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"The light-heartedness with, which curiames, in the sanguinary vocabulary Jingo newspapers speak of our task in of classical Rome, is a word which usually comotes the "desperate combats of man India and Egypt is simply staggering to

against an, or of man against beast. says the Rome corresponden of the those who have looked at either country," writes Mr. J. A. Spender in the eat-iness and the visitor to the Colosseum, or any of the other ruined amphithe "Now, we are told, is minster Gazette. the time to show 4 firm, hand-to haveatres of Italy, has probably taken comfort to his soul, that be is not as other met done with Dyarchy in India, to scrap the

were

In point of fact, however, the Lee Report to abolish the etion witnessing of lights to the death was not Egyptian independence, and take back the sole amusement of the Roman There, government of these countries into our

were milder forms of sport which own hands.

enjoyed before his conquests brought him prisoners of war to kill each other "for his pleasure, and, after his adoption of

The idea of British rule which these writers seem to have in their minds is that of hordes of British officials govern ing India and Egypt, as Englishmen govern England, with unlimited British troops and police at their command.

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Here, in Rome, the locality where these milder sports were held was even greater and more magnificent than the Colosseum, Dionysins of Halicarnassus says that it

technically humaner religion, conued tween sectaries of the Christian faith. pectacles of blood to the civil wars bes These sports-boxing in the Greek or Ro- There are in Iodin, I believe, about man fashion, wrestling, and chariot-ruc. 4,000 British officials to administer 320ing-were always "popular, and the last millions of Indians, and it need hardly named aroused such a frenzy of rivalty be said that the task of the officials would between the partianus of the different co-colours that the throne of Byzantium was be totally impossible without the operation of the Indians. All through the often shaken by their quarrels, country we rely on Indian officials, In dian judges, indian police, Indian troops, whose loyal co-operation is absolutely esstutia to our rule So it has been in

contain 100,000 spectators at a time. Egyptian efiels, Egyptian po Egypt. lice, Egyptian troops. Egyptian gov- Everybody has heard its name, but ernors, and headmen of villages haveabody has seen it, because there is performed inmensely the greater part nothing left to be seen. Even an Italian political procession is more amusing and it of the day-by-day functions of govern ment under more or less of British super. Jess odorous than a gasworks-and

is the tanks, and guildings of the Anglo- Romana Societa per il Gas" which to- THE MASTER PROBLEM..

day stand upon the site of the Circus "Undoubtedly we can keep these people Maximus. Other modern attractions of down, if we are prepared to raise a su the spot are the eld Jewish cemetery, row of mournful cient army and to put on ourselves the where lie beneath a

load of taxation which would be cypresses many of the late inhabitants

of the abolished Ghetto; and a promis

breed of malarial mosquitoes, who ing.. wing their shrill way round the circuit where once thundered the competing quad. rigae. They are probably unconscious of their insolence, for all is buried beneath 10ft, of earth. The visitor to Rome will With the East in ferment of self-be certainly unconscious bath of the gaso- meters and the mesquitoes. because when determination, and all the young mee whom we have trained and educated he stands on the Aventine overlooking the we bave ep- Valle Murcia in which the Circus lay his claiming liberties which couraged them to believe are the rights eye is irresistibly attracted by the ma- of civilised nations, it becomes highlyjestic ruins of the Palatine; and when. from the other side, be arrives at the perplexing, and we shall orly solve it it

last terrace of the Palatine, his clamorous we look it stealily in the face and keep

hunger the result of two or three hours' oool about it.

clambering among raias instinctively The urst thing to understand is that directs his gaze to the lunchers in the big And yet the Eastern peoples are demanding not

restaurant on the Avertine, only political institutions but a new social

the day may come when the importunity status vis-à-vis the Europeans. The cry

of his guide or the desire to

limba goes up that they must no longer be

for a further treated as inferior races, that their civili.money's worth, will force his weary

down into the valley

For the Fascist sation is more ancient and in some ways

archaeological orgy. superior to ours.

Govereme looking round for som thing to do by which it shall be remem bered in future ages, has decided to excavate the valley and restore to the light of day whatever may remain of the ancient glories of the Circus. It is a Lot ignoble conception.

crush for that purpose. But when we bave done it, how are we to govern them if they will not lend their aid? That is the nister-problem for us in India and Egypt, and for all European countries attempting to rule great and populous Eastern countries.

bave

TAGORE'S VIEWS. "Kabindranath Tagore travels through Europe and America and comes back saying that the West is very sick and might be healed by the wisdom of the

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being or the Crus, which Low called aggrieved is strong to-day all over the Maximus." It was therefore the earliest place of public amusement in the City, and dates from between 16 and 576 B.C. It does not appear at first to have been

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"It is part of our character that "we much more easily think of political con

sery pretentious affair, though it was cussions' that of racial equality. In this respect the French have a considerable always on an immense sente. Ovi says, advantage over us. With their greater tur example, that the spectators sat on total thes grassy slopes, on, either side of the sense equality and almost freedom from racial prejudice, they env valley, and she see in these early times must have been very like Epsom disarm political agitation by granting

Downs en Derby Day. During the Re the equal social status to those whom

number of more ambitious they govern. They Intermarry with pathe a

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were built, and the foot of them, confer

fer Frunca citizenship on 1

of the slopes faced with a few rows footing of real equality, bring North Afri can deputies to the Chamber at Paris, travertine steps. But the upper tiers of srats remained of wood until the time In India the native city and the British Julius Caesar, who greatly increased

ni cantonnent live apart, and a large the number of travertine benches and

"the ber.of the best English clube shut their

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whole willy doors upon the greatest Indian potentates and the most distinguished Indian Augustas built a special Imperial box, called the Pulvinar nd Circum Maximum, cholars The Maharajab may go to Buckingham Palace as the guest of the on the Palatine, from which he could King Emperor, but he cannot enter the witness the games, and set up on the Yacht Club at Pombay. Making all al-Spina (the central island round whicit tan the Hippodrome) the obelisk, 'which lowance for artistic exaggeration, we get

was later transported by Sixtus V. a great deal of the truth in Mr. E. M

the Piazza del Popolo, where it still Forster's mordant story, A Voyage to

between four guardian tons. Indin, and those who read it wisely will circus continued in use until the fall have their eyes opened to the special of the Gothic Kingdom of Theodoric, that difficulties of Indian politics.

is to say, the middle of the sixth en- THE PROBLEM IN INDIA AND EGYPT. tury. During the epoch of misery which

followed there were neither "The Indian problem, is vast and in-

peglent to come por chariots to rún, and tricate. It conscins a great number of and silence have been its portion ever different races in varying stages of since. But the earth slips quickly into civilisation, for whom it is impossible to the narrow valley, and since in 1560 Six

tus's architect found already "94 palma prescribe any one formula, and it must be worked out in detall by English and of soil," upon the site, it is probable Indians co-operating in the different that many of its glories were buried be provinces and regions. Nothing bat co-fore they were pillaged. operation will solve it, and unless we cab) If it were possible to reconstruct`a case the racial friction, political changes gala day in the time of Trajan, when the will not bring peace. The Egyptian pre-Circus reached its highest magnificence. blem is in form very much, simpler, we should take our humble seat in the "In Egypt we are confronted with one Press Box with tablets. zewly waxed and race, and, except for the sinal minority a freshly sharpened stylus We should THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED. of Copts, one religion. The object here see the long low Spins, with its sculptur is to obtain a form of government which panels, surmounted by a graceful will be good enough not to provoke or

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ture. We should watch the Porta Pom- pae at the cast end swing open, and the Egyptians. and we may at least be thankful that Mr Baldwin and Mr the horses, dart into the Circus with light chariots, each drawn by its four Austen' Chamberlain have resisted the headstrong advisers who would have a jingle of harness and a flutter of the bad them wipe out Egyptian indepcnbright draperies of the charioteers. We dence after the murder of the Sirdar. should mark, and note, the numbers going "We need not launch ourselves on the up on the signboards, and thrill as the great bell clungs the signal "They're off!" unnecessary and most formidable task of The chariote ewirl round the Meta, the governing the country in the teeth of three columns marking the turning. Egyptian opposition.

point, in a chorus of shrill erics, crack. The "But we do ated to come to a friendly fag whips, and drumming hoofs. understanding with Egyptians, about the favourite overturns into a struggling transition period from our rule to their ruin amid a cloud of dust and the sound rule. Four years ago there was not an of a longdrawn "Aah' of disappoint Egyptian Nationalist who did not freely meat from his backers. The winner drives acknowledge that a sudden break between out of the Porta Triumphalis, and we the two Administrations was to be avoided scribble madly the beginning, of our at all costs, and rest of them earnestly powerful article on the day's sport. "Look protested that they desired to have with over our shoulder. We hare headed it: - them a certain number of British officials "Bunt Fin carrying on from the one to the other."

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