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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1935.
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
SANITARY BOARD GLIMPSES OF THE
MEETING
Eating House Licence A WALL BETWEEN JEST
AND EARNESTNESS
For Ice House Street
The fornightly meeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday At the Board Room, Fost Office Buliding, when applications for three eating wouses were refused, and one was adjourned for a fort- night pending further investiga- tions of the suitability of the pre- mises in question.
Mr. W. J. Carrie, presided over present .the mesting and others included:-
Vice-President-Hon. Mr. R. M.
Henderson
M. O. H.-Dr. G. W. Pope
Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo
Dr. R. A de Castro Basto
Dr. Shu Fan
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SecretaryMr. C. J. Roe
Asst. Secretary-Mr. Im Ping-
tseung.
the
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DIVIDED OPINION The first business before Board was "the application for a eating house licence at No. 219, Hollywood Road, ground floor, Mr. Carrie said, that on the recom- mendation of the Select Commit- tee, who found the premises" en- tirely unsuitable, it was agreed, that the application be refused.
Regarding the next application which was for the lasuance of a tuli eating house licence, instead of one for light refreshments at No. 12B, Ice House Street, ground floor, the President informed the Board that the Committee were divided in their opinior regarding the mat- ter. In January this year an up- plication for a full eating house licence was received, but permis- slon was refused on January 3.
The business had now changed hands, and the now owner desired nis licence to be altered. The Chief "Inspector, in his report, said that if the owner were there to super- vise arrangements, a full licence might be granted. The President then reminded. the Board that it was not the policy of the board to consider Individuals but the pre- He recommended that the mises. application be refused.
Dr. Li Shu Fan said that he had paid a visit to the premises and found that they were wholly hyge- nic and clean. True, the kitchen was small with the hall outside proportionately small. The applicant had had the kitchen al tered to plans specified by the authorities, and he understood that nothing else but electricity and gas would be used for cooking
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ENOUGH VENTILATION There was sufficient ventilation and the place was wel lugnted. He considered that it was above the average eating house, and further consideration should be given to
the matter.
The Hon Mr. M. K. Lo rose in support saying that he was sorry to express regret that two unoff cia: members were not present at the meeting and a third was away from the Colony on leave. This very greatly depleted their ranks and means that the unamcla; ma- fority vote had gone. He was in entre agrement with the Presid-
that ent, however,
the Board should deal with premises and not Individuals. He did not think that the Inspector's recommenda
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Facts Disclosed At Rotary
Luncheon
Incidents, some of which were amusing and others tragie were recounted to a large gathering by Mr. E. Bacci, at the weekly tiffin of the Rotary Club held at the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday when the speaker delivered a very Interesting paper on "Something in Jest and Earnest,"
Prof. L Forster, before introducing the speaker to the gathering, welcomed "Lt-Col. H.-L. Murrow, as a new member to the Club, while welcome was also extended to Rotarian Middle- ton-Smith who has just returned from furlough, Guests wet- comed at the function were: Messr: Jaques Levy (Shanghai), (Manila). Millard K. Lee Chin (Hong Kong), Jack Brookman
and M. Jusserard Ryan (Canton), M. de Rome (Hong Kong) (1)ong Kong).
RUSSIA IN REVOLT
In calling upon Mr. Bacci to speak, Prof. Forster said:
80 PERCENT ILLITERATE Before the Soviets actually took
the
stealing from a peasant woman!' broken and everything destroyed, the building waS ......But who could have stolen it?-sometimes
Only the man on her left as there burned to the ground. The village was nobody on her right. It was being small, a few hours ater there decided to search him. The fel-wis not much remaling for the low protested most vehemently crowd to destroy and, their mis- he was no thief-in fact he was alon performed, it seemed there was a revolutionary himself-bur toi nothing else to do but to retire to no avall. He had to produce the their respective homes. But some. money he had, to prove he had how one could terally see now
they were dissatisfied- not stolen the rouble of the pea- that sant woman Sp he took out of that they thought-Is this all that his pocket whatever he possessed. freedom can actually give us? He had a handful of small cains Freedom! and a paper rouble folded in four, Anald the woman-that is my rouble it was folded in four just like that. The man still protest- ed but the dirty paper note was taken from his hand and given to,
her.
window.
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A word which nobody had dared to pronounce during the old regime for fear of punish- ment. Freedom, like a myth, had occupled the imagination of the people, but it had no materia! équivalent in their minds. There is hardly time, however, to specu- late during an upheaval In this case the crowd which was already dispersing of a sudden, as if in answer to a magic call, started running in one direction-to the Miver. It had remembered that enor- two were there
there mous tanks, l'ke petrol tanks containing spirits of wine and vodka.
PUNISHING A THIEF? Then suence felt. A few minutes later someone said:-A thief must be punished. uceat arguments and great animas.tion. Thirteen accused, judzes, a plainuff, an and a silent witness-mysek-in x
feet few cubic
of space. No!
thlef decidedly no! a
must be punished and turned over, to the
FIGHTING FOR VODKA authorities. But who is the au-
During the war it had been pro- thority? We are the authority-- we, the People, we who made the bibited to drink alcohol and the revolution. Somebody then su-government, who
had had the gested-throw him out of the monopoly of its sale, End stored all Yes! throw him out! the provisions in these tanks. But the tanks of ündesirables "There are few it any Rotary control of the population and And, as that was the usual way of when they reached
in shouts of
anger could be heard had been perforated Clubs in the world in which the in-standardised the communist doc setting rid
trains at the time," a few boys gut The tanks dividual member possesses such trine, the people were left to them hold of the screaming and protest-and the quid was flowing into wealth and variety of experience selves to interpret the new prining fellow and with a swing lanc- the river. Some faithful employee as one find in the Hong Kong ciples in the best way they could.
ed him into the glacial snowy re-or the old regime must have done gions of a Siberian plain. But body. There would not be the Thus, during my travels, I wit-
It in order not to give the satis- slightest difficulty in arranging a nessed what effect the new and somehow this drama had to turn faction to the villagers of getting
of interesting ad-revolutionary ideas had on
into a real tragedy a few moments something for nothing. Still there programme
We must bear in dresses, if members were not so Russian masses.
later... The peasant woman, sitt-
was time to save some of the pre- excessively modest. Mr. Bacel was mind that the Russian people, at ing now a little more at her ease
clous nectar. The first arrivals filled in Russia in 1917 as a representa- the time I am referring to, were
because of the space vacated by
their hats and drank, some ran about 80 percent literate mostly her late neighbour, started to tive of the Italian Government,
The first search her pockets and somehow
home, for buckets, and soon the peasants tiling the soil.
running whicle population far whom he was gathering in- formation about Italian prisoners effort to help Russian society pulled out two paper notes insteari
hither and thither collecting all came from the so-called Intelli-or
one both folded in four. I
avacuole receptacles. At the tanks when the Revolution broke out.
don't suppose she realized she was Here, as an observer, he came genzia whose noble thoughts were across certain incidents, some of directed for a gradual benefit of
a terrible fighting and shouting was going on, people pushing each other aside to reach the holes from which were amusing and some of all. But the gap between the were tragic. It is about former and the peasantry was so which.
one the judges had which the spirit was flowing. A few new holes were bored but, even these things that he is going to big-and so big was the dispropor-her
Of course the was speak. The Russian Revolution is tion in their numbers that when given her.
it WRS too late then, miany were impatient sa no- now distant in time, and "Moscow the mass got hold of the new ideas caught and
the fact. Oh!
God! body knew how much remained in as well is distant in space from twisted them to sult its own pur-to hide
som.orie dis- pose and literally destroyed the Oh! God! she exclaimed I have the tanks. Then here, and consequently the Re- solution has lost for most of us its minority. I shall recount to you found in the folds of my fur my covered that the vodka dowie really into the river was actually fivating emotional effects. It is now mere-
without exaggeration some facts own rouble.
on the surface, of the water and that I witnessed, which will illus- grave and deep concern befel on ly a fact in history."
Addressing the gathering Mr.
trate how some of the funda- | all of us-but a quick decision not mixing with it. This gave rise Bacci said:
mental principles of the new followed.-Throw her out of the to a scens which I shall never for- were interpreted before window. the daughter of a dog- get as long as I live. For a mile was intro- and over she went, destined to be or so hundreds of people were lay- the policy of terror duced by the Soviets.
a plece of ice until the spring.ing on the banks of the river with By this time it was night. JUSTICE
I boarded
some
taking out two notes instead of one when she did it. Evidently
one wa her own, and the ot-
the
That was
T
of the window, the Innocent one
."
Was
We are in the midst of great so-order ctal changes. Figuratively speak- ing we are living in an old palace,
their faces to the water-drinking Bome of in the escaping elixir. the architecture of which is worn cut with the times, but let us not
a train in Irkutsk
MORE THROWN OUT
them did not get up-they were attempt to rebulid the old lines
We tried to sleep but in that too drunk to move. Many were nor to construct new ones, but the capital of Siberia. Boarding
"from trains was no easy matter-hun- uncomfortable position, and with drowned that night. At dawn the rather save the columns
through so much previous excitement, it
village presented a strangely dif falling because once the columns dreds of people rushed
All of A
Everybody was terent aspect.. the whole structure the gates of the railway stations was hardly possible. give away
when they opened. Trains no! sudden voicesa.d-The man
D collapses.
I have been lucky enough during longer ran by schedule-one wait who first suggested to throw "out drunk-man, woman and child No me could walk straight. Beatle ray lifetime to survive the greatested at the station hours,
were he is the reat cause of all this expressions on the distorted faces, but no more collapse yet seen and in the midst times days and tickets
Sporadically of which I happened to be caught: longer sold, for was not the rail-trouble-he should have a dose or discordant music, I am speaking about the Russian way the common property of the his own medicine. I noticed then political discussions. revolution. In the year 1917 I was people? In a free for all fight, it that the five sailors were unan-one could hear exclamations in fortunate to find a place mous in this decision-somebody chorus-Long Hive liberty. The the car-perhaps was seized and thrown out. It soul of the people had found at engaged in the work of checking. was throughout the Russian Empire, somewhere in the amount of Italian prisoners on the floor. In my compartment happened to be a mistake so they last the solution of liberty. Yes! we were packed like sardines for threw out a few more. There are Liberty, I was given to understand, was the supreme right to be drunk. who had served in the ranks of the Austrian army at the Russian there, where in normal times only no words to describe what one
PROPERTY windows had no But I must thank providence front, and had been taken prison-four were accommodated, we were may feel under such circumstances. ers by the Russians. Austrian and sixteen.-The German prisoners, at that time, glass. These and any other objects because one of the sailors said, such as handles, etc., referring to mc-Let him a oze, were well over the million mark in brass,
had been removed by previous he will tell us a story to-morrow, and small detachments of them could be found everywhere in both passengers for use in their homes Aud when finally the battle was Russia. I suppose. Upholstery was also over the gigantic sallor with the European and Astatic Consequently I travelled from the missing as the heavy velvet could whiskers on his face exclaimed be used for clothing. Of course, with perfect joy and satisfaction Arctic zone and,, the White Sea
we can stretch our there was no electric light, but At last down to the Caucasus and the
Justice meant that the premises were per-
whole length of the Siberian rail-a Alckering candle.
sometimes fectly good if a respectable person way, hundreds of miles north and were in charge of it, with care south of it by cart-horse and other revolution, and so heated were misused, but never have I wit given to the premises, it could not primitive means of
the arguments that no one seem-ressed such communica- be unsuitable form eating house.
If gas or wood were used in the tions, then by caravan through ed to care about the Intense cold pretation of a sacred principle out Mongolia, and Anally the and glacial draft. Even the fellow and such hold measures in the kitchen cbjection might be raised, Russian Turkestan up to the bor. sitting by the window, a glant of name of it as employed by those ning to terrible confusion. but that was not the case, since der of Tibet. It happened that a man with heavy whiskers, did five hard-bo'led sailors. electricity had been installed,
some days after I disembarked in Dr. Pope said that he must obthe country of the Tsar, "the ject to the application as the dynasty of the Romanoffs came to drainage was inadequate.
an end. Like a drop of oll the Dr. L. Shu Fan pointed out that spirit of the searching Russian the kitchen had been altered ac- Soul, striving to find a new and cording to plans submitted, and better way out of the impasse, following further discussions, It spread more and more until it be was agreed to leave the matter in came a ger of unrestrainable abeyance until further investiga-passion, of destruction, and rebel-sailors would appreciate. I soon days later, however, early in the t'ons had been made.
lion against the old
tion meant
to be taken in
that
light, but that, when fully read, Transcaspian regions, along the we did have a small Jenter with umbs and sleep in peace: often seen I have Everybody
MORE REFUSALE
was excited about the wonderful misinterpreted.
und
a cruel misinter-
LIBERTY
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interpretation. If property is na- tonalised it means that everything belongs to everybody and one could help oneself to anything one liked. This actually led to the disem- bowlment of every well-to-do house, museum, shop, etc., It was
not seem to mind that the half of his beard which was exposed to the window was covered with rimagine liberty is the hardest Icicles. It soon become apparent define. In was given to witness that we had in cur midst. fve an interpretation of liberty in a sailors from a gun-boat in Vladi Biberian age which was situat vostok, all of them travelling to ed far from the railway. When Petrograd to attend the first arrived the news of the fall of Communistic Congress Knowing the Tharist regime had not yet A few a few stories, which I thought reached its inhabitants
not uncommon to see in an "izba" a picture by an old master, or became friendly with them-a merring I was awakened by a friendship which proved to be a terrific shouting in the streets some precious pottery, or silver Two further applications for
real acquisition because it actual When I looked out of the window colsonne used at the dining table. eating house licences were refused, regarding the permissibility of aly saved my life. In one corner I saw the villagers all with happy On the border of Mongolle I was one concerning No. 31C, Wyndham refusal since.a cenes" had been
of the compartment, was tting a expressions on their faces and the guest of a Russian Consular I was Agent, Mr. Petron, one of the most Btreet, and the other No. 74, Bon- granted two years ago,
peasant woman clad in very heavy literally dancing from joy. ham Strand West. With regard Dr. Pope stated that the grant sheep fur the only women among soon informed that liberty had charming and well educated men. tew the western civilisation can pro-. to the latter it was pointed out by was made solely on a misleading
us. All of a sudden she exclaim-been given to them. A Mr. Carrie that a licence had been report which was received, stating ed"Oh God! Oh! God! I had & moments later I was in the crowd. duce. His hobby was to collect granted in 1933 for five months, that the premises were well light rouble in my pocket and it has demonstration was in the curios. He possessed a magnificent after which time the business had ed, and ventilated. It had now been stolen.""" Everybody took course of formation and when, a collection of spears and daggers of cloard down. On the recommten been ascertained that that was great interest in her misfortune few hundred strong, the crowd all different periods. His house,
and asked whether she way sure felt the material possibility of dation of the Chief Inspector's re-not the case. port he would move a refusal since, Dr. Li Shu Fan then recom- she had had it. "Yes," she said. enforcing, the new order of things, it was disclosed that the premises mended that a middle course be "I had it when I came into this it marched with shouts of "Down were 68 feet 9 inches long and only adopted and the licence be grant compartment so it must have with the police," "Dowr with the
ed for a year only. A vote was been stolen here." If this is the rich" "Down with the oppressors 6fest 7 inches wide. Also the ven- tilation and lighting were bad. taken and the application was de- case, said somebody, it is a grave and so forth. And every time it Queries were raised by both thefeated by three votes to two Dr. matter thieves should not exist came to a public build ng the Hon, Mr. Lo atid, Dr. Li Shu Fan Basto refraining from voting, in a state like ours-and then gates would be unbolted, the door's
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