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not very creditable to the intel- ligence of the electorate. But WHITTON.-On Thursday, August the truth was that the educated 24, 1933, at the Shanghai Sani-anti-separatists desired separa- tarium, Rubicon Road, William tion on their own terms, and re- Whitton, dearly beloved husband garded the Constitution outlined of Helen Knight Whitton.

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933.

FUTURE OF TEST CRICKET

IMPARTIAL REVIEW OF

CONTROVERSY

Sir Arthur Keith During the present month Sir Arthur Keith will take up a new of appointment that of Master Buckston Browne Research Farm, which, has been established for scientific investigation near Dar- win's old home at Downe, in Kent.

Indiferent health has caused him Ito give up his post is Conservator

of the Royal College of Surgeons' is due in England in nine month's seen to be banned everywhere.

LEG-THEORY CONDEMNED

(By Campbell Dixon.)

London. much conficence in English fair play

The next Australian cricket team that I am sure it has only to be

Museum in Lincoln's Inn-fields, but time. What welcome is it to have? Leg-Theory Condemned. there is no suggestion that he will The question, I suggest, deserves abandon scientific work altogether. careful and kindly consideration Indians at Manchester, on an easy Certainly those who saw the West now, for on the answer depends the batsman's wicket, are not so ready now to scoff at the Australians.

Darwin's Old Home "shyest village" in Kent. It is not On the answer, too, depends ulti-The fact that Jardine scored

Downe has been described as the future of Anglo-Australian cricket.

quite so far from a railway as it mately the welfare of all cricket,; hundred proves nothing; McCabe was in Darwin's day, and a "bus since County teams make no secret made 187 not out at Sydney, and now connects it with London, but of the financial reliance on inter Bradman 103 not out at Melbourne). it is still remote.

national tours; and it is idle (and)

More recently still, that notably Darwin's old home is now ajungracious) to pretend that Tost

courageous batsman, Mr. A: W. museum, in which you may see the match glamour does not perform an Carr, who said at the beginning of study where he wrote "The Origin important function in stimulating the season that he would have of Species," and just outside the the game right down to the prep "body-line" bowled by Larwood and door of that room the capacious jar school and village green. in which he kept his snuft.

And something more depends it from a minor bowler, and is now

Voce, has had a little experience” of -- upon it something bigger even than Facts You Did Not the game millions of us love. Some emphatic that it should be banned is killed." people scoff at the idea of a cricket before somebody Know.

aquabble injuring the relations be-Cynics may smile, but all honour to him for having the pluck to tween the

two countries; they him for having the pluck to change obviously don't know "the man in the street.”

Old Indian Custom.

A full-blooded Indian princesa Is jemployed in a West beauty shop.

It is understood she carries tradition by specialising in scalp treatment.

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HE SHE, AND ERR.

on a

his mind.

"Grace would have hit it out of The captain of a touring side is

the ground," you hear armchair familiar figure "Plum" or "Percy" or "Warwick" in the eyes Hood to break records at Bisley. If eritics say. As well expect Robin of thousands to whom Secretaries of State and High Commissioners are

there is one respect in which bat-

merely names. He is watched, ing has improved, it is in on-side A film actress says few women criticised, cheered, imitated; and on batsman, living or dead, could cope play; and if Hobbs says that no realise how badly they sit. And few the way he and his men conduct) men realise how badly they be. themselves his country will

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HOLIDAY ROMANCE.

In a cafe

They first met-

Romeo and Juliette.

He was broke-

Flat-deep in debt-

So Romeowed what Juliette.

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judged.

Australia's Concern.

مدا

with Larwood's methods safely, it

is no use calling on the shade of the giant who indignantly rebuked Jones for bowling a long-hop through his Mr. J. H. Thomas was ridiculed (beard, with an empty leg side invit

with the early 'ing a hook for four.

for his concern

"body-line" dispute; he may have

Old Or New?

been indiscreet a little futile per haps, seeing that the direction of

In actual fact, nina

English

for Burma-with ith necessary safeguards and reserved powers

a cricket ball and the reactions of cricketers out of ten, including these as not liberal enough. Their

spectators are amongst the few great batsmen and great sportsmen idea was to join the All-India Answer to Correspondent.

Sir Stapley Jackson and Mr. The China Mail Federation; to strengthen the Since she says she is averse to things not yet regulated in defenceWarner, strongly condemn fast leg position of Burma as a member you, Richard, you should try writ of the realm. But at least be a theory: the "death-or-glory boya" of that Federation: and then toling her a poem, Hong Kong, Friday, September 1, 1933 secede from the Federation on their own terms and at their own

Burma's Political Future.

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NOW YOU KNOW.

time. There was no secret made A midget, arrested in Paris, was of this; and it was adhered to in described as a relative of the last spite of the Prime Minister's de- Czar. That makes him a czardine. finite warning' that the right of secession would never be granted

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RECORD.

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PRACTICAL

music-hall

preciated what was happening, while others airily dismissed the Aus- Itralian avitation as due to re- luctance to take a beating or the in- vention of an Irenious headline.

I have just received from a distin guished Australian a letter explain- ing how strongly his countrymen feel, and how anxious they are to

friendly re get back to the odd lations. "It would be deplorable,”

are Dearly all amongst non-com- batants.

Various authorities have solemnly asserted that "body-line" bawling

(a) Does not exist; (b) Is as old as cricket;' (c) Was invented by Arm», strong in 1921 and practised by Gregory and MacDonald. Sir Stanley Jackson and Mr. be writes, "if Tests were abandoned, Warner, who know as much about and even more deplorable if they fast bowling as any men living (did were renewed in an atmosphere of not the former have a rib broken by biterness and mistrust."

Jones?), are both emphatic that it

former England gentlemen

ing through bitter comment in the could be settled in five minutes.

It is typical of the complachey Press or injudicious action by the

that stands in the way of a settle- Board of Control. "But," he adds,

versions of Mesars. "their efforts will certainly be ment that the frustrated if comments continue Jardine and Larwood, each natural- to be cabled out showing not dig-ly anxious to defend himself, are ac- agreement with Australia's con- cepted by the unthinking as un. biassed. Sincere they may be, hut tention, but a contemptuous' as- cumption that Australia has no unbiased? Surely that is im-

possicle. case at all."

The truth is--and I fear these M.C.C. Decision,

controversial matters must be touch- This, of course, Is Australia's

ed on if the English public is to

In accordance with the under to a member of the Federation. A married couple were empanel taking given by the Secretary of There never has been until this ed on the same jury last week. The State, there has been issued from moment, either at the polls or in result is believed to be the world's the India Office a White Paper the Burmese Legislative Coun- longest argument. containing "a scheme of con-cil, a candid and unconditional stitutional reform in Burma if declaration for or against separa-My Dear Watson- separated from India." This tion from British India. British. Burglars trussed a

My correspondent speaks for anis new, dangerous, and should be document is intended primarily statesmanship has thus been comedian in his own home. The influential group in Adelaide, who banned. Left to for the information of members placed in an invidious position. police theory is that they. Just are working with groups in other captains like the two of the Joint Parliamentary Com-What the Government have now wanted to try one of his own gags States to prevent the trouble spread-named, the dispute with Australia mittee and the Indian delegates dope is to present a tentative on him. sitting with them. For all of plan of the Constitution that them it is naturally vital that almight be suitable for a separated decision should be taken on the Burma; a scheme on the same A doctor declares, that nature question whether Burma is or is lines as those of the India White never intended us to wear spec- This theory, however, is not to be a part of the proposed Paper, with such differences as tacles.

she All-India Federation, as she is at would be required by the position doubted in view of the way present of British India. The of Burma as a unitary State at-placed our ears. question of the political. future of tached to no Federation. This Burma has been, for more than "first sketch" is offered to the a year past, involved in extra- Joint Committee without the ordinary confusion, a confusion Government specifically associat- With the United Kingdom and which has replaced what seemed ing itself with what is suggested:France as the principal consumers, most serious complaint-not that realised that Australia has a masa to be, at the outset, an unusually and the whole question of the the use of esparto grass in paper dispute arose (even honest men go to

worth. amicable discussion-the clear and clean-cut situation. As future of Burma is left in the making is rapidly Increasing, ex- law), but that a majority of the

truth is that they differ vitally far back as 1918 the authors of Committee's hands. But the his- ports of the grass from Algeria M.C.C. Committee refused anything from a great number of other wit the Montagu-Chelmsford Report tory of the problem leaves no having trebled since 1920,

remotely resembling an impartialnesses, including Mr. Warner and laid stress upon the fact that doubt whatever as to the line!

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Itrial To appreciate the shock "Burma is not India," the Burm-along which solution must be

According to official estimates caused in Australia you must im- ese being “as distinct from the sought. Rurmat is at heart abso- forests in the United States have agine the Privy Council,, without Indians in race and language as lutely separatist. There is no increased 33,000,000 Brés since troubling to hear argument, dis- they are from the British.” The desire for association with India. 1920, the total area occupied by missing a Fijian's case against an Report of the Simdu Commission To admit Burma to the Federa-commercial forests being estimated old Harrovian on the grounds that In 1930 was emphatic in its con- tion would be an act of political af half a million acres. {clusion that the reparation of insanity after all that has pass-

Your Daily Smile

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Hobbs.

(Continued on Page 10).

PUBLIC GARDENS Coolie Assaults Head Gardener.

they must not let the old school WOMEN ANNOYED AT down, and Fijians are probably an Burma from India' was in all ed; and Indians would be the first] 'French farmers have found that unsporting lot, anyway. respects desirable. The oppor-to resent it. The Burmese are ajusing solutions of sulphuric acid of For over half a century the M.C.C. tunity, they said, should be homogeneous people with a coun-strengths varying from eight to 14 was accepted as the governing taken to "break a union which try, a culture and a future of per cent. kills weeds and overcomes cricket body for the Empire, with [does not rest on common inter- their own; and that must be re-smut in their wheat fields and seems (on the legislative side) an

esta." They agreed with the cognised in the re-settlement of to benefit the soil,

partial status. When it threw off Burmese view that the country the Indian situation.

all; pretence to impartiality, and an "Operated by an airplane propeller nounced that it stood by its captain

did not receive fair treatment as

a part of British India; and they America's Tribunal Of driven by an electric motor taking without inviting Australia to send declared themselves satisfied that

the people desired separation) without delay, Subsequently, in the Round Table discussions, this

Seven.

"FREQUENT OCCURRENCES” Mak Kan, a Chinese coolie. current from the monorail from witnesses, or even accepting the charged at the Central Police which the vehicle is suspended, a judgment of its distinguished man- Court this morning with assaulting cab having a speed of 185 miles an ager that Larwood's tactics wore in the head gardener at the Public President Roosevelt has con-hour has been invented by a judicious; the club struck 1 blow at Gardene, Caine Road, was stated to was taken for granted, with the stituted his tribunal of seven men Frenchman.

ite own prestige from which it will have been annoying a party of wo- concurrence of the Burmese dele-to preserve the United States

take years to recover. gates. In the end the Govern-from strikes and lock-outs during worked with smoothness. The Allowing. for the curt wording of When told to leave the Gardens ment's pledge was given that a the period of recovery. Headed task of mediation whenever a the Australian cable, sent while he became abusive and assaulted Constitution should be granted by Senator Wagner, the new labour dispute threatens an inter feeling was, wallé hot, the reply was the gardener, tearing his badge to a separated Burma subject to board was greeted with approval ruption of national recovery still had umpiring and bad states from his uniform. the formality as it seemed of by all parties. Its formation was should be simplified by the pre-manship. And, as my correspon. The gardener blewa police the Burmese expressing their described by Mr. Roosevelt as vious signing of pledges by the dent points out, things were not whistle, whereupon the defendant desire for this at a general elec-"an act of economic statesman-representatives of labour and the helped by the airy assurance that

men.

tion. Then began the bewilder ship." The sever appointed men industrial leaders. Even so the "leg-theory would be watched" be an out of the Gardens into ing disturbance of what had ap represent large bodies of employ experiment will be watched with fore the Imperial Cricket Con- Arbuthnot Road, where he was peared to be a quite simple issue, ers and workmen, and their eager interest Strikes and lock ference, since it was given after the arrested by an Indian constable.." At the election, held in Novem- names carry weight in the indus-outs are frequent in the United news that Larwood would not bowl It was stated that occurrences of ber of last year, the anti-separa. trial field in America. Such a States. If mediation can bring a this summer thin onture have been becoming tionists, who were regarded as tribunal is not novelty, widespread recognition of com- Since then even lesser practi- frequent at the Gardens of late, an insignificant minority, carried similar board was set up by Pre- mon interests an example will toners have been instructed by cap. The Magistrate Imposed a fins the day. For this disconcertine aldent Wo when the United have bean set for Governments jains and committed to modify or of $15, in default three weeks', hard;

abandon "body-line, and have so labour. result there were us read States entered the war and it everywhere..