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...Some of these regiments fought at La Coruña, Alma, Khartoum, Lucknow, Ypres and the Marne. They were in the Crimean War. They embarked for the St. Lawrence, they landed on the beaches of Gallipoli. They fought with France and the U.S., and against them...
...India monkeys are sacred and punishment is frowned on. This does not promote discipline among monkeys. Bands of them often meet trains at stations, looting food and other articles of interest to monkeys. Lucknow University recently complained that in the chemistry laboratory a girl student had been bitten by a monkey. Wrote a Lucknow citizen to city authorities: "Apart from the damage monkeys cause to my garden, one attacked a small child of one of my servants and tore from its nose the nose ring." Said Dr. E. A. Douglas of Lucknow's Lady Kinnaird Hospital: "For four days...
Last week the city of Lucknow engaged a contractor to catch Lucknow's monkeys, alive and unharmed, at the rate of one rupee, four annas (39?) per monkey. The city proposed to deport its monkey population to distant forests by special train. Total estimated cost: 10,000 rupees...
Chubby, pleasant Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third and youngest (27) son, was jailed. A ban on news of rioting and criticism of the Government led Indian newspapers in Calcutta (15), Bombay, Lucknow, Nagpur, Delhi and Ahmadabad to close...
From his eyes there shone the bitterness brewed by the repeated jailings of himself and his family, the bruises left in his heart by the clubbings he and his aged mother suffered. He was beaten in a Lucknow demonstration against the Simon Commission in 1928. During a National Week demonstration in 1932 his mother was beaten and left unconscious on the side of the road near her home in Allahabad. She was dead now, and so were his father and his wife Kamala, all helped along to funeral pyres on the banks of the Ganges by their work in India...