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LORD WILLINGDON'S TITLES
-CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Sofia, "To-day.
The marquessate conferred on Dr. Schacht, President of the Lord Willingdon is the ninth to
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MR. NEHRU'S STORY OF HIS LIFE
MAN OF THE FUTURE
IN INDIA
QUEER MIXTURE OF THE EAST AND THE WEST
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(By Dr. Maude Royden)
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rion of sedition on terrorism, com-
Notice To Contributors. all communications intended for publication should be addressed to the Editor, and be accompanied by the Writer's Name and Address German Reichsbank and German be created during the present cer- Economics, artury. Lord Linlithgow's was the rived here yesterday mor-irst, his father, Lord Hopetoun, ing and was greeted at receiving a step in the peerage in the aerodrome by the Bulgarian 1902 for his work as the first|| HERE are many books on con-far can the masses of the poor, Finance Minister, M. Gunne, the Governor-General of Australia.
troversial subjects which one who will not get prominence Trade Minister, M. Welleff, the One—the Curzon marquessate reads because one must, but jobs in any case, be exploited in Minister of Agriculture, Profes-
is now extinct Three of the whose bitterness or one-sidedness the name of religion by those who sor Atanassoff, the Governor and others-Cambridge, Carisbrooke, makes the effort to do so a con- hope that they will? Vice-Governor of the Bulgarian and Milford Haven-were given tinual struggle. Mr. Nehru's!
Dreadful Poverty⠀⠀ National Bank and many other during the war to members of the story of his life is one which few The dreadful poverty of India
Immediately
Royal family who had previously who begin will be able to lay which no one denies or can deny, Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 16, 1936 important oficials.
upon arriving in the capital, Drborne German titles.
dewa!
jis in part explained by the absorp-. Schacht made his way to the Ror If, as seems likely, Lord Willing No matter where we stand on tion of many who might have been al Palace in order to sign his don retains his present title, bia the questions of imperial. na hér leaders and saviours, in the Iname in the visitor's Book
son and heir will remain Lordtionalist or economic policy which struggle to retain their own pos- In a statement to the Press, Dr. Ratendone. If he takes new one he discusses here, we shall find sessions and prestige. Is this not Schacht said that he had come to for his marquessate, Lord Raten-something. to learn, something terribly trae of her British ad- One is reluctant to dwell on Sosa as the guest of the Governor done would then assume the new, perhaps something unwel-ministrator as well as her na the horrors suffered by the of the National Bank of Bulgari courtesy title of the Earl of Will-come, stated with such fairness tive Princes and her middle class? Abyssinians-both combatants in order to repay many visits ingdon. In that case, if Lord such courtesy, and such under-i Mr. Nehru comments 02 the and non-combatants-under the which the latter bad paid to Ber-Racendone has a son, he will be standing that we ourselves become rapid and efficient action of the terrible ordeal of poison-gas: lin. Dr. Schabt said that he was known by this title.
more fair and more understand-British Raj when there is ques- but on the other hand it is as glad to visit Bulgaria again after
ing in the reading. well that the world at large 20 years. since, in addition to DUKE AND BARON ONLY
1-have become a queer mixture pard with the almost unbelievable should have some inkling of the close commercial relationship,
not of the East and West." be writes. slowness and caution displayed things they will be called upon Germany and Bulgaria had much Marquesses, however, are to suffer if that "next war in common, and were bound to always sufficiently well supplied"out of place everywhere, at home when the matter is one of the suf- Perhaps my thoughts fering a different form of ter- which people are so glib to talk gether by ties of friendship, which with titles in lower ranks of the nowhere.
and approach to life are more akin rorism) of the huge, underfed. labout as though it were a mere it was a pleasure to be able to peerage to make this possible. bagatelle, ever becomes a reali-assist in strengthening.-Trans-
In both branches of the Cecil to what is called Western than under-educated masses of the poor. I can give an instance of this ty. Not long ago the Consul- Ocean Service.
family, for instance, the titles of Easter, but India, clings to me. General for Italy forwarded to
the marquessate and the earldom as she does to all her children, in from my own experience. us a pamphlet entitled "Facts:
-Exeter and Salisbury are the innumerable ways; and behind me Mahatma Gandhi had launched le, somewhere in the sub-con-his great work for the rescue of which Genera refuses to see.") detailing some of the atrocities
The former's heir, therefore, is scieus, racial memories of a hun-the outcastes from outcastry, and effected on Abyssinians by
called by the only other title the dred, or whatever the number may went on to the still greater effort Abyssinians themselves. The
"I cannot get rid of either poverty. a circular was issued object of it, presumably, was to
family possesses the Barony of be, generations of Brahmins. Burghley. Lord Burghley's eldest
that past of mine or my recent warning British agents every- show what beastly people they
Ison is plain John Cecil
They are both part where to obstruct Gandhi in what are and what a good thing it!
What Is Home Without A Bother? Lord Salisbury's son and heir is acquisitions. was that Italy was proceeding
is of me."
was interpreted as a veiled at- "Why." asks a writer, "can't Viscount Cranborne. There with cleaning-up
that
itempt to seduce these poor from a barony of Cecil in process! Europe live as one big family also. which would bring everlasting The trouble seems to be just that it branch of the family. But for No doubt it is for this reason their allegiance to himself. The joy and happiness to the coun-lives as most big families. reasons of convenience this is not that Jewaharlal Nehru has been circular closed with a promise try.
But elsewhere in this
the real issues be-that, if the best way to obstruct used by the heir of the second able to state issue
to do a we publish an article
generation.
fore his own people and ourselves Mahatma Gandhi was contributed by a.special corres-
With one striking exception, with such clarity and understand- little uplifting themselves, appli pondent to the Daily Telegraph.
dukedoms are better provided. ing.
cations for small grants of money (London), describing "some
The Duke of Somerset, who is our Nowhere I think have they been to be used in this way would be thing of the heroism and hor- rors of British Red Cross work
YOU'VE NOTICED IT? second senior duke, has only one stated so clearly: nowhere has favourably considered.
with world
Copy Shown under Italian bombs in Abrs- According to a novelist Niaga-other title that of Baron. Sey-their connection
politics and world economics been When I was told of this I did sinia, as recounted by Dr. J. Wra Falls is the most interesting mour.
dif-more carefully brought out. 3ot believe.it A copy of the S. Macfie-who had just returned Fight in the world. And the next
The real significance" (or in-circular was then shown to me. I from the war area.” He was most interesting is a cross-eved ference to the precedence of Lord
and significance) of communal differ- asked Gandhi if he would like me second in command to Dr. A. Jman trying to use a dial telephone. Seymour, whe ranks with
jafter marquesses.
ences is, for example, one which to make this public when I got M. Melly, of the first British
I have tried again and again to home to England, but he Was unit. who was killed by 2 drunken Abyssinian during the
learn, both from British and from indifferent on this point, and said A conscientious woman is one
Indian friends; till now in vain that if the Government was go, sack of Addis Ababa after the who never breaks a confidence
Rose, without fires imposing the strictest | Emperor's flight.
a dog which rescued a Here I am told that--briefs--it is ing to do something for the vil child from the river at Llanelly, a question of jobs and of reli-ages, even if its motive was op- Carmarthen, has been awarded gion. Who is going to get the position to himself, who would be the bronze medal of the Canine salaried or prominent jobs under more thankful than he?
this or that regime? And how Continued on Page 7) Defence League.
There is no reason to doubt) Dr. Macfe's bona fides. The mere fact that he was engaged,
at considerable personal risk,
Your Daily. Smile!
GO UP TOP
Georskelte
how many ake a million "Not many," said George.
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I want something for my wife:" What are you asking for her?"
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DEFINITION
Just A Thought About the time a man's old
on an errand of mercy is suf-enough to know better he's so old ficient to premise that he must it doesn't matter whether be knows
be a man of some character: better or not.
and in reading his story care- fully it is at once evident that if he is a liar he is a very
accomplished one, because his narrative bears on the face of
it
REMARKABLE MAP BEING
MADE IN RUSSIA
such obvious superficial Jewellers of the Russian Semi- traces of truth as to be most Precious Stones Trust have be convincing. One of these guti to make an artistic chart of evidences, we suggest, is the twenty square metres of the in- following incident, vouched for dustralisation of the CISS.R. The by Dr. Macfe:-
chart will be made from Ural.
Dr. Melly had just began on the stones and non-ferrous metals.
first patient when a bomb was drop-
ped within a few yards of the operat
ing tent Dr. Melly went on with
his work, only saying "That was a bit and handkerchiefs. Our mis saney, wasn't it?'
sion in helping Abyssinian
If that is a fabrication, it is wounded
were
and sufferers was a most consummately skilled fairly obvious.” effort at the creation of the It was this self-same encamp- atmosphere of truth. Only a ment that was bombed by the genius, in a depraved sense, Italian planes, "which could have created that incident then only about 200 feet above loat of his own brain. We sug-us. They kept aiming at us, gest that it is impossible to but apparently Italian aerial assume that the whole thing, in bombers are not very accurate, its very simplicity, is a fabri- and we found shelter by plung Ication.
ing into the stream before they could get us
It was now obvious that the bombing was deliberate re
To quote the article again: Here in brief is the picture present ed by Dr. Mache:"
Men, women and children, killed by But perhaps the most damn- mustard gas, lying in villages. jing portion of the interview,
Women half-blinded, their bodies in its quiet, unaffected way, is burned, carrying blinded babies whose the penultimate paragraph,
tender skin was burned by gas.
Old men and women, their faces which states:
seared and blistered because they
From that time the British Red
looked up as aeroplanes passed over. Cross unit knew that there was no head, and rain of fiery fluid des question of Italy respecting the Ped Coras, and they had to cairy on their cended upon them.
Even Europeans whose feet were work, often treating hundreds of protected by atout boots, had their patients a day, in pisces less expos
Led ankles blistered by walking near a mustard gas crater caused by a bomb.
The quiet finality of that statement is a scorching indict- Describing the first bombing ment of the nation that allow- of the British Red Cross unitled these things to happen. ¡Dr. Macfie relates how Dr. Truly there ought to be a great Melly "picked a conspicuous retribution some day. And in
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION place in the open. We were a the meantime the civilised world
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fairly large encampment, and can look with whatever com- of course the low-flying. Italian placency it can feel at the pic- planes knew us. quite well ture conjured up by these hor- Some of our men used to greet rors. for its future delectation them as they came over, 300 or when that "next war" comes 1400 feet up, by waving towels along.
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¿same.
This does not make any
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When
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