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THE CHINA MAIL.
MOSCOW'S ENEMY. ly appointed and cannot fall WHEN CHIANG RAN. ward and established themselves FUTURE OF INDIA.
RED SOLDIERS DESERT AND FOLLOW INSPIRED WIDOW.
Stories of a
They broke the resistance of the Bolshevik force and took many prisoners. Some, in fact, at once refused to fight and declared themselves on the side of the "The stores thus "angel" woman." acquired proved valuable help for
Ther cause.
A special correspondent writes to the "Times of Ceylon":-
A Modern Joan of Arc has ap-
Attacking Force Falls. peared in Russia.
When the disquieting news new woman saviour are reaching reached Moscow orders were given England. Taking her late hus-for Helena Senin-Orloff and her band's sword, she has rallied a army to be hunted down and the brave woman to be taken dead or amall army around and is striking alive. The orders made it plain terror into the hearts of the red that this was the most important troops who have orders to take object. Madame Senia-Orloff kill
ed or a prisoner would, perhaps,
her dend or alive.
An absolutely fearless woman, fired by deep religious convictions and the bitter memory of griev- ous wrongs is, of all foes, the one to be most feared.
It may yet happen that Russia, who once owed a most brilliant era to a woman, will emerge from her present orgy of blood and op- pression through leadership of a strangely fascinating widow who has the courage of a Boadicea or a Joan of Are. She has the same deep, sense of her country's suf- ferings as burned in the breast of the British warrior queen, and the same conviction of divine sanction 98 marshalled the people to the banner of Joan of Arc and led her to glory and the stake.
The panic which has seized upon the government in Moscow and has resulted in the recent fresh reign of terror is more ominous than has appeared. The Bolshevik authorities have taken care that news of rebuffs and re- verses shall not leak out, but these have become so frequent and serious that the Russian op- pressors are becoming alarmed.
means
It is now only when a few Bri- tish residents returned with stories that we are able to realise that Moscow is by no Russia, and that the first warn- ing signs of coming defeat for the present régime have been seen in the countryside. They have! brought news of significant suc- cesses scored by a brave woman in Siberia whose intense réligious fervour is rallying the peasantry around her with such heroic de- votion that the Bolshevik tyrants have been utterly powerless to effect her capture or to stay her progress.
Religion and the Peasants. The Bolsheviks have abolished religion, but hearts are not chang-
PEACE IN CHINA STILL
FAR OFF.
as far away to-day as it has any Secure peace in China appears time in recent years. The Nationalist move has broken into pieces. Whether it can reorganise itself to a degree and in a manner to afford ground. for hope is a
decide. question which only time.
"
To-day the part of China south of the Yangteze river. is about as near governmentless as it is possible for any place on the
Loving Cups for World Cruise Staff.
Captain R. G. Latta, the genial commander of the Canadian Pacifie flagship "Empress of Scotland" is one of the few Individuals who can boast of friends in almost every port of the world. The long list is being augmented annually by over 400 passengers who journey to the four corners of the earth with-him on the round-the-world cruises of his ship.
At luncheon given on board the Canadian Pacifle steamship "Empress of Scotland at Southampton on Friday, May 13th, a presen- tation of a Silver Cup was made to the ship, and of a replica of it to her Commander, Captain R G. Latta.
The presentation was made by the passengers who recently com- pleted a round-the-world cruise on the Empress of Scotland", as an expression of their appreciation of all that was done to provide what has proved a most memorable voyage.
The first cup, which is 17% inches high, is an exact copy of an old model of George II. period, the original of which is the property of His Majesty The King. The cup wegbe 110 ounces, and is engraved with the following inscription
"Presented to the Canadian Pacific R.M.8. "Empress
of Beatland" by the passengers, to coramemorate a memor- able cruise round the world, November, 1926-April, 1927.” The second cup ia s replies of this, measuring 13" high, and weigh ing 49 ounces. The smaller cup to engraved as follows
*Presented to Captain R. G. Latta, being a replica of the cup given to the Canadian Pacific RMS. "Empress of Scotland" by passengers on the cruise round the world. Norember, 1926-April, 1927.”
in Honan. Chiang Kai-shek and his followers were supposed to be fundamentally and uncom- promisingly opposed to the two bodies of the more violently he and his government were radical tendencies. Furthermore supposed to have the financial which backing of Shanghai, meant the moneyed interests of
China,
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CHANCES OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.
LORD OLIVIER'S VIEW.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1927.
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necessarily be placed in the same position as that occupied by, tha}}- Secretary of State for the Colonfes at present. He would be nominally the King's representative, but res ponsibility would be no longer wit the British Parliament but with the Legislative Assembly. That would mean an enormous, change in the relations of the whole of India to Britain. If India were to be placed under the responsible elected as: sembly a very different situation would be created.
Lord Olivier, Secretary of State for India in the Labour Govern ment, speaking at the London Labour party's Summer School for He crossed the Yangtze and Women at Guildford, said: 'I do not
In regard to the Indian States, drove north ward with Peking think it would be reasonable or can
were prudent at present to establish If there were any interforence with his goal. Victories
It is not within the Indin, como federal representation spectacular until his armies reach- suddenly complete self-government the present central constitution of ed Shantung, where the Japanese for India. sphere of influence begins. There range of practical politics to-day, of those States, must be incorporat- the advance stopped and the re- nor do the Indian politicians themed in the Central Legislative As- treat started. There was the selves desire it. They would say,sembly, There must also be a beginning of what now appears to be the end. Reverse followed reverse. Chiang Kai-shok preach- ed loud and long about Japanese participation in the opposition which atopped' and turned his armies. But his preaching had no effect. He lost.
globe to be. The government which centered about the military personage of Chiang Kai-shek has evaporated. When he turned and ran in the face of military reverses the government which was built upon his campaign collapsed.
Now he has fled. He has left his armies without a commander to order the retreat. He has quit. A year ago Chiang Kai-shek loomed as the Orient's big man- of the age. He was in a position of rare opportunities. But to-day he presents himself to the world as a disappointment, not so much because he met reverses 83 be- cause he quit.
Distrust of Chinese militarists is international. The war lords themselves made it so. They discredited themselves with their other own people and with peoples who regard war a thing to be opposed. But many, Chin- ese and others; persons of all races, had thought possibly Chiang Kai-shek was different, that he was a patriot turned militarist only by the force of necessity. Many even excused his associations with the Russian Communists, his dependency upon them, holding that necessity forc- ed him to do this until he had reached a point he could assert himself. He and the memory of Sun Yat-sen were credited with awakening China.
He has not lived up to what was expected of him.
Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, who with Gov- ernor Smith of New York, is leading the Presidential possibili ties on the Democratic slate.
It
Chiang Kai-shek's first funda- mental failure came not on the battle field. He failed when he compromised his cause through Communist entanglements. He Let us be self-governing in regard grouping of the amniler Indian failed basically when he neglected to the provincial services and in sovereignties, so that they might be to establish orderly government ternal policy, but not otherwise." represented by areas about propor- on a sound basis in the territory "The great link between India tlonate to the provinces in British over which he gained control. and the home country is the mili- India that would be represented on He failed when he, while crusad-tary Ink, and they do not want to the Leglaintive Assembly. ing for national reform, dis- break it. I discount entirely the would be quite impossible to carry regarded the first principle of idea that if self-government was on the Indian national services to national reform, which involves given to India they could not keep the satisfaction of the princes of the building of good government the peace among themselves. But the native States unless they were
rom the ground up.
there are ambitions and jealousies going to have some say in the Bulletin."
Unfortunately, the between certain parts of India, and Government. you might have considerable usur- Diarchial Council had proved, as a pation of power on the part of cer- more profound examination of their tain classes as well as usurpation constitution might have shown of territories. Virtually no Indian would be the case, not to be a sult wants an immediate withdrawal," able training ground in which the Indian people could fit themselves for self-government.
"Manila
ed by tyranny. The Russian convince the people that her claim living out of the vicious circles of to divine protection was a myth Moscow still believes in religion of the old religious days. But it and-still more important at the was the new attacking force itself moment-in miracles. Therefore, which fell before the invincible beautiful Helena Senia-Orloff is band. really appearing to them as sent
Another time a Soviet troop did to be one of the saviours of their not fire a shot because so many of stricken country.
the men rebelled and went over to
For some time there have been
LADY LAUDER'S DEATH. Senia-Orloff was one of the first the side of the widow with the three governmental entities
The Next Step. women to suffer from the murder-magic sword.
calling themselves the NB-
Comedian Overcome With Grief. The Government would have to without-trial policy of the Soviet
Each claimed to be
Why Diarchy Proves Difficult. Thus, from place to place,. tionalist.
appoint this year or next a Commis- forces. Her happy marriage to a Senia-Orloff has been moving and moved by the spirit of Sun Yat-
London, July 29. sion to advise what should be the The first thing that crippled the brilliant young officer was not a winning as she goes. There is a
sen. A few moments ago they
Lady Lauder, who was operated next advance towards the democra-work of the provincial councils was year old when he was shot because complete mystery as to what will were in one organisation headed on last week, suddenly collapsed the government of India. The next that their power and responsibility he had refused his allegiance to be the next step of the Moscow by Chiang Kai-shek. Then the and died early to-day.
advance must be the decentralisa-was hampered, and they were the Reds, and would not serve in powers. Those who have return-Russians, headed by Michael Sir Harry Lauder, overcome with tion of everything that could be de- rationed and deprived of any auto- their army.
ed from the country speak of the Borodin, were in the very inner- grief, seems to be a broken man. centralised and the granting to pro-nomy in the administration of their The heart-broken widow retired into seclusion of a Siberian vill spread of the story and the pro- most councils as advisers. But His friends doubt if he will reap-vincial councils of control for their finance. They had to make heavy
a time Chiang Kai-shek pear on the stage.
own services and administration. payments towards the cost of the found impression it is having on after
When the age, and for many months spent the minds of the country folk. and a group of his follwers who girl, and was a Salvation Army was the army, and the control of Ministers went down into their pro-
Sir Harry's wife began life as a The central services, chief of which Central Government. her days in prayer and shunned There is a conviction that the were conservatively inclined all company. She used to take days of the Soviet regime are broke away from the radicals, as when she met Sir Harry fiscal policy, railways, etc., would vincial councils and confronted have to be dealt with by a revised their own supporters, the affected her dead husband's sword and his numbered and it is not at all prob- the Russians staying with the
Sir Harry Lauder married Annie Central Assembly. If it were de- members, they were virtually re- photograph in a little jewelled able that the victory of justice radicals, who established their Vallance in 1390.
The marriage,cided to devolve from the Viceroy garded by them as Government men. frame into the church with her and honour will be brought about government at Hankow,
was the result of a romance which and the provincial governors a good The Ministers, therefore, became and lay them down before the by the fearless woman with her
And later the Hankow group
This created altar as she prayed that God husband's sword who had a vision split and ousted the Russians and started before the comedian's career deal of constitutional responsibility suspect.
on the stage at a flax-spinning mill to the provincial governments, the almost impossible situation for any would avenge his death and save
their clique, who moved north- In Arbroath. in the obscure Siberian church.
Secretary of State for India would Minister, and that was why 'diarchy her beloved country from her new
had proved very difficult to work. Its very conatitution made it im- tyrants.
possible to work along the pathe a thoroughly democratic government should follow.
One day she came from the. church and rushed into the village with her face aglow and told how she had just seen the Blessed Virgin appear before the altar. The Holy Mother had smiled upon her and placed her gentle hand on the sword, beckoning Senia-Orloff to pick it up.
The Sacred Promise. There and then the woman obeyed the strange impulse which came to her, and, before that Vision, promised to leave her seclusion and not to lay the sword aside again until Russia was free or she had died fighting to save her. The people rallied around her at once.
Senia-Orloff put on her male nt- tire, and the precious swort of her dead husband was her only weapon.petpl
Her first success came when, with her band of followers, she made a raid on a small Red settle- ment in the neighbourhood of Omsk The Bolsheviks, after a little fighting, fleil, and the off- cers could not rally their panic sticken men because the soldiers became fearful when they heard the commander of the attacking force speak in a woman's voice and, with a face "like an angel's". call on the name of the Blessed Virgin. In their flight, the sol diers left behind Mauser rifles and other weapons, Senin-Orloff her self was slightly wounded but the casualties were few.
The woman warrior next led an attack on a convoy of Soviet war stores near Lake Bakkai, By this time her little army had grown to hundreds of followers, all con, vinced that their leader is divine-
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