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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 7th, 1928.
| VISITORS TO RUSSIA. THE LØST ST, RAPHAEL
HOW THEY ARE TRICKED.
BELGIAN CONSUL'S
REVELATIONS.
The account which M. Joseph Douillet gives of Soviet Russia in his striking book "Moscou sans Voiles" (Editions Spes, 17 rue Sou Hot, Paris), ought to be read by all the world. Ho speaks with great authority and wide knowledge. He is a former Consul lor Belgium and was chief representative of the Nansen Fund. in South-Eastern Russia. He lived for 28 years in Czarist 'Russia, and was in Bolshevik Russia from 1918 to 1927.
The Brat fact, which he brings out is the cunning shown by the Soviet in deceiving the silly-billies who come from abroad to examine the Russia. working of Socialism in Thus when a British deputation was making A tour of Russia:
The peasants were mobilised suddenly with their horses and carts and required to take a large quantity of straw to a mill on the railway which had not been work ing for years.
The straw was burat in the furnaces and soon clouds of amoke. began to rise from the chimneys, conveying the impression that the establishment was busily at work.
are,
"How simple these foreigners "remarked one of the Soviet Ministers to an official in M Douillet's presence, forgetting that M. Douillet knew Russian.
AEROPLANE.
BOTTLE MESSAGE” FOUND.
New York, Mny oth
PERSECUTING CHRISTIANS IN CHINA.
A MISSIONARY'S VIEW.
at a luncheon of Wesleyan A fisherman named Barr while Methodist laymen in Manchester, looking for claims along the shore the Rev. Charles Gag, who recently at Napatree Point, Watchill, Rhode returned from China, said he Island, last night, found a whisky thought the anti-Christian perazou- bottle containing a pencilled note, tions in China had now largely which purports to be a message from spent themselves, but the result had Princess Löwenstein-Wertheim, who not been the destruction of the was lost with the aeroplane St. Church, as had been confidently pre- "Raphad is September last year indicted in some quarters. The per- an attempt to fly from England to ecutions had really been beneficial Canada. The message reads:-
Captains Hamilton and Min-in two ways. They had helped to chen had a quarrel over course. | make the Chinese Church financially Struck water and sinking fast. self-supporting, as well as spiritual Can see light in distance, think
of Block Island. Everything out lystronger, and more vigorous and of order now. Ship good for a independent. few seconds yet.-Princess Löwen- stain.
The paper has been examined by several English people, residents of Westerly, who consider it unlikely
to
ing has decidedly
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Answering questions, Mr. Gaff said he thought the missionary 'so- cieties had devoted too much atten- tion to the work of the higher edu- cation of the Chinese. Although
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..: DESTROYED BY FIRE.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE:
CLOSING QUOTATIONË.
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Any person who, without autho- risation from the Soviet, spoke to the British delegates was seized and panished. One man who gave the PORT SWETTENHAM RAILWAY Chartered Bank 1 buy. British visitors back a cap which they had left in a train
They show deputations from abroad a number of mills, hos pitals, infant asylums, and sana- toria, which are carefully prepared in advance with the object of proving that in Sovietdom every thing is irreproachable.
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was charged in virtue of Section Details of a fire which destroyed 6 of the Soviet Penal Code with the booking, parcels, telegraph and capionage in the interests of a for-station-master's offices at the Port eign Government; and though by Swettenham Railway Station pub- some miracle he was not shot on ¦ lished by the Malay Mail, reveal the spot, he was abut up for three that the alarm was given at 4.15 years in a concentration camp in alm. by a night watchman, who Solovetsky Island.
found amoke issuing from the book Tcheka (Terrorist police) guides ing office. As the door was locked, Depeinsch mieuwen 37 buy. are trained for the deception of the ho was forced to fetch the station- master before taking further action. foreigner,
"The latter arrived within a few minutes, but by that the fire had obtained so strong a hold that efforts to extinguish it with buckets of water proved useless. A call was put through to the Klang fire Kaun Mining A....../. com. brigade, whose engine arrived be. Langkata(combined)..... T. 12.20 nóm.
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The telephones, tablet and toleonok Mines graph instruments were completely destroyed and all the office equip ment was lost except the bricked-in safe, which is intact, Railway officials were soon on the spot and it is very oreditable to all concerned that the working of the line was in no way interrupted, temporary offices being erected by 10 a.m.
The real truth, M. Douillet says, ia that the poverty and misery are much greater than under the Czare. The official Soviet statistics, he says, are false. I ascertained that blast furnaces, which were official- ly returned as working, had only worked for a short period. ". Then the furnace was blown out and another was started in an other district, to be blown out it- self a little later...
Thus an impression of activity was produced. Of the coal mines M. Douillet says that:-
It is difficult to imagine the lamentable ruin which has over taken the Donetz basin since the
· Communists occupied it.
""
As an example of Communist mag- agement the "Sebelkotrust silk mills of Moscow are cited:-
In
They were found in 1889. 1911 they had doubled in size; in 1914 they employed 2,000 people.. To-day they scarcely exist and only employ 350 to 400 people.
It is understood that a new sta- tion, bigger and better than its pre. decessor, will soon be built and that, in addition to other improvements, the movement of road traffic to and from the wharves, at present some- what constricted, will be facilitated.
"FIR-KILLING FUNGUS..
EXPERTS BAFFLED BY EPIDEMIC FROM U.S.
EDINGHURGH
A deadly tree disease which is waited by the wind and will, syen tually wipe out large numbers of Dongise firs throughout England and Scotland has been revealed here by Dr. Malcolm Wilson, of Edinburgh University.
As for the luckless Russian work. ers, who are treated as cattle by the foreign-bandits who form the Moscow Government, we are told:
Bussian workers at Rostov used these exact words to me: "We are worse off than alaves. Before the Bolsheviks seized power we were able to rest on holidays. We The disease, known as rhab passed the day with our families, doaline, first reached Scotland with Now, whenever there is a holiday a consignment of Douglas firs from we are made to go in procession Montana, in the United States, Since then it from morning to night, and by way few years ago of consolation we are told: It is has spread over the border, and, our proletarian authority; it is the according to Dr. Wilson, is now dictatorship of the proletariat. sweeping across the south of Eng- And it is really nothing of the land and is settling in the New kind. It is an odious dictatorship Forest. Experts are baffled and exercised against the proletariat.' almost halpiesa As for unemployment in 1927:
By the optimistic statistics of the Soviet itself there were million unemployed, a figure far larger than the total of 1,000,000 officially returned.
The disease first attacks the leaves. Fungus spore gathers, usually on the under surfaces the leaf, and as the wind wats the leaves it carries with it million of fungus spore. The leaves die, and within three or four years the Of the state of morality and of tree is entirely denuded of leaves the prevalence of disease in Soviet and it dies also. laad an appalling account is given. There are three members of the The simple Simons who swallow Douglas ir family, the Oregon, Shre Soviet fairy-tales might be advised blue, which is popular in the south to study M. Douillet's account of of England for its beauty, and the the Moscow prisons when they have intermediate. A curious feature of not been specially prepared for this epidemic is that so far at has visitors. He was an inmate of these hardly touched the Oregon, while horrible dens, so he ought to know.its virulence among the other two -Daily Mail...
DETECTIVES' RUSE.
DRUG DEALERS TRICKED BY OPIÙM-DEŇ PLOT.
spects growe fiercer. In the United States the disease is not so serious. "The best thing to do to try to stamp out this malignant disease is to chop down the tree as soon as it becomes affected," said Dr. Wilson.
One of the detectives met the traffickers in a boulevard café to talk over the business, and after much haggling agreed to take the 15lb. for £100 cash.
PARIS. Paris detectives specially engaged in the suppression of the drug traffic have captured four opium dealers who, believing the detec
The deal was about to be carried tives were keepers of an opium through when the detective made a den in the fashionable Champs sign to two colleagues at an ad- Elysée quarter, offered to sell them joining table. A force struggle. Tab. of opium for £225. (Continued at foot of next column.)
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