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have its strength Increaset, is a SPLENDID RECORD OF THE INDIAN

powerful organisation.

It is the nearest thing in Britain to the secret political police of the Continent. Its methods, of course. are not those of the Ogpu. Ka Its duties fall into three main categories. detection of subversive

CIVIL SERVICE

(By Lord Rothermere)

London,

will be the implements for driv

ACH year from 10,000 to ing out the last survivors of the and revolutionary plots against the 15,000 young men take splendid body of Britons who Government; guarding ministers their degrees at the sixteen have been the makers of modern and distinguished visitors; and universities of England, Wales. India watching the ports.

and Scotland.

What the consequences will be Most Cabinet Ministers and some of these perhaps 5 or 10 per for that country it is easy to ex-Ministers have an armes, Special cent. are the intellectual cream imagine, but in this article I am Branch man in their car wherever of the nation's youth. Generally concerned with the consequences they go.

they have no capital other than for our own people.!

There is a man, who usually their brains, but their attain I say that no British Govern- atands near the passport control, at ments entitle them to aspire to ment has the right to snatch every British port. A few men are careers of success and distinction, away from the rising generation stationed

life or of ambitious, and capable young at porta across the whether in private Channel.

Government servicé. .

Britons the opportunities which There is usually a Special Branch

their fathers and grandfathers man in the crowd at Marble Arch. ~

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TAKING THE TEMPERATURE

Indian Civil Service.... Everyone knows, how seriously enjoyed,

economic depression has curtailed I say that it would be criminal folly to destroy an Imperial school opportunities in, the former of

these categories, and now, if the of rulership which has had no During the General Strike, one of Government's fatal plans for parallel since the days of the their tasks was to "take the tem-India go through, one of the Roman. Pro-Consuls.

I denounce as flagrantly une

perature of the East End."

greatest administrative openings This entailed visits to all sorts of hitherto available to our brilliant just the fact that in future the queer people, talks in fried fish young men will be deliberately

door to a career in India is to be shops, and the consumption of large closed.

barred to our sons, though at any quantities of beer.

time-they-may be called upon to The Indian Civil Service has The known Communists regarded hitherto been the pride of Britain fight for the defence of the De the officers with a certain affection, and the envy of all European pendency that we are preparing: In one raid on an illegal printing nations with a Colonial Empire.

to abandon to incompetent nätive.. control. preas, in which some particularly Its Incomparable standards of husky amateur constables took part, ability, impartiality, courage, and a amall revolutionary rushed out of self-sacrifice are a theme that Nor will the disastrous effects The China Mail jected by the Swarajists. They a back room and, throwing his arms has inspired countless writers, of the White Flag policy in India would regard it as not fulfilling round the Special Branch sergeant not of this country alone but offend with the ejection of British the promises made in the past who had unearthed the den, shout foreign lands.

officials. For every Civil Servant: that British India would be given ed, “3——, J, for Heaven's sake

and full save me from these thugs.". Dominion status. This соп-

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1935. gelf-government

faideration has no doubt helped Your Daily Smile! Britain's Indian Policy the Conservative party to its

decision, as well as the remark-

An Englishman and an

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Indian Police, 18 ka Indian Forest Service, Educational Service, Agricultural Service,

Britain's Losses

that many thousands of their fellow-countrymen have always. depended on India for a livelihood. In future there, will be taxed to defend it, but its opportunities will be denied them. All that rich field of enterprise, created"

And the Indian Civil Service that we have sent to India in the is only the most conspicuous of past a score of young Britons a whole series of bodies of civi-have found remunerative employ lian officiale serving both the ment there as merchants, traders, King-Emperor and the peoples railway or municipal engineers, of India in that vast Dependency, and in many other capacities. able prestige attaching to the travelled in the same compartment on Work just as useful and as

American

The rank and file of the Con The approval of the British Personnel of the reporting com-ons of the Liverpool expresses. The responsible as that performed in servative Party should realise Government's policy on India by mittee. But the main reason for former spoke not a word to his com- the senior Administrative ser the central council of the Con- the approval of the Government panion, who was the only other oc vice has been done by members servative party will be welcomed reforms was no doubt that indi.cupant of the compartment, and it was

only when the train was crossing of auch Departments as the⠀⠀⠀ almost universally, for it means cated in plain terms by Mr. Bald Runcorn Bridge that the American that the intricate and complex win when he told his fellow Con-said: "Excuse me, sir, but your tie is problem of India will not become servatives: You have a good riding up over the back of your collar." "Well, what if it in?" was the curt the plaything of petty political chance of keeping the whole of

reply. strife. The proposal for the All- that sub-continent of India in the on fire this last five minutes, and I "Your cost pocket, has been India Federation embodied in the Empire for ever. If you refuse haven't bothered you." India Bill, will be now, to a large her this opportunity, you will in extent, lifted out of the party fallibly lose India, whatever you arena and judged on its own in- do, before, two generations have trinsic merits. The hands of the passed." Government will also be consider. In the opinion of the best ably strengthened by the

judges, the present policy of approval of its policy on this India is not only right and wise, furthering self-government for vital question by such an impor- tant element. If the "Die but absolutely necessary. The Hards" had not been defeated, Indian question is not essentially the result would have been the a constitutional one, but a pro- postponement of the Indian re blem in human dynamics. The forms for internecine political unchanging East" is now a mean- faction. Yet the issue was ingless phrase, as westernised doubtful.

At the October col and Persia witness clearly and modernised Japan, Turkey, ference of the Conservatives at Bristol, Sir Henry Page Croft's enough. Even the Conservative Police Raid On Boarding resolution in opposition to the "Die Harde" must change to keep up with a changing India. Government's Indian policy was Nationalism may be a new force

Warren Hastings, illumine their Throwing Away Our Birthright only defeated by the narrow in India, but it is a powerful one.

Three thousand four hundred long tradition of service, but his Were the National Government margin of 548 votes to 520. The present overwhelming majority the recent elections proved counterfeit 10-cent pieces were or-cases

as the victory of the Congress at and seventy French Indo-Chinatory does not record the countless to succeed in forcing through of brave, devoted, and Parliament the scheme embodied for Mr. Amery's resolution is Britain herself has been the dared to be confiscated by Mr. E. patient men who, in the discharge in the White Paper, it would have publication of the report of the national sentiment by giving gistracy, this morning. convincing evidence that the main cause in creating an Indian I. Wynne-Jones at the Central Ma- of such duties, have literally thrown away a birthright to given their lives to India and now which each new generation of Joint select committee has re- India improved communications. The coins were found in a lock. lie in the cantonment cemeteries young Britons is entitled What moved many misconceptions and

education both in the academic ed cupboard, in the Sheung On of that distant land, forgotten other nation in the world would won many opponents over to and political spheres, a common Boarding House of No. 157, Con-by the people they served as commit such folly ?ng mode its side. The victory for Mr language, and unity of govern Baldwin and the moderates may ment

- naught Road, ⠀⠀ Central, In rapidly, as the rank grass of the If the obstinacy of our meddle also be taken as signifying that almost a century and a half old certified by the French Bank as A Shameful Sacrifice well alone continues in its pre The British rule, now course of a Police raid, and were tropics grew above their graves some statesmen who cannot leave the Conservative party is not re has created a demand for self-counterfeit coins. No arrests actionary, but can support well- government especially by the were effected.

When another Gibbon writes sent course, it will not only wreck considered progressive steps, as fact that, despite the Integrity

the "Decline and Fall of the India but ruin Britain, Indian Empire," for which the A thousand millions of British in the days of Disraeli.,

and devotion to duty of the

present British Government capital in invested in India. It The Die-Hards" such as Lord Indian Civil Service, despite the

seems determined to provide the will be confiscated Salisbury, Sir Henry Page Croft, benefits of law and order and and the incorrigible Mr. Churchill, progress, despite the salvation of were willing to accept provincial the Indian peasantry from autonomy, for India, but not the famine, this benevolent despotism central government. They also still remained in essence a despo, As the result of a raid on No. S political folly. attacked the safeguards as in- tism, resting on racial and colour Haiphong Road, ground floor, last adequate. Time alone can give prestige. In demanding Domin night, conducted by Detective Ser control of India under the pro- For once the Nationalists get the final decision on the latter fon status, it has been sald pro- geant: Danbrowsky, of the Water posed Constitution, they will point. In regard to the first foundly that the Indian pride Police Station, ten gamblers were make a clean sweep of the Britleb point, the Opposition were sound has laid-stress on the "status, charged at the Kowloon Magis-members of the Civil Service. enough in their diagnosis that because beneath the political tracy this morning.

They have already virtually

Indian Service of Engineers, by ourselves, guarded by us, and Indian. Medical Service,

to a large extent financed from Indian Veterinary Service. this country, will disappear be For six generations of British yond hope of reconstruction as a my slightest wish would be fulfilled history careers in these or simi- result of the mad policy of thrust

"Bo. I did, derling, I am still trying| to find one slight enough.".

lar branches of the Indian ing upon India a democratic Government have been open to Constitution for which she is of Course!

the young men of this country-totally unfitted. phant skin,"

Teacher: "Has anyone seen an ele- until 1868 under the authority of Sixteen per cent of the young)

the East India Company and men of Lancashire are to-day In John: "Yes, sir, I have." Teacher: "Have you?

Where, my since that time as servants of the dreary idleness on the dole! be boy??

Crown.

cause India has shut out from Joha: "On an elepliant, sir.

The Framework Of India

her markets the cotton goods that. During more than a century will these young men like the they formerly produced. How! 3,470 COUNTERFEIT and a half these British officials

have formed what Mr. Lloyd few years hence to defend against prospect of being conscripted a COINS

George once called, in a telling foreign invasion the frontiers of and truthful phrase, "the steel the country that has ruined framework of India." Great

them?

House

TEN GAMBLERS FINED

Coolie Forfeits Bail

the

names, like those of Clive and

historical material, his readers Thousands of the finest types admiration for our Indian Civil of British manhood and woman- Servants will be equalled only by hood live and work there They their amazement that such men will be shipped home to join the should have been sacrificed to unemployed.

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retreat to the old order would be question is the more profound Lam Ching, a coolle, who was accomplished this in those ger difficult, if not impossible, once one of social inferiority. Whether charged with keeping the place vices like Education, Ag the Federal Government is estab: the Federation policy will be was absent, so bis ball of 330 Bahed and given a large measure successful or not, in view of all estrented by Mr. E. W Hamilton, of responsibility There lies the the difficulties in its way, the Crux of the Issue The Indian is little doubt about its

political parties realise"

and Congress, already highly

critical of the report as

fuse

nough would cer

"going

It is to be hoped that the

onalists will show thes

of rea

itain and

Fisdo

Medical and Veterinary Servle Engineering and the

which have been tra native control in the

the remainder wore fined $2 each

THEY WORE HATS IN COURT

So

present