FHURSDAY, OGTOBER 23, 1924.
KREMLIN'S SECRETS.
SPRANGE DISCOVERTES.
London, Sept. 17. Thus the litical observer in "The Times,". Teveals the Kremlin's secrets :—
SIR FRANCIS. AGLEN.
“JOPPY" UPHOLDS HIM.
POPOSED CHINA LOAN,
(Reuter's Service.),
THE CHINA M
"HARBOUR", "RACE:
COOKE'S FINE VICTORY.
Although not to exciting 26 regards the finish, there were plenty, of thrills for those who watched for the whole way, the open harbour race which was
honours.
Lenin, when he was alive, would have been surprised if anybody, had tol line that his dend hôdy would
LONDON, October 22. be of great assistance to archaeo-
Mr. J. P. O. Bland, in a letter to logy. And yet it is . After the the "Times" refutes Brig. Gen, um yesterday afternoon, Public dent of the apostle of Bolshevism C. D. Bruce's strictures on Sir opinion appeared to be vindicated his friends and colleagues decided Francis Agler, and points out that when by the time that two thirds. in reet in his honour splendid Sir Francis's duty la to carry out of the distante was covered the momment on the Red Place, in the instructions of the Chinese three favourites Lyon, May and front of the Kremlin. Under the Government as long they do
nammment was to be a crypt in not conflict with his duties as Johnstone appeared to be the only which Tepin's embalmed body custodian for the foreign bond ones in the race for premier would remain exposed for holders.. He, says that had Sir ever to the respectful and Francis refused to consent to the
C. J. Cooke, who eventually won 1/',ve f admiration of the floating of the loan he might the race, had taken a course to the postles. This last part of the plan, reasonably be accused of Eastward in order to allow for a by the way, had to he given up, sympathising with thewebels. slight flooding of the tide, and by here it very soon was discovered (According to a dispatch publish its aid and a steady stroke he ilai the art of the Bolsheviked yesterday, Brigadier General almost unnoticeably crept ahead. Containers was far from being so Bruce wrote to the "Times" in For the last half mile there was perfect as that of their Egyptian reference to the reported consent, only one competitor in it; Cooko jelesore. But the monument of Sir Francis Aglen to secure the eventually winning by a minute Was eroated, and it stands its Peking Government Issue of and a half. Jack to the great red wall of the #beasury notes of $4,200,000 ön In the earlier part of the race Kremlin. Its construction was the the customs revenue, earmarked the lead was taken successively Teams-of-an" archaeological-dis for the German-boxer indemnity, by Lyon, May and Johnstone, May- covery, which may have results of which lapsed owing to the European eventually getting second place -the greatest historical importance. war, contending that if the two and Johnstone third.
First of all, when the trenches factions in China were mad enough The competitors' order of finishe were dag for the foundations it wạ
to indulge in modern war it is ing, and times, were as under: found that the moment had been nobody else's business and ex-C. J. Cooke mins 11.4-5sect planned just across the great moal pressing his belief that Sir Francis's A. May........... 27 43 2-5, whim, according to the old chroni Action would be regarded by Chang J. Johnstone...... zk ·” 15
te the Kremlin from Tolin as subsidising Wa Pel fu E. W. Railton... 29 17.2-5 vity on this side. This encour with customs money. He thought D. Lyon Bet finther resenreh. In the wall many Chinese would regard this use A. George 30 of the Kremlin at the bark of the of the maritime customs revenue as B. Assumpcao... 32 " tment is the so-called Sent-be-a-fatal-mistake-General Bruce Jacob
foreign interference which would C.B. Easterbrook 33... tyskon tower, which from time held that if once a foreign power R. W. Smith immemorial had been filled to A great height with a solid mass of Tubble. This was cleared out, and here the exentators had their Grit. STEPPING.
Having cleured out the tower to the street-level, they found that the i nu-s of rubbles bay deeper. Layer after lover it was dug out bul after 50ft. had thus been regioved the bottom had not yet been vetelted. The whole tower ap- poured as a great well-like structure deseturling into the bowels of the worth. Tranedintely the iden rang- gested itself at here was the place rinesl descent which led to the famous subterranean, vaults. tunnels and passures of 1.he Kremlin, of which o ALEN mysterious mutions exist in the minent chronicles and about which pupular legends continue to speak
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After the race, the prizes for the three harbour events were pre- sented to the successful com petitors by the Hon. Sir Claud Severn.
N. Y. K.
PRESIDENT T. SHIRANI.
(Reuters Service.)
TOKYO. October 22.
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In a short speech, Sir Claud expressed his regret that he had not been able to witness the hathour races on Monday and Mr. Takeshi Shirani, President, lated Miss Molly Groundwater on Tuesday. He warmly congratu- of the Government steel foundry her and Civil Governor of Kwantung the ladies' race three years fo achievement iri winning Province, has been recommended succession, and securing for the presidency of the Nippon Cup
the outright. Yusen Kaisha in
Much cheer. Mr. Ito.
succession to ing and applause greeted the law of the Imperial University said Sir Claud, owed his victory [Takeshi Shirani is a graduate of speaker's eulogistic allusions to 'our old friend, Mr. Cooke," who, He was appointed at the Home very largely to superior tactics. Office in which he held the post of Councillor, and finally Director of Temples and Shrines Bureau in 1902. He also served for some years in the Hokkaido Office and also in the Educational Depart succeded each other in the work of ment. From 1906 to 1008 he was COMMERCE AND FINANCE. preting stone churches and palaces Director of the Education Bureau and endosing the whine with and in the later year was appoint- great battled wall, intersperseded governor of Kwantung province with mangerous fortniduble towers. | His résidence is in Port Arthur.] The old chemirlers all agree that! the Talim: büilders matched the Kemalin above-ground with
KREMLIN UNDERGROUNIE
Kremi
tuiginally
was built of wood in the thirteenth cen Jury. But freas the fifteenth ret tu covor ninu architects were valled in; aud for any
wars
a seret Krendin helow. From the huge towers"vaą funnels Werk built” towards the river! Moskwa, which flows at the south- | en hawe of the hill. Other secret sages ran in the city in various Badious, so daat the Kremlin feee the junctim: for n
15-hicle system of subterranesa comminuni tions Inder me of the towers, in a great valt, flere was a do well, wat of which at regular inter
RED MENACE.
WHAT MAY RESULT.
(Reuter's Service.)
tribute to the Hunt girls, both of Sir Claud paid a well applauded whom finished the course,
MANCHESTER MARKET.
Writing under date of Septein- ber 17, Messrs James F. Hutton & Co., Ltd, of Manchester state
American cotton values have Fallen steadily during the week, the aggregate loss amounting to fully Id. per lb. The differences. between near and distant months have also been rapidly closed out and all quotations stand between 12 and 13 pence for middling at Liverpool. Improved crop pro this drop-in values. It is stated spects have been responsible for: that. the crop
is turning- expected In
LONDON, October 22. "After five years' efforts Com- munism is approaching her hour of triumph in the Far East and shortly Ca's four hundred millions will he united through the Communist - vids the water" overflowest, mind the loternatioral to the Sovies Govern
better than Dut carried off through stone-juved ment under the red fig. After
the river side. China con es India and after India almost all parts of the belt, Tussiges to "Under the palings were tiers of a world revolution." This accord- and increased estimates of a yield vaults connected by staircases and ing to an "Evening News Riga of 13 to 14 million bales have pasanges, closed be great iron los message is the tenor of the latest In one of anicles in the Soviet press, discuss with enonnons loeks. the vaults Ivan the Terrible koding events in China. This fanious and leggendary Harary.
The Soviet press asserts that The existence of Ivan the Terri. there are in China hundreds of
Chinese Communit
agitators
where
has become very
private sources. Selling has been been freely forecasted from general and, owing to an entire absence of support of any weight, Present quotations are now about considerable. blea library in the fifteenth cenung [ educated in the Communist un-
så per lb. less than those ruling at is confirmed by German witnesses.
iverslty. 副委
the end of July, so Wie wer
Tashkent,
that the out nine ocrusion per- nitted by the Tear to see his in hundreds of Indian agitatogs are prospects of a good crop have been valuable manuscripts. Their evid. also trained with a view to over enre shows that the collection of throwing British rule in ludia. The Tvan consisted of works which Bulshevists declare that amid the wonkl now be prierless, and which present political turmoil in Europe even in his time were rarities. For the time is ripe for a Chinese Ivan the Terrible, like, many
revolution. modern millionaires, lud special agents roaming about Europ in
very
to
substantially discounted. Such a crop as is now expected, no doubt warrants it, but it is hardly be expected that the movement will go much further as it may be assured that greater confidence in manufactured values will in due course lead to increas ed consumption. Egyptian cotton values
remaln comparatively steady having fallen only about market there have been offers for was hidden away in the some considerable business but. they are generally too low,
the seard for nife beaks and and vases made of the same pre znanuscripts. After Dean's death ciets metuls. It is quite possible
in the period of civil war nothing that deep down in the Kremlin d. per lb. In the Manchester was heard of the library. But it is hill a part of this wenith remains Tecorded Unit in the seventeenth where it
concession of the
entury the Princess Sophin, time of civil war and stress. Regent during Peter the Greats It is well-known that onder the as buyers are expecting the minority, ordered a search to be old Tsars the palaces of the full
fall Instituted, and a palace bailiff hay-nobility and the warehouses of the in the raw material. This cannot ing found the secret entrance merchants all had their systems of be obtained owing to the stronger descended
through interminable underground vaults, and were con- position of producers and the stone passages to a vall, where lie nected by passages with each other result is that the volume of bust. saw ancient coffers full of manund with the central point in the Dess has not been large. The scripta. But civil war broke out Fremlin. There are historical steady downward movement in again and
the secret was instances when, in the time of cotton is no doubt also responsible Jost. Much later Peter authorised a new search, which failed to die popular risings in Moscow, the for a tendency to delay buying raver the way to the library, but, these passages, which were also period of stable cotton prices is nobles fled to the Kremlin through until the outlook is clearer. A 28 is historically confirmed, found used to allow the garrison to sally needed to restore confidence. It is in another vuurt a great hard of out at distant points and fell on the not believed here that there will old gold and silver coins. This rioters, anexpectedly. Parts of this be much change in cloth prices find was very useful to the Turneut underground system, have as manufacturers have still ta whose exchequer, as heen and are being discovered all Improve their margins and the ex been emptied by the war with over Moscow at various times. panding trade which is anticipated Sweden.
Possibly Lenin, "dead; will now be is looked to, to give them their ope COLD OF THE TJANS, -
lic aeune of clearing up once for portunity. This remains to be The old English traveller of the if the secrets of the ancient seen however, Mean bile the sixteenth contury Jenkinson, Kremlin underground. The Soviet American cotton spinners have describes at Jength the Wonderful Government encourages the renewed their decision to antique- treasure of gold and silver he saw caxatious in the hope of finding short time worklog Yar in the Tear's palace. He tails of sound of this treasure of the are unchanged 10 d. ger
Shaner where 10 people miloan Trotsky amutrite medicadian cnguisbaa down to tables, groaning finder the vaulta na protection for the civil Chipále Idle but Egyof weight of gold and silver plfite und population against attack in and many smaller outers.com decorated with wonderful gares war,
to show more active interest
Signorina Emma Surinach, of the Italian Royal Opera Company, which opens its season in Hong... kong on Tuesday next".:.
LITTLE" HSU
SUN APPEALS ON HIS BEHALF.
DIE HERE TOMORROW?
Hai Shi-tseng, or Little Hu" as he is called, has, according to Reuter left Shanghai for Hong- kong, on route to England. He was supposed to have sailed on Tuesday and should, therefore, arrive here to-morrow,
Haw, as most people know, is professedly unti-Ecking and there- lore ou the samo side as Dr. Suu Yat-son and Marshal Lu Yang hsiang, who fled from Shanghai lo Japan
General Hsu Shu-tseng.. Apropos Hau's expulsion from Shanghai, the "Canton Gazette' BAYS -
In accordance with instructions from President Sun, the following message was despatched on Tues- day by the Foreign Minister (Mr. C. C. Wa) to the Diplomatie Corps at Peking protesting against. the unwarranted detention and proposed deportation of General Hai Shu-tseng from Shanghai --
His Excellency M. Oudendijk, Doven, Diplomatic Corpu,
Peking.
I have the honour to protest against the unwarranted deten tion of and proposal to deport General Har Shu-tseng by the Shanghai Settlement Authorities, on the instructions of the Diplo, matic Body, as an innentral act." In particular, Shia continued. detention. practically as a pri soner; ht a moment when his freedom of action is of advantage to one of the bolligerents in the present Civil War and his loss of freedom is permitting the Chilli faction to profit in the interval,. is a flagrant act of partisanship.
I request that the Shanghai Settlement Authorities be in structed at once to restore to him his personal liberty
OПAO CHI W, Secretary for Foreign Affairs.. Canton, October 21, 1924:
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