THE BEAT OF THE BRUMS.
"Some British officers were seated watching a sepojs' dance on the Indian frontier the other day, when one of them was ehot dead from behind," says the Times. "The murderer was instantly chased and caught, and proved to be a sepoy whose charaoter had hitherto been exemplary. Ho explained that when he heard ' the native drums beating for the dance' he was suddenly ' seized with a mad impulse to kill an Englishman.' His story was probably perfectly true, acd similar incidents have several times occurred in India. They ate an indication of one phase of the difference between the Asiatic and the Western temperament. Sweep iog statements about the gulf which is supposed to divide the East from the West are verv often extremely misleading, but there are many broad variations between the pooplo of the two halves of the Old World. The drums of Asia, and the tendencies and passions they symbolise for myriads of people, may perhaps seiTe to conjure up vagus droarm of future perils for the West; but the white races ate probably better able to take care of themselves now than they have ever been."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9810, 11 June 1914, Page 7
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