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MR. GANDHI AND ENGLAND.

Min. GANDHI is now well on his way. to England aboard the Rajputana. Reuter describes in some detail the manner of the send-off and the clothing worn by the Mahatma. No doubt, in due course, hir. GANDHI will, as in the past, adapt himself to the ways and manners, of the people among whom he is living, but he was, perhaps, wise to give his supporters a final impres sion of loin cloth and shewi

Though there are, Englishmen to whom the mention of Mr. GANDUI's

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namo net like a detonator- most British people regard him with puzzled respect. It is never for

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News and Views

British raj. As into na 1925 ho sald So long as untouchability. disfigures Hinduise,・・・ Swaraj is an utter impossibility, that gift would be a curse upon this land." And yet unlike most men who cau thus far seo two sides of the ques tion, GANDHI bag held the imagina- tion of the masses the millions who Monty, a little Indian mongoose, know the same doubts and inner staged a "hold-up" in Ladgate conflicts All through his life there hit London, Appearing in the | ħna, beơn this mental struggle........... Ás

Monty the Mongoose.

George Washington.

SINCERE'S SALE.

LADIES DAY TO-DAY.

Today is Ladica day at Sin cero's record-breaking sale and to, increase the number of customers prosgut in the morning there will

Among the many pleasing litla be rumorous articles of feminine sidohgkta, én-George

Ashingtonuss distributed to the early com- which have been

a boy GANDnt broke the vegetarian window of a mon's outfitters! shop, committua in chaphed by the ers. Some of the specialities offer."

An Odd Love Story.

rule of his caste because he was Monty soon collected a crowd as he persuaded that meat-eating was a promenaded up and down the win- source of the Englishman's strength dow. His job is to catch rats. Horuffered anguish in consequence, Every time I dropped off to sleep," he writes, "it would adem as if a live goat were bloating in- side me and I would jump up full A curious case has recently been of remorse." Custo convention brought before the Bureau of Pub was defied when he went to London lie Safety at Canton. Some twelve, at the age of nineteen, but there much harm was done by his months ago a Chinese of the name vegetarian principles bringing him of Los married the daughter of a into contact with the worst type of Canto schoolmaster. Lee turned English cranks

The attraction of Western whys out to be a spendthrift, who first is shown by the very human in-squandered a small fortune left cidents of the young stranger pur, him by his father, and then wasted chasing dress clothes from Bond

of arrange. rents for the Bicentennial Colebra tions is one which they have no

ed are: Indy's culton underwear, shop-worn ribbons, embroiderieu goods, sewing and embroiderie cot intention of making public tons silke, hair crnaments and brocches, bone knitting pins and consists of a legal document drawn muy other useful articles. up between the first President and One of the attractions the store. his gardener, duly attested by two. has to offer is a reproduction; of members of the Washington house over the new Canton-Hong Kong the first conversation to be sent hold. The gardonor, party of the telephone trunk-line. Mr. Ma first part, agrees to remain sober

the Minagar, has arranged for the for one year. In return for this throughout the store by means of conversation to be broadcast the party of the second part 1 pay him four dollars at Christmas broadcast Sir William. Peal a open- George Washington, promises to microphones located on all the Roors, Mr. Ma is also trying to so that he may become drunk for ing speach ar that customers will four days and nights, two dollars be able to hear it as soon as it. is given. Failing this, he has made taken down in writing and repro duced a fow minutes after it has boon delivered.

at Easter to become drunk for two

at Whitsuntide for the same pur- pose. It is felt that this revela tion-if-published-might be a tre- mendous incentive to the Wots."

familiar with the

saica, and to

Street tailor,, and taking course his wife's property.. Ho deserted days and nights, and two dollars- arrangements to have the speach of dancing lessons. The reading her, she in turn, suing him and of Tolstoy, the Russian aristocrat being granted

a divorce. Now posant-mystic had a profound effect upon his life and turned his comes the amazing statement that mind towards that line of social Lee recently wrote to the father of reform which crystalised, years the girl, proposing that she become Music Notes for the "Dally Press.!! afterwards, in the setting up of the plough, and the spinning wheel as the bride of a friend of bis, a miliWe would call the attention of know that the best the symbols of Indian political ob tary officer, who is anxious to wed our rendors to now feature,world grows on you, and the more jective. And yet at the back of this this girl having been in love with Musical Notes, by Allegro, which you hear it the greater is its dream of primitive simplicity loom-hor while she was Loo's wife. In appear on Page 6 Allegro hon fascination; whereas with popular ed a vision of the grandeur, the short Loc lu acting as match-maker promised to contribute once a ført rousic the opposite effect is achiev... efficiency and the energy of modern in a marriage of his own divorced night a column that will cover, noted.⠀ In restaurant, and bars, 16 civiliantion. GANDHI know both the wife. The letter goes on to any that only local musical topics of all heartlessuces and the power to the father must not oppose the kinds, but anything of interest at alleviate suffering of modern science wishes of Lea and his friend, be home and abroad, concerning musi, and invention, and this knowledge, cause the intter is used to getting cians and concerts, and also gramo- ombittered his renunciation.

his own way, and, if necessary will phone records. In those days of resort to desperate means to attain broadcasting good music, is becom his object. The father wisely placing more and more the property of ed the matter in the hands of the Everyman. We are all gotting authorities

(Continued on next Column.). "

It was in South Africa, that land of heavy handed and stubborn men, that GANDHI's soul was turned to iron, and his enmity of the West became. implacable. A study of the Christian Gospels, taught him the might of meekness, find decided him that European ways were literally Satanic. This is not the place to attempt to summarise the phases of mystical contemplation through which: GANDHI, like the early and medieval saints, has passed. In 1020 he wrote: the last war, as nothing else, has shown the Satanic nature of the civilisation that dominates Europe to-day," And yet he knows that his own agita well aware of the appalling atro tions have led nowhere. He was citica of the Moplah revolt, and of the Chauri Chauin incident, when twenty policemen were burnt alive. He knows also that his own life was

saved in 1924 when? n??? satanic” surgeon operated upon him for appendicitis,po

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well as in private houses, jazz and revue hits are varied with excepts from the operas, exquisitely sung, and orchestral music of the greatest composers. The critic who can ex- plain the "murio, old and now, that we hour from records and from the. ether has, we believe, a large and ready audience to-day

Local Notes and Events

The forthcoming wedding announced between Alfred Leonard Sydney Read, "of the British Con- sulate, Canton, and Maude Anne George, Naval Yard, Kowloon.

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A drowning accident occurred at North Point on Saturday morning when Hung Kec, aged 21, an em ployee of the refreshment depart ment at the Chinese Bathing Cluby

lost his life.

Two bostmen were fined 820 each by Mr. Newill, the Deputy Harbour Master at the Marine Court yes- terday for having boarded the President Pierce without having obtained the permission of the master...

The Colony had a clean bill-of health over the week-end.

Ab to-day's meeting of the Sani tary Board, Mr. M. K, Lo will move the following resolution, held over from the last meeting:That The body of a Chinese boy the Select Committee of the Board Chung Kwai (19) was found in Old appointed to exercise the powers Kowloon Tong after his absence, and functions of the Board under had been reported to the Police section 182 of the Public Health and on Saturday. The body was found Buildings Ordinance be invited to hillside and from an examination relating to the requirement of "one in a decomposed condition on the examine into the existing practice held after the discovery, it is pre-house, one wall, one pump and sumed that the lad must have to report to the Board what are fallen over the hillside and killed the grounds for this requirement himself. There are no auspicious and whether and under what con- circumstances surrounding the case.

ditions it is possible and desirable to relax them."

In all history there can have been no stranger interviews than those between Lord Inwrs and the Mahatina. In the midst of the heat and the turbulance of political

Pleading guilty to the charge of agitation GANDHI met, on equal

snatching a handbag from a girl in Queen's Road Central on Saturday. terms, as man to man, the strangest Viceroy who has ever ruled at

night, a Chinese was sentenced to Bimla; en ascetic, who prepared Missing his footing whilst clean-six months hard labour and 18 himself by going "into retreat," ing windows at the Empress. Hotel, strokes of the birch by Mr.. Scho- for these interviews. The two men. Connaught Road, a coolie named field yesterday. It was stated that discussed, it is said, not politics Lo Hoi, aged 34, fell into the street the complainant and a friend were only, but comic problems. For u from the frat floor and was remov-walking along Queen's Road West time the calm of those interviews ed to the Government Civil Ros spread over India, and the hope ispital suffering from multiple in-crime. An alarm was raised and still beld that it was the calm of | juries. the ending of a storm, and not tho sullen hush of the centre of a typhoon.

BRITAIN'S. COASTGUARD

SERVICE.

Miss Helen B. Davis, daughter of the Governor-General of the Philip pines, arrived hore yesterday by the s.8. President Pierce. She is en route to the United States, stop ping over in Japan, and is accom- panied by Miss Josephine Shaugh

nessy,

After having boon rebuked by her father, a 17-year-old girl, Ho Mung Rai, took some Chinese poison in an attempt to commit suicide. When found at hor residence at 10,

A fine of $10 was imposed on a boatwoman at the Marine Court yesterday when she was charged with firing crackers in the harbour on Friday. She pleaded guilty but explained that she was merely celes brating the Chung-yuan-chick (the festival of the 14th day of the 7th moon), m

from the files.

when the defendant committed the Looking Back 25 Years.

the culprit was arrested by a Chi-A Chinese accountant carrying a neso constable who happened to be parcel. containing 8100 in twenty nearby.

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coute,

cent picces, engaged a chuir in Wellington Street to take him to Morrison Hill Road. Before sente Mitsui, of 51, Granville Road, Kow-his money in a corner of the sent

In a report to the police, Mring himself in the chair be placed: loon, states that he was driving At Morrison Hill Rond, on aligat his motor car along the Castle ing, be entered a friend's house Peak Road near Laichikok at 11 quite forgetting his valuable parcel. a.m. on Sunday when he knocked Some ten minutes aftorvarde ho ARISING out of a yachting disaster

down a Chinese girl, after which missed it, and after searching the off the coast of Cornwall laat year,

the car collided with an electric vicinity for the chair without avail, in which all on board were drown

light standard. Both the car and he reported the matter to the police. ed, a Commitice was appointed by

the standard were damaged while He told the police he could not the Board of Trade to inquire into

the girl was taken to Kowloon Hoa remember the number of the chair, the eficiency, and adequacy of the

pital where, fortunately, her in- bus though he could recognise the British coast watching organisation. Yat Tak Road, she was rushed to juries were not found to be of a hearers. A detective was despatch- gotten that Mr. Gandhi, lives on

The Committee has now reported the Kwong Wah Hospital, where serious nature.

ed to assist him in. his search and the standard of the poorest of his but on the whole it is felt that the

and made various recommendations, she is still an inmate.santa

| some time afterwards the chair was found on the stand near Thomas countrymen; he does not feather present organisation is quite "ade-

When a large number of beggars Hotel. The accountant asked the quate to meet all the claims that

were brought before Mr. E. H. bearers what had become of his $100, his nest, and he has genuinely ra

may be made upon it. As in the

Williams at Central Magistracy but they knew nothing about the nounced the things of this world.

cass of the Cornish disaster, the

yesterday, it was stated that they matter, and on the chair being Moreover, we do not forget that humane agenta may be temporarily

were arrested as a result of letters examined, the parcel was found the people of India, even those at fault, but that possibility can

of complaint sent to the police re where he had left it. The coolic never be entirely eliminated.

garding this nuisance which had received a cumshoes of twenty o who are not among his own caste

Ong of the most striking testi-

been very pronounced at the Ferry-Hong Kong Daily Frees, Sept. 1. and adherents, recognise in him one monials to the servich was paid by

Whart lately, It was further stated who has made the great renuncia the representative of the Mercantile

that in many instances, ladies were tion and thereby acquuired power.

Marine Service Association and The Chinese authorities have con-forced to give money to the peste the Imperial Service Guild, who sented to lift the ban placed on the as they caught hold of their Looking Back 50 Years, The intimate followers of the told the members of the Committee importation of foreign rice so that dresses, and would not let-go until Mahatma, regard him as a saint that in the Coastguard Bervice sufficient quantities may be import cumshaw was forthcoming. One of The English and American "you have one of the finest services ed to meet the requirements of the the beggars had as much as 85.on Variety Combination gave their first and a deliverer, his enemies see in

that you can get, the finest the people of Shanghai This permis his person when arrested, and in performance at the City Hall, en him a dangerous revolutionary, a country? ein produce" Represent sion has been granted in view of cach case a fine was imposed Monday night, when they were humbug and a crally, politician ing the very men whose lives in the fact that the producing centres

favoured with a fall and apprecia tive house. The programme was a Perhaps one of the keys to the times of emergency must often de upon which Shanghai depends are

Two Chinese appeared before Mr. varied one, affording a good bill of mystery lies in the fact that Mpend upon the coastguardsmen's flooded.

Fraser nt, the Kowloon Magistracy fare. The entertainment opened vigilance, courage, and prompti tude of action, that testimony was Firm in the belief that Chins yesterday, charged with robbing with an overture well played by completely reassuring. The per-represents one of Canada's most the inmates of an unnumbered but three, local musicians. The next sonnel consists of ex-unval men, promising markets, Colonel L. M. in Chu Kin Tani, New Kowloon item was an amusing sketch entitled, who have been severely tried and Cosgrave, Canadian Trade Commis. Tong, in the early morning of the Giants" in which the Wal- proved fitted for their positions sioner to China, is in Montreal at August 0. It is alleged that the halla Brothers succeeded in exciting before being appointed. The changes present to interview leading buni two defendants were in the com- the morriment of the audience. Mr. recommended ase of a minor char-ness men with a view to the further pany of three other men, two of Mr. John Smith then exhibited con acter, such as the reduction of the development of Chinese markets whom have not been apprehended aiderable skill in clearing the backs number of Copatguard stations, His headquarters are at the offices The remaining man was in palice of seven chairs in one front somer- custody until he was brought bé-sault. The most difficult feat of he with torremonding increase in of the Montreal Board of Trads. the number of auxiliary stations on kaming gift

fore the Court and discharged to evening, however, was Mr. Ver- At the same time ip is proposed to A telegram has been received in give evidence for the Crown. Giv lettie a performance on the balanc organise the auxiliary service as a Shanghai from the Chinese Chaming evidence, he said he met the ing trapors, for which he reocived Coast Life-saving Corps. But these her of Commerce in Chile, eaving second and third defendants to well-deserved applause. The for and the other alight alterations that, on account of the present des gether with two other men at Tormance closed with an scrbotie suggested do not alter the fact that pressed state of world trade, ning tea house where they planned the display by the whole company. The the Service is now wonderfully out of ten Chinese in that country robbery. He also told of how the entertainment on the whole was efficient and a source of confidence are without employment The tele crime wae committed and the move most successful ane, and this clever to all those whose lives may, at times grans requests at youre Cuero vita of the men after their prompt desert depend upon, la ency and should go to that country for the pose had been attained. The case patronage of the pubife, Hon

was adjourned for further hearing. Kong Daily Press, Sept. 11881. present.

GANDHI is sixty-three and his ex- periences have left their........: mark deeply upon him,

It would seem that Mr. GANDHI has become a symbol of the mind alternately attracted and repelled by Western civilisation. The Indian multitude sacs in him a giant manifestation of the struggle and the uncertainty that is tearing every one of them. All his life Mr. GANDHI has doubted things as they *LTO,

but

a curious fairness and im

ass prevented him from, Partial boing whole-heartedly either for the

old or the new,

Vor

courage.