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Splitting The Atom.

The wonderful Ludwig Mond Laboratory at Cambridge, just opened, contains an apparatus for splitting the atom on a scale un- known before. It is an electrical| generator which will provide a cur- rent of tens of thousands of am- peres, comparable with the output of the largest of London's power! atations.

So intense is the current that if

MONDAY, MAY 1, 1933.

BRITAIN'S PROBLEM

IN INDIA

EMPIRE'S GREATEST WORK THREATENED

SHALL WE THROW IT AWAY? A

By Sir Michael O'Dwyer

(Former Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab.)

"Providence, alone protects our That will be the ultimate result of

it were left flowing for a tenth of Empire. We, on our part, are doing the policy: the White Paper explains

A

how it is to be carried out...

It begins by abolishing or sap-

con-

a second, the copper of the coil through which it passed" would all we can to destroy it." melt. Actually the experiment That is what Demosthenes said of ping the three forces which keep has to be completed in 1-100th of Athena over 2,000 years ago: it India together. Under the pro- Ja second.

Everything is done automatical- the Indian policy of the British trol of the Crown and Parliament is might, with equal truth, be said of posals for an all-India Federation

and provincial autonomy, the ly. A signal lamp flashes from the control board, a button Government to-day. The Indian restricted-and that only "for a pressed, there is a sudden jolt, and Empire has been the greatest period of transition"--to defence, all is over.

achievement of our ancestors: it has foreign and ecclesiastical affairs; all During the brief time the pres rescued

the authority now exercised by the sub-continent from sure in the coil is 'from 20 to 30

Viceroy and Governora over the civil chronic anarchy, invasion and civil administration passes to tons per square inchi

Indian The attack on the atom is con war-such as we see in China to-Minister, responsible in theory to ducted at as low a temperature as day-and given security, Impartial Indian legislatures on whose advice. possible, as atoms are then mov-justice and ordered progress to 358 must act except in the cases noted the Governor-general and Governors fing more slowly than at normal,

millions of people.

below. They will have no British Actually the lowest temperature is

Viceroy is obtained by liquefying helium. This. That stupendous work has been colleague, though the temperature is minus 448 degree created and is maintained by three British officials either in the legis given a financial adviser; no trained Fahrenheit. At this extremely low forces:

lature .or the administration to temperature- a temperature un- known in Nature--gases

Loyalty to the King-Emperor, advise them; they can only see them through the eyes and ears of the which new phenomena.

allegiance the Princes and peoples Indian Ministers, who may be often inexperienced, or incompetent, some- The efficiency and integrity of the Congress party, supported by times openly or secretly hostile; for

ambitious lawyers, covetous money- have been lenders, and exploiting manufac

exhibit

In the new laboratory the 'Rus Jaian scientist, Professor Kapitza, who left Russia to work with Lord

The China Mail Only if these methods were to be Rutherford, will carry on the ato applied to foreign subjects or mic research to which he has de transferred to the field of foreign voted the last ten years. Hong Kong, Monday, May 1, 1938. affairs, would they become a matter we may hear of some

Germany.

of India;

unites

in

common

the Civil administration, the standards of which

built up by the small British Any day

element (not more than 3,000 in Provinces and not improbably the turers, will capture several of the all) in the various services, I.C.S., Central Government.

wonderful

of concern to other countries; and a new discovery. The laboratory development in that sense would cost £15,000. have the Immediate, inevitable, and deplorable effect of isolating Ger-

Your Daily Smile.

POLES ASUNDER

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NATURAL MISTAKE, Trousers are becoming fashion-|

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Police, Public Works, Forests, "Education, Agriculture, etc., with

Civil Service Control

an Indian personnel running to The control of all the Civil Ser- hundreds of thousanda;

vices is to pass to these Ministers: The British Army (60,000 British recruitment will cease except strong), the British Indian Army in the LC.S. and Police, and the (160,000), held together by some proposal to retain it for a time in 2,000 British officers, and that these pivotal services has already gallant and loyal force, the Indian aroused a storm opposition from the Police, some 187,000 men under Indian politicians who covet their 600 British and 200 Indian places. The result will be the rapid officers.

disappearance of the British per These secure. India against In-sonnel, which forms the steel frame,

Socialist Policy

The military character of the many and of driving foreign Hitler regime, the associations of Governments to concert policy to- mombers of the Hohenzollern family gether against her. This is a

I read that Warsaw. has more] with the Nazi party and the revival development which every country In of the nationalist and martial spirit Europe and indeed everywhere is divorces now than any other city

in Europe. in Germany all reflect the efforts of most definitely anxious to avoid. the present administration to restore The result of Mr. MacDonald's visit to Germany her former prestige. to Rome which has been most That these efforts, directed not only universally acclaimed is that which by, the Nazis but also by President|liaked · Germany' with the other able for women. A husband eternal disorder, and invasion, by or to use another figure, the Hindenburg and the Stahlhelm, may three Western Powers in a partner-ports that he recently woke up in create grave friction in Europe is ship for the common consideration the middle of the night to find his land, while the British Navy holds cement, which holds the whole ad- Ithe seas. All have worked in ministrative structure together; and the anxiety of the rest of the world. of the problems of the moment. wife absent-mindedly going

harmony under the control of the the Government of India show that The Imperial splendour of the The proposal put forward by Signor through her own pockets!

Crown and Parliament exercised they share this view by their recent Potadam ceremony of the opening Mussolini has had a favourable

through the Viceroy and Governors announcement allowing these officers the Reichstag Indicates the present reception in Germany; and Herr Hermit.

of Provinces. trend of German sentiment. ToHitler in a recent speech spoke of

to retire on proportionate pensions. "Darrie" Wellor, who has lived in every German-and to every Pole-the desire of the German nation to a den of furze bushes on Ashdown

The next danger will be that Frederick the Great was the ruler "be true friends, of a peace which Forest, Sussex, for fifty-six years,

It is now proposed, in pursuance these services transferred from Im who linked the two portions of would at last heal the wounds from has never ridden in a train, omnibus, of the polley declared by the Prime partial British control to Indian Prussia, then as now asundered by a which all suffer." He dwelt upon tram, or car, has never been to a Minister, an head of the Sociallat political control and we know what strip of Poland; to all the world he the terrible economic distress of the cinema or theatre, never reads a

Government two years ago, and re- that means. In the East-will crack W the supreme man of arms, people, which the Government were newspaper, and has never heard of Peated by him as head of the In particular, the Indian police, cynical, and ruthless, whose con- determined to remedy; and he Bernard Shaw.

National Government in December placed under Ministers who often summate qualities, in. the words of coupled a call for unity with aj

1931, "that responsibility for the will be the very men whose sedi- And still there are some people Lord Rosebery, were a curse to his threat to render harmless those who allege it is perfectly impossible

Government of India abould be tious activities they have so gallant- age and to his kind. That brilliant who try to injure the State." In all to be happy in this world.

placed on Indian legislatures, cenly fought against for years, will student of history wrote that ever of this there is nothing yet to abow

trial and provincial," with temporary regard themselves as betrayed by un since Frederick's day Prussia had that the new Chancellor intends to Comediana" : Paradise.

provisions and reservations "for the to their enemies. We have had a been like a pike in a pond, armed be immoderate in his foreign policy.

period of transition."

parallel in Ireland; and the despair with sharp teeth and endless it is his set purpose--and in that

A well-known music-hall come- That declaration of Sociallsting ery which the writer heard from voracity, "poised for a dart when he has mach sympathy outside his dian was recently a member of a policy was foreshadowed in "Labour & loyal Sikh magnate years ago will the proper prey shall appear." And own country to re-establish Ger- grand jury. He must have been and the Nation." There was no become general: "How long can a he added that her "policy, brutal as many on a footing of equality with very envious of the easy laughs demand for it from the Indian Government last from which its

scored by the judge. It is, requires genius, and Prussia other nations;,and the internal ex-

peoples, of whom certainly, not one friends have nothing to hope, its has not been richly endowed in that cesses of his regime should not Tragic.

in a hundred han grasped ita im foes nothing to fear?”. way." Whatever the qualities ofjdebar foreign statesmanship from

port; there was certainly no man- The margin of security in India the rulers of Germany to-day-and examining with an open mind the A young woman who broke her date for it here at the last election is already a very narrow one; our nobody will deny greatness to Prest-external claims of the German, asļļeg by tripping up on a piece of or from the Conservative M.P. who success in the campaign against dent Hindenburg or a remarkable they would of any other, Govern, orange peel has married the doctor form three-fourths of the present

(Continued on Page 10.) power of eloquence and political ment. If the conclusion is reached who attended her.-Seems a pecu- House of Commons. strategy to Herr Hitler It is clear that certain articles of the Pence llar way of showing, one's grati- that the circumstances and the Treaty may have been harah in tude, ideals of this age differ entirely conception, or may be unjust in from those of the eighteenth cen- their present application, they A German Rendering tury, and It is fair to presume that should be unhesitatingly modified or in seeking inspiration from the cancelled. The continuance of example of the famous conqueror legitimate German grievances would the rulers of modern Germany In-only be a cause of continual unrest tend to apply the lesson to wholly for the whole of Europe. The different purposes. "No Honour claims in regard to disarmament without Battle" was indeed one of should be examined as early an "A front drive speed boat sus the slogans displayed in the cere possible in the spirit of the Four Pended from three adjustable pon- Now, if it could be shown that mony at the opening of the Reich- Power Plan and the British pro-toons that has been invented Is British abdication were in the best His Lordship Bishop Hall Left stag, and it is said to have been posals at Geneve. The new spirit claimed to have great maneuver Interests of the peoples of India It Hong Kong on the sa. Sauerland, designed by the Chancellor himself. of Potsdam will be innocuous to the ability, economy of power and in would be wise to withdraw honour-yesterday afternoon, for Shanghai, Herr Hitler certainly declared in a rest of the world if it implies only creamed safety and riding comfortably after safeguarding our finan- where he will attend a meeting of recent speech, "I am for force, be a resurrection of German self-

cial and other interests, But not Chinese Christians. It is under

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Facts You Did Not Know,

News In Brief

F.

The policy is not, as the Govern ment claim, one of admitting India Into partnership in the British-Em- pire; it is a policy of abdication partial to start with complete Sentence of one month's hard "after a period of transition, and labour was given by Mr. Wynne- Indian Moderate politicians are al-Jones at the Central Magistracy ready demanding a time limit for this morning, to Wong Ching, "who the withdrawal of the legions and pleaded guilty to receiving three the disappearance of the senior steel tape from No. 28. Graham partner, address in

Street at 9.30 a.m. yesterday."

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cause In force I see strength, and in respect. That President Hindenburg Swiss engineers have developed even the most extreme Indian poll-stood that the Bishop will be away. strength the eternal mother of interprets Prussian traditions in boilers for generating steam for tician has dared seriously to ad- for an indefinite period. rights, and in rights the roots of that cenas is clear from the words ships and power plants in which vanos such an argument; it in ad- life Itself." But these words, which he used at the Potsdam cere- water is heated by explosions of mitted that the continuance, of Bri: The feast of the blessed Don frederician in sentiment if an mony. The place where we are gas, gasoline, oil or coal dust in tish rule is to the beneft of the Bosco, founder of the Salesian In- frederician in phrasing, were un-assembled recalls to our minds the Central combustion chambers, Indian peoples, that the relaxation dustrial Schools, was fittingly db- doubtedly intended for home con-old, God-fearing Prussia, which by t

of that rule in the last 12 years has served yesterday in connection with sumption; and the savagery of the conscientious work, unfalling cour- An English railway claims the crime, corruption and inefficiency: Third Street, Balylagpun, High led to an alarming increase in the St. Louis Industrial School at German revival has so far been age, and devotion to the Fatherland world's record for regular speed directed almost exclusively against became great and brought unity to of trains for one of its expresses, and that the withdrawal now con. Maas was celebrated at the Cathe Germans. However, much foreign the Gorman family, May the spirit which has

templated, would be a disaster, to dral, the lev. Fr.- Bourke, BMJ. schedule: regu friends of the country may deplore of this faforic place also inspire averaging more than 70 miles an

England and India.

officiating. the cruelties inficted by German the generation of to-day, and draw hour with a top speed, exceeding upon German, the destitution of us together conscious of que ha 86. patriotic servants of the State on tional greatness and spirit account of their political beliefs, the revived, for the good of a united, Wir brutal maltreatment of artists and fres, and proud Germany. There oper tradespeople, on account of their is ample and lexitimabe “ space. racial origin, and the destruction of Europe for the kind of cultural values-all this is primarily whi

matter for Germany Eärselt, ideal;

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