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INDIA IN THE GOLDEN

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THE CRUELTIES OF ANCIENT KINGS.

COLD FACTS THAT SHATTER PLEASANT FICTIONS.

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TO-DAY.

(July 30.)

Acenasion of King Victor Em manuel III. of Italy, 1900,

Orchestral Concert at Repulse Bay, Hotel, 8 p.m.

Laura. Guerite at Pet insula Hotel.

One of those pleasant, but un, the way, he mot an.old Hindu mer Lawn Bowls:-Senior Division: fortunately groundless theories chant who had forty ox-load of Taikoo RO.Kowloon Docks, often propounded by Indian cloth-but no money. The poor old

Civil Service Craigongower, Nationalists is that India, in the man's right band, was cut off, his Police v Kowloon B.G.C., Club de halcyon days before the coming of cloth burnt, and be was driven Recreio v. Kowloor C.C.; Junior the English, was a prosperous, out of the Maratha Camp to starve Division: Hong Kong Electric happy and peaceful country, Hard or bleed to death 1 Nor was this Club de Recreio, Kowloon C.C. v. facts, alas, in the shape of in an isolated instance, "Whoever Taikoo R.C., Kowloon. B.G.C.. scriptions and other contemporary was taken and brought before him." Civil Service, Craigengowere records, ruthlessly dispel the illu writes an eye-witness, and could Yacht Club.

sion. We will put aside for a monot redeem himself, fost either his Lawn Tennis:-D" Division: ment those terrible centuries behand or his head; and his manner Craigengower, v. Chinezo R.C.. tween 1175 and 1781 A.D.. when, was first to plunder and then to Kowloon C.C. v. South China, In- except during the brief period of cause the owner of the house to dian R.C. v. Hong Kong C.C., Moghul ascendancy, India was give him something over and above Club de Recreio v. University, Army never fres from invasions from the to redeem bis house from being T.C. v. Civil Servico, North-West, until, with the coming burnt, and yet that perifidiour. Rina Shooting :-Kowloon Rifs of the British, the gates were bolt-villain would fire it afterwards, Club Competition, 2.30 p.m.. ed and barred against the intruder though he had obliged himself to for ever. We will not pause to tell the contrary." The same eye-wit that tale of anguish, when uncountness saw twenty-six hands,” which ed lakhs of peaceful folk perished had been hacked off in his way, by the sword, though the price of outside Shivaji's tout, and as many freedom from this scourge alone heada

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Whist Drive at China Light and Power Club, 9 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Condemned To Death."

Central Theatre:"The Last Love" (Chinese film).

King's Theatre: "Husband's Holiday."

World Theatre: "Dance Fools,

Star Theatre: "On Approval.”? : Garden Theatre: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

would repay, a thousand times

Mahomedan Rais Proferred. over, the bill which the Congress has had the effrontory to put for- Gujarat's experience of Swaraj ward as the price for taking over seems hardly to come up to expecta-Dance" dur reponsibilities. Let us go tions; the tich udvortized atro back to pre-Mahomedia India, to cities which are said to have taken Hindu Raj pure and simple, places recently at Bardoli and in According to contemporary re-othor districts of Gujarat pals be cords, the history, of the great fore this authentic narrative! Nor medieval Hindu dynasties, the do other parts of Western India Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Guvtas, the Chalukyas, the Rashtra- appear to have appreciated their Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's kutas, tha Cholas and the Pallavas, delivery from Mahomedau rule any Restaurant,

Majestic Theatre: "Frankonstein" Tea Dance at King's Restaurant;

was one of almost uninterrupted more. Shortly after, Shivaji Tides: High at 0.35 and 21.33;

SUNDAY.

(July 31.).

strife. It has sometimes been made marched into the Carnatic to Low at 14.14. out that these wars were merely liberate it from the tyranny of the Home Mails: - Outward for tournaments on a large scale, car- Bijapur Government. This is the Europe via Suer by Mantua, 10.00 rind out solely by the knights, as description of what the people, a.m.; for Australia. by Nellore, 8.30 happened in Medieval Europe. thought about it, taken from a con- a.m. Unfortunately the frank confession temporary traveller..

"It is a of Asoka contradicts this. In' of general calamity, und much to be single season's campaign against | deplored, to hear the complaints of Orissa, he tells us, one hundred the people that remain, or are

Tenth Sunday after Trinity. thousand fell, one hundred and fifty rather compelled to endure they

Shooting: Hong Kong Ilifts Club thousand were wounded, and many slavery of Shivaji. The Desina Competition, Kowloon Tong Range, | times that number perished of have land imposed on them at 10 am. starvation and cold, No wonder double the former rates, and if Orchestral Concert at Repulso that Asaka, sicked by the slaugh-they rofuse to accept it on theso Bay Hotel, 9 p.m. ter, becario a convert to Buddhism! hard conditions, if moneyed men,

No National Feeling.

Symphonic Concert at Peninsula they are carried off to prison, where Hotel, 9 p.m... they are famished almost to death, Contral Theatre;

It is interesting by the way to racked and tortured most unhuman Love (Chinese film). note the entire absence of nationally till they confess where, it is King's Theatre:

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spirit among these rulers. The They have now in limbo several With You." hand of every man was against his Brahmans, whose flesh they teas Queen's Theatre: en Like neighbour, and when the Mahome with pincers heated red-hot, and These."

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dans came, weakened by internecine drub them on the shoulders to ex- Oriontal Theatre; "One Hour strife, they were easily beaten one treme anguish, though, according to With You." by one. The same had happened their law it is forbidden to strike centuries ago, when Alexander in a Brahman." After this, it is not vaded the Punjab, but India had surprising to learn that "under learnt nothing from the lesson.the King of Bijapur, the taxations May we be excused for wondering were much milder and they lived whether, with the departure of our in far greater comfort." much decried army of occupation, people of Kanara actually had the Tea Dances at King's Restaurant the same thing might not, conceiv deplorable taste to prefer their old and Repulse Bay Hotel; Dinner ably, have happened again? His Mahomedan rulers to their new Dance at King's Restaurant tory his an awkward habit of re found delivererni

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But, it may be contended, it is scarcely fair to go to ancient his It may, however, be held that tory for examples. The world has Bhivaji was a conqueror pure and ever a village resistöd, its officers

seized become more civilised since those simple, and that when the Maratha wera,

and compolled" by days, and under Swaraj such empire had been more fully organix-more or less severe, to come to s threats, and sometimes by torturo, tragedies, are unthinkable. Let us dd under the Peshwas, conditions settlement. Ready money - was. then 300 what contemporary docu-, were very different. Again we seldom obtained, but securities from ments have to tell us about the turn to contemporary histoty to bankers with whom all the villagos

had dealing were preferable, a last great champion of Hinduism verify our theories. And this is they were exchanged for bills pay- Shivaji tho Maratha. Shivaji's what wo read about the collection able in any part of India mission was to free the Hindu of land-revenue in Gujarat exactly Theo revenue-collecting axpedi nation of its foreign oppressors, two hundred years ago, When

When the tions did not venture to attack wall. ed villages, they carried on their and doubtless it was with this in Marathas proceeded beyond their operations against the defenceless tention that he married into Guja boundary, to collect revenue and peasantry, selecting the season of rat in January, 1604 He immemake war, were synonymous; when with a view not merely of com- harvest for their period of action,

diate" objective was Surat, and on (Continued at foot of next column.). (Continued-on-Page-11;}

"CONDEMNED

TO DEATH?"

|A GRIPPING BRITISH MYSTERY

DRAMA

Is it possible for a man to possess a dual personality? Can one who is by day a gentleman of irreproachable character, be- come, in the dark hours of the night, distorted savage beast with murder in his heart?