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WILL GIVE TALK IN METHODIST CHURCH Local Young People in Costume Will Add to Effect of Speaker’s Address Dharma Sheik Shand of India will speak in the Methodist church here next Sunday night. Mr. Shand is a highly educated gentleman of independent means who speaks fluently his mother tongue, and is lecturing through out the state in the interest of the Inter-church movement. He was born on Simla, India, in 1901 and has had an exceedingly romantic life. His father Major Osburn was a member of the late Lord Kitchen er’s staff. His son is known as Shand, the Indian equivalent of his surname. Shand was stolen from his parents in his early youth and sold to the Mohammedans who made him a camel driver. The English government sent an ex pedition in search of him and he was restored to his parents. Mr. Shand under his English name Captain Osborne, volunteer ed for service in the East Indian Army. Three months after his enlistment he was on the front line of General Townsend's battle front in Mesopotamia, where he remained until the surrender of “Kut.” After recovering from a severe wound received during this campaign, he volunteered for the Palestine campaign and entered the city of Jerusalem with General Allenby. Mr. Shand was one of the lec turers at the great Methodist Cen tenary celebration at Columbus, Ohio last summer and is credited with being a most forceful and eloquent speaker. He will have nine or ten young people of the local congregation — four girls about 17 years of age, four young men of about the same age, one boy about 10 and a girl about twelve—dressed in native Hindu costume. Songs in the African and Hindustani languages will be sung by the talented lecturer. Great interest has been mani fested elsewhere in this scholarly soldier, and much local interest is already aroused. Everyone is in vited. The lecturer asks no fee but the church will pay his necessary ex penses.
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Newark Post
Newark, Delaware, US
Wed, Apr 14, 1920
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