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RUSSIAN AGRARIAN SUICIDE'S LAST
POLICY:
THE SUPREME PROBLEM.
BOLSHEVIKS AND PEASANTS.
CRISIS AND THE MORAL.
Moscow.
from which Russia, is just emerging as the new harvest comes on the market has served to focus the at- tention of the Soviet Government and the ruling Communist Party on the problem of agrarian policy.
The admitted facts of the Russian agricultural situation, at first sight, seem puzzling, almost paradoxical. Before the war Russia was to a large degree the granary of Europe. Year after year its ten million tons of grain represented the largest single item in its list of exports. To-day seven years have passed since the adaption of the New Economic Policy, which gave the peasants a stimulus to increase the planted
ares, which they had steadily cut down during the epoch of so-called military communism. Since 1924 the harvests have been uniformly pronounced fair or aver- age. Yet during the last year ex ports of grain dwindled to 'the negligible figure of less than half a million tons, while it required the application of what the Soviet Press habitually refers to as ordinary measures" to ensure the bread supply of the cities and the army.
extra-
These extraordinary measures consisted of practically forced pur- chases of the peasants' surplus grain by Government agents, a pro- cedure which led to much discontent among the peasants and to mutter- ed complaints that the Government was doing away with the New. Economic Policy and going back to the old system of requisitions. These measures have now been de- | finitely discarded; the Soviet Gov- ernment is committed to the policy of making its grain purchases from the peasants during the coming year on à strictly voluntary" basis,
GESTURE."
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MONTREAL
Mr. Theodore L. Kark, aged 28, who was found dead on a lawn on Sunny-side-avenue, on Westmount Mountain, with a bullet hole in his right temple and a pistol under ner jacket with a red rose in the buttonhole. At the inquest a ver- diet of Suicide was recorded.""
ANNUAL THANKSGIVING DAY.
UNION CHURCH, KOWLOON.
A special Order of Service has been arranged for the morning (11) am.) close.y following the proce dent of former year. The two- fold motive of the service is and this has been worked out in Thanksgiving and Rededication" the order of Praise and Prayer, and finds expression also in the
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
bay.
SEPTEMBER 1127, 1928, Bank 1,510 buy. į
Do London...£739 nom. Mercantile Banks, A‚£34 nom Chartered Banks
F.&O. Banks. nom.
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Celt som East Axis Bank 77 buy, Canton Insurances.....3690 buy. Union Insurances. 1973 bay North China Ins... 150 bay.
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for thankfulness will appear when Clarwriters.....121 0. the Minister announces, as he is
Fire Insurances....1973 buy, expected to do, the result of the Hong Kong busink.....1900 gal. - Kark, a native of Johannesburg, petition to the Government for the Deggianos
38 nom. South Africa, came to this country permanent grant of the Jordan B.K. Steamboats 27 bay in January. He had a good post-Road site, where the temporary Indo-China (Fra)......$35 buy.
H.K. Tugs Dom tion in a local brokerage firm. The place of worship stande. I is
Do. police found a farewell note in his understood that the reply of Gov.
(Def.). ***...$72) bay. pocket and several poems in his ernment was favourable and the Waterboat.............
Shell Transport
nom. handwriting in his room. His conditions have esce formally do Wago15 bura bay, farewell letter read as follows: cepted by the Union Church Kailan Mining Admin....55/. nom.
The In contemplation of Death, I Trustees. Anthem by thengkate (combined)...... Tha. 9f nom. write my last gesture. "Many
Choir will be "Lift up your
(single) ..... la, no. have I made.
Heads." Some for good.
********(a. 1.45 nom, 2 Explorations....... Shanghai Loans Tha. 34 num. Soale for evil. From the world I have taken much, and little
Bath whom I have taken. I offer my have I given to those few from
The evening service (0 p.m.) will take the form of a Pestival of Sacred Song. This is a new for ture of Thanksgiving Day, and has
H.E. & K. What's... $197 buy. Tronok Minas .................17/6 nom. H.K. & W, Docka.........137 nom
regrets that they were hurt, been introduced partly to calc- Prorident. $3.65 bay.
without being sorry for what brate the new Hymnary, sued for did-it was my pleasure, but the first time last Sunday Union regret their burt. To those to Church, Kowloon, are now inclined whom I gare, I say they were to boast that they have the best lucky-and to one who deserves Hymn-book and the best Church Choir in the Colony. The Choir more than I could ever give say. Be proud of yourself and consists of 23 voices (9 soprano, play the game ask that this contralto, 5 tenor and bass). be published-for those for whom The Sacred Concert on Sunday I write will know that I did not evening will be provided entirely. forget. I am birtd of Life-per- by members of the Choir and, 6e haps Life is tired of me.
sides items from the Hyranary, there will be a solo, duet, quar. tette and Anthem. It is, of course, open to anyone to attend. A col lection will be taken to augment the thaskoffering of the morning. Programme of Festival Of Praise
I have played much, and now I seek the Greatest of All Ad ventures. To she who taught me homage I offer homage.
What affairs of mine that are not-in, order I ask my father as a last favour to an unworthy son to put in order.--Vale!
which is rather a makeshift .at best, is becoming increasingly less popular.",
There are
"Borhores" And "Kolhores." agrarian legislation has become a So Russia to-day, by virtue of its country of small holdings which, as experience has shown, produce little grain for the market. still other factors in the crisis of grain supply which loomed up so seriously in the spring and early summer. The supply of manufac tured goods at the disposal of the co-operative, and state trading or- ganisations is inadequate to supply the peasants' needs: Russian peasant, who accumulated And the bales of ultimately worthless popet
But the question naturally arises: why in Russia, a predominantly agricultural country, so much strain ed organised effort is necessary to coax out of the hands of the pea sants the relatively modest amount of grain which is required to feed the cities and those country districte which do not produce enough bread for their own needs? A large part of the explanation is furnished by the sweeping changes in the system of Russian land ownership., Ba-money during the period of civil war and inflation, is disinclined to fore the war the estates of the part with his grain for money alone, big Innded proprietors produced unless he sees some tangible evi 000,000,000 poods of grain (the pood dence that his money will buy some. is equivalent to thirty-six English thing. pounds) of which 281,500,000 poads were thrown' on the market. The kulaks, or "fists," as the richer peasants are disparagingly charac terised in Soviet terminology, pro duced 1,900,000,000 poods, of which they marketed 850,000,000. On the other hand the poorer and middle class peasants, raising 2,500,000,000 hoods, placed only 360,000,000 poods on the market, requiring the rest for their consumption needs.
Russia's
Lazarus And Dives.
The Revolution annihilated the big proprietors and greatly reduced the wealth and resources of the kulaks, thereby cutting heavily into surplus of marketable grain. With a harvest only slightly below the pre-war figure, the amount of grain thrown on the market has been halved. The estate of the country squire and the large farm of the prosperous pensant were the chief providers of surplus grain in the past. And both these forme of land holding have been abolished by the Revolution and
Finally the crop yield per acre has appreciably diminished in the fertile regions of southern Russia the grain for export. The average which formerly supplied most of vicki per dessiatine (the Russian land measure, equal to 27 acres) declined from 71.3 poods before the War to 57.3 poods in recent years, according to Soviet statistics. Part of the explanation of this is to be found in the great loss of horses during the period of World War, civil war, and famine, Russia now possesses less than 80 per cent. of the pre-war number of working horses; and the situation in this respect is especially unfavourable' in the rich wheat-producing regions of the North Caucasus and Southern Ukraine, which were more devastat ed than some other parts of the country during the civil war.
The recent difficulties of the grain market have led to much dis- cussion of the future lines of Soviet agrarian policy. One method of insurance against possible future
Monday, September 24th made incapable of revival by the unwillingness of the peasants to sell
At 9.15 p.m.
FAREWELL
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CECILIA
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Soviet Land Law.
con-
their grain is the so-called The title to land in Russia is vest-tracting. Under this arrangement ed in the State, but its use, under the State through the agricultural certain very important restrictions co-operatives pays the peasant an and regulations, is granted to the advance in money or needs, in for which he promises to peasants, with the exception of a retur very limited area occupied by State sell a definite part of his harvest farms. Every peasant family is after it is reaped. entitled to an allotment of land in Sovhozes and "kolhozes," proportion to the number of its State farms and collective farma, members. If the individual land operated by groups of peasants or norm in a village is three acres, uganised in co-operatives, are the family of six receives eighteen acres, main hopes of Soviet agrarian a young married couple without policy Substantial appropriations children receives six acres, etc. have been made for the creation of Inasmuch as the sale of land "is new huge State farms and ranches illegal, this system makes the cren- in unoccupied land, while peasants tion of a large individual homestead who organise co-operative farms practically impossible.
are offered v1200a advantages in the shape of tax reduction and credit preference.
Much in the future of the Soviet
The greatest difficulty in the prac- BORIS ZAKHAROFF.tical working of this system lies in
the fact that farming capacity, However, the amount of land now PRICES:-$4, $3 & $2.
working animals, and machinery are at the disposal of these State and BOOKING AT MÕUTRIE'S. not and cannot be parcelled out to co-operative farms is small, certain- the peasants in the same mechanically less than 8 per cent. of the entire fashion as the land. One often planted area; and their growth is DIRECTIONA STROK.
encounters a situation where the necessarily a slow process, especially village Lazarus, possessed of in view of the attachment of the large family, holds more land than Russian pensant to individualist he is able to till adequately, while farming methods, his neighbour Dives, owner of several horses and cows and per agrarian policy in, obscure and un- haps of some modern, machinery, is certain.. It is still too early to fore- cramped on a small land allotment cast the success, stability, and which he cannot increase by pur popularity of the new forms of chase. The rich peasant, to be collective farming which are being sure, can loase the land of the $0 strenuously advocated. poor, lending the use of his horses question also "arises how far the and machinery in return for a share initiative and instinct for accumula- of the crop. But so many disad-tion of the richer and more capable vantages in the way of sharply in peasants may be curbed without -creased taxes and civic disabilities. serious injury to the welfare of are placed in the way of the peasant agricultural production as a whole. who becomes sufficiently prosperous But one
seems
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Quartette, Hark, hark, my Soul, Mrs. Hurst, Mrs. Dick, Mr. Provan and Mr. Gow.
Hymn, 989, The Day Thou gavest, Anthem, God, my Help, Choir
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Within the ship is a wireless ap paratus which enables the vessel to be guided from a great distance. The engines are "automatically fed with oil fuel and the water pumpa are automatic. On deck are simple. antennae to take orders from an accompanying ship, which will guide the cruiser by wireless and shut off its engines whenever desired.
Should shell destroy the antennae, a second set of antenase automa tically rise from the bowels of the ship and, if there are destroyed, two rockets are automatically thot into the air and the engines stop so that mechanics can go on board and make the "necessary repairs in order to prevent the Bahringen. from sinking. She is filled with cork", so that even if seriously damaged she can reach the nearest harbour afloat.
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Many a young person looks old and haggard through indigestion." The continual pain and discomfort, combined with the inability of weakened stomach organs to ex tract nourishment from food, are such a terrible strain that they drive all trace of youth away. If you ever have indigestion, no mat ter how slight-beware! Get to the Messrs. Carroll Bros have been root of the trouble before it be advised of the following quotations comes chronic.. Bisurated Mag- and dividends on rubber and min-nesia will do this quickly." This
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