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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the front Government bench soldierly Sir Lambert Ward had hoisted himself up to plead the Government's case on a bill. In excitement he moved farther & farther out toward the centre of the hall. Suddenly came hoots of laughter and great cries of "Order! Order!" Sir Lambert looked around in bewilderment, hesitated, looked at his feet, jumped back...
Centuries ago British members of Parliament were occasionally given to the regrettable practice of pointing their arguments with their rapiers. To check the habit two red lines were drawn down the centre of the House of Commons about six feet, or two sword lengths, apart. When Sir Charles Barry's present Victorian Parliament building was erected (1840-50), strips of red carpet before the Government and Opposition benches took the place of the original red lines, and to this day no member may step off the carpet while addressing the House...
...quake swept up the Plain of No Riches, along the farther side of the Suliman mountain wall. When it stopped, Quetta, Kalat, Mastung, Shikapur and dozens of villages were a plain of rubble. Alert Sir Alexander yelled to his household to stand in the doorways. The house tumbled but the doorways stood. Then Sir Alexander went to work...
...British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander Norman Ley Cater, 55-year-old bald bachelor and Agent to the Governor General...
...across Quetta. Then the earth began to rock once more, settling the ruins deeper, and a landslide rolled down the nearby Mountain of Death. In this fantastic register of disaster, a Pathan raid failed to materialize at once only because the earthquake had shaken their hill villages too. Sir Alexander asked and got the power to declare martial law, inasmuch as all the police were dead. Then he sealed Quetta like a tomb, for fear of cholera. Only soldiers prowled through the stinking city...