1956-03-31 — Page 9

PROSPECTIVE

INCREASE OF

T.U. SUPPORT

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1956.

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H. M. BATEMAN'S COLONEL

IS JUST A POONA GHOST

Poona

qHE véry name triggers

T

a great host of jenta recalled. Instantly to

From Rene MacColl

amusement

cause Hindi is being brought in as the official language of the services.

cona

Yes, gone the British, their Clubs, their ways, their

the mind springs the ple- me that both the caricaturo There seeing to be precious cavalry lines on the whole ture of a chutney-ridden but and the

it little to show that they were

thing might never have been, pukka British colonel, the evoked are no longer valid. ever even here. The evidence of British beg of tricks. The whole

our century and a half of tenanty Dol

himself quintessence of the late Because

the Liquidator the men whose has been purposefully erased in ever have any regrets? It is im H. W. Bateman's art. But I foibles so often amused us the eight years of busy "Indiani" possible, of bowse, to know his am sure that all of you in the past. the choleric sation" since the "Great Liquida thoughts. But his bearing and

tion." could fire off just as good British officers of the old

his utterances reveal only the

his

jokes on that theme as any Poona legend-are gone. So Mountbatten came to a most Intense satisfaction, not to that I might penetrate here Gone, s far as one knows, Poona no longer comle and cer- reli-satisfaction, over

tainly no longer British. He role in India's history. on the spot.

flow here from "Bombay his big transport plane, wearing his

for ever.

Last Post

So what I would like to And I am also remember- tropical uniform (later he told do is to eschew that too ing that those officers the nascimbled cadėts, "The obvious line and write served

cannot conceal the our country well, uniform

Regret, so one would think, is something rather different. They were devoted men, man!"), and all his medals.

totally unknown to him. He and For, to tell the truth, after dutiful man.

often brave Au over he was gracious and his wife bask in the adulation spending a day here, during men.

charming and friendly, this man of the the closing stages of the

who presided with such aplomb man who gave us our freedom!" "Great Liquidator" Mount-

over the dissolution of a largo cry the

san,” answers In a way,

batten's grand Indian tour,

my mood is melancholy.

Where now?

purt of the Empire. you could eny

by speeding ladies ountbatten,

Where are they now? Chelten- caused the death Poona is an amusing word ham, perhaps? Or Harrogate? Poong-and

departure,

effect

Indians. "You are the

Indians. "Why-so

I

Mountbatten

in