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A curious circular soliciting in- terest for a projected Anglo-Aus tria Club has now been dispatched all over London.

The circular that when people go to an ordinary hotel or penslon in Austria they are "only" too. apt

NEW CONSTITUTION FOR INDIA

SOUND ADMINISTRATION STRENGTH AND SECURITY ITS ONLY BASIS

F

(By A Student Of Indian Affairs)

ROM the beginning the final tained, and the informers, who are conclusions of the India Joint the eyes of the force, would disap

to sea the worst side of the coun- Select Committee' turned upon the pear in a day, The Committee pro try and have little chance of attitude of some "five members to poses. to guard against the possi meeting people' in their own the proposals of the White Paper. bility of such a breakdown by arin sphere."

There were on the Committee, It ing the Governors with power to The club, therefore, is to be should be realised, apart from the ensure the secrecy of records.. castle, "furnished throughout with representatives of the Government, This inviolability of the police family heirlooms." There are two clearly defined groups.

records has passed into a convention

roe-deer and ski-ing slopes. There On the one hand were the Labour in this country. What is a conver is a real live countess, complete Four, eager to try in. India some of tion firmly established here is to be with quarterings, es hostess. A the nostrums that the Socialista ad- made in India a matter of law. hundred guineas will make a per-vocate in vain for this country. Of equal importance is the power son a life member.

On the other stood a body of five given to the Governor to take over, The circular goes on to say that Conservatives, headed by Lord not only the police, but any other, the Austrian Minister in London Salisbury, believing that the time Department in the event of any is In sympathy with the idea. It has not arrived for, large experi- breakdown. The police force may seems a high-hatted Habsburg ments. Working at opposite poles be operating efficiently, but its work kind of an idea. How will the of thought, these sections-nine may be destroyed by "laxity in the Austriań Government react the members in total-finally disagreed Gaols Department, by weakness on reference, to "ordinary hotels and with the report.

the part of the minor judiciary 'n

pensions?"

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SLOW MOVER

Standing apart from these defi-convicting prisoners, or by the in- nite convictions, uncommitted either dolence of a Minister. Wherever by their own decisrations or from the fault lies, the Governor is given previous association" with the long-an absolute power to intervene. drawn Indian Inquiries, were the Trading And Pension Funds Arhbishop of Canterbury, the Earl

With the further protection that

The Jockey Club, always a slow mover, do not like the idea of paid stewards.

They worked well in India, where of Derby, Viscount Hardinge, the no change can be made in the Police they were sometimes stationed in a Marquis of Zetland and Sir Austen Acts except with the Governors

crow's nest down the course to watch the starta. They voted on

Chamberlain.

India's Storm Of Criticism:

assent the lot of the policemant should be a happier one and the

D

The successful working ... of Parliamentary government in the Provinces must depend in

which Parliament can translate special degree on the extent to

the customs of the British Cons stitution into statutory sale.

guards

fall decisions, but the authority of The reactions of these elder public should be safe against

the voluntary stewards was kept statesmen would be decisive of the police breakdown. inviolate by giving them a numeri-issue, if not in the actual voting, in This transformation of a British grazing was ploughed up to grow cal superiority of five to two. the impression made upon that vast convention into a "safeguard" in wheat that could only find a If the Jockey Club have a pre-body of outside opinion which will typical of most of the work of the market with heavy protection, judice against stipendiary stewards decide the future of India.

The Committee. In an illuminating Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 5. 1935 while whole villages in South (and the Jockey Club are tigers for triumph of the advocates of ad- phrase the Committee observes that Wales were reduced to idleness prejudices) they must ensure that vance is that, after twenty months and the dole at the cost of the whatever local official they do de-in which every point. of objection The New Year other industries that were

alcide on should be given authority, was heard and considered, all these ready. so heavily taxed. The Now that the last of the New folly became too obvious to be will be to tell stewards and the alterations that are made in the A great part of this official's duty five approved the report, with the Year crackers has been duly ex- continued indefinitely, and it is handicapper what he has heard original proposals. ploded, and the devils of depres- difficult to suppose that the relief and seen in the way of sharp prac By that fact the Parliamentary sion have been presumably which will be realised from the tice. He will, in fact be called a chances of the Government proposals frightened away, we naturaliy exemption of these two basic in-sneak: and an official sneak with- are enormously enhanced. turn from our review of the past dustries from tariff impediments out some personal delegated au- alterations made will not be popular year to the prospects of 1935. will not be a mute witness in We need no more lessons in the favour of an extension of the

thority is in. an impossible position. in India...

Great Britain men of any nationality. simple fact that our local trade common sense principle of buying

Already they are being subjected can settle down and trade without is so completely bound up with from those who are willing to buy Your Daily Smile to a storm of criticism from patties restriction or penalty, and on equal the activities of the general com-what we want to sell.

there

terms with, their British competi merce of the world that scarcely It is true that cheaper and

34 practice founded in long The spirit of Indignant rejection tors anything can happen anywhere casier communication makes for

is one of the permanents of the In-tolerance here. Kas in India to be that does not or may not affect international control by agree

dian situation, and need not be made the subject of statutory pres us. Hong Kong as an open port ment; but the various cartels and

taken at its face value. India knows cautions against discrimination. and trading centre can repeat restriction schemes organised for The Hollywood magnate told an in self-government is real. The amongst a peculiarly helpless class well enough that the advance offered Great satisfaction will be felt the old tag "nihil humanum a me the purpose of raising prices assistant that in his opinion a cer alienum". The breakdown that against the consumer have either flm they had under consideration again to take part in the work of Indian Pension Funds shall be tain writer was the only man for a fact that Congress has been forced of people at the proposal that the began in 1929 reached us later broken down or are labouring in The assistant was tactfully doubtful the Legislatures by the impending brought home. These funds are nos than other countries, but in 1988 heavy seas. The Canadian at-"Don't you think, perhaps he's a little change is a clear indication that its the ordinary pensions payable from

1

"Ginger ale." "Pale?"

"No, just a glans.”

Caustic

we came within the area of dis-tempt to force ap wheat left the too caustic?" he suggested.

The

turbance, and at the beginning of Banks with a very unsafe pro- "Do I care how much he costs leaders knew that to continue out- last year we were in the bottom portion of their funds frozen in demanded the producer. "Get him!" side meant destruction as a political of the pit. Of last year it may loans on stored wheat that had

For Appearances

more

force.

Control Of The Police

tant of the new recommendations la

used about trade protection. In

e Almost the same words might be

(Continued on Page 10).

SHIPPING DISPUTE

·END IN SIGHT

Be Signed

YUET ON DIFFICULTIES:

TO BE TACKLED AFTERWARDS

Draft agreements were sent

be said generally that we went in the end to be sold at a bargain Debt Collector: "Shall I call to-mor no deeper because we had got as fate which meant a heavy logs. row?"

For the moment it is more in- far down as possible; and that athe history of the Copper Cartel Young Lawyer: "Twice, if conven-portant to consider the changes the end of the year shipping was is much the same; with the added lent! I have an idea that folks think from the British point of view. In beginning to look up and several consequence that not only did the you are a client." of the Kowloon industries were price fall to a rate below the cost

its practical effect upon opinion Draft Agreements May Rotary Club Note expanding,

particularly of production but that command

here, and upon that body of Euro with their exports to Singapore of the market passed to the speaker I ever heard, old man. How plelous of change, the most impor "You are decidedly the best luncheon pean opinion in India which is sUS- Pretty much the same may be Northern Rhodesian field and can do you do it?" said of the prospects of interna never return to the old producers beginning and an ending, and then that which concerns the police.

Oh, it's quite easy,

I just prepare tional co-operation in the deve-What concerns us more lathe I see to it that nothing gets in be lopment of prosperity. The Silver Agreement. It is impossi- tween."

The Committee, following the world had gone so far in the way value is of either gold or A news item reports that "some of has decided that the transfer of law to the owners of the river boats

line of both the Simon Commission ble to say what the true of irritating interferences. with

and the Round Table Conference, each other's trade that revenue

silver on

a basis of uncon- the salaries earned By Hollywood and common sense had long been trolled exchange. The value of stars during the year will reach to and, order, to Indian Ministers is involved in the local shipping abandoned as motives of policy either metal as a commodity dif- We think the item should read, tance the Committee settles the issue tration Award scale is adopted, $2,200,000, 1,600,000, and $1,000,000." unavoidable. In a trenchant sen strike stating that if the Arbi and malice had taken the front fers from its value as available paid to.” - place, and no motive is so sterilis money. Sterling is commited to

by declaring itself "unable to con- the Guild would consider releas ing. An outstanding example is be about ten per cent - ander

ceive a Government to which the ing the ships, and would be con- the economic reprisals between valued in gold francs and temper

quality of responsibility could be tent to endeavour to come to. Great Britain and Ireland. One cent overvalued in gold dollars.

attributed if it had no responsibility some arrangement later about the can see a point of principle at It is difficult to believe that this

for order. It suggests precau- dismissed British Officers of the issue in the argument about the confusion can go on much longer. One case of diphtheria and two tions against political interference ss. Yuet On. This was the deci Land Furchase payments; Mr. The tendency towards a level is cases of enteric fever were report with the police sud for the presersion reached at the extraordin- De Valera offered to submit the like the action of gravitation on ed in the Colony, for the 24 hours vation of the privacy of records, ary meeting held by the China question to the Hague Tribunal water; not noticeable at any ended Thursday...

upon the secrecy of which the whole Coast Officers Guild yesterday. in order to establish his position given moment but constant, and

success of the campaign, against Three. owners have already as being entirely outside of the finding a violent solution if too the territory covered by the Ad Lord Salisbury, and his friends, by the Guild, and are working

An attractive calendar, depicting terrorism must hang.

signed the agreement, drawn up agreement arrived at by the Im-long dammed-ups. perial Conference that all inter- Our anticipation for the New vertis and Publicity Bureau, has it should be noted, were prepared with their original British off- nat disputes of the Empire shoulder

this well known to grant the triunfer With the pro- Pers. Although Mr. Peter H. Sin

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