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THE FUTURE OF CHINESE "THE CISCO KID'
TURKESTAN
V
(Continued from Page &"),
capitalist and is often ten to twelve hours in length. There is no re- gulation of working conditions. Employment, is highly seasonal and when it is over the labourers are left to fend for themselves.
Propaganda.
The Soviet Government has been able to draw contrasts, useful for propaganda purposes, between the autocratic methods of the Chinese and its own polley of equality of all races. It has seldom used the stereotyped Communist propa- ganda
Sinklang, preferring
rather to develop its influence through the media of commerce
and race.
The latter has formed a strong basis for appeal, especially among the Kirghiz and Kazaks two nomad tribes who inhabit the wes tern part of Sinkiang. These are
blood brothers of the Kirghiz and Kazaks of Russian Turkestan and the communication between ACTUSS two "which goes on
At The Oriental Theatre
SIR V. SASSOON |£5,000,000 OIL LOSS
ON RUSSIA
Address On Present Conditions
The present day interest in Rus sia, and the desire to learn facts at first hand were fully demon-
While Warner Baxter and EU- mund Lowe are rated among the really good horsemen of the screen
DARK AND BRIGHT SIDE in riding while making O. Henry's '. colony, both learned some new tricks "The Cisco Kid," Fox feature at traction will be seen at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday,
Much of the picture was filmed in the Santa Cruz desert in Arizona, and contrary to the general impres- sion, there are deserts and deserts This one happens to the thicky cov-
The record attendance included ered with cactiranging from the huge saguaros to the small but a good proportion of lady guests formidable bisnaga, with spiny pale who listened with evident interest verde trees, buckthorns and various to what Sir Victor had to say, other plants that are best left particularly on Russia's original severely alone, either when walking solution of the problems of love,
or riding.
The job af piloting a horse at the full speed through obstacles of this the sort requires horsemanship of border constantly has been extre-high degree to avoid painful, mely useful to the Russians injury or worse, and the script called gaining the friendship of the Sin for many such scenes of Sergeant kiang natives. Likewise profitable Dunn, alina Lowe, in hot pursuit in this regard is the natural gift
of his old enemy, the Cisco Kid of the Russian for fraternizing (otherwise Baxter). The two play
ers necessarily learned how that Russian colonists in Central weave" at full gallon much as Asia have always been more friend-half-back weaves through an oppos ly to the natives than other white
with alien races. Travellers report
men.
י
ing team.
to
Conchita Montenegro and Nora The decisive. factor in establish- Lane have the feminine roles in this ing a strong Soviet Influence in exciting romance of the border, the Sinklang, however, was the con- supporting cast includes Frederick struction of the Turkestan-Siberian Willard Robertson, James Brad Railroad. Running northward bury, Jr., Charlie Stevens, Douglas through Russian Turkestan the Hag and Marilyn Knoweden. railroad parallels the Sinklang border at such close distance that
it has been connected with the FISHING VILLAGE
chief cities of the province by mo- tor roads.
Travel between China proper and Sinklang is "effected by cara- three or four vans, which are
BUILT
FOR SOVIET
Anglo-U.S. Groups Stop Orders
DAMAGING BLOW TO CREDIT
strated by a record attendance at the London Daily Telegraph" The Diplomatic Correspondent of the Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay, ear states: Her this month, when Sir Victor Sassoon spoke on "My Visit to serious blow has been dealt to the I am able to reveal that a Russia."
taining at Soviet Government's hopes" of ob- amounts in cash and credit from an early date large the sale of Russian oil to the lead- ing British and American groups
marriage and divorce.
MEANING OF COLOURS
Lecture By Mr. Geof- frey Hodson
CONTACT WITH AN-
CIENT WISDOM
Under the auspices of the Theoso phical Society, Mr. Geoffrey Hod- son, the international clairvoyant who is on a lecture tour of the world, gave an interesting talk last Colours evening on "The Occult Meaning of Mr. B.. Paul presided over the meeting.
audience that he was giving a series Mr. Hodson at the outset told the
of eight lectures. He said that urgently needed to All the depleted. truth about every conceivable sub Such amounts are. sorely and there always existed. z body of coffers of the Soviet Treasury.ject concerning man and the uni And oil is now the only important verse as a whole and the relation security, which the Soviet Govern-ship between the two. The existing ment can offer would-be lenders. facts have always been known and
tense.
Sir Victor said that he thought most people could get "a good idea" about a country in three weeks, and if they wanted to learn more they should stay thirty years. grain and other foodstuffs are no mystery. There were no limita- For owing to scarcity and famine in fact, there was no such thing as It sounded extraordinary, but he longer available in any quantities tions upon knowledge, the only thought everything he read about for export, while the dumping of limitations there were, were in the Russia was correct. both a dark and a bright side and most countries. Moscow's disap-
There was Russian timber is being checked in mind of the students.
Speaking of colours, Mr. Hodson ticularly objected to was the pre-ments is therefore bitter and in-and effected our health, body, cha.. what the Russian authorities par-pointment over the latest develop said that all the colours influenced sentation of the dark side only.
racter, etc. The subject of colours "Shell" has definitely decided was one for meditation rather than to deal in Russian all, for words. Our fathers, like Jacob whether directly indirectly. gave us a cout af many colours for "Standard Oll" has broken, of this life of ours, with its emotions the secret and protracted nego- and passione. Although we may tiations which it had been carry- not be aware of it, every one of ing on in Europe with Soviet re- us was clothed in many colours. presentatives during the past few The human aura, in fact, was A months, so that no new agree very facinating subject,
as each " ment has been signed.
colour had a power and each colour had a meaning and each colour bad an influence upon us!
In one place he and his com- panion who represented & Trade Union, were shown a curious pho- tograph which purported to be the Whole of the British Cabinet and
the
Archbishop of Canterbury "praying for the destruction of Russia." They examined this pho- tograph and it seemed to be, all
right. There was Mr. MacDonald
not
ΟΣ
months me transit. Although keen- For Scene In "Peg O'taph in the middle had been paint-reaching agreement with the Soviet light, and these were co-related to
ly aware of the need, for rail con- nections, the Chinese have never been able to finance the laying of a railroad.
And Russia held other trumps in the hand she played for the settings control of Sinkiang's trade.
My Heart"
One of the most extensive outdoor constructed in recent The months was erected by Metro-Gold
and the Archbishop and they were
Anglo-U.S. Cordiality. praying. But it seemed curiously
"Shell's" decision will cause familiar, and eventually they dis- little surprise. At the World" Oll The speaker than ran through the covered that it was an Armistice Conference held in New York in colours of the spectrum. He said " Day picture and the London Ceno-May, 1932, for the purpose of there were seven colours of white
ed out.
oll authorities, the chief negotiator the seven planets, the seven musi on "Bhell's" behalf, Mr. Kessler, cal scale, the seven senses and so Food Fairly Plentiful.
had already reached the conclusion
on. Describing the various shades Regarding creature comforts, Sir that it was useless to look to of red, he said that while veriit. Victor said he had more than he Moscow for any reasonable and lion showed strength, a cullar, shade could eat in Russia. The food mutually satisfactory agreement. for red showed anger. An angry might not be what they had been His American colleagues, how- man radiated fed spots which are accustomed to, but there seemed ever, remained more optimistic. state trade monopoly enables the wyn-Mayer-Cosmopolitan for the to be plenty of it for visitors. He and determined to make a further caught up by an audience and thus Soviets to quote flat rates on buy-fishing village sequence in Peg went to a restaurant catering for effort. The negative result of this many sparks of red from his fellow sometimes A man сап produce ing and selling, thus completely My Heart," the new Marion Davies working men and found that each is now seen. demoralizing the Chinese traders. starring picture which is coming on
men. Here you have crowd psy man gave an order the day before The 1932 New York Conference,chology. The rose red was a very As a result of this they have for Sunday to the Queen's Theatre.
as to what he wanted; so there however, was fruitful, in one res-useful colour for the sick as it was several years had a monopoly of The village, built on the edge of
a tonic to the nerves. the cotton market. Then, too. Ior the Pacific Ocean near Laguna, was no waste and nothing left pect. It failed to produce the over. Those working in the heavy desired agreements with Soviet centuries the annual fair at Nizhni-California, represents a township in
Orange colour meant pride and Novgorod was the brightest spot in County Mayo, Ireland, and includes industries were well looked after Russia. But it established friend- as a healing influence it was a vita- and had plenty to eat. But in the iler, and even cordial, relations liser. Yellow was the colour which the Turki calendar, giving face to in its winding streets replicas of
between the British-American el manifcated thought in a person. the trade of the province. Com Trish thatched homes, meeting balls, light industries things are not so pared with Nizhni-Novgorod, Pei-churches, fish wharves and à const good and here one saw the fami- | groups, and succeeded in removing This colour in healing has a very much of the mutual jealously and marked anti-tubercular influence, ping, to the Turkoman, was a guard station. All the structures lles queueing up for their rations.
One thing about it was that the mistrust that bad hitherto charac- capecially in the initial stages. dream and an abstraction. When were designed from primitive, cha-
Railwayracteristic rambling Irish architect present generation had nothing terised their dealings with Russian Emerald green, said the speaker the Turkestan-Biberian gave Russia complete control over
was a vitaliser, especially for the with which to compare their ex-011.
As a matter of fact, the Amen-
digestive system. isting conditions. They were there-
Blue was the colour signifying fore content. The danger was can oll groups now recognise that "Anglo-Persian " that they would grow up and when "Shell"
devotion and in healing: sapphire there was general education in were far better acquainted than
blue was an astringent. Modern Russia the children would ask why themselves with the true facts of two and two should make five and the Russian oll position. In future, science of colour healing was dis- not four. With the old generation Soviet agents will no longer be able covered by this blue influence by they had the memories of a pre- to play off the American against accident. A certain man was dying of X-ray disease and a friend armful of blue This should be a tremendous gain flowers. His pains left him. In vlous regime and could compare the British all group, or vice versa. of diseas things.
time the flowers withered and the
the economic life of Sinklang, it merely marked the culmination, of
a long historic process.
Moscow. Or Nanking. To-day Chiang Kai Shek is marshaling the WET lords of China for an attack upon the Red legions of Soviet China, which the Nanking Government regards as a possibly even greater menace than Japanese invasion. Soviet China now occupies more than one-sixth of the area of the country, and its leaders govern about 90,000,000 of the population..
ure. The studio research depart ment supplied many of the details from a study of actual photographs taken in Ireland
Grass Seed Imported Along the waterfront were docked a score of Irish fishing craft, built for the picture from other tiny ships plying the Pacific in flects for sardines and shrimp for the canning industry. Grass seed was imported from Ireland to lend a realistic ap- pearance to the "ould sod" and the village was peopled with Irish extra players recruited from Hollywood's army of studio workers.
ed territory will separate the O' My Heart," which is based on Soviet Governments of Russia and the J. Hartley Manners stage suc- Ching,OB. in the "Christian cess in which Laurette Taylor was
starred Science Monitor.
able.
to both.
and
Fall in Russian Export. According to expert computa-pains returned. By ex-incidence tion, this two-fold decision by the friend brought some more blue "Shell" and "Standard Oil flowers and the pain once more left will entail for the Soviet Govern the man, who, although he ment a loss of at least £5,000,000 recovered, got well enough to get (at par), per annum.
investigations "started on colour healing.
In comparison with last year, Russian, oil exports already shows
never
Blue was also the colour of peace a decline of roughly 20 per cent, and the speaker recommended hay. whilst the aggregate net yield of one who was troubled or worried Russian of products is down by to think in blue.
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Well-Run Schools. There was no doubt about it that the present intense Russian prop- aganda was having its effect on the children. His companion' and More than six acres of ground he had two child guides at one The next few months will de-
time aged about eleven or twelve, cide whether or not the Binklang were covered by the settings and, rebels will renew their allegiance bons of fresh "mackerel, actually to Nanking or follow a road of caught by the the fishing fleet, and their Intelligence was remark- They visited children's schools their OWL. Should they pursue were used in the acenos. Later, the. the latter course and should that fish was was donated to the poor and found these excellently run road lead toward Moscow, less than through charity organizations.
A teacher could not punish child- Robert Z. Leonard directed "Peren and this had to be done by approximately 35 per cent. This With regard to Indigo and violet a thousand miles of sparsely settl
the "School Soviet. Very often the is due to the fact that the Soviet the speaker did not go unto them at children in the "School Soviet Government has been losing heavily very great length. Violet he said were in favour of much more in Great Britain, South Africa, was dangerous to use in healing as
and in various severe punishment than any tea- China,
other it was a mixed colour and the red markets where it has attempted to in it might do more harm than cher would have dreamt of.
The curious thing which struck pursue an aggressive policy.
good. them about the streets was that British öll circles point to the The lecture concluded, by the there was no delivery and nobody further fact that, during the past speaker answering questions, put by was carrying any parcels. They six or seven months the Soviet all the audience. conid not quite fathom this until industry has experienced a virtual they realised the only shopping breakdown. The Soviet Press does A NEW ANÆSTHETIC was for immediate personal needs, not even, rendeavour to concéal
Marriage and Divorce. this, and admits that the Soviet Avoiding Unpleasant Effects Speaking about the marriage organisations are 40 per cent. be-
Of Chloroform system of Russia, Sir Victor said hind with their original plan.
Indeed, so alarmed are they at that a marriage cost one rouble
Experiments are being made by but a divorce cost double. He the present prospects that they are
doctors marriage taking now taking drastic steps to re- British
with a дет watched place, and as a bachelor it struck trieve a desperate situation by the anaesthetic called evipan, which is him that the couple was just as hurried release of a number of oil injected into the veins. Where It stupid as any other couple in any specialists from prison, and their is used the patient falls asleep dispatch to the distressed oilfields. within two minutes, and the un- other part of the world.
When a man, got divorced he It is suggested by American pleasant sensations of chloroform paid one-fifth of his income to his friends of Moscow that the break- and ether are eliminated.
· of relations between * Au" authority on anaesthetics wife, but he could not have more ing than half his income taken away" Standard Oil and the Soviet said that evipan had not been in this manner. Where there were Government is unlikely to affect suiciently tried to judge fully of children the question of divorce the outcome of the present talks Its safety factor. was not so easy.
EX-INSPECTOR COM. MENDED
Responsible For Capture.
Of Thief
Prompt action by Det.-luspr.
C. P. Fallon, who was until lately
MORTGAGED GODOWN SOLD FOR $30,000
But Two Borrowings To Be Paid Off
No. 34, Belcher's Street, a gen
was auctioned on in the C.I.D. was responsible for eral godown the arrest of a snatcher, and the Wednesday by order of the second ex-officer was commended by Mr. (mortgagee at the China Auction Schofield at Central Magistracy Rooms, going into the possession of yesterday after the thief had been Mr. Kan Man Hing, the only bid sentenced to six months" hard la der, for $30,000. bour.
The property, however, was sold Sub-Inspector Nolloth, prosecut- subject to a transfer of the first ing, stated that the complainant, mortgage and the repayment of the was walking outside the military principal, and interest, therefrom, playing fields at Sonkunpoo when amounting to nearly 829,000, and the defendant, Li Tsoi, snatched the final sum Mr. Kan vill have to her hankerchief in
she pay will therefore be $59,000, had $38.20. and ran
with. The property has an area of lease of Her shouts brought Inspector nearly 9,000 sq. ft, and “a, Fallon to the scene and, with 999 years. the complainant's husband chased the man. He jumped into a nullah and with Inspector Fallon, hard after him he ran into a culvert. He was arrested at the other end by the complainant's husband. He then took the Inspector back along the nullah and showed him the money hidden beneath a piece of tio
emall celebration..
which
TRAFALGAR DAY
SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS
BEING CONSIDERED.
It is hoped this year to arrange spécial celebration of Trafalgar Day, October 21, partly in hon- our of the visit of Capt. D. E We understand that a committee Wallace, O., MP, Civil Land of Naval officers and civilians in of the Admiralty, who is expected terested in this matter has been into arrive on Octzter 19, and partly consultation, and an announcement because it is felt that a naval port like Hongkong should not let that will shortly be forthcoming.
great anniversary pass marked, except by a wreath-laying on monuments and possibly some other (Continued on premous col.)
We are sure that a good pro- gramme, euitable to the day, would meet with wide support from the
community,
one
Food Slaves. " In Russia they had a country where folks said the people ruled themselves. This was only because the masses were food slaves and. dare not do any other. If a man refused to agree to a certain course of action it was an easy matter to stop his food ticket, so, of course, be was not such a fool as to dis- agree.
Not Needed
"Can't see why I should buy your book," said the farmer to the persistent canvasser.
Why, it will show you how to be a better farmer
"Listen, son, said the elderly man impressively, Tm not half as good a farmer now as I know "Boston Transcript!
how to be.
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between the Soviet Government Several hundred operations. and Washington on the subject of jhave been successfully performed in diplomatic recognition. This may London hospitals with evipan," he or may not be so. But this busi- said, "and an official investigation ness rupture is bound to affect was made on 100 cases. So far Soviet credit in America.
there have been no deaths. ''!
"The report on the 100 cases. showed that evipan has certain limitations. It does not give com- plete relaxation, which is essential in abdominal operations, and up till the present the longest, period for which it has Hoên used is half an hour the p
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"The question of prolonging the period so that it can be used for longer operations has yet to be decided. There is no possibility that it will completely replace anaesthetics which are inhaled. In dy can the first place, not every take an injections eminently suitable in simple opera-