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A BOOK ON RUSSIA. as Mr. Lawton does the origin of a plot there, which applies with hideous logfe to the present situa- tion in China, will to-morrow apply with even more terrible consequences to India and the day after to Europe to England. - With the lesson this book can teach thus applied a world con- flagration could be stopped.
"OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF—"
{Reviewed by Mr. Basil Taylour:l
The other day in London that great Conservative newspaper, the "Morning Post," published a leading article on the subject of the lessons to be learned by our British Trade Unionists from a report of the application of Com munist methods to agriculture and Industry in Soviet Russia which appeared in a recent book on the Russian Revolution.*
Now, the author, Mr. Launce lot Lawton, is a well-known
On page 25 Mr. Lawton is offered the key of comprehension and refuses to accept it. He writes,
"They (the white émigrés) say that the Bolsheviks are a gang of disreputable for eigners and Jews who do not care what happens to Russia. The statistics concerning the na- tionality of the holders of high office fail to bear out such an assertion; most of them are Rus
ABOUT SHIPS.
THEIR SEAWORTHINESS AND STABILITY.
BOOK FOR THE MARINER.
--
"Stability and Seaworthiness of Shipa," by T. B. Abell, Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., London. The title shows the ambition of
the author to present an involved subject in an interesting manner,
In achieving this, the author has filled a long felt want, for all sea- farers.
In a clear and interesting mun- ner, the reader is taken through the first principles, in the first three chapters, to the subject of stability.
omit the fifth chapter on "The Ship "Small Stability" Stability" and "Seaworthiness
While the author advises one to
and Negative
a firat reading, it is hardly likely that the first reader will omit the Intter-Seaworthiness,"
THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1927,
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert, but our readers are warned to look out, for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
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teresting subject, written from the point of view of Stability in an in- teresting manner.
Centre of Gravity, Chapter IV, "Experimental, De-, termination of Stability,” deals with the finding of the centre of experiment, not only in a theoreti gravity of vessel by an inclining
culties to be overcome in practice. cal manner, but showing the dim-
quote:There may and
To
The
generally will be some difficulty in mensuring the angle 'theta. method is essentially a static one, depending upon the ship coming to rest when the observations are made. Unless the weather condi tions are favourable, the ship will position of rest and communicating always be oscillating about a mean its oscilatory motion to the pendu Jums, etc."
member of the staff of thesians. But this is a side issue," in Motion" and the chapters on "Daily Chronicle," of which Mr. Unfortunately it is not a side Lloyd George and the Most issue, nor is this statistical con- clusion true either. From a re- Noble the Marquis of Reading liable source in America, publish- are the ruling spirits. He him-ed in the "Patriot" of July 3, self one suspects of being (after 1924, a list of the names and reading the earlier chapters of nationalities of the people who hls interesting and authoritative book) a kind of Christian Sociul-were sent into Russin in 1917 from Switzerland via Germany ist. So here we have the aston-and Sweden appeared. These ishing spectacle of a sermon to people formed the advanced socialists preached by a sound guard of the Bolshevik Revolu Tory leader-writer, inspired by tion. It is significant that out the pen of a presumed-to-be of 165 names given, 119 are Christian Socialist, who is Jewish and two half Jewish valued member of the staff of a Of the latter, Lenin's is given Liberal organ, which is owned by as Russian, but it will be that great chameleon, Mr. Lloyd remembered that in the "Times" George, and that ex-Administra- obituary notice his mother was tor of Diarchy in India, ex-gaid to be Jewish. fountain head of Justice in Eng.
Yet in spite of this pronounce- land, ex-Ambassador to the ment by Mr. Lawton in the early United States (who arranged pages of his book, he devoted the American loan at five day's four pages (447-452) later on to call and made possible a the discussion of the influence £33,000,000 a year's debt for us the Jews, аз international for sixty years to come) ex-financiers, had on the origin of K.C.; ex-member of the Stock the Revolution, and virtually Exchange; ex-partner of Samuel concedes the issue. Further, Montague & Co.; now said to be when he says:-"I wish to em- a Catholic, and by race a Jew-phasise the paramount rôle which Its Practical Nature, Lord Reading.
the power of money played in The practical nature of the work; bringing about the Revolution. is again shown by the following And here it may not be out of quotations: "If there is a wind, place to mention that well docu- better results will be obtained if mented works have recently the ship is placed head to wind, been published in France prov-done in a tideway it should be done etc" and again "If the inclining is ing that neither Robespierre at slack water with the cable up nor Danton were isolated figures and down," also "an inclining ex- upon the Revolutionary stage, periment just prior to the departure but that both were puppets of of a loaded vessel is an operation financial backers."
which must be carried out under almost any weather to avoid delay, unless the master has reason believe that his ship is not sea worthy because of lack of Stability, when he will risk delay, etc."
This derivation is such caviare to my palate and so piqued my appetite for rending the book that I offer the recipe to the "China Mail," which in the old days, when I read it (I am ashamed to say) more regularly than my Bible, had also the taste of a gourmet in such things.
When it is remembered that Mr. Lawton speaks Russian If these statements can make fluently, is married to a Russian, us ask who furnishes the funds and has spent much time, both for fomenting revolution against before and after the Revolution, (mainly) British communities in studying conditions there, and China, and, also the various that he would seem at the start subversive societies, many of to have held a brief in favour of them calling themselves religious, the "idealist Lenin' and his in Great Britain, we shall be on "experiment" in Communism, his the track for stopping the spread summing up of practically each running like wild-fire round chapter on the national life and the work of Bolshevik-inspired institutions as "disastrous fail-world revolution - the definite ures" becomes all the more im- plot of a certain race to obtain at pressive. Mr. Lawton is no fool, whatever price world domination. nor a babe either, although he And it is this part of Mr. appears to have accepted the Lawton's important and authori monsters of iniquity who have tative book elusive, and even usurped power in Russia at their evading the issue as it may, which own valuation generally. But is, I think, its most significant now, and again he gets down to feature. fundamentals and acknowledges But the author either does not that men's characters must be know, or if he does he ignores, | judged by acts, not by words, and the Red thread running through exposes the cynical hypocracy of all the shifts and changes of those who pretend to be working power and policies in Russia. for the betterment of the pro. Whether under that officier de letariat when they are grinding them between the upper and nether millstones of free land and famine; of the abolition of social distinctions and class hatred; of a nearly universal franchise and political slavery,
This is provided for and the "Reduction of the Errors of Men- aurement of the Metacentric Height is also dealt with.
Special Cargoes.
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46-8alt (Latin) 46-Nots of icals 47-Fireplace Nxturs
14-Man's name (short) 49-Accomplish 15-Annoyers' 17-Popular ball-player
(14% name). 18-Chafe 20-Attire 21-Pronoun 22-Portod (pl.) 24-Man's name. (short)] 25-Timid animal 25-Cuts
29-Weapon (pl.) 30-Mimic 31-Indisposed,
32-Prolonged decísma,
tory outpouring 35-Thins out 33-The indiga plant .- 3-Bhaltered elde 41-Burface
42-Girl's name
60-Galf term 62-An odd number 54-Completed 65-To prevent from
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B-Donkey
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23-Leaf of a only 26-Alluvial depoult at
river mouth
27-A celor 29-A dessert
32-Caudal appendages 88-Inbarn 24-Omitted in
pronouncing
36-Locked attentively 28-School book 37-Drawing-room
40-Man's nam
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time.
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MAN'S TWO FUNERALS.
A kind-hearted Vicar, the Rev. Chapter VI deals with special E. L. C. Clapton, of All Saints, cargoes such as suspended cargoes, Stamford, has had the novel experi- chilled meat, liquids and even life-ence of reading the burial service opposed to bulk cargo in the event the relatives. boats hanging from davits etc., as twice over the same man to console of shifting.
The Vicar was assisted by his The names of the chapters "Lond- daughter, who attended the original ing and Balinsting" and "Trim" ex-burial of the time of which rela- plain themselves and are worthy tives were not notified, owing to a of any student's special study. misunderstanding-as the solitary.
The whole work is just as clear and practical and the "Estimates of Arcas Volumes and Moments" at scissors grinder, of Temple-place, the end of the book is especially Nottingham-Charles Smith (55), useful for reference.
who had been knocked down by a In fact the book should be in the motor-car. hands of all ship's officers, engineers and cadets.
out to the letter the suggestions liaison, the Jew Kerensky, who given in the "Protocols of the led gently and "according to plan" Learned Elders of Zion" (publish- from the mild Miliukoff on the ed in 1905) for the preparation Right to Lenin on the left and of the ground for World Revolu- through the terrorist methods oftion? But has not our author, confiscation and slaughter of the when he attains to an epigram, as former's earlier period, or the on age 826, quite seen the moral: If to those who have studied "State Capitalism" which Mr. he himself has drawn? ""The the intricate political problems of Lawton declares was Lenin's Bolsheviks," he say, "believe in to-day in a broader and more original aim, the Red thread goes, co-education. But too often the specialised sense than Mr. Law-Can we not see that the degrada-consequence is cohabitation, ton it would seem that his book tion of civil and family life (page Liberty, Equality and Maternity". -a real storehouse of informa-1220); the destruction of religious Years ago the Editor of the tion in every other respect-lacks | faith (page 211); the custody of "China Mail" had a very intelli the key to the door which would children by the state (page 221); gent dog named Trotsky. He make all this documented wealth the confusion of all Courts of was, I suppose, a Bolshevik and available for use when applied Justice (page 203); the ruin of believed in seizing anything in elsewhere, it is at least no less industry and agriculture (paga¦ sight by militant methods, but I true of most writers, speakers, 82) ending in famine and have not yet heard that he shared editors, publishers all over the canibalism (pages 90, 264, 818); his bone with the beggars in world, as regards this particular sexual knowledge taught in the "Flower Street." Hus it yet been
HONGKONG'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER question. I am paying the schools (page 227) syphilis revealed that the dog's real name
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