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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1934.

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The Ritual Murder Myth

The "ritual murder" number of Herr Julius Streicher's "Der Stuer- mer," which has caused-and right- ly-so much Indignation among the Anglo-Jewish community, is not an isolated publication.

PROBLEM OF INDIA'S UNTOUCHABLES

MANY

NOT ALLOWED

TO WORK

60,000,000 CASTELESS PARIAHS

(By Patrick Murphy.)

TN a village near Nagpur, injHe was prepared to pay whatever: A Nazi pamphlet entitled "The

India, recently, a girl of high feas were asked. Jew as Race Violator" has been Hindu caste fell into a well. The boys were handed over to published. It is dedicated to Herr

Her shouts attracted the atten- one of the teachers. It was Streicher, and is copiously but in-tion of two youths.

duty to examine all new boys and decently illustrated.

They rushed to her rescue, but see into what class they should be other villagers prevented the boys admitted.

It seeks to show that, according to the Talmud, the Jew need not respect Aryan women.

his

from entering the well and . rescu-) He was just about to examine. ing the girl. They were "untouch-the boys when all the pupils of his Herr Streicher is-or WQB- ables." Had they touched the class stood up. They declared that close associate of Herr Hitler.)

water of the well they would have if these boys were admitted they Once Hitler broke his journey from poiluted it and made it undrink- would all leave. They were un

Berlin to Munich at Nurnberg to Jable. speak in support of Streicher's anti-Semitic aberrations.

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Assessing Atrocities

So the girl was left to drown.

That sort of thing happens every day of the year in India:

touchables.

The boys had to be rejected.

In Indian villages this loathing

of the untouchable is much more

The caste system, more primitive intolerant than in the big cities The authorities at Kew Gardens, and intolerant than anything we like Calcutta, Allahabad, or Delhi.

The pell-mell of modern life has London, are carrying out an experi-have ever had in the west, is the

made it impossible for caste greatest force in India.

dip- ment in the effects of vandalism.

There

four castes the tinctions to be observed nearly as

are

Near the Queen's Cottage a patchi of blue-bells has been divided into Priests, the Warriors. the Agricul-Istrictly as in the small communi- four plots.

turists, and the Labourers. They ties.

the

One is left untouched; in

the are known as the Brahmins, the A surveyor on the Houghly River second the flowers are picked by Kshattriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras. relates how the coolie who carried breaking of the stalk above

These castes are subject to hun-and looked after his instruments But out-would bustle high-caste Brahmins ground; in a third the popular prac-dreds of sub-divisions. tice of pulling out the whole stalk, side and below all caste are the un-and Hindus on the quayside at Cal- to no eutta, but did not dare behave in white base and all, has been adopt-touchables. They belong

louked ed; the fourth plot has simply been caste. They are

upon as that manner when beyond the city.

Taken Leaf Actually the shadow of this same

- trampled on as it would be by the polluted, and they work only as

Jecavengers. average pichic party.

The results are expected to show The origin of this class is believ-coolic fell across the food of a three ed to have come about in this way. Brahmin just up-river from Cal- the amounts due were funded at that the plants in the last

plots will be, if not immediately When the light-skinned ances-cutta. The coolie was immediately three per cent.. retaining the op-destroyed, at any rate greatly im-tors of the present Hindus first beaten by Brahmins while the food tion to pay off the debt more! quickly. In face of the depres-paired next season. sion, England agreed to suspend the instalments till better times should dawn. The first payment in resumption of the funding ar

Your Daily Smile!

came to India they found there a was thrown away. darker-skinned native race, the If an untouchable wanders too Dravidians.

near a high road he must put down Not wishing to mix with them a green leaf weighted with earth 38

the

priests of theja warning of his presence. Hindus .declared them to be When a Brahmin sees it he halts

A gentleman who had been in marriage

Defiled By Touch

rangement has just been made celebrating was on his way home. "'unclean." Since then they have and shouts, and the untouchable is The latest American nole on by the Union of South Africa, all It was after midnight, and as he been treated as pariahs. the subject of the War Debt is accrued interest for the interven-crossed the bridge he saw the re-

obliged to run away and shout back: "I am now two hundred yards away; of interest as the first official re-ing years having been waived,}flection of the moon on the water, cognition of the fact that the The gold boom is no doubt large- He stopped, and was gazing into There are sixty million untouch-be pleased to pass!" difficulty is one of Exchange, ly responsible, but one can trace the water when

The untouchable may not take re- a policeman ap-ables in India. For a Brahmin or there is not enough money any the personal influence of General proached from the opposite direc-Bindu of high caste to touch one of freshment at an inn if he is hungry where in the form of cash or bul- Smuts, who takes long views, and tion. The gentleman, addressing them means social defilement.

[and thirsty. If there is a famine lion to make the enormous re-whose amalgamation of parties the policeman, said:—

The greatest man in India 18 not or a shortage of water he is the last mittances necessary. The athas been designed to make what: "What'sh that down there?" [above cagle. The late Sir Portals to be served, though he must serve tempt to pay in gold has already used to be called a "union of. "Why, that's the moon," replied Singh. Maharajah of

others from a given distance. Idar, once disorganised the trade of the hearts". As the first gesture to the policeman.

Some are not even carried the coffin of a British offi- world and thereby made it much indicate that suspension of pay- "Well, how the deuce thic) did 'cer who had died in his palace. work. They are only allowed more difficult to earn or pay the ments is not the same thing as we get up here?”

(His friends begged him not to do beg, far away from the road, where and as Lord Reading repudiation, the remittance of

they would not be noticed it. He insisted.

unless said a week ago resumption of that hundred and seventy eight A Pennyworth of Proof

Next morning a deputation

of they cried out for alms.

"Unclean" Cry

money.

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payment would again plunge thousand pounds for the current Can you give me a good renson Brahmins came to Sir Pertab's

allowed to

to

If a person throws them money. why I should insure my house house and told him that a terrible against fire?

(thing bad happened.

they are obliged to wait until ha Yes, madam, I can give you fifty.

"Yes," he said, "a young officer has gone out of sight before they Fifty?

¡died here."

can creep out to the roadway and Here's a box of matches!

They said it was even more ter-pick up the offering. rible than that. "You, a Raktori When by accident they come of Rajput, have lost your caste." across men of other caste they must.

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everybody back into the depres- year is very welcome, sion of three years ago. None- President Roosevelt's policy theless one cannot ignore the disclosed in that piecemeal in- fact that Mr. Baldwin, then stalment system which is design- Chancellor of the Exchequer.ed to obviate as much opposition signed an agreement to pay "all as possible, opens up the door to that we owe, to the last cent." as some very interesting negotia he himself phrased it. Apy- tion. The first step, the deva thing like a deliberate default, no lorisation of the dollar by forty Si went to the circus one day matter what distinctions may be per cent., has been already taken. Resolved to get in without pay; made between war debts and The second step has been author-

He crawled under the tent. trade debts, would be a final blow Ised by Act of Congress, which to credit that might in its results has conferred upon him the right For the elephants thought he was world, and that caste is the caste which these unfortunate depressed

Short Story

No one knew where he went,

hay,

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The Agreement

Mr. Brown looked meek. "Well, dear," he pleaded, "when

The maharajah flared up.

announce themselves by calling out:

**Look here, you pigs!" he shout-"Unclean, unclean!"

ed. "There is one caste higher; Conference after conference has. than all other castes throughout the falled to lessen the Intolerance with

Though in individual

untouchable has slightly diminish- ago nine Brahimineed, generally speaking it is as strong. sentenced to transportation na ever. for life because they murdered an-

More Oppression Only three years ago a resolution: The reason for the murder was was passed by high-caste Indians simply that the Brahmin had demanding still further degradation tried to improve the conditions of these people.. of the untouchables who worked

(Continued on Page 3) for him,

$1,000 JEWEL THEFT

Chinese Woman Victimised.

with sticks.

Shadow Poison

A ittle while before his family

classes are regarded by the higher of a soldier. That is my caste!" amount to a knockout.

to negotiate trade treaties with

He then called for his hunting castes of India. The untouchable. The largeness of the figures any Power that does not default.

crop, and the Brahmins beat a is still a social leper, as he has been only makes the blow heavier.and to reduce any of the existing

hasty retreat.

for over 2,000 years, And countries like Germany and riff rates by not more than Mrs. Brown had been attacked But Sir Pertab was one of the

cases of Ireland that do not want to meet fifty per cent. The third step is by a large and fierce dog while out few who did not bow to the ruling enlightened men the dislike of the their obligations are on the look-to negotiate about the principal for a walk with her husband. To of caste in India. out for quotable precedents. and the overdue Interest from her disgust, Mr. Brown had taken Not long

Fortunately President Roose- the point of view that it is not de- immediately to his heels, leaving were velt is as alive as most of the sirable "to impose upon any na-his wife to her fate, high officials of the Washingtontion a burden it is unable to "You're a coward," she told him other Brahmin. Treasury have been, to thebear."

Any such reassessment. later, when she had made her change made by the collapse of such as the elimination of in-escape. "Fancy leaving me to be the gold standard and Interna-terest, or at any rate of back in-bitten like that! Why didn't you tional Finance generally. It terest-would require, the ap grab its collar?" was President Hoover who sug-proval of Congress at its next gested a twelve month morato-session. The fourth line of nego- rium, and whose anticipation of tiation would be for payment in we were married we agreed never house to discuss the matter with The nine called him out of his a big concession led our Govern kind. a very interesting novelty to keep anything back from each him and then beat him to death ment to suspend for a time all its which would involve a great ex other, didn't we?" claims on its own debtors. The tension of Government Trading. mistake at that stage was that It would of course be confined to the European Powers, including commodities that would not com- ourselves, were content to accept pete with American products. price as a working hypothesis we had ostracised him just because he Chan Lol, a 27-year-old informal consultations instead of When proposed by Germany should see the Board of Trade had allowed untouchables to pre-ployed, and Chan Kan, a 33-year-old a binding agreement. The diff-shortly after the war, in the take over large quantities of rub-pare his meals. culty of dealing with Congress in shape of the supply of building ber at the best price it could get Frequently in India the entire months and three months, hard unemployed, were sentenced to six a domestic affair for Washing materials to restore the ravaged and harding them over to the stock in a butcher's shop will be labour, respectively, by Mr. E. I. tan. Half the trouble is that the districts of Northern France, the American Government in

ex-destroyed because the mere shadow Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Magis- U.S.A. has never adopted the proposal was defeated by a change for a credit note. The of an untouchable has fallen across tracy this morning for stealing system of sending over a pleni strenuous agitation. organised by note would then be handed over the meat hanging in the window. jewellery, to the value of nearly potentiary.

the contractors who saw a chance in payment of War Debt at a fix-

I heard recently of, the case of al$1,000, from Mra. Lam Chung-sze, It is quite a fair comparison, of making their fortunes and tooked exchange, which might well be

young untouchable who was mauled of No. 171 Tung Chol Street, second leaving on one side the European it.

the old par, at which the debt by a tiger in the jungle off the floor. Allies, to refer to England's treat- Merely to put Government was incurred, of four dollars banks of the Hooghly," - "above Sub.-Inspector A. E. Carey prose- ment of the Dominions, Many agents into the market to bay and eighty six cents to the pound Calcutta men from overseas enlisted in rell at market price would disor- sterling. The rubber would in British units and were of course ganise trade and rouse unending fact be used to replace gold as caste who could have gone to his additional twelve months for The boy was seen by men of high Chan Lot was sentenced to

lishmen, but all the Dominions in thing might be done if the price business could be done. addition offered units which re were fixed and credit given in the If the system ever got to work,

Country Prejudice -✨ mained as separate commands Treasury books at a fixed rate of it would inevitably suggest itself Not long ago a man brought two Letters of administration for The and were paid by the Dominion exchange. The proposal would for extended use as an alternative of his sons to a mission school. local estate, amounting to $13,500 Governmenta. As the war went affect this part of the world method of settling international The father and the boys had all of the late Ng Chiu Yan, who died on longer than was expected chiefly as regarde rubber. The balances when the currency had the airs of respectability and on- December 25-Inst-year at Sur money became short, and they International Board is said to be fallen to too heavy a discount, cleanliness..

Beyrey Lane, Kowloon Tong, Have boen

Jcuted.

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