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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1947.

Islam's dream

turns to a nightmare

AFGHANISTAN

'SIND

KASHMIR

shawnr Öğjawalpindi

Laligro

UN

RAJPUTANA

Milne

All over the province there have been processions, which are illegal, arrests, threats, slogans, la knifing or two. In Peshawar,

THIS HISTORIC EDGE OF EMPIRE legendary border city ́ where

A

PESHAWAR.

T the end of the narrow, gaudy, confused, odorous thoroughfare called the Street of the Storytellers, they rushed up the barbed wire barriers

the gather all the goods and gossip of both East and West, more than a brigade of troops · are watching the tortuous ways, Two squadrons of Sherman tanks arc crawling heavily. around. There are Bren-gun There are guns silently cover- posts on unexpected roof-tops. ing the length of the Lane of

Not in the bazaars or the the Coppersmiths; along the back streets, or anywhere with Place of the Workers in Gold, a in the boundaries of the crazed, compact watchful military teeming city, is a Hindu or a Their shutters patrol is tramping, rifles at the Sikh to be seen. trail.

are up, their doors are locked, their business is dend.

by JAMES

SALIAN CHUKIAMAT INDIRETYÖ

CAMERON

TRAMINEENAAMAANTUMISIONĖS

And, since it is utterly and com- pletely impossible to find a dividing line between religion and politics, the thing has been given immediate

urgency

by

Atlice's statement;

"Britain out of India by June 1940." Both In the Punjab and the the Moslem North-West Frontier that Bellain might hand over con- League took his suggestion to mean trol to the provinces and not to ine Central Indian Government.

Claims

Half a dozen sheeted men

commanda popular support In The police, the frontier con- THE League is claiming that it rush by with something swing-

stabulary, the troops-Indian both provinces and wants to capture ing on a ltter; he was shot troops; a battalion of the King's the Ministries and be there to accept few days ago but they had not Own Scottish Borderers-have power when Britain quits. been able to get out to bury him had precious little sleep these until this evening.

last few days.

They are in a hurry, and no wonder. Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier

LAST FOUR SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.10 & 9.15 P.M. Province, is at this moment the

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tensest and most disorganised guarded town in India..

The dangerous fires of politi. cal turmoil, which sprang up over the Punjab and died down, blazed again, and are now begin- ning to flicker along this explo. sive corner, the fabulous rim of India which guards the Khyber Pass, the gateway to Plains

the

They have often been called into direct action. That is a job the soldier hates: the task of firing at command into a technically unarm- ed mob.

one

off.

The State of Kashmir is cut from the rest of the world; no driver will risk its one road to Pindi

Here in the north-west the caciul

question is less complicated, with a 02 percent Mussulman majority. But here, too, a, political demonstration turns, in a moment, to a kind of cohesive anarchy that is crazy mur-

der to the man with the wrong god.

Sardar Abdur Rab Nightër, Mos-

POCKET CARTOON

"It's all right, wir, tha

mimar's broken."

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

ISTINGUISHED scientists, Dinote,

aro expressing

lem League leader and a member doubts as to whether a rocket of the Interim Government, up from constructed on the principles Delhi to examine the situation, told outlined here would be capable' me that he thought he could hold of reaching the moon.

the League members back from a

racial battle and concentrate on the main job of unseating Khan Sahib's doubts. He said: "Never before

Ministry,

2

"Of course," he said, "I cannot be ders, been applied on such

L

Strabismus himself answers their

103 the method ot hydraulic pressure, used in compressed cylin- scale to Jet-propulsion. By this means the weight of the nozzle is taken off by the curve of the fin-protectors under the lending-edge of each percussion- piston."

Otherwise in all four provinces comprising the North-West section of Jinnah's Pakistan-Sind, Punjab, sure," North-West Frontier and Baluchis-

Fifteen minutes carller Khan tan-the League holds only Ministry and would like three, Sahib had been saying: "Certainly It is not the British who are main- This province is controlled by a

here. Give me

When shown this on expert sald: Congress Ministry, dominated by taining order

Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the week's notice and I could do with- "Science does not even recognise the At the back of everyone's mind Khon

strange derms used, apparently for the moment, moreover, is con- frontier Gandhi," and led by his out British troops..

Premier,

haphazard, by this extraordinary DI Khan cern for what may eventually hop-brother, the

man. Strabismus is either a genius me today. 2,300,000 Sahil. The doctor told than pon among more

far ahead of his age or else a deluded wholly wild and unpredictable "I've not the remotest intention of

visionary.. It is utterly impossible to resigning. I have the people's com- tribesmen in the "unsettled oreos."

plete confidence.

MEA

EANWHILE the entire adminis-understand his pronouncements." The tribal chieftains could

put

tion of this province, this moun- From the look of the Legislative tainous broakwater between

Excitement at India 500,000 rifles into the field any day they wanted.

Assembly; guarded on all sides by and the West, this historic edge of

Three things motivate their lives, would govern any action they took: determination to preserve plunder. their independence, and reilglon,

They have no reason to love or Trust Mr Jinnah, but Mr Jinnah's

silent, armed man, the Premier is

Standstill

Waggling Parva

taking no chances with his hench Wally a stain Empire, is prac MEANWHILE, a rumored within

men.

Ruins

hy of "Islam is in danger" makes THE great fertile province of the the tribesman's finger twitch on his Punjab, still smoking and stink- ing with ghastly ashes and pestilen- tial 'mementoes of what political ar-

trigger.

tically at standstill.

The court has suspended the cur- few and rigidly imposed a censor- messages to Outer Sind. ship tele The telephone is banned..

Quietly through the din and dusty streets moves a posse of weary-eyed Sepoys Up on the rampart squats ́a little frieze of soldiers behind a

machine gun.

Crisis

The present uneasiness વ not gument in India can become when HERE, as in the turbulent

wholly due to Moslem

League it turns into communal warfare, I Punjab to the immediate provincial agitation. The trouble have left behind. south, the Moslem League is as lapped aver from the Punjab.

Just as live months ago It hopped Amritsar alone, the Holy City of bringing a crisis. to its cam- across the continent from Bihar. the Sikhs, the Town of the Golden

For milles and miles, If one could streets Temple. now with its great paign to

provincial

see the spread-out of the land are Then, ns now, people were relur tumbling in ruins, las 150 bodies Ministry, and bring the North- ing with frightful relics in their already ashes on the burning ghats, little wiips of smoke mid faint, un-

shawls-scorched skulls West Frontier in line for Pakis-shin-bones, torn pages from the holy the bricks. Rawalpindi is crowded senseless

shriveled and as many more buried beneath heard mourning wails, from a poor, prople. destroying ghee tan, the Mohammedans dream. Koran, exposing them with erics to the doors with 10,000 frantier re- another at the will of craftier and

further-secing minds than theirs, of an independent nation.

fugees.

F

unseat a

for vengeance.

THIS YEAR'S SHAKESPEARE

FESTIVAL.

By R. G. Weetlock

.

nt

INAL plans for the 1947 Lavour's Lost" in the 1940 festival, A large number of ambassadors Shakespeare Festival at the hns taken one of the play's most and ministers are expected to attend Memorial Theatre at Stratford- telling lines us his theme throughout the ceremony which will be followed the production: "for now these hote by a procession to Shakespeare's on-Avon were recently an- days is the mad blood stirring." birthplace and to his tomb in the

parisit church. Afterwards nounced by Mr Barry Jackson,

He wants the dry, dusty heat of public luncheon the toast to "the im- director of the festival.

Verona to permeate the play; intense mortal memory" will be

proposed hate and violent passion but

no by

the President of the Royal This year's season, which will sentimentality are the themes Brook Academy, Sir Alfred Munnings. last 25 weeks, will be the most has been impressing on his players. adventurous and, it is expected, When he accepted the commission to take charge of production, Brook successful since the festival was consulted the best academic and founded by Barry Sullivan and dramatic authorities he could fnd. This year there will be one guest

Bernard Shaw's advice was of parti- producer from Helen Faucit in 1879.

abroad-Frank cular interest and importance. McMullan of the USA, who will be

He The

50 compony, numbering

told the producer to concentrate on responsible for the production of led this players and

yehr youthful lovers and virlie fighters," "Measure for

Measure." Other Beatrix Lelitonn and Robert Hor- ris, is the biggest ever to play in the As a result Brook searched Britain Shakespeare plays will be "Love's

Lost, for two young people who could look Labours Stratford Festival. In all the nine and act the parts of the "star-crossed "King Richard II," "Merchant

"The Tempest,' plays that will be presented. eight lovers."

Venice," and the seldom seen "Pericles, Prince of Tyre." This Twenty-six-year-old Laurence play was last performed at Stratford The festival opened on Easter Payne and 18-year-old Daphne nearly 50 years ago. Saturday, April 5, with a perform- Slater, both of whom have yet to Another outstanding feature of ance of Romeo and Juliet" with make their names on the English this year's festival is 1 series of Laurence Payne as Romeo, Daphno stage, were chosen from hundreds public lectures that have been or- Slater ns Jullet and Beatrix Leh- who were tested for the parts. ganised jointly by the Governors of mann as nurse.

the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and the British Council. These lec- tures will be commentaries on the week plays to be seen during the and оп the special aspects Considerable interest has been

the chosen by Shakespeare study shown in the new production, parti-

speakers. who include Professor cularly in view of Barry Jackson's

Dover Wilson, Ivor Brown, James daring experiment of entrusting t The celebrations will start at mid- Bridie and other well-known au- to Peter Brook, who is only 21 years day with a "ceremony of the flags." thorities. old.

are by Shu boost the ninth being

Marlowe's

Faustas."

The "Birthday Play" on April 23, which is also the day, of England's Patron Saint, St George, will "Twelth Night,"

De

of

of

Al noon a trumpet will be sounded; An International conference of The young producer, who has at once the Angs of some 40, nations, Shakespearean scholars has also already made a name for himself will be unfurled by their represen- been organlaed for the week August With his production "of "Love's tatives.

17-24.

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of it this year. (4)

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rocket be launched the next six days is bringing thou- sands of people to the district. A shilling is being charged for a visit to the rocket, and the money goes to a fund to supply i bailot-boxes and educa- tional literature for the inhabitants of the inoon, if any. An attempt to find out what, exnelly, will be the functions of Mimsie Slopcomer, re- presentative of the Society for Cul- tural Relations with the Bloon, has failed dismalls. Miimsie confired her. Half 10 the statement that alle did so think that the people in the moon needed to know what was happening in our world, and, added sha with a grin, "Vice varsa, of course.", A First in Laundry.

LADY, in a speech, has suggested A "the establishment of a Univisi- ty Chair for the Laundry Industry," Socks et praeteren nihil. And surely the first Professor of Modern English Laundry at Oxford should be a lady. The subject would, obviously, require demonstration. A lecture on theory of drying collars would havo- to be followed by illustrations of the various methods in use. For this a Laundry Laboratory would be es sential.

More women than men would

the

be anxious to read for Honours, in Laundry, and a

would degree probably entitle the holder to expect n high position in the Button-Wrench- Ing Department, and perhaps a Fel- lowship at Pimson and Fidbury's.

Rupert & the New Pat--25

Rupert and Bill think itd. 10 some new idea, and suddenly the little bear looks up and holds his breath. "I've got it he cries, "I know just what we want I Here. take this packet and I'll run and see... warther it's possible." And, thrust ing the sandwiches into the hands. of his friend, he dashes away, leave ing Bill staring at him in bewilder- Running top speed, Rupert makes for the smithy and ster to his joy that the blacksmithy is not working, but is sitting and smoking his pipe.

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