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THE FIVE YEAR PLAN.
LORD LOTHIAN'S IMPRESSIONS OF
RUSSIA
GOING TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD.
Cambridge-Lord Lothian de the Moscow river bank, a combina Hang Ngun"livered a very long, very important tion of a proletarian university And
and very fascinating Address on and Blackpool. So This Is bis recent tour in Russia, at the
Liberal Summer School.
King's Theatre:"Charlie Chan Carrics On.",
"Some of the Russian experi-
There is a proletarian amuse- ment park, a sort of Blackpool made up of shooting galleries.
Vorerive fit
NOTICE
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GLOUCESTER BUILDING (South Arcade) N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Opticians
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The total production of industry could express any in 1913 was $430,000,000 roubles them. Th and is to-day 99,000,000,000 roubles. | 2,000,000. Wage earners numbers 11,000,000 in brightest 1913 and there are now 18,000,000.
the
drink, or Last year, thoy eliming
and
about 19.
The Communal Farm. To-day there are 16, unemployed,
Russia is a revolutionary, in u although two years ago there were 1,700,000. They are making some of state of chronic war, pot military the biggest steel mills and blectric. It is a war mentality. They believe themselves to be at war, both power generating stations in the world...
fat home and abroad, engaged in a Coming to agriculture he did that 80 per cent of the land was collectivised and some people ba lieved the amount would be 00° per: cent. before the year was out.
Before describing an ideal farm
Central Theatro: "King of Jazili, monta?, underlying principles," he swings and circuses. The shooting he saw, he mentioned that the E
Prince's Theatro: "Song of Ken tucky.
Tea Dance at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant; Dinner Dances et Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel:
European Mail: Outward Europeia Biberia (Chichibu Maru) 8.30 am; Europe vid Suer (Hector) 12.30 p.
declared, are going to transform the whole world?
But what they are driving at is very far from what they have at tained and unless they get free dom of thought they are doomed, and will go back into a darker age than Tsardom." PA
of the world.
02-
against the inertia of the old. order and the counter-revolution, always liable to break.
They are convinced that sooner For later capitalism "will become so menaced by Communism that Russia will be attacked. They are acting as we did during the war and have all the characteristics of a people at war,'
Ho surveyed what he called the soumy side the extermination of the, Kulaks (rich pensanta) and
gallories are adorned with pictures of Sir Austen Chamberlain and M.
dinary peasant-lived in a small Poincaré, dark objects at which the house, extremely dirty, full of proletariat learn to shoot..
fion and vermin, occupied also by some domestic animals He cul People bathe in various degrees.tivated live to ten peres, but was of nudity. Then there is a park for babies, where a woman can park
his own master.
The ideal collective farm consist-Bourgeoisie-there had been noth her child in a trocho, where it is
ed of 1,000 families with coming like it in history Stalin, he said, frequently quoted washed, fed, amused and taught Cromwell, and had a deep know-to dance.
munal kitchen, very "clean, with
More than one million Kulaka Tides:High at 12.18 and 11.05; ledge, of the economics of the rest There is a sport ground with
competent cooks, 500 cows in milk, had been deprived of everything Low at 1.58 and 8.49.
tractors, binders, reapers, a large they possessed. It beggarod. Dumber of horses, a timber mill, a cription." forge, a doctor, a clinic, an, office with typewriters and calculating
and a croche for babies Lady Astor
Astor who was with Lord Lothian and Mr. Bernard Shaw] Mid the only drawback about, the treatment of babieg was. that they were so anxious to gut babies clean that they wouldn't allow them to get dirty. (Laugh ter.)
Thursday,
(September *a)
Lord Lothian said the only luxury in Russin was the lipstick, and be described a park of reat and cul-
Queen's Theatre: "Men Call It turs that was ja combination of Love.!
Blackpool and a university.
Star Theatre: "The 13th Chair:"
Communists had no conception Central Theatre: Up Pops The of what a Nonconformist minister Devil,"
was like, or Mr. Scebohm Rowntree: Prince's Theatre Lone Star and King George V. Their notions Ranger."
#
King's Theatre: "Derelict.!! Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels
Europena Mail-Taward: Europe vin Siberia (Ningpo); Europe ria Negapatam (Haruna Maru).
Tides-High at 19.30 and 12.99, Low at 45 and 6.00.
Friday.
(September 4.) Philharmonio Chorus Rehearsals, 8.43 pm.
Reception for Miss Marion, How- lett, Helena, May Institute, 11.50
д.м.
Queen's Theatre: "Men Call It Love."
Star Theatre The 13th Chair." Central Theatrer Up Pope The Devil
Kin'gs Theatre;. "'Derelict." Prince's Theatre: "Lone Star Ranger."
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong
and Peninsula Hotels
European Mail:-Outward Europe via Siberia (Haruna Maru). 5.30 pm Europe vie Marseilles (Hakozaki Maru) e p.m.
Tides-High at 12.80 and 1.70 Low at: 7.33 and 6.00,
of capitalists were absurd, and founded on the own Ancient
regime. He recommanded us to visit Russia. They look after you very well, but it isn't through love, It is proftroring. You have to pay for everything at a high rate and in foreign exchange, not in' rou- bleu"..
Five in a Room,
Coming to a description of what he saw, he said:
"Moscow and Leningrad are full, af Ane houses and pleasant suburbs: and catates. These, formerly co cupied solely by Chein fortunate owners, are to-day full of the pro letariat to the brim, four or five in a room.
"The week, ne we know it, has been abolished. If you ask any body if it is Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, the Russian will look at you as if the expression had no meuning.
"The Ave-day week is universal,
On the fifth day they go to the park of rest and culture. The one
basket ball and so on. In another place, the older children can be left for three or four days".
Sink Stockings. Discussing State planning he said every Communis was convinced Communism would prevail, and that the rest of the world was living in outer darknean, fy
The Five Year Plan now occupied the thoughts of the Russian, people almost exclusively, because their hopes of a heightened standard of living depended on the realisation of the plan, and another Five Year Plan after that ad infinitum,
Almost the only luzury" ob tainable, in Rusia to-day is lip- stick Silk stockings are looked "on" with "most" envious eyes by peasant girls who never thought. of them before the war." He went on to give figures show- ing the expansion of Russia indus trica since 1913, Coal production has leapt from 23,000,000 tons in
1913 to
an estimated output of 83,000,000 to-day. Oil production at aku from 9.000.000 tons to 25,000,000 tona.
Already the oil front "the" most advanced economic front in Russia has reached the output en- visaged. by the Five Year Plan, although the period of the Plan is only half way through.
The output of iron ore, 8,000,000
I saw was one of the most as tons in 1913, is to-day 10,000,000 tonishing things—a grant area along | tona.
machines
Communism replied to criticism of these facts by saying Europe lost 30,000,000 killed and wounded in the war, and if it cost, as much. to build the Russian new heaven and earth, well.
On War Estions.
Speaking of the standard living, he and
The whole of Russia is on war
They ought to let them get as rations as we were in 1912 The dirty as they liked first. The farm staple diet of the towns is black Also had a dormitory a club,
brend and cabbage soup. The library and Glm show every ave population of Moscow struck me as days. dolee gad ar 18 vaalf the most care-free and healthy I Nevertheless," he added in a ever saw. though I didn't see the striking sentence, "I gathered that people who were hiding from the most of the peasants would rather GPU., the secret police live in the primeval way than be goved to modern collectivised farma under what ara'really factory con- ditions.
"There were 178 State farma, run as grain factories, being do- veloped in parts of Russia that were not inhabitad
Stalin told me he did not expect the esport of wheat would exceed 900,200,000 fons because the rest of it would be required within. Russie."
The Driving Force The driving force was coming from the Communist Party, the most formidable church ever
creat ed in the history of mankind.
They brooked no opposition, wero absolutely dominant, and nobody
An American engineer of long residence and to me the main characteristic of the workers is they are not worrying about anything. because they get, holidays and are looked after in sickness and old age.
The peasants, I should say, are unhappy. No community can by taken up by the roots as they have been and remain content.
The Communiste" are terribly. afrair of war and I don't think they want war They mu: Our existence dépends on enormour importation of machinery, from abroad with which war would interfere and we have no desire whatever for increased territory!
"(Continued on Pass 2)
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