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This group deposed the old central. emomitter, declaring We are the party. We have raised the standard of the Bolshevik party. Who is not with us is against us."
But the movement which led to the camp d'état of March 8th and to the subsequent Russian Revolu tion of October, 1917, was neither carefully prepared for thoughtfully A long and bloody organised. struggle with the forces of reaction was not necessary. The collapse of the autoerney and of its colossal bureaucratie
Lady Bruinmond Hay was among the passengers sailing for the North yesterday in thè ș.a. Fushimi Maru,
The safe of the Ying Shing Grocery in Connaught. Read West was fareed open on Saturday and 9300 stolen..
There will be a meeting of the Sanitary Board this afternoon, but there is no business on the agenda of public interest.
Money and jewellery worth $140 were stolen by a burglar from the machinery WAD a first floor of No. 58, Chancery accomplished fact. This cowpane on Saturday night. d'état,"
A GUCHOV,
wrote
one
Mr. W. C. Lyle, the Australian golf professional, is in the Govern ment Civil Hospital, but hopes to he well by the end of the week.
A burglar entered third floor of No. 303, Des Voeux Road West, on Sunday night and made a haul of moury and jewellery worth $188.
A woman guest of the Ming Lec Chan Bourding House, Connaught Road Central, had jewellery worth' $20 stolen from her room during Saturday night.
Russian Conservative Deputy, "was! The fourth ordinary yearly meet not the result of a clever conspiracying of the Prince's Building and of some masked conspiraters for Land Co., Ltd., will be held at the Company's office, Priner's Building whom the secret police were search- |
Draft on Tuesday, May 31st, at 4 pm. ing in the dark. It was a ripe¦. fruit falling by its own weight." Said to be a member of the crew There is evidence that, on the very of the troopship Derbyshire, a man eve of the Revolution, LENIN both named M. J. Watson was yesterday rony desired and hoped that it would not morning fined $5 by Major Willson Course, take the course which it did take for being drunk and disorderly the Causeway In a pamphlet entitled Towards previous night. Soviets and written in October.! 1917, LENIN is revealed as suffering from the illusion that the Russian peasants could seize the land in peaceful manner.
I am absolutely in favour," he wrote, " of the labourers and prasants Soviets at once taking all the land, themselves observing strict order and discipline, so as
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THE
'LUNGSHAN " UNDER FIRE.
FROM TROOPS NEAR WHAMPOA.
BULLETS DELIBERATELY
AIMED?
5.8.
Brief telegraphic information re- crived in Rong Kong yesterday morning indicated that the Langshan of Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steambont Co., Ltd., had been fired on while passing Whampoa on her way up river to
Canton,
A Chinese woman living at No. 2, Park Street was on Saturday taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from opium poisoning,
Failing fuller details, and no für- alleged to have been self adminis
ther newa being available when the tared.
ï 8.8, Taishan arrived in the after- an entry
noon beyond confirmation of the programantes forms for the fourth extra race
inct that firing had taken place, it meeting to be held an Saturday, was thought that a few shots had *** accidentally " discharged June 4th, and Monday, June fib, berp
be obtained nt the Rave with no particular or official intent
Hong Kong Club and to do darange.
Bay Stables. Entries! On the arrival of the Lungshan close at 1 p.m. on Monday, May here last night, however, from Can- 23rd.
tus, the news gleaned of the affair would indicate that it was more
at, serious than first appeared, although whether the bullets were aimed deliberately at the steater, has yet to be definitely ascertained. It would appear, however, that the vessel was selected as a target, at least for "practice."
The Wilbur Players, who come to
On Saturday on the Peak Mrs. Hong Kong with a big reputation from the United States and Shang-T. E. Pearce was hitten by a hai open this evening at the Starterrier dog owned by the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, Director of Public Theatre, Kowloon, with
Works Mrs. Pearce was attended Foolish Wives Pay."
to by Dr. Smalley. Mr. Creasy's
For the forty-eight hours, ended dog and another owned by Mrs.
Pearce were taken to Kennedy Town for observation._____:
to prevent the least damage to on Sunday, there were notified 2
machinery, buildings, cattle, on Chinese-case of small-pox, 4-CUBE#" no account disturbing the courag
of agriculture and corn produc-1 Indian and 3 Chinese)-of tion, but, on the contrary, in- enterie fever, and 1 Chinese case creasing it, because the soldiers
(imported) of relapsing fever. require twice as much as before and the civil population must not go hungry.
A smoking concert for members When the Revolution came, the of the Ex-Active Service Men's
at
nine
o'clock.
The
The Lungshan, which, is one of the steatores on the night service between "Hong Kong and Canton, Mrs. Alex Rodger, the announce-
Inft Hong Kong early yesterday ment of whose death appeared in morning. Passing up river, just our issue of Saturday, was well above the forks, at about 7 a.m. husband was, for many yearsTM man- known to many ald residents. Her rifle fire broke out from the shore at a point where there are some ager of the China Sugar, Refinery matsheds belonging to the Wham- workers and peasants took their Association will be held at the Club and Mrs. Rodger first came to the pan Cadets. Soldiers could be dis own course. They had been told to premises on Thursday evening. Colony in the early eighties and tinctly seen lying on the shore firing plunder the plunderers; and they ginning
left here in 1915 when her husband and the fact that some fifty or did so.
They had been told to itin's hand will be present in retired. Since then Mrs. Rodger rise to the suspicion that she was sixty bullets struck the steamer give murder the capitalists; and this addition to other arlistes.
had resided at Kirn, Argyllshire, deliberately selected as target for they also did with a good will.
where she passed away on 9th inst.gular fusilade of rapid fire as the
rifle practice." There was a ro The peasants wanted the land. The
Miss V. Capell and her J-Pans after a lingering illness, survived steamer passed and the steel casings workers thought that the Revoluare giving an entertainment at the by her husband and five daughters, on the starboard side of the marks tion meant seizing the factories for Seamen's Institute this evening, at
two of whom are unmarried. Four of where the bullets struck. themselves, when everyone would be 8,30 p.m. and the “Squeakettes." daughters of Mrs. Radger were rich as their original are holding n whist drive and married in Hong Kong,-the inte owners. Many saw in the upheaval giving a concert at the City Hall sanction to plunder, murder and this evening, beginning at seven destroy. How could one expect o'clock. from the Russian people a conscious-
Two robbers armed with revolvers ness of duty based on right and' justice, a respect for discipline broke into the hut of a widow
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The Baily Press
HONG KONG, May 177, 1927.
ence, when all their past was one 1-a.m., on Saturday. They tied up continuous story of subjection to the woman and a companion and then ransacked the place, taking
and clothing
arbitrary will and power.
jewellery
All the heaped-up contradic-money. tions of centuries of misrule bad worth $150. at length combined to put into motion the elemental forces of
A record, showing five breaches of a revolutionary reaction. The revolution broke out in a the Deportation Ordinance, WAK huge Empire with scattered po-proved against a returned banishee pulation having conflicting in who was charged before Mr. W. terests where communications of every kind were poorly develop Schofield at the Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday. The defendant, Soune statements in this summary are aminously suggestive of China, was sentenced to ten months' hard Sorial wrong was undoubtedly the labour and 24 strokes of the birch. inspiration of the Russian Revolu-
tinu. This accounts for the feeble- ness of the resistance of the civilized
An American named R. J
stions of the World, especially the Cullens, described as an engineer, Baituli, to the Bolshevists' manifold wa on Saturday. taken to the and international activities, Eng- and is full of kindly and intel hospital suffering from injuries lectual young men and women who, received, according to the police secure themselves, delight in en-reporta, as the result of falling couraging revolution elsewhere. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONThese foolish but kindly folk would down the steps of the Savoy Hotel do well to remember that H. G. while under the influence of liquor. WELLS OUCE went to see LENIN, LENIN look at WELLS through his
For the possession of lottery fingers a habit he had when he wanted to size up a person and tickets a Chinese was yesterday when WELLS had gone LENIN said, morning fined 850 by Major Will-
What a Philistine. What a mon- son. The alternative strous little hurgeois
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AND AFTER.
CONRAD wrote that "the way of even the most justifiable of revolu- tions prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds "; also that in their own way the most ardent of revolutionaries are
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Mr. H. A. L. FISHER has written wocks' jail. The man was arrested that there is no greater event in on the Wing Lok, wharf on Satur modern history than the Russian day evening coming ashore from. Revolution; but he adds that the the Sui An, and the tickets were break with Confucius in China may
prove to be equally far-reaching found hidden in his shoes.
The fate of the Russian Revolution kas yet to
in its consequences.
for peace in common with the rest- of mankind-the peace of soothed
be determined and the first article Three Chinese, allege to have of the Bolshevist, creed is that, becu concerned in the armed rob vanity, of satisfied appetites, or
unless the Revolution expands on bery committed at No. 07, Kowloon norhaps of appeared conscience,
an international plane, it is doom-
City Road on. Friday fast, were. LENIN had good reason' to detest theed to perish, Will China follow
Russia It is easy to emphasize remanded for one week, on their Imperialist réginic. His brother differences in the respective situa appearance before Mr. W. Schofield
tions It is even easier to forget at the Kowloon Magistracy yester-"| was implicated in a plot to a§§Ã6- that the Russian Revolution was sinate ALEXANDER 111. and wha exreuted in 1887. When LENIN heard of his brother's dent), he said, "It
an elementul catastrophe, having day morning. About 820 worth of as little regard for human conven- stolen property has been recovered. icnèé se an avalanche or an earth- quake," that it was the product
of centuries of darkness, suffering
Kowloon Cricket Club
have
is not necessary to go by that path. and mierule, of war, hunger and arranged for Empire Day (next We shall not go by it." It was at corruption that neither the Tuesday) an evening concert by the TSAR or LENIN nor TROTSKY DOT a conference at Prague in 1912 that any other man made it"; that "it full band and pipes of the King's a handful of delegates (20 to 25), happened because millions of little Own Scottish Borderers (by per- under the Ivadership of ComradePeople so acted that it must hapnission of Col. Comyn and officers)
The last few weeks have seen some of the Battalion). There will ulsa Less, had the courage to proclaim
lopping of communist heads. But be Highland dances. The proceeds themselves a party and to break in many parts of China anarchy from the entertainment, as men- once and for ever with all groups and lust and hunger still reigntioned yesterday, will be for the supreme. This is the dough out of and with groups of social reformera, which one kneads a Robespierre.
Hospital Comforts Fund.
ben.
Mrs. William Nicholson, Mrs. T. E. Pearce (who was at home when her mother died), Mrs. P. S.
Cassidy, and Mrs. G. B. Dunnett,
LEUNG KWONG" VICTIM.
HEADLESS BODY OF CHILD
RECOVERED.
The body of another victim of the Lenny Kirong tragedy of last week was recovered in the vicinity of Capsuimun Pass yesterday by a Water Police launch patrolling in
that area
No Reasm For The "Incident." Fortunately, there were no pas- sengers on deck at the time. Why the steamer was fired at remains to be explained. No order, auch a that relating to passing the proper hour (.m.) had been vio- lated.
Further it is reported that one of the Kwong " steamers which left Hong Kong for Canton after the Langshan in the early hours of yesterday morning was also fired at from the same point, and ap- parently by the samo troops. Whether this is so remains to be confirmed when the steamer returns to Hong Kong this afternoon. No learner was known on the Lung- further news concerning this
shan.
The Taishan came down yester day afternoon without anything untoward happening, as did other river steamers on the run. The body picked up was that of Tho Lungelam, on her down trip, ' a Chinese thild and was headless.
was escorted as far as Whampoa, Ever since the
the apparent "danger zone, by steamer Bank H.M.S. Utenio, which then return- following the collision with the ed to Canton. Mons Shine, & Water Police launch by the Lungshan last night, were the Among the passengers returning has been patrolling the vicinity of Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern (Colonial Capauimun Fass for the purpose Secretary) and Mrs. Southorn. of recovering bodies, and the roll Further developments are AK- of victims recovered now totals 26. peeted to-day.
MOTORING NOTES.
When Sam took to ears, he began, like the rest, With second-hand bargain-the cheapeat are best
"It might need some repairs," but he felt no dismay : Expecting to learn about motors that way. And learn he did, at the end of two weeks, That his tank was a sieve full of ill-soldered leaks.
Said his friends, “What a waste! Get that blamed tank replaced."
On & basis of costs ho` reckoned he should,.
But, to register case, he lit a cigar, Discarded the match in the pool round his car,: And from that, in a flash, learned all a man couid,
When he'd got some fresh akin, and had grown some new hair,
He was after a car, and was heard to declare,
That he must get about, but was finished with thrills, Having emptied his pockets on hospital bills.
A knock-allout car he desires, and acquires
A knocked-about lizzy with badly worn tyres..
"You'll skid" said his friends "So he careful at bonde.”
But he wanted to learn. When the, road was all grense
He took Dairy Farm Hill, with the swoop of a skater, Cannoned from dyke into bus redistor,
And was coaxed back to life by the truffle police.
Bure the progress of man is not stopped, but made faster By the onslaughts of fire and the checks of disaster. Having learned how to skid, and how gasoline burns, Convalescent, but fresh, to the road Sam returns. His next little purchase was one of those makes That develop lethargie ineptnom in brakes. Get them fixed," he was told. But he thought they would hold For one journey, at least, at his sensible pace.
Confronted, alae 1 by one dimbing from Stanley, With no room to pass, he most gentlemanly Clave way, down the bank. R.I.P. marks the place.
K. M.