Curiously enough, General Ham. mond's arrival in Shanghai coincided with the visit—on pleasure bent. be sald—of another—distinguished Britith railwaymen. Mr. PH. /Mamin, the Manager of HEH. the Nizam's Railways, with Mrs. Mattia, has been spending a few days here fon a tour which will take them Japan and Europe, Mr. MaMin was educated at Cooper's Hill and entered the Indian State Railways in 1907 assistant engineer. With the €xception of three years when he was serving in the Army during the Great War, Mr, Mafflin was mostly attached to the North-Western Railway and later to the Railway Board He! retired from the service of the Gov-Jernment of India in 1953 after having acted as Agent of the Eastern Bengal Railway and as Member of the Board. His outstanding ability led to his selection by the Government of the Nizam for appointment as manager of the important system which serves the State of Hyderabad (Deccan), The post has been held in the past by a number of able British engineers and Mr. Maifin ie therefore succeeding to responsibilities for which his capacity and experience render him specially suitable, parti. cularly as he is still a young man, {in vigour and, in years, on the right side of with the Scots Guards in the Great War. Lord Dundonald was originally gazetted to the 2nd Life Guards, in 1870, at the age of seventeen, but the social life of London and the routine of the Household Cavalry did not attract him. His book reveals the fact that his commission cost. him £1,260, his uniform end equipment many hundreds of pounds, and his pay was eight shillings a day. This was, of course, before the purchase of commissions was abolished. He endured London army life for only year, for he then obtained po: mission to go to Germany and study is profession at Jena. That was typical of the man as he developed throughout his long career, lof these tense years. 'There may be disputation over method and, even, lover principle, but on an occasion of national rejoicing it Is appropriate rather to emphasize the common bond of 'Adelity' to. fatherland and ride in its achievements, 'Thereby. it is possible to capture' something of the spirit which makes all men kin and, by its influence, to develop clearer "understanding toward. the feventuat creation of a tolerance which is essential to human amity. In the last year Germany has exerlenced the pangs of the extremes of revolutionary fervour. The suffer ing has tried her sorely. It has not quenched the indomitable courage of her people. And, as the Years pass, that very' courage may actually Festore those admirable qualities which, in times of revolutionary, stress, are apt to lose their bearings, Dut which, to the rest of the world, have long' stood to typify Germany's greatest contributions to civilization, This much will be said of the new Germany: she stands second to none. in recognition of the fire of youth jand the capacity of youth for bearing the burden of the future.
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