CABLES.
EARLIER CABLES, [TERONOK,NECTER'S AGENCY. ]
GERMAN PRESIDENCY. ·
HERR JARRES WILL PROBABLY
MAINTAIN LEAD.
BERLIN, March 9th.
tu priominate.
Crowds are gathering in the streets aiting the results, which are not ex- preted to be complete until to-morrow.
POLLING AS EXPECTED. Voting has gone much as was expected, with an indication that Herr Jarres will finally head the 'poil, but not securing an ahsolafs majority, for which i re-poll will be pecessary on April 26th,
FAR EASTERN
*NEWS.
THE
CABLE
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, }
TO BOOST AVIATION.
FRENCH AIRMAN TO GIVE DEMON- STRATIONS, IN EAST.
and Japan.
PARIS, March 30th.
MORO BANDS RESTIVE.
COSTABULARY KEEPING CARFUL WATCH ON MOVEMENTS,
MANILA, March 30th. Several bands of Moros, ju Launo, are threatening insurrection.
,"EW
The constabulary, who are keeping fal watch, have been instructed, inder orders" from Governor-General Wood, not to kill unless it becomes to shoot
Of ten million votes counted up to widð. night the position of each candidate's ablutely DeceaTy
noll was:--
1. ·E.M.S. "' AMBROSE."'"
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH SIT, 1925.
CHINA'S CHRISTIANS. ORGANISED BOLSHEVIK ATTACK.
The Bign correspondent of the Chicage. Tribune, wiring to his paper last meath, said:
J
T
SAILOR SET FREE
siderable amount. of
to
OUR LONDON LETTER..
BRITISH TRADE UNIONS AND THE MAN WITH THE FOB THE TYRANNY OF POLITICAL WIREFULLERS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ].
Logos. February 17th.. CHINA FAVOURING WOOL..
A report to hand from the woollen centre, in Yorkshire tells me that mana- facturers there are noting with pleasure the increased demand for woollen goods places specially mentioned in this counre in several markets abroad. One of the
tion is, China; and this tendency which has occasioned remark in Leeds and else where in the North is confirmed by a statement I received a few days ago at
he Federation of British Industries.
According to an expert observer at the
stood by his pars during the General Election.
Thus we had as a preliminary a pro post to hold an Agricultural Conferenc to go fully into the many complex qu tions affecting the whole farming indus try: The Conference was to consist of representatives of the lauder interests the owners of England's brand acres, re presentatives of the farmers appointed by the Farmers Chion, and representativea of the workers, chosen from the Labour ees Unions. At first the Farinera Union refused to take part unless the Government tabled a set of proposals which, in effect, would have bound them beforehand to Protection. The iden wat promptly rejected by the Government, and, eventually the farmers agreed to rome into the discussion, But now we have the Labourers' Unions also declin ing to take part oir the specious pretext that Labour would not get square deal.
MILITICS AND BUSINESS.
We see in the refusal of the Labourers
that Yorkshire mills are working full | fell of polities to employers or capital
AN ESCAPADE AT SINGAPORE.
The case of Hubert McDonough, a sea- man from H.M.S. Ambrar, who on March 19th was sentenced by Captain Insidious attempts to destroy and drive Jones, in the Third Police Court, Singa- out Christian Churches from China are pore, to three months' rigorous imprison- under way by agents of the Moscow Comment on a charge of straling a bag con. taining instruments and medicines be munist International. Glorious weather favoared the Presi
Scores of Chineslanging to Dr. Weerakoon, came before Another step towards bringing the atheist Communist agitators, educated in the Chief Justice, Sir Walter Shaw, in dleștial elections all over Geginang. Many (aeroplane into greater favour in the Far
the Singapore Supreme Court on March tharbovirt University of the Far East ind, who a revision of the sentence was Voters preferred to spend the day at the East, as a regular mode of transport, is Tashkent, are at work in China under made. countryside, consequently the percentage being taken by the departure of the well-mining the civilising influence of white leged that the accused took the bag from In the Police Court the prosecution al of the electorate polling was considerably known airman M. J. F. La Porte (holder | misionaries. Plentifully supplied with the doctor's car while it was stationary in Robinson Road and that at the Union fr than at the last Reichstag election.of the world's altitude record of 4,758 funds by the Soviet Embassy in Peking Jack Club he threw over thirty bottles of No disturbances, occurred anywhere. meires for senplanes with a load of 300 these agitators have succeeded in, setting medicing on ta the floor. One witness The party organisers were busiest inilogrammes) for China and Japan. He up atheist clubs in all important schools stated that the sailor was not drunk, whilst another contended that be was some bildings were he will give number, of demonstrations, colleges, and universities in China, whe The accused himself said that on the night Federation, judging by the trend of im Berlin, fema
he had been drinking in a in question fagged, the Republican colours reaming especially with seaplanes, in both China the established by English, America, io Robinson, Road, and he did not parts of wool clothing to China it will inhin to take part in an inquiry frankly German, or French Churches. The pro remember anything more until he got to hit be long until the trade Trom England designed to get at the facts of the agricul paganda is directed against both the Prothe Union Jack Clut
will be of considerable importance. Ten taat position as a preliminary step to tentant and the Catholic religions
McDonough was brought to the Sup-years ago cotton clothing was generally wars beneliting the whole industry * reme Court under escort and occupied a fused in China, but since then the Cus-god illustration of the diBealties that The Chinese Commúniss party, with
chai
tom's
statistics show that imports ot arise when politics touch business. The cotton, goods have been 'steadily declin tenders of the Union are afraid that even money, advanced by Moscow, has establish the dock.
A DRUNKEN AFFRAY, a large printing concern in Peking,
ing" while woollen shipments bire been in a small degree they might be com- The Chief Justice anid that it had oef going up. During 1924'woollen shipmentsmittel to support proposals that would which is now turning out thousands of
curred to him that the sentence was very to China were four times those of 1920 tie the Labour Party on same wide ques pamphlets attacking Christian mis.
gxcessive. He had read the evidence and both in value and "quantity, and inore tion of policy later on. In other words sionaries in China. A special Chinese it was quite clear to his mind that the
than two-thirds came, from this,rountry. the Union will let the farm labourers really ** edition of "The Risboshnik" (The God-man was drunk. It v
drunken is reported that during the three continue as the worst paid workers in careless, an atheist magazine, has a large rather than a crime in the ordinary months ending September, 1924, China, the band, and do nothing whatever to
feirculation
nature of the word, and three months purchased 12,000,000 square yards of help improve the Conditions of this among the students in vigorous imprisonment was more than the woollen cloth; and indeed it is owing to class of the coniunity, rather than con- Christine schools.
case required. The accused did a con- these increased orders from your side pede a single jet or tittle in the wide
the damage The increasing mccess of this latest medicine of the drawer, he believehicley, time increased orders from other counists to farmers as employers or land- effort of the Soviet-Government to destroy
The D.P.P.. Mr. N. the in Barner of the Christian Church in said that from his enquiries a sum of tries, such as Germany and France, hay lots as the owners of the soll.
850 would cover the damage In replying only a minor cret. China is being commented upon in the to the Chief Justier, he stated that the Some observers here looking at the MANILA, March 30th.
Moscow papers. In last Sunday's Moscurecused bad been in prison for four days course of tradere curious to know whe Mr. Whitley stated that he votirely, ther this change from cutton to wool HMS. Ambrox arrivéd here in com.
Iseratin a long letter frum" Comrade
zeed
what, the Chief Justier had means a permanent change in the life of Tretykoff,
He had seen the investigation China and to what the causes may be [maid. pany with submarine 2 to-day, from Trety of is published."
Delegate of the Third International, wri-papers and he was quite satisfied that attributed-social, gennemie, or climatic. But whatever be the real reason manu- [it was a drunken escapate rather than a tes from the Noviet Embassy in Peking:
criminal attempt to steal
facturers in the North of England have The anti-Christian movement in China
Mr. Whitley stated that arrangeraents every case for satisfaction, nitx been united with the Chinese nation; could be made, f His Lordship agreed, al movement whose aim is to expel all
for sum of 50 to be paid as a fur or capitalist exploiters from the country,
compensation This su could be The Chinese have cons to realise that the banded into court before the ship left will be of interest to stamp electors. 1 heard a story the other day which Christian Church in China h
Bible
next day. A naval escort was present. A professional man was turning out some in one hand and a rifle in the other. Mr. Whitley stated.
The Chief Justice said he thought that in this was a pile of letters slating back of his old correspondence, and included developing agains
ust the foreigt Imperialist justice would be surt if he reduced the invaders. They now see that the Christian sentence from three months rigorous im the fifties when his firm was carrying missionaries want to turn the Chinese
prisonment to four days' rigorous impri tralia. This was, of course, in the day? fout certain legal work for people in Aus Linto a nation of slaves.
onment and ordered the payment of Comrade Tretykoff reports some of the us comp
In default of payment long before the Federal Government of us compensation. recent successes of this anti-Chritian pro-accused would have to undergo a further Australia was as much as thought af; and fourteen days' rigorous imprisonment. as the envelopes containing, the currey- = 15
in the college would be released at once.
man in question thought it might be as hilatelist whether the stamp on the said envelopes were of any vahe.
The expert iscrivered after a slight envelopes included some of race issues, and on a very conservative estimate they 20 FELLOWSHIPS A YEAR
were worth at least £500. OFFERED.
I believe this story nay be of use to sonte,, readers who Mr. Edward S. Harkness, president of stamps for these are often extremely happen to possess old eninnial or other the Commonwealth Fund of the United valuable. States, has sent the following letter from shed firms, especially links, or large in the ofices of long-estab New York to the Prince of Wales:
mercantile houses, it is conceivable that Sir, the hopes of advancing interthere are veritable hoards of wealth in national understanding and of promot the shape of rare stamp, A few spreimen ing unity in thought and purpose be-like the famouge Red British Guinea," for tween the two great English-speaking instance, are practically priceless, while nations of the world, the Common others, like the Blun
Past Office wealth Fund offers to establish annually Mauritius, are worth thousands of
fellowships, each for two years, at pounds. American Universities for British
LABOURERS UNIONS AND THE WORKERS.
It was all to the credit of the present
Herr Jarres
Herr Braun
Dr. Marx...-
Herr Thaelman,,.
Herr Hellpach
Herr Hell.......
General Ludendorf
4,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
750,000
400,000
150,000
The ex Kaiser secured four votes from
the small village of Veburg.
It is noteworthy that the Republican group, consisting of Centrists, Democrats,
Singapore.
Three more submarines are expected to-
inorrow.
FROM THE "DAILY BULLETIN."]
POLITICS IN JAPAN
and Socialists, are holding their own THREATENED CRISIS AVERTED ON Amoug, the Chinese students hatred is against the Right. section.
LATEST CABLES.
SOME LATER FIGURES
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BERLIN, March 30th.
The latest approximate 6gures of votes,
registered 200:-/
Herr Jarres
Horn Braz
Herr Marx
Herr Taeima
Herr Hellpach
1. Held
General Ludendorfi
$1,000,000
A,000,00
4,000,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
STANDING OF PARTIES.
SUFFRAGE ISSUE.
طریقہ
TOKYO, March 8th The compromise on the Suffraga. Bijl was not reached
A CHANCE DISCOVERY.
ti münight, thus paganda in the students have destroy-17 the $50 wra, paid that day the mau pondence had been preserved the gentle.
averting the threatening political crisis, and the Bill is to be submitted to full sessions of both Houses in day, when it is expectend to be approved,
Roughly 3 millions, or 70 per cent, Įdegömlent.
of the electorate yoted. This is 100.000
less than at the parliamentary elections in December laser
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The Social Demarats, the Beich lur and the Centre party has held their groid; while the Bavarian Peoples Party and the Demorats lost 400,000
votes.
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The National Socialists Jost, 700,000 votes and ine Communists 50,000),
CATHOLICS IN FRANCE.
GOVERNMENT DOES NOT INTEND PERSELIMON
PAS, March 30th. li a speech at Letaan (1), M" Päin]ésé pointed out that the duty, of the Re- publicans at the municipal elections was especially to safeguard the franc, and guarantee the security of France.
In another passage, he emphasized tha's the Government has not any intention to persecute the Catholics,
dall religious books
In Canton during the Christmas The fine was paid and McDonough was well to ask a friend who was an expert
course.
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students joined in bolding anti-Christian
the Communist and atheist handed over to a naval escort. carnivals and atheistic meetings, which resulted in riots in which many
Christian Awording to the
terms of the constudents were beaten. In Chang C BRITISH GRADUATES FOR US. examination that the straps an the "premise, the Bill now excludes from the thestudenta bild a mass musting attill d franchise the heads of peers families, as made an obligated as Christian eduen
that Bible study
From very well as those who owing to poverty" are city in China
troun institutions we are receiving, re assistang for their haruna af veliliodainst the continuance
public and private ports of similar events. Mass meeting
held everywhere protesting the clause on" which-centred most dis studies.
of religious The students are also protest- hole; it deprives peers of the right in chapel every morning.
against being obliged to attend election to the Lower House, and it also
Tretykoff's letter carefully avoids ten- extends the residentia; quanbration from ble for the above events, but other that the Soviet Embassy is
The neations are more frank. Peking, under the pretete of diaminat
reveal that, the Soviet Embassy at
g ing thicrmation enneerning Russia, China. distributing tons of propagula in And, true the tactics of
to Moscow, this
tains little propaganda of Communistic doctrines, but
much
about how the invading white
has des poiled China of her riches and enslaved the nation. The Chinese are
being urged o expel all white people from Chian Russia is
China's paly true held Uj
to Commissur
months to a twelve month. While the legtorate under the original text was estimated * 8.000.000, the accepted amendments, it is believed in the absence of definite statistics, will re- Juce this number 1, two or three mil-
lions
Bolshevik
graduate students.
As
are deeply interested in You, sit, the larger purpose and as this particu-Government that one of the first things lar fellowship plan was immediately it proposed on its return to power was furthered by your recent visit to the to tackle the problems of agriculture. United States the directors of the Coin- The farmers and their moes like the poor monwealth Fund express the hope that mentioned in Holy Writ nés always with your Hoyal Highness will cousent" to act as honorary chairman of the British Committee of Awurd.
Russia, accordor in Peking. The Prince of Wales replied: "
POLITICAL SITUATION khan, Soviet
IN CHINA.
[FROM THE “DAILY BULLETIN."].
SHANGHAI-NANEING RAILWAY.
BRITISH REPRESENTATION MADE TO PEKING GOVERNMENT,
PERING, March 29th. The Ministry of Communications an- M. Blam, the Socialist leader, said the Hounces that the British Legation re Socialists will continar' to support theently made verbal representations us
Herriot (abinet, even imder circum staners which may pro most dangerous for them.-Haves,
EARLIER CABLES.
ACCIDENT AT SEA
DUTCH STEAMER SUSTAINS BROKEN SHAFT.
PORT SUDAN, March 29th. The Datch steamer Idomincus, bound, "from Batavia to Amsterdam, has sustain. broken propeller shaft north
jed
eastward of Port Sudan.
The British steamer Perseus has pro
seeded to her sesistance.
DUTCH NAVAL CRUISE. ARMOURED CRUISERS TO VISIT BALTIC WATERS.
THE HAGUE, March 20th. The Government intends to send the armoured cruisers Marten, Harperts, Trump and Jacob Heemskerck, two torpedo-boats and two submarines on a eruise in the Baltic in the summer,
They will visit Copenhagen, Stockholm, Kiga, Reval and Helsingfors
Dutch seaplanes will also go to Copenhagen.
hoping that the reported withdrawal of regards the Shanghai-Näbking Railway,
the troops did not mean the removal of the Company's property north of the river...
will help the Chinese nation to
to form a Government when the time comes,
Much of the Bolshevik propaganda in
attacks Englan
Accusing her of arishing and
the opium traffic. The Soviet Government is muk- good are of the failure of the Con- ference at tieneva, which, it claims, sup- parts its contention that England aims to make the Chinese a nation of drug ad- diets
ᎥᏞ
FUTURE OF INDIAN ARMY."
STATEMENT BY COMMANDER-IN. CHIEF.
The British Legation also drew alien-th tipa to the loss of revenue through the military activities, the detention of the rolling-stock, and to the consequent jeopardising of British interests.
Dear Mr. Tarkness.The generous ofer of the Commonwealth Fund will very deeply appreciated in this country. It cannot fail to do much to promote the realisation of the ideals which you and your fellow-directors have at heart.
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115.
At the moment it is in doubt whether the Agricultural Conference will now bes held. It all depends what view the Gov gnment may take of the prospect of dis- avering how the agricultural industry can be placed upon a more stable basis. The owners of land, the farmers who cul- tivate the land, and the labourers whoso work is essential to good cultivation are closely and deeply concernedff and the problem is how to improve the industry as a whole without injury to the interest of one or other of the three classes in question. The most satisfactory cours would be for the Government to push an with the inquiry, themselves nominating representatives of the farm workers out- side the aim, and an argument in favour of this is that only one labourer in sis is a Trade Unionista THE BANK OF TRADE UNIONISM, '6
I have dealt rather fully with the attitude of the Agricultural Labourerz because it is a subject nich under dis Union towards the proposed Conference) cussion at the present time, and also be Unies subordinate those questions re- case it shows how completely the Trade lating to work and wages, for which as Trade Unions they exist, to political ends. The same kind of thing is perpe tually cropping up in almost every de partment of industrial activity. A great deal of political intrigue is being carried
national strike in the coalields will be miring. It is on at present in connection with coal the cards that another
engineered this year. The ostensible
the real reason is that the wire-puliers in reason is that miners are underpaid, bus
the Labour Party are still after the nationalisation of mines. This is the pet scheme of the Socialists.
If the Socialists could only delude the country into adopting the nationalisation of the coalfields they would have in their hands a political weapon that would be used remorselessly for the war on private eapital. Whenever it was desired to wring a new concession out of the Gox. erument of the day, all that could be necessary would be to call out the mineri and hold up industry all over the coun The Farmers Union are constantly
try: pleading for some form of assistance from
servants of the State the miners ihe State to keep the agricultura in-
would be in a privileged position, and no dustry on its feet.
Goverment-least of all`a`Labour-Gov On the whole the
erpment could afford to remain indi£. general public are sympathetic towards the farmers, chiefly because it is recog-threaten, or perform.
ferent to nised that in farming in this country, is nationalisation will have to be fought out what they might say, or The battle of addition to the usual risks of a business enterprise, there is in connection with the to a finish before long, and I learn that cultivation of the land the uncertainty it will be sought to bring in the railway of the weather. An unfavourable season
men as parties to the struggle. fickle-mar in the course of a week or and the English climate is proverbially
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Sharing these ideals as I do, I shall he very pleased to act as bonorary chair-
At the time cl mailing, London mas of the British Committee of Award, two spoil the most bountiful crops, and suffering from a rather bau visitation of and I am grateful to the Commonwealth convert what looked like a handsome influenza. The malady is also prevalent Fund for giving me this opportunity profit into a loss.
in the country. Fortunately reports agree of associating niyself with so fine a
Successive Governments have attempt in the main in describing the present scheme.
ed to do something for farmers. The epidemie as of a mild form. Teacher Coalition actually arranged to my a inthe schools under the London Count minimum price for wheat in order to Council are absent in such large number encourage home production, and enable that it is with the utmost difficulty, classes John Barleycorn to face the competition are kept going. The recurrence of the of imported cereals. But that Act, was fu every year about this time make repealed within six months, The Labour one regard it as an annual evil that mus The death was renounced in Boston a
Government proposed subsidies for Angar be endured; it can scarcely be avoided month ago of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, preduce crop that could be used to specialists, who are writing to the paper beet to encourage the English growers to since according to the Harley Stres the financier, sportsman, and author, ope of the most celebrated "gnablers in Wallbrand who have things practically all vention, the only way to escape is to kee upset the schemes of sugar interests with good advice on the subject of pre Street. He was G8.
A CELEBRATED GAMBLER. DEATH OF MR. T. W. LAWSON.
clear of crowded places. This, of course
is a counsel of perfection to John Citize
The Ministry of Communications state was divided whether they could do with 17 he made £12,000 on railway 8e of dustry, and only & límited acreage is ever straphanging in a densely packed Tab
stocks.
The late Commander-in-Chief, Lord arch 7th), in reply to Rawlinson (whose death accuried on the debate in the Assembly at Delhi on March on the Indian Army Budget, Indianisation of the Forces that it said regarding the plas for rapid
was no size matter to form a National Army in indin hegause India was not a Mr. Lawson's career was highly pic their own way. But sugar beet makes nation, and because there were so many turesque. He started as an offee boy in only a limited appeal to the farming in- enstes and reeds in the country. Opinion a stockbroker's house, and at the
likely to be sOWTI. What the farmers carriage as he pursues day by day th that they communicated this to Ju out British Officers. His own view was Yung Hsiang and Chang Trung Chang
that they would be unable to do without he apext on, dianer party. He made his full sense of the word, but they don't
He promptly lost all except £40, which want a measure of Protection in the elusive shilling. According
There is, however, a saner way of look British Officers for very many fears. to Chinese, reports, the Indian candidates for King's Conmmissions His eccentricities were famous. Once he and this-is just the point at which the who declared he was not going to gi
greatest fortune in the copper market. of Government control of their business,
warit it if it is accompanied by any sorting at illness due to the "Bu now com Fengtien guthorities began evacuating must be trained exactly on similar lines visited n-florist's shop and asked the price Farmers' Union on the one side and the in, but would keep at work, is at a dis pared with a few years ago. The her their position on the Shanghai-Nanking to British Officers, and nothing less of a carnation, £8,000, replied the kailway on March 23rd, and the troops service in a unit now being indianised paying the price. nt at least a
efficient, would do. He had found that fioriat. I'll take
said Mr. Lawson to part company.
Government on the other are compelled count. It is agreed that when the in were transferred to Hsuchow.
Buenza Bend lays his clammy band a was unpopular with Indian candidates million dollars worth of advertising out AGRICULTURAL CONFEILENCE. from Sandhurst and he was not altogether of that fool transaction," be said some It stands to reason that if farmers were into bed and stay there till you are cured our shoulder the sensible thing is to ge surprised that they preferred serving in time afterwards. units where they were associated with
to get a guaranteed price for corn from
To go about while suffering from a British Officers,
He built Dreamwold, a vast estate in the Government the latter would expect attack ja to spread infection, broadcas Massachusetts on a stone hill, for £100,000, to have some voice in the way farmers
and in that case the would-be hero in A yacht, which he had constructed for conducted their businent. They would say positive danger who deserves to be say £10,000 to compete in the Atlantic Cup so much land must be cultivated under pressed. This is what the best medic race, he scrapped in a fit of teraper. cereals, and the work must be done in opinion says, in effect, and it sound
His superstition was the figure 3. He a reasonably proper manner. It means right.-H.B. ed 333 as a telephone number, and always the men of the soil will not endars In Lots of people say that optimists book an office in 33, State Street, obtain official interference of a kind, and this bought stocks in multiples of 3.
the circumstances when Mr. Baldwin came. After the publication of his book, in at the bead of tremendous Conserhaps you will find in the poorhouse
steering straight for the poorhouse; pe £10,000,000 dwindled to £10,000. Dream appropriate to inquire into agricultural certain you will find a far greater m "Frenzied Finance," his fortune of vative majority he decided that it was certain number of optimists, but I wold had to be sold, and he sold a motor-conditions, and, if possible, do the rural ber of pessimists than car for 600 cigars,
constitpence a good turn. They had fonatio asylum, Sir
a inge
The number of troops along the rail way in cow said to be reduced to 20,000.
MAH JONG AT LONDON TEASHOPS.
pliented by racial and religious influences, The matter, he added, was so com and to intimately concerned with the number of Lyons's teashops. Complete it would be dangerous in the highest de- Mah Jong has been introduced into future political development of India, that sets with books of roles have been in gree to risk the consequences of a false cluded in the recreative games with step. If Indian politicians would only dominoes and draughts at several depôts,regard the matter from a wider aspect at each of which the manageress has been and get away from racial competition, instructed to report the customers' views they would be more likely to win the regarding the popularity or otherwise of confidence of those responsible for the this innovatione
scheme of Indianisation."
Peter
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