RUSSIA TO-DAY,
INSTINCTS OF NATIONAL CONSER. VATISM NOT ENTIRELY GONE.
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TER HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10rk, 1947,
HINDENBURG FETES.
A PROMISE TO KAISER.
THE FIRST CLASS AIR
FIGHTER
18 HE GOING TO BE THE DECISIVE FACTOR
-- [BY_H... G. VELLS
We
fact
on with
WITH STOUT HEART.
HEROIC SON'S GOOD BYE TO DEAREST OF FATHERS
GRAND
BOXING TOURNAMENT
As throwing light on the inner workings ⠀⠀⠀ UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE POLICE RESERVE, of the minds of the brave young lads who are giving their lives so ungrudgingly
AT THE CITY HALL, SED
סד
* EXTRA SPECIAL 18-ROUND CONTEST L. S. H. ATKINSON: R.N. YOUNG AHEARN R.N. For the Middleweight Championship of the Colony,
6 ROUND LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CONTEST: GNR. EMBLETON, R.A.
STO BARCLAY, RING
6 ROUND LIGHTWEIGHT CONTEST.
The official celebration of Marshal von Imogido Russia to be a vast nm-
Hindenburg's birthday at Majn Head- phitheatre peopled by simple-minded visit from the Kaiser at the Field- quarters began with a congratulatory primitive folk (writes, the Tom Petro Marshal's residence, where the Kaiser All the prophets are bankrupt Their for King and country, we quote from the TO-NIGHT (MONDAY), 10th Dec., Commencing 9 15 p.m. sharp. grad correspondent). The revolutionary presented him with a marble bust of the time has run out. Even the prophetic performance has been in progress for All Highest War Lord. The Emperor almanacs say nothing this year aboutter second fentenant in a Welsh Spectator the letter given below. The nearly seven months Successive Coall-placed the Field Marshal a la site of the date of the peace that must come on his 21st birthday, after three years Commodore H. G. G. SANDEMAN, RN, H.H. the Chief Justice (Sir WaLIAN REES DAVIS
out regiment was killed on August
last, 1st
INDER the Distinguished Patronage of HE Hon Mr. CLAUD SEVERN, C.MG tion: Ministries have hold, then been, and the Oldenburg Innbye Marabala distant on of "Tab, Facitet Never service gust at that he was se K.C.) and H.H. the Puise Judge (r. GoMRIZ)
~ (Offoer Administering the Government) HE Major Generál VENTRIS, 0,0.0., the stage management has been 91 The road from the Field Marshal's ery
the word pence I secin to hear on remains, Bolshevik, Gradually the null house to Main Headquarters was lined thelces, it Socialist performers were eliminated. M. with school children strewing flowers in wars do end. Then the
July
31st und August se Kerensky proclaimed the Republic to hath of his Excellency, wills airmer matiste meet in a friendly way above n for the
commended COLONIEC that diplo-
by his commanding officer appease the Bolsheviks; those may like dropped dowers and laurel leaves from weary world and give away the fruits My Dear Dad. This letter is being B.E.F. France, 20-7-17. ^ prefix
Lo front of Headquarters Von getting in written on the eve of bur going over the that the Constituent Assembly, whenever Hindenburg was received by General von as have been too busy it does meet, shall find itself committed Ludendorff at the head of officers of the this war to tolerate any statement
a attack. It extreme it is
Jknow by this time what are the odds that words annet settle the evident Imperial General Staff. General on the peace they are arekin of
one 8 returning unhurt that renders Russin The Bolshevik régime has been, Ludendorf greeted the Field Marshal as
of against one's enrage the bidfuldsen
t will only be sent in the event write 1 by and remains, only destructive; it cannot development of the Prussian and glorious
**the personification of the glorious it is
quggesting again that of my being killed in action. Von, #1 should ercate; it cannot hope to obtain the development of the Prussian and German want in order to be sure that we get it as bravely as you have always borne the
the peace we know, my dear dad, will bear the
shook financial and moral support of the non Fatherland." Cheers were given for the Trenty of Vienna is, 1 under another train of my being out here, yet I should
Another Treaty of Berlin ar
now
like, if possible, to help you to carry ou sented at the Democratic Conference.
thanked much more to their minde, truce, One cannot, indeed, regard the work his, collaborators, and especially
to that dispute
dispute What I have with a stout a heart an hope to jamp bags I believe I have told you men's, soldiers and peasant's delegates honoured, faithful, and first quarter to who a combled there u ugresenta magter-general. but a factor that may contribute very before that I do not fear death itself; the
at all
these men either work, or fight or till praised Von Hindenburg as Fieldwory dea factor I have not sell which have given up nearly three years,
The Kaiser, speaking at a dinner,
to and the war-ID ari Allied
quite content to die for the rause for and as the hero of the German nor largely composed of usurpers
people, to whom it was granted to accomprobably it is one that may be new to a meet death with me brave a front as I
life FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, plish deeds of world-historical greatness." number of
one might call first-class airman regret is that the opportunity has been name of the entire army and people, and went I want to do bore is not to id denied me to repay for to the best of legends around the beloved and honoured vatice any opinion or suggestion of my ylity for the lavish kindness and
own but merely to set certain considera-me
devotedness which personality of torturther until tions which the reader may judge for of life. Now, Low
you have always shown had hoped to do so in the
struggle God preserve him for further deeds until himself. The first of these is this, that
however, it may be that 1 have anybody who can ride a motor-ween life and death between
done
be- a strong, healthy, and respected Germany will arise.
Socialist masi, which was not even repreField-Marshal, who, in his rep his trite about here anot
tives of their class, inasmuch as none of
Behind the Bolshevik scenes many in-The Kaiser then thanked him in the what one pleIt is the factor of have seen other men do before.ly one
structive incidents have bettered that are worth nothing. For instance, how has continued Future centuries will weave the country beer faring in regard to Binandi and tdministration! We know that the Russian Budget before the war
thing like three milliards of renbles, derived largely from indirect taxation, including, about 830 millions from, drink.
T
the
bad been Balanced by a revenue of some evictorious end to the war, out of which thoug can probably learn to fly a fairly and Germany, liberty
and by
The Field-Marshal, in reply, thanked bis august master for the expression of his confidence, which, he said, with the army and people, he would justify,-Reuter.;
GERMAN
BAIT FOR PRISONERS
quite
safe type of aeroplane by daylight in any case, I shall have done my duty in good weathe a very exceptional part of young man is any good as an air on with a good heart.
my little
dad, please carry fighter.
Then I shall be that fact. I do not
whole argument rests upon
content. Good-bye, dearest of anyone has fathers,
Good-bye, E. and G. yes attempted to stimate just what pro portion of our mule population is capable May you all reap the benefits of this great good air fighting, but if we had it in, and keep chesty and happy through figures it would probably come to a rather G
life. Your affectionate son and brother startlingly low total. The
he other had the pleasure of meeting, che of our most brilliant airmen He was a very quiet, fair young man in the
of
-
left alive in Central Europe! And in addition to our probably superior resour ce in Europe we have all the continent
The less of this huge item, as conse- quence of the Tsar's humane Ukase on Temp:rance, necessitated recourse to other methods of Laxutian, direct and indirect, and chiefly in the form of income tax. Under the rule of the Bolsheviks, revenue declined with alarming swiftness-first, because real estasso assument for State and local government needs was "for the The enemy's method of dealing with muat part unpaid, owing to the disturbed prisoners should be given wide publicity state of the country, and chiefly because (snys Mr. Perceval Phillips Daily Be the Bucialist campaign against property There have been repeated assertions that deprived owners of the means or the in- centive to pay their dues; secondly, be
the greatest kindness and consideration cause the revenue collected by local true in a sense, but the kindness is only Treasury ficts was preempted for the bait and is only shown while prisoners requirements of the Committees. It is true there had been a falling tendency in are being examined. The grantee harsh revenue receipts before the war, dite te mark their evacuation from the cabes to collision with the ground fighters over the German nir fighters. I.
twen
Press Correspondent the Front) ties, a little apologeticer of America, all our Empire, vast reser-
are shown to all captured men. This is
mess and frequently deliberate cruelty
stoppage of exports and imports and to the prison camps. losa of revenue-producing territory, but he formula as laid down by
camps down by respon nothing at all comparable with the inausible authorities and faithfully followed cial e-lapse described by M. Nekrasoff at during the recent fighting is as follows: the Moscow Conference. Nekraso From the moment of his capture the
Russia is now printing notes at the prisoner is treated with studied courtesy rate of 50 millions of roubles daily to given sigarettes food, and wine, and cover her current expenses. The gold housed as comfortably humance reserve is locked up in remote cities- permit. No souvenir hunting or expropriation. But the printing press perty is, for the time being,
pro
and it was only by the happy
of
the conversation that it came out that he that he
been in over 150 air fights, the had certainly killed 10-odd German air. men in single combat, and that there were perhaps another dozen whom he had sent down to an uncertain but probably can't be sure he and You wait to
there's an other of their chaps at you. But it was suddenly borne in upon me just how supremely important high personal quality is in air fighting. Ven Richi hofen, the German champion, claimed to manifest, if you think over those two have killed co Ally aviators. It will be instances, that good air fighting must he a very rare art. It will be equally mant up second-class men to fight against first
safe, it may be hoped, from Bolshevik and only arms are removedpulousty Test that it can be very little good to put creasing air inferiority that their air
As
in
voirs of open-air athletic youth, to draw
post its co
in this contest. Now if this line of reasoning is sound to be a percentilile there ought already average superiority in the Allied air
have lost no opportunity of questioning our airmen upon this point. They are naturally very chary of ander estimat ing the enemy, but they do agres in tell- ing me that in the case of certain rather dificult turns and mantenvies our fight ing men can all do as a matter of course, ag exceptional accomplishments. And it things which the German fighter regards is elese evidence of an awareness on the part of the enemy command of this in- not able to keep up with ever-increasing rape soon as possible the prisoner is rep seen 18 Follows tunt to discover thrown front There is no military expenditure. The Committee system has moved to the rear by car, in charge of
fighters are kept as far as possible behind involved huge outlay on all sorts of an English-speaking, escort, who try to train, and send up men of real air genius vantage in doing this; there is every Socialistic experiments For instance, induce him to tale by a simulation of War in the pro must be a servantage, except tha; it does seem the Food Committed instituted in order
There to exploit a State monopoly of grain never any threat or
kindly intercst in his have cust over 700 millions of this
limit, to the supply of tower them some hope of correcting a and have failed in their object
yavister told me some particulars This points at least in the direction of listen put in a hut equipped with list the peasants, having no confidence in the ing apparatus and well fed. He is per of the air fighting that is going on to any suggestion that the Germans are Socialist Government, prefer to hold on mitted to shave write to their stores. In spite of the enormous are never forwarded to lettera which capable really first-class air ghter is already on the verge of a shortage of
of the most amazing tricks. first-class airman power eridits opened for Bussin by her Allies-examination is complete and the autheri: Looping the loop 18 the beginning We have reckoned upon all sorts of principally by ourselves for the pur tice decide they have extracted all in- his collection of stunts and devices, shortages as possible factors in the over- chase of munitions and other nesde of the formation of value, the good treatment He will spin over sideways; he will fy throw of German imperialism. Hava
he will eideslig drop and wo reckoned fully upon this possibility feverish activity of the note-issue office, real discrepancy in his s statements is dodge and double the Treasury remains empty. This has covered it is made an excuse for systema one would have dared to dream of in 1914. possible to press the air war so hard, so terved as a convenient pretext for intro tie ill treatment throughout the remainder He dances round and fills a common flyer to concentrate on the air attack, as to amounting to 97 per cent. on the gross uniform
The died kindness profits of all industrial enterprises.
shown 10. Now the point I want to make hereg print on the Germans right to make here out of air fighters, in fact My own Manufacturers cantiot evade payment; prisoners only as long as the Germans is that the side that can go on producing belief is that if both sides were to do the first-class air their utmost we and our Allies could capital in order to satisfy the revola.
Mongest to chase the other side out of the tionary assessment, Many prefer to pay
told on the best authority. rather than close their works, hoping cusg the momentong question how to and I believe firmly, that the side that still that a change will come, fearful divide the property. It was a difficult ban dominate the air can dominate the of the Bolsheviks, and praying that matter to adjust. The argument became
to
Blage of his OS
rear here 19
› is
country a
treatment atch menggMRAKO DODY numerica and qualitative disadvantage:
Treasury abroad, and in spite of the comes to an end, and if any apparent or upside down on a fashion that no of a shortage of air fighters Is it not
dis
ducing novel form of income-tax of his captivity remembering in that time a cat killing a rabbit.
Monkees like asses
* bring the German air arm to the break-
worth is
although they have to disburse the think information is to be got out of this very rare produchy abundantly, is ultimately put up ten fighters to the Ger.
theme
Fighters
Air
some miracle may save them from com- so berce that half a dozen of them died fanfict and, the whole ground Spicentration of effort on this particular
Progows that
boat
max one, and each of ours a better man then he. In other words, I believe that, for the reasons I have stater, given a
the other business, the German can be driven clean pleto ruin.
before nightfall By the following sun Aide
air fighters is a certain
out of the air. At present, of course, we
· THE ZENSTVOS DESTROYED.
down the deaths bad doubled in number way to win the war. So that if there is are not doing anything Finance and administration
Live When the proprietor reached his town any reason for supposing that we sudongming like our utmost suffered equally from the revolutionary residence he was followed by a deputation our Allies can produce an overwhelming It is possible that people's minds are cataclysm. A brief account of what has of the peasants Take back your land, con for anticlir fighters it is a sound sometimes over-exercised by the thought happened in one of the administrative they implored him if you do not we It is no good for divisions of the province of Petrograd shall all be dead. Another landowner tens of thousands and hundreds of thon that presses the air fighting until it at an Allied victory of air raids and counter-raids. Counter- Fanticipating side to Produce | raids will not stop raiding The side may serve as a typical illustration of offered one-third of his acreage to the hands of common aviators, if the other tains supremacy in air fighting can what goes on at the present day through peasants. Then one village rose against side has a surplus of these special fighters then abolish enemy raida and do what out Russia. This district contains agri another, each claiming the preference, who can put down machines by the scoot likes, in the way of raiding. Every cultural, timber, and textile industries and rather than agree to a compromise Tast would be only sending as pigeons bomb-dropping machine most carry 90 The local assessment amounted to about or fight out their quarrel, they each set to be shot at. On the other hand, if 350,000 roubles, which covered expenditure a watch upon the other. The property side does possess
that on roads, schools, hospitals, and police, was thus excedingly well guarded, it can send its enmmon ordinary Most of this money was expended for
by the hundred properly peuple, but only 25,000 roubles came the PAIN LABOUR TERRORITED the peasants and working menthe rest committee had, as usual, fixed a minimum
Another Fase 18 Or citing. Theme 150mb, and destroy with AD was paid by land, forest, and mill owners, wage for farm labour. Formerly the past All this seems absolutely valid reason. The local administration was in the did not exceed one rouble a day. The hands of the district Zemstvo, composed committee decided that nobody must working to me. Ili metr to to follow
superiority
protected b
either
then
sto
inferior side can only le interior men to die.
clear
fightera
much ght of bombs, it is not much anb-dropper_uniem it carries a considerable weight, it follows that there no type of bomb-dropper, con, fr which one cannot construct ffter-sod deadlier fighter-swilter est will carry no bombs. For the or any such type of machine a gkkora possible which would shoot Gotha, as a Boer on horseback cold con cá bơn 20, that althongh
of the tax-payers, elected and working in for less than 10 roubles. Now, the the side that has an only do each visitors may distress nervous Lon-
the public cause gratuitously. Under the peasants knew quite well that the land rest superiority were driven out and the district was They were willing to work for much for what lies in its power to chote hostile Germans pat into Gothas rather than Bolshevik regime the Zemstvo and police ford could not afford such remuneration press the air war for it worth
while the side that his split up into 17 separate republics, each, but they feared the bad men on the com sure by secret aritation in under a committee composed of workmen mittee, who would not scruple to our coun
or peasants ruled by a carpet-bag politi. cian. They enrolled their own militia.
their houses and crops if they disobeyed. They sought a way out of the difficulty,
that I
development of
The 17. committees established a pay-roll and found it. We signs receipt for serving. Who is abloyed St.
10 roubles a
now how many sir fighters
for themselves and their agents aggre
or who is killed needless y and you give us one all resources of money and manp gating over one million roubles, or three zouble and a half A secret compact had can be diverted from aircraft times the amount of the local revenue was thus concluded between the farmer facture into other channels. They impounded and divided whatever and his labourers, and a few thousand lost from this possibility of money came into the local treasury office, acres remained under cultivation that air superiority levying contributions from the land and otherwise would have lain fallow mill owners to make up the difference.
other whother place the reserve carried Germans paper for con Private houses were aunered whenever away by M. Tchernoff's wild scheme of most, and how many can we and they suited the convenience of the comand spoliation, grabbed a landa Allies! We are dealing here with mittee; parky and gardens were invaded; owner property, ploughed and sowed the
For my ow
my own part, I coubt if the land was appropriated and trees were fields, neglecting their own allotments Powers were to
comb felled and stolen by the peasants, but Then they began to divide up the stolen man for this service they the owner had no right to dispose of his acres, and came to blows and murder more than a very few tho property. Open violence was not of fre-Finally they s senti word to the owner rather, hundrian than
ipelined to think the quent cocurrence, because no one ventured Take back what belongs to you. We to effer any resistance to the committees want nothing for our work, nothing for must hirve wasted the best of Acertain aged landowner who hed on seeds, we want only to remain alive." patriotic prejudicebat: 1 enough money to satisfy modest require These incidente culled behind the scener belief that Great Britain, ments decided to make & present of his of the Russian Revolution, afford some and North Italy can lo broad acres to the peasants rather than explanation of the surprising fact that larger propertion of this be troubled by agrarian disorders. Sum amid the anarchy and terror spread young man than CONTBLY moning the villagers, he said: I am broadcast over the land by leaving after to-morrow to end my days agencies the instincts of
in town. Take my land, divide it among servatism have not alt
The peasants were minds of the masses And you; it in yours grateful Immediately they began to dis prevail there will he hope
(Continued at foot of nezt Volumm.) Country:
good at this sort of Fork natil
Other
COD over nisteen ? few have ad
ht-and twenty how mno
____________<STO, JAMES, R.N.
... CH. STO. LEE, R.N.
SPR. SMITH, R.E.,
6 ROUND BANTAM-WEIGHT CONTEST! CPL. STUBBS, Malsx. Reg.
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STO, WELSH, R.N.
A B. DONNAHUE, R.N
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