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NOTES OF THE DAY

CASE FOR AIRSHIPS,

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of

SALVAGE TRUCK

A BIR

MARCH 26, 1935.

BROUGHT ORDER TO

CHAOTIC INDIA

By R. J. MINNEY

these fax times to think of when Bombay got drawn into war

The Very Idea!

THOSE FREE TIPS!

By Horatio ("Horsey") Bogg

Since the disaster to the R-101 more than four years ago, England has turned her back on airship con- struction and any plans therefor. The crash at Beauvais was such a

OME people may be apt in He was most bitterly opposed WE notice recently a shock to official and public opinion

growing inclination on that the idea of building aircraft

the was India as a country with millions of with the Mahrattas and he decided the part of people who pro- tho

R-101 type of abandoned, The R-100, the great natives laughing in the sunshine, to go to herald. Though seriously fess to be in the know o dirigible which crossed the Atlantic happy in a Paradise into which the embarrassed financially at the time,

short time before the R-101 British burat with sword and platol he sent troops from Bengal on foot furnish free tips on the crashed in France, and which to crush the gulleless peasantry through hundreds of miles of un- Races.

explored India. The Indians were paraded her pride across the United under their heel

Next to giving away ac But ten minutes with any blatory impressed and were glad to make States and Canada, was ordered broken up. Great Britain felt that book will show you that for 4,000 peace. They realised that no mat-tual money, this is about the auch experiments as these, 'in which | years, with scarcely any breathing ter what they did to the British, most generous thing we have

naver Conquer our ever heard of: ! the beat brains were sacrificed and space, the unhappy peoples of India they could millions in money apparently wast- were pounced upon, slaughtered, spirit,

Wellesley comes next. He was

As one whose circunstances ed, were not worth attempting, and ravaged by every swaggering So the R-100 was broken down and adventurer who cared to come the elder brother of the Duke of necessitate our "looking to the made into nah-trays and the R-101's through the mountain passes of Wellington, who was in India with Races to recoup à declining per twisted, shattered skelcion was Afghanistan Mongola, Paralans, him. During those years Napoleon sonal fortune, we feel extreme- away from Beauvals. Greeks, Huns, Araba until India was ea intent on the conquest of ly grateful, but magnamity, Two tragedies. Emotion, says an iras no longer a country but a patch- India that he actually set out for when it comes to Imparting eminent British authority. Mr. work quilt of racial remnants in the East, but, thanks to Nelson, valuable secrets and transferring Gerald Barry, led to that decision: ethnologleal museum of types as never got farther than the Nile. fortunes to the pockets of others science had nothing to do with the varied as they are mutually anta- Through agents, however, he raised where they may well be trans-

enough trouble In India to keep scrapping of the R-100, and the

Wellesley embroiled in wars,

ferred into one's own, is beyond When the British landed turning of that costly metal frame

To Wellesley the Indians in the jour savvy. into ash-trays. There was ample tradera, they met with 'opposition

But perhaps the gentlemen in evidence to show that the blame not from Indians but from other territories beyond our frontiers

appeuled for deliverance. They question are so embarrasso des for the R-101 disaster was largely European traders,

It became obvious that out of the beheld the benefits of British rule richca

they feel they political. The light to India had

them with others. been rushed, vital tests were curchaos of warring claimants for and wanted to be freed from the tailed and the craft was sent off Indian thrones, of dissolute prince-shameful misgovernment, the chaos, If so, their action is readily under- into weather for which she was Haga covetous and false to their and indescribable evil of the native stood, as being prompted by a kind- ly, neighbourly feeling, which is not fitted. It is worthy of note promises, of brigands roving the tyrants,

He found himself at the start embodied in the saying, "Live, and, that, following the loss of the countryside unchecked, some sort of American dirigibles, the Akron, the order had to be evolved.

confronted by three formidable et uthers five." enemies, likely at any moment to These tipstors must be among Los Angeles, the Shenandoah, and the Macon, and all the apparently The men who made India were combine against him. He decided the first people to depart from wasted lives and dollars that went men of initiative, and daring, not quickly and acted. Despite the tradition whose restraining effect in those disasters, the Administra afraid to decide and to get. Of dangers, he set out against the has also been summarised In the tion has announced: "These misthem all, Clive's name must stand Nizam of the Deccan, who had a saying that charity begins at haps will not affect the United

higheat.

vast army under French command.home. respect to States policy with

He was no more than a shabby, By a clever stroke of diplomacy Charity | ramping abroad, 11- dirigibles." Certainly not. If

poorly paid clerk when the French and an impressive military demon-cheeked, as is being threatened by A reception will be held at Villa Germany has been able to build a conquered Madras and made thestration, to the astonishment of the complete untying of the purse- Magnolia, Snakoon Road, Pokfu-vessel of this type which month entire population their prisoners. all, he had the Nizam's entire army strings of these folk, should make lam, at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday after month can cross the stormy Clive, by blackening his face and

and daarmed and disbanded. 30th March, 1915, on the occasion Atlantic Ocean, maintaining a re- donning the disguise of an Indian. bold move saved the Hituation.millionaires of us alk

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This

Instantly

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must share

In which event, it is to be feared son of Dr. and Mrs. Coxion To of gular schedule to South America, fled to the nearest English settle Wellington

Britain, Hongkong, und lermine Leo- Great

and The other ment and offered to lead a rabble against Tipoo Sultan and disposed that the money market will be com. pletely upset, and that more money poldine, elder daughter of Mr. powers, can do it also. But Ger- band of soldiery, a mere handful of him in two months. and Mrs. Francis X. Long of Linzmany has been experimenting with to the capture of Arcot, capital

inay go into safe-keeping than the

friends will be welconie.

The

Hongkong Eelegraph.

and ter trained

larger expert personnel These things make difference. They may make just the difference between falture and disaster, and the splendid success which the Graf Zeppelin has achieved. Surely we are too near to success to scrap the idea dirigibles entirely.

THE MONGOLS OF

MANCHURIA

of

•

•

a/d Tlona, Austria. No invita- this sort of building longer than stronghold of Southern India, no Another Hastings-the Marquess new Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Liuns will be issued but all any other country. She has a bet-less! He marched his little army of Ilastings-dealt with the third vault can possibly hold, big as it

18. nl night through a binding rain-of Wellesley's enemies-the Mah-

Fortunately we are spared this storm. The Indians, accustomed rattas, lawless hordes of armed to calling a truce when it rained, horsemen, numbering many hun-calamity by the simple mathe left the fort and fled in alarm, dred thousand, who had for een-matical truism that everybody can. These were not men, but devils, who turies spread terror through India.not possibly win, and that for the were coming against them.

It was a fierce struggle. Again many who do, others will have to and again our soldiers were hem-carry the baby. TUESDAY, MAR 26, 1935,

At Plassey, to cross the river med inat Kirkee. Silabaldi, Kore- For which reason we forvently meant almost certain annihilation.guon--but the Mahratta menace pray that not all the free tips will NOT CONSISTENT

With the British army destroyed was finally stamped out and Brit-prove true to prediction. We af- this even at the risk of the entire white population would sin became the paramount power firm Mr. Mackie and Mr. Cassidy,

be at the mercy of the Indians, nt in India. Every native State was damaging the reputation of these in their speeches at the Cham-

whose, head was the evil Suraj-ud-compelled thereafter to forget its prophets. ber of Commerce meeting yes-

Imagine the consequences for in terday, would appear to have Mongols of blanchuria. In these the ghostly death by suffocation of side in harmony.

We have read this book, "The Dowiah, who had but lately caused hereditary feuds and live side by

if we make a fortune on these free laid themselves open to a charge days it is a pleasure indeed to find 123 British people in the Black

And so we come to Dalhousie.tips. We shall have to buy that of inconsistency when dealing a book written upon so obscure, in- Hale of Calcuita.

yourigent (he was only 35), and in farm we have been long planning. with Imperial Preference and volved and important a subject as

With the lives of his own wife many ways most important of all. Next the job of running it. Then with America's silver policy. the Mongols written with authority, and child at stake, Clive did, not He governed India from a sick bed. the various problems that will in

evitably face a farmer. What if The burden of their speeches, in Very few Europeans know Chinese: hesitate to cross the river and defy but he governed Indin well.

The scoundrelly Governor of the cows don't come home? What relation to the silver question, do any knew Mongol? Mr. Owen the Indian hordes-60,000 infantry.

Konna rain no mo't was that the United States had Lattimore, who spent his childhood 20,000 cavalry and heavy artillery Multan, who had defaulted in his if it ain't been actuated by a policy of self-in China, knows both fluently; and with at his command a mere 800; accounts, caused two British oil- What if the chickens should take is recognised as the outstanding plus a handful of half-castes and cers to be hacked to death, and it into their darned heads to lay interest; they were apparently authority upon the Mongol question natives, amounting all in all to liberally, rewarded the murderers. off, when they should continue to forgetful of the point that, when in all its complexity, of which mostno more than 3,000. He dared Dalhousie_dki_not_wait_for_com- product those unhatched eggs on... closely analysed, Imperial Pre-Europeans hardly know even the und won.

mittees of inquiry to advise and which we are counting our other ference (the full benefits of existence. This book must be read

Warren Hastings seven issue their reports in massive blue chickens?

He which they are anxious that by all who wish to have any know years Clive's junior and served in books. He acted at once.

These are problems which we Hongkong should enjoy)

we can do, so. is ledge of the problems of the Far India under him. He had to con- said: "The Sikh nation has called wish to avoid if foun.led on a like consideration. East, and, above all, of the real solidate the three provinces Clive for war, and on my word, sirs, they The best thing we can now. do, For that mutter, Britain's adop-author

significance of Manchukuo. The had acquired, and found the exist. shall have it with a vengeance." speaking for ourself alone, is to They did. But Sikh loyalty has shut our eyes to those tempting analyses

government tion of tariffs may be said to the motives of Chinese policy appallingly corrupt. Indians in been such that ever since they have free tips. rest on the same basis. The through the past. He points out high places filled their own pockets remained the truest of all in India, plain fact, of course, is that we that the period familiar to us, with the revenues. Bed and in-and, with the Gurkhus, the finest

NEW DEAL are living in an age when econo-when her maritime frontier has trigued. Warren Hastings did not fighters in our Army.

They enme to our aid during the The laica of Contract Bridge are mic nationalism is rampant; been the most important owing to shrink from acting against the and economic nationalism, with the impact of Europeans, is a pass- most exalted. Members of his own Mutiny, which was stirred up chief-shortly to be revised]

"Your deal, Ramsay," enia ing, modern phase, and that the Counell, from motives of jealousy, ly by Nana Sahib, a descendant of out question, has its roots in wing has already kone back to the thwarted and badgered him and the dispossessed Mahrattan. In Stanley, with a sideways grimace self-interest. The economic,

Great Wall, her pivot through the championed the corrupt. But de- that grave moment in sur history, at the score-sheet. monetary and financial policies

apite all these humillations Hast- we still had men capable of meet- of Governments to-day are not

Ings went resolutely on. The peoing a situation of appalling danger. "Didn't you hear me ask for a new primarily designed for the com-THERE WILL BE WARS

ples. of India were protected, given Sir Henry Lawrence was

there, one 7" (Continued on next column) peace and security. mon good of humanity. Each nation puts its own interests Those spreading plaina and first; that is perhaps, only deserts through which it runs are natural. It may. where its destined again to be the theatre of conflicta, this time primary objects are not likely tremedous

between three umpires, for HOW to be stultified by such action, Japan has become a continental modify its policies' in the event power: The

Mongols ure

centuries,

with

skilling

ณ

of hardship to others being vigorous, fighting nation, with a established; but in the final secular hatred of the Chinese. reault its own well-being will be closely connected with Manchu his. the predominant consideration. tory. A Manchu Emperor is to The United States. silver policy them tradition, a familiar thing is admittedly an artificial in- they can understand. There is

terference with the free flow of compact-mass of 2.000,ann of them

commodities, but that is equally Manchukuo, a sort of buffer state in province of Haingan In true of quotas, tariffs and all within a buffer state. The princes such measures, whether they be of the Mongols to-day are descend enforced by America, Britain nnis of Chinggis Khan, to adopt or any other country. The Ideal the author's spelling, and it is in condition, of course, would be their tradition to lend. In complete freedom from restric- the past, circumstances have divided tions of all kind, permitting each the Mongols, but there are grounds country to develop along lines in bolivia that they are nequir best suited to its resources and 8,000,000, with a cavalry tradition, political capacity. Anition of skill. But that ideal is still far if only they could combine, 'might from being realised. It is true well exorcise a decisive influence in that · America's silver policy, eastern affairs, in which the corona. which has caused the price oftion of the Emperor of Manchukuo the metal to rise out of all pro- opens a new chapter. portion to the rise in commodity.

for

prices generally, has increased it is wise to preserve a sense of the dificulties of China's ex-values and to be on the guard port trade, but that is incidental, against hasty gehoralisations and not. of specific design. which may lead to an illogical Foreign, restrictions on imports outlook. To suggest, even by from China, by way of tariffs implication, that the American or, otherwise, have precisely the silver policy is the outcome of same effect. But we imagine muddle-headed theories put for neither Mr. Mackie nor Mr. ward by amateur theorists, is Cassidy would seriously sug-surdly somewhat presumptuous, gest that, by reason of It may be based on self-interest. this fact, Britain should just as the policies of most Admit Chinese. goods duty Governments are nowadays.

· free... - In all these matters, But that is quite another matter.

machinery

of

Was

"It was a nice party, but I can eat a whole trayful of those little sandwiches and still be hungry,"

*

“I think noi," said David.

"A new one, David? But why?" David chuckled. "Law 10," he said. "Playing with an imperfect pack. And that”--his' well-known smile broadened-"that is putting it kindly."

Itamsay scowled. "What's the mintter with the pack?"

"I tell you," answered David. "Too few Aces, for one thing. Cards inclined to stick together. What for, I wonder? Some of the pack just consists of suits with. voids in them. And then, Ramany, I don't like those cuts of yours. Something seriously wrong withr them."

-

"They've been followed;" put in Uncle George, "by a most extra- ordinary shuffle.

"That's it," anid David, "Firat the cut-then the shuffle. So I say, let's have a new deal."

"Too bad," said Ramsay hotly, "just na'we'd taken a trick."

David grinned. "Taken a trick, have you? Then now's your pp- portunity. Turn, old fellow; turn and quit."

Ramsay glowered at him.

with his coolness, courage, and determination, to save Indio.

But with the Invention of the telegraph there began the era of. Whitehall, meddlesomeness.

Tho men on the spot were shorn of their initiative and became the vic-.. Lims of busybodies far different in "Lemper und "outlook from the great figures who built up the glorious British record in India,

Happily, down to our own times, there have been such names as Curzon and Dyer, to be placed worthily beside those of the men. who have made India;