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'MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1927.

OFFICERS OF THE “VINDICTIVE.”

Abovo

ar the officers of H.M.S., Vindictive; photographed just before the cruiser left

Hongkong for the North. (Photo: A. Hing)...

GUILD'S CLAIM.

Was

BOYS WANTED IN CANADA.

RAZMAK.

(Continued from Page 1).

OUR NEW INDIAN OUTPOST. DEFECT OF PRESENT SYSTEM.

The visit of Lord Irwin, the books. There was also a debt of

Viceroy of India, to Razmak (pro- "One defect of the present im-nounced Ruzmuck), the new can- $120 owing to him, and it agreed at a meeting of members migration system is that we do not tonment in the heart of Waziria of the union that that sum should catch our colonists, young en-tan, on the North-West Frontier, go do the Union funds when colough," said a Canadian official is not only a matter of go--look-

see but is a step farther in a bril- teeled, and he was "accordingly with whom a Daily Mail correspon-liant attempt to capture the im- dént in Calgary discussed this as agination of the tribesman which credited with that amount.

pect of the development of the was started by Lord Reading, In reply to Mr. McCallum, Dominion. "If we brought out a writes Lieut-Gen. Sir George Mac- defendant said, when the strike greater number of boys, and fower Munn, formerly Commander-in- broke out in 1925 all the man, with adults who are 'set' in their ways. Chief in Mesopotamia and Quar- the exception of the foremen, left the result would be more satisfac- termaster-General-in India. for Canton. He did not know tory." what happened to the funds. The Union supplied the men

with

Razmak, the now fortified camp There is no denying the fact in the very heart of tribal Waziris- their passage money, either for that much of the anguish and de-tan, was started on the advice, of Ispair incidental to settling a newly Lord Rawlinson to heal once and" train or steamer.

|arrived family, on the land is dur for all the open sure of the behavi- to their helplessness in a strange cur of the mountain tribes of environment.

In reply to his Lordship, who ask ed. the object of the questions, Mr. McCallum asked whether it was or was not an illegal and unlawful Society. If it was, aurely it had no rights in that Court.

His Lordship remarked that it might not be an unlawful Society, yet it might do an unlawful act.

¿

THE SOCIETY FUNDS.

Mr. Loseby quated a case on the point, and his Lordship said it seemed to show that in that case a Society acted illegally in accor- dance with rules. They had" to come back to the rules. He allow- ed Mr. McCallum to proceed.

Mr. McCallum:Do you know of any acts of charity which the Society has done?

Waziristan.

Hence the desire,, expressed to

For years the Government of me by immigration experts in both India had tried to hit on some East and West, to "catch them method of treatment which while young. They would increase the ministering to their love of free- exportation of healthy lads from dom would also prevent their lly- Great Britain, and train them uping the life that the highlander in the way they should farm, so usually lives where the hills breed that by the time they are fully many and feed few-living on the mature they will have become raiding of peaceful and wealthier practical Canadians, familiar with natives in the plains, every complication of agricultural life.

ransom.

In their case the raids were apt to become armed invasions, and, Ex-Premier's Scheme,

with other booty, both men and Various schemes to this end are women, especially fat traders, under discussion, One which ma would be carried to prove productive in the near Since 1849, when Britain became future is now being considered by the heirs-at-law of the Sikh Gov- the provincial Government of Al-ernment, the life of the frontier had been raid and counter-raid, the latter growing at times to Defendant:Never. No charit- The Hon. J. Greenfield, ex-Fre- punitive expenditions.. Millions able act has been done, to my mier of Alberta, has prepared a had been spent in this way, milli- knowledge. Defendant ddded that plan which he hopes will be ap-ons poured into the bottomless the money was usually invested in proved by the provincial Govern-pit, but less by far than the cost property to pay the active menment, and he expects to go to Lon-of occupying and administering

don before the end of the year to the territory.

•bers.

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SWATOW "REDS.".

(Continued From Page 1),

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The case was adjourned until discuss its features with the Im- Saturday morning in chambers.perial authorities. He wants to when Mr. McCallum will intimate recruit lads, of from 17 to 21, Lord Curzon's polley was to em- whether he wishes to proceed first "trying them out" for two ploy the young men in local militias further after inspecting, the book months on an English farm under to protect the trade routes through he wishes to sec.

Canadian inspection to

This was the see their own country. whether they are adapted for that principle on which the Black Watch kind of life, and then placing was first raised, allowances being them with farmers in this pro-made to tribal chiefs on the under vince.

standing that they kept order, furnished some rough police, and ́ Mr. Greenfield has in view endeavoured to give some educa- farge cultivated area, comprising tion and civilisation to the sons of some, 220 farms, south of Ver. on the open ground in front of the milion, which he wishes taken those chiefs who cared to avail Chinese Maritime Customs when over for the settlement of these themselven of it.

Slowly, very slowly, the leaven armed British sailors rushed from Pupil-farmers when they are com-

petent.

was working, when the Great War their ships and commenced their

By working through the Boy me down like an avalanche and slaughtering. Several of our na tionals were killed and the num-Great Britain, Mr. Greenfield is The Drum Ecclesiastic was roll- Scouts and other organisations incurried away the results of a quarter of a century's endeavour bers of wounded are counted in convinced that he can easily finding, the Caliph of Islam had pro- hundreds. The people now call the requisto tmber of young claimed a Holy War, the highland colonists. He would like to Mullah, the more faplitlent be- upon their Government to asalst the immigration of youths exterd-

cause the more ignorant," echoad them in boycotting the British and ed on a still larger scale, and pre their cry, "Glory for all and Hea all British good." Again, com-ference given to applicants for

farmers who have passed through ven for those who bleed," and the ment is unnecessary.

an educational course on this side. tribesmen flung themselves at the

British posts...

tribal plateau, out of the summer tribal mind that all is not lost by Instruction For Farmers.

Then as the war passed and the heat of the Indus Valley, this can- the presence of the Sirkar. As an For some time past the A.P.C. Higher education for farmers time came for the British bill of tonment of Razmak has been fold chief once said to the writer: have been having trouble with already an established feature of reckoning to be presented, lo! the placed by the despairing British, "Well, if the British try to take their Un-making coolies, who have! been demanding exorbitant in-university life in Canada. The King of Kabul must needs throw a costly but effective cure. Now a over the country it will give them creases in their wages, Negotia-provincial capitals provide facili- his army on India and with him six-inch howitzer is trained on the

tles for instruction in all branches went the tribes on masst for who towers of the nearest chief to ans pretty pother, but it will grow older, to go to sleep in our tions have now failed and the tin of agriculture, which are as good could resist the chance to loot fat, wer the sniper's bullet and peace perhaps be pleasant for us, as we

as any to be found in other parts peaceful Iridia?

towers and feel certain that wo The tribes loathe and hate it, shan't wake up and find our And the women.

A.Ş.C. STRIKE.

makers have gone out on strike.

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should these people strike the Practical training of this kind forces of halftrained post-war but acknowledge the advantages throats cut." whole of the A.P.C. staff would go

to bring the tribes of Is the best possible foundation for soldiers out in sympathy, but this has, füccessful farming. If boys'in Waziristan to order. It was decid. of the great roads for their own; tunately, been avoided and, al- though at the present time a strike Great Gritain are to seek their ed to "lift the tribal curtain," in trade and the constant work and with allments. to be treated and on the part of any employees of fortune elsewhere in the Empire the frontier metaphor, once and wages that they engender. When children to be cared are slowly a foreign firm is a thing to be and thousands are faced with that for all. Great motor roads have Viceroy comes, and local chiefa viewed with a certain amount of prospect to-day-they will star been driven into the hills from the are treated with hospitality and coming to the belief that the paxi apprehension, it is not anticipated far better equipped if they begin frontler cantonment of Bannu, up honour, and rewards in the shape Britannica is better than the old

above the sea, on the top of the as Lord Irwin has just presented

them, then It flushes across the tooth for a tooth. that this will go beyond those im- early to shape themselves for the the Tochi Valley; and 7,000 feet of trouges of honour, are presented law of an oye for an oys and a

mediately involved.

now life: