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EVENTS.

To-day.

(May 12.)

Rogation Day.

Rotary Tiffin: Speaker Rev. Fel

[G, Byrne, S.J, "Our Emotional life."

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LORD IRWIN: A TRIBUTE

POWER OVER THE PEOPLE OF INDIA.

FIRMNESS AND INNATE SPIRIT OF

FRIENDLINESS.

The simple action created a pro- found impression or the Eastern

Karachi." I want to meet Lord į hours'. service at the Anglican Irwin to man," wrote Mr. Gandhi | cathedral. to the Viceroy from Allahabad, in H.K. Football Association, Coun. February when he made his request ei Meeting.

for the conversations at Viceregal mind. House which have changed the face Here was an Englishman who of India writes Robert Beruays, looked upon the observances of his The News Chronicle Special Corres-religion as something more than an pondent in India.

excuse for the clatter and glitter

Queen's Theatre: "Paid." World Theatre: "Three Arrows ‚of Love" (Chinese film).

'Central Theatre; "Rango."

King's Theatre:

Fast Loose"

I will be the departure of of an occasional church parade.

In the remotest corners of India. Lord Irwin the man" which all And

India will regret when he makes the Viceroy's train used to be stop. Helena May Concert (Harry Ora) his last State drive from the lovely ped on Sunday mornings so that rock-girt Government House at Lord Irwin might walk cross to Bombay to the steps of "the gate some wayside church to make his Mei Lan Fong at Ko Shing way of India," where he will em- communion.

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Wednesday.

(May 13.)

Rogation Day. Concert. Cheero Club, 8 pm Queen's Theatre: "Hell's Angels." World Theatre: "Three Arrows of Love" (Chinese film).

Central Theatre: " Rango." King's Theatre: "Under Sus- picion,"

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Thursday.

(May 14.)

Ascension Day.. Holy Thursday, Legislative Council Meeting. Queen's Theatre: Angels."

"Hell's

World Theatre; "Enemy Beauty." Central Theatre: "Rango." King Theatre: "Luder Sus pirian."

Even surrounded by the pomp and majesty of New Delhi he would walk across from the Viceroy's

bark for England.

As a Viceroy he has had by fores of circumstances to make himself responsible for ordinances more houso to attend services just like far-reaching and inore repressive any ordinary church-gour.

Be is indeed a man of extra- perhaps than at any time since the

'Other Vice-. Mutiny. But for these even the ordinary simplicity. most rabid Indian Nationalist Ings roys nover seem to have emerged tho blame wholly on the shoulders out of "the satanic" burenuerney.

When public opinion was in Aured against the Government for the execution of Bhagat Singh it was upon Lord Irwin's political servants, never “upo Lord Irwin, that the imprecations were heaped.

The extraordinary position has been reached that in the minds of Indian patriots Lord Irwin can do

o wrong.

of their ceremonial knee- breeches, and their garter roben, Lænd Irwin always seems to be spiritually in plus fours, with his gun and his dogs in his Yorkshire home. So. Indian politicians have' not looked upon him as the stern, unbending rerresentative of the British raj. They have visited him in their troubles as a counsellor and a friend.

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As Friend to Friend. Gandhi naked for a heart-to-heart "The meeting of the two Makut-

talk with the Viceroy, and he got mas" (holy men) was how they used to describe the conversations it. That was why it had such a between the Viceroy and Mr. successful outcome. Gandhi at Dr. Ansari's house, even when the future looked at its

blackest

What is the secret, which has matha an English country gentle M an object of reverence to millions of Indiane at a time when anger and bitterness Kad largely severed social relationship be tween the two races?

The Root of Sympathy. In my view the fundament reason is that Lord Irwin is a deeply religious man.

The story, is well-known of how when he arrived in India in 1020 it was a Good Friday, and that Dances Tea Dance At Hong his first action was to 'fake a brief Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong escape from the ceremonies of wel Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel come in order to attend the three

I am told that those long con. versations frequently strayed into discussions on the nature of the Deity and the ethics of punishment. and other fascinating subjects equally remote from Round Table

problems.

The Viceroy dropped the cere monial prefix and called him Gandhi.

.

They even laughed about Mr. Churchill's famous speech on "the balf naked saint."

When Mr. Gandhi on one occa sion left his shawl behind on his chair, Lord. Irwin called back to him: "Gandhi, you are, leaving your shawl behind; you have not go so many clothes on, you know, that you can afford to leave any about."

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