment of Mr. Irving'e He went At the end of his labour, the voice of the public of this Colony appears before his maker in his event could not be realised while cerity he pleaded guilty to all theres.
the League of Nations exists, but charges against him. nakedness and commends divine
the League would be powerless, further, warning the presiding Wizard swept away the pila of has been heard. The cost of such a help. He may not appear before constituted as it is, to prevent Judge that his guilt was so con aper and triumphantly handed us cable could be borne by public Instinctively plete that justice would be satis-one single sheet. We read it pain-subscription collected through the him with his Bible or Koren or the ita consummation.
Copies of the Petition should be Gita in one band and his gun in the almost, we refuse to believe evex fied with nothing less than the fully, be at the finish we must newspaper and, limited, say, to
in the possibility of the Mediter- maximum penalty. On recolve admit that our estimation of the $1.00. other. He appears on the contrary,nean become a mare clausur, foring sentence he complimented Wizard jumped miles.
his fairness. real inspiration and just to prove sent to the leading educational with lands folded, # humble it is to ensure its free passage that the Fudge on
which The Judge then rose and left what a clever ind he is we give it papers at home, to Col. John Ward, court. Gandhi's 'friends for the benefit of an interested to the Parliamentary representa- suppliant before the Great White Britain holds the "rock,
stands at its Atlantic gate: Suez the
Many were public. They were just brief facts, tives of the Teachers.
In view of the change of Govern- Thone."
and Aden, which are its portals to crowded round.
weeping, but the Mahatma himself but telling and forceful;--- The saatence which has just been the Indian Ocean and Malta se
If all the crackers.fire during ment I feel sure we can reasonably ended was not his first experience of naval base in the Mediterranean was cool. There were last words
of counsel to his successors in the Chinese New Year had been placed expect a sympathetic and con- jail. He was imprisoned in South itself.
struggle, and affectionate farewells end to end they would have reached siderate hearing, especially as the New Government is composed of to family and friends. Then came from Hongkong to Shanghai.
Labour Members. Africa.. In The Modern Review he
the prison guards, and the man
The sooner we air our grievance wrote: The greatest good I
whom one-fifth of the human race If all the dynamite need in the Generally derived from these sufferings was
regards as worthy of divine hon crackers had been collected in a and state our requirements the bet- PUZZLING garded 26 that gained by undergoing bodily
ours was taken behind the bare. lump, it would have been enough to ter for ourselves; then local Govern- PERSONALITY visionary fanatic-
Wear blow off the top of the peak and to ment officials will learn that they hardships. I could see my mental
and a dangerous His parting words were, strength clearly increasing, and
agitator, Ghandi is also a formid-khaddar. Ply the spinning wheel." bore a hole right through the island hold their offices at the will of the
big enough for an underground rail-people and for the people only.
The policy in the past must it is even now maintained. The able ascetic who has denounced the
way to Fanling. •
cease, and class appointments experience of the last three months British system as an "irresponsible,
If all the bangs had been put must not be tolerated.
To turn over the Education De- has left me more an ever prepared insolent, and godless bureau-
together they would have been to undergo all such hardships with cracy," and who "in solitude has To-day's Poem.
bestridden the field of Indian
powerful enough to empty the harpartment to anyone other than a And the day but one
bour, reduce Hongkong to a desert man who knows the work is in- ense. I feel that Goi helps such sedition like a colossus". He is The night has a thousand eyes,
objectors, and in a man of simple wants and frugal Yot the light of the bright world dies and to cause a thunderstorm lasting famous and it will be well for ou officials to take heed and listen to a fortnight and six hours. With the dying sun.
the words of warning and advice putting them to the test He only habits. The apparent embodiment burdens, then with moh sufferings of gentleness, he is courteous,
If all the fuses on the cmekers as voiced to public opinion and as they can bear
had been joined and fifty-cent's submit..
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refined-implacable. According
F. W. BOURDILLON,
to a British observer who spoke The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one: with him he is a master of Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done. accurate and lacid English--his When Women Rule.
eyes are deep, kindly and entirely According to Mrs. Oliver Bal-sane; his hair is greying a little over the forehead. He has the mont, president of the National "typical head of the idealist"- Women's Party of America, the world before very long will be run the skull well formed and finely modelled; the face narrowing to by women. She was addressing the pointed chin. He speaks an equalrights meeting at Colorado Springs, and made no further te gently and well, and in his voice is "a note of detachment which fevonen: to her ueb-discussed lends uncanny force to the strange statement, advising girls not to doctrines that he has given his Hurry under present conditions,
because antriniony for many people life to teach the doctrines of a was a sort of slavery." Mrs Bel. pure idealist whom the people of ront's picturesque, review of the India reverence as a god. world, is managed by men for
Prof. Gilbert twenty centuries, appealed to her
GANDHI Murray in his atience's risibility. Europe's con-
IN Essays and Addresses dition to-day, she said is not a
ENGLAND, has recalled the very appetising messor very
days when Gandhij strong plea for masculine effi
About the year was in England. ciency. AB women to-day very
cly held the balance of political 1889 a young Indian student, called power, she predicted that the time Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised "In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
*
It was a
worth of crackers fixed on the end, Are we too lethargic to take the they would have reached from matter in hand? Wake up Hong- Hongkong to Shanghai, taken 15 kong.
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hours to burn to the end and may The finger of scorn has been have wakened up the Sikh police pointed at our Education Depart- inan on point daty in Nanking ment for years but this must be Rond.
changed. Times are changing as well as sentiment. The total number (estimated)! We stand on the threshold of explosions during the two days was China, the Lighthouse we have been 8.466,890; there were 250 duds and called, but our lamp burns dim and the waste paper collected from the needs retrimming This can be streets will constitute enough done only by a qualified and ex- material to complete the reclama perienced teacher drawn from our February 7-Coronet Theatre;tion of the harbour at Wanchai, Jackie Coogan in "My Boy."
February 7: Star Theatre; All the amake compressed into
"The Wild one-pint jar, could have been let Mary. McLaren in
loose and blown last Tuesday into Goose."
February 7-World Theatre; the middle of next week. Harold Lloyd in Why Worry,"
February 18. Pianoforte Recital at City Hall, 5.30 p.m.
February 8.-Performance given
SOCIAL.
Hotel.
February 23.-Royal Air Force March 1-St. David's Society Re-union Dinner.
Dinner.
"SPORT.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Education Department-one who' has grown up with the education of the Colony.
In conclusion I would say that the Education Board has failed miserably. If at the last meeting it had insisted on its rights to discuss appointments it would have been in a position to dictate the present contemplated one, but went ILS lambs to the
The popular concert party of they
Kowloon, on Friday,
Yours truly, FATHER OF TEN. Hongkong, February 2, 1924..
is my aim-is in doing good against was not far distant when women came to England to study law. Hel by the Popular Concert Party of the "Diomede" is to give a per- slaughter."
would take over the affairs of the was rich and clever, of a cultivated / H.M.S."Diomede" in Paladeformance in the Palace Hotel, evil. Still I. adopt that phrase world, and when there would be family, gentle and modest in his because it is well known and easily established a women's government manner. He dressed and behaved understood, and because at prosent by women for the beneat of like other people. There was Mr. Bel- nothing particular about him to the great majority of my people can humunity in general
To me the munt said they must look to women show that he had already taken a
Fobruary B-Fourth tournament! only grasp that iles.
outside the ranks of fashionable Jain vow to abstain from wine, ideas which underlie the Gujarati society to take the initiativo in from flesh, and from sexual inter
When I met him in of the Hongkong Boxing Associa hymn and the Sermon on the forming this world's government. Mount should revolutionize the!"For nine years," she said. "I have England, in 1914, he ate, I believe, tion at the Theatre Royal, 9.15 p. of The Hongkong Tramway Co.
been as one crying in the wilderness only rice and drank only water Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, whole of life."
to women of wealth and leisure to and slept on the floor; and his inst released from an Indian jail
When some of his followers give over their pleasures and frivoli wife, who seemed to be his com- owing to broken health, is not quite yielded to the temptation to aseties and do something to justify panlon in everything, lived in the I have tried in same way. His conversation was 55 years of age. He studied law in physical forco, he wrote a protest their existence.
vain. No reform ever appealed to that of a cultivated and well-read
GANDHI.
course.
WEDDING BELLS.
HAYWOOD-SEARLE
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The pretty wedding took place at St. John's Cathedral this morning The draw for the Junior of Miss Violet Constance Scarle
London, and began the practice of in Young India, November 24 people who have all they want," man, with a certain indefinable of the Hongkong and Shanghai Championship of the Golf Club has and Mr. Guy Robson Haywood,
troubles..
Little damage is reported as a result of last night's storm. Several junks were overturned in the harbour, but no lives were lost.
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bride looked charming in, her February 25. Thirty-seventh
dress of ivory satin and lace... meeting of the Hongkong and A Reuter · message from She wore a long veil but no SYNPATHY cing judgment | Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Moscow states that the Revolution- train and carried a bouquet of roses. Her going-away Ltd., at Messrs. Jardine's offices, 11ary military tribunal at Chita white
sentenced. General Pepelaieff and costume was of pale blue char- February 11 Annual General twenty of his adherents to death meuse, with a squirrel fur coat Residents and 45 others to 10 years and and blue hat. She was given Kowloon Meeting
eleven to five years' imprisonment. away by her father, Mr. Henry H.
Hall, 6 p.m.
Koltchak's army, led various opera L. E. S. Hodge. Miss Kathleen tions in Siberia and was taken Murphy, the bridesmaid, wore a prisoner last summer.
The presiding JUDGE'S Judge, pronoun-
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it in South Africa. If all Indians 1021, which included this passage: In another part of her rousing suggestion of saintliness." felt about thinge as he does, and. There is only one God for neaddress to the Western adherents bohaved accordingly, he might not all, whether we find him through of the National Women's Party, have gone to jail at all. If all men the Koran, the Bible the Zoad Mrs. Belmont relented just a little as regards the part in the world's could be as civilized or mode as Avesta, the Talmud, or the Gita. government reserved for mere man, religious na he, the world would be And He is God of Truth and Love and indicated that he might be use- freed from its most conspicuous I have no interest in living save for ful in various administrative posi
proving this faith in me. I cannot tions not necessitating a high ordet made my task easy in one way When," he said to an inter- hate an Englishman or anyone slagof, imagination or the exercise of by pleading guilty to the charge Association, St. Andrew's Church Pepelaieff, after the collapse of Searle and the best man was Mr.
much political power. New York's Nevertheless, viewer, "I read in the Sermon on I have spoken and written much millionaire women's leader was namely, the determination of a the Mount such passages as 'Resist against. his institutions, especially most bitter in her allusion to just sentence, is perhaps as dif- not him that is evil, but whosoever the one. he has set up in India Iwomen of leisure and luxury who ficult a proposition as a judge in smitelh thee on the right cheelt turn shall continue to do so if I live, refused to awake to a sense of their this country could have to face. responsibility and duty in a world The law is no respecter of persons.
The H.M.S. "Diomede" con to him the other also; and Love But you must not mistake my con- where they have earned no place for Nevertheless, it will be impossible to ignore the fact that you are in a 'your enemies and pray for them demnation of the system for that of themselves,"
different category from any per cert party will give a performance that persecute you, that ye may be the man. My religion requires re
son I have ever tried or am at the Palace Hotel to-morrow, ⠀⠀⠀ likely to have to try. It would be. the sons of your Father which is in to love him as I love myself. I
Italy And Spain.
impossible to ignore the fact that
There will be a cinemato Galette. heaven, I wen simply overjoyed and would deny God if I did not attempt found my own opinion confirmed to prove it at this critical moment. The recent ceremonial visit of the in the eyes of millions of your graph show for children at the
King of Bpain to the Italian Court countrymen You are a great Helena May Institute on Friday the A Reuter cable, announces the honeymoon at Manila and Baguio. where I least expected it. The Before that (February 36, 1017) enn hardly be regarded as one with patriot and a great leader. Even 8th inst. at 5.30 The Machine has Bhagavad Gité deopened my he said in Made"You may not out political significance. King those who differ from you in been kindly lent by Pathé Orient, Alfonso was accompanied by his
-Advt. impression, anti
Tolstoy's The offend anybody, you may not Prime Minister, who in Spain, mince politics look upon you as a man Kingdom of God is within you harbour an uncharitable thought the recent coup d'etat occupice at of high ideals and of noble and
The thirty-seventh ordinary wave it permanent forms. I do not even in connection with one who Madrid much the same position even saintis life. I have to deal with you in one character only. If
Mr. and Mrs. J. Parsons, Miss like the term passive resistance may consider himself to be your and is playing much the same role of my duty and I do not pre-annual meeting of shareholders of it file to convey, all I mean. It enemy. For one who follows as Signor Musolini in Rome.
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"Empress of Rupaa on hint of the system of which it is mom for an enemy. But there are leader in Italy. They are, catene to hide you as a man subject to be held at the offices of Melar Kadoorie, and Capt. W. Davison themselves to bly at any rate, engaged in similar the laye who has on his own ad Jardine Matheson Co., Ltd. on are passengers on the outgoing
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A Reuter cable reports the death of Mr. Nettleton Goodwin, managing, editor of the Penang
dress of mauve crepe satin with a mauve georgette hat to match. She carried a lovely bouquer of pink roses. A
After the service, which was reception was fully choral, a held at St. George's House. The beautiful wedding cake supplied by Café Wiseman. The happy couple will spend their
was.
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