MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1928.
COLONIAL GOVT.
VIEWS ON THE CEYLON RECOMMENDATIONS.
HONG KONG'S INTEREST.
That
Sir Edward declared that at this stage, and until the schernet has been put to a practical test, it; would be a mistake for Europeana to offer active opposition, "as we can only believe that it is an honest, whole-hearted attempt to jsolve a very difficult problem."
Sir Stanley Bois declared that]
THE CHINA MAIL,
IN RED RUSSIA. That childhood rhyme about the
"CLOSE-UP" OF MOSCOW LIFE.
SERVICE AND SHORTAGE.
NOTICES.
GRAND
TATTOO
beggars coming to town, "gome in rags and some in velvet gowns,” does not hold good here, because they are all in rags. tattered and torn, and oh, so forlorn, Terrible, 11th, 12th & 13th September. terrible poverty. There is a legend
in Moscow that the beggars have 'aju
агия.
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ly dressed, carrying a baby in her The girl was eating a cuke; she had taken but one bite when the cake fell on the pavement. The girl looked at it and then went away.
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TV. HARMON, Hon. Secretary, Tattoo Scenario Committee. Hong Kong, August 6, 1928.
sceret union of their own, and it,TE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Opposite views by these con- until the report had been therough Moscow.-Georges Loadon, the positively true that a certain pre- and A.D.C. have made them- cerned are expressed regardingly digested he would be unable to French journalist, quotes Trotsky vince called Kaluga, not far from selves responsible for the produc-| pronounce any very definite views, as saying, before his fall, that hero, does produce thousands of tion of the Scenario in co-operation the report of the Donoughmore but on the first reading he was dis-Russia is a big monkey house."! professional beggara.
with the Military. Commission which, advocates posed to think that the interests Now I do not wish to stress his į CURIOUS INCIDENTS,
Rehearsal wil be held on sweeping changes in the admin- of all sections of the community paint of view, but in focusing my istration of the Crown Colony of had been provided for, and he projector so that you may get some have observed two curious incid. DAY, Aug. 9 at 5.30 p.m. in St. Despite the abysmal poverty I TUESDAY, Aug. 7 and THURS- sincerely hoped and prayed that close-ups of this film of modern Ceylon,
the Legislative and the obviously arduous and careful, Russia, I bear Trotsky's remark in next to me stood a young girl, poor-
ents. I was looking in a shop, and George's Room, City Hall, The at- tendance of all ladies and gentie- Executive Councila be abolish-work of the Commission would re- mind.
(men willing to aasist is urgently ed and a State Council of 65 sult in drawing all parties together,
Russla, I believe, knows nothing
requested. elected and 12 nominated mem. for the advancement and prosper
|about community singing, but Mos- hors be inaugurated is the mainity of Ceylon.
cow knows" quite a lot about feature of the Commissioners' Mr. T. L. Villlers, who express- recommendations; others are ed' general approval of the pro- community cooking. The other
Now there are many European manhood suffrage with votes posals, emphasised the importance day I had occasion to call on a for women of 30 and over, and which he attached to Europeans newly-married friend, who lives eities I know where the sisters, of the allocation of a supervisory taking their chance with the elec-about twenty minutes walk from that girl would have retrieved that rather than executive role to torate instead of leaving their re the centre of the city. He is a man cake. And another thing.
He who has been used n his life to side my hotel here, a perfectly good the Governor whose reserved 'presentation to nomination. powers, on the other hand, are considers that the recommenda- the usual comforts of cultured but dead pigeon by in the roadway.
Lions should be supported by the man, and I found him making not lay there while dozens of poorly instructions to sell by Public While not directly concerning European community, whose inter complaint that his flat is being dressed people passed. Now it is this Colony, Hong Kong has par-esta he believes to be adequately shared by eight other people.
only a few months ago that I saw Licular interest in the suggested safeguarded.
My friend, indeed, rejoiced in thea wounded pigeon fall dead on the reforms because it is known that He added that the proposed con- fact that he and his wife have one steps of the Sporting Club in Monte H.E. the Governor (Sir Cecil stitution would provide members whole raam to themselves. But not Carlo, and a man riding a bleycle Clementi, K.C.M.G.) is taking up of the European community with a kitchen. The motto of the kitchen stopped, picked up the bird, and the matter of local representa an opportunity to take a more ac-is: "One for all and all for one." 'rode home to what I must presume tion during his stay at Ifome. tive part in the affairs of the Is- Eheh family or sub-section of a
was pigeon pie. Further, a number of our lead-land.
family has its own oil stove, and ing officials, including Sir Cecil Trenchant criticism of the re the disputes which arise when Mme. Clementi, ILE. the Officer Ad-port is made by Mr. Ritzikoff's bortch bubbles over into ministering the Government (the Weinman, the doyen of the Bar, Mine. Carltonoffsky's stewed chick Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, C.M.G.), who quotes a letter from a proen must be heard to be believed, the Director of Public Works (the minent Congress man to show that, Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E.), 'the there are "ominous signa" of grow"
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But if the natives of Moscow had: to pay the same prices for food foreigners have to pay, then there are many who would have to sing for their supper. Here are some prices taken haphazard from Harbour Master (Commander G. F.ing disapproval. Mr. Welnman A year ago there were hundreds the menu in my hotel. Caviare, 68. Hole, R.N., retired), and also His describes the proposed Constitu- of hawkers in the streets of Mos. 6. a portion; tomato salad, 45.; Honour the Chief Justice (Sirtion as a "leap in the dark." cow, but this year for every one soup (cheapest on menu). 2s. 6d. Henry Gollan, C.B.E., K.C.) have) He believes, Dr. Shiels has there was last yehr,
there fish, 48.; roast beef, 68.; steak, Ga.; to their credit a number of years, dominated his colleagues with are ten. Not one main street. cutlet, 5s.; peus (tianed), 39. 6d.; of service in Ceylon.
ideals applicable to Great Britain but every main street is crowded with its homogeneous population. with them. They stand elbow to He disapproves of the elimination elbow along, the kerb, and also line. Natives pay nothing like that. The Donoughmore Commission, of communal representation, which the other side of the pavement, sell Meat is cheap, sixpence a pound, whose report has been issued, re- was not intended to promote the ing every conceivable article, from bread 2d.. butter, on the other cammends that:-
interests of any community, but to human hair to cavinre sandwiches. bund, is dear, 2s. 6d. a lb. All over A State Council, consisting of 65 place views before the Council, The reason why there are so many Russia, lodgings are cheap, they elected and 12 nominated members should replace the Legislative Coun- Lady Dias Bandaranaike wel-hawkers is because Stalin is making crowd four or five people into a Teak Hatatand, Bookcase, Ginas comes the extension of the fran-his drive against private trading; room, and the rent works out at six Cabinet. Chesterfield Couch and The Executive Council also to be chise to women, who, she declares, soon there will be no private shops pence per head por week.
Armchairs, Roll and Flat Top abolished, the State Council dealing have the right to the vote by theft in Moscow, everything will be CRIMSON AND GOLD OPERA. Desks, Typewriter Tables, Fillng with executive as well as legislative | businas, sitting in an executive fact that frequently, in village life, sold by the State. But the public The State Opera House here is Cabinets, Typewriters, Surveyor's capacity or in legislative acasion. they are the wage-earners.
s long since discovered that magnificent in crimson and gold. instruments, Table Fans, Carpets, Departments to be divided into Mr. C. S. Burns, in a startling State-owned shops mean bad scr-Every seat in the house is sold out Rugs, Curtos Brass Ornaments, fon groups under the charge of attack on the Commissioners revice, and often a shortage of goods. twenty-four houre ahead, even Tennis Racks, etc., etc., are to be taken from among the port, describes the Constitution as
The public, therefore, prefers to though the stalls cost sixteen shil- Teak Dining Tables, Sideboards, rfected members, the remainingGilbertinn," and derides many of deal with the small trader, who acils lings a sent. The performance is Dinner Waggon, Tee Chests, Glass three to be under the charge of the the assumptions on which the his goods for the meat part cheaper mediocre, but the staging marvell-Ware, Crockery, Kitchen Gear, etc., Colonial Secretary, the Colonial port is based. He charges them Treasurer and the Attorney-General, with levity and recklessness in dis. than the State. Now a considerous. None of the artists are mem-jete.,.
cil.
separate Ministers of which seven
wha bemine State members,
than State officer is tu, be the
ernment's chief spokesman.
the Ministers on the annual budget.}
Manhood suffrage with women over thirty years of nge,
votes to
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Iron and Teak Bedsteads with number of the kerbstone bers. of the Communist Party, and The Colonial Secretary to be carding weighty evidence in favour able Chairman of the Board of Ministers, of their own opinions.
the nierchants are amall shop- they fight for high salaries much Mattresses, Wardrobes with Mir but a member the Board other Mr. G. A. Wille, senior Burgher keepers who have been driven as artists. do in other countries, The rors, Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawers, Cupboards, Washstands, In ex-royal box, the night I attended a leader of the State Council and Go member of the Legislative Council, out, of business by Stalin.
described the recommendations, some cases a man will hire several performance of "Lohengrin" (re- Shaving Stands, etc., etc,,
also "STATE REPRESENTATION. when interviewed by the "Times hawkers and supply them with written), was occupied by a
Ass wisted with each of the seven of Ceylon," as a "rash and pre- goods. The private trader waatleman in a mußer. group of elected Ministers is to be eipitate experiment." The scheme driven out by being taxed to death. Soviet Russia has quite a new an executive of the State Council seemed to involve turning the
idea in running prisons. In many A vote, of "no confidence" in the Board of Ministers or in the part whole Council into an Administra- The hawker paya a fee for a prisons, cells have been abolished, cular chairman of the Executive tive Committee, he said..
licence, but soon, no doubt, Stain and the prisoners sleep in dermi- Committee would involve a generalf
will declare war against the hawtories, each bed with a wireless einction as also would the defeat of
kera and the taxes will be headphone. Leave is given every raised and raised so that the haw-year, and the peasants receive two ker will not be able to exist, and months' furlough to go back to their then all trade-if the present re- farms for the harvest and the sow- gime lasts so long-will be in inga. Then they return to prison. the hands of the State.
[And they never fail to da 30. "Never be rude to a beggar: he No record has ever been kept of may have been a prince," said a friend of mine to me. Without have taken place in Russia since challenging this statement I must 1917. say that hitherto I had, perhaps, they run into hundreds of thou- been somewhat abrupt with a num sands. There are comparatively few this year. Executions take place only forțoffences against the State. Mystery is still preserved concerning the manner in which the executions are carried out, bat there is one thing certain: the pri
that
The Commission also considers REVIVAL IN RUSSIA ALARMS
communal representation ix
SOVIET.. wholle pernicious and recommendis, that it be abolished in order to uliny the qualms of the minority comman ities. The Governor is Je musked! to nominate twelve, of whom six
are to be preferably, British.
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"GODLESS ONES."
Moscow, June 9. The Govertor is assigned a super-" visory rather than an executive jais,
Now that the little township of bat his reserved powers are increas-Sergevo, 40 miles north of Moscow. That opinions differ at the mo has been "saved from the rising ment and that London offeint eir-tide of religious reaction." by the cles retain an open mind Is in-abolition of Sunday as a day of rest dicated by the following:-- and the "extraction" of some 40
view.
LEADING OPINIONS.
ber of the former aristocracy.
Recruits for Baptists.
the number of execution which
All that is known' is that
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I gather the impression from elderly church-going ex-aristocrats political circles that there is no by the Ogpu (Secret Police), intention of despotic action in the Moscow's affiliated "Godless ones" The Soviet Press makes "horrible 'soner is never told when he is) adoption of th.. report by Colonial, have begun to raise a horrible revelation" about Leningrad, about to be shot. Office.
clamour about "The Baptist dan- where there. are 25,000 baptised A man may be told that he is to Any proposala for adjustment yer," the "Sunday Times" is inform-members, not counting the more go to take a bath, or that the gov- will be given a patient hearing. ed.
(numerous working-class partisans, Jernor of the prison wants to see Previous procedure indicates A wave of evangelism is, in fact. 702 prayer-houses, 583 well-equip-him, or that he is to change his that the report can be adopted by sweeping over vast areas, and the ped clubs with children's rooms, sleeping quarters. As the condemn- au Order-in-Council, after con-ravages of these "Bible-pcats" are symphony orchestras, free teas, and ed man or woman walks along a cor- sideration by the Secretary of specially terrible in Siberia and the insurance benefits.
ridor, the executioner, in felt slip- State for the Colonies.
industrial districts of Leningrad. Leningrad's best Baptist chapel, pera, steps out from a darkened -"Times of Ceylon" Londen cor- The Bolshevist party views this with a beautiful club hall and seat-doorway behind the condemned respondent.
movement with grave concern for ing for 1,200, is planted right be-'man; he presser revolver to three main reasons-first, it is a tween the chief electrical works and the back of -the condemned Sir Geoffrey Butler and Dr.new movement which cannot be dis- the chief railway repair building person's head, and pulls the trigger. Drummond Shiels, two members credited by the allegation that it shops, neither of which possess a Executions,-I believe, usually take of the Donoughmore Commission, was connected with the old regime workers' club, and the Baptists are place an hour or two after the trial. {| appeal for a fair hearing for the or with Taurists abroad; second, it finding numerous. recruits among I have already described the Red, report, which they declare to be is largely a proletarian movement the foremen of these and other Army parhde, the shouting, sympathetic from every point of for which no ex-aristocrats can be State industries. Leningrad Bap. noisy, but highly effefent-looking held responsible; third; it has con- tlats have acquired a valuable army of Russia." The streets are De Shiels hoped that the nections in America, and evange- site on the Nevaky Prospect, where full of atolling soldiers, but one Europeans and members of listic America, with its Baptist -unless they are stopped; and so night at dusk I ́had'● totally differ-- other minority.
communities Coolidge and Baptist Rockefeller, is far they are acting in full accord ent glimpse of them. would seize the opportunity to the fountainhead of world credits, with Soviet law-they are going to ENCHANTING VOICES. co-operate in an effort to realise This American connection makes build a "Christian House" with I was walking alongside the grey all the favourable possibilities the Bolshevista nervous in more chapel, club, and central offices. white Chinese wall of the city. ways than one-during the anti- While the workers have to wait From near-by street came the Says Sir Geoffrey Butler, "the foreign ce'sis Inst summer after the six months for admission to the Red sound of enchanting male voices. constitution should be the turning British breach and Volkof's assas inebriates home, these Baptists go: Then the tramping of heavy boots point in Ceylon's history and in the
efnation in Warsaw. President and find drunkards' wives and and round the corner came a'squad history of the Empire." He hoped Coolidge was openly accused by compel them to come in. Moreover, of soldiers, their long mustard there would be no partisan spirit Pravda, on the very day 20 px- they adopt the Bolshevista' own coloured coats trailing in the dust diaplayed in its reception,
Sir Edward Rosling said that aristocrats were shot, of fostering methods of "agitation," ble in but their faces uplifted towards the looking at the report from a do Buptlatry In Sibertà as an instru- band, challenging the Godless ones stars. tached point of view, he considers ment of American Imperial penetra-, to theological disputes, and they They were singing with reverence The Penang Assizes which were the recommendations in the nature tion.
have also got they own "Soviet some paosant gong of their homes, fixed: for 10:30a.m. on a recent of an extremely interesting experi- The Orthodox Russian Church, State plan"-to convert one-quarter and they tramped, tramped with the Blonday could not be commenced at ment, and, given goodwill by all deprived by the Sovlet Government of the Russian population within". long and almost slow step which that hour owing to the sudden In- the parties concerned, he saw no of its only Syned and its Provincial, five years.
has been, traditional with the Rus-disposition of the Acting Deputy reason why it should not be suc Councils, is also uneasy about these! They have not forgotten that sian Army for generations. Public Prosecutor, Mr. J. Crabb cessful.
Bible men, and that is one of before the Revolution American They turned, under an arch Watt The Assizes were therefore "The proposed Constitution is the underlying reasons for last Slavophobia was mainly due to the beneath the wall, their voices adjourned till 2.15 pan. in order that such a very novel step that, nutumn's abortive attempt to nego. Tsarist anti-Semitism, and they are cchoing, and afnging till they dis-a-fiat might boʻlasued to another 1 should Parliament accept the late Д concordat between the also aware that American business appeared from my view Into the Counsel to prosecute. When the proposal as it stands, it will be Metropolitans and the Bolshevists. will not travel without American grey and mysterious vastness of Court assembled at 2.15 p. Mr. 'diffenlt to offer effective critic.
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