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WEDNESDAY, MAY

1933

SHALL OXFORD RULE

INDIA?

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GREATEST FAILURE

nothing has been seen of it since. HISTORY'S GREATEST EXPERIMENT

During these centuries, however,

many adventurers have sought it,

and now, it seems, a businesslike effort is to be made by a private company. called Fen Research. Limited.

(By A. A. B.)

London. jcision, though considering he did

Of the Members of Parliament what Speaker Peel would never have

A strip of land, half smile who agree that the greatest experi- allowed, namely, read every word of wide and some ten miles long, near ment in political history shall be it, the praise strikes me as undeser Wisbech, has been chosen as the tried on India how many personally ved while Mr. Baldwin's casual - area in which the treasure provisited India?".

uration was equally characteristic.

(pain.

Your Daily Smile.

yer dog!"

*

7

#

Putting It Bluntly.

·

What is the genesis of the vast

were incor-

bably lies. It is mostly agricultural The question with regard in other But what is the gist of the two land which has been reclaimed parts of our Empire is childish, speeches? They were both what is from the shallow waters of the Neither Gladstone nor Salisbury called tendentious. We are in this Wash, and work is to be started had even been in Ireland; perhaps Indian adventure for no better rea soon with an electrical "divina-it would have been better if they son that the tendency or trend of tor." This instrument will detect had been. But with regard to thought, so they say, has been mov the presence of precious metala at India, having been there myself on ing that way for the last 100 years. any ordinary depth, and as soon a winter tour, I am strongly of It is easy to make that assertion of as promising indications are given opinion that no man who has not groups of people, 90 per cent, out of digging will begin.

has been in India if only for a 260,000,000 of whom can neither A farmer whose land is in the few months, is qualified. to judge read nor write; but what evidence area known as King John's Bank, of the government of India.

is there that the Indian ryot cares across "which the king's, two-milėj

A man must have been to twopence about dyarchy, or known Baggage train is said to have pro- Benares, must have visited the what it means? ceeded, has signed a contract with Hindoo temples and the ghauts of We are told that we are under a the company which covers three the Ganges, have witnessed the be-moral obligation to thrust Western years' operations, allowing all an-haviour of the Brahmins towards democracy down the throats of the tiquities, bones, vessels, models, the Untouchables," have seen the Indian peasants because the writ- and objects of rarity to be remov-effects of child-marriages, have beings of Bentham and Mill have been led when found.

held the administration of the in the hands of the pundits, the law. Princes, have been to a camp in yers, the merchants, the Princes, the mofussil, have visualised and the Press writers for the last salaam to a sahib before he is com- 100 years. I deny the obligation: petent to gain a true estimate of the only obligation this or any Gov- Safety Measure.

the condition, physical, moral and ernment is under is to govern just- “You admit, then," Inquired the intellectual, of India's numerously and firmly. The tendentious magistrate severely, "that you stole populations.

argument is an extremely danger- {the pig?"

But, as Mr. Baldwin said, we must ous though it was pressed into bis The China Mail foreign balances in September,yes" admitted the culprit.

1931, brought down imports in "Very well," returned the magis and therefore the fate of the Penin-tained that it was better for a peo- work with the tools we have got, service by Lord Curzon, who main. 1932 by £168,100,000, equal to trate. There's been a lot of pig-sula, with 260 million inhabitants, ple to be badly governed by them- Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 10, 1935. previous year. In exports the am going to make an example of of whom 90 per cent. are in a state superior power, & fallacy which

18 per cent, compared with the

stealing around here lately and I falls to be settled by 500 gentlemen, selves, than well governed by decline was retarded by the cur-you, or none of us will be safe."of blank ignorance, and are obliged Macaulay has powerfully exposed. Britain Regains Lead British manufacturers, in spite rency depreciation, which enabled

to accept what they are told by the

When It Began. The Culprit.

Government of the day. of a rigid cost, system, to com- In Trade.

The And It is not true either. Thẻ sơ-- pete with advantage against the Scotsman was strolling along Simon Commission spent three called century-old tendency began the quay when his dog stopped be years in all on the preparation of just 20 years ago, with the Morley- United States, France, and Ger- The task which the electorate many.. The decline in export: Bide a basketful of live lobsters, their report,, and visited India dur-Minto reforms in 1910 by the ap- In allowing the pointment of a native member of set the Nationalist Government was £25,500,000, or 7 per cent, Instantly one of the lobsters snap-ing two winters.

Het ped' Its claws on the dog's tail, and Round Table Conference, composed the Viceroy's Council: and when five on the figures of 1981. of Great Britain on its election is shown the manner of Brit down the street, yelping with and what may be called "the sinister Chelmsford reforms were launched, the surprised collie dashed off of Indian politicians and agitators or six years later the Montagu In 1931 was the restoration of ain's forging ahead of other

interests,", practically to supersede Lord Morley expressed his opinion the country to financial equilí- countries in export trade. In a brium. How much of this tank world in which all trade was fall. For a moment the fishmonger the Simon Report the Government that India had quite enough reform It has accomplished was related less than those of her strongest customer he bawled: "Mon, mon,

ing her exports. fell a great den Was-speechless with indignation; have, taken a tremendous respon- to-dasta, whole generation.

then, turning to his prospective sibility. by Mr.

Ne the cheer competitors. Again quoting, the hustle to yer dog Whustle to Three Great Questions which upset India and we changes Chancellor of the Exchequer, in "Review of World Trade," by the

And the speech which weighed porated in the Act of 1919 known a recent speech at Birmingham. League of Nations, it is noted "Hosts, mon," returned.

the most with me, for the above reasons the Montagu-Chelmsford The credit

that "the export trade of the system

80 United States was affected even your lobster!"

other, complacently; "whustle to was Sir John Simon's explanation forms?

that it was the acceptance by the Lionel urtis, now a Fellow of All Two young Oxonfans, Mr. fully restored that foreign money more seriously than that of the

Indian Princes of the Government Souls, and Mr. Philip Kerr, now is pouring into London for tem-jother principal trading countries.

plan that induced him to do like the Marquess of Lothian, had {porary investment in such German exports, in spite of de- Inmounts as

wise, and to abandon "the In- to be embarrassing. fationary measures, lost in com-daughter on the point of celebrating

A wealthy tradesman. had

possession of a magazine of pro- erilability of gradualness" which nounced international views, called Britain is again the leading ex-petitive power in the first half her twenty-first birthday. He and porting nation. The visible trade of 1932, and in that period also his wife, therefore, decided to give

was the keynote of the report. What

(Continued on Page 110 is good enough for the Princes balance, which was adverse to France, which was affected re-her a big party, the extent of £486,800,000 in latively late by the depression, the invitations printed, "Your pre-

ought to be good enough for the House of Commons, if only one 1931, had declined to £287,100,000 found her exports fall more than!

could be sure that the Princes were in 1932, a fall of 30 per cent, those of most countries:" The joenes is requested, etc."';

not taking, the White Paper leat a and the position is stil improv-improvement in the British trade blood in his veins, altered them be- The father, a strain of Scottish

worse thing befall them. Who ing. Over two months of the position is relative, not absolute. fore they were sent out so that they present year the visible adverse Britain is leading the world's read: "Your presents are request-

can say

them. Of the three great questions that balance was £37,100,00, equal in trade, but it is a world trade

have troubled the twentieth century, the full year to £224,400,000. An which in the first half of 1982).

Ireland, Russia and India, events examination of the details shows diminished by 84 per cent. com-

have proved Mr. Churchill to have that the figures are also really pared with the first half of 1931,

been wrong about the first, to have into prisen during the year and the The house agent was enthusias-been right about the second, and corresponding number for 1981 were as better than they appear consider-following on a fall of 28 per cent. ing totals only. Though there in 1981, compared with 1930, tie about the advantages of the the third is the question under dis- follows: is: a décline in exports as well as The problem is to restore interna-tumble down dwelling he was try cussion. Alone of British states Convicted by Ordinary 1531 1932 imports the great fall in importational trade to something aping to sell.

men Mr. Churchill judged the real is in fully manufactured commo-proaching its old footing."

The death-rate, you know," he character of Bolshevism, and warn- Debtors Mr. idities. Imports of raw materials H. A. L. Fisher has well stated (said, "Is the lowest. In the led us that we were assisting at the On remand or in default

have suffered a fall on the twelve the dilemma Passion days, country.M months of only 5 per cent. The "Let us be national Beason re- meaning of this low fall is that plies, "The world is one Rea there is a demand for British son has to overcome passion. Na- manufactured goods, a demand tional exclusiveness must be mi- which has placed Great Britain nimised. A way must be found once again in the van of export to enable quotas and exchange ing countries, supplanting the restrictions to be abolished, United States and Germany, be-tariffs must be reduced. The re for a run. " hind whom she had fall duction of tariffs has been preach- in 1981. In that year, ed incessantly by Great Britain. according to the latest Be The Ottawa agreement was view of World Trade," by the framed with the intention of economic and financial organisa-providing a lower, tariff enclave. tion of the League of Nations, Already the fear which other An electrically operated machine favour Gandhism. That is one of moners were United States exports, which had countries: have of its effects le has been invented to tamp freshly those statements which it is im in the overies against 200. Zos been in 1929 15.6 per cent of the bearing fruit. Twenty impor- laid concrete paving at a rate of total exports of all countries, tant countries are now naking 8,600 blows minute to increase its possible to prove, except in one ollowing table shows, the pum- were 12.6. German exports, Britain to negotiate commercial strength,DE

way, by producing a Civil Servant ber of convicts in custody an which had been in 1929 9.72 per treaties. The prospects of a JULIE KAT of more than 15 years standing December 31 for the past ten years, cent, were 12.1 per cent. British sterling trade group being form- British Interests will establish

* who is in favour of the Federal and the percentage of the total num- exports in each year occupied ed, are promising, a group whose radio stations through the length of

in custody to the estimated third place, at 10.74 per cent. in trade will be more fluid owin 1929, and 9.88 per cent. 1981 tariff reductions afecting

rica for general communication That Great Britain has achieved members in their

facilitate the Cape to Cafro the position set out by Mr. Cham- with each other berlain, is due to the courage of trade will help to her leaders, political and industry; trial Cautious though they would have been, never headstrong, be their faith in the steps they have

to restore their count

fence to s

don for her

Iterco

ed,

a

The mother had

Still For Sale,

birth of a monster which would turn

PRISON REPORT FOR 1932

Big Increase In Convictions.

The number of prisoners received

Contr

of finding surety

5,021

6,381

53

802

"T quite believe it," replied the out to be the enemy of mankind.

Total

6,767/ 7,793 prospective customer. "I wouldn's His warnings were neglected, for at be found dead here myself.

the time the Bolshevists could easilyTirreniles he under 18 years of age. Thirty-eight boyA were admitted, an have been suppressed, Man (buying a dog); “I want a

during the year with sentences varying seems a likelihood that his from two days detention to eight. There my wife keep saying: "George, be unheeded, though Mr. Churchill's 20.only were treated as Juvenils Offen Gidgety sort of animal; one that will warnings about India will likewise months hard labour, Of this number think that dog wants taking out apprehensions are more strongly the

held in the country, among the com- being over 10 years of

Superintendent and Medical Un mercial classes, than In the House The percentage of convicted of Commons, where resentment was sober admitted to prison: with... - nem i aroused by his statement that pro was 19.9 as com

vibus convictions recorded. against them

with

th. 21.8 for

Facts You Did Not Know.

motion in the Civil Service has 1981 Fred

gone to those who were known to

Failure Of Federalsm

Of all the forms which modern democracy has adopted, the system is the most complicated and proof – anfe, is has bean the greatest failure, iVIŁ

Intended. nesa, the United States and Ger

With only many Is it desired in reconstruct combin India upon the

America

Germ

-Offcer

and- xixiy-uino' pil- convicted by Police Courts Lor

berofion of Hongkong,

„Percentage

681,800 294048 4, 8675124. 709,550 245043 1,060) 188

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