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THE JAINA GAZETTE
We are sorely grieved to record the sad separation of Lala Amin Chand Jain of the firm of Messrs. Kaku Shah and Sons of Rawalpindi who passed away on the 26th December, at the age of 6.0 years. He was a pious Jain. All Jain institutions were closed for the day as a mark of respect. The firm made a donation of Rs.10,000/. to perpetuate his memory; Rs. 2,000/ cut of which goes to the local Mahavira Jain High School, and Rs. 5/ to the Jaina Gazette, which we gratefully acknowledge.
Lord Reading, Viceroy of India from 1921 to 1926, died on January 1, at the age of 75. His bier was covered with a Jewish Pall,
He was the first of the Jewish race to fill the high offices of Lord Chief Justice of England, Viceroy of India, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and his career is without a parallel in our modern legal and political annals.
Rufus Daniel Isaacs was born in London on October 10, 1860, the second son of Mr. Joseph Michael Isaacs, a fruit importer, who carried on an old-established busi. ness with his brother, Sir Henry Isaacs, Lord Mayor of London in 1889-1890. He was sent to University College School, and afterwards to Brussels and Hanover, where, besides learning the languages, he made himself familiar with the methods of foreign merchants. Office life, however, was not to his liking, and for a time he went to sea, serving as 'ship's boy' in a tramp steamer. This adventure over, he settled down to a City career, and became a jobber on the Stock Exchange; but misfortunes overtook the firm with which he was associated, and when he was in his 24th year, he entered the Middle
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