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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1932.

GANDHI'S LATEST

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

NO MATTER WHETHER YOU BE PROTESTANT OR CATHOLIC, YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN 80 LONG AS YOU BE LIEVE IN AND PRACTICE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST.

LOST IN THE

ALPHABETICAL WILDS

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

VOLUNTEERS OF THE AIR

faflura of the Indians themselves to solve this complex communal Issue which has made it necessary for the British Government to bring forward its own proponais. In this connexion, it must be re- called that Gandhi himself, at the

Our American friend came to Round Table Conference and

THE catch the atmosphere, of the East, ~

We took him immediately to the since, has deliberately refused to

Central Market. He was also in- compromise with the Depressed

dus terested in Chinese still life, but Classes. With remarkable patience

at after he had seen the Vehicular Ferry,, Morrison Hill, the Shing and restraint, the British Govern-

Mun dam and, other monuments to

By JOHN GILLAM. mont endeavoured to follow the

The Sixth Annual General Meeting Governmental activity, we were policy of inducing Indin to settle of the Reel Club is advertised to take hard pressed for other diversiona,

Squadrons of the Auxiliary Air her own dispute, but the irrecon place at the Helena May Institute We had taken him for all the motor-Force are now in camp at Home in- on Monday, September 19, at 6.15 pm rides in the Colony, and he said he tensively training with the Re- enjoyed both of them and it wngulars, in co-operation with the Minor injuries were received by only when our ingenuity and his Divisions of the Territorial Army. Lok Sui-han, an engineer of the money had run out that he accom-

team launch Lam Cheong Wan, when panied us to a short business viait pilota fly by day right over the very Often, in their mock warfare, the a steam pipe burst on board yester-to Seven and Sixpenny Hill. day whilst the launch was lying off Shamshuipe.

The Empresa of Canada in here from Shanghal on Friday 10a.m.

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ellables, prominent amongst whom has bean Gandhi himself, would have none of it. All through the piece, Gandhi has atudiously and perversely repudiated every sug-

"Yes," we said, in answer to his buildings in which they work in 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 name. "Tis a relic 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 Road was subjected themselves. 1 now he girds at the offered solu- on Thursday, the 16th, nt Lano paved with hotels. A trip from

We are dying through a dark tion of an entanglement which Crawford's will be the Rev. G. T. the old Corenct Theatre to Military night, high above fields and villages,. Waldegrave, M.A., who will give a H. Q. would cost 7s. 6d., gin beling Is largely his own creation. Huv-talk on "The Boy Scouts of Hong- Od. in those days. We are now ing led India into an almost in-kong". extricable maze of inconsequence, he calmly turns round and blames the British for not lending him out of it in the precise manner which he would like. In circum- stances such as these, despite the tragic nature of his latest threat, it is difficult to feel any sympathy for the Mahatma, who has brought

so much trouble on his own hend.

Gandhi and his followers have

#1 tired of suggesting

never

During a scuffle in Chinese Street, at 3 o'clock this morning, with a man whom he was trying to arrest as a Auspicious character," Constable Kwong

engrossed in the reading of air speed and wind direction instru- passing the only hotel that re- ments.

mains."

"Why?" was his only reply.

We appreach our target, u largo A belted and spurred myrmidon factory on the outskirts of a coun- haled us at the foot of the hill. try town. Our pilot adjusts direc

the air gunner calls in- Sau received a wound on the shoul. We want to know," we began, "If tion as der inflicted with a chopper which it is true that the K.O.S.B. will re-structions through the peaking A bomb is released; a few the man was carrying. The injury, place either the S.W.B. or the A. tube.

seconds later a black spot halts near however, was not serious, although and S.H." the constable was taken to the Govern

"R" he replied. See the D.A.A. our objective. ment Civil Hospital' for treatment. & Q.M.G." Up the hill, bear to l "Once more, please," anys the in- the left, pick up an interpreter and structor, and I jump clear of the Sanitary hard held yesterday, the

At the fortnightly meeting of tie ask the A. & S. H. orderly."

machine-six feet to the floor be- low. A black notice board stands half- business transacted was purely of n

It is the headquarters of an nuture. Mr.

way up Soven and Sixpenny Hill. formal

the chair, and "Eureka," exclaimed our American Squadron. We are in a darkened Auxiliary Air Force Bombing the President, was in the chair, others present were the Hon. Mr. R. friend. "That was Archimedes,

ninister policy on the part of Bri-W. Pope, 11. O. II., Mr. Wong Kwong now, 'tis not an algebraic problem: chick

Henderson, Vice-President, Dr. G. not Euclid," we replied, "and any-

room, and stretched taut across the a white canvas sheet, on to

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

tain to "divide and rule" in India. tin. Dr. K. A. de Castro Busto, Mr. tis a directory of the H. Q. for which there is focussed, through a It has long since been clear, how. C. F. Bellamy, Dr. Li Shu-fan, the information of the general Mr. C. Champkin, Mr. J. H. Gelling, ever, that the division is no Ma-Secretary, and Mr. Ng Mai-kai, public. Or so we were told."

Such is regimental alacrity that chiavellian creation, but a thing Assistant Secretary.

we had smoked only half, of our tin innate in Indian society. The

During the week ended Saturday, of Capstan magnums before the breakdown of the Round Table September 10, five cases of Cholera great man appeared. Conference was

with four deaths, (ong imported) "Are you the D.A.A. only a further

were reported. Of the cholern cases Q.M.G.?" we began. "We want to

Victoria and three proof of that fact. Faced with two were from

know if the K.O.S.B. will replace cases of typhoid with one death, one.

BOMBING, PRACTICE

Against the wall there is pincel a stand of two tiers, representing Inwer tier sits the officer, controlling abombing aeroplane. On the

what appeared to be an almost in- from Kuwlaún. There were also three either the S.W.B. or A. and S.H by his rudder the mechanism, fixed in the room above, which moves the soluble problem, Britain has inter-case of paratyphuil and one death, "," he replied. "The

mosaic of photographic plates at and three cases of meningitis with want is the 0.1.C. (2) of S. and will. Above him is the air gunner,

vened and taken the middle course of moderation and conciliation. Almost inevitably, no-one is really satisfied, but, as we have remark- ed. Britain's bona fides are beyond question. Whatever adjustments may be necessary to meet reason- able objections, there can at rate be no question of permitting Gandhi's sincerity notwithstand-Gandhi, by fanciful methods of ing, few disinterested observers his own choosing, to dietate 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 unio

3 deaths (one imported case), Deaths T." from palmonary tuberculosis during the week totalled sixty. On Monday there was a clean bill of health.

on

man you

ran the 0.1.C. (2) of S. and T. to silhouetting the shadow of a fixed We were used to it by this, and with his instruments at hand and beside him B glass plate. earth in half an hour. "The D.A.A. black spot-the bomb. According and Q.M.G. said you could tell us to the reading of the instruments, An interesting and instructive talk if the K.O.S.B. etc.," we repented.

set beforehand at the instructor's "Travelling through Szechuen"

"R" he replied. "The man you

decision, the air gunner guides the pilot on the make-believe flight,

was given by Professor L Forster,

of the University of Hongkong, at the want is the A.F.A. and A.L.A, to Rotary Club tin yesterday. The the D. of the P.U.S. of S. for W."

"Call any Hon. Mr. S. W. To presided. Ro

him wheelbarrow

Translations, Please! death," in the hope that the Bri-

Ambitious people-people who tish Government may abandon or like to do things that have never modify its plans for a settlement been done before--should be [of the communal problem, is such

grateful for the continued exist-| ence of Shrewsbury School and its

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

for

said.

I leave them at their offorts to- wards a direct hit.

At the far end of the drill hall

completed Wapiti, equipped with a group is assembled around an un-

In the fitters' room, mechanics,

of

tarinn T. B. Wilson, who recently short," aur American friend sug- returned from the Rotarian Congested. ference at Seattle, at which he

Wheelbarrow" was most oblig represented Hongkong, was welcomed buck by the chairman. Mr. Wilsoning. "The man you want is the-its 400-h.p. Jupiter engine, engaged said he had done his best at the can- But we stopped him.

in practice at rigging. ference to convince the delegates Tell us," we said. "Is this con- from all parts of the world that fined only to the English alphabet? Hongkong was not a Chinese city. If it is, you've got only six of the at their benches and lathes, are as- but he did not have much success! 20 letters left, but if you're going adjoining the make-up of machine sembling engines. In the armoury to bring in Russian, we quit."

By this time we'd entered into guns and bombs is being thorough-

ly studied. the spirit of the game, und wo were An N.C.O. now rounds everybody just brushing up our table-de-la- 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 to hide his title beneath a mass of forms the scene to a parade of four the sergeant major instantly trans- as one might expect from this

alphabetical camouflage. He, at flights, each of two ranks. As the strangely unbalanced personality. motto, to which attention has just

The following table issued by least, did admit that he was adjutant and the officer taking the It is, indeed, pathetic. In effect, been drawn by the recent anni- the Kwangtung River Conservancy acquainted with the peculiarities of parade appear they click hecis to

he. K.O.S.B. "But," Gandhi aceks to dietate to the versary celebrations. It is be-Commission shows the height of the

immobility on the command “At- coming increasingly difficult to water in English feet on the dates "This is where I must give the tention!" and are marched smartly Government by the process of making a martyr of himself: in the accomplish any feat that has not named in the West, North and proverbial imitation of an oyster." to and fro in various formations. "Well," we replied. "You cer- Then they dismiss for the lighter been already achieved by someone East Rivers:

Sept. tainly have the looks on your side." side of the evening, a game one balance he places his life; in or other, whether in exploration,

13 Which, we thought afterwards, was cards, or a committee meeting to the other, the proposala which sports or flight. But one of those"

14. rather cruel, us he might easily discuss plans for a coming dance or have been devised to settle an rare remaining spurs to the am-

have referred us to the K.C.C., the

issue which the

K.B.S.F.P.A., or even the Y.M.C.A.. bition to do something different is selves failed to adjust, No doust provided by: Shrewsbury School: And this particular feat has the he hopes in this way provided

merit of requiring no cluborate his fasting enda 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 enn be done could agree to bargain with any at all. In fact, all one on such terms. If the worst searcher after enduring fame has to do is to translate the motto of comes to the worst, then Gandhi

the school. It is a short motto; will have only himself to blame it is Latin, which large numbers for deliberately choosing such

of people understand almost as fantastic method of seeking to well as they understand English; impose hin will on the Govern- and every one of its five words rent.

"Intna si recte, ne labora"-singly is of perfectly definite and simple . What each of those meaning. words' means separately a child

Indians

them-

There is no, occasion at the mo- ment to investigate the point as

that the

to whether the Government's solu- who is hardly through his first tion of the communal problem is grammar could tell without dif- or lo 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 gonuity of succeeding generationa No one, RA The observe that the British plan is of scholars. spocifcally devised to safeguard Times, has pointed out, has ever their rights and interests and to boon able to translate them satis- factorily or with certainty. From give them a direct voice in the time to time, of course, augges- government of tho country.tions have been put forward as to Gandhi may have his own idens on what the motto 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 "If you enjoy your food, don't The nor anyone else can doubt Bri-

worry." A third scoms still loss tish sincerity on behalf of a sac suitable to a school, for it reads, Ition of the community which has "Once inside these walls, ́ ́ you so long occupied a position "of need do no work." But none of {inferiority" in the Indian-casto these is really satisfactory. The system. The main foot to be kept world is still waiting for the per-

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To-morrow, with the exception of the adjutant, his assistant, and the sergeant-major, and a few special instructers (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 Courts, professional or business offices,

ur 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 mechanics are overhauling aero- planes. Outside the propellers of machines grouped in flights are gently ticking over. They taxi to position, assisted by an airman holding each wing tip, for the wind is a trifle bumpy, and rise with uni- form grace in a steep ascent, each machine with its crew of pilot and air gunner. A new officer is taken up in an Avro for early lessons In flying.

I go to the camera obscura a hut of two rooms. One is equipped with wireless; the other darkened, with camera lens fixed in the roof, focusing upwards, and em- gracing a wide range. On a' cross- lined chart, spread wide over a table, I seo the outline of a maching moving over its squares. It is pick- ed up on the wireless; a pencilled line is marked, tracting the path of the aircraft, and instruments calculato where the bomb would have dropped.

BACK TO WORK ̧

At the signaller's hut I listen to a conversation in code by wireless to a plane high and far away from aight. As the two-hours practice draws to its close three machines.

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