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One of the best specimens of the “hardy annual" story has been going the rounds during the {manoeuvres et Alderakot.
It told of the cavalryman who, when stopped as he darted across a bridge supposed to have heen blown up, said, "I am pretending I have swum it.”
IRONY OF
OF LAW IN THE SOVIET
NOTHING HUMANITARIAN IN PENAL CODE
"SAVAGE DECREES" SLATED
(By Malcolm Muggeridge.)
It has frequently been claimed, fletarian revolution," and is punish-
Brigadier A. F. Thomson, com- even by trained lawyers, that able, in nearly every case, by the mander of the First Air Defence Soviet law represents an improve- death sentence. Brigade, "ays" the story for good ment on any hitherto known; an and all.
improvement in the sense that it is
General Category
1911
or
A
He states that it was he who first more humane, less weighted against Now, clearly, almost any act, related it. It actually happened in the under-dog. simpler and, there- public or private, can be brought
1912 during Army fore, not so easily manipulats by under so general a category, manoeuvres at Burford Bridge in ingenious minds and eloquent to-peasant for instance, who secretes Oxfordshire. The hero was Captain gues; cheaper. An excellent transa little food for his own and his T. C. Mudie, of the Royal Scots.
lation of the Soviet Penal Code, family's consumption when the recently published by his Majesty's district in which he lives is be- {HE WAS THERE
Stationery Office provides a means hind with its grain deliveries to the of testing such claims.
Government, may be regarded as
*
Brigadier Thomson was the assis- tant. umpire at the bridge in ques- tion.
manoeuvres.
The series of Decrees making up thereby undermining the funda the Soviet Penal Code fall into mental economic conquests of the "Ever since it first appeared (he two categories—those dealing with proletarian revolution,
and is, states) that jest, with slight varia-ordinary crime (I mean murder, therefore, liable to be shot; a fac tions in the wording, has been trot robbery, rape, anti-social acts story worker who happens to say to ted out at yearly or two-yearly tensibly punishable in all commun another factory worker that, the intervals 18 thered hot bright|ities, whether capitalist or
com-food in the factory restaurant is utterance of Bome
soldier on munist) and those dealing with abominable, and that in his opinion political crime. The former, with people lived better under Tsarism, "No account of Army manoeuvres certain interesting exceptions, lay may be regarded as undermining is complete without it. Sometimes down a scale of punishment more the authority of the Workers' and It is an infantry. sergeant; at others lenient than prevails in other coun-Peasanta Government, and, ia a corporal.
tries. Ten years of compulsory therefore, liable to be shot. "The story is becoming' as 'weari-tabour is a maximum sentence, and
In fact, these sections of the some as impersonations of Graciejeven that is hedged round with Soviet Penal Code mean that, to Fields."
qualifications and safeguards.
nil intents and purposes, everyone There is no capital punishment liable to be arrested at er, and his Majesty's head Your Daily Smile! and no solitary confinement. Any-moment, and to be, as far as the stands out, as it were, in relief;
authorities are concerned, plausib one with a taste, say, for non- the colour is a richer brown. A distinguished-looking man was political murder or non-politically charged and convicted. Similar changes will be found in seated in a railway compartment rape would unquestionably be bet- ensure that no Soviet citizen shall the penny and halfpenny issues when a fellow passenger leaned ter placed in Russia than clse-ever feel secure, He cannot be when they appear. There are forward and said: "Pardon me, sir, where, with the exception,
law-abiding, and therefore Active Trade Figures alterations in design, but so but I seem to know your face!
afraid, because the law is too haps, of the United States. slight that only philatelists are! "Ah, yes, no doubt," said the
general, too vague, to be capable likely to study them.
jother. "But I'm travelling in-
There are, however, as I have of, observance. * The Postmaster-General has cognito' foreign trade returns for July thought it necessary to put in a
The said, interesting exceptions.
Its generality is its strength ag any reflection of the diminution defence of this strictly conserva-passenger. "I'm travelling in jam. 1982, states:
“Really," said the inquisitive preamble of a Decres of August 7, an instrument of terror, and its in employment that was record-tive policy. Certainly it is a
weakness as a judicial system. This ed in June. On the contrary, highly valued tradition that our the figures suggest trade active
The China Mail
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1934
There is not. in the British
Twas a
·
* * Aha!
•
per-
any
They
In⚫
"The Central Executive Com-jis particularly the case in view of Easily Hit.
mittee of the Council of People's the fact that, where à political fine sermon the day." Commissars of the U.S.S.R. con-charge is made, the same instru- in almost all its branches. Bri- stamps should always bear the tish exports are up by $1.109.000 however, does not invest the
effigy of the Sovereign,
observed McNairn, tho mebbe' 'twas sider that public property (State, ment-the Ogpu; now renamed the That, a wee bit personal' för ye." in comparison with June, and by framework
"Na," Righed the village reprobate, collective farm and co-operative) | Nakomynudel, but without any of the design "it's a mighty puir sermon that die is the basis of the Soviet regime. It change in its personnel or essential over three and a quarter millions as compared with July of last there is no disputing that the
with any sanctity, While nae hit me somewhere?"
Ja sacred and inviolable, and per-character-frames the charge, sen- year. This increased selling is photogravure Issues more than
sons guilty of offences against it tences and executes the sentence, distributed over most depart justify the assertion that "Bri-back 7"
"Does your wife talk behind your should be regarded as enemies of there being no public proceedings. ments of manufacture, and la estish stampe are among the best "No; we don't own a car.”
the people; and in view of this a
Legalised Terrorism pecially marked in iron and steel. printed in the world," we can
decisive struggle with pillagers of machinery, cotton and wollen hardly say that their design is Facts You Did Not Know of the organs of Soviet authority" standard, outrageous system
Nor is any tendency apparent to public property is the primary duty
restrict this, оп manufactures, and vehicles of equal eminence. The Post-
any civilised The trades that have suffered master-General adduces strong
The Decree then proceeds to make legalised terrorism. On the worst in the past are showing practical reasons against larger species of grass growing on sandy "pilferage of collective farm and plementing articles 58 and 59 is, A Florida scientist has found that "pilferage of goods in transit" and trary, the most recent Decree sup... the most marked signs of revistamps such as in other coun-soils in his state sends its roots five val. More than three millions tries give the designer more feet deep into the earth in five weeks. co-operative property" punishable in many respects, the most savage sterling of the July improve freedom. But within the scope
by the supreme measure of social of all. It makes flight across the ment is in manufactured goods. of practicality there might be. Direct radio telegraph service has defence-death by shooting." and the detailed figures suggest changes, and we hope that Sirland Amsterdam and radio telephone been established between Buenos Aires) that most of the foreign and Kingsley Wood does not conal-service between Argentina and Aus- Colonial markets are taking der he has attained an more of these, showing that re-able perfection. vival is not confined to the home country. The slight increase in the adverse balance of trade.
immut-tralia.
amounting to a million sterling MONK SOLVES POLICE
as compared with July, 1938. may be safely assumed to be covered by the extra earnings from shipping and finance due Ito the carriage of more goods.
PROBLEM
Hidden Body Traced By Divining Rod
DISCOVERED IN OVEN
*
*
*
to
con-
frontier "by air or otherwise" A Curious Irony
punishable by the death sentence, and any person who, having know- Thus, by a curious irony, the one ledge of auch a flight, falls to in- European State, that still inflicts form the authorities, liable to "de-
A trailer for motor vehicles has been the death penalty for petty theft privation of liberty for a period of invented with a road clearance of only is also the one European State from five to ten years and confis- three inches, making it possible carry heavy loads safely at high which bases itself on a denial of cation of the whole of his property." the rights of property. In Russia. More, any adult member of the peasants can be, and frequently fugitive's family, whether he had. An airplane pasarar remice will be are, shot for surreptitiously grab-knowledge of the flight or not, is established in China from Sharhai to bing handfuls of grain that they liable to "deprivation of electoral the Sibernian border, where it will ronneet, with
service a Soviet
have themselves grown; nor is the rights and exile to remote regions Europe.
fact that starvation led them to of Siberia for five years." commit so shocking a crime regard-
That is to say, the holding of ed as a mitigating circumstance.hostages, which has been used ever
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
to
This is a not inconsiderable fly since the Revolution to keep Soviet in the humanitarian ointment of citizens, who have managed, legal- Soviet law. Another is the whole ly or illegally, to get abroad, with-
at the standard punishment. No one It amuses me, in the light of a
of the tion Act.
On the import side of the ac counts the picture is not wholly satisfactory. As compared with July last year, imports were £4.- 311,000 higher, and rather more A strange story of the body of | than half this amount was in a missing and murdered man be
Raw ma- ing located by a water diviner is Harris the case againat Kwok Kin, sory labour on public works a sanctioned.
On the application of Sergeant system of making terms of compul-in the Ogpu's orbit is now officially manufactured goods. terial accounted for £1,770,000 reported from Montpellier. Thaa house coolle employed of the increase. If the manufac victim of the crime, a judical of Matilda Hospital, who was charged knows, or ever perhaps will know, decree of this kind, to think of tures me in there is the concial named Etienne. disappeared with the theft of two sets of towel the full extent of the part played friends of the Soviet Union (of all solation that by payment of some days ago, and ble father ap-rails and standards, the property by political prisoners, working for people) forming their leagues to tariffs hey have contributed pealed for help to one of the of Mr. H. R. Forsyth, of Messrs.no wages and under atrocious con-safeguard civil liberties, and mak- substantly to the revenue of monks of Frigolet Abbey, who has Linstead and Davis and Company, ditions, in the much advertised ing their protests against the Sedi- the year while the additional a high reputation as a dowser. at the War Memorial Hospital last economic achievements imports a offset by a substan Responding to the call, Father Monday, was remanded until to Soviet regime; but it is beyond tially grea
improvement in Gerlac visited the missing man's morrow morning, by Mr. E question that the Soviet Govern- manufacture porta. On ba home and office and touched Hamilton at the Central Magis- lance there is betterment in various books and garments betracy this morning. the nation's rade accounts longing to him. Then holding in This contrasts, rikingly with his hand the divining rod, he fol the German 1 which show 'ana lance; yet that
have a favourable lis to lift itself out löf debt and unemplo
New Postage
The first
for July. lowed the route on which Etienne yesterday, and is due here at 6 a.m. The s.s. Mantua left Shanghai e trade bahad last been seen.
on Friday.
try must. For some distance, the rod re- mce if it mained steady, but when the monk
ment, like the Pharaohs, has free-
ly use slave labour to build ita MASS EDUCATION
pyramida.
Nor is there anything humant-
tarion about the sections of the
MOVEMENT.:
Soviet Penal Code (the notorious Lecture By Prof. Forster e slough arrived at the workshop of a car fever was reported in the Colony political crime or counter-revolu
One Imported case of typhoid Articles 58 and 59) dealing with To Teaching Association
ps
the
hree-
penter named Fabreguettes it during the 24 hours ended Septem-jtionary activity. They are, indeed, "The Mass Education Movement," violently agitated, The movement ber 17.
all fly and no, ointment. Counter-was the subject of an interesting died down after the shop had been
revolutionary activity is defined as lecture delivered by Professor L.
passed, and was renewed when Two cases of diphtheria, 12 cases "any action which is directed to Forster to members of the Hong the monk returned. of typhoid fever, five cases of wards the overthrow, under Kong Teaching Association at King's
Father, Gerlac then declared meningitis, and one case of puer-mining or weakening of the au College yesterday. saned Armly "The body is in there, and peral fever were reported in the thority of the Workere and This was Professor
in my mission is at an end. Colony during the week, ended Peasants Soviets, or of the Wor-Presidental address upon the master- The carpenter, on whom our Sertember 15.During the same
or towards the undermining summer vacation.
Foster's
oto-Ficion had fallen, was already in period one, person died from diph. And Peasants: Government sumption of activities after the
epstod
than the
The Etie and een an over
and hir
This
few hours later she theris, four from wohoid fever or weakening of the external. Professor Foster doct hew had murdered two from meningitis, one from puer security of the U.S.S.B, or of the he saw at Ting Helen, the centre of the body in peral, fever and 61 from tuber fundamental economic political the Mass Education Movemen Sahop
and national conquesta of the pro- Peir