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HERE THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1933,
TERROR OF RUSSIAN JUSTICE
POLICE OVERRULE THE
GOVERNMENT
£70,000 BUSINESS SEIZED
(By The Hon. Frederick Cripps.)
Fifty Years To Make A Map.
There are still uncharted seas and unmapped coasts, The Navy's sur vey ship Challenger has recently returned from Labrador, where, for several months, she has voyag ed among the perils of hidden rocks, not to mention the ice floes,. and has brought with her the first detailed survey of one of the least known and most perilous coasts ployees of Metropolitan-Vickers in
manager, Mr. Krasn08- in the world.
Russia is not without its precedente brother, who was head of the Com- [schockoff, was arrested with his Only four months of the year are in the Soviet's internal blundera.. available for this work, but 3,000 soundings are taken every day, and under private enterprise has been
More than one thriving
every one carefully recorded along
The trial of the six British em-second blow,...
with the state of the tides, density crashed in this manner.
frm
of the water, air temperature, and Six years of heartbreaking busi- wind measurement. At the same ness life in the Soviet showed mej time the configuration and eleva
My
mercial Industrial Bank affiliated to the Russian State Bank,
He was charged with borrowing money for my business at an illegal- ly low rate of interest.
.
Guilty Plea..
Before the trial Krasnosschockoff. tion of the coast is surveyed by only too plainly that it is the and his brother were taken before triangulation.
favourite trick of the young hot an official of the Ogpu. It will take about ten years to get headed Bolsheviks in the Ogru. dispassionately, you will be given "If you plead guilty," he said even one safe trade route mapped Russia's secret all-powerful police, respectively three years' and 'six' up this coast, and the whole job is to thwart private enterprise by sears' imprisonment. expected to take fifty years. arresting its key man.
"with
The Government has no say in the!
Fanatics.
It has no control over the Orpu, and so the two run side by side, une
This blunder of the
"If you plead not guilty, you will be given the death penalty.'
They both pleaded guilty-and re- ceived their sentences.
In spite of this, I still hoped that the Government would see I had fair play.
1 began translating the Russian Code of Law into English.
Long before the end I was convinced yonger that it was impossible for any per-
L. C. C. and Waterloo Bridge. matter.
The L.C.C. has decided great reluctance" to accept the Government's scheme for the recon- ditioning of Waterloo Bridge.
There is, of course, no finality in very frequently embarrassing the this, since the House of Commons, ether. which has rejected two schemes al- ready, may easily reject another. fanatics and a blunder it most But it will be a pitiable end to this certainly was has cost the Rus breaking at least one of her laws.
son to live in the Soviet without nine-year-old controversy i the aian Government dear. It has outcome is a scheme which is re-broken down the trade negotiations massed for the final onslaught.
Soon, the forces of the Ogpu, were pugnant to the authority mainlyj with Great Britain. Presidents of the Assembly, the concerned.
Just how many times the work-which provided me with the raw The Government department Corporative Chamber and the
When the projected corbelling is hold the Soviet regime, have almost baking powder declined to sell me
Ings of the Ogpu, seeking to up materials High Court of Justice, and five
for the manufacture of "men of worth." Public opinion completed there will not be much succeeded in destroying it will is declared to be the "fundaeft of Rennie's structure, go that never be known.
jany more. mental element of politics and possible worlds, neither keeping the
we shall have made the worst of all My own casa was one.
"I Gave In." administration," and citizens are old bridge nor getting a bridge wide
At the same time the Government guaranteed the "right of expres enough for modern traffic. In any
department which purchased the sion of thought in all forms." case work is not likely, to begin residence
The war interrupted five years' finished product sued me in their Constitution in Portugal marked But the State has nevertheless until next year ten years after director of the Russian-English material.
in Czarist Russia as a own courts for not delivering the a radical change in that country's
the duty to defend public opinion the first collapse.
Bank, but in 1920 I went back at political thought, but the indica-against all factors that might
All my staff were arrested, and tions that the change will prove
subvert it," and the Press is
the invitation of Kameneff, the this time my English manager, that most beneficial.' President Car- obliged to accept for publication
Mayro of Moscow, to start some very gallant gentleman, mona has deserved well of his Government communiques on mat-
financial enterprise which would Trefusis, who is now dead. SOUND AND FURY.
introduce foreign capital. countrymen in giving them seventers of public interest. Military
He was tried for an infringement America gave, the world sound years of good government; he service is compulsory, short, and will deserve yet better if he suc-Nove constitutes a sensible com- she'll give herself sound banks.
universal. Altogether the Batado pictures, and maybe by and by ceeds in peacefully transforming
Portugal's New Constitution.
The adoption of the
new
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several
My Scheme.
I floated a scheme to rebuild the properties in Moscow that had been destroyed in the madness of the revolution.
The scheme went well and
Among them was the manufac- I bought
Dennis
of one of the labour laws--the in-- varikble standby of Ogpu-and He was fined £100,
The rent, who were all Russian subjects, were exiled to distant parts of the country.
This was the end. I gave in.
I told the Government I was pre-
£70,000.
his benevolent dictatorship into a promise between autocracy and workable constitutional regime: the unfettered Parliamentariam The first Republican Constitution under which Portugal suffered so A well-known novelist confesses jembarked on other enterprises. was not workable-or at any rate many convulsions between 1910 that he recently learned the exaggerated legislative ac
and 1926. The course of the new words that were entirely new to ture of baking powder. Įtivity of Deputies, which became regime will be followed with the him. Perhaps another time he will the necessary raw materials frompared to sell out and they offered
almost a mania, made it unwork- greatest sympathy and interest. give the bus-driver warning that one Government department and able and he has therefore offer- Portugal has Intely won fresh he intends to cut in. ed the country a more limited respect by her ability to balance Parliamentary system. The right her Budgets and to allow to her Hot Prospect. to vote is not extended to illiter- exchange regulations a freedom ales, who form in Portugal some rare. in Europe to-day. sixty per ctnt, of the population. The bulk of popular power is placed in the hands of educated heads of families, whether male
"Workers' Control"
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sold the finished product to another.
'This also went well, and soon was employing 700 workers.
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I left Russia to discuss the pro- posal with my English shareholders and we agreed to accept the price.
When I returned to Russia I was casually told by Government off- ciais that they had a counterclaim against my business for £70,100, which would leave me just £100 in
.
All the time I had the reassuring A letter was sent to a rich manu- facturer in the State demanding feeling that I was working with the $50,000 or otherwise his wife would full co-operation of some of the be kidnapped. Through an error the most powerful people in the Soviet letter was delivered to a poor man Government.
But there was another "Govern their debt. [of the same name, who replied: "1| The British Socialist Labour ain't got no money, but I'm interest ment," a sinister dictatorship, or female. The National Assem-party, both on its political and ed in your proposition."
Now I am back in England, but by so elected is to sit only for industrial sides, is slipping back
which was not at all pleased at the that debt has not been paid-on three months in the year, and as fast as it can into the extra Answer to Correspondent.
prosperity of a private Arm in an either side. does not possess the power to vagant follies of its raw
anti-capitallat country, That dic- overthrow the Cabinet. It has, callow adolescence.
A mother-in-law, Henry, is It quietly relative on the wife's side. however, the right to initiate sloughed many of them as it legislation, and two-thirds made its quick rise to power, Ita majority can secure the enact-leaders talked a new idiom and A Bad Habit. ment of a law even if the Presi- dropped. the crudities of Keir He just can't help himself-The dent has opposed it. The fram-Hardic and Smillie. Only a few chicken thief who is always break- ers of the new Constitution have months ago, at the Leicester and ing into a run. in fact set themselves the object Newcastle conferences, the lead
and
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Facts You Did Not Know.
which covered its actions and cloud- tatorship, working in the dark-
ed its own montality-was the Ogpu.
Girl's Arrest
News In Brief.
April 20
Rainfall during April, recorded at The Government at that time was inches, the greatest fall being re- the Botanical Gardens totalled 1.95 negotiating for a trade agreement gistered on with the British Sociallat Govern-inches.
with 1.0% ment," but that was no deterrent to the younger Bolsheviks, WY
The Ogpu mind is like that. No esting address on "The Evolution of Mr. B. Wylie delivered an inter- thing, not even rational thinking, News" to members of the St. An- must stand in the way of Com- drew's Club, last night. The Rev.
d in the wa munism:
And so I arrived at my office one the meeting.
W. Walton Rogers presided over morning to find that my private- had been arrested, the. St. John Ambulance: Brigade, secretary, a Russian girl of twenty,
of encouraging a sense of respon-ers put up a strong fight against Sunday on the Roads. sibility and steadiness in the the insurgents who insisted on electorate and Parliament, while reverting to direct "Workers' entrusting the chief executive Control," as against Mr. Herbert powers to the President of the Morrison's scheme for a National Republic and his Prime Minister. Transport Industry, in which he It is generally admitted that the vainly pleaded that there must collaboration of General Carmona be "ability at the top." Mr. Mor-
A slide rule has been invented and Dr. Salazar in those two rison, of course, insisted that or matching colours of paints and respective positions has given the workers should be given re-
¡lacquers Portugal much the best Admin- presentation In the organisation istration she has possessed since of any publicly-owned industry. Hah invention is propelled by its A novel racing vehicle of Eng the establishment of the Republic but he carefully stipulated that rider manipulating a handle, twenty-two years ago; and it is it must be such as was "comp therefore natural that the quiet patible with effective service to A portable water softener has Cavalry officer and the briliant the nation. All such provisos been invented that can be connect-m the inestimable benefit of freedom joint meeting of the General
year,
...
The monthly returns for April of
I immediately spoke to Chicherin, New Territories Medical branch, who was then Commissar of Forahow that altogether 7,828 cases
eign Affairs, and reminded him of were treated, Cheung Chau alone the consequences upon the trading dealt with 1,610 and Fan Ling 1,295. negotiations that would follow the M
rest of an employee of a British Dr. Ethel Mary Minett, first Government Medical Officer of Schools, is due to leave Hong Kong
He
Exiled
He was profuse In his apologies. on Tuesday, on her way to join her "Say no more he said she husband in British Gulans.
see anteriologist in this Colony,.
from pronunciamentos upon the Council of the T.U.C. and the Argentina plans to spend about country, should now wish to pre- Executive Committee of the So- $18,000,000 on road planning, con shall be released within twenty-four was formerly a Government bac- serve executive authority, In the cialist party it was resolved to re-struction and maintenance. this hours same two offices, supported by a turn to the doctrine of "Workers' wider distribution of power and Control" It is not put quite so responsibility. The Constitution bluntly, but the meaning is un- has many of the features which mistakable" A place in the con distinguish the newest Govern-trol and direction" means full Minister and the trade unions lapse ments of to-day. The State is control and entire direction. The concerned, What harm in “con- "I can do nothing, described as Corporative, and has Socialist ci-devants, motably Sir sultation I may be asked. None, he has been arrested the right to administer public Stafford Cripps and Bir Charles but consu utilities such as hydraulic works, Trevelyan, have been sedulously What is nies
on is not meant. Ogpu. and electric power and preaching on the platformsand ister for Ive Chamber in leaflets the doctrine of im-
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I waited for fours days, but the secretary did not return. While working on the hillside When I saw Chicherin he was near Waterloo Street, Chan Cheong, almost in a state of mental col an earth coolle, was fatally injured Barted by a rock, which was accidentally by the was removing earth. He was taken dislodged from above him while he "he said,
to the Kowloon Hospital but died-on the; way,
is that the Min-Twelve months later for example, through that she had policy and his by the Ogiu to a remo Miners Federa8lber
do as he is told That No dofinite charge han
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been
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