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fallure of the Indians themselves to solve this complex communal Issue which has made it necessary for the British Government to bring forward its own proposals.

NO MATTER WHETHER YOU HE In this connexion, It must be re- called that Gandhi himself, at the PROTESTANT OR CATHOLIC, YOU ARE

Conference and LIEVE Round Table since, has deliberately refused to TEACHINGS OF CHRIST. compromiso with the Depressed

The Empress of Canada is Classes. With remarkable patience here from Shanghai on Friday and restraint, the British Govern- 10 a.m.

A CHRISTIAN SO LONG AS YOU DE

IN

PRACTICE AND

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THE

LOST IN THE

ALPHABETICAL WILDS

(By Edward Kelly, K.B., Failed B.A. (Oxon), H2S04.)

Our American friend came to

catch the atmosphere of the East, umerenes escogene

Central Market. He was also in-

We took him immediately, to the VOLUNTEERS” OF “

THE AIR

duo terested in Chinese still life, but!

By JOHN GILLAM. Squadrons of the Auxiliary Air

Often, in their mock warfare, the pilots fly by day right over the very

Hill, the Shing at after he had seen the Vehicular

Ferry, Morrison Mun dam and other monuments to were ment endeavoured to follow the The Sixth Annual General Meating Governmental activity, wo policy of inducing India to settle for the Reel Club is advertised to take hard pressed for other diversions. her own dispute, but the irrecon-place at the Helena May Instiinte We had taken him for all the motor-Force are now in camp at Home in- on Monday, September 19, at 5.15 pm rides in the Coluny, and he said ha tensively training with the Re- enjoyed both of them and it was gulars, in co-operation with the ellables, prominent amongst whom

Minor injuries were received by only when our ingenuity and his Divisions of the Territorial Army. has been Gandhi himself, would

Lok Sui-man, an engineer of the money had run out that he accom have none of it. All through the steam launch Lam Cheong Wan, when panied us to a short business visit piece, Gandhi has studiously and a steam pipe burst on board yester to Seven and Sixpenny Hill,

day whilst the launch was lying off "Yes," we said, in answer to his buildings in which they work in perversely repudiated every sus Shamshuipo.

interrogatively raised eyebrow. "It civilian life. The following article describes the training to which gestion put forward by the Bri-

The speaker for the next meeting is a funny home.. "Tis a relle of the these volunteers of the air have tish and Indian Governments, and

of the Y's Men's Club of Hongkong old days when Queen's kond was

at Lane paved with hotels. A trip from subjected themselves.

We are flying through a dark now he girds at the offered solu on Thursday, the 15th,

which Crawford's will be the Rov. G. T. the old Coronet Theatre to Military tion of an entanglement

Waldegrave, H.A, who will give a H. Q. would cost 78, 0d., gin boing night, high above fields and villogea, days. We are now engrossed in the reading of air fa largely his own creation. Hav-talk on "The Boy Scouts of Hong-9d. in those

re-speed and wind direction instru- passing the only hotel that ing led India into an almost in- kong

mains," extricable maze of inconsequence,

During a scuffle in Chinese Street, "Why?" was his only reply.

A belted and spurred myrmidon factory on the outskirts of a coun- he calmly turns round and blames at 3 o'clock this morning, with a man

Our pilot adjusts direc- the British for not leading him whom he was trying to arrest as a haled us at the foot of the hill. try town.

the air gunner calls in- suspicious character, Constable Kwong out of it in the precise manner Sau received a wound on the shoulWe want to know," wo began, "if tlon as

der inflicted with

a chopper which it is true that the K.O.S.B. will re-structions through the speaking seconds later a black spot halts near which he would like. In circum- the man was carrying, The injury, place either the S.W.B. or the A. tube. A bomb is released; a few stances such as these, despite the however, was not serious, although and S.H."

the constable was taken to the Govern-: tragic nature of his latest threat,ment Civil Hospital for treatment.

At the fortnightly meeting of the it is difficult to feel any sympathy for the Mahatma, who has brought

Sanitary Board held yesterday, the

A black notice board stands half-low. so much trouble on his own head.

business transacted was purely of

natare. Mr. G. R. Sayer, way up Seven and Sixpenny Hill, Gandhi and his followers have formal

the President, was in the chair, and "Eureka," exclaimed our American Auxiliary Air

was Archimedes, Squadron. We are in a darkened tired of suggesting

others present were the Hon. Mr. R. friend. "That

Henderson Vice-President, Dr. G.

Dr G not Euclid." we replied, "and any room, and stretched taut across the sinister policy on the part of Bri-W. Pope, M. O. 11. Mr. Wong Kwong-new, us not an algebraic problem: floor is a white canvas sheet, on to

never

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ments.

We approach our target, a large

"R" he replied. "See the D.A.A. our objective.

"Once more, please," anys the in- & Q.M.G." Up the hill, bear to the left, pick up an interpreter and structor, and I jump clear of the machine-six fect to the floor he- ask the A. & S. H. orderly."

It is the headquarters of an Force Bombing

It has long since been clear, how fir. R. A. de Castro Basto, Mr.tis a directory of the H. Q. for which there is focussed, through u

further

also three

before the

lens piercing the ceiling, a slowly moving panorama of the country. side.

L. C. F. Bellamy, Dr. Li Shu-fan,

of the general Mr. C. Champkin. Mr. J. H. Gelling, the information

Mr. Ng Mui-kai, public. Or so we were told." ever, that the division is no Ma- Secretary, and

Such is regimental alacrity that

BOMBING PRACTICE chiavellian creation, but a thing Assistant Secretary.

we had smoked only half of our tin During the week ended Saturday, of Capstan minums

Against the wall there is placed innate in Indian society. The TO,-A! No. 6, Peuk Rond, on Septem-

the D.A.A. and a stand of two tiers, representing "Are you with four dentis, fone imported) her 13, Mrs. To Ming, aged 86,breakdown of the Round Table September 10, five cases of Cholera great man appeared.

aeroplane. On the a bombing mother of Drs. Cusion and Her Conference was only a

were reported. Of the cholera cases Q.M.G.?" we began. "We want to proof of that fact. Faced with two were from Victoria and three know if the K.O.S.B. will replace lower tler sits the officer, controlling

from Kowloon. There were als

in the room above, which moves the "The man you what appeared to be an almost in cases of typhoid with one death, one either the S.W.E. or A. and S.I." by his rudder the mechanism, fixed mosaic of photographic plates at soluble problen, Britain has inter-case of paratyphoid and one tenth, "R." he replied. vened and taken the middle cours and three cases of meningitis with want is the 0.1.C. (2) of S. and will. Above him is the air gunner,

3 deaths (one imported case). Death. T."

We were used to it by this, and with his instruments at hand and beside him A glass plate from pulmonary tuberculosis during there was a clenn bill of health.

ength bi half an hour. "The DA-A, black spot the bomb. According and Q.M.G. said you could tell us to the reading of the instruments. if the K.O.S.B. etc.. we repealed.

set beforehand at the instructor's "R" he replied. "The man you decision, the air gunner guides the

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1932.

GANDHI'S LATEST

of moderation and conciliation,

Almost inevitably, no-one is resile the week totalled sixty. On Monday ran the 0.1.C. (2) of S. and T. to silhouetting the shadow of a fixed

satisfied, but, as we have remark- ed, Britain's bona fides are beyond quontion. Whatever adjustments

I leave them at their efforts to- wards a direct hit,

An interesting and instructive talk "Travelling through Szechuen" was given by Professor L, Forster.

The the D. of the P.U.S. of S: for W." tiffia yesterday. Rotary Club

for I may be necessary to meet reason of the University of Hongkong, at the want is the A.F.A. and A.L.A. topilot on the make-believe flight. Ro-

him wheelbarrow "Call Two presided. any Hon. Mr. S, W. able objections, there can at

T. B. Wilson, who recently short," our American friend sug- rate be no question of permitting tarian

from the Rotarian Congested. at Scuttie, at which "Wheelbarrow" was most oblig-group is assembled around an un- Gandhi's sincerity notwithstand Gandhi, by fanciful ing, few disinterested observers his own choosing, to dictate the buck by the chairman, Mr. Wilsoning. "The man you want is the will find themselves in sympathy Government's policies.

with the methods which he adopts

in attempts to get his own way. His latest plan, to "fast unto death," in the hope that the Bri- tish Government may abandon or modify its plans for a settlement of the communal problem, is such as one might expect from this strangely unbalanced personality,

methods of

Translations, Please!

Ambitious people-people who like to do things that have never be been done before should grateful for the continued exist- ence of Shrewsbury School and its motto, to which attention has just

frence

represented Hongkong, was welcomed

But we stopped him.

said he had done his best at the con-

the delegates. "Tell us," we said, "Is this con- ference to convince from all parts of the work that fined only to the English alphabet? Hongkong was not a Chinese city. If it is, you've got only six of the 26 letters left, but if you're going but he did not have much success!

to bring in Russian, we quit."

..

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

At the fur end of the drill hall

its 400-h.p. Jupiter engine, engaged in practice at rigging.

completed Wapiti, equipped with

In the fitters' room, mechanics,

at their benches and lathen, are ns- sembling engines. In the armoury adjoining the make-up of machine By this time we'd entered into Fun and bombs is being thorough-

ly studied. the spirit of the game, and we were An N.C.O. now rounds everybody just brushing up our table-de-la-

at

was

mere brand of French, when we ar-up for parade in the drill hall. The rived at the kill, who did his best sharp command of "Fall In!" from the sergeant-major instantly trans- to hide his title beneath a mass of forme the scene to a parade of four alphabetical camouflage. He, lights, each of two ranks. As the The following table issued by least, did admit that he

parade appear they click heels to said, Immobility on the command "At- It is, indeed, pathetic. In effect, been drawn by the recent anni-the Kwangtung River Conservancy acquainted with the peculiarities of adjutant and the officer taking the

celebrations. It is be-Commission shows the height of the K.O.S.B. "But," he

I must give the Gandhi seeks to dictate to the Versary

coming increasingly difficult to water in English feet on the dates "This is where

to and fro in various formations. Government by the process' of

accomplish any feat that has not named in the West, North and proverbial imitation of an oyster." tention!" and are marched smartly

"Well, we replied. "You cer- East Rivers: Įmaking a martyr of himself: in the been already achieved by someone

Highest on Lowest Bept Sept. tainly have the looks on your side." Then they dismiss for the lighter a game of one balance he places his life; in or other, whether in exploration,

13 Which, we thought afterwards, wis side of the evening,

he might easily cards, or a committee meeting to 14.1 rather cruel, as the other, the proposals which sports or flight. But one of these West River at

have referred us to the K.C.C., the discuss plans for a coming dance or

concert. have been devised to settle an rare remaining spurs to the am-

K.B.S.F.P.A., or even the Y.M.C.A., bition to do something different is

and by this time we'd have been them. Issue which the Indians selves failed to adjust. No doubt provided by Shrewsbury School. And this particular fent has the he hopes in this way, provided merit of requiring no elaborate his fasting ends fatally, to lay apparatus-not even a cricket bat, the blame for his death at the certainly nothing like

an arm-

doors of the British Government. plane. It can be done in an arm- Needless to say, no Government chair-that is, if it can be done that the could agree to bargain with any-ut nll. In fact, all

If the worst searcher after enduring fame has one on such terms. comes to the worst, then Gandhi to do is to translate the motto of the school. It is a short motto: will have only himself to blame it is Latin, which large numbers for deliberately choosing such a of people understand almost as fantastic method of seeking to well as they understand English; impose his

will on the Govern-and every one of its five words- "Intus al recte, no labora"--singly ment,

There is no occasion at the mo- is of porfectly definite and simple

What menning.

each of those ment to investigate the point as to whether the Government'à solu-words means separately a child who is hardly through his first tion of the communal problem is grammar could tell without dif or is not a remedy for the crush-ficulty: but what they mean when ing degradation under which the put together has baffled the in- Depressed Classes exist, except to genuity of succeeding generations obsorve that the British plan is of scholars. specifically devised to safeguard Times, has pointed out, has ever their rights and interests and to been able to translate them satin- factorily or with certainty. From give them a direct voice in the time to time, of course, sugges- of the country.tions have been put forward na to government

One |Gandhi may have his own ideas on what the metto can mean.

the method chosen by the British version runs, "If thou art upright Government for alleviating the lot within, vex`not thyself." Another, of the "Untouchables," but neither on a slightly less exalted note, is food, don't ho nor anyone else can doubt Bri-"If you enjoy your

worry." A third soome still loss tiah alacority on behalf of a sec-suitable to a school, for it rends, walls, you tion of the community which has "Once Inside these so long occupied a position of need do no work." But none of inferiority in the Indian caste theso is really satisfactory. The system. The main fact to be kept world is still waiting for the par- inèmind, however, is that it in the foot translation.

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"Gee, you can't get much in the way of fashion magazinca

In this town."

To-morrow, with the exception of the adjutant, his assistant, and the sergeant-major, and a few special instructora (all Regulars), they will be back in their various walks of civilian life; the men in factories, engineering works, stores, banks, offices; the officers in the Law business Courts, professional or offices, or at the daily round of medical practice."

During the summer, evenings are reserved for practice flying: In the hangars of the three auxiliary squadrons At the aerodrome mechanica are overhauling nero- planes. Outside the propellers of machines grouped in flights are gently ticking over. They taxi to alrmun position, assisted by an holding each wing tip, for the wind is a trifle bumpy, and rise with uni- form grace in a steep ascent, eneh muching with its cruw of pilot and nir gunner. A new officer is taken up in an Avro for early lessons in nying!

I no to the camera obscura à hut of two rooms. One is equipped with wireless; the other darkened, with a camera lens fixed in the roof, focusing opwards, and em- gracing a wide range. On a cross- lined chart, spread wide over a table, I see the outline of a machine moving over its squares. It is pick- ed up on the wireless; a ponellled lino las marked, tracting the path of the aircraft, and instruments calculate where the bomb would hive dropped.

BACK TO WORK

At the signallor's hut I listen to a conversation in code by wireless to a plane high and far away from sight. As the two-hours practice draws to its close three machines. (Continued on Page 2.).