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THE VIRTUES OF WHISKY.
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HONG KONG. THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1932. 蟀拜禮 日肆拾柒年弍世佰玖仟登葵 Price-
HOW STALIN BLUFFED
AND MR. G. B. SHAW'S REPLY.
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?
BY J. R. WESTGARTH,
À British Engineer, who has been working in Soviet-Russia as a Government Inspector.
At Oxford recently Mr. Beraard | conditions in which the workers. Show again sought to enlighten us lived in Siberia, we returned to with some of his experiences of con- Moscow, and in that city and in ditions in Russia under the Soviet Leningrad we saw during the next two years many tourists como and régime.
We saw them bamboozled as Mr.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
TO-DAY.
(July 14.)
Taking of Bustillo, 1759.
Consul for France At Home -
Society Weekly
at the Consular Residence from 11.30 am to 12.30 p.m.
Theosophical Meeting, & p.m.
Whist Drivh at Police Recreation Club, 8.30 p.m.“
Lammert's Sale of Household Furniture, 94 Lycemun Building, Kowloon, 10.30 am.
China Auction Rooms, Sale of
But when Mr. Shaw visited 80. Russia last year ho was completely.} fooled by a means which had pre-Bernard Shaw was bamboozled, as Silk Yarn at the Hong Kong and viously been played on me, and we ourselves were bamboozled dur-Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.'s which I have since seen practised ing that preliminary visit, on many visitors to that country.
Did Mr. Shaw think that he had seen the real Russia?
The reat Russia I saw during two and a half years is a country of squalor, filth, dumb suffering, and steady starvation. As an official adviser to the Russian Government
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"The hotels' became, overcrowded-
old ones were renovated. The best hotels were calarged at enormous expense, New ones wero planned' and orceted feverishly.
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Foreign money rolled into the Soviet coffers. tho Soviet was pleased
the offices of the
Godown at 11 a.m.
Lawn Bowls-Open Champion- ship: W. H.. B. Muskett v. W.
Ward (Police R.C.); W. McLeod v. J. J. Ensto (Kowloon B.G.C.), 5.30 p.m.
Orchestral Concert at Repulse Bay Hotel, 8 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Once A Gen- tleman."
I have inspected steel works in Stute tourist agencies all over the King's Theatre: "Dancers in the Siberia and in the south, as well as world were enlarged mul redecorat
a thriving asset to the Union. Tourists came into Russia in droves. Hundreds of guides wero employ- of
Dark."
Central Theatre: "Miss Shang- hai" (Chinese film).
Star Theatre "Strangers May Kiss."
World Theatre: "Reducing." Garden Theatre: "Monkey Buai-
These guides are drawn from ness."
intelligent bourgeoisie," who Majestic Theatre: "Oh For A through fear and necessity call Man" theansetves the "intellectual pro létariat-those same gentlemen who gave Mr. Show all those valu. oble statistics
in the neighbourhood of Leningraded on the most modern lines," and and Moscow, and the story is the Intourist agency became always the same-6lth, squalor, dis- case, suffering, starvation,
When I made my preliminary few days visit my impressions were different. Before undertaking my official appointment, my son and myself were given, a six weeks' tour to sed how we liked the conditions.
The proposition seemed fair; end wo found ourselves in the U.S.S.R., being shown round model State institutions-just like Mr.. They work for the Soviet Union Bernard Shaw. We were taken to because they cannot leave Russia. the theatres, just like Mr. Bernard They cannot leave Russia" because Shaw. We were given the late they are not trusted members of Czar's box at the Bolshoi (the State the Communist Party. Their overy Opera House), just like Mr.
move is watched by agente of the Bernard Shaw.
Ogpu. They are in daily fear of death.
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The management of the Hotel de 'Europa in Leningrad placed the best room in that establishment at our disposal. It was the room which was afterwards occupied by Mr. Bernard Shaw.
Hosts of people whom we had never seen before came to visit us at our hotel and introduced them. selves, and we were given no time to think of a possible other side. to all this.
The daily round started at eight and ended in the early hours of tho next morning.
Tea Dances at Hong Kong, Hotel and King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen- insula Hotel and King's Restaurant. Tides: High" at 5.25 and 20.30; Low at 10 and 23.40.
FRIDAY.
(July 15.)
and
St. Suithin. Combined Church Rally Bathing Pionie, Wesleyan Church,
Whist Drive on board H.M.S.
Orchestral Concert at Repulso Bay Hotel, 8 p.m.
King's Theatre: "Dancers in the Dark."
As time goes on, then, we find Wanchai that food becomes shorter and shorter. the ordinary people Tamar, 8.45 p.m. are reduced to the very minimum of the necessities of life evon the foreign specialist working in the Union feels the pinch but a glimpse into the huge dining-
Central Theatre: "Miss Shang- rooms reserved for people like Mr. hai (Chinese, film). Bernard Shaw is: a revelation. Finer "spreada" could not be tleman." found in the most expensive hotels in any part of the world. .....
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There are three sections to the restaurants in all the big Russian hotele-one. for tourists, one for
Wo were nasured that it would rest us nothing, and that we were the guests of the Soviet Union foreign specialists, and our for the and the next day a huge roll of more gifted and richer "intellec paper money, was handed to us for|tual proletariat / "incidental expenses.”
Queen's Theatre: "Onco A Gen-
Star Theatre Strangers May Kiss"
World Theatre: "Reducing."; Garden Theatre: "Monkey Busi-
Левд
Majestic Theatre: "Ambassador Bill,"
Tea Dances at King's Restaurant These last-named stand in queuea Darices at King's Restaurant, Houg and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner awaiting their turn outside the en- trance, as there is only limited room. The poor Russian oyes the
Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel
Tides-High at 0.34 and 21.31; Low at 14.10," "
If like Mr. Bernard Shaw, we had returned to England and left it at that, I imagine that we would have retained the same valuable im- entrance enviously, and tramps his
Home Mails:-Inward from pressions as those for which Mr. weary way to the nearest brend Bernard Shaw how boasts that he queue, or to a stalovia?" or "stew from Europe via Biberis by Raj America. by President Madison;
was paid a dollar a word.
house" where, if he is patient and putant; Outward; for America and walts long enough, he might be able | Europe ria: Siberia by Empresa, of to procure a plate of something Asia, 10 a.m. which, bearing the name of stchi (cabbage soup), resembles, dirty bath
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Unlike Mr. Bernard Shaw, how ever, wa did not content ourselves with admiring at a distance, but returned to Russia and tried to water more than any other liquid.
party.
چند باید این کار و یا ما
to be reviewed by the sightscors.
"How ridiculously clean the work there for two and a half. The cabbage soup as often as not children are in Russia remark- years.
is mado from grass, with the addi-ed Lady Astor, who was in the This time we did not confine our tion of a little foreign matter, bat investigations to controlled jour root or she cyca, being the most The people to whom Mr Bernard neys in the environs of Leningrad usual,
Shaw was to talk were thoroughly and Moscow. We saw the real
schooled and rehearsed and: given The preparations for Mr. Ber- a trendly hint that the Ogpt would Russia, a depressed, cowed, squalid, nard Shaw's visit were, as may be keep a fatherly eye on them. The Letarving country.
readily imagined, oven more clebo interpreters were drilled, in their ratoly planged than those for other pretty well already. Their ordere De parts, but of course they knew them tourists.kerana sudbet sudare quite simple-to watch their A few days before Mr. Shaw's man and lose no opportunity of in- party arrived, the huge bath house stilling propaganda
Incidentally, when we had been there three months we were charged up with the hotel account ql that preliminary kix weeks' tour-rough
were closed to the general public, --If a foreign visitor-complains, the fy, six hundred pounds and carloads of children were intarproter suffere-b reprimand for transported from the schools to these the first offence, imprisonment for places of olcansing, thoroughly the second, and death for the third washed and polished, and returned My own interpreter during the (Continued at fool of nest column.}} [Continued on Page 1)
Abour four months later, after sending a strongly worded report to the Directorate on the appalling
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