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Married. Col. H. H. Sir Hari Singh, K. C. I. E., K. C. V. O., Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir, once notorious as "Mr. A.," the victim of a "badger game" staged by international crooks (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924); at Srinagar, India. Despatches, mutilated in transmission, did not state the name or rank of the bride...
...this continued until last week. Then the Maharaja, Col. His Highness Sir Hari Singh* shrewdly announced that to honor 300 of his "favorite" courtiers he would present to each a sacred swan. By this means the Hindu clergy, who had absolutely refused to let the swans be done away with, were disarmed. The swan battalion and its 1,043 retainers were clipped from the budget. But in the princely houses to which the swans were sent there was wailing...
When the young Indian Prince, Sir Hari Singh, was detected in intimate residence with a "Mrs-. Robinson" at Paris (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924, LAW) the world reverberated with the scandal of his trial under an alias, "Mr. A." Yet last week, sentimentalists from Benares to Boston scanned with moist-eyed approval a meagre despatch from India...
...Highness, Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, has effected such improvements in the administration of his Forestry Service by Occidental methods that the revenues from the forest of Kashmir have increased from $100,000 to $250,000 per annum...
...erstwhile young scapegrace, it was touted, has brought back from the Occident more than a world-notorious name, has sown among his benighted people the priceless seeds of Western knowledge. . . . Cynics scented propaganda in the despatch, awaited more of the same from Sir Hari's highly paid and skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except...