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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1931.

INDIA'S PROBLEMS.

GANDHI DOUBTFUL OF LASTING PEACE.

New Delhi, Apr, 12. Lord Irwin, in a message of wel- come to Lord and Lady Willingdon at Aden, Bays:

"There is no need to assure you that in the great task you are about to undertake you can count on the personal friendship and goodwill of India's people, and I earnestly trust that throughout your term of office all good fortune and success will attend you."-Reuter.

Gandhi Despondent7

Ahmedabad, Apr. 12. Gandal appeara rather despondent with regard to permanency of peace in Indin.

CORRESPONDENCE.

8.P.C.A. Meeting.

(To The Editor of Hongkong Telograph.]

p.m.

Sir,-May I through the medium of your paper, draw the attention of your readers to the fact, that the Annual General for Preven- Meeting of the Society tion of Cruelty to Animals will be held in the Board Room of Measts. Jardine, Matheson and Co. on Wednesday, 22nd inst., at 5.15 We have on influential list of Patrons, a large Committee, and many who help in this good work, but attendances at these Annual Meetings have been marked by the absence of many who might attend and help by their presence the A report work of the Society. given to empty seats, to an atten- dance of those who faithfully attend Committee Meetings, doc

thnt encouragement) not give necessary to a Committee serving in a Public Duty. While we are

the support: very grateful for accorded us during the past year, an attendance commeasurate with our work will greatly help a new Committee to carry on

work and hard for the benefit of stray animale that frequent our streets. be &c.

We would like public sup port at our Annual Meeting.

Addressing the first batch of volunteers whom he led to Dandi to break the salt law last yent, ho declared:

"I try my utmost for permanent peace, but and nature against us." He urged the volunteers to be ready to act in the forefront of the night." hut added that he would decide finally after seeing Lord Wingdon at Bombay-Reuter.

Indian Labour.

London, Apr. 11. Many startling facts will revealed on the publication, at the end of May, of the report of the Royal Commission on Labour; in India, which, according to the Daily Herald, deals with workers' conditions, recruitment of la-1 bour, welfare, safety, and com- pensation, and gives special at- tention to health questions.

The various proposals made in elude questions of wages and working hours, the latter at pre- sent based on n maximum of a sixty-hour week. The majority of the members of the Commission recommend Afty-four hours, while Indian Tabour members ark" forty-eight hours.--Reuter.

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"This Volunteer Racket." Sir. Your correspondent "Lal Tee" has expounded his views on Volunteering at very considerable length, but when stripped of its barren verbiage, the pith of his

Volunteer! letter is his view that a

in Defence Force is unnecessary as much us that he considers the training given cannot result the production of an effective militaristic unit and that, in the event of a crisis calling for the defence of the Colony, any nor- to sergeant-major will be able Mymensingh, Apr. 11. knock into the average man's head Three bandits fred revolvers as much as the Volunteer Corps could in five years." The training at three landowners aboard train last night and robbed them given in the Volunteer Corps is as of 10,000 rupees. One landowner goal as, if not better than that was killed and a second sent ta kiven in the average Territorial:

Volunteers, it is rearcely cricket, Hongkong Volunteer Corps, hospital here. The third was unit at home before the

to go to the extreme of endeavour-point is, however, that the Corps enough) than a normal non- slightly injured. The assailants Suck being the case, enn your cor-

when it respondent explain how it was ing to influence others not to is a voluntary one after all, and professional soldier has any right If it isn't sufficiently attractive to to expect. I take the strongest jumped from the train slowed down, and escaped.--Renter. that the Territorial units were able enrol.

RESPICE FINEM. draw the right kind of men in possible objection to the manner to take the held in September!

larger numbers, then the remedy in which auccessive G.0.0's of Artißcint Silk,

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this Command stand up in public Sir, am afraid I have not the lics in its own hands. Bombay, Apr, 11. service, whereas the bulk of the

on a protracted tried to show, in a fairly mild and alang me for evading my The Allowners Association New Arry e atrained men time to carry

correspondence on this subject, manner. why I did not consider obligations to the Empire because Committee recently appointed were not qualified to proceed on

thank the various peopic that the Corps as at present I will not "plný at stllers" in my

taken the trouble organised was fulfilling its real spare time. to regulate the nature and extent active service until the Spring of though of the use of artificial silk yarn, 191? It was not for lack of an who have

supply of norini. to write pointing out the error of function in the Colony, and what prompted me to write, my

attempted to make a constructive original letter. passed a résolution endorsing an adequate

Every man is my ways.

LAI TEE. between Gandhi sergeant-majors!" arrangement

P.S. If nothing I have no objection in principle proposal. More than that,

alse, Mr. whereby entitled to his own views, even to and certain millowners.

Having, however, apent more Editor, the Corps has had some artificial silk yarn will gradually, prove that right is wrong, and to Volunteering as such, and I not do.

whilst your correspondent may have no wish for it to be thought be eliminated, so altogether by August 15.-Renter. have his own reasons for with that I am making any criticism of years of my life in Regular Army useful and cheap publicity in the

holding his services from the the individuals who constitute the and Volunteer Units (Oh, Yes! last few days, hasn't it?

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