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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1930.

INDIA'S PROBLEM.

A Country of Great Contradictions.

* MUST BE GOVERNED.”

THE CHINA MAIL.

HISTORY OF ART. ĮROUND THE CINEMAS

Baneful Effects of

Commerce..

AN INTERESTING LECTURE.

kay.

Of all the problems confronting In the course of an interesting lecture before the Faculty of Arts Association the British Empire to-day, India is

at the University last night, Mr. the most complex.

William Nolse traced the history of art India is in a political turmoil, and from the Gelan period to the present is full of contradictions.

The lecturer was of opinion that the A great deal of the ferment is unpromising attitude of the various schoola of art culture toward cach directly traceable

ather had reducel art to chaos. He tion into the declaration made by ako deplored the fact that our modern the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, last Octo-machine-making industrial civilisation: ber of that most unfortunate phrase "Dominion Status."

to the introduc.

In India it is delnable by politicians in a bewildering variety of ways. It Was welcomed as manna from the skies by the ex- tremists and other professional poli- Licians.

It appealed to minds nurtured for thousands of years on Oriental philosophy, as no practical suggestion could possibly have done, and they have toyed with it ever since.

the Council

passed a plous resolution welcoming the Viceroy's statement that Dominion Status was implied in the 1917 declaration, of the Indian Central Committee, and Sir Sankaran Nair, chairman of the Indian Central Committee, declared that the future of India lies in the hands of such statesmen as Lard Irwin."

The other day State debated and

of

Now, so much for Delhi-but here comes to light one of those extra- contradictions common. ordinary place in India but extremely puzzl ing to people at home.

The Real Workers.

an

have

For some time been making

intensive study of conditions is Calcutta and gathering impressions. I have not spoken to a single poli- tician, British or Indian, but have had long conversations and discus Bions with men who are the real workers in and for India; men who have spent self-sacrificing lives under the torrid sun-the type of aturdy, intelligent Briton that has built up India's prosperity and gained the love and reverence of the great mass of the people.

And what do I find?

With negligible exceptions. there is not a merchant or shipper, a jute, cotton or piecegoods man, a banker, mill-owner, or machinery in- dustralist who does not say frankly and emphatically that Dominion Status is a will-o'-the-wisp.

To all practical appearances India has not even begun to be ready for such a dangerous experiment, nor will she be ready for genera. And India knows tions to come. lt very well.

One of the biggest British mer- chants, who has spent 30 years in India, talking many of its languages, engaged in many public duties, and universally respected, said to me:

:

Pandits prattle at Delhi, but the real India that is educated- as distinct from the so-called in- telligentsia and the untold mil- lions who live in peace by the sweat of their brows do not wish for anything but the continuity of British law, order, justice, and protection.

Granting would

wholly

be

Dominion Statua forcing something unwanted од

India

intent on materisi progress and mass production, was fast destroying all in dividual craftsmanship,

Mr. Noise explained the attitude of the different modre schools, including impressionism, vertecism and cabism, pointing out what in his opinion were their respective virtues and defects.

and would be the basest be trayal of our most sacred heril

age.

Another said, pityingly:

Are

ex-

Let the Birkish Government grant the independence which the extremist politicians clamouring for. In two years there would be no tremist alive from the Khy- bor Pass to Cape Comorin, from Karachi to Rangoon, but India would be on its knees be- seeching the return of the bene- Aelent British Raj.

India by then, however, would be in such chaos that a hundred years would not suffice for the restoration of cantentment or the re-building of prosperity. Trade and business in India are far from good. The world depres

a certain effect, but there is no doubt that the political situation has reacted much more detrimentally.

alon has had

There have been official denials, and grudging oficial admissions, about the export of capital. The information I have gathered in the most important centres, such as Bombay and Calcutta, leaves nd doubt that this has been very exten aive, not only British, but also Parsee and Indian.

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Miscellaneous To-morrow-Lectures in "Modern Architecture" by Mr. C. E. Moore, University Engineering Society. Secret poisoning through the April 11-Lecture on "Modern ages, from the poisoned arrow tips Methods of Measurement" by Prof. A Vast Market.

before the dawn of history, down C. A. M. Smith, M. Sc. at University," Merchants are afraid to deal through the intensive poisoned. (Institution rooms) 5.30 p.m. ahead. Many ships sail with al-ring period of the Borgias' day.' most empty boticms. Big houses desirous to develop new lines and their hands tied because of the general uncertainty.

India's progress in the past har been remarkable, but few people at home realise that she is probably i still the richest undeveloped part of

the British Empire.

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to the arsenical chocolates, the crime, when twenty matrons were strychnine treated beer and the gin surprised in the act of preparing made fatal with cyanide of potas- poison and compelled to drink their sium, of to-day, formed the subject own medicine. It is recorded that of an unusual lecture before the they all "perished thereby." Marylebone, Division of the Bri- tish Medical Association, recently.

Boiled to Death Penalty, With the Renaissance poisoning, The lecture was given by Sir said the lecturer, became a fine arti

William Willcox in the Wellcome and political polsoning became Historical Medical Museum, where quite legitimate and the order of Pope Alexander VI. and many devices employed by polson- the day. ers of the past are exhibited.

Cesare Borgia

•

Bon bis

made

In common with the animals, quite a feature of this sort of man from the beginning, he said, thing, and at least five cardinals India desires far more-sympathyhad been endowed with protective suffered at their hands before the and help from the British peupla instincts against deadly comestibles Pope fell a victim to one of his than the foggy and impracticable such

Ag poisonous plants and own potions which he drank by

mistake. promises of politicians. The heart berries,

Poisoning in England, continued of real India is true to her old alle- About 4,500 B.C. there was re- giance.

cord of a certain Gula, the goddess Sir William, was not unknown at of poisons, who seems to have been this period, and a statute of Henry,

VII. ordered polsoners to be boiled worshipped

The extensively. earliest known examples of this to death. Poison rings, operated branch of criminal endeavour were, by a spring which jabbed a needle according to Sir William, the dip point into the grasped hand of the ping of arrow heads in the venom intended victim and daggers with poison recesses in the hilt, were popular instruments, while "anti- monyal" cups, in which wine was allowed to stand until it became poisoned with antimony, were not

Indla knows that she must begin at the bottom and not at the top. She knows. too, that she has to be

governed for her own salvation, and that to preserve from ruin the marvellous fabrle that men of the British race have built up in this Vast sub-continent she must be governed.

Great Brital has nothing to be aatame 1 of in India.-Dally Mail.

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Hemlock, of course, played its part in Greek history, and in 331 of the B.C., there are records polsoner's punishment fitting the

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unknown.

Sir William dealt at some length

with antidotes, and pointed out that many of them were not by any means the mare superstitions of the ignorant.

antidotes were toad stones believed Among the more widely used

to be abstracted from the heads of

old toads, "cealed earth" fromn Lemnos, which has its modern counterpart in Kaolin and bezoar

stonea.

Polson sucking stones were also widely advocated in the Middle Ages.

Coming to the present day, the lecturer quoted examples of arsenic cunningly hidden in chocolates, of beer containing strychnine, and of bread treated with powdered glass.

"Secret poisoning." he concluded though still rife amongst the native population in India, Egypt, the Malay States and the West Indies, is fortunately rare in this country. The careful investigation | by the Home Office of all suspect- ed causes renders the risk involved so great that few dare embark on the nefarious and risky campaign.”

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