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VICEREGAL LODGE
Mr. de Valera's success at the polls raises anew the problem of the future of Viceregal Lodge,
The new Governor-General, whof foccupies a modest house at Monks:- town, has decided against: living there, and it is understood that it will be converted into a kind of Lancaster House for the housing and entertainment of distinguished visitors to Ireland,
"TUESDAY, APRIL
THE TRAGI-COMEDY OF BREST-LITOVSK
THE TREATY THAT WILI LIVE IN HISTORY
RUSSIA ON THE RACK
(By R. H. Bruce - Lockhart.)
Fifteen years ago, when the and Rhine wine.
But there are
winter sunlight glowed on the blue ferce exchanges of verbal artil The Viceregal Lodge is one of and gold cupolas of the Moscowlery... the loveliest houses in the. British churches, the Bolshevists ratified One dramatic moment has been Isles. It lies a mile or so from the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. They vividly described to me by Kuhl- Dublin in the beautiful Phoenix did it on the stage, of the Big mann Park and its windows look across Theatre, where Chaliapine once the park to the Dublin mountains. sang and. Mordkin danced."
Trotsky, desperate and like cornored: rat, has been almost As a tragi-comedy the story of hysterical in his denunciation of this Treaty has no parallel in the German terms. Over the modern history.
heads of his tormentors he
dom and Junkertum. His insults
ten
STOPPING THE CLOCK To British parliamentarians there is a juvenile air about the expedi-The drama begins within twelve launches an appeal to the people ent adopted in the French Cham-ays of Lenin's accession to of Germany to overthrow Kaiser ber and Senate of stopping the power. clock at midnight on the last day Already the Bolshevist leader sting like the Arctic wind... of the financial year in order to has announced his famous panacea Hoffmann, who is to die allow a Finance Bill to be osten- for the fils of the Russian peasant: years later cursing Bolshevism
Bread, Land, and-Peace. sibly voted in time.
Awith his last breath, jumps to his The French Parliament is not ready, on November 21, 1917, feet. alone in this practice, however.
Trotsky, in his then capacity of "I'll stand this insolence no In Washington, as the end of an despatched his Note to the French once."
Commissar for Foreign Affairs, has longer," he says. "We advance at Administration's term of office ap- and English Ambassadors ́ propose stalks to the door. |proaches, the clocks in the Senate
and House of Representatives are on the basis of no annexations and own fate as Foreign Secretary it ing a 'universal democratic peace Kuhlmann, anxious about his stopped in order to permit current no contributions-on the same day the negotiations fall, hesitates. legislation to be rushed through that Krylenko, then Commissar for Shall he call Hoffmann back? For before the new Administration War, issued his ukase to the Rus a moment he decides to do so. takes over.
sian Commander-in-chief ordering Then some good fairy whispers in him to negotiate an immediate his ear, and he shuts his mouth. armistice, with the enemy.
Your Daily Smile.
Reparations.
The way to Brest is open.
While Kuhlmann's mind works feverishly on the problem
On December 2 the first Russian Trotsky's bombast evaporates, and
A certain man took his son to a delegation arrives at the dis-it is a very subdued Bolshevist On the whole, it was a simple and race meeting but the boy did not mantled garrison town, which dur- who calls petulantly to the depart- Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 25, 1933, comfortable gort of globe on which enjoy himself as well as he ima-ing the war has been the centre of ing general: “Wait a minute."
we lived until the close of the last gined he would because of the more than one fierce battle. The It is days and not minutes that century. Although it was 'cold, crowd.
delegation is headed by Joffe, who General Hoffmann has to wait. that sited the sun and the atmos remarked: deep down there was molten magma As they left the course the son later is to commit suicide, and by Trotsky mends his manners, but he Kameñeff, brother-in-law of Trot-will 'not give way. Finally ha phere in keeping us warm.
"That fat man who pushed into sky. Karachan is secretary. In speaks his last word: he will not the internal pressure became too you was very rude-he ought to be addition to the other delegates sign a shameful peace, but Russia great the magma rushed out through punished.” --
there are a soldier, a sailor, will demobilise and no longer Sir Henry Betterton, the safety-valves which we called vol- "He has been punished;" the workman and a peasant.
consider herself at war. Springs and geysers 'also father replied. "I've got his watch.” The delegates' task is to con- Minister of Labour, gave the canoes.
testified to the existence of that bot House of Commons recently a
interior. Then came the discovery Oh, Them Dimples!
When they arrive a thaw has set
Ministry.
When
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clude the preliminary armistice. In Truculent Mood.
On February 15 he is back in
walls much of the tragedy of Brest he curses the Germans.
useful account of what his de-of radioactivity and an Intensive! If the time my typist wastes each in and rain is falling. The town St. Petersburg. The same day I partment is doing to help the study of earthquake waves. Dr. week dreaming about Clark Gable itself is in ruins. Only the see him for two hours., He is unemployed. It finde work for Wiechert of Gottingen evolved the were laid end to end it would make fortress is standing, and within its bellicose. As he polishes his nails large numbers. It also provides new theory, now socepted with a couple of wrist watches. suitable training both for the modifications by most geologists, that the earth is like an onion, with young people and for the adults a solid core of iron and nickel, the who find their old occupations whole covered by a thin crust of On the heavier underlying gone and have to look for new rock.
ones.
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Our Flippant Moment.
waiter?"
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оп
In
is to be enacted. At this prelimin- Three days later the Germana ary conference there are no Ger.denounce the armistice and ad- man diplomats. The hard-living, vance St. Petersburg: stuff, brilliant General. Hoffmann, com- Smolay, the Bolshevist headquar mander of the German troops on tere, all is confusion and dissen- the Eastern Front, is in charge. sion. There is a holy-war party led in three days, and negotiations for Revolutionaries. There is one long The armistice is concluded with by Radek and the left: Social-
peace begin. At once it is clear week of anxiety. Radek beats his The ead-looking man entered a re-that the Germans will renounce war-drum, but in the streets little stament, and a writer bustled up, neither annexations nor contribu- response is made. Troops, pouring "What will you have, sirt Some tions. They want a conquerors back in confusion from the front, cold shoulder
joshow plainly that Russia has ho "No, thanke, I had that this The negotiations drag on. Early stomach for fighting. morning.”
"Well, then, some tongue?"" "No, thanks. night,"
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pence.
"What is this leathery
"Fület of sols, eir.”...." "Well, ace if you can get me a nice | Socialist partisans ignore sea of magma floated the lighter
continents, drifting about like Ice-piece of upper with the buttons of all these activities. They have bergs on the ocean. Like other themselves no practical sugges- geologists of independent thought, tions for ameliorating unemployProfessor Reginald Daly of Har- ment except unlimited expendi-yard is not in full agreement with this doctrine. In hla recent address ture and a policy that would in-before the Geological Society of cidentally dry up the sources America he elaborated a theory of from which that expenditure is his own. His conclusion is that we met. But the patient efforts of live not on a huge ball of fron ·but] the Ministry to help individuals on one of glass of vitreous, basal- lic material. The crust beneath our are well directed and are. bound feet bears about the same relation to tall There was nothing spec- to the glassy Interior, so far as tacular in Sir Henry Betterton's thickness in concerned, as the skin How to make an umbrella stand, revolver, and with the words "I can Baltie provinces, to cede Kars and speech. But it needs little imaet an orange to the pulp that it ena coal scuttle, a cigarette lighter live no longer," blows out his Batum to the Turks, to pay gination to see that the facts and
Speculation of this sort is and a ben run. Stick it in the brains. nót an idle pastime. Not in the ground, roll it down the stairs, cut figures which he gave represent crust is the story of the earth's an inch off the end and chase it. genuine progress in mastering origin and evolution told, but in that
closes.
in December General Skalon, Lenin telegraphs to the Germans bravest of the Russian military pleading for peace on the original I'll get that to leaders, who has been attached to German terms. For four days ·
the Russian delegation as a techni-there is no answer. When it cal expert, seeing the fate which comes, it is brutal. The terms are threatens his country, takes his stiffer. Rukain has to give up the
HELPFUL HINTS.
On December 28 the negotiations are 'adjourned for ten days in the hope that England and, France may the evil. He said, for example, liquid interior to which man will Quilting the Racket.
be induced to participate, and to that 160,000 young people had never penetrate. That determines the So much has been said about give the Russians time to consider been trained at the centres, now height, form and density of the sham amateurs in tennis lately the German terms.
continents: that holds the key to that I hear many players are-be-
Facts You Did Not Know;
The stage is set for Trotsky.
Determined To Fight.
an
Indemnity of 300,000,000 gold roubles.v.«
(Continued on Page 7)
MUZZLING AGAIN ENFORCED..
On January 6, ́ ́ 1918, the man Regulation Reintroduced whom Raymond Robins called the
to be found in most districts, and vanished land bridges that once ginning to think the game isn't that 90 per cent of them had connected the continents: the worth the scandal. found employment. He mention-interior, in Professor Daly's words, ed that 60,000 women had been "where lies the secret of secrets of trained and that 80 per cent. of all geological science," and that is
greatest Jew 'since Jesus Christ As from yesterday afternoon, by them were now in work Trade "the seat of dominating energy and
|leaves for Brest. He is full of notification - in a Government the origin of all-rocks whatever."
battle. In St Petersburg his fol-Gazette Extraordinary, the muz is bad, and employers are relucta characteristic of this new Tebacco products manufactured lowers run a whispering campaign aling regulations have been reip tant to embark on new ventures geology that it consider the do in the United States from domestle in favour of war in the event or troduced in full in the Colony, for to engage more hands. Yet mands of cosmogony. Any theory tobaccos are consumed in 105 couns Germans proving unreasonable. No dog may, now go abroad, with- within the last two years nearly of the earth's structure: must now tries. end American leaf tobacco The greatest poker-game in history out a properly affixed muzzle, 2,000,000 persons found places, the origin of the solar system, consumption in 94.
[square with the accepted views of enters 'Into local manufacture and is now to be played, S
The reintroduction of, muzzling No Allled representative no was foreshadowed last week, when and when the February, figures Geology has become part of
Allied journalist, is present at this several cases of rabies wero of unemployment were published astrophysics. The processes of the Mirrors on the roof of a new contest between demagogyTM and brought to the notice of the au they showed a marked
stars are involved in interpreting Paris newspaper blant reflect sun-militariam. But from the lips of thorities.
the earth for Arcturus and Birds light down through pipes to poole the chief participants on both sides The muzzling order has been and the remoter Magellanic Clouds of water, whence it is again reflected have heard the Intimate details suspended for about two years. the bone of our bone, flesh of
In the current year the
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when the fifth is KING GEORGE TV
INDE, PRICE &
But there Is flood: res Heve that this exp both alleviating the the unemployed trus many of them to ind trade improves. If prival
prise could now be stit to undertake : schemes," and it could see their wa
the more urgent
Have been tempor there might soon be Hal reduction in the nui
the workless.
to help Illuminate-the-interior of which Illyrainate the drab, prose of two- the building..
the official protocols. I have scen
the puckish, unshaven Radek give
feet - A resident of New York state has a repeat performance, for the 3D- succeeded king grass' grow to tertainment of his friends, of his
the roof of his own truculence towar his coal consumption mans.»lie is against peace,
the "house price, a partisan
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to The Urals
News In Brief
Several wooden huts on the Cas tle Peak Road, near Cheungaha- wan, were destroyed by a fire which Broke out at about 5.15 a.m. yester iday.
A meeting of the Hong Kong Practical® Paychology Club, will be held at Lane Crawford's Bestsu- rant, at 6 p.m., op Friday, April 28. The speaker will be the Rey, G. K Carpenter, MA, and the subject of his speech will be "Fears.
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