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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1948.

T

James

CALCUTTA.

Cameron

E little Bengali doctor drove in the needle ...

cabling from Calcutta on and another 2,000 million vibrio cholerae his journey home, gives

began their tedious mafeh round the blond.

stream, to join their colleagues of typhoid, typhus, you his latest impressions

para-typhold, tetanus, smallpox, and yellow fever

already on duty staving off the more dreadful of the strife-torn Dominions

inconveniences of tropi-

cal travel.

"The serum is Our own," said the doctor. "Indian made, one of our good things. Our railways may be indif ferent, our locks ineffi cient, our policemen may be less than wonderful, but this you must hand to the New India-our cholera is the best in the world."

I see here

that dread

rehearsal again

Fortified, one could walk almost confidently into Chowringhee. best known of all streets in the East to a hundred thousand wartime soldiers from Aber deen to Arkansas. As always. if swarmed.. Shrill and aban doned shoeshine boys, beggars clamorously displaying their monstrous disfigurements, ven- dors of U.S. Army surplus socks, in toys, old magazines a little heroin if you felt the need.

Stink, confusion, garbage, crowd. Humanity does not in Ardit Calcutta. it infests it. You can still get a meal in Firpo's, you can still buy bai whisky in the world's secoal- worst hotel, you can still collect anything from a Gurkha kukri to a dose of plague along those

noisome pavements. The second city of the Empire is still, bar none, the must absorbing and squalid place on earth.

The impasse IN Calcutta, Hindus and Mus

lems mingle and wrangle in pence and profit, while their riyal propagandists and papers spit venom and raucour. Every oue stands to gain by pence, everyone thinks in terms of future strife. Their rations may be small, their clothes may be thin, but their anomalies are the biggest in the world.

Right now you have trouble in Palestine, in Greece, a mad situation developing between America and Russia. All these things have a precedent.

But this is the first time in the long and intricate career of the British Empire when you have two Dominions drifting) erratically and without purpose to it lanatic condition, when Fascism or war, or both, will he the simplest way out of an intolerable impasse.

L

Those slogansTM

Onc thing

15

in

Germany sent to help Franco, per- mitted to march to prevent an India coup in Kashmir. Pakistan could use the tribesmen us

begels another; a sword-arm Inulin would sond the Sikhs, most, loathed of all people by the Kashmir Moslems. And battle may go on for months,

Meanwhile,

does it all menn whit to Basic India--the real, deep, un- reachable. inpetterilate. sprawling. uncuring, and Ignorant multitude, ppwards of 400,000,000 beings on both skles of the trundler whose life goes on in spite of and unheeding of the bitter casulstry of New Delhi? The answer is, of course, next to nothing.

:

New mouths pu peasant who is D2 percent, of Indin, has not the time nor wit follow these anties: food and

political ideas, and a sufficiency of incorruptible men to administer la popular policy.

"In not one of those things does Indin measure up. So do not bore me with foolish talle."

"And let us not be too smug about said the man who had been the political agent. "After 150 years of rule we left a country where only one man in 12 can write his name. If India is formented by birth pongs of independence. let us be sad or regretful or even angry, but Cd's sake let us not be triumphant.

'Sudetenland'

NOW over the Punjab-the NOW

"Stop trying to catch mermaids, Grogan! We need food!"

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

FITA BREVIS was entertain- time. An important. Dii

hours

ihe

to pass, and that eludes

ing a few friends to a glass lotuse often takes as long as three of sherry when the Maharajah sometimes as much as two hours*

can

easy Sudetenland belween two of Dhurtipore was amounced discussion and debate. The Minis- Dominions-there has arisen

this in came

of Foulenough, undis- try folk legend of bitterness, this bad

Bubbleblowing and the neighbour polley, which is only Kutised, and wearing a Leander Society for General Purposes breath from the will to war. No- tie. Poor Vita tried to ex- work much more quickly." body knows why nobody goes back

drink, malarta and Book-worm, the to first causes any more. And the plain, but those who had heard Down Whitebait Alley landlord and the moneylender, are the factors of his life.

1. does not sire about the monstrous babucracy of the cities which now makes the most trifling encounter with ofielaidom a thing of interminable and terrifying in- tricacy and delay,

of

He lives and dies and his seed multiplies-even now India's popu- lation is increasing at the rate nearly one percent, per year; some 3,000,000 new mouths to feed from every harvest.

be-

At that rate the problem gets out of the realms of politics and comes a matter of inexorable arithmetic.

Democracy

'can

of

Anid a States

time has gone when Mountbutton the Fould carry of a menacing situa

round. tion with

de theatre. He is Governor-Ger

of India. not

spoken crowded

Bawil,

Pakistan--that is Mr Jinnah's job. Foulenough heard her, and replied:

"He's white," said Mrs.

To be Governor-General of either Daniele Bow

strange n

Presently an elderly gentleman said:

This is a first step in the eclara- tion of control of fish distribution in . that inland merchants will no longer be tied to named coastal wholesalers

(Ministry of Food circular for the

how is strictly a partisan"Yes, I am the only white Maharajah for the supply of white fish but will political appointment and Mount-in Europe. My ancestors were sibino be free to buy white fish from Diy batten's India is the India of New Red Indians," Delhi and Congress, indeed it could hand over his mouth and uttered the

He then banged his coastal wholesaler. scarcely be otherwise.

The confrontation of those two quavering cry of the scalp-hunter. Press.) equation: Mohammed Ali Jinnah and You rawed much for Leander, sir?" SINCE there is no punctuation (zo Governor-Generals 1Я

Lord Mountbatten Inflexible politi- hardly ever stopped," said Foul- save paper this could be pass- cal purpose against the winning way enough, "Did you know Cresswell?" ed off as one of

go-ahead and the cultivated charm, legalistic asked the elderly gentleman. "He noems people admire so much today. fanaticism against adroit diplomacy, tagged for me at Leander," answer- prejudice versus profile.

ed Foulenough. The gentleman re- Meanwhile, I see the lost old man treated, muttering. and the baby on Ambala airfield, the creaking columns of wordless, re- The explanation

those

But it is not as obscure as most

modern poetry, The whole

point to grasp is that Freedom has begun AND how you speak

Before we to come striding back, where we are A democracy?"

(which is what we fugees on the endless roads the

don't know, anyhow) seaside fish Minister from Central India to me. patient vulture like a speck in the SKED why men like C. Suet, merchants with no longer be fed demands

In the Western sense sky. Democracy

A Esq., didn't go into Parliament, to unnamed inland wholesalers for three fundamental

Their

past may be great. their a prominent nonentity said: quisites: [I literate people, some future may be great, too, but their cause they can make regulations for free to buy grey Ash from nny nation-wide" method of propagating present is the saildest thing on earth.the public without having to. waste named inland wholesaler.

-

"De the supply of grey fish but will be

HOW TOMMY

TOMMY ATKINS GOT HIS NAME

THE need for revival for the surprised the one test blue and yellow houses by the canal French hat er cavalry had dawn

Regular and Territorial ing offhand, the Duke had thrust blinking In the morning sun. the them. and the Armies basagam fomused -en-into the path of broken-distant spires of Bois-le Due. off Uke a trait-of-mist: The-day-

shells, and had then looked steadily public attention

Tommy

His regiment, the 33rd, a corps was won, of veterans, stood in reserve. He Atkins. How the typical sol- The great Duke stood without a dier

known movement. and the young

the

came 1.0

vas

think in terms of power. The cen

by The seaside, had pil on clothes.

the

auf to

Sen

•

the

Six

n

a

ISTEN to India Today, the bitterness and contumely and

knew that his officers were waiting Wellesley rote back to where, officer to threats, and there is only one by, that name is explained in Waited. Before those eyes, which see how the boy colonet would on the ground which bis regiment

handle his regiment

under fire. had held, were little groups about analogy that fits. This is like the following interesting article, looked over the rim of the world. His first experience was to be men who had fullen. The men of Europe before the war.

was unrolling a vast panorama of Taken from a history of the all the gallant deeds he had seen superior force, and in the cloud of stretchers. He rode to where the trying one. The French were in the band were already busy with the Even the oratorical platitides Duke of Wellington's Regiment. done in war. He was searching in smoke before him he could see that right of the line had been. are the same: "Just territorial The great Duke of Wellington a memory stored with recollections, the first line of the British were demands." "Intolerable suffer stond on the path which runs round for the man who should bust typify being pressed back. Firing sill There (1)

the ground lay the the donned gallantry of ings of our minorities," "nd-the ramparts of Walmer Custle and

Britain's turning "at

e pride of my point vanture,

the rank and of

file. looked nut fo

rivale soldiers. justment of frontiers." "appeal 100

The day sea.

the

red coats were yet giving way, right hand man of the Grenadier the French light troops flung at Company. Tuonias Atkin to reason or the sword." Both one of splendid, sunshine--it was at commencement of the July of

them to complete the disaster were foot three he stood in his stockinged sides speak in terms of power, 1843-and the old soldier, at home

almost in the British ranks, and on feel: twenty years he had served the left BEFORE him, as in a picture, pass-

squadron of French His Majesty: he could neither rend and duck, suitable to only thing that keeps them out nake

ed that desperate fight to hold cavalry cantered, waiting an oppor- or write: he was the best mun-at- of trouble is that, so far, they hate of one of the little carronades, travelled back in the olive groves and

lay.

He stond one foot on the ear Hougomont, and then hiu

tunity to charge. mind

arms in the regiment, and one of the sloutest hearts in the world. One have no power.

leaning lightly on a Maineen cane, the vineyards of Spain; to the snow-

of the bandsmen who stood by him The land-grabbing like and his eyes, fooking over the ses, topned Pyrences, and the

hind bound his head where purple

up The Junagadh,

sabre economic seemed to gaze beyond the horizon, ridges and the

had slashed him, he had cork black

Woods blockades-like Hyderabad. The

O THEN young Wellesley put the dis- br of Portugal He felt ngain * of the heartstrings he had reverest tests

cipline of his regiment to one of one wound in his breast, and a

bullet known in warfare.

through his lungs. He had holstering of repression by big

not to an the thin stream of red At the word of command

move ved the bearers business. The myth of racial

coals crawled up the rocky cliffs company swung back into column where he had fallen.

*** him, superiority. The private armies, NEAR him, and little behind bin, into the Seminary at Oporto; he

he leaving thus wide Jones through the secret drill. The talk of meer of the Adjutant-General's sparkle as they came to the charge firing line could

stood at attention a young staff saw the dancing of British bayonets which the hard-pressed troops in the

Wellesley looked down on him. referendums, knowing that any Department,

relire. Grimed

man stw sorrow in the undress uniform, at Busaco: he looked aguin in with referendum in India or Fakis. He had brought some papers down imagination on the dreadful breach men dashed through and, like close yunk, commander's face,

with powder, cursing in anger, the and the tan could be faked in a couple for the signature of the Comman held by the dead at Badajos. But g

"It's all right sir," he sold in gasps. gates, the companies of the of minutes, and would be.

der-In-Chief, for Hill was dend, and no one name came to his mind more gallant old 33rd swung back again

And "It's all in the day's work." into line.

then The

the blood gushed out af And, cleanest parallel of all, the Duke had been reappointed for clearly than another.

French were so mouth. life to the command; and before the dress-rehearsal war that is

Travelling ever backwards, mem- close on them that some of the men carrying the documents

buck

to ory curried him to a blazing sun were bayoneted before the word to now going on in Kashmir, London, he had asked a question, and scorched plains to the savage file was given. Kashmir is Spain.

оп nn a small matter of detail, which storm of Assaye, and to the fierce Thrice the Brown Besses spoke- the War Office thought should, as a fight in the darkness before Surin- volleys us steady as though the re- THE great Duke turned

Lo the complement. be referred to the gapaiam; but still the name he giment Commander of the Forces. A name searched for did not come.

were firing on inspection

young staff officer. "Thomas At- NOBODY would suguse kinetypical

parade and then the word to ad- kins," he said shortly. The officer of the British soldier WAy Now he was in the Low Coun- vance was given, and with bayonets saluted Kashmir Invaders are Pakistani requirert on the model sheet of the tries on his first campaign, fighting fixed the 33rd moved forward to sound of his footsteps on the path and withdrew. As the froops just as nobody -sow the soldiers' accounts to show Wehrmacht In Barcelona.

his first netion. He saw again the, take up the ground from which the died away the Duke turned once the ruen should sign. It seemed clear, rainwashed The tribesinen are nevertheless un-ridiculously unimportant matter to September sky, the line of wind- retire, The..

blue of that other regiment had. been forced to more to the sea. commonly like the "tourists"

three.volleys had that the young staff, oftleer, and he was mills on the horizon, the pink and done their work, the ranks of the

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