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Shatin...Dep 7:01
Taipo...Dep. 7.15 Taipe
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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13th, 1929.
LENGTHY ELECTION
PROCEEDINGS.
PEASANTS SAVINGS TO ASSIST THE SOVIET.
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It must be remembered that the LONDON LINK WITH |
delegates to Soviets are not all Communists-there really are not enough Communists to go round. In
HOW RUSSIA IS GOING TO the local Soviet Communists are a small fraction of the tatal-only 14 THE POLL.
per cent. of those elected so far in the villages are of the ruling party, The richer peasants and their sup porters, even if they are themselves deprived of a vote, manœuvre faz the election of their friends. Fre- quently they succeed.
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Moscow, March 2nd (U.P,).The world's longest "election day" is still under way here. Every town
· Terrar is evoked often enough, as and village follows its own schedule in voting, so that the re-elections of an election tool Members of the Soviets which began in December election boards, active pro-Soviet will not be concluded until late in peasants, teachers, etc., are most March. Apart from the loyalty of prominent among the victims. The the elected Soviet delegates, the Government is meeting the situation lenders of the new Russia are inter-with stringent punishment the Eested chiefly in two aspects of the death sentence, reserved for coun ter-revolutionists," being used more and more every day,
chan. 7,41 8.45 9.13 9.5110.21 10.58 1,08 2,13 8.05 8.31 3.30 5.49 6,38 8.33
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tion meetings is a good index of popular interest. Secondly, they want to know how many of the elected delegates are women. larger proportion of women with every new choice of Soviet is re garded as necessary to the eman- cipation of the female half of, thé population.
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From Stocking to Bask.
A news item reporta a total of 13 death sentences in widely separated parts of the Ucian, så follows:-
Erivan district, Soviet Armenia, the village Dashkend, & death sentences for the murder of a poor peasant.
Leningrad province, Laga dis- trict. one sentenced to die for marder of an active geasant, two other given prison terms.
Tula district, three sentenced to death for murder of an, active peasant, two others to prison for
10 years...'
Kiew province, village Krumil, one sentenced to death for the murder of the president of the committee of poor peasants.
SOLOMON,
PUPIL WHO BEGINS LESSONS AT
DAWN.
FROM ABYSSINIA.
A sixteen-year-old descendant of) the Jewish retinue which King Solomon assigned to the Queen of Sheba. on her return to her own
try is at school in Harapstead, absorbing English culture.
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His name is Levi Makonnen, and he comes from Gondar, in Abyssinis. It is his ambition, and that of Mr. Levine, the proprietor of the school, that he should return to Abyssinia as a teacher and mis sionary, wise both in the ways of the West and the East.
He belongs to a race, mainly nomadic and pastoral, which Abys sinians call the Falashas, meaning foreigners." It is a nation within nation, and was a generation ago in a comparatively serville position. The Abyssinians are primitive Christians. The Falashes are untais- takably Jews. They, like orthod.x Jews, wear the Four Cornered Gar ment-the Tsisitch-an oblong piece of cloth which, with an opening for the head, falls over chest and back.
Jewish Prayers,
They use Jewish prayers. They Ashkhabad, in Middle Asia, How the Peasants Polled. three Boys (former landlords) eat only the meats, killed in Jewish Proliminary figures on re-election
sentenced to death for killing a fashion, which Jews may eat. These. member of the election board. results points to considerable pro-
peculiarities drew to them the at gress in both respects. Although This score is dat exceptional.tention of explorers. Their origin Inter results may change their whole Reports of murders and -death een-
was confirmed, complexion, these figures are never-tences appear so often that they theless of interest.
are no longer, strictly speaking,
Levi Makonnen's father is a
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PORTS of the MEETING Peasant villages which had already elected their Soviets by the middle aty to exaggerate their importance.director of a school subsidised by of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL of February had a total of 14,762,000 The Russian villages number tens persons entitled to vote; 8,659,000 of thousands. In the vast majority American Jews, in Addis Abeba, the of them, or 58.7 per cent. actually the elections are proceeding peace capital of Abyssinia. voted, as compared with an average of only 47.5 per cent, in all villages Out of the stocking-into the and set out from Gondar to do so. in 1997. Women constitute 19,4, per bank. cent. of the newly chosen Soviet immense propaganda being sprend Ho walked barefoot, and delegates in those villages; two in Russia now to induce people to journey took him two months. The years ago the women represented put their savings into the hands of head of the school, Dr. Faitlowitch, 11.8 per cent of the Soviet member- the Government banks, ship.
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the
recommended him to Mr. Levine,
and so he reached London, with his ambition coming true.
When he arrived he could speak only Abyssinian, and the medium
There are about 4,000,000 in The elections in towns and cities dividual savings accounts in Soviet had scarcely begun by mid-Feb- banks, for a total of some 375,000,000 ruary. About 337,000 had voted, rubles-less than 100 rables for each from a total of 801,000, entitled to of the accounts. Little more than do so in the places affected-which 10 per cent, of the depositors are means that 67 per cent. of the en- peasants, who have never learned between him and Mr. Levine was a franchised urban population in these to trust the banks. They do zat, few words of Hebrew which he had places voted, as against 33 per cent. in fact, trust money at all, prefer- in 1927. The women delegates ring to hold their wealth in the form from his religious training. Now he chosen by the middle of February of grain. But when they do have speaks English, and is forging ahead were alightly more than 25 per cent. excess cash, they still think a dis-with mathematics. of the total, whereas two years ago creet hold in the back yard or a thein number was below 20 per hiding place under the ceiling
rafters safer than a bank.
cent,
"I came to learn," said Levi Mäkonnen, and he usually begins his studies of his own accord at dawn Terror" as Election Tool:-
The Soviet Government needs Although there is only one legal these savings, sorely to make budget His face is purely Semitic in type, party, the Communist Party, it must ends meet, and is exhorting the with a thin, bigh-bridged nose. He not be supposed that the election population to go to the banks. Ofis /reserved in manner, and shrinks campaign is tame. Just the, con- course, * substantial portion of from shaking hands with strangers: trary is true. In the peasant spare money is absorbed through he bows low. Pride of race and villages particularly it is proceeding internal loans. More than 700,000,000 the romance of Solomon's glory are with a maximum of excitement, rubles' worth were absorbed in the in his bones. Did not his ancestors. reaching tragic climaxes in many past fiscal year, largely in the Ja accompany Malkah (Queen) Sheba eases in murders.
dustrial cities.
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