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...SOLDIER SAHIB - Private Frank Richards-Smith & Haas...
...showed he was neither a dear fellow nor a brute, but a nice mixture of both. The wildest brawls and ruddiest language of Kipling's soldiers can be read unblushingly in a drawing-room. Private Richards' report, though peaceably expressed, is truer to bachelor life. Old Soldier Sahib has an honest animal smell, as exciting to plain citizens as a whiff from a lion's cage...
...gets his funds. The detective spied on Gandhi, reported: "The Mahatma called to him a woman from the crowd, asked what she intended to do with such beautiful pearl earrings. While talking he gently removed them and then auctioned them off. . . . Thus does the Mahatma replenish his cash box, Sahib...
...present with a two-hour mystic plea that the All-India National Congress Party through its committee should once more abdicate and place all power of decision in the Mahatma's hands. Before he began to speak such action seemed impossible. The committee knew that Viceroy Willingdon, a sahib of iron will, has refused to treat with either the Congress or with Mr. Gandhi until his followers formally abandon mass civil disobedience. Nonetheless the committee could not resist the Mahatma. By an overwhelming majority, they appointed Mr. Gandhi to treat with Lord Willingdon, resolved that mass civil disobedience shall...
...Despite the presence of extra police and two regiments which have been guarding Chittagong in Bengal since the attacks on Britons there last year, a white sahib's dance at Chittagong was broken up last week by Bengali who threw bombs, killed a white woman and two policemen, wounded six whites...