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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1917.
THE NEW RUSSIA.
"T.P." AS FILM CENSO B.
A People Transformed in Ten Years.
Mr. O'Connor's Defence of the
Cinema.
we
In view of the Russian revolu
"In Walee, with its deep re- tion, the following from the Times ligious spirit which all correspondent in Petrograd, respect, girls and brys pase from which appeared in that jourral the prayer meeting to the picture on February 8, will be read with bone, and from the pictare bone to the prayer meeting. And there interest,
Under the stima'as of war the is no reason why this should not national growth of Russia has be so," declared Mr. T. F. 'O proceeded at an anprecedented Connor, M P., speaking in his psco. To those who had watched oapacity as Blm cenfor for the ber remarkable development trade, at a luccheon given in his daring the yeBra #bich bonear by the directors of the followed upon the war with Bra.
"If children could learn geo- Japan and the subarquent init iation of constitutional reforms, graphy by cizems, said Mr. the progress which the made in O'Connor, "their lessons would more and pilicual belfare bet | be at oure interesting and in- ween 1005 and 1914 eeemed to structive. I believe that the day border on the miraculous; it has is not for distant when there will been far colip-ed by the record not be a public school withca: of events that have happened ite cinema. since then, and there reseen to expect say decline in this maturing crolation."
Rapid growth is ever a painful
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"It has beca eaid that what is good enough for the stage is good enough for the ciarms. This is not always eo," said "TP." em- process, particularly, so when phatically. I should be sorry to
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Russia had out to much time in
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"While I shall tiguroudly ex
to comply with two very difficult clade anything in the nature of requirements: to carry out sad-inde ener, it is not my business
reasons
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Buffery is a who was determined for eslfieh matter of taste. If crime is to be to stast ber growth. excluded, you exclude a wide The German was both within and part of Luman life. If death-bed outside her gates; she has had scenes are to be excluded, you
exclade almost all the Stake;| to fight him in front sed rear;
pearian playe." the conflict is still being waged with aasbated intensity, and it can cease only with victory.
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Utter Fallure of Old System.
Slowly but surely the ranks of A Delayed Development.
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has a word to say. in support of the Potiedonos z. theory, voica in the affairs of their
Congress constry, became stoltified. It is Too Nubles
sar troe that serfdom could not be the last stronghold to reintroduced, the Zemstvos could reader. It did so in the most be abolished, but what emphatic manner by endoreing. happoned wee bid enough. The mirabile delu the resolutions of
not
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No 1905 did obtain relief from the teaction there is not, and there cannot be, that followed upon the tragedy of 1881. But Fabiadono z I had any difference of opinion on this numerous adherente siung bis subjet,'
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