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THE CHINA

SCENES IN CALCUTTA' someone else's slippers and hurled ST. CATHERINE'S HILL

COUNCIL CHAMBER.

"Battle" for Corporation Leadership.

FOUR-HOUR AFFRAY.

manship.

•Chamber.

them at the victim's back, and then

the whole scrimmage shot irresis

tibly towards the door. As they reached it, a number of rotten eggs

descended on the doctor's head. The

assailants chased him to the Mayor's room where the Corporation guards stopped them.

Meanwhile Professor Ghose had been receiving attention from the Base fuction, and ultimately made, a hurried exit with a dozen' youths hanging on to him.

WINCHESTER.

A Gift to the School.

On chester underlie

HISTORIC CLAIMS..

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the,

emotions

the annual

that

"Domum.""

MAIL.

It was once an article of faith with Wykehamists that the School had been playing on "Hills" ever since its foundation by Wykeham.

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But modern writers are inclined to Air Ministry and White treat the custom as post-Reforma- tion. The earliest evidence for it occurs in the Latin themes which Christopher Johnson, the Eliza- bethan head master, wrote for his pupils benefit about the year 1505: he said that it was no new thing for September 2,

"Domum Day" at Win-boys to shirk games On "Hills." The maddest and most chaotic

Cowering Counc]lors,

Within a few miles of the rail This may be thought to prove that At 4-55, five minutes before scenes ever witnessed in the hismayoral election was due to start,

the habit of playing there was. Itself Way from Swindon to London, and tury of the Calcutta. Corporation)

care-no new thing, But if a school cus-elosu to the highest point' (856) accompanied the second attempt curly 2,000 people were in the monies hold a fresh significance. tom be as much as 20 years old, its feet) of the northern line of the fill the vacnney caused by the laps- Council Chamber and the corridors writes Herbert Chitty in The Times. origin is often "lost in antiquity." Berkshire Downs, one of the six ing of Mr. J. M. Sen Gupta's, alder had ventured into the municipal Catherine's Hill, that much-beloved custom, as it existed in 1647, when is cut into the chalk of the hii-| lenching to it. The councillors who The soll and freehold of St. A lively account of this particular or seven White Horses of England building were virtually prisoners in conical Following is a brief time-synopsis

mount and ancient play the hill was the only playground side, writes a correspondent of of what might suitably be entitled the Mayor's room and the club room, ground, known to Wykehamists by available for the boys, is preserved "The Great Munipical Farce":-

and between the two ran the Cor- the terser but more expansive name in the Latin poem written by Robert the Observer. poration officials, at their wit's end of "Hills," will henceforth be the Mathew, then a scholar of the Col -15-Miscellaneous mob, 1.000

This White Horse is probably strong, mostly students and "Sent knowing what to do,

property of Winchester College lege. On Tuesdays and Thursdays less changed in form than any of Gupta-ites" and

The "force" at the disposal of the and thus the privilege of resorting the school processed to the hill be- his "Bose-ites" in

fellows. Blis curiously squal proportion, storm the Council Anglo-Indian sergeants and a hand- enjoyed for centuries; but upon a midday dinner, and their games in-rude British copies of the horse councillors consisted of two sturdy to the hill, which the School has fore breakfast and again after the elongated figure is not unlike the 4-10-Mr. Subhas Hose's portrait enough to prevent the club room and verted into an

ful of durwans with batons-just somewwat vague basis, becomes con- eluded quoits, handball, bat-and-ball, on the gold coins of Philip II. of Torn daw the Mayor's roam from being storm-Chalk pit, trench, labyrinth, domum within the trench until Prefect of Dawns there may indeed, be the

Indefensible right, and football; they were

Here on the English confined Macedon. after free glit.

4.45-Dr. B. C. Ray enters Cham-the heretical, suggestion that the ing slump of beech, will all be theirs. the

Nobody dared even whisper cross, misery corner and the crown Hall cried "Domam" as signal for shadow of a shadow of Greece. ber, is pelted with eggs and flung Swarajist Corporation should

homeward march. The later Above the White Horse, and the

roke Lal Bazar.

The hill has been ecclesiastical history of the custom, its develop-sweeping curves and dying fall of Se guile was chl-property for thirteen hundred years, ments, its deeline and fall, and its the hill (where, according to ployed.

Somebody stuck on the for it stands within the parish of abolition by Dr. Ridding in 1868, legend, St. George killed the 5-15-Councillors, besieged in ing that the mayoral election was of the wide area of lands with which Cook's book, "About Winchester a huge ancient hill-fort. club room and Mayor's room, decide ones, and that the aldermanic King Kinegils endowed the Church College," which is a far-reaching

Leather Sule Canvas Shoem... 4.50 The old Ridgeway, or Icknield Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $ 5.00 to postpone mayoral election andtion would be held at G. proceed with aldermanic election at uncillors, cowering in their rooms, archaeology yet another thousand. Briefly, the main causes of its fall Roman tracks, runs past its ram-Black or Brown Shoes from 88.00 Mathey's poem. Street, one of the best-known pro-Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 of Wessex. But we are taken back by commentary on hoped that the mob would not have{ years, when we study the history of were the superior attractions of arts. Away to the west, in a Black or Brown Boots from ..$ 8.00|| the patience to wait 10 minutes.

the hill as it is elucidated by three "Mendis," when this part of the col- grove of trees whose leaves are Hy 5-30 the crowd, so far from wykehumists, having thinned, had been increase atyres and Stevens, in a volume Warden and Fellows to the school, cave.

Hawkes,lege grounds had been ceded by the arely still, lies Wayland Smith's At the foot of the hills, 15 throngs of stalwart Moslems recently published by the Hampshire and the growth during the first half the next parish, stands the from the Hogg Market.

Entot Field Club. In the Early Iron Age of the nineteenth century in the Blowing Stone. To the south is seething mass Mrs. K. C. De pluckily it was long occupied by Celts, a race organisation of cricket and other G-17--Names of Prince Goldam forced her way in an effort to see which preferred hill-tops to valleys games, Hussain Shah, Mr. Subhas Bose and if the rowdies would listen to a wo for their settlements. Their eccll- Mr. J. M. Sen Gupta proposed. Mr.

man. With difficulty she mounted Sen Gupta's name withdrawn.

the rostrum and interceded with the 6-26-Meeting adjourned in hope-mob, but though the latter listened, tempera were too high to obey. Mr. Razzak also tried his hand but in

laid on mayoral chair.

out..

5.0 Meeting due to start)-

ed.

in-1

Mob of 2000 m floor of Chumbi duor of the Chamber a notice stat- Chilcombe, and Chilcombe was part fare fully narrated in the late A. K.] Dragon), is set Uffington Castle,

and in gallaries.

6-0.

6-46-Panie owing to incursion of ""goondas."

G-10-Forty councillors fight way

into Chamber.

6-15-Mrs. De presiding, meeting

starts.

less disorder,

0-30-Three Congressmen, nearly lynched by "goondas" and youths, saved by Corporation guards.

6-15-Corporation guards escort Congressmen to their cars,

7-30 Pence.

rowdies.

it was the who were

were immune from attuck.

vain.

The

Speeches Drowned in General Uproar.

Messrs.

Alfred's Castle, another hill-fort; southwards, neurer to Lambourn, is another group of tumuli (some twenty or more), well known as the Seven Barrows. Everywhere) about these hills are traces of ancient work.

In 1894, to preserve the memory pation of it. in varying states of of the custom and also the rights defence, may be roughly dated as claimed in connection with it.. Dr. lasting from 500 to 150 B.C.: it Fearon instituted a formal visit to ended in a violent destruction of the the hill twice whole settlement, perhaps by the apart from these visits, Wykeham-quiet place of deep memory, with year. Though, This anbroken downland. 14

custom en-

the

Belgae, when they came to establish ists no longer climb the hill as a themselves on what is now the site compulsory duty, yet their affection the White Horse towards Oxford n wide view across the Vale of of the city of Winchester. They in for the great, perhaps greater than and, northwards, towards their turn were subdued by the it was while their Romans.

slopes of the Cotswolds, belongs It is amusing to note that dured. Now that they have been to to the inheritance of the English. in 1765 the trench was deemed by its owners, appreciation of the gift is near, to the central monu- Tom Warton to be the work of the wil be soon shown by vigilance to rents of Britain, the bith-place Danes, and that some 50 years ago preserve its amendment. Let the of King Alfred, and the scene of the details of the encampment were stranger be restrained from, dis- some of his victories. It is dif expounded to the present writer figuring the soil with his initials, cult to speak in easy terms of its

on the theory that it had been and the motorcycles from perpetrat beauty. fortified by a Roman legion,

At 6 the councillors made up their minds to do or die and 40 of As Vi Tuesday,

them pushed into the Chamber Swarajis! councillors

The mob was cajoled into giving up boot, hustled and insulted by the the rostrum and three row of scate. The Moslems, the Euro Behind these it entrenched itself: peans and the nominated members Mrs. De was voted to the "chair

and the aldermanic election proceed- Rowdies Capture Sents in Chambered amid indescribable uproar. Mr. After the reproaches showered on. N. Banerjes, seconded by Dr. them on Tuesday, the Corporation K. S. Roy, was heard to propose Mr. |

The Chapel on the Hill. executive made no attempt to close Subhas Bose. Dr. Moitra signified

The hill took its name from the the meeting to the public. Every the name of Mr. Sen. Gupta, Mr. entrance gaped hospitably, and from Narayain Roy seconding; and Mr. Chapel, dedicated to St. Catharine 2-30 the "gentlemen of the gallery" Mohammed Rafique, backed by Mr.) of Alexandria, which stood trooped in..

Razzak, managed to put forward medieval times upon its summit. The earliest document in which Prince Golam Hassain Shah.

But this time the galleries were not enough. At least 600 of the rowdies made themselves at home on the floor of the Chamber. They eat-three in each councillor's sent; squatted, packed like sardines, in the gangways, draped themselves round the walls, played "I'm the King of the Castle" with the mayoral chair, stood on the Press seats, the execu- tive officers' seats-in fact any seats from which they could evict the sit, ting occupant.

They also swung consultation. like acrobats from the railings of the galleries, which, of course were crowded, and the corridors outside

resembled a Rugby scrum.

"King of the Castle."

that was

in

true that

ing noisy stunts around the trench. The reintroduction of a flock of sheep would restore the turf to that close-cropped state which made it so pleasant for eye as well as foot some 50 years ago.

ALLEGED USE OF INFLUENCE FOR ALCOHOL PERMITS.

These are the boundaries of an area-one and a half square miles

which the Air Ministry pro. poses to set apart as a bombing ground!

War Office and Destruction.

For some years past the, War

folly for its choice of practice- grounds. Even in the last decade

of the nineteenth century there

Dr. Moitra, raising his volee to athere is an indisputable reference to US. VICE-PRESIDENT Office has deserved the cup of bellow, began a speech

this chapel is a quit-claim made by inaudible live feet away, Mr. Edward I to Bishop Pontissara in Mohammed Rafique simultaneously 1284; the property quit-claimed in- expostulated against the exclusion cluded the advowson of the church

was little excuse for the seques- of certain Moslem councillors unable of Chilcombe, with the chapel of

tration of some of the loveliest to get in owing to the crowd: teh St. Catharine. It is

and rarest acres of Salisbury other councillors were on their feet Domesday Book ascribes no fewer

Plain or the remote hills of Dart- Washington Sept. 8. trying to persuade the crowd to give than nine churches to Chilcombe,

moor 4s artillery ranges. But them a little more space, and Mrs, but a satisfactory list of them can Major Maurice Campbell, former England was. still # spacious De and Mr. Ramiah held an anxious be drawn up without recourse to the prohibition administrator for New country. and most Englishmen chapel. For the date at which it York who retained his post for an had little chance of escaping The galleries howied for Subhas was built we have to rely, in the unprecedentedly long period before from the towns in which modern or Sen Gupta and in the corridor absence of documents, upon the dis-his recent resignation, in the first machines had entrapped them. behind the Mayor's chair a throng coveries due to the recent excava-of a series of Interviews revealing Now for better or for worse~~

drawn from them.

of Moslems began community shout- tions, with the inferences to be his troubles as administrator said and one cannot say for worse- ing, thoir-cry being "Alla-ho-

to-day that Vice-President Charles England is more open to the Eng. The war cries of the rivai Akbar."

The excavations, since covered up Curtis, while still a Senator, used lish people. In large numbers factions swelled at intervals into Dr. Moitra tried again. At least again revealed the chapel as a large his influence to have several alcohol they are still insensitive to the cshing crescendos; but for the two other councillors were on their aiale-lcsa cruciform bullding, which permits granted

beauty which surrounds them, most part the noise in the Chamber feet addressing the House, but Dr. incorporated within Its chancel an

The full revelations are expected still careless of its treatment. was a disjointed, methodless Maitra alone could be heard from older oratory of small dimensions, to implicate a considerable number Yet many have already learned to

and there Was an cacophony of yells, jeers, aniggers, the Press table.

adjunct which of men now or formerly in high value the loneliness of lonely and bursts of laughter, in keeping Mr. Sen Gupta “Shocked."

probably provided lodging for a federal office.

placea; by precept or example with the mixed character of the The Statesman is informed that priest. It is suggested for architec- Upon receipt of news of Major great departments of State-the mob. Probably 50 per cent. of the Mr. J. M. Sen Gupta does not desire tural reasons that this large chapel Campbell's charge to-day, the Vice Board of Education and the Office invaders, were mere idlers from the lo be re-nominated as an alderman. was erected at some date between President issued a formal state of Works-have done much to streets belonging to no party and It is understood that Mr. Sen 1110 and 1126, and this suggestion ment in which he denied that he save the monuments of England merely out to see a tamasha and Gupta saw her husband in Alipore squares with what is known of the had ever exorted pressure to bring from defacement or senseless des-

Gaol when Mr. Sen Gupta declared cult of St. Catherine. Introduced about granting of alcohol, permits. truction. At intervals, a boy in a Gandhi that he was pained and shocked at into England as a result of the First United Press. cap mounted the rostrum and raised the controversy. He never realised Crusade, her cult quickly became his hand or blew a whistle, but no that in the Congress Party, there popular, and during the twelfth body beyond a radius of two yards was so much opposition to his re-entury many chapels were built paid any attention to him. The maining in the Corporation as an upon hilltops and dedicated to the life-size portrait of the late Mr. alderman.

make a row.

C. R. Das, the first Mayor of Cal- cutta and founder of the Swaraj Party, seemed to look down on the spectacle in bewilderment.

A khaddar-clad boy hoisted him. self out of the throng jostling round the rostrum, clambered over the official reporter's desk and attained the mayoral chair, where he planted a ̈ picture of Mr. Subhas Bose and a

batants.

GIRL ABDUCTED,

DENTIST AND ACCOMPLICE FAILED.

saint whose body had been miracul-

ously buried on Mount Singi.

An Opportune Confession.

The military authorities are alone in their boorish vandalism. The hills above Lulworth' are an exercise ground for ear-shattering. tanks; nearly every year the people of Surrey have to fight for their open spaces. Army huts

The chapel disappeared in Re-Little Charlle: You do, look tired, and ugly military houses still formation times, but how is uncer-;

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Mother probably received the naive the downland which rises to the as regards Thomas confession garland of flowers. Four patriots The supreme court handed down a Wolsey, it may be that hearsay had Doubtless she would be amused--pos

with mixed feelings. White Horse Hill. of an equally immature age boxed decision last Saturday, sentencing confused with him a man of same-sibly proud at this clover display of The Need for Control, his ears. The picture was torn and Felleisimo Bustos, dentist, and Fewhat similer names. Thomas opportunism in her offspring, What a scuffle ensued. The mayoral lino Reyes of Pampanga to 14 years, Wriothesley, afterwards Earl of little Charlie's feelings were is not Are there no remote cabbage Possibly, a little later, felds in Bedfordshire or North chair, with its rich leather uphol-eight months and one day Imprison- Southampton, had in 1538 lease when the surfeit of janr began "to atering and inscribed City Arma, ment for abducting Aurora Pineda, from the monks of St. Swithun make itself felt they would not be Buckinghamshire-scarcely was knocked over and trampled on. a pharmacist of Tarlac. Leopoldo which included the chapel and the quite so pleasant, But Charlie thier than the White Horse Hill The galleries cheered on the com- Dizon, a chauffeur, who was con- cemetery ditched about it, and the wouldn't worry because there is al from the ring of aerodromes near victed in the lower court, as accera lease was renewed in 1542 by their Haka remody at hand in the house, Oxford, and almost as free from

He knows that mother can always Mob hysterics reached its height plice of the two accused was acquit successors, the Dean and Chapter of quickly cure stomach pains with villages or scattered housed as when the tall figure of Dr. B. C. ted upon the recommendation of the the Cathedral. From Wriothesley's Baby's Own Tablets, and they are so the downs near. Lambourn where Roy appeared at the doorway. With attorney general

Bagobe destructive propensities It is conjec pleasant to take the patient earth and sullen land- him were Professor Ghose, Mr. Miss Pineda was abducted by Dr. tured that he ruined the chapel for

Baby's Own Tablets are a specific scape could well endure specially designed to moet the medi- Madan Mohan Burman, and Mr. Bustos and bis accomplice, while the the profit to be derived by selling its cinal requirements of infant and little upon score of bomba? B. V. Ramlah the Corporation was alone at her drug store in Con- materials. He was connected with children. They quickly correct dis A modern Cabinet is over- Secretary Dr Roy in the most cepcion, Tarlac, on May 2, 1929. Winchester College, not only because ordered stomach and constipation, whelmed with work, Its members prominent of Mr. Bose's unimpri- Bustos accompanied by Reyes drag- he sold to them upon terms highly foverishness, colds and aroup. Dur- have little time to consider inter

check diarrhoea. expel vorma, allay. zoned supporters. He forced his ged the girl into an automobile with lucrative to himself the site of their ing teething Baby's Own Tablets are cata which are not vociferous and way to the centre of the the intention of taking her to Pan dissolved neighbour, St. Elizabeth's, especially indispensable, instantly eas problems which can be shelved Chamber, There be, was surgasinan. When the girl realized but also because In 1545 they aping the pains and thus inducing, in allence. Yet is it, too much rounded by a band of youth she was helpless she told Bustos pointed him, perhaps more from sound natural sleep a tremendous to hope that a Ministry represent fal opponents who bellowed and that, she would gladly go with him fear than favour, to be High Guaranteed, under public analyst's in pre-eminently the peace-loving

boon to both baby and parents alike. gesticulated wildly in his face. A if he took her to Macabebe, Pam-Steward of their manors, a post certificate, to contain no opiates or Commons of this realm should boy with raving hair picked up an panga, the home town of Bustos, which he retained until his death narcoties, as to be safe, nure and give at least a few minutes" umbrella, and missed the doctor Ber fatention was to ask for ald in 1650. It la possible that while fective for the allments they are to thought to these quiet Downa, only because the latter was swipt from her relatives residing in ho was lessee of the all the School dren vory awn medicine Obtain these zoble views, these lovely

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