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SHOWING

TO-DAY

New

* KING'S ★

Lassie

hit!

She helped sava Lassio's life... not enco, but twice!

Fimed. In magic

TECHNICOLOR

la rugged wonderfands!

AN

M-G-M

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1947.

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

NOTHING LIKE IT

BEFOREL

Lassle has

thrilled you bo- foro, but horo's

her greatost drama yot!

Ho taught Lassio to fight... then saw-her-branded a kilior.

COURAGE OF Lassie

ELIZABETH FRANK

TAYLOR MORGAN DRAKE

TO-DAY

ONLY

ALSO LATEST METRO-NEWS

QUEEN'S

Q

at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

INDIA

James Cameron

in another brilliant

despatch, gives you the picture

as 'the kings depart'

•

·

BHOPAL.

"THERE'cannot be anything more troubling for a de- mocrat than to watch the arrival of democracy with despair.

In India, where they shake their heads to mean yes and have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow, it is na- turally becoming true that the only free men are in jail,

Here is the end of the Festival of Devali, the Nights of the Lamps. Rows of little lights flickered along the streets and alleys, outside every Hindu home a wick burned in a bowl of sweet oil to Lakshmi, the Goddess of Prosperity.

As long as the Devili lights, burn no deal can fail, no gamble can misa, no enterprise can lose. Now it is over; all over the States you can watch the lights go out one, by

onc.

For those who like their symbolism straight, that is Indin today.

Here is the heart of the an- cient Royal India, the.

great Rajputana and Central India bloc of princely States where Britain never ruled.

Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur. Bundi, Alwar, Gwalior, Bhopal, Dewas, Indore cach one entity, independent and self- contained, governed by per- sonages who, nine times out of ten, were only a precious stone's throw from being gods.

● FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY O Here was a "pride of princes,"

NOW

IN FULL

TECHNICOLOR!

**THE ROYAL WEDDING “* HALF AN HOUR OF MAGNIFICENT SPLENDOURI

---- SHOWING WITH

"GREEN FOR DANGER"

• OPENING TO-MORROW

FROM THE MOMENT THEY MET IT WAS MAGIC!

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mug Kasdal meri rug Zette,

THE

GREAT

WALTZ

M-G-M

LASTEXPROCE

COMMENCING TO-MORROW: "TARZAN & THE HUNTRESS"

Hong Kong

STAGE CLUB

presents

EVERYMAN

the

MEDIAEVAL MORALITY PLAY

St. John's Cathedral

by kind permission of

the Dean

TO-NIGHT

at

8.30

Collection in Ald of the Cathedral Organ Fund.

and this is the end of it.

Every one of the rulers who signed the instrument of acces- sion to the Dominion of India feared, and now knows, that his number is up; his only hope some sort of political future or a country house in Sussex.

Fighting Goes On

lk

SOMEONE HASN'T GOT THE RIGHT IDEA

/SPORTS

up the field with will these wreckers

The warmongers are nowa

The criminal plan of feeding advancing

wilfully prevent Total breakdown? Europe.

Must Germany ba Torn by unity? No never! The Soviet centre-forward seizes the ball and heroically sils on it! Hurrah! A Soviet win by six wickets!

THE DEMI-GODS ARE TOPPLING

-BUT HOW the paradox must be faced that free votes, removal of privilege, establishment everything of representative government

been made, and among

limping, knife-ribbed cattle and scavenging dogs.

*

Already India is turning on the

By LOW

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

EN

Tiernas hay una` jarrura,

Ole! Welcome to Holborn's Civic Week, Spanish dancers and all. If the gipsies are to

heat. Not a drop of petrol has leap into their fiery Jalco de Jerca been allowed into Hyderabad for a in High Holborn, who can fore- week. Goods are held up. For on

Indian to buy a ticket to 11yderabad tell what will happen in Low, means permit. The Nizam in Holborn? reply will not allow any Hyderabadi

to take train to India..

Man of resource

all day with the

one

And in the jola of Aragon, or the......... zapateado or tine sequidilts, danced in Southampton-row, likely, to "promote the interests of real

I SPENT

Indian, ruler who, more than dents. In civic affairs"?

one values will throw these States Into a dervish dance of politics and blood

massed commanity living across the main highway, to where no provision for life has show

the but this, take note, is Jaipur... any other, can be calic statesman-

that India may be big, I have been a while in this like. The Nawab of Bhopal, a man IN Kashmir the fighting goes

of initiative and resource, probably curious 17th-century atmo-

In his day the world's greatest polo on, 13 it may go on for.

among the States.

player, sat in his modern office Here and there by the road- sphere months. In Junagadh, on the

A crowd vultures The desperate chatter of New smoking a tall silver hugn

of west coast, Indian troops have side

and tugged at the Delhi seems, if possible, fur forecast his own dissolution marched into what is technical- scrambled

away than

England, ly part of Pakistan. They have carcase of a bullock or the rem- ther

There were though goodness knows that is taken over from the ruler of nants of a man. Nilgiri.

some 30,000 in this column, une remotè enough. of the last. far from Not

here.

I have argued airplanes with one all around the borders of the

They had been weeks on the ruler, taken 12 rupees off his High- ness of Jalpur at roulette, scared grent, obstinate Residency of move and would be weeks more the life out of the Maharajah of Hyderabad, patrols are on the creaking on at the plodding, un- Bundia crocodiles as they lay like Stafford Cripps his proposal for a during the Civic Week, since I know

runners,

the

column

A fnt lot anybody will dare for civic affairs when Bloomsbury Indies lenn from their windows with roses and in their hair and daggers between with their gleaming teeth. The cashnets,

the taconeos in the Calla do Farring Ie was, unti Its break-up, don! Åbi de må Gamages! chancellor of India's monarchical trude union,' the Chamber Princes.

charm and insight.

of Plaza de Russell

AM surprised that I have not been

inst I asked to take a hand with the ar

I remember him at Simla year, earnestly organising his un- organisable group, urging on

Sir rangements вот Russell-square

move watching for gun hastening pace of a labouring nimble timber on the shoals of the third partition of India-Rajahstan,

la to balance those embittered that country so well, owing to the Hural River it is not hard here to brothers, India and Pakistan.

part I played in the Brunswick. run up a few such gossip reminiscences-and I have just rid- He failed. This year, though he square Band Festival. on den

to the is u Moslem ruler, be acceded to

For instance, it was my idee to more Blessed Palace of Amber, which is India. Now it is a matter of very

Ile time before the heaven forgotten.

Government get people interested in. a project of Indla filters away hig power, for, a public baths and laundry com→

while

Nizam's ox-wagon. Many of them had Ministera go ruefully to Delhi died, many lay dead there be in final efforts to "arrange" the side their listicas relatives Indians out of claiming their the ground, hundreds

were to die. State.

They will have to reckon with one of the world's Just silenceTM toughest political propositions.

a reflective elephant

and

Mediator

BT the Nawab of Bhopal is not

:

For almost a weckt. I was an hour. Now he, too, he not a drop of bined, by hiring a choir of porters and a half out by my watch and an petrol coming in."

from Euston to sing "Asleep in the by the calendar entire day no never knew.

Deep," accompanied by the masked With a dreary blow- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, BUT there was no noise,

brass bands of Cleethorpes, Beakes-o'- States Minister, that ironclad complaint, no tumult, just back of malaria and a lot of travell- cumo down to party boss (remember the com- silence and the blank, incurious ing the world

likely to end his days in a villa Helena and the Great Ancoats-street soon it stare that makes a man in a very elementary things, like the

the Barn, Salford, Edgbaston, St.

of cold water and absence plicated name; very

the Riviera or a house in Bath. When Junfor Euphorbians.

the India-Pakistan crisis lurches may lead 300,000,000 people), car, with clothes, food, and a

power of the sun.

towards a anal showdown only one Lost endeavour this is the Danton of

New destination, feel uneasily like a

for the man qualifies Life was pretty smooth

as a mediator, Order, inexorably determined Nero: It was a grim and em-

right people in the princely lands. Nawab. This he will undertake, bittering experience.

will of Britain and with the good wi to end rule from the throne.

It is good-bye to all that now.

the Commonwealth. If necessary Already his economie suuc-

he would abdicate. tions against the States have pushed up their cost of living As one regretful prince said in Delhi, it is poor fun being charged your fare for a ride in a tumbril.

Let us not be too sand for the princes. There are others worse off.

Refugee column

Eventually the column thin- · ́ ned out and was left behind. I drove south, into the odd, nervous peace

L

of. Rajputaŋn.

Dilemma

to

has to

be

of

the

Nor will the Nawab deny that, when Mr Jinnah goes, he himself

is

successor.

(From the Eguptain of Ros-Vut}

met a man one day A-walking with his cat,

Ho had come from a grocer's shop, This To catch the wind in his hat. the likellest man may yet be of as great signi- le cornered the wind one day, fennce to the Empire as he now is But his hat had a hole in the top, to Bhopal,

And the wind cacaped through the

hole.

Always India

样

THE story of the Indian revolution Not for 200 miles did I see 11 did not end with the transfer Boldier, a policeman, an ambush, of power; it is just beginning. or even another car.

The dilemma of chronicling this conscience. period is hard on the Once or twice some strange The rule of princely bosses has

And he went back to the shop. a neighbouring State I WOR IN thing leaped and capered blindly end, history, has left this system of

given a cupful of precious petrol Forward And Onward! in the headlights- hyena, a inconsistent autocracies far behind.

to get

to the station, threading past But at least these antique Jen- the solemn sacred jackal, a cheetah, or some cat-

cows and the THICK and fast as cel-spawn in like Bhadow with staring claves are islands of peace, and if i iridescent peacocks. The young mid-February come the audacious

with me A.D.C. Once a great only the few can thrive in them at An

wag smert and rallying-crics from the Suet Com- NOT many miles out of Delhi, emerald eyes.

modern, art old boy of Mayo mittes. The intest is: "You Must on the road south they first porcupine clattered across the least the many can survive.

College and captain. But if he The painful fact

Do Something About It." Who will had run over either of these holy appeared a group on the high- road under the wheels.

faced that the consummation

permitted to ent with his family giving a lead? Get Your Teeth Into a multitude, an enormous tatter between State and State, little and the removal of privilege, and port

Tho Ploughi Coal Before Caviare! government will for many years. demalion band preparing to Customs posts with swinging representative

Politics are politics, but Hindu- Keep Moving! camp for the night.

gates and admonitions in the throw the States into the dervish

At the station the clerk sald: Our representatives.,.. These were Moaloms going Urdu and Devangari scripts, dance of racial politics and may ism goes on for ever. north-as not far away there

was like tearing across mean much letting of blood. Hindus going south-

moment, for the great State of Hyderabad, as how can when there is nothing A SUGGESTION has been made

that, while stumbling up to Pakistan for Europe at 500 miles an hour.

on holiday, small no other reason than their And at last a barrier like a big as England and Wales, is pre- but

is due to leave, so hasten. politicians should be thrown back scene from Grimm, the entrance pared for just that. Its administra- train For four miles and more I to Jaipur-a pair of monstrous on, at the caprice of an antedilu But, alas! It is three hours lato, so into the sea. I would rather seo

vian master, is indefensible in logic. you must wait." drove through. this dreadful bronze gates Soft high and solid But with its removal 10,000,000 As it was, is now, and shall be them all ploughed back into the. company, through the smell of as a mountain, closed smack people will be on the edge of war. India will always be India,

way that became a crowd, then We began to pass road blocks everything one values-free votes, creatures he would not have been say now that the Government isn't

were

faith.

It

NANCY Disillusioning Nancy

I WISH YOU WERE MORE DIGNIFIED--- YOU'RE SUCH A

LOWBROW

At this

YOU'LL NEVER GROW UP TO BE

SUCH

REFINED LIKE

THAT MAN

DIGNITY

AND POISE

"Will you take first or third class?"

example, When I sald

first said:

Second" He

By Ernie Bushinlller

ERNIE

BUSHMILLER

"But

added: "The

ground,

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