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Neither the meeting of a club of

MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1933.

THE DOMINIONS' MOST ILL-USED MAN

WARREN HASTINGS: THE

Communiatic tendencies nor its di MAN WHO SAVED INDIA

persal has any bearing on the pro-

gress of political thought at Ox ford. Such incidents are constant- ly recurring.

HIS FINANCIAL REFORM

· (By SIR JOHN MARRIOTT).

The correct procedure for break- ing up a meeting was laid down by Sir Hamilton Grant when he was

"The most ill-used man in the a great province in North-Easton an undergraduato at Balliol. With Dominions of the Crown." With India and of relatively sml a party of friends he came upon a these words the Prince Regent pre-patches of territory in the extreja meeting with whose politica he did sented Warren Hastings to the South of the peninsula. The ea not agree. He told the meeting Allied Sovereigns, statesmen and of territorial expansion had hardy that they should be ashamed of goldiers when they visited England begun. Yet Hastings had prepar themselves and go home. They re- in 1814.

the way for the great work accoj-· fused..

Does any person, whose know- plished by his successors, ‚” Then he told them that he had

ledge of Hastings extends beyond In the middle of the eighteent constituted himself the civil au- Macaulay's famous Essay, to-day century the condition of Inda thority, and proceeded to read what doubt that the words were accurate under many rulers was chaote. he said was the Riot Act. Still the and most happily inspired? meeting persisted.

"Very well," said Sir Hamilton, "I must have recourse to the mill tary. I now constitute myself Commander of the Military Forces nvailable, and call on myself and my troops to disperse you."

Which they did.

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Your Daily Smile.

Codfoud It.

Life, no it seems to me, is cruel, awful, grim, mocking, ghastly, hor- rible and perhaps you've got cold, too.

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"I think," wrote

Lord Macaulay compared the sitų- well-known tion to that of Europe after the

Politician of his own day, "that be death of Charlemagne. Perhaps was a man of the most powerful closer parallel may be found in tie mind I ever conversed with." condition. of China to-day.

Modern research, throwing, off From that situation Indin-wis the spell cast over an earlier rescued by the genius and courate generation by the eloquence of of Warren Hastings.

Burke, and Macaulay-two of the And let it be remembered that - greatest rhetoricians who ever his work in India was done at the used the English tongue-has more moment when England was fight- and more tended to confirm that ing (1775-1788) that disastrous judgment.

war which lost us our first Colonial Rivale in India.

Empire in America. Warren Hast- Warren Hastings was born at ings saved India. What would. Churchill, an Oxfordshire village, have happened to India had he not three miles from Daylesford, on been there it is idle (though in- December 6, 1732, He went as a teresting) to speculate.

1785,

(Continued on Page 11:) S POPULAR POLICE OFFICER DEAD.

Sergeant Williams Passes Away At 29,

child to the village school, but in In 1784 Pitt passed his India A writer says that when he isn't 1747 he was elected, first on the Bill-another stage towards direct home on time his wife always fears roll, to a scholarship at Westmin- Imperial responsibility; in 1785 the worst. Mine doesn't; she al-ater. If the Headmaster had had lastings returned to England. ways fears the thirat.

his way the promising scholar The Whigs were bent on his might have ended his days as an ruin.. At Burke's instance the for granted, but the assumption

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| Oxford" don..

House of Commons impeached him can be carried too far. The

First Abrahamson helped Isaac-

Fortunately for the British Em on twenty charges, framed chiefly Reich has not the cohesiveness Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 9, 1933. born of historical tradition and stein with his fire; and then Isaac-pire the wisdom of schoolmasters on information supplied by Philip his most malignant affinity of character. The people atein helped Abrahamson with his. is occasionally overruled by Pro- Francis, of the North and South differ For one good burn deserves another.vidence. In this ease the immedi- enemy.

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ate instrument of Providence was

Trial Af Westminster. Germany's Future.

entirely in temperament. The

WARNING.

a "hard-hearted guardian," who The trial before the House of. separatist movement in the A youth was fined for dangerous took the boy prematurely away Lords lasted for seven years and The report that in Germany Rhineland, fostered

driving because a 'girl was from school," obtained for him a three months; it ended at last there is a sentiment in favour of French, has died down since the nestling against him. This is what clerkship in the East India Com- (1795) in the acquittal of Hast

evacuation of the occupied area, the restoration of the monarchy, but it has still adherents. The comes of believing-that two heads pany, and shipped off his trouble-ings on every charge preferred

some charge to Calcutta, to make against him. All the most brilliant. perhaps in a modified form, is Southern States, Bavaria

es are better than one.

his way, or to die, as Fate might orators of England-Burke, Sheri quite plausible, although recent pecially, resent Prussia's hege-

decide.

dan and Fox-were his accusers. Warren Hastings landed in 1760; He emerged from the ordeal with cables have given little mention mony in the partnership, That Facts You Did Not Prussia should exercise

Know.

he bade farewell to India, as his innocence triumphantly vindi- of Royalist rumours. Many Ger- dominating influence is inevitable.

Governor-General of Bengal, in cated, but aged, brókan, ruined. mans, faithful to the Republic in Prussia comprises almost two-

The shelves of a new kitchen

He had returned from India a When Hastings first went out, relatively poor, man; his fortune theory, must wistfully remember thirds of Germany's territory,

and three-fifths of Germany's range are so mounted that they re- the stability and prosperity which population. In the Reichsrat, the main level when drawn out with the English company was only one was expended on his defence. He they enjoyed under the Empire Chamber representing the States heavy loads to save a housewife of several European companies managed, indeed, to purchase the which in the course of the preced-smaf) Daylesford property for up to its closing phase, and which as such, Prussia has twenty-six from being scalded or burned.

ing century had established them about £11,000, and the Company they have exchanged for the pre-seats out of a total of sixty-six;

A company has been formed in solves as traders in India. Nor gave him a moderate pension. His Bavaria, next 'on the list, has to sent uncertainties. Men as dis- he content with ten. The States Siam to conduct an air mail ser- was it the greatest. Thanks to the last days till he died in his 86th vice linking the cities of the coun-genius of Dupleix, the prestige of year were accordingly spent in similar in type as Signor Musso-have suffered disabilities to

was much peace and honour. higher than that of the English or lini and Mr. Henry Ford have as which they were, not subject try with the Dutch service between the French company

any other company. serted that the average person under the Empire. For example, Batavia and Amsterdam.

in 1920, all their railways were

For cranking airplane engines When, thirty-five years later, does not particularly care about transferred to the central Gov- the precise system of govern-ernment. This was held to be there has been invented a device Hastings finally left India the operating on an electric light cir-English company was not merely ment by which he is ruled as long necessary in order to make their cult to be slipped over the crank far ahead of all European rivals in the East, but was on the high road as it provides security and an revenues readily accessible for fitting of a band starter.

the payment of reparations. But

to paramountcy over the whole sub- opportunity to earn a livelihood. the Southern States feel that

Between 75 and 80 per cent. of continent from Cape Comorin to Germany looks back upon a series their individuality is gradually the glass made in Czechoslovakia the Himalayas.

GOOD RECORD, British Supremacy. of elections, Reich and State, being submerged. The German is exported, the United States and which have failed to yield a con- Empire, from its establishment England taking about 30 per cent.

This marvellous transformation, In 1871 to its supersession by the of the total exports.

Lance-Sergeant Daniel Hill Wi- effected in a single generation, was fams, of the Hong Kong Police clusive verdict, have reduced the Republic, had a career of less

primarily the work of one man Force, died in the Victoria Hos Reichstag to impotence, and have than fifty years, and it was not a

Robert, Lord Clive had, indead, pital yesterday morning, at the resulted in the suspension of spontaneous growth. For cen-

Jaid the foundations, and had made guarantees. At the best, freturies "Germany" was merely a

Mr. E. 0. Baker arrived in the the English company practically comparatively early age of 29 years, following an attack of geographical expression, being quent elections are upsetting, and made up of a congeries of in- Colony on Saturday from Singapore, masters of Bengal.

Warren Hastings made it the malaria complicated with poen confusion is worse confounded dependent and occasionally hostile on the .. Suwa Maru.

firet Power in India. Much remonia. The funeral takes place when, as they have been in Ger units. The creation of the Em-

Mr. S. L. Vincent arrived in the mained to be done, and was done, to-day at 5 pm, when full Mili- many, they are accompanied by pire was preceded by more or Colony from Singapore on the 83. by great rulers like Cornwallis and tary honours will be accorded..*

lese loose confederations, brought swa Maru, on Saturday.

Wellesley, Lord Hastings and Dal- A native of County Dawn, Ire outbreaks of violence in which about chiefly by the sword. In

bouele, and when in 1858 Queen land, the deceased was a Lance innocent citizens in the vicinity 1866, during the Austro-Prussian Dr. Udo Von Alvensleben, a Victoria took over from a company Sergeant in the Irish Guards be of the affrays are injured. Pre- war, many of the German States doctor of philosophy, arrived in of merchants the great estate it fore he arrived in the Colony in sident von Hindenburg, with his took the side of Austria, and Hong Kong from Shanghai on had acquired she became not mere 1928, after enlistment in the local were defeated in battle by Prus-board the N.Y.Kliner Kashima ly the direct and unchallenged Police Force. He soon qualified immense prestige has been asia. Some of them were then Maru on Saturday.

Sovereign of the greater part of as a Lewis and Thompson gunner. India, but paramount over the He passed his examinations in Hin- firan bulwark of the Republic. annexed by Prussia the remain-

dustani and Cantonese, and within But he has reached an age when der north of the Main were re- Among the passengers arriving whole sub-continent.

quired to enter n North German here on Saturday, on the s.s. Suwn Good merchants, as Adam Smith the first year of Joining was pro- he must con lay aside office confederation. This development Maru, were Mr. and Mrs. M: W. pointed out, make bad princes; the moted Lance Sergeant. There appears to be no outstand came to pass, as Bismarck had Foard, of Colombo, Mr. Foard is extension of sovereignty does not The Police tragedy at Lokma

tend to promote commercial succhau on July 20, 1980, when P.C. ing figure in the political scene predicted, "not by speeches and a mining engineer.

cess. But while the Company was Dalip Singh ran amok at the Sta- marked out as his natural suc trott! From this arrangement Mr. A. T. S. Jensen, of the staff on the verge of bankruptcy its tion and murdered the wife of Ser- cessor, and for this reason it has the Southern States were ex of the Great Northera Telegraph paid servents were, amassing for geant Madgwick was of peculiar been suggested that bis retire- cluded. Five years later, after Company, returned to Hong Kong tuses. Hastings's first task when concern to Sergeant Williams. ment might be an apt moment for the victory over France, the Em-on board the 9.8. Kashima Mare in power at the age of 40 (his owa When ordered to enter the Sta- a Hohenzollern to offer himself, pire was proclaimed. At the time on Saturday from Shanghai. He was hands were always clean) was to ton which was then being sur

few were aware of the difficulty accompanied by Mrs. Jensen. eradicate this canker of corrup-rounded, did so without hesitation, making the Presidentship a with which the final step had a tlon well, knowing that the man was stepping stone for the return of bean won, or the reluctance with Mr and Mrs. C. D. Culbertson, Financial reform is never popu armed. the dynasty. There are further which King Louis of Bavaria and the Misses L, and A. Culbert lar; Hastings made many onemies, Pluck Commended.

For the pluck and zeal he dig« possibilities which make Ger aigned the letter conveying the son were passengers disembarking, but he went on his way unheeding. many's future problematical. proposal to his brother princes, from the CPS liner Empress of He was saddled with a Council played he was later commended by Several of the members composa letter written by the hand of Canada which arrived from Canada which could and did perpetually the Hon. Inspector General of ing the Reich are finding the Bismarck. Thereafter, the Emon Saturday, en, route to Manila, thwart his plans and override his Police

De authority.

The FA The deceased was formerly ab protracted political deadlock so pire presented an aspect of un irksome that the plan of with shakabl solidarity. But, with Mr. W. Pine, a British Journalist, Genfus and Courage. taphed to the CD and at the rers on board The work accomplished was time of his death was connected drawal is advocated among them. the Parliamentary system in dan was among the pass An association as is the Repub-ger of breaking down, radical the . Kashims Maru, which ar- colossal in magnitude. It can, with the Bailiff's Office at the lic acceptable when Germany's amenciments to the

lon rived from Shanghai on Saturday, en however, be fully appreciated only Supreme Court star was in the ascendant, may

and the tide of Com-route to London. Other Jour

aboard were Mesars Victor lose its advantages, in altered

it is not circumstances, The unity of the

what the future has German People is nowadays taken

Germany

majority votes, but by blood and

ore

Personal Pars.

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of Czechoslovakia, Setsua Hirama tsu and M. Umelzumi, of Japan.

If set forth in a deta possible He was unmarried, and is sure within the limits, assigned to me.vived by his father, Mr. Thomas When Hastings, lett Ind the Williams, a resident of Taymulit, Company had become sovereign of Argyllshire,