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1935.

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14,500 13th July

6,000 20th July

RAWALPINDI

KAISER-I-HIND †BHUTAN

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+BEHAR

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11.000 10th Aug.

6.000 17th Aug.

17,000 24th Ang-

6,000 31st Aug

NALDERA

7th Sept 16,000

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**SOUDAN RANPURA RAJPUTANA **BURDWAN

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6,000 12 Oct.

THE CHINA MAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 190 1935

Tom Brown has the title role in "Bachelor of Arts,” John Erskine's best-selling story of college-life-seen from a totally new angle. It is a For Films". production and, will be screened at the Queen's Theatre tô-mor-

TOW.

"Clive Of India"

Sinued from Page &)

Rezza Sahib prepared to storm reconciliated the inhabitants, the fort. He shrewilly, chose for laid in supplies, and strengthened the attempt the feast of Moharram, the dilapidated defences of the the Mohammedan festival sacred forts so as to put himself in reads to the memory of the martyred ness to resist the ejected garrison Imams, a day on which to fall i= when it returned with reinforce battle against the infidel is for the ments to

invest him. And while faithful to atone for all their sins he gallantly beat back the assaults and pass through the Gates of of the besiegers, the strategic ve Death straight into the Garden of salts upon which he counted were the Houris. being realised.

He disposed of his forces `în From the army before Trichons four columns. Two of these, pre-| poir Chunda Salmib detached 4,000 ceded by elephants with armoured men, under his wonRezza Sahib, plates upon their heads, to be used to drive the presumptuous invader as battering rama, marched at from his capital, while from dawn upon the gates.

Duplet sert·· 180 Pondicherry

To the religious frenzy which; French soldiers - to co-operate-the occasion supplied had been Further reinforced by the original added the intoxication of biang, garrison of Arcot and another liberally served out, so as to swell 2,000 men from Vellore, when the fury of the assault. But in Rezza Sahib entered the city and the matter of the elephants, from took up his headquarters at the which so much was expected, the palace he disposed of an army stormers had provided a formid- 10,000 strong for the task of re-able weapon which recoiled upon ducing a dilapidated fortress de-themselves. Maddened by the fended by 500 men.'

musketry fire of the garrison, the The walls of this fortress were huge beasts swung trumpeting crumbling, the fanking towers about and stampeded through the were in ruins, the parapets were

troops that followed flow and the moat. almost, dry and

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houses of the city came so closely up to the walls that they afforded excellent cover for sharp-shooters

A Great Act

Clive's Part

Meanwhile the other columns were gaining the breaches. The defenders, in their entrenchments behind the walk, held their fire until the assailants were at close

ports

To attempt to hold such a place jin such circumstances was an aquarters Then, while gaps were torn: fa the Indian ranks by musketry, hand-grenades tossed] of audacity unparalleled in the history of sieges and one

over the parapet bestowed death must have moved the besiegers, and destriction upon the hordes derisjon That a young man of Mr. Charles E. Cochran is plan twenty-five, without military train-crowding the ditches. The sup

were met by Clive's well-j to raise £10,000 for the ling and of meagre military directed artillery fire, and in the Actors Benevolent Fund, of which perience gathered under Major case of a crowded raft that was is president. In association Lawrence in the course, of some grossing the most at a critical be with the Hon. Mrs. Cunningham minor actions, should have found moment it was he himself who Reid he is organising an enter-men and amongst whom laid the gun that destroyed it tainment to take place at Gros-there was not even the cohesive For an hour the crash and din force of a common nationality and

of battle raged about the fort, as Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lon-Tenor House of July 10.

stand beside successive columns rolled up to It will be of an exceptional *.common faith-to

wares against the nature, for Mr Cochran said that him and share his glorious mad break like

walls so intrepidly held. Then,! he will have the choice of the ser-ness reveals something of the Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Len-vices of all the musical comedy, force and genius that was inher when the shattered forces of revue, cabaret and music-hall art-ent in Clive and rendered possible Rezza Sahib began to fall back, B'bay, Mars. Havre L'don. H'bges, producers and costume and to him the apparently impossible still firing spitefully, a report that

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For fifty days in that crumbling the Mahrattas were at hand con- fortress, ander an almost ceaseless verted the retreat from the fort hail of fire, the indomitable Clive into a precipitate evacuation of and his 500 men, supported by a the city. Abandoning guns, am-|| half-dozen juns, with almost

mamition, stores, and treasure--an superhuman resourcefulness stood enormous bootyReza Sahib's San Included will be a dance com-successfully at bay against twenty battered troops melted away.

The siege of Areat, which for petition on the lines of his old times their number. What Clive in military training and Charleston Bal. Each

theatre lacked

wonder of Europe as of Asia, was will be asked to send a team of experience was supplied by keen many a day was to be as much the

at an end. eight. Every girl in the winning intelligence, clear judgment, and s team will be awarded a prize, and swift grasp of essentials Ee In addition there will be a trophy was, in fact, as Stringer. Lawrence Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and for the management sending the had already described him,

"boza soldier"

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1935.

10.000 1st June

230 p. 8,000

3th July 7,000 19th July 10,000 2nd Aug.

8,000 16th Aug

Calcutta.

Calls Fort Swettenham

1935.

7,000

5th July 7,000

End Aug. 7,000 sist Aug.

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Rezza Sahib

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To meet the state of disrepair place on November 25. On the ACQUITTAL OF BANK ROMANCE AFTER

CLERK

Acting Suspiciously Near Cars

“A NATURAL INTEREST”

London

FIFTY YEARS

Old Lovers Quarrel Righted

The preliminary arrangements of the ramparts and the shallow following evening Colonel Kil- were made at a meeting at the ness of the parapets, which afford- patrick entered the place with house of Mrs. Cunningham-Reid, ed no protection from the shot and reinforcements from Madras, and tickets to the value £474 shell by which they were con- four days later Clive, far from from the terrific BL Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for when

were actually sok Altogether tinuously bespattered, Clive threw recuperated 1st and 2nd class passengers-

Garnett (Ontario) £1,469 has already been raised by up entrenchments behind them strain endured in those five weeks, explace which to him had been of almost and constructed

Fifty years ago Miss Agnes Johnson of Garnett, and Mr. EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (S.) sales of ticketz...

Mr. Cochran said that he was ments. Not content to stand upon sleepless vigilance, took command

Archibald Parker were engaged “going all out" tọ make the Grog the defensive, and undaunted by of 200 British; 700 sepoys, and

A clerk in the Bank of Eng to be married. They had a Manila Robaul, Brisbane, Sydney renor House event the biggest odds, he made frequent and well. 1.000 Mahrattas, and marched out

judged sallies. But these and the in quest of Rezza Sahib

At Arni, on December 14, he land was acquitted by Mr. Fry lovers' quarrel and parted. Now and best entertainment" ever pre-

repulsing of attack after attack sented in London.

wore down his forces, until they proved himself as able a com- at Box-street Police Court ze they have made it up and are "Every charity entertainment numbered little more than three mander in the field as in a becently of a charge of being a going to be married relies on the members of our pro- hundred, of whom less than half sieged fortress. Met there by suspected person loitering in the Miss Johnson, now 68-years. fession, who give their services were British, while of his sight Eezza Sahib with a vastly superior West End for the supposed pur-loid, will wear the bridal force of 5,000 men, including 300 pose of committing a felony. she planned 50 years ago.

Ee was described on the During the half-century since gratuitously Practically one third officers only four were left.

Gallant Sepoys

French from Fondicherry, be de-charge sheet, as Leonard Wheat the quarrel separated them the of my life," he said, "is spent in

livered battle and utterly routed ley Williams aged 27, of Cran-prospective bridegroom went to arranging programmes; now I am

Then to the threat of the mighty the son of Chunda Sahib. In theiley gardens, Palmers Green, Nthe United States and married making a grand appeal for my enemy without was added the saiful use which he made of hist Police constable Pettigrew someone else. He now has a own `people. Unlike many such

threat of famine within. But the tillery, to which the victory was said that he raw Williams act-married daughter of his own. shows, I intend to give full value devotion which Clive had the mainly due the frexperienced ting suspiciously Dear several The other day he wrote to his The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom ria New for the price of the tickets."

Dower of inspiring was never bat Clive once again displayed the na motor cars in the neighbour boyhood sweetheart and Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc-

ter shown than when his sepostural genius that can dispense hood of Gerrard-street, Soho, at romance has blossomed again. proposed to him that the remain with academic training.

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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

RAWALPINDI

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*BEUTAN STILAWA

ER-I-HIND

"BEFAR: "RANCET SANTHIA

1935.

17,000 27th Jme 7,000 27th June

7,000 4th July

6,000 10th July -10,000 11th July

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A CONG SAVESjing rice should be husbanded for

OFFERTORY

Vicar's Precaution Against Theft

An electric gong attached to an offertory box at a church gave a alarm and led to a man's arrest recently at Shoreham, Sussex,

the English, who required mone nourishment while they them selves should take no more than the gruel strained away from it

The defence was stubbornly: maintained in the hope of relief either from Madras or from the

Mahrattas, of whom some 4,000, mobilised to assist Mahomed Ali, stood in arms undecided. It was aventually the spectacle of Clive's rodizious valour that shaped the Charles Stewart, of no foed ad-decision of their lead

who hebelding the dress, was committed for trial on

a charge of stealing is 11d. from the Rev RC Filler. He pleaded

not guilty and reserved his defence.

- Mr-Filler said he was sitting in.

his study when the gong gave the

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(To be Continued),

CAR CONQUERS MOUNTAINS

Fine Performance By 13.9 h.p. Model

midnight It now transpired that Williams left school in 1925 and had been employed as a bank-clerk ever since.

Williams told the magistrate that he naturally took an in- terest in motorcars

"Didn't Realiser

gown

PASSING OF THE MAURETANIA

Old Captain Refused To Attend Auction The Magistrate-Why didn't you tell me you had such an Captia Sir excellent character and position, who of trust?

for 11 Williaans I didn't realise why he that what I was doing was open of the the to suspicion.

Doas mountains dzave been

After consulting

probation officer the Magistra mering aw

said to Williams,

Lunderstand you

Hisclosed that yo fholdingen dhiga

ned, recently anction.