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Sire bare received engnir- jes from residents in the Colony requesting: ns to inform them: >re- All communications intended for which they may expect to see the garding the approximate date- on publication should be addressed to fhm of the funeral of the late greater panorama of public fe the Editor, cad be ccompanied by King George V.
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TOLSTOPS HOME AS A MUSEUM
SOVIET HONOURS FOR
THE MAN
BUT THEY DESPISE HIM AS
SOCIAL THINKER
(By A. T. Cholerton)
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London Office' to make an extra "He can remimber concausations anniversary of Leo Tolstal's many as in 1924 The Soviet
tu
{T10: commemorate the 25th)23,000 persons—ten times copy of the Paramotné British with General Gordan-in newarel, covering the funeral sixties. His memories of Mr. death, I was invited to join an Government has also built there and we have been notified by Winston Churchil as a young official delegation of "Soviet a surprisingly well equipped Hour Hour. Thursday, Jan. 30, 1955 cable from London that the Hong aubaltern stiached to his staff are Authors on a visit to his and beautifully decorated dis
Koar copy leaves Croydon - this emparatively recent.
former estate of Fasnaïa trict hospital and a model morning (Wednesday) for Paris] Ma-Churchill met him at Lord Polians, 140 miles south of secondary school, both ~ named to connect with the Air France William Beresford's house Moscow.
þæfter Tolstoi... plane forHanoi, “where the Deepdene in 1896. OneSenday We were a motley crowd- “Military Carmer French postal authorities make morning Mr. Churchill extracted Soviet authors prédominated, But at the foot of his big It would be very interesting immediate transhipment of all from him a promise that should but there were also political plaster statue in the entrance to know just how much impor-jairmail destined for Hong Kong, trouble again break out on the refugees from Spain, a street hall of the school they have now tance to attach to the latest The Air France plane is due in North-West Frontier he would be fighter from news from North China-it Hanoi en February 7. This spe-fallowed to serve. goes without saying that what-cial newsreel is therefore expect-
Confusion In North China
face.
released im
Viens a -half-established. in violation of caste
American poet, and Talstor's deepest feelings, a "bourgeois journalists" from military corner," with a por- such unexpected places as table machine-gun and other Tokyo, Canton, Athens and engines of war. The Bolahe-
reiks honour the great artist, as......
ever importance it may haveled in Hong Kong on or about Fe MR. CHURCHILL'S GENERAL will not be found on the sur-bruary 11 and will be submitted When the second Malakand Istanbul.
We are told that there for censorship the same day and campaign started he reminded the Fanata Poliana is a plain, who would not? They respect are prospects of a clash be-immediately
the General of his promise, and was wooden, white plastered bouse, the good old man who loved tween two administrations, Queen's Theatre.
Itaken on his staff.
with green rainpipes and gut-peasants. But they despise each supported by troops, and These special arrangemenĖS
Mr. Churchill has left a vivid ters, simple as only the smaller the serial thinker, with his each professing to be in favour will enable residents to see the picture of the fighting commander Slay country houses
can be, frague, sentimental economic of the Japanese policy of
situated, as it name implies, in a theories and his dbetrine of non-" autonomy. The Hopei Charhar film in about a fortnight instead of the Malakand Field Force
of waiting for the usual copies: Referring to Sir Bindon Blood's bright clearing of the sober resistance to evil, contrasting Political Council is said to have.
forest of birch and fir. It him with Lenin and Stalin, to arrive from the Hollywood ancestor, Capt. Blood, who conflict with the come into
tempted to steal the Crown Jewels stands on a slight eminence creative protagonists of Class Studios. anti-Communist administration.
RA PROULA.
in the reign of Charles: II, above the rough ok highway War, Socialist Construction and of Yin Yu-keng. Other reports *
Churchill says that Sir, Bindon from Moscow to Black Sea and National Defence. say that the force which was. Paramount Films of China, Inc-regarded it encountered. was a contingent
Cancasus, with its once cease† Proceedings began with the as the most glorious event in his less flow of pilgrims and vaga Lelection of an "honorary presi- family history, and in consequence he had warm sympathy with the bonds so dear to folstor's heart-dium," consisting of each e
Tolstor's Home
Tolstoyan figures as the im-
Pathan tribes on the Indian front
bestowed anstehelg and discri-greatest-hearted of
of bandits 2,000 strong. As official protests were lodged and the fighting is said to have been the newspapers denounced the fierce and long continued, they whole policy. The whole im-
ier, all of whom would have com- There the greatest of Bus-prisoned German Communist must be well disciplined for pression that one gets is that pletely understood the incident in sian prose writers and chief Telemann, bandits, and from the point of arguments
as Defence based OM the all its bearings and would · have
Russian Commissar Voroshilof, and view of the peaceful farmer it interests of China were dis- does not seem to matter very regarded, and the motive behind
inating applaise on all parties. gentlemen was born, spent Joseph Stalin himself to salute The Pathans, notorious free-much of his childhood, and whom the audience were con- much. The fact remains that them was disbelieved and mis-
booters, would have sympathised nearly all his mature life.tinually called to their feet. A at Changchingchow, which is represented. The counter-move
with only 27 miles north of Peiping, was to attempt to withdraw sood, and the catamand he sub-be buried in the forest glade of saintly count's life on
Charles H's" pardon for There he was brought back to learned professor described the this organised forces are conducting much of the Northern Districts
his own choice, under a plain estate. sequently gave him.
A peasant told how a somewhat serious affray, and as possible from: currency con-
moss-covered mound, on which, dirty Yasnaia Poliana village neither Nanking, nor Hopei, nor troi by Nanking, presumably Major-General Doihara is able with the object of substituting Your Daily Smile! wreaths of line twigs lay, with fast it is now going ahead under when I visited it, two frosted was in Tolstol's time and how
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to protect the inhabitants from silver as the standard. And the violence of uncontrolled this was to be backed by the Small Boy (reading paper): "Do soldiery. That is in itself seizure of the Customs—Against you have to bare a license for a bi- serious enough.
which Sir Frederick Maze at cycle new, dad""
Dad: "No, Why 27,
It's A Sport
of unfolding a dock chair.
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Collectivisation.”“”
no inscription.”
"There he wrote his chief was-
Estate Visited terpieces, and later, in that! We were left free to visit the simple, noble setting, he deve-estate. Count Leo Tolstoi in- here afloped and practised his poble, herited from his parents a vast
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Bolsheviks have in their turn, rooms; built by his maternal like the “pre-revolutionary grandfather, Prince Nicolas Orthodox Church, banned as a Volkonski (the "Old Prince" af the novel "War and Peace"), social evil
The house and its commons and flanked by two pavilions have none the less been scrupu-In 1858, under the pressure of lously preserved as a national his creditors, the young count museum under the Red Com-sold the main building for the Sum of $200 to 3 missariat of Education, and last absurd year they were visited by over (Continued on Page 10).
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley
We are more concerned with once lodged a formal protest Small Boys well, the evidence this disturbance which would at once have the man was fined for peddling without frugal philosophy, which the wooden mansion of 37 principal affords that there is not as yet consequence of making the pays license any indication of any centralment of interest on foreign control, whether Chinese or loans uncertain, and reducing Japanese
The kernel of the the national finance to chaos. The pentathion is a combination mischief is that the local com- The Central Government would of five athletic events as in the case mandants of large numbers of be expected to draw the concln- half-trained militia cannot be sion that the only safe course trusted by any party to play for would, as the Japanese spokes "Our business is picking "up,” From whatever source the sincere concurrence with Japa paper collectors in a South London restraining hand may come it nese policy on any subject would be better for the re- which might be considered to covery of the country that there affect the interests of the Far should be some superior East" In other words, to be- authority whom these ambi come a protectorate, tious adverturers fear, for no That this policy is short- other motive will appeal to sighted is shown by the fact that them Judging merely from it is in conflict with the other their conduct we infer that main ostensible motive of Japa they are not at present stand-nese policy to isolate China, ing in azy fear of Major-Manchukno and Japan from General Kenji Dohara, and the infectious disease of Com- that "pro-Japanese" just now)munism. For this purpose the is a synonym for "pro-self.” true line of policy should be to What are the prizes at stake? make the North of China as We may omit all reference to strong and prosperous as pos Janything before the rise in sible, for it is discontent that silver which upset Chinese ex-lopers the way to revolutionary Įporting trades, and therewith propaganda Control of Man- ranch of the domestic industry.golia and the neighbouring pro- The high price of silver suited vinces would enable Japan, from Japanese, producers very well, the military point of view, to ifor their low-priced yeni transfer a war with Russia enabled them to undersell many from Manchukno to the rail- of the Chinese, producers, and way "bottle-neck" at the south all the foreign merchants. end of Lake Baikal Wise Their exports to North China statesmanship would aim at began to leap on despite the having a contented people with remnants of the boycott, and plenty of reserve stores, behind they took their payment in such a strategic move, even if silver, which they were able to all considerations of the danger sell in the United States at a of opposition, from foreigners good price, while the wholesale were laid aside. That is not. smuggling of silver increased the kind of foresight that China's difficulties still further appeals to a military staff, mas Then came the request for much bitter experien has
In the fabsent from the minds of men currency, and the visit of Sir like Mr. Koki Hirota and other Frederick Leith Ross Trans civilian Ministers, who have fer on to a managed coinage voted for a genersi election which at one stroke made which will be practically an further American purchases appeal for a decision useless, by the fall in the against the
price of the yuan put the of the
Chinese merchants once more issue
on à level with Japan on which are low,
they could compete.
Not only
We know how mu this was to Tokyo. did the Government: dissuade Sir Freder
ding with his work,
and
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