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SATURDAY, APRIL 22, · 1933,

DAYS OF AN INDIAN

VICEROY

INTIMATE PICTURE

OF HIS OFFICE

·

IMMENSE BURDENS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

(By Lt.-Gen. Sir George MacMunn.)

New Delhi.

A stranger entered a hotel in a "tough" American town, deposited a 100-dollar note in the office safe, and kept ten dollars for his personal use. The local butcher met the hotel proprietor, said "You owe me 100 dollars for meat," and was paid with the 100-dollar nota. The doc tor met the butcher, pressed him for his account, exactly 100 dollars, and | The kettledrums roll out their sponsible for justice In the case of was given the 100-dollar note. The deep greeting. "Rrrrrr.. Tr doctor owed the hotel proprietor 100. dollars, and gave him the 100-dollar bastions over the Jumna, where the ..r..rrrp!" High up on the

note, which was locked up in the safe again..

Next morning the stranger paid an Artillery subaltern, watch in his hotel account with the balance of hand, orders "Number One, Fire!" supreme Government had to remove the ten dollars in his pocket, asked and a salute commences to boom out a Prince who has disregarded the for his 100 dollars, back, tore it in

Who lost?

old fort still dominates the bridge,

the former, and undertook to be re-

the latter.

These responsibilities

Carry with them the duty of seeing that in return for protection the rights of the governed are not forgotten. Therefore is supervision a neces- Bity. More than once has the

pieces, explained that it was imitacross the kadir, the river bed, and repeated warnings of the Paramount

waving grass. tion and had only been deposited in

as to his kingly conduct. Normally, The ball of white smoke rolls out, advice and eventually admonishment order to inspire confidence, and left;

unrolls to a mushroom head, and suffices, but several instances of re the town.

then floats away as, thirty seconda moval have occurred. later, "Number Two... Fl. . rel"

At the present juncture the gen- sends another to chase it along the eral vitiation of all administration French Ministerial Safaries line of embrasures. Nineteen more in India has resulted in outbreaks times do the balls of smoke spray in certain States of overwrought By a curious coincidence, the into mushroom heads and die away.{subjects. French Finance Minister,

It will be imagined that M.Honour is satisfied.

in this connection alone, therefore, Cheron, who has just persuaded his

The Governor-General Cabinet colleagues to accept a 10 Viceroy of India has just come

and, the Viceroy's responsibilities are

to onerous. per cent. salary cut, was directly town.

In the more purely for la no manner responsible for the last increase in shadow of possible doubt about it relations

oreign sphere he has to watch the local Ministerial salaries in France.

with France, China, The roar of the guns and the balls Afghanistan, and Persia. Five years ago M. Cheron was of smoke have given a message to whom march with India, while even all of Minister of Commerce, and calmly! the ceremonious East for many presented the Finance Committee of mile round:

a Soviet Russia is not far removed.

There

From the city of the Chamber with a departmental Tuglaq to the mosque on the Ridge estimate which included a sum of and the Tomb of Safdar Jang, from

Varied Social Activities. The week's work, therefore, will selves help to produce. The de- 10,000 francs for his own salary. the Char Minar to the Red Palace, involve several Cabinet meetings, ut duction is that without a reduc-viously allocated. At the same time Governor-General has just come

Instead of the 80,000 francs pre-fall good people note that the which the Viceroy is in the position tion of taxation there can be his carriage allowance was estimat-

to of the British Premier, Every day Hong Kong, Saturday, April 22, 1933. neither substantial retrenchmented at 50,000 instead of 25,000 town.

the secretaries in each of the De- in the cost of unemployment nor francs.

The Head Who Must Kule.

partments bring to his Excellency a recovery in the revenue. The

the papers from the Cabinet Minis After some hesitation, the Fin-i effort to meet expenditure of all ance Committee consented to the in their prayer mats before the Jumma and all matters that the Viceroy Even those praying, who bend on ter (termed Member of Council), kinds out of revenue involves crease, which progressive inroads upon capital applied to the salaries

was automatically Musjid, the Great Mosque," find should know, but which are not suf The British Budget will be by the tax-gatherer and there-Cheron's colleagues, since all French the rolling lines of the Kalima: (ie., Cabinet cases), are thus dealt of the fact emphasised as they repeat ficlently important to be "Council" opened on Tuesday next, April fore a progressive decline in the Ministers are paid alike.

The British nation has long sources from which revenue can

There is no God. (boom) with. These alone make a full day's At present rates the French but Allah, been of the opinion that its gen- be derived. There is indeed no Ministerial salary

and Muhammad activities, but there are numerous eral character will have to con-practical argument to-day against about £2,200 year.

is equivalent to (boom)... is his Prophet." In cases which the Viceroy must read form either with a policy of pru-ja forward policy; and the politi

their minds it is borne in that in which several high authoritica The President of the Republic, "Sirkar agye," dent expansion or with a policy jcal argument is negligible for who has also accepted a 10 per cent. the great personal Government, is in and on which

The Government, have tendered opinion and advice, of continuing rigidity. Members precisely the same reasons. For cut, receives in salary and allow-residence in the Kremlin, or what-reached.

a decision must be of the House of Commons have if the Opposition, Labour or ances about £45,000 a year. |[recently lost ne opportunity either | Liberal, now exclaim that the

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ever the great pink and white of A A variant from this daily New Delhi stands for in their impressing work of governing a coun- Jagination.

try as large and as populous as In the Kremlin, the eighth elty Europe without Russia, there are in- of Delhi, standing amidst the ruins numerable interviews. Some are of its predecessors, interviews of ceremony, visits from elvi. and tombs

guards of honour, escorts and bands the various Princes visiting the share, as carriage and outriders and visitors from Europe or other travelling escort of Lancers clafter countries, politicians, section leaders up the sweep. "Know all ye people, and others from all over India. that the Viceroy of India has just, come to town!"

Many of the Princes are of suf- And this Viceroy is probably. their visits returned with ceremony. ficient importance and status to have by the

force of cireum-The very

Princes come with re- atances, the most outstanding tainers and retinues, in silver card. Sovereign that the world has ever and the like, and his Excellency seen or known. :

makes his return in similar tenue While the platitude-mongers talk with an escort of his Life Guards, glibly of him, and who shall fill his the famous Bodyguard Lancers, chair, there is not one in a thousand corps which in days gone by went Poland is estimated to have more who knows what the office really is, into the field on many occasions.

of arable and the immense responsibility that

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Empire Specifications. When a new electric fuse blows out it ejects an indicator, making estimates of public expenditure

The encouragement of trade it easy to locate the fuse among a already presented can fail to en-within the Empire is not mere-number of them. tertain some such ambition. ly, perhaps not even mainly, a Moreover the members of Parlia-matter of tariffs and quotas. In Italiana have constructed a three! ment who have declared them-smoothing selves in favour of such a policy business there is a vast amount and their baggage for use between away obstacles to deck motorbus carrying 88 persons are really only expressing the of useful work to be done which Rome and Tivoli. logical deduction from the Gov-is quite outside the domain of ernment's own professed ambi-Customs administration and in tion to promote wise... spending which the initiative must come than 70,000,000 and to bring about"'aise in from manufacturers and traders land, or more than two acres fores and must lie in his hands. The wholesale prices "preferably gold themselves. Governments can each member of its population, prices, but, if not, sterling and should encourage every effort

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On the social side, the Vice- roy's duties are equally onerous. No big function at the capital occur without his much sought-after presence, officially

privately. (Continued on Page 13:)

¡Governor-General, for that is the word of power which he functions, prices." It is not without signi- in this direction, but the driving An automobile radiator

СЕП cap is so constitutional monarch who ficance that the First Lord of force must be supplied by the in-novelty is a winged human figure reigns but does not rule. the Admiralty observed that one dustries which are to reap the that rises higher as the speed of a and must be its head, great consolation for the increase benefit. Attention has been call-car increases.

News In Brief

He is

or

Personal Pars.

in the Navy Estimates was that ed to the movement for securing!

His Own Foreign Minister. by far the greater part of the in-better co-operation throughout crease would be spent in paying the Empire with regard to stan-

He rules as president of a supreme body, known as "the Governor- wages. The only obstacle which dard specifications. The public Komor & Komor's Bi-annual Ex-General in Council? It is as if the this mass of opinion. headed by is tolerably familiar with the hibition of beautiful Water Colours authority in Britain were as it used the Government seems likely to work done by the British Stan- by Japan's foremost artists will to be, "The King in his Cabinet." encounter is the fear lest an ex-dards Institution, which by es-delight art lovers. This year the

Mr. E. G. Dále, of Messrs. Leigh & pansionist policy

But not only is his Excellency the Orange, left Hong Kong on the sa. in Britain tablishing and publishing agreed subjects and paintings are more head, the president, and the prow Empress of Japan, yesterday, should reproduce the dangers specifications has rendered valu- beautiful than ever. The Exhibi- of this remarkable and effective which were so evident during the able services both to manufaction opens on April 27 and everyone governing body, but he has also to Mr. V. M. Grayburn, manager of years between 1929 and 1981. turers and to purchasers in many interested will have ten days to see be his own Foreign Minister. This fear could only be Justified departments of industry, notably these pictures

Not the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank- only are external relations in his ing Corporation, left. Hong Kong, on hands, but always with him are the the a.. Empress of Japan, yester- more immediate every-day. problems day, accompanied by Miss Grayburn. of the continent, in Its relations with

Mr. R. Vaughan-Fowler, manng--

if conditions in 1983 were the in the iron and steel and in the

same as in 1981; in fact, how-electrical trades," What is not ever, they are profoundly differ-so well known is that similar}

jent Sterling both essentially associations have been establish-co-operation in establishing unf. the 600-odd Ruling Princes who rule

and relatively is stable instead ed in several of the Dominions form standard specifications, over their principalities, which varying director of the Far East Avia- of tottering. Money is striking-and- are now being formed in facilitates Empire trade definite from the size of Battersea Park to tion Co., Ltd., left Hong Kong an ly cheaper, Britain is no longer others to emulate the good ex-ly and effectively." The Ottawa that of half France.

the s.. Empress of Japan, yester ja salvage dump for foreign goods; ample that it has set, and that Conference recommended that in

They are his immediate and per day. and therefore, the effect of ex effcrte are being made to bring respect of a number of important sonal carey for they are in treaty, penditure upon development will all these bodies into closer touch industries immediate steps should not with India, but with the Crown Col. G. Badham Thornhill, wASE not be cancelled out. These are with one another and to c be taken to secure a greater de- which the Viceroy represents. It passenger by the sa, Empress of the main changes which make an ordinate their labours. The ob-gree of uniformity in standard is a weighty matter, and at times a Japan, when she left port, yesterday. effort to stimulate productive ex-fect is to enable purchaser in specifications, ty in tanda cumbrous ride show, he penditure safe; but there are any part of the Empire to quote tices. Among the many subjects who are in direct treaty, must al- the 6.8. Empress of Japan, The conduct of these potentates, Col J. Grossard left Hong Kong further circumstances which a standard specification and thus considered by the Committees on ways be a matter for benevolent yesterday... make such an effort essential to get exactly what he wants in Economic Consultation" and "Co-

The feature of the expenditure any class of article, even though operation is how the work of the supervision. The reason for this

side of the Budget is, the colossal it is manufactured thousands of central standardizing bodies in is evident if we reflect that the na- Air Marshal Sir John Higgins, charge for unemployment. The miles away. The importance of the different parts of the Empire tural Eastern outlet against bad ad.K.C.E., K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., accom feature of the revenue side of this work has been recognized can best be coordinaten elministration of kingdom is revolu panied by Lady Higgins, left: Hong the Budget Is the self-stultifying by successive Imperial Conter achieve this object. But here, as Con or Palace murder.

Kong by the sa. Empress of Japan, rates to which some of the taxes onces, and the Imperial Econo-in so many other matters, Gov Indian Ruling Princes.

yeaterday.. formerly most productive have mic Committee has reported that ernments and committees can risen. The angging yield of these "the development of standardiza-only recommend and encourage, Ing into alliance with the Princes passenger by the La, Empress of taxes reflects that increase in tion in the various parts of the The actual work must be done and admitting them Into the British Japan, which left Hong Kong, yes- lunemployment which they them- Empire, upon the basis of close by the Industries themselves, system, guaranteed them against terday.

The British Government in enter-The Countess of Carlisle was a