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Bombay Goes
THE CHINA M
"Dry"
Property To Find Reve
test.
"OUR thousand years ago, net's nest about their ears. Few Gov- the heavy taxa tradition says, the Em- ernments in the province have had to necessary to le face such severe opposition, But the make up for th perior of China forbade the Bombay Ministry, far from minding hibition. Nearl use of intoxicants, and in this, have in a sense welcomed it. "We will have been have broken the back of the anti-pro- has been decid consequence Heaven rained hibitionists," they say. Bombay city by a direct tax spot for the The Governmen gold for three days upon the is certainly a difficult
new taxation, people. From to-day the pur- Intellectuals oppose the measure as taxation has me chase, transport, possession an infringement of the citizen's rights, the poor to the and use of intoxicants will Koran to abstain, agree
Moslems, being commanded by the "tainted money.
with it in
LESS CO be unlawful in Bombay. Will principle but resent its economic con- Other objectio Heaven smile or frown?
sequences. Parsees, numbering 60,- ly impracticable 000 in Bombay, are the foremost in in a city like B The second city in the Em- the anti-prohibition campaign, as will soon lose i their acter, that it wil pire and its suburbs, with an many depend on the trade for
living directly or indirectly. Mast fic, that its trad area of 90 square miles and a Hindus support the Government other ports, that
Several factors have contributed to suffer a setback,
·
population of nearly 1,500,000 the hostile reception accorded to the ber of men, the "goes dry.". A bold experi- extention of the experiment to Bom- "toddy-tappers," ment, one may say, but the bay city. The foremost of these is of employment authorities are determined to see it through, "even if it means our breaking on it."
Since Mr. Gandhi assumed control of the Congress organisation 20 years ago the abolition of 'drink has been an important plank in its platform. With Mr. Gandhi himself it is a moral no less than a social or economic issue.
PUTTING POLA FRONT TO Aims Of Ge
The
which
is
that the annexa
By the Correspon ""Manches
dian."
His abhorrence of intoxicating drinks or-drugs is so strong that he would not shrink from the most stringent or the situation made by Mr. Chamberlain has such a defici
survey of the international ed so ruinously costliest measure to banish them. His in the House of Commons on Monday of essential comm influence is mainly responsible for the would seem to err on the side of mically so deper present policy of the provincial Gov-[optimism. ernments under the control of the The situation in Danzig is steadily very severe ecol Congress. Left to themselves they deteriorating. German encroachments burden on Hung would certainly not have taken up the are coming perilously near the point prohibition issue at the threshold of at which Poland will have to, decide their career in the sphere of self-gov- whether it will not be necessary to ernment.
utter the final warning, "So far and Nevertheless, it is a fact that hun-no farther." She has refrained from dreds of Congress men went to gaol saying this hitherto although even for picketing liquor shops. For years now the progressive militarisation of past the Congress has associated itself Danzig by the Germans is a menace with the campaign against drink. Pro- to her security. hibition was included in the funda- No less menacing than these en- mental rights adopted by the Con-croachments in Danzig is the military further, be the gress in 1931. In this sense, it is nat- concentration
Germany
of incorporating ural that to-day, when the Congress carrying out against Poland in Slova- than two and a
kia. is in power in the majority of
There are indications that much as they ha vinces, its agents should strive To Germany means to transform the pre- Germans, hate t translate past profèssions into action.
sent status of Slovakia in the near
There can be Almost the first reform and recon-|
future. She has been considering the transfer struction Congress Ministries were or-
of Slovakia to Hungarian rearmament and dered by their central executive
sovereignty and has taken soundings the Western Pov to undertake was the total abolition
in Budapest to discover the attitude certain caution of
of the Hungarian Government. Her is considerable e were asked in August, 1937, to complete
the purpose is to detach Hungary from a "Putsch" had task in three
Poland and to make her subservient break out in Da years. Various
pro-
to German' anti-Polish policy.
that the prospect vinces adopted various policies and measures. They made a modest be- ginning. Most provincial Govern- ments began with the rural area, and even in Bombay the Government's initial programme did not attract wide attention. Now Bombay has taken a big step forward.
drink and drugs. They
pro-
more.
The plan does not commend itself fronts" made G to the Hungarians in the least, for the same time, t the Germans are coming to be feared believe that Her more and more in Hungary. Hungary doned any of his is coming to regard Poland as her THE TEST THAT only friend in Europe, while she fears. It is very likel
and rightly that if she anhexes ness of Poland Slovakia the present German domina- Powers will be THOSE FOR AND AGAINST
tion over Slovakia would be extended before long. WI Encouraged by the success of last to herself; in other words, that the stand to gain by year's experiment in Ahmedabad, a German plan, which seems too gen- Her idea is large textile centre, the Government erous to the Hungarians, is merely decided to introduce it in the capital a device to make them the vassals of of the province, the "Gateway of In- Germany. dia." Thereby they brought a hor- Beside, Slovakia has been exploit- the permanent m
-To discover, wi stand the severe
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