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roviowe, written by a correspon dent in Indin, on the Mahatma's influence and some of the factors which explain it. Chief amongst

these is what an American writer] has described as "thle saint busi ness." It is pointed out that one of the main differences batween the modern European and those who. still maintain a more modiaeval and incidentally a more religious outlook is the belief that there oxists a perfect solution of This all our mundane troubles.

DAY BY DAY

EVEN WHEN THE STATE HAS MANIFESTLY CAUSED THE MISCHIEF COMPLAINED OF, FAITII IN ITS BENE- PICENT AGENCY 18 NOT AT ALL DIMINISHED Herbert Spencer.

Sir Robert Ho Tang left Shanghal for Nanking on Tuesday to meet the different leaders of the National Golfe

vernment.

At to-morrow's meeting of the Rotary Club, Wing Comit. A. W. Glenny, M.C., D.C.S, RA.F., will speak on aviation.

knowledge, it is claimed, cannot be acquired by a mere process of reasoning. This idea colours all

During the week-ond one case of of Gandhi'a vlewa, na il docs those

typhoid and one of cerebra-spinal of most Indiana except a very few fever were notified to the health who have acquired a completely authorities. Both were Chinese. Western outlook. Thus whenever

The P. and O. a.s. Ranpura, from Gandhi makes a mistake (and he Singapore, ia due hero ut à pm on has himself confessed to "Hima-Thursday. The F. and O. s.s. Alipore, from Shanghai, is due here at 2 p.m. liyan blunders") his solution is to on Wednesday. purify himself by a long fast, so as to recover bis inspiration. It does not occur to him, as it would to most Englishmen, that he may have made a mistake in his poli- tical renzoning,

his that of

original premises may be wrong. As the authority we are quoting an attitude may remarks, such

but egotistical.

many appear Southern and Eastern Europeans would have no difculty in under- standing it.

It has, of course, Westminster Central Hall Choir. THE HONGKONG HOTEL full religious sanction. for unly

B-3690 The Story of the Pied Piper (1st Record) ....John Henry. --The Story of the Pled Piper (2nd Record) .....John Henry. B-3728-All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name (Shrubsole)

A Few More Years Shall Roll (Hayne)

Westminster Central Hall Choir,

John Gues. B-3752 Ten Thousand Miles Away (Willan)

Agincourt (Wilfan); Here's a Health Unto His Majesty

(Harris)

John Goss.

Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

B-3754-Let Their Celestial Concerts (Handel)

-Strike Your Timbrels (Schubert)

Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. B-3780--You're Driving Me Crazy (Donaldson) .Gracie Fields. -The Kiss Waltz (Film: "Dancing Sweetles" (Dubin and .Gracia Fields. Burke)

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Hongkong Eclegraph methods, though this doca

MONDAY, MAY 18, 1931.

GANDHI AND HIS OUTLOOK.

about

not

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evening,

At

Arrested in a scavenging lane with baskets containing ten drain pipes, Chinese named Kwok Wah, was pro duced before Mr. Hamilton, at Kow

THEFT OF DOORS,

Why Kill the Goose.

By B. V. KNOX.

UAINTNESS, rusticity, and apparently, is one of our great

simple charme a hunted national Industries. nowadays. They are pray to

the falcons of publicity.

Their foreheads stream with

toilet cream

Out of a patent can. They supplement their girllah

grace

With artificial tan.

The oldest man in England who has never seen a railway train, never had a day's illness and at- tributes his health entirely to liv! ing on beef and beer, is a pleasant

I don't suppose they do anything character until one la obliged to see him on the films, self-con- of the sort, but at any rate they Belously occupied in growing old, are tempted to do it and to say. consuming beer with melodramatic so in a series of signed articles alpe, and munching beef in exagontitled "How Wo Remain Lovely gerated mouthfule, explaining in a Whilst Wielding the Hammer, loud metallurgic boom to a packed Not that I object to face creamı. cinoma audience how the simple But I refuse to put it amongst life, as lived in Notherby-cum- Deeds which Won the Empire, or Warten, enabled him to bo what even amongst Deeds that Dignity. Rustic Toil. It appears to me that ho be.

scent.

*

It did

Cine-

Under the shade of Hollywood

The village blacksmith stands The close-up of his brawny armi

On movie tones expands: You can see his daughters help

ing him

*

There is little organisation. in these affairs. It seems to me that turnstile ought to be erected ontalde every deserted village, and only a few hundred permitted to enter every day to contemplate its secluded and unpopulous charm.

I have just read that the daugh-face cream was made for the world ters of two blacksmiths in Somer and not the world for face craum. set were accustomed on busy days! applaud the ancient Roman vir- I am reactionary on the sub- of grease: or at any rate, to make things enaler for their tue. father by blowing the bellows or ject

substitute for kind helping him to fix a horse's shoe. grense na a The St. Andrew's Church Sunday Not an unlikely, not even an un-hearts and simple faith amonget School held its annual festival services ladylike employment, you would village maids. yesterday. At the morning service say. It might have passed with a

The plight of this village ta the there was a parads of Boy Scouts. The casual mention by the touring Vicar preached in the morning, the motorist who happened to notice plight of a thousand throughout Rev, H. V. Koop preaching in the it as an agreeable spectacle in our the length and broadth of the land.

fast decaying rural life. not so pass. Photographers ap- Where there was a little port, with nothing but a quaint harbour and Kowloon morning Mr.peared

this

upon the scene. Hamilton Imposed one month's

ef fishes, enormous motor-buses A talkio" wns made.,

now thunder

to prisenment on a Chinese, Wai Chomatographers appeared upon the few seagulla eating the insides

down

the quay side, filled with trippers who tn electric bulb from the Harbour who pleaded guilty to having stolen the pure in heart can hope for a View Hotel, the property of Mrs. "We have had offers of mar- wish to look at the deserted old-

Gardiner.

ringe," said one of the girls, "offers world spot and eat lobster teas. glimpse of the perfect solution,

of jobs, and offers of free sumpics It must be a strange puzzle to locked in the huri of the

of face cream to save our com- the economist, because the live- Almighty. What is hidden from

plexions, from all over the country hood of the inhabitants, which the wise may be revealed to babes

and the world. Young men seem once depended on fishing, now de- leon this morning, and was sentenced to like the prospect of having a ponds upon teas, and the seagulls that to three months imprisonment. The blacksmith's daughter as their once fed upon offal have becoina vegetarians and content them- pipes had been atulen from a house wife." leds under construction in Fuk Wah Street. She sounds quite sensible about selves with.cake.

Where the trippers And their it. I hope she marries well. But Pleading guilty to a charge of could anything be more fatuous money nobody knows. Possibly out mean that the policy which he cutting a tree in Broadwood Rond, a than this exploitation of domes of unemployment relief. They at- Mr. ticity, this desire, if I may ao put tempt to obtain photographs of Chinese who appeared before may put forward at any moment Schofield, at the Central Police Court it, to kill the geose that laid the the lonely share and the unfre this morning, stated that he had golden eggs, by sending charabane quented streets, but so dense is will be equally drastle. He is at

the gathering that they only ob- wanted the branch to make a handle

tain photographs of ench other R-3789 Our Father (Tchaikovsky).Choir of the Russian Church

heart, we are told, a rather con- for an umbrella. His Worship ime parties to the village geen?

posed a fine of $10 or twelve days

trying to do what they were trying of the Metropolitan of Paris.

servative old gentleman, of pacific and remarked that the defendant

to do. cut of The "aint business" seemed to have outlook.

an extra- -Praise the Name of the Lord (Ivanoff) ..........Chair of the

Kives the Mahatnu two advan-ordinary amount to make an umbrella Ruanian Church of the Metropolitan' of Paris.

handle. tages a politician. It gives C-2099-Rolling in Foaming Billows ("Creation"—Hadyn)

"Dic-Hands" of the Churchill him great confidence in himslf,

In fourteen different lands. type were doubtless in the mind and it at any time that confidence

Very soon, no doubt, the visitor -Through the Darkness ("Stabat Mater"—Rossini)

of Lord Irwin when, in his speech is impaired. the solution lien

who goes by special excursion to

Heaven knows that I would not gape at the forge will and the in London, the ex-Viceroy effec-within himself; he does not have

village policeman standing outside, deny to the multitude of my fel- C-2101-Harry Lauder-Vocal Gems (1st Record)

unlly exploded the idea that, if to go to his companions to find

"The daughters begin to blow low creatures the spectacle of an. Scottish Male Voice Singers. what

ruin, the called

strong comfort. It also brings

the bellows," he will say, "at half- old-world inn or a Each seen currying two woollen past ten. You must line up into glimpse of a perfect view, conver- Harry Lauder-Vocal Gems (2nd Record)

Government" were in power, the large measure of support from

aation with unsophisticated vil- Scottish Male Voice Singers-Indian' trouble would have been Indians of all kinds who would doors in Shantung Street yesterday the queue."

Lau Tung evening, two Chinese,

The village confectioner will lagers, or the sight of simple farm.. stopped long ere this and every not normally drawn into

and Li Hung-tak, were chased by profit. He will have to add a small labour in the fields. My point in

arrested

burn to his shop to provide tea that by concentrating the spot-. thing have

As to the suggestion in Chinese detective and Καμά on happily. polities. Anyone who has given careful that Gandhi's cult of simplicity when they entered a marine store and buns for the anxious mob light of publicity on these quiet dealer's shop in Canton Road, which has come out from the places we are perpetually destroy- consideration to the Indian pro-is a page, we have it on the word

They were produced before Mr. nearest town to see two girls in a commodity for which there blem must realise, as Lord Irwin of a well-informed writer that Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis helping their father to do a bit scema to be an ever-increasing de-

mand. His tracy this morning, charged with of work. puts it, that if a policy of ruth-this is a superficial view.

from 88,

More and more the lonely crom- Paper will be strewn profusely lessness were enforced for a suf-austerity, we are told, is perfect the theft of the doora

Argyle Street.

all round the smithy, and picture lech on the heath becomes a nest ficiently long period to achieve italy genuine. There is, moreover, The first defendunt said he had postcards will be sold at the post of garages and restaurants and purpose, the tranquility which something essentially Hindu in been engaged to carry the doors affice showing the anvil, the bolj pumping stations, scarcely distin would ensue would be a

tran- this craving for simplicity in by a man in Shanghai Street, and lows, the water trough, the pin-guishable from the outer suburbs the second defendant said the first cers, and the blacksmith's favou of the Metropolis. Whatever the quility of xullen acquiescence middle age, which, it is observed. defendant had asked him to assist rite cat. There will be a car park. rude forefathers of the hamlet may man The smithy will have to open have been, their polished descen- rather that a tranquility of agree attacks successful Indians about in carrying the doors. The

who had engaged the first defen-Sundays, and extra horses will dants live on pretending to be rude ment. In other words, a policy the time that an American or

dant told them that the doors had have to be hired and have their in front of an

of photo- thinks he ought to of force is, in these days, utterly Englishuman

come from 88. Argyle Street, and shoes taken off and put on again,graphers.

in order to meet the public demand, unsuitable for the solution of the take up dancing again! It is well he led the police there.

Both defendunts were convicted

In the girl's slightly satirical Indian problem. There can be no that we should keep these Indian

about the face cream. Face cream, enduring settlement which is not

labour each, based on goodwill and reasoned will help us to understand much understanding. Unfortunately, that would otherwise be obscure. the Churchills will not concede Whether, if Gandhi goes to London, this point, obvious though it he will reach an agreement remains would appear to be. Sabre. to be seen. But, as one writer: it, the least that Englishmen can do is not to make his task harder by treating him either as a fanatic or a poseur. "He is a very astute old, gentleman

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points of view in mind, for ther and sentenced to six months' hard statement I note especially the part what had once been a very good.

rattling is the extent of the solu- expresses tions they have to offer.

Lord Irwin's optimism was demonstrated in his speech no less than was his liberal outlook

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WATER LEVELS.

on Indian affairs, witness his who honestly holds some religious belief that if Gandhi goes to beliefu

great-great- London he will strain every nerve grandfathers would have found it

agreement. The quite easy to understand,” "Dic-Hards," however, may he counted upon to make the Mahatma's task far from easy, if not indeed to put pbstacles in his way by embarking on a campaign of villication. Mr. Churchill's recent description of Gandhi as a |ernży half-naked fakir, apart from its extremely bad taste, is the

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH

AND EAST RIVERS.

The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feet the water levels on the West River,

kind of thing that we may expect North River and East River on the

to hear repeated in some quarter. | dates named:

Happily, however, personalities of

May May 15. 16. 8.3

this order will be ass med at their West River at Shishing 7.0 true worth. They will carry no North River at Taingyuen 9.0 8.8 8.4 weight in circles which really North River at Samsbul 8.4 East River at Sheklung 74 matter. They reat, for the most

The highest levels recorded aro: part, on utter ignorance of Gandhi-Shiuhing, 41 feet; Taingyuen, as a man and the cause which he 20.2 feet; Samshul. 27.3 feet;

Sheklung, 11.5 feet. typifies. We have just been read-

The lowest lovels on record are ing a most interesting contribu- minus & fest at Samshul and tion In one

of the political minus 2.7 feet at Shoklung.

"Mat Say-I coulda been married years ago, if I hadn't always been thinkin' of my career.

Not very long ago I stayed at if simple, country town hotel. 1 found it a mediaeval castle. I speak the literal truth. Old, quite comfortable pasenges had been turned into gloomy Gothic 'corri- dors with inmitation arrow-elits, artificially descayed banners, elec- trie candles in scones; Italian waiters, and central frowst.

I wandered, a lost wraith, in all this mediaeval grandeur, until by a happy chance I discovered that the boots was what the guide books delight in calling "quite unspoli- ed." I do not mean that he was averse from rewards, but his heart, his nature, and his accent were unmarred by the architectural pantomime which had projected his life Into the Middle Ages, be cause there happened to be a ruined castle somewhere in his native town.

But I will not give the name of that town. I will not put him on the talkies. I will not read upon the screen:

Despite the Fifteenth Century: glamour of the baronial castle In which he cleans the motorists' footwear, Mr. Tom Smith 'still retaine his old-world balze apron and early Nineteenth Century outlook upon life.

I don't know whothar ho would" make more money if 1. gave him. away, but I do know that they would probably put him in a glass- caso somewhere near the port cullis, whers American visitors could watch him cleaning property. boots; whilst the actual boots, most likely, would be polished by, a petrol engine down in the denfon

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