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GANDHI INTERVIEWED INĮ LANDRU'S LAST LETTER.

JAIL.

"I Die Innocent and in Peace."

THE HONGKONG TELA,

THE PRINCE'S TOUR

· IN JAPAN,

Further Details of the Royal Itinerary.

Advice to Non-Co-Operation.

The Matin publishen an amaR- Mamrs. Mangaldas Girdharðas.]ing document, panned in the Kasturbbai Lalbbal, and Gord- condemned cell by Landru, the

Да soon as the first reports handas 1. Patel had a long inter-French Bluebeard, on the ove of that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales view with Mr. Gandhi in the his execution, and addressed to contemplated a visit to the Far Central Jail at Sabarmint laat M. Godefroy, the Public Proseon-Bast reached Japan, sill classes, month. A long and contested tor, at the Versailles trial.

officials and people alike, began. discussion took place regarding The writing is as clear cut as to lay plans for his recaption, the contribution of funds by some a copper plate inscription, with states a Tokyo message. The Ahmedabad mills towards the the characters finely-abadad, desire to see and to become as-

betraying Tilak Swaraj Fund of about three and

ob siga of quainted with the British heir to lakhs of rupees.

perturbation. Yet it was writhe Throne was prompted, not ton by a man at a moment when only by the traditional friendship| be realised that he was doomed existing between the two cous- within a few hours to perish by tries, but also by the personality the guillotine.

of the young Prince himself, who has won all hearts wherever he bas gone.

From the beginning of the trial," says Landro. "you (the Public Prosecutor) realised the

At the end of a long discussion, it was decided that the fund com- mittee should pay every year such amount as may be voted by the Provincial Committee to the Labour Unions of Ahmedabad in the interests of labour schools,

FRIENDLY RECIPROCATION. The unions were to submit their weakness of your own case. In The stories of the British peo accounts to the fund committee order to triumph you bad recourse ple's interest in the movements of of the millowners and keep draw-to all the wiles of the practised Prince Hirohito of Japan, notably ing amounts from them.

advocate-you resorted to per-at Windsor and at the Univer Mr. Gordhandas 1. Patel, who suasion, even threats, while all sities, mada a deep impression. is the Joint Honorary Secretary the time you were doubting the here, with the result that on bin of the Millowners Association justice of your own argomenta. return he was for several days and a member of the Abmedabad "Your eyes never left mine, the object of demonstrations such Mills Tilsk Swaraj Fund, in his neither did mine ever quail before as bad never before been wit- privata capacity put the follow-yours. I determined to study you nessed. ing queries to Mr. Gandhi which closely, and I did so. were duly answered by him :--

In case you are convicted, will

A similar welcome, purely popu lar in character, awaited the great French soldier, Joffre, and from

THE KITCHES STOVE "Once you had a moment of the Non-co-operation movement fear-official fear. It was when the indications already, givan, it be adversely affected?

the kitchen stove was produced can safely be asserted that Gandhi replied: The words in court. You realised how | Edward, Prince of Wales, will be inappropriate. difficult it was to induce any jury received in a fashion that will; The more harsh the punishment to believe that several bodies remind him of many occasions the more strong will the No-cohad been incinerated in that in the Dominions, OF the operation movement te. This is small stove. my firm conviction.

"in case

are

Homeland.

"On the following day the stove OTHER INTERESTING TOURS. After your conviction. if Gov-disappeared from the court, your Amongst other interesting ⚫erament resort to rigorous re-mind was at rest then, and after-sightseeing tours will be a visit pressive measures can any dis-wards experts came forward to to the Meiji Shrine, and there will trict or tahsil embark upon mass explain in scientific jargon how the be a special performance at the civil disobedieace?

bodies were cremated in the stove. Imperial Theatre. Tokyo, of a play! Certainly not. It is my em- Then indeed you were radiant. presenting the Japan of ollen phatic

that whatever Satisfaction shore in your eyes, times. advice measures Government may adopt

"I was watching you closely The Tokyo week ended, the the people should in no circus and realised the intensity of the Prince will tour the outlying stances indulge in any movement silent drams that was being country, and will visit the Im- of mass civil disobedience.

epacted between us. I kept calm, perial mountain and shrines at and cool and this, too, I noticed, Nikko, Hakone and Kioto. exasperated you.

A TOUR OF OBSERVATION. After a stay of two or three)

What could be the next move of the nation now?

"Then you said to the jury,

the was

The first and foremost duty of the nation is to keep perfect non-No mercy; condemn this man days in Kioto the Royal party violence. Mutual ill-will and without fear." The fatal Yeswill move on to Nate another feeling of hatred among

pronounced; you bitterly ancient capital of the country. different sections of the people reproached the spectators for fall of historic associations, and have taken such a strong root that their unseemly behaviour. bat containing a park that closely re- constant effort to eradicate them their conduct left me, an innocent sembles an English manor. Then is absolutely essentiai and the man, wholly undisturbed.... Non-co-operators should take the

"When the death sentence was will be made in order that basi- to Osaka, where a short halt lead because their number is con-pronounced son were visibly news Japsu may pay its respects siderable. There is a considerable agitated. I was calm. Remember to the nation's guest. lack of toleration, courtesy and there js 2 voice of COD-

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15 Ton Leviathan Washed Ashore.

Germany's Secret Organization.

forbearance amongst the Soo-co-science that cannot be stilled, the end of this section of the creatures of enormous length lan article entitled

Kobe. some 20 miles away, is That sea-serpants-or marine The Star (Brussels) publishes

a

operators, and it is my firm belief which will trouble the mind of that that is the sole reason why judge doubtful of the guilt of a our victory is delayed I regardiman he has sent to the scaffold in the charkha" as the most poteat the same way as it must torment weapon to secure the required anyone who has bloodguilt on his peace, courtesy, etc. Hence I

sou!."

inonsieur. The

Royal tour, and from here the which may conveniently be call New Army," and it states that Germany's Prince will embark in a specialized serpenta-do exist there now the figures given in it can be equipped steamer for his trip seems little, if any, doubt. through the Intand Sea.

taken as being absolutely correct. Science is always unfolding They come from Cologne.. After a short visit to the Sacred and exhibiting the secrets of The real danger, says the Island of Mivalima, and the naval cature and is revesting to us article, lies in the network of school as Etajima, the Prince will living creatures, even the tradi-secret military organizations sail in the Renown for Kagoshima tion of whose existence bas bitber-which has spread all over Ger. off Satsuma, Japan's southern-to been matter for ridicule. many, and is nothing more than

Without exaggera-

would only advise that the people With a touch worthy of Rous-! should become immediately or seau. Landru concludes his letter cupied with the "charkha" and by saying: khadder prepared therefrom. No "Farewell, Kooner could we effect a complete affair which mutually interested boycott of foreign cloth and the us ends, I suppose, to-morrow use of handspun and handwoven For myself. I die innocent and io "khadder," than Swaraj is im-peace. With all respect. I mediately in band, and in con-sincerely hope that your consci. and starten. sequence whereof the dears of fence is as tranquil as is mine." the jail would be automatically Jain open and my companions And myself would be able

to be

outt

I anxiously

awaitsuch an auspicious occasion.

What is your opinion in regard

A FOREIGN LEGION.

to the remarks made by Sir Wil-One Division versus All China. lian Vincent against the All

brothers?

*

beauty of its surroundings and as Chronicle described the gigantic uniforms. most city renowned alike for the Just recently the Daily an immense Reichswehr, minus the birthplace of many of the Esh which has been presented tion, the number of men for the country's most famous warriors to the Natural History Museum most part young enrolled in its of Paris. It is 60ft. long, and organizations can be estimated at was caught off Agadir, on the one-and a-half millions, and the Marcccs cosat, by French fisher-finishing touch is that these secret military organizations re It corresponds with the de-found-under various names-in that part of Germany occupied scriptions of sea-serpents

[by the Eatente.” found in fiction of adventure, -

From another scientific source comes further confirmation of the fact that there are other things

"of purest

BOATING TRAGEDY AT PENANG.

men.

goma

**

Tay

Three Lives Lost.

One may well be left wonder-

Penang, April 7. A boating tragedy, in which than There is nothing new in it. The ing where our Chinese contem- brothers have given out in the porary the Shanghai Journal of their lives and three others had a cares of ocean."

two Penang Chinese girls lost serepo in the "dark enfathomed clearest terms what they believed Commerce has obtained its in-

narrow escape, occurred three

Last night:

strong

spring

The Soir publishes documents showing the declaration which has to be signed by those who join the Orgesch. They must promise obedience to the supreme chief and contributo to the up- keep and propszation of the national idea. The following are the aims of the organization

1.

of

To band together mea

national sympathies so as to "prevent the complete over- throw of Germany by the revolution.

2.

To

4.

widespread

suppress internal disorders should they arise.

To render a return to the present state of things impos- sible by the advancement of a National Government. To obtain for our people 30 army (wehrmacht) and arwaments to the greatest possible extent.

to be true. This is considered to formation regarding the proposed bundred yards off the Esplanade

"THAT LEVIATHAN.". be their greatest fault, and I too, foreign division which is to

Mr. C. H. Fraser, writing to am committing similar fault. For operate in China against the

paper from Black sarde The party. consisting of Daisy the the same reason I regard them combined forces of the North and Cheong, a teacher at St. Xavier's River, Jamaica, refers to the both as my real brothers.

South should they come to blows. Will India suffer any harm in Probably we shall be left wonder- School, her sister, and three work being done in the Carribean consequence of Mr. Moutagu's ing but the case is that the others including Lee Ah Yong, Ses by Mr. Mitchell Hedges, resignation?

Journal has constructed some

set out in a Malay prahu. Ther who is trying to discover what I certainly do not believe that kind of foreign legion, and quite bad been in the habit of boating these caves and depths contain.

He writes: there will be any barm. But Mr.naturally has resolved that a

and bad full permission, but there was а Montagu certainly deserves credit French

Having just returned after officer will be in

tide running and a heavy ground witnessing Mr. Mitchell-Hedges's 3. for what he has done.

command. First of til, in Is there any logical connection combination with the mea

swell, and a Malay boatman operations in the Caribbean, may between the political conditions of-war. it will confine its warned them that it was dan.I say that, in the discovery of of England and India at present? operations to the protection of gerous to proceed. The boat was prehistoric leviathans, anything I There certainly is such a con- foreign commercial interests be seen to turn and wallow broadside bad imagined has been far eux- nection. If the programme which tween here and Ichang, when on for a moment, then it over-passed.

In one instance & link in the I have laid down for India is hostilities have broken out, and tarned and was swamped by a carried through, it will produce a thea, if the war between the ware. Several natives, who were evolutionary chain has come to very salutary effect not only on North and South does not come on the Esplanade, swam to the light which will be another re- the political situation of England, to a speedy conclusion, it is going

rescue, and a Tamil put out in a velation to scientists.

In Cologne alone the Orgesch On another occasion it took the has 1,600 members, of whom but on that of the whole world. to enter the field actively and sapan and succeeded in bring

What do you think of the "take whatever steps, it thinks ing three of the party ashore in entire strength of ten of the about 400 belong to the police of leviathan the town and about 1,000 are At present I have on high ex. We quite admit that foreign in back the body of Daisy Cheong.

fit to suppress the fighting forces." & extremely exhausted condi-natives to drag a

tion. The boatman later brought ashore.

young men. A meeting is hold Unquestionably, during the avery Wednesday evening. Drills pectations from that as it is my terests could do a

great deal! confirmed opinion that as long as worse than to put their defences out the night, but were unsuccess roamed the earth, and it would of the occupied territory, near A search party worked through-Jurassic period, the great beasts are held regularly on the frontier India does not show completely in order against any side-showa ful until this morning, when the seem that, with climatic conditions the English zone. the miracle of charkba" the which either the Northern or body of Lee Ah Yang was found and the advent of man, their problem of the Khilafat will not Southern Army might like to close to the scent of the tragedy.extinction as land animals be be properly solved.

jengage in, but we must protest Madeline Cheong, sister of the came complete. What are your instructions re- that active armed interven-first deceased, is still in a critical

Do great fish and mammels of which, by the process of relativity, garding the harmonious relations tion with the force mention-condition. The dead girls were this age still remain in the vast between the mill-hands and the ed is altogether beyond the ambi good swimmers-Singapore Free waters of the Caribbean, Pacific capitalists of this place in your tion of any foreigner here. Not absence f

even the most hardened military Repose full confidence in adventurer would contemplate Anasuya Ben.

with equanimity the launching

coming Paris Conference?

Press.

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CHINA OF EVOLUTION. Incredible as it may seem, it What message do you send to of cus solitary division against body of troops are too obvious to would appear so, judging by the the people of Ahmedabad 7 the combined forces of North and escape consideration. We fear fact that the monster which was The people of Ahmedabad South. The chances that in that the correspondent of the washed ashore at Cape May last should take to "kbaddar," pre-trice the contending factions Journal of Commerce is somewhat Kovember. 'servé perfect unity, and support would patch up their differences weak 001 military matters.— It measured no less than 78ft.

the current movement.

sad unite against this one devoted North China Daily News,

in length, and weighed 15 tons,

is nearly the size of five full- Brow elephanie.

Extraordinary similarity to reptile, mammal and bird life,ex- [hibited by many of the fish I have seen brought ashore collectively forges still farther links in the chain of evolution, which will be plainly discernible when the r markable photographs taken by Mr. Mitchell-Hedges are publish- ed upon bis return.

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