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them. Finally the original re striction that the Government queta had first to be delivered was set'äside, and urgent orders have been issued to bring the new aystem Into effect without delay.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1982
Phantoms Haunt Piccadilly
Famous Names Of English History
SECRETS
OF ST. JAMES'S
(By EILEEN QUELCH).
It remains to be seen how far [these sweeping desertions of Communist principles will avail to mitigate the distress enused by the partial breakdown of Gov- ernment distribution and of the | rationing system upon which the workers in the factories have had to rely - for their "essential supplies. The great initial dif ficulty is to persuade the local authorities to abstain from put- ting into force the principles of State regulation which have "The inhabitants of St. James's, few hundred yards farther west, hitherto been instilled into them, notwithstanding they live under where 139, Piccadilly now stands, and to permit the free buying the same law and peak the same Byron spent the brief period of his and selling which has hitherto language, are a distinct people married life, and saw from the been anathema. Then there is from those of Cheapside." So window, one winter's morning, his the more serious dificulty of wrote Addison in The Spectator" unhappy wife get into a carriage'. overcoming the peasant's suspi- of 1712.
and drive off, leaving Him for ever. cions and of giving hinr the as- It is not when you come to Previously this house, combined surance that he can now with examine it, a very profound obser- with No. 188, the present home of perfect safety, do what he has vation; for the City has been a the Ladies' Lyceum Club, belonged hitherto been savagely persecut- city ever since the Romans made to "Old Q.," the notorious Marquis ed for attempting to do. And it so, and has developed a charac- of Queensberry, and Leigh Hunt when these difficulties have been ter accordingly, whereas the en bas left a striking, if unpre overcome, there remains the virons of Piccadilly remained for passessing, picture of its owner. greatest difficulty of all that centuries an open space for sport
Prince of Jockles. of enabling the peasant to buy and dalliance.
"In the balcony of No. 138, on" what he wants in return for Our ancestors went there for
fine summer days, used to sit. what he has to sell. The produc amusement, much as they went to some forty years ago, & thin, tion on any adequate scale of Brompton for the salubrious air.
withered old figure... with one commodities for the peasant has At the beginning of the seven- eye, looking on all the females received little "attention from teenth century one, Robert Baker, that passed him, and not dia- the bureaucracy controlling the built himself an elegant country pleased if they returned him factories. Goods are scarce and residence "neare the Winde Mil whole winks for his single ones. their price is outrageously high.-still commemorated in the name The peasant and his wife have of Windmill-street-and. called it no use for Soviet notes except as Piccadilly Hall. means of purchasing the goods What a distinguished array of
.. He had been' Prince of the Jockies of his time, and was ́a voluptuary and a millionaire.” When the old Marquis died, in
they require, and if they cannot ghosts haunt that square mile west 1810, the legacy duty on his pro- obtain those goods they will stay of Piccadilly-circus! Sackville,perty, even in those days, amount- at home and keep their produce Arlington, Albemarle, Jermyn, ed to $120,000. It was a pretty for themselves. The Soviet Press Berkeley-avery street conjures up trick of Fate to turn his house into can explain the wholesale aban-is now denouncing the light in-personality. St. James's-street, a feminine stronghold!
From here it is but a few steps donment of Bolshevist principles dustry organizations for not sup- besides being the cradle of club- in the recent decrees,
plying suitable wares, and efforts land, must have housed a greater to Number 1, London, where tha Dearth of food supplies is no are being made to meet the de- number of famous men than say grim ghost of the Iron Duke still seems to preside. Apsley House, new thing under the Soviet Gov- ficiency. Even the big factories other short street in London.
Suicide and Highwayman. which can claim this fairy-tale ad- nment, who have consistently engaged in heavy industry have
Waller and Pope stayed there; dress, stands desolate and lower starved their own people in order been ordered to utilize their
to "make nails, Gray, the caricaturist, committeding, like a spellbound palace în to export as much grain, butter, scrapheaps and other produce as possible, buckets, and other articles for suicide from the window of No. which there is no Sleeping Beauty Whatever changes in Russia, thus obtaining the foreign credits peasant use. And to cope with 29: Sir Christopher Wren died to awake, almost as enclosed and the peasant now as ever remains needed to buy industrial machin- the difficulty from the other side there at a venerable age: James forbidding as in the days when its the keystone of the arch. Poli-ery and to finance subversive all the factories have been in Maclean, the elegant highwayman, windows wore iron shutters to pro- tically he is inarticulate, and agitation in the capitalist coun- structed to organize "self-supply received morning callers, gorgeous-tect them from the stones thrown Governments consequently are tries. Latterly, however, the systems," to relieve the Governly apparelled, at his rooms tempted to ignore, his import- dearth has become acute, and it ment's task of finding food by early member of Boodle's Club; London, you may have seen, if you ance and to override his inter- is now causing actual alarm. establishing pigsties and poultry lodged and died at No. 76, then the are lucky, emerging from a house esta. Whenever they do so they Feverish efforts are being made farms, and to make their own house of Elmsley, the bookseller, in the intervening terrace, are, sooner or later, brought up, to concillate the peasants and to bargains with the peasants, for whe distinguished himself by re-little girls, very pink and white against the passive obstruction overcome what looks like wide- the supply of produce from the
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over by a fickle populace.
But before you reach Number 1, $
one of the shops and Gibbon, an
two
and
of u great amorphous mass, and spread though quite unorganized country. To make the outlook fusing to risk the publication of and fair, very much flesh
the "Decline and Fall.",
blood, not ghosts of the past, but are compelled to change their passive resistance by them to still more depressing, the reports
Tucked away in St. James's-place Princesses of the present, and his- tactics. The Soviet Govern the system imposed upon them. of the condition of crons
grow lived Addison, Fox, Mrs. Robinson tary-book Agures of the future- ment, not for the first time, are In this emergency Communist steadily more discouraging.
-the Regent's "Perdita"--Sámuel the Princesses Elizabeth and Mar- now going through a bitter ex-principles have had to go by the
Rogers, and, for a time, Byron. Algaret Rose... perience of this kind. During board, and the new agricultural the past three months ́a number decrees constitute an even great- of decrees have been issued wither acknowledgment of defeat the object of inducing the bea-than the jettisoning a year ago sants to grow and supply the of all the orthodox Bolshevist food needed for the urban popu- principles of wages and factory of L. Everett, Inc., arrived in the lation, which fevered industrial-management. A pretence was ization has caused to increase at made on that occasion that per- President Hoover.
Colony this morning en the 8.8.
Personal Pars.
"
Mr. E. Danka, who is on the staff
duties here.
He is taking up
STOLEN VALUABLES THROWN IN SEA
Snatch-Thief Sent To Prison.
...
COOLIE KILLED IN
GANG FIGHT.
Police End Serious. Praya Riot.
were
the rate of over 5,000,000 a year." sonal responsibility, one-man After they had recovered from management, piece-work and the shock of the withholding of payment by results were not op-
After snatching a gold chain, to} Rival gangs of coolies were in- supplies by the peasants ten posed to Communist theory whên Captain D.R.M. Cameron, A.D.C. which was attached a jade appand-volved in a fracas on the Praya, years ago the Soviet speedily for properly understood, but mere-to His Excellency, the General age and a white gold watch from Central District, yesterday evening,“ got the lesson. Concentrating only a new interpretation of it to Offeer Commanding, Major-General & Chinese merchant on the Hing one, man being fatally injured in his grandiose schemes to turn ensure its success. That was J. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., Kee Wharf yesterday, Lei Kam the melee. Several arrests Russia into a great manufactur-¡ accepted, not without some D.3.0., arrived back in the Colony passed the articles on to another made. ing country, Stalin attempted to grumbling, by. Stalin'a obedient this morning on the Dollar liner, man who threw them. Into the The clash occurred while coolies regiment and collectivize the followers. They recognized that Persident Hoover.
water.. The victim had just ir-were unloading vegetables from the countryside; to turn a population the system had to be made to
rived by the s.s. Chung On. (5.5. Ching Fat, which was lying.
Lei Kam was taken to the alongside the Kwong Wing wharf.
Ilfe stated, discovered a street coolle arriving in the was found that he was a
stealing vegetables., He seized, the Accused was charged before Mr. coolle and was attacked by the
News In Brief.
pro-
The forthcoming marriage of
on
the
Court this morning.... He pleaded anything that was moveable :- was guilty and was sentenced to one used for weapons, and goods an year's hard labour,
wharf were thrown around in great The stolen valuables ware valued confusion. at $400 and were not recovered, ›
The arrival of the Police put, an end. to the fight which was rapidly portions, developing into alarming pro-
of small-holders attached to their work better than it was doing, Mr. C... W. Rosenstock, own strips of land, to their own and there seemed no way to minent Manila resident, was among Central Police Station where it The foreman of the coolies, it is small possessions in stock and achieve this result except by fall- the passengers equipment and to their
own ing back upon the devices and Colony this morning on the ss. banishes from Malaya. ways of doing things, into mere practices of capitalist society. President Hoover. He is staying "hands" in a gigantic food fac- It will be hard to make any face at the Peninsula Hotel during his Wynne-Jones in the Central Police coolie's clansmen. In the uproar tory run by State bureaucrats, saving pretences about the new visit. whose main concern was with decrees, (which te-introduce and the export trade and with the ra- encourage private trading as tioning of the cities. Resistance prices based on the "personal in- was punished with ruthless [terestedness” of buyers and sell- severity. Millions of peasants ers, or, to use capitalist instead were branded as kulaks, turned of Bolshevist jargon, on supply Patrick Scully, ship's officer. MATSHEDS BLAZE IN out of their holdings, deprived of and demand. The decree of May realding at No. 8, Li Chit Street, all they possessed, and either 6 was admittedly intended to in- Wanchai, to Sin Pat, also of Wan- left to starve or deported to be duce the apathetic peasants to chai, is announced. worked to death in the timber sow as much grain as possible in forests of the North, These the spring to make up for the
For leaving the Harbour during abominations, being perpetrated serious deficiencies expected in prohibited hours, four Chinese by an "advanced" Government, the next harvest. A definite pro- coxswains were fined $10, or in passed without protest from any mise was given in it that next default, one week's hard labour of the professed humanitarians year the peasants, after they had each, at the Marine Court this of spectators and which cut off the who are so loudly vocal over any contributed their fixed quota to morning. comparatively, trivial misdeeds the Government, would be allow-
KOWLOON TONG.
Bus Route Blocked
By Hoses.
A fire, which attracted hundreds
Tong Taat, the alleged thief, re- ceived a terrible blow on the head, and died later in the Government Civil Hospital. -.
COOLIES ARREST
1 STREET THIEF.
No. 7 bus route for nearly an hour, Very good. I congratulate you broke out last night, when two con- both,” said Mr. Wynne-Jones in the perpetrated by Governments they ed to sell the rest of their crops Seven Chinese men and two tractor's matsheds, situated at the Central Police Court this morning deem "reactionary," And for a in the open market at unrestrict women heuling an iron girder corner of Prince Edward Road and in complimenting two street coolies time they appeared to serve ed prices. This was swiftly fol-weighing 12 cwt.used fron crow Waterloo Road, Kowloon Tong, were who had effected the arrest of s their purpose. The majority of lowed by a decree even more bars and damaged the main road completely destroyed.
Chinese who had stolen a clock from the peasants were dragooned into extraordinary in view of its at Shaukiwan for a distance of The matsheds were on different a car, owned by Mr. Stokkink of the joining collective farms, and all source. The total amount of about 200 yards. Each was fined sides of a building under construc- Netherlands Trading Company. The the machinery of propaganda, cattle and ment required to be $5 by Mr. W. Schoteld in the tion. That on the Kowloon City car was parked at the City Hall paid and voluntary, was enlisted delivered to the Government was Central Police Court this morning, end became Ignited Arst. Fanned stand at the time, to give the world, the most glow, reduced by half, and all restric-|-} Ing accounts of the smoothness tions on slaughtering and selling and efficiency. with which the were abolished. Later similar the Hong- vast (plan was working and of freedom was granted for the sell- Anniversa the enthusiasm of
ing of vegetables, fruit, butter, Hall cheese, eggs, and other produce; Among
for the new system
ever
this picture wa
breakdown of
thing
rketa re" sét
Yowns and
To induce
[by a strong wind; the flames Jumped His Worship added that he would There were over 800 couples it to the walls of the second shed. Bee that something was done for the
Union The fames rose to a great height, coolles. Ho
cting many onlookers, Mr. Murphy, A.§.P., who was in oon and Mongkok Fire Court In connection with another
hed the blue, case, sald-There is a standi
the railwaysasta: Sinan Senort was made team
this
bus route was
word $25 given by the Automable
Association."
Hosepipes across Defendant was sentenced to two months hard labour.