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FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928.

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SIR HARI SINGH.

· RULER OF ROMANTIC KASHMIR.

GARDEN OF ASIA.

THE CHINA MAIL,

[By James Milne,] Sir Hari Singh, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, was recently in Londen attending the conference of Indian Ruling Princes.

that, in token of all this, he went us every year half a dozen Kashmir shawls.

cessor ds over careful that the Kashmir tribute shawls which come annually to King George and Queen Mary shall be the very finest. They represent a loyal salute and a gallant gesture, but what are they against the Vale of Kashmir and all the hill country around it.

brity as the most delicious spot in Asla or in the world." That was long years ago, but Sir Harl Singh's

of its We had so much to do in India principality has lost none romance, none of its gay beauty about the middle of last century- none of its soft charm. There-it John Company and then the nation Is, nestling among the Himalayan,that probably we were glad to eut which, like white-helmeted sen- out Kashmir in this fashion. But tinels, watch severaly over it, joal- It was a wonderful deal for Gulab ous of their charge. It has an agree- Singh, and no wonder that his suc able climate all the year, except that midsummer is hot at Srinagar and along the banks of the Jehlum. It was a pleasant invitation that Nobody goes to Kashmir without came to me in Srinagar a week or learning to love it and its dream two ago, for it read; "The Maha- river, the classical Hydaspes. Ons raja of Jammu and Kashmir at "Sees God in clouds and hears Him home at the Gulab Bhawan Palace." in the wind," and to look down from Not only would there be the jingle the Takht-i-Sulaiman, otherwise the of tea cups, very sweet anusic: on a Throne of Solomon, is to .have warm afternoon in India, but there "Summer in a vale of flowers....! would be a meeting and some talk sleeping rosy at its feet." Even so, with Sir Har Singh, K.CLE. He the Maharaja of Kashmir spends far ranks high among the Indian less time there than he does at Princes, alike for his possessions, Jammu, his other kingdom, south- which are spacious and rich, and ward, not so high among the Hima- for his personality, in which the layas, which is older in his family East and West effectively mest. Ho line; and horeby hangs a most is a faithful son of India, an in-historic tale. heritor of its traditions, and at the same time he is enlightened about the West.

The

HOW KASHMIR CAME.

magic carpet of Kashmir holds many threads of all colours, "I like London," he said that recalling the cuptains who have sunny afternoon at his new Kashmir driven their chariots through it. palace overlooking the famous Dal Alexander passed this way; nay, so Lake; "like it better than its neigh tradition says, embarked on the bour Faris. No doubt a chief ren-Jehlum to get the Indus. Akbar, son for this is that I know English and the other Moghul kings, rested while I do not know French, or their only very little French. One gets on much better in a foreign coun- try when one converses easily with its people; indeed, to be at home with strangers that is necessary." "Moreover," he added, "while. Paris may be prettier smarter, do you Bay?-than London, I am London is kindler. more sympa.

thetic."

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It was suggested to him that probably the great human quality of London is its motherliness, its all-motherliness for all races, and he nodded understandingly. "I should like some day," he went on,

millions of people. its vast energies, and its rapidity of life rather appal me, and I'm afraid I'll never have enough courage to go there." ·

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The appanaga which came toj Gulab Singh was promptly got in hand by him, and by all accounts he ruled with an iron hand, loving! kingship in fact as well as in cir- cumstance. To-day the Iron hand of the average Indian maharaja or raja-great raja or little raja-is at least velvet-gloved, and at Jammu Sir Hari Singh has little State show compared with that which surrounded Gulab. But he has, alike in Jammu and in Kashmir, principalities of far greater worth than they then were, and Kashmir mineral possibilities may some day dazzle the world.

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Sir Hart is never likely, as the summer caravana In the Moghul Akbar did, inscribe Shalimar, the Nasim Bagh, or some Kashmir hill the boast, "Chief of other of their pleasure gardens by the kings of the world....may his the lotua-covered Dal Lake. Kashmir dominions.extend." But in Kash- may be said to have drifted down mir he has a kingdom of singular the centuries, for its people, per delights and of great importance for haps because the silken lotus Infect the future of India, because its ed them, accepted their conquerors waters could refresh all the Pun- rather than struggled with them. jaub and because Srinagar is every So it came to modern times, never year becoming more of a resort for valorous but ever coloured with the Anglo-Indian. He, or oftener, romance, and the bold Sikhs took perhaps, she, is very content to face it from the brave Pathang in 1819, the long railway journey north from when we were settling up our Bombay or Calcutta in order to en- Waterloo victory. It became part joy a house-boat rest on the Jehlum. of the Punfoub, and remained Sikh until the end of the Sutlej campaign, when we occupied Lahore, and so also acquired Kashmir.

Sir Hari Singh's ancestor, the old swashbuckling, roguish, far- seeing Gulab Singh, after whom he names his new palace, was then

Nor has the motor ride of 200 miles from Rawalpindi to Srinagar any terrors, except the risk of

falling over a precipice into the river, for it must be the most en- trancing ride in the world. Moun tains, valleys, trees, flowers, green' grass, and clear water about which

Sir Hart Singh'e figure la Maharaja of Jammu, and of it only. Jehangir's queen might have writ- more than the average He was the head of a Hindoo family ten, "This fountain has come from

Jewellery, Watches, Fancy Goods, etc. height, and he holds it straight in a little State which to-day is the springs of Paradise."-"Daily

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We are removing from our present premises (opposite main entrance of the Hong Kong Hotel) to the new address at present occupied by "At The Sign of the Lantern," in the ground floor of York Building, and have to sell the entire stock.

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and strong, as might be sup- posed, for he is an accomplished polo player, a crack shot, as, the ducks of Kashmir could testify, and # good sportsman generally. Especially he looks well in the tight-fitting jacket, having a high, close collar, and the Jodpore bree- ches which are fashionable with Indian gentlemen. The face is re- gular, yet'móbile in expression; the forehead broad, the nose decidedly aquilline, the mouth sensitive and full, the chin graceful but firm. You would notica Sir Hari Singh even among the nabobs of India for his humorous, observant eye, his air of affability, and his bearing.

Kashmir is the garden of Asia. "Cashmere," wrote Elphinstone, the historian of India, using the old spelling, "still maintains its cele

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Kashmir, Mohammedans, while notwithstanding the religion of its ruler, is almost wholly Mohamme dan. Gulab Singh had helped us in our struggle with the warlike Sikhs, and in consideration of this we made him what was almost a presont of Kashmir.

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