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Hong Kong, Friday, July 6, 1934.
Are The Censors To Blame?
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HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
MOCK MASONS
The expulsion of a freemason by the United Grand Lodge of} England will come as a surprise to those who know the phrase "Onte a mason always a mason.”
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COMMUNAL FARMS A FAILURE
RUSSIA'S 5-YEAR PLAN
A CATASTROPHE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY ENDED
▶USSIA has regained her pre-war hectares, compared with 184.4. in wheat output, but this appar-1932 and 136.2 in 1931. The 1913 rent recovery has been made at the figure was 105.0. Rye production- It is not often that a member is! expelled, but Grand Lodge have expense of practically every other is declining, and barley and oats. always reserved the right to do so. branch of agriculture. The large-are largely exported.
Alcoholic drinks (made from The reason for their action was scale farming, aided by large sup
t-plies of tractors, has proved barley, &c.), are heavily taxed, and that the member concerned
the high "calorfè” value of wheat tended a body known as "Co. complete failure. Masons" which admits women.
Horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs is needed to save the population
disappearing. The "com- from the effects of the loss of the
There have from time to time jare been many pseudo-Masonic bodies, munal" farms are an acknowledged other grains.
collective The Russian peasantry, how- many of which have admitted wo-failure, though a new
type of farm known as the "artel" ever, declines to starve, and as in- men is members.
The individual farming is'being made not
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During recent years Invitations is now being favoured. to visit non-recognised lodges crease in wheat acreage in recent only unprofitable but almost im have been showered on well-known years has been largely at the ex-possible, it has consumed the live- members of the craft-
pense of rye,
stock for food, without waiting for Warnings have been issued The wheat acreage of the Union the formality of ration-cards, and The from time to time that they must of Soviet Republics is officially en-declines to breed any more. not be accepted.
timated at approximately 40,000,000 statistics of the collapse of Rus-. hectares (one hectare in nearly sia's live-stock, the figures being "BABY" OF THE GENERALS 2% acres), or about 100,000,000 those given in official Soviet publi- acres, and the crop at over 880,- cations, are almost staggering; they General A. P. Wavell, who is 000,000 bushels (of 60 lb) for this are set out in this table: being mentioned as the next Com-year, including both the winter, mandant of the Imperial Defence wheat sown last year and this. College, is the youngest major-year's spring wheat. general in the Army. He was
Recovery In Wheat only 51 last May.
This output, if it is ever realis-trophic effect of the
Ciltle
1916.
$8,900,000
Sheep and Goats
115,200,000.
Pige
20,300,000
Horses
35,100,000
These results show the catas-
Five-Year
to Russian head-led, will just equal that of 1913, Plan on the live-stock Industry.
in.
During one period of the war he was attached quarters in the Caucasus, where when the Russian Empire headed
The much-advertised collectivisa- countries wheat-producing he was a great favourite of the the
with a production. of 880,000,000 tion has merely held its own Grand Duke Nicholas.
wheat-growing at the expense of The two men always talked in bushels, 122,000,000 bushels Russian, for "A. F." is an expert which were exported. The U.S.S.R. hundreds of millions of pounds Russian scholar. He spent two is unlikely to export even as much worth of stock, and with 204,000 tractors purchased by dumping but it remains the fact that the years-1911 and 1912 in the as a third of the last figure.
food abroad. The Russian delegate to the modern Cato resembles his pro-family of a famous writer in Mos-
Compared with the old "mixed" totype in seeing no difference row to learn the language.
|Rome Wheat Conference, reported between a serious treatment of a He is a good-looking Scot of that the recent Increase of wheat farms, the large, prairie-like col- lective and State farms have fail- moral problem and mere lubri- sturdy build and charming man-sowing had been at the expense of
Jed miserably. city. There is a great deal to be nera. Although he lost an eye in rye, and that the U.S.S.R. would be
"Artel" Farm aaid for the policy of leaving the France, he hunts, golfs, shoots, junlikely to add to the world's glut
of wheat exports in
Efforts are being made to save the near for itself: akis, and fishes. public to decide
of though no
future. As shown below, the wheat the situation by, a new type one more than the
known as collective farm
the STARS AND STRIPES AT MOSCOW recovery has been at the expense "artel," in which piece-work and
Censors would wish that Holly wood could. manage not to give; From time to time one
or them so many films that are on other of our local clergy raises the border line. his voice in protest against the The Chief Censor in Australia standard of our local films or in his annual report states that
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Jof other agricultural produce, and American warships will anchor
off Kronstadt this summer.
It will be the first important!
be
has been very dearly bought.
Russia's wheat output may
Production, Export
naval visit of a Great Power to summarised as follows: Russian waters Bince Admiral
Year
That visit, with Its lavish hog-1913
Millions
of bushels
BEO
333
576
122
DA 30.4
816
32 10
other entertainments, and on the during last year he banned forty- Beatty's battle cruiser squadron principle of when you ace a four films. In three cases there] went there in June. 1914. head, hit it' belabours the Cen-iwas no appeal. In the other cases sors. Of course in this the his action was upheld only in res- pulpit is only doing its duty as it pect of nine. His experience is pitality, was regarded by the Rus-1924 sees it; but no argument can be common. There is no such thing Russian solidarity against Ger-1934 (estimated) 880
stens as a demonstration of Anglo- 1923 based on a selection of startling as autocracy in the matter.
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Jefficiency payments are the rule,
while "deperaonisation" is being fought. Stalin has publicly AN- nounced the fallure of the "com- munal" type of collective, and · has denounced them as "equalitarian."
The new "ärtels' . will produce-*- grein, cattle, poultry, and veget |ables. This return to mixed farm- ing will strengthen British faith in steady progres, with formation of These results show the recent, larger units when possible, and Rightly or wrongly, Japan will recovery, but other years show in-will reprove, the Socialist critica" There was of our Wheat Act, who claimed the heavy "dumping" of 1980-81; 1929
titles that often have nothing to Another point worth mention-many- do with the action of the storyling is that the local Censors are Moreover theatrical performances often blamed for films being cut hardly fail to regard the Ameri-teresting anomalies. are not subject to the Censors, about when they have really no cau visit in a similar light.
The officers and
1932
1933
men of the the famines of early post-war 68,100,000 40,700,000 38,600,000 but to the common law. That thing to do with the matter.'
squadron will go to years cannot be realised except by 47,200,000 $2,100,000 50,000,000 censorship is a delicate task is The magnates that control these American
The 20,000,000 11,600,000 12,200,000 shown by the fact that the same things have a fixed idea that the Moscow where they will be the those who suffered in them. difficulties crop up everywhere. Far East wants its films short. guests of the Soviet Government low 1924 figure of only 820,000 $4,000,000 19,600,000 16,600,000 It is human nature to be inqui-The theory is that people who land of Mr. "Bill" Bullitt, the bushels exports (above) was pre-'during its passage through Parlia- sitive, and the public usually live in hot climates cannot con-American Ambassador. wants to judge for itself.
one
Your Daily Smile!
ceded by a figure of 23,000,000 ment in 1932 that Engand was un- bushels. The export figures com suitable for wheat-growing, and mence on Aug, 1 in each year, and that gigantle prairie farms alone are continued to July 31 of the
were suitable.
It was discovered that a debt-following year.
had misappropriated
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Icentrate. Most of the noticeable Lest there should be any ten-cutting that is done is done be dency to take too local a view, fore the film leaves America. Only a film may with interest note the other day we had that there is a controversy going shown here in which the cuts collector on in Australia on the same sub-made it almost impossible to fol-money from every bill be handled. ject. The first Australian films low the plot, and yet the film He seems to have been embezzling
It is from all accounts. were severely criticised both for was shown as I arrived. their technical shortcomings and rather noteworthy that in such
has the feeling that [Not Nearly Enough their tone. Much trouble was cases one taken to turn out an effort at a the wrong reels have been taken
“A man should reach the top of the ladder before compiling his more serious bit of drama, Inout.
One of the best of the English (reminiscences," declares
a critic 'the Silence of Dean Maitland'; but the Chief Censor decided critics said the other day that Two rungs don't make a wrile. that three scenes must be cut out the most extraordinary effect of before the film could be licensed the cinema boom had been to Expects Too much for production outside of Aus-throw a great deal of unexpected tralia. The producers argued light on the characteristics of
a pretty head There is no that one of these scenes was Mr. Everyman! absolutely essential to the plot doubt that any more highly Surely he doesn't expect me to do The scenes were passed by the trained or educated producers my courting in public? local censors of Victoria and would never have guessed so cor-
Handicapped New South Wales. Hence rectly what would bring in good controversy about whether cen-box office returns,
Nothing
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An author saye one seldom sees on wise shoulders.
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Staggering Figures Though the wheat acreage
Yet Russian wheat is grown at the enormous cost indicated. The has yield is only 12 bushels an acre, risen and now surpasses the pre-compared to our 85; and it is now war figure-output is, however, fully realised that the situation only equal to prewar the total can only be saved—if at all-from sown area for all cereals has de-a livestock famine by restoring In- elined recently. It is 129.7 million]dividuality in a new form.
HAWKER ASSAULTS
POLICEMAN.
Refuses To Produce
License.
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Fines totalling $29, in default one The dentist who 'always pulls month and seven days' imprison- ment, were imposed on Lam Chung- [but, an unlicensed hawker, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Ma-
sorship in "the country of origin" could have revealed more vividly his shots at golf. is reasonable, rather than in the the superficial effects of popular
"country of destination" for all education, and the tawdriness of Wellerism
a
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A
SMUGGING IN GAOL
Heavy Fine For Indian Warder.
LETTERS AND PILLS SENT THROUGH LAUNDRY
Feroz Khan, a 24-year-old Indian
the world as it the film was taste and ideas of the great "Will you let that alone?" as gistracy this morning, for hawking warder at the Victoria Gaol, was bala of cotton cloth. The net re-public for whom the studios the man said, wanting only one preserved fruits without a license charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac sult is that everyone has either work. There lies the task of our room of a flat. seen or discussed the disputed schools and churches;-In teach- reela, which have achieved all the ing people to demand a higher All Her Own Work. inevitable publicity of the sup-standard in what is submitted to
The English girl, saya an Ameri- preased.
them for their entertainment- can visitor, is a picture. There are many signs, that al-
and for assaulting a constable, Kar- Fadyen at the Central Magistracy kar Singh, In Leighton Hill Road this morning, with transferring a yesterday.
letter and boxes of Chinese medi Accused refused to produce his elne pills into the Victoria Gol license when he was asked for it without the authority of the superin- and slapped the policeman's face and tendent of prisons.
No matter what changes of ready gangsters and chorus girls Facts You Did Not Know broke his watch. personnel may be made it has have begun to pall. There has
been found that there is never not been any improvement in the A floating crane has been construct unanimity in decisions, either fare provided; but there hased in England that can lift loads of locally or in different centres. been a great falling off in the 150 tone and weigh them while in the London is very broadminded, demand for the old style of pro-aine largely as a result of the fierce campaign waged by Mr. Bernard Shaw and others against the un-
vender.
Rubber plating with which flash-
Mr. J. W. Franks, the Superinten.... dent of Prisons, said that the case first aroused suspicion when the de... Ifendant's laundry was paid " more
laundry department than others.... They were seen to have searched the!
† K. Ç. C. OPEN-AIR CONCERT attention to by prisoners in the
{lights 'for electricians have been equip In response to numerous re- fortunate Mr. Redfern, who was The Women's Auxiliary of the pod can withstand voltages as high as quests, the Committee of the pockets of defendant's laundry when a very ordinary but rather Society for the Protection of Chil- 20,000,
Kowloon Cricket Club are ar-sent in to be washed. ultra-respectable civil servant dren desire to acknowledge with
About 85 per cent of Australia's ranging a concert on Saturday, Accused was searched, yesterday who had the misfortune to ban grateful thanks the following dona- coal production comes from New July 28. The full band of the and a letter and some Chinese anodi- several of the few Victorian tions:-Mrs. S. W. T'so, $50; Mrs. South Wales; where there are more Lincolnshire Regiment will pro- cine pills were found in his pockets plays that would have a chance Tsol Cheung, 150; Mrs. Wong Cho-thin 200 mines.
vide an original programme, in-The letter, which was in Chinese troducing sketches and selec-characters, bore the words: "Please of being revived to-day, There chor, $205 Mrs Wong Hķk-ding, Bang is no need for any cant about 820; Mr. Tool Yat-ho, #21; Mrs. Refrigerated trucks" have been in- tions specially appropriate, to be may bearer $10," the ordinary Hollywood product, Taol Yat-ho, $20; Mrs. Wong Cho-Vanted for, delivering les do contain produced, In the spacious grounds A fine of $100, in default, two
with antnimum of loss from Telling of the K.C.C.
months' hard labour, was imposed: having a serious moral purpose; tong, 610; Mrs. Iwol Wal-shus $10. sa rupte,
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