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"BRITAIN'S SETTLEMENT
WITH INDIA.
(Continued from Page 1)
A
'GIRLS! GO BACK HOME!"
CRASH TO DEATH TO AVOID TROOPS.
Good for
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MRS. EDISON ON WORK MEN SHOULD DO.
لاد
A PILOT'S SACRIFICE,
Did Pilot-Sergeant Owen Hers
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, the wifebert McNair, of the Royal Air of the inventor, has broadcast a Force, known to his fellow nirmen, wireless appeal to American was on account of his daring work in the air, as the "Black Spider," men to go back home.
She blames the feverish restless-sacrifice his life st Falmer (Sussex) ness of Amarien on its young wo- last month in a successful effort
ritorials. men, who have left their homes and to avoid crashing into London Ter- forgotten their domestic arts in a wage-earning scramble with men.
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The Question of the Army, The last great question concerns the retention of British troops in a self-governing India sad the con- trol of the Indian army in a self governing India either by the Viceroy or by an Indian Cabinet responsible to the Legislature. If there was no question of friction between Moslem, Sikh, and Hindu,
All the men of the 167th Brigade and if we could be fairly sure of
American men are less and less of the Territorial Army who saw self- good relations between governing British India and the able to count on the comfort of a the crash are convinced that Ser- Indian States. then either arrange, restful home, and "unless the wogeant McNair realised that he was decided not high enough in the air to miss ment, though anomalous, might be men of America make a
effort to return to the business of
and children--who were -from our point of view-accept- able. We should be glad enough to home making, the most vital, iu- women
to save their lives. hire out an army to defend" India stitution of the bountry is threat-ear, and met his death in turning who doesn't The official view of the tragedy from any external enemy. But, ofened. The woman
when attempting to turn at too course, if there were no question of want to make a home is underminis that Sergeant McNair crashed low a speed. The smash occurred friction between Hindu, Moslem, ing the nation."
Mrs Edison see no reason why at the top of the South Downs, and Sikh India would be in no need of foreign troops or foreign any woman should want to use her four miles east of Brighton. Ser- a number of single-seater fighters officers in control of Indian troops. talente and her education outside geant MeNair was piloting one of the home, where there is ample from the 25th Squadron from Haw- If the North-west Frontier is a
demonstration to show how air- permanent menace, that is not scope for intelligence and origia kingo, Kent, which took part is a chiefly because of the warlike ality. A good home-maker must craft would attack infantrymen in nature of the tribes dwelling beyond have executive ability and be it. After all, the numbers of the good purchasing agent, an econom Frontier tribes
limited. are
thinly ist, something, of a chemist, to Afghanistan itself is, populated country, and not all its inhabitants are so very formidable. Beyond Afghanistan Central Asia
"She also should be versed no longer teems with hordes of fighting men. In regard to muni-music, art and literature to have tions, communications, science, a proper background, "and to be technical skill, and power the advantage is all on the able to entertain herself, her hus Indian side of the frontier. What band and her friends. India has to fear, what has always been her undoing in the past, is the fact that the foreign invader can so easily draw support from mal content elements within her fron- tiers. That makes it extremely un- safe for Great Britain to lend an army to a self-governing India, and extremely unwise for India to ex- periment in self-government sup-ed back. ported by a foreign army.
GRAND
a
industrial
Military DiBculties.
open country.
A "Wild Gesture." More than 1,000 men of the Bri- supervise the diet of her familygade were drawn up in formation on the hills to watch the demons. and a gracious hostess.
intration, which had almost conclud- dived to within a few feet of them, cd when the aeroplane suddenly and crasbed head-on into the hill- cricket pitch from the front ranks. side, less than the length of a
"Deep down in her heart," said to the motherly Mrs. Edison thousands of working spinsters their loud-speakers. listening to
"every woman wants a home, and most women want children."
Then one of the spinsters answer-
She is Miss Martha L. Conmole, hard-working successful and a
For so long as we maintain an Chicago barrister, and what she army in India or control the Indian wants to know is, where are the Army every malcontent party in India can and will maintain that the Indian Government is merely
bomes women should return to ?
Women who work, says Miss
the British Raj camouflaged and Conmele, do so because they have that the Ministers of the day are) tools in the hands of British been "kicked out of their homes." "For nearly every woman who
masters The tactics of the man-
contents will be to compel the is working" she told Mrs. Edi- Indian Cabinet to use British
troops against Indian mcbs, and the 500, "there is some man-father, fanatic nationalist, the fanatic husband, son, brother who has Moslem, and the fanatic Sikh will fallen down on the job of provid- feel that the presence of the for-
ma-
All of which raises two ques tions: Does the average modern. woman work because she likes it, or because she must And, of the the indepen- home workers and dents, which group is it that really envies the other?
eign army supporting the Governing her support. The cast ment justifies them in inviting a jority of women wouldn't quit the foreign invader. Again, circum- ease of having somebody look after staners might easily arise in which them if they didn't have to." our troops would be compelled to choose between two Governments. each of them claiming to be legiti- mate; or a Sikh prince, fearful lest the malcontent educated class among his subjects should be sup- ported by the educated class in con- trol of the Government of India, might put himself at the head of all that is most fanatical in the Sikh nation and call for the sup port of the Sikh element in the army. It is quite clear that in such a crisis a British force and British officers in a self-governing Indie so far from serving to guarantee the safety of India would be likely to excite and aggravate internal die arder. Further, the British troops and officers might easily find them. selves in an exceedingly dangerous
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THE UNIVERSITY PRODUCT.
CRITICISM IN A WILL
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the university.
In a codicil revoking a gift of £2,000 to Nottingham University be
position. They could not feel sure product" are made in the will of of the goodwill of the civil popula Mr. F. Stokes, an incorporated tion, of the Indian soldier, or of accountant, of Hartington Road, the civil administration. Now any lack of mutual confidence between Sherwood, and Union-road, Not- the civil administration and the tingham, who left £46,053. army must in India halve the efficiency of both, and, besides," it is necessary to remember that India is not Egypt. Warships sent to states that taxes and duties have Bombay, Karachi, or Calcutta will so increased that there would be not suffice to extricate an army. which has got into trouble round very little left of his life's savinga Peshawar or Lahore. Those who if he did what he would like to in are asked to leave British troops the way of legacies. He then adds: or British officers in such situaFurther, my 50 years' experience tion should first count well the cost, and consider whether there is no of the "university product" makes foreign Power which might be in- it doubful to me whether-except in clined to accept such an invitation to intrigue against us in India.
"Saving Face.!!
special cases the training is any
good for this workaday world, and further still, as it seems a part of
But if on consideration we agree the policy of the Government to that self-defence, and full self-gov- ernment should go hand in hand, keep all sorts and conditions of then by all means let us hasten to men and women studying, etc.," put India in a position to defend until they are well on in years. I herself And for the interval bethink the Government had better. forn full self-government can come
perhaps we can devise some form of pay for them.
guarantee to satisfy India that the
He leaves £25 to the United Mo-
policy of the Indian Government thodist Free Church, Palm-street,
shall not be unfairly deflected to favour British interests. It is ab
Now Basford:
these two points that an advance
With my thanks that a hot-head- beyond the Simon scheme seems to ed teacher in the Sunday school BAN CHANGCHUA, BOTEN (Mukdenki ha pruzicable As to India's Izzit, kicked me literally out of the
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Some of the men say that imme- diately before the crash, the pilot, realising their danger, made a wild down. A second later the machine gesture as if signalling them to lie was a mass of splintered wreckage. Mr. T. A. Hartley; a visitor. from Mortlake, Surrey, said:- The man who crashed was very daring. It seemed to us that he sacrificed his life to avoid the troops.
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