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INDIA'S DESTINY

The annoucements from Travancore and Hyderabad that the withdrawal of the British Raj tran fiulia will be followed by declarations of State independence show that, whatever the incrits of the plan for the sansfer at pus Lei, the solution is not yet. All that can be said and it is nach is that we have surmounted what was, perhaps, the most dil- Hvalt obstacle on the way to it. The Hindo and Moslem leaders Have agreed that a certain pro- sedme shall be followed to map

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OF CIVIL WAR

By Dr. Pei Wen-Chung

Peiping, June 17. knows how many times this or shut up in a dark room. But if

haa The influential Tu Kung Pao ganisation

changed its the man can pay a bribe be- prints a bitter document of life name. It now calls itself_thetween $200,000 and $300,000 hei in a Chinese village caught Self-Defence Corps. But the may obtain exoneration, after the ebb and-low of civil war. villagers speak of always na | having_repented.

The writer, Dr. Pei Wen- the Fire Gang."

Bribe-Or Else churst, a geologist; in Govern- "When the Nationalist forces "If the bribe is not forthcom- ment employ, says the ordent of j visit the villages to mop up. the ing, he may then be accused of purge, extortion, blackmail and chiefs and men of the Fire being an out-and-out 'bandit. foot Brizure in his nativa Gang form them which villageThen there is nothing for it but Lnanhalen, 195 kilometers has Eighth Routern (members

he must be shot dead as a 'ban- Bortheast of Tientsin, in typical of the Communist Eighth Route dit. of suffering in other Hopel) Army) to be extirpated, und "Such a situation villages in the war zone. who are Communists to be shot almost every sien in

"I am student of science before firing squads. One word Hopel.

poli- from the Gang is enough to knowing nothing about tles," writen Dr. Pei. "I came condemn a village to the torch or from. FL villysze which

was a man to denth.

berated". By the Communials Jong ago and restrired by Na

Bonalist forces last year. Since

then it have

exista in castern

"I am not opposing opera- tions against bandits, But for

Absolute Authority "When the Nationalist forces) withdraw, key points are head- stree ruore and "restored again, ad over the Gang, and all neigh- Today, the peuple in main control. Though it may against bandita is hardly dif bouring villages placed under cannot even go on living.”

and

the sake of justice the Govern- ment forces should not mop up inhocent people. nor should they take as their sole object the purge of villages. The way the Nationalist forces out mapping-up campaigns

ferent from the practices of the Japanese....

carry

It In battles of the sort his vil-cupy only limited areas,

nevertheless exercises an Ali- fugo saw. he Pontinues, "The

thority which is absolute Com-1 Nationists and the munists, more often than not, supreme."

a village, Dr. Pel continues, they i The Fire Gang, Dr. Pei con- get off with light casualties.

The hearing the full

rantes, raises regular "contri- persuade or coerce villagers to

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killed for 'grø stripped of their pozacrvous......

often collects experience, the farmers and ammunition; it "interned bricks" for the con- comply, knowing it to be the them. way left open to struction of forts, and food-beat Armed Idlers

Those slow with their legs are stuffs such as millet. wheat,

shot. A man shot dead is a dead "Last winter

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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authoritica"

LISTEN TO THE

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Pakian, and enable their tente. sentatives to sit in separate Con-

·tituent Assemblies; and, assum ing that the dualism is persistedd in, Great Britain will hand over ito two separate Dominion Gov.

10 villager ist southern struction fee" is levic once or craments. Whether they will

Due to land. dispute dating teman such as will exercise their Tengyan took refuge in rushes,Į twice a month. Funds are "re-

for the purchase of back to the 18th century, and

ed a double by Enat than 1-No They had ma Toush for three quested" anion right to secule is elt-

days. Then, there was heavy socks, shoes and uniforms all De Pei, the villagers of Luan-

Trump. Then again, after East's to for them to determine. But fall, More in 19,000 were the year round. When a member haien are in mortal fear of the

1-No Trump, most players in the West would have bid either 3- on, it is sight, will re-

neighbouring Frozen to death, and most of the Fire Gang marries, vil- Fire Gang of a

their .. The Commonwealth; and vivors list either Bogers, ears lagers are told to produce cash district. "Any man from our the bidding. And that means fearts or 4-Hearts an

on being - sighted, in the bidding of your opponents first turn, and some would havo prehents. "For comforting Na- village, start when its leaders cun- eir full passibilities,

Spreiling fear through the tonalist forces, plus and cash beaten up and held for rausom, da well as your partner's. You bid 4-Hearts instead of three

Dr. Pei often large sums) are collect he reports. "The Gurrature ilkely to get information after Bust's 3-Clubs. more than one crason for vinge of Luanhsien,

There ured from the formers." All this word that it will stop finding from them which is even more

wan one really good is an organisation. A hupetul sequel my's actin armal siders and rufians who in addition to the ordinary and fault only if the village trans valuable to you than merely bid, however, in the entire

fers a large part of its farm-❘ that which aids you to play the sequence. It was South's andhi's speech. Mr,ince worked for the Japanese xtraordinary taxes in kind.

This constant draining of the land, together with several lens carda with good effect, agninat Diamonds. The repeated calls and the puppets and now net as 4. has always opposed part-idea for Government

"mon- farmer's mengre resources has of millions of dollars, to their them. Maybe the disclosure of by East and West had told him tion. But he recognized that it

resulted in drastic leprecia- district.

their own suit lengths will en- that they held so many cards ping-up tests,“

"How CA 1. Pir work, out of the Vicetov,

four) village, able you to read that your part- In other sults, they could pot "Since the beginning of the tion in land values, Dr. Pei re-)

"Expenneя due

muny from which is populated by only 60 aer holds enough cards in your have | har of 'e indian' politician, and Sino-Japanese war to the pre- ported,

diamonds. Con say, or 60 families, meel such an own long suit to support it assequently North had a' fair appealed for mutual agreement to sent moment," he says, "no one wich mon of land." he

"often exceed what the land enormous demand?

a trump for a profitable sacri- number of them. As soon ge define the boundaries of a parti. Į

can yield through the year."

"The village, of course, in Rice.

the 4-carta bid showed a game Listed Punjab and Bengal.

Fire Gang

free to refuse, but in all pro-

was at stake, South then decid- Chandhi's dislike of partition is needed than ever. None of these

bability the Gang men would

ed to sacrifice at 5-Diamonds. Military conscription, the ac- Shared by the Congress leaders Army problems has yet been real count continues, is in the hands report the village as a Commun-

It proved profitable, too, as the generally and if they have given by tackled. Yet none of them can of the village chief, who is also ist base when the Nationellat

only tricks lost were one in way over it, the reason is that be shirked. When the British go the head of the Fire Gung. And forces next come. Then the vil-886

trumps, two in apades and one events have shown the alternative the Army will be the sole remain "too many Gang actect recruits lege may be shelled with cannon HAJ 108

in hearts. tý partition to be civil war ånding embodiment”Về farce. Que in proportion to the size of the or massacred by the self-defence communal massacres. Yet mere needs only recall what happened | household's fortunes,

"Consequently, the whole DQ acceptance of the thing in prin-in China when the Manchus went, "A wealthy family might be

iple cannot be relied on to banish in order to see some of the risks., requested to send two or three Populace, from 10 to 60 years the danger. Hegy the detailed 1 would not take many years of of its members to the army, ir- of age, lives in constant panic. Many dare not pass the night and somewhat Complicated plas mismanagera!

tu bring

Indi respective, of whether there are in their homes but fee to the

that many young

men in the embodied in the agreement, where back in the state of devastating

fields or a neighbouring family....Should wealthy by the decisions about partition chaos and etlenie war, into whis family decline to send its re-

lage."—United Press. will he taken. What is desirable the break-up of the Mogul Encruits, a process known as "kn- now is that these arrangements "pire brought her, and from which chia' is necessitated: the wealth

PLAGUE IN AMOY North East South West! should be pushed forward at the she was rescued by the British of the familly in appraised, con-

1 S 1 NT Pagy 2 H greatest possible speed, while | Roj. Again, who is to carry onverted into cash and surrender-

Shanghai, June 19.

3 C PAHK .3 H $4.20 | Traders of each community-d the fixing of boundaries between ed to the Gang-in ransom, In The Shanghai Quarantine

4-H6-D-Pass their must to curb the passions Hindustan and Pakistan? The default of which ita men

Раба are Service announced today that

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You because of the prevalence of of their followers, and in parti- broad decisions, - first

could hardly call that H AQT cular to restrain there from blood there are to be partitions at all, better off, for sons of wealthier aircraft arriving there will be Most first rate players would c 9398

"Poorer families are hardly plague in Amoy all vessels and entire auction fine bidding. D AG shed. Speed is requisite because and secondly, what main the task of restraint is difficult, are to be comprised in them, willed, eno it is mostly from the tion.

families are frequently ransom- subject to quarantine inspec open North's hand with_1-Dla- 73

mond instead of 1-Spade, and and the chief way to ease it will be arrived at by the votes ol

poor families that the required Amoy has been declared the ensuing activity would have be to shurten it. Speed is nu less Indians in the manner which the recruits finally come.

plague-infected port.-United varied tremendously, Also, desirable from the British point new agreement lays down. But

more players would have favor- of view, in order to relieve our when that is done, it remains for {officials as early as possible from houdary commissions to

the impossible position in which marcate the actual frontiers. And they find themselves. A handful it does not seem to be yet indicated of men dealing with vast popula who the commissioners will be, or tions, they were sustained hitherto what impartial outside force, if by the enduring prestige of the any, there will be to enforce the $20.00 British Raj. Once it was an- decisions. Is it

nounced that the British would it outlast June, 1948, by mid-August—the date by $15.00

their position became very dif- which it is now hoped to complete ficult; and the sooner it can be the British transfer? And yet

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"Then there is the practice of Press. plen-pa which is just another term for blackmail. Any man may have bad luck and may be ccused of being a 'collaborator He will then be beaten up and of the bandits (Communists)."

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Australia's Sheep Loss

'San Francisco, June 17. gation, but this will be one of Radical new medical and elec-the few in which major em- tronic treatments for cancer phasis is placed on a study of will be tested on humana for human cancer patients, brought to an end before that date up the smooth and agreed

Dr. Shimkin sat scientists (From the filer of the "China the first time at a $250,000 the better. This applies to Indian settlement of those frontiers the Mali

cancer Jaboratory to be in also would "ñtudy the relation- |as well as British officials. It does prospect of good relations be- FOR LONDON-The new fost operation here by mid-summer. ship between cancer and im

London, June 16 not mean that many might not be tween the two future Indias must sailing frigate "DIANA W. 11,"

One of nearly a dozen ex-munity, hoping to find the fac The Australian Agriculture te engaged by the new regime. largely depend. Take again the Gilson, Commander, has a stern perimental unita throughout tor that protects many people Minister, R. T. Pollard, revealed But until then they cannot have problem of the Indian States. | Poop Cabin disengaged. For pas. the nation, the superbly-equip from the disease.

Laday that Australia lost $1,000), ped laboratory will teat and in the fullest sense Government Leading members of the Princely age apply to WH. FRANKLYN, evaluate many new anti-cancer and electronic devices will be scars drought. Mr, Pollard was

Scores of new mechanica! 000 sheep during the last dver behind them. Such considerations Order are said to be” at, „lusger-

agents in research designed used in a third phase of in-king, A statement reaffirming.. explain the energy with which | heads about it. Sime favour

of VICTORIA THEATRE, under primarily to learn the cause vestigations

malignant the Federal embargo on the ex- The Vicy is pressing to accele Hindustan, some Pakistan, while the patronage of His Excellency as well as the cure for the tumours

they occur in port of stud rums.AN DEY La fuster. Not only has it several talk of complete indepen The Governor, will present the deadly disease.

patients and test tubes. Оле He said: "It is very necessary rised, to rouse Indian politicians derice. None of whese would popular Farce entitled "FOR- Dr. Michael Shimkin, direc test will involve & sealed cham. that Australia's flocks should be

see of realities; but this really be so satisfactory as the TUNE'S FROLIC" after which tor of the laboratory. Bald bor in which automatic record-rebuilt stage it involves less, risks than federal position avisaged for them the well known: Burlesque Tragic many new drugs now are readyings are made of a patient's Regardless of the high prices leisurely procedure. It under the All-India constitution. Operettd "BOMBASTES FURIO for testing after successful ex- blood pressure, heart rate, offered .in Latin America, remains a fact that the difficulties These difficulties and, not a few 50," the whole to conclude by perimentation on animala. blood chemistry, respiration South Africa, and the Unitsa, any of and basal metabolam rate. -- States, therefore, the embargo" Take for iustance the Indian But what most of them seem to

Bombardment Army. It has been the aim of call for is the assistance of an Victoria Theatre. being desirious human volunteers, we may be N.B. The proprietors of the anid. "But by testing them on

Another experiment will the British military authorities to impartial nun-thdian authority of affording every accommodation able to develop more effective utilize supersonic, wave bomb- render it. non-communal; Mes-accepted by theiyal Indian bodies to the audience, beg to

́ardment of cancer cells, and notify agenta,”

another will delve Into the During the first 11 months of lems and Hindus serve in it side as adviser, arbiter and, to some that the number of Tickets to be Among these agents are com by side. The reward of that extent, guarantor. That is more saved will be limited and none plex augar, hynthetic sex hor-electrical nature of cancer cells this season, it said, '2,730,000 policy has been reaped during com- or less Lord Mountbatten's posi-will be sold after noon of the per- mones, many other organic and the possible use of clee bales of wool were sold at aute munal disturbances, when the tion at the moment; hut if his formance; so that parties wishing compounds, and derivatives of tronics in diagnosis and treat- tion with an average price for

greda 24.77 pence, a 16, Army has eainei).

deadly, nitrogen-mustard ment...\. `everybody's į term is to close next Augustit

"We want to learn anything way the smaller quantity bought "A" feature of the autumn sätes confidence by putting down dis-will do rd long before the need for will please to make early applica. poison gas, once used in war-

we possibly can about the na- by the United States. British and orders impartially, But now the it has ended. Its successor or

ture of cancer cells, and why continental buyers stare bid- demand is for the Army to be more probably nuttessors, for the A SIGHT! The proprietors of

Volunteers

they are different from othering strongly and a record is ex cells, Dr. Shimkin said. "We pected-United Pres to Pakistan, The Hindus and separate ones will have only the fully to inform the European of 25 at otie time will bo treat also want to learn why cancer' Moslems, who hitherto, have status of a Dominion Governor-Community of Hong Kong thated by a technical staff that will patients are different from served side by side, will have to General, which is not designed to the Company now here will give cute more than 80 doctors, normal patients and how they TRAM AND TRUCK

still ahead are most formidable. others may alle surmounted entitled the "WEATHERDOCK" them to be a cancer cure," he

request with the faughable Force "We don't expect

to have seats secured for Ladies, the

tion.

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| divided—patt to Hindustan, part two Dominions are likely to desire the Chinese Theatre beg respect- Volunteer patients in groupa

be sorted out into separate units. cover such an active, role. That Gymnastics, and tumbling this boratory will be operatei folnt-

representation, of Keats ofacientiate and nurses. The la- got that way

Arit imposed in the early thirties should be reinised, the Austrálien Nows and Information. Burenti reported.

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COLLIDE

The fundamental goal of the From the "sturidpoint of In- he had done so well thus far, and evening at 4 past 7 o'clock; ds ly by the University of Call-laboratory; he emphasized, will trograde. Moreover, it will take Indian parties in so, short a tine, sos the European community no Health Serviço. The health cancer. dian unification it is utterly regained the confidence of the this representation is got up solely formin and the U.S. Public bo a search for the causes of A tram and a truck, collided near the Naval Dockyard Pat time to carry out-precious time, would only sharpen regret, if he Chinese will be admitted to in agency co-bperating with Once you find causes, he 6.20 last ovening. Some-dam during which the Army as a non- proved to have timed his departure convenience them. Terms of ad other universities and research said, "it's a lot easier to find age was caused to the tram communal force may be more too early.

pilasión, 1- rupte, for to. Laiss{} Institutions in similar Investi- curca."—United Press,

but there were no injurich.