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FRIDAY, JANUARY, 22, 1932.

AKEAR'S CITY

THE RUINED HOME OF THE GREAT MOGUL,

womy Unless the nations can learn to adjust the differences between them in peace and with intelli- gent concern for common inter ests, conferences upon minor sub- jeeta will be iofiamall importance.

Some pf these views emanat Down Akbar's road we go,, to see different points of view. ing from such a high banking Red and yellow notices are up Britain's Elizabeth, set the first the Moslem taxi-driver and I Akbar, the contemporary of authority may not be re-echoed all over Agra calling on all true example of holding the balance by Interests outside America; patriots to boycott British between the. Hindu and Moslem but, even so, much can often be goods; shops are closed, and arreligions, though in later life he gaining. by studying the angle of dent Congressmen are requesting seems to have acquired a strange everyone to make things as unprejudice against Islam, inspired experts, outside one's own coun-comfortable as possible for the perhaps by Jodhbal Begum, the try.

representatives of a foreign Goy-mother of his heir.. ernment. However, the Moslem Here is Akbar in lighter vein. taxi-driver, true to the age-old Near his private room is an open contempt of the true believer" court, divided into squares, with for "the idolater," takes a soli-a raised seat at one end. Here tary British woman out for the Great Mogul once sat, play- day's expedition quite unmoved. ing chess with live slave girls Newspaper Reporters.

The twenty-three miles be- for pieces: Not far off are rooma Newspaper reporters are unfor tween Agra and Fatehpore Sikri, where he is said to have played tunate beings. Sub-editors regard Akbar's, city, are soon covered, hide-and-seek with his harem, n as their legitimate prey. much sooner than Akbar ever tradition which hangs so per- Public men look upon them as traversed them, with his retinue sistently round Mogul palaces necessary evils and civil servants of servants soldiers, camels, that one cannot help thinking it view them as evils without the horses, and harem ladies in clos- must have some foundation in former qualification. But the ed howdahs on elephants. Now fact. ubiquitous gentlemen of the Press the deserted city rises before us, can boast of very ancient lineage, standing on a long ridge and sur- As far back as 1772, an historian, re rounded by a

red sandstone corded that Bille, a. Milosian King crenellated wall. Up we go, un- of Spain, had a son named Gollamb, der the gate where musicians who asked his father to send mill- whenever. Akbar entered the city, once played a triumphal march tary help to Phoenician traders, who were suffering from piratical onto the central point-namely, els represent birds and animals, Akbar's private room, writes for the early Moguls had, appar- raids. The King acceded, and a fleet of thirty ships was sent from Guardian.

Correspondent to the Manchester ently, no scruples about disobey- Corunna to Syria. In the ships

ing the Prophet's prohibition re- "were embarked twelve youths of It is a battered stone apart-1 gurding the making of anything uncommon learning, who were ment, of which the only beauty that has life. However, the sixth directed to make remarks on what lies in its fine sandstone carvings, Mogul, Aurungzebe, a strict ever they found new, either in as-but it is interesting on account Moslem, has evidently been at tronomy, navigation, arts, sciences, of its position. From this room work here, for most of the birds or manufactures. They were

Akbar could, in a few moments, and animals have had their communicate their remarks without being seen, reach the heads knocked off; a curious par discoveries to one another and to chief buildings in his city: the allel to the Puritan vandalism amongst the most worthless. The keep an exact account of whatever harem rooms, the halls of public that was going on during part of was worthy of notice." As this oc- and private audience, the record Aurangzebe's reign in the east- gold standard affords a common curred quite a long time before the office, the mosque, the saint's ern countries of England Hard basis of values and a new cur-Romans landed in Britain, those sible from Akbar's private room. Akbar erected a Turkish bath for

tomb, even the stables, are acces by his Badshah Begum's hom rency to be introduced in all who follow the arduous and thank Centralisation was his great the lady's comfort. countries in place of the cures faak of news gathering no idea, not only for the ruling of longer need wince under the rencies with which the different vindictive slashing of the sub- his city but for the government peoples are now familiar would editorial be accepted about as readi-Gazette. lyas Esperanto. has been British Diplomats Plight.

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The Chief Wife's Abode. Here is part of a harem house where Akbar lodged his Badshah Begum, his chief wife, and, inci- dentally, his first cousin.

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is beautifully carved. one room is left, but every inch Some pan-

The building which he put up for the Hindu mother of his heir, Prince Salim, is a much more splendid erection. in point of space. Indeed, some say that Ak- bar turned the lady out and in- the pavilion style imported from habited it himself. It is built in Central Asia and common to all. Mogul palaces, with Hindu h architecture. Buence visible everywhere in the

World Currency. Attention has once again been

of India. drawn in London to the heavy

The Hall of Public Audience. surpluses of gold in France and

Up and down this fascinating the United States. Mr. F. C.

The plight of British diplomats old Moslem descended from the pince I roam all day, guided by an Goodenough, presiding at the an- all existing languages. How and consular officers abroad, owing sixteenth century hermit whose nual meeting of Barclay's Bank, long, for instance, would it be to the loss on the exchange, is be-tomb is in the precincts. Here is asserted that unless some means likely to take to induce the people countries where the cost of living where Akbar sat on a raised coming serious. Especially in the Hall of Public Audience, were found to make gold circulate of France to accept a currency is notoriously higher than in Bri- platform dispensing justice and more freely gold would no longer which had no French word or tain, and commodities are about 80 hearing petitions. Some of the part of the whole city is the huge To many the most fascinating be capable of serving as a basis symbol upon it, in place of their per cent. more expensive.

Moguls thought it highly neces; enclosure containing the marble of currency, credit and measure-

Take, for example, a consul in, sary to be publicly seen every tomb of Salim Chishti, a hermit, own currency?

say, Switzerland, with a salary of day, fearing the spread of rum- beloved of Akbar, the tombs of ment of world prices, in which

It is a safe proposition that the £1,000 a year. He loses on the ex-surs of their death through pal his family, shaded by trees, those countries would in disorders in industry, trade and has to pay £58 income-tax, which is organisation. The hall is a gate, the tallest in India. An in- change £338, and furthermore he ace intrigue, and consequent dis Akbar's mosque, and Akbar's. evitably be faced with enormous finance from which the world is deducted at the source, and he is square building with a huge cen describable sense of peace hangs impatiently demanding relief are not entitled to a refund as are tral pillar and corbelled capital. over this part of the city, Home- The inadequacy of gold for all directly traceable to the ad-ordinary British subjects resident Four stone causeways run from thing akin to the peace of a cathe world requirements is also rais-vent of the greatest War ever him, out of a salary of £1,000, not corners of the building, in each marble and the gleaming mother- abroad. Thus there remains to the top of the pillar to the four dral close. The glorious carved od once more by the London known into a world society more more than 2014 Times, which, after pointing out highly

of which there is a flight of of-pearl of the hermit's tomb, organised and inter that the annual production is in- dépendent than ever had existed official in this capacity, who has Akbar once sat to receive his mosque where Akbar prayed, I happen to know a British steps. On the top of this pillar the soaring arches of the very sufficient to meet debts due to before. It will be well if all the two boys being educated at a public friends, who gathered on the the nobla trees overhanging the France and the, United States, economic and financial doctors

school in Britain, costing him £300 floor below. Hindu fakirs, Mos- graves, the lofty gate, inscribed says these countries have most who are planning remedies for

a year.

lem pirs, Jesuit missionaries by Akbar's orders with the words all were welcome here; and with "Said Jesus, on whom he peace, Other diplomats and consula to fear from the gold problem, present ills and future needs take have actually been obliged to sell them Akbar would discuss ques- the world is a bridge, pass over and suggests that recent events this fundamental fact into ac their insurance policies, to which tions of life and conduct, some it, but build no-house there show that certain countries count. If they are planning for they have been subscribing for the pillar to sit among them. Again of stately dignity, enhanced by times even descending from his all this produces an impression would require little encourage a monetary system that will ends meet-Peterborough in the everyone in authority in India, and planning visible in all their last twenty years, in order to make

We see the principle guiding the lordly Mogul line, balance, ment to link up their currencies afford stability through another Daily Telegraph. with sterling, "provided the Bri war like the last one they had

then and now; he must be able architecture. tish Budget is balanceable and better recognise that the task is that there is no enforced issue an impossible one. If they are of currency, sterling will make a planning only for normal times

News in Brief. better basis than gold.",

they may as well leave it to the The mail for Hong Kong dis correspondent suggests natural evolution of the ban ng patched from London via Negapa silver might be used business. It is fairly certain that tam on December 24 has been seri

ously delayed and is not expected to arrive until Friday next, 29th |

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H. HYNDMAN, JUN.

Funeral at Happy Valley Cemetery.

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Henry

death was Truth will meet you more than Chinadail, half way at any time. nan Catholic Valley, Inst

às a mono- metallic basis there never will be a made-to for currency and that the order world system exercising instant. British Empire, South America, authority over the monetary sys- Asia, Japan, Germany, Italy, tems of all countries.

Further hearing of the dispute Scandinavia and most small will be a natural growth of co-pasit receipt for $8,000, issued by between two Chinese over a fixed de European countries would prob- operation in the future, as there the Bank of China, was, yesterday Hyndman, jun, whos

The funeral of ably be willing to form a sterling has been in the past, as the reternoon, edicurned by the Chief reported in yesterday or silver group with a gold groupsult of a growing knowledge that

Justice until Monday morning, took place consisting of the United States the real interests of all countries The patient reported to have evening, the Very Rev. Fr. G. M. France and one or two smaller are not in conflict but in har been robbed. At a dental surgery Spada, Rector of the Rosary countries. The Times remarks mony Conferences will develop

In Alexandra Building was Dr Church, Kowloon, officiating at the that while no one pretends that mutual understanding and con- Had the misfortune to have his

EC Humphreya's mechan

gravesi this is an ideal solution to the fidence, but such relations must coat and wallet stolen whilst work world's economic troubles it will be tent

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Ten Years

From the China

January 22, 1922.1

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