Show INDIA AND TS ITS PEOPLES by capt L R claud cland night m in lahore 0 IVING to the serious rioting which occurred in lahore a fol lo 10 lowing wing air mr pahe rolt nce ance movement of lots 1018 the city was fra placed under martial liw law among oilier other regulations public lut meeting ings were forbidden and the in habitant habitants required to be in their home homes by eight at night I 1 was wo assigned to 0 o the command of a troop of horse nelch nightly pa pal trolled the indian rity city that rune mine tit which alch kipling milling culled ibe city uty of dreadful highl A ride an indian walled waited city at night under the restrictions of martial law Is I 1 a strangely weird ex exper perlene lenic our out patrol sus out mine mule hours after gunset mut iset ue e calk walk along the mill still ind anti though anatall to the tile lahore cate only an officer on a motor cyde eyde and the troop troops at the telegraph offee are seen feell atit naps haps a it man here and there Is sleeping outside on an old or rope bed snuggled up in a rug and thrusting his head bead out to see who are re thebie disturbers of the file night and then I 1 lalta who goes there cherer it Is the fie sentry at the city gate and we pass still further farther into the heart of silence and semi darkness dar kniss the streets g ft gt t er and the tile atmosphere sphere blics onet onee olfactory organs more lind und moe varied un asked and undesired ken tien the hou houses esl with ith unfriendly and slid unwashed frown upon us as we piss under thelt over shadowing ha dowing upper stories like old hugs biorn and decrepit with age and clothed with rags ohp alipy M CK ri to I 1 resent the he of welt fed men and horses an derIng into their silence ind and self satisfaction one wonders if all nil ine products of conr universities who talk glibly of the cost castets Ca its glat amour ilour its and ancient thought have seen the cities of tri people and anti how the common oriental aminti biln it belf lo 10 material thing filings aher if its jolly life Is concerned for after all it Is results that count and superficial and arli artificial delm Il western estern may be it has w brought about a greater clear cleanliness illneSS so our solitary patrol oa on sometimes in threes sometimes in pairs and sometimes our horses must walk in ingle single file not i A srul sent in to be seen only an occasional ight light looks down into the he dingy street and peeping TOT appears at the window for a clance dogs show their annoyance inno yance in noley fashion fasl iloa and stink away in mr sterl ous holes and corners the jour ncy ney Is bunei uneventful binding li irrea alar ular streets are ere aggressive in their silence and only hie file stars above bmw to possess any an fin as iii they glitter over OM tills this city of the alad aleph elephant an t bunting hunting T TI alls termination of the A world war I 1 receded three clon leave leme the first two ee ef of which I 1 spent as the he guest of colonel BI OD on a hunting trip in to that mountainous country which has produced a race of tight flight ing ig men the unsurpassed among india i martial this Is the only country in the world where here that singular sin gular sport tan an be obtained of hunting wild eie ete chants ints with tame ones and capter ing them alive olive 1 uan I ci I 1 rr d to colonel il auit I 1 should be allo allotted Ned to make tahe tac he fie at first refused on oil ill hy gludd th hit 11 t it was as too danze romi for a novice bu it t later I 1 e relented aber I 1 had seq acquitted u bitted myself cre cred lal dial ill I 1 at a rehearsal hear sal when I 1 was sent snit among the trees on the bare balk back 0 an on pep elphant ee hart with only a rope to hold on by and made to dise daze tl if e branches as he lie rushed through them ailt it full speed but thlu was nothing to the actual daj day of the tile real when the I 1 ode formed tre of a band of fifty tearing at a clumsy rate be jungle titer the wild lierd herd which h it finally overtook and with which h it engaged ID in a pitched bati fie shall never forget the uproar of hat that at singular en encounter couter the trumpeting alog of 0 the el elephants the acrea cream inv of if the mahout sUe the firing hy by the sold soldiers I 1 ers of blank cartrie cart cartridges rid es the crushing oi ot te tie branches as the fluge huge monster monsters b their trunks curled up butted one another like rams and their riders deftly threw lassoes of abne re ivr belr unwieldy leads all coreil a con of sounds and of alt never to be bo forgot forgotten terL it la is so to take tale prisoners cadei theft thes c dillons dif lons that the bunters seemed well satisfied in piu ring three e ut of 0 a herd of arhe I 1 returned home utterly exhaust ed by the violent exercise which ad been tec necessary essary to escape aking ti nashed to pieces ples by branches or r crushed hy by the mob of oetling elephants which must have been my fate ste had I 1 lost my grip of if the loop or of rope which was all there was to hang on by to eling on the more readily I 1 had reamed my m shoes and bleeding hands ano feel feet bore ore t testimony to the he violence of the he st t buggle I 1 had to retain my pre carhoun position tuition atut so rent great was MY enaut at the time that I 1 only dis dt leered afterward how aluch h my was the orb for wear za 1131 wistem newspaper |