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...constructive contribution of the week. Baron Irwin. Viceroy of India, set Oct. 20 next as the date for a Round Table Conference in London between Englishmen and Indians...
Hottest locust battle of the week was that fought on the grand old Egyptian front by thousands of sweating natives directed by a mere handful of cool, efficient Englishmen, commanded by the British Inspector General of the Egyptian Army, famed "Spinks Pasha," Maj. General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks...
Although the promoters of the tote call it "the acme of simplicity," most Englishmen have not yet quite got the hang of this outlandish French machine, and last week King George approached his first tote with frank diffidence...
...pier, pretending to disperse, they telephoned to blackamoors across the Tyne who presently swarmed over in ferryboats. Only English newspapermen covered what next happened, and they conceived it their duty to be brief and vague. All despatches from the scene were studiously played down by British editors. Example: "Several Englishmen and two Somalis were gravely injured by knives and razors. . . . The whole police force of North Shields became engaged and was forced to charge time and again before quiet was restored. Even then the police were able with much difficulty to prevent the lynching of several Somalis who had fallen...
...movement had caused the nervous breakdown, earlier in the week, of Sir Horatio Norman Bolton, chief commissioner of the North West Frontier Prince. In a state of emotional collapse Sir Horatio sailed for England, beaten by weapons beyond his ken, as St. Gandhi hopes many another and finally all Englishmen will sail. Moreover, mutiny was in the air. After hiding the fact for days, His Majesty's Government was obliged to admit in an official communique last week that the conduct of two platoons of the second battalion of the 18th Royal Garswal Rifles at Peshawar recently was "unsatisfactory...