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CLOSER UNION IN AFRICA SOUGHT.

Time Not Ripe For Final Step.

GOVERNORS PARLEY.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932

Strange Customs Of Assam Related

Lecturer Tells Of Wild Tropic Tribes

DIFFICULT DIALECTS

Simla, August 20.1in a kind of open litter to attend

Speaking on "A head hunter's meetings. Others are so democra

London. Yesterday." Correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Governors of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia! and the British resident Commis- sioner at Zanzibar,"concerning the raport on closer union in East | Africa has been published,

"On the main issue the Commit-Frontier" Dr. Hutton, of the Artic that there appears to be no or- tee had advised it was no time for sam Civil Service, describes the ganisation at all. When peace the erection of a constitutional people living around the south has reigned for some time in the union but recommended, however bank of the Brahmaputra › and in village they have been known to that the Governor's Conference the eastern regions of Assam to assert that young men were- get- should be used to ensure the con-wards the borders of Burma. ting slack and needed war. So tinuance and effective co-operation Ha likened their "culture to those war was declared without the in regard to matters of common found in Bornea and New Guinea.necessity of any better pretext" interest in East Africa. ⠀⠀⠀

The languages are extremely poly-than that mentioned. It is not un-- Letters expressing the views of glot and there are so many dia- common for a village to prefer war the Governors are followed by a lects that sometimes in a village, to peace. Diplomacy for them despatch from the Colonial Sacre-one side of the street is unable to means treachery, so that the pro tary, dated July 13, in which Sir understand the other. The langu-mise of peace merely means that Philip Cunliffe Lister accepts the ages spoken by the Nagas, es- their fortifications must be mora Committee's view on the main pecially, are most dificult to learn strongly guarded against treach Issue. The suggestion for the as they are most prolific in con-ery than when war is openly des creation of unified control of the crete ideas, there being so manyclared. “ basin of Lake Victoria by some re-different words to describe one ac One was somewhat reminded of arrangement of the existing buntion. Dr. Hutton gave as an in- Buddhism when told the story of daries is not accepted, and in this stance that there would be five a tiger being hunted near the lec connection the Colonial Office des- distinct variations for the verb "to turer's dwelling. It walked past patch points out the necessity of wash," to wash the face, hands. one young Naga warrior who did bearing in mind the terms of the body, dishes, or clothes. All not even step aside to let it pass, mandate under which Tanganyika would be expressed by quite differ-nor attempted to use his spear or Is administered.

ent words or roots. A clever lin-shield with which he was armed. The Committee's baller in the gulst would take eighteen months All cried, "Why did you not try to value of a white settlement as an at least to learn the language.kill it?" to which he replied, "It important element in the progress

Its my cousin. It is a common be Preserving the Dead. of East Africa is shared by the

lief that souls enter other bodies. These people's ideas of theology during sleep and it has been Colonial Minister who adds that

appear to be coloured by the fact known that when a leopard is shot no further subsidised settlement that they have no words whatever the man who swears his soul was should be undertaken unless it can to express the abstract, so that in that leopard dies.. Amid many cries and protests, be established that it is econo one can only presume that for them

Village Customs. mically justified at least on paper Congress did

the abstract is non-existent. The definition of the doctrine of Their idea is that life is perpetual these people to tell the truth is to The only method of inducing balance the budget and levy Paramounter as meaning that the and flows from the dead body as make them swear an oath on the new taxes to produce the re-interest of the overwhelming liquid might into the ground lives of a village as there is a quired revenue. Nor must Con- majority of indigenous population which it fertilizes. Suppose crops common belief that anyone swear- gress be denied credit for what should not be subordinated should fail and cattle die of pes- ing falsely: forfeits the lives of the those of the minority belonging to tilence, it would be ascribed to a villagers, and a large percentage

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American Politics.

it resisted, as well as for what another race, is accepted as au- lack of life, the next village would of the village has been known to The complicated machinery of it did. Many foolish or danger-thoritative, but the importance of be raided for dead bodies whose die within a year after swearing Government ini the United ous bills

got their quietus. giving adequate security to non souls would fertilise the ground States is always a source of won-Several of these unfortunately settled is emphasised. On the beast and humans, so that life

native communities permanently producing corn to be eaten by a false oath.

Dr. Hutton related how he ac der and perplexity to outside obfor the Democratic party, like language question the desirability would again continue to flow on.

tually caught out a village in this servers and the tangled passage the bonus bill, and the Garner of encouraging the gradual, change

Most of the tribes locate the manner and how many of the vil- lagers did die within a year He of most measures which are in-proposals to strew post offices from Kiswahili to English is soul in the head, hence the prac-attributes it to fright and a guilty

cognised, but for some time to tice of "head hunting." Skulls of

trations surrounds the final des-

Fof great trouble, especially when skulls are sometimes painted with they plead guilty, being afraid of osing their fame if they do not. the patterns with which the face One woman was brought to Dr. was tattooed in life, and the eye Hatton who had picked up a baby sockets filled in with (probably)

Ash ecales and looking glass. A with what was alleged to be a "polsonous hand. The baby had pith nose is added to the skull.

died the pleaded guilty, but anak- Villages on Hilla,

ed how could she help it if babies Villages are usually situated on did die "sometimes when she pick the summit of a hill with cometed them up?

troduced by the various adminis-thick as the leaves in Vallom come practical needs of the situa- the dead are entombed in cist, ¿conaelenco. Witches are a source tination of these bills with an at-rosa, easily passed the House tlon will require the extensive use and, in the case of chiefs, the only to be put to death in the of Kiswahili as a Lingwa Franca mosphere of mystery. But for Senate. There was no lack of

British Wireless Service. all its complications and intrimad projects. Perhaps rather caries the American system of more than the usual number of

News In Brief. Government possesses many lunatic ills were introduced. sound and admirable features, But very few of them became notifiable disease appearing on the One case of cholera is the only notably that which empowers

law. The session might have return for the 24 hours ending the President of the United ended with mutual congratula August 24, States to veto any measure with tions by Senators and Represen- Mr. R. G. Shewan proceeded which he is in disagreement. tatives that they had not harm- Home on holiday to-day by the sa This veto is not necessarily finaled the country nearly so much Empress of Japan. He left Blake As Congress by a, two-thirds

as they might have done. Yet it Pfer at 10a.m. majority may ultimately force can hardly be doubted that Con- The quarantine restrictions in the measure through. But the gress is a good deal discredited posed against arrivals from. opposition of the President is in public estimation. This was Wuchow on account of cholers usually sufficient to kill any par- shown, among other evidences, have been removed.

teries on either side of the road After the lecture, which lasted the village are laid out to rot. shown representing fortresses or up to them wherein the dead of about an hour, lantern slides were

In other villages the dead are solid blocks" of stone laid one upon smoke-dried and hung up in a liv- the other with galleries from ing room till the next Bowing sea- which it appears stones can he son, when they are broken up to hurled down upon assailante, mei

let their soul into the crop women and children all assisting

Some villages boast men who in a truly communist manner in are so holy that they cannot tread fetching stones to build these for upon the ground and are carried tresses,

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