UTTER DESOLATION UNDER BOLSHEVIKL
CITY OF WORKLESS WOE.
·BRITISH GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISE.
PAGE FROM THE PAST.
THE EX KAISER SPEAKS.
ADVERTISE ENT
THE 1871 GERMAN
PROCLAMATION.
PREFERS SUICIDE TO TRIAL
3R CLUB.
The following extracts
:
“I have made mistakes. I see
Mr. William G. Shepherd writ-
states -->
days.
TO ENTER OIL FIELD.
The British Government is go-
A vivid account of the
aze
By order af Hon Secretary.
ing to the New York Evening Possing into the ail business. Profit-momentous happenings at Verfrom a recent interview with the HE Members and Subscribers are hereby notified that the monthly dances on. 2nd Saturday Old acquaintances of mine in ing by the costly experience of sailles from the time of the entry ex-Kaiser Petrograd who dreamed of a newthe war, when it was compelled of William, King of Prussia.
that there will be no dance on and better day in their factory to send enormous sums into other October 5, 1870, to the conclusion where I might done better, but of each month, are cancelled and lives and believed the promises of countries in payment for petro of the armistice. January 26, consider my difficulties. I came the Bolsheviki that such days leam and petroleum products, it 1871, is contributed to a recent to the throne too young. I really Saturday, 10th May.
has adopted a clearly defined oil issue of the Revue de Paris. Pass succeeded my grandfather; the were at hand cannot be good policy, and is already credited ing over those interesting re-hundred days of my father's friends of the Bolsheviki these with financially backing what is ferences which give one à realis-reign do not count. I succeeded of the spirit which my grandfather and I found my. to develop into the ing sense I heard the Bolsheviks make expected their good promises to the work-post powerful-oil-producing reanimated the King, Bismarck, self surrounded by his stateamen. They ing people of Petrograd: their ning, and transporting enter and the German war personnel They were all old men. They
the in general, we proceed to the regarded me as a boy. promises did have a pleasant Prise in the history of
industry.
writer's (M. Catiffel's) description treated me with amused taler- sound. I am bound to admit; 'no
Stories concerning the Govern- of the coronation of William ance which the old men in those days employed toward their one in Petrograd, in those days ments policy have been in circu- as German Emperor. after the revolution, could find it lation on a number of occasions,
The ceremony was set for youngers. It was really insuffer in his heart to blame those 100,000 and recently, were revived by January 18. Beginning at ten in able. men and women of the working classes for marching through the reports that the Royal Dutch-Shell the morning, the officers, in full- streets and demanding that their
livres be made easier.
"
What if they were following Lenine and Trotzky? In reality, When I talked to them. I found that they would have followed any one, even, perhaps, a new Czar, if they could have been sure
There are no
I determined to assert
my power.... The opposition
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of the Lord Cowdray group. numerous or one more imposing impatient, intemperate, but in The Government's first import-They are so rigidly erect that spite of my faults I did help
B great Cantons ant move, it was stated by author- they seem-as someone remark-Germany to grow to ties here, will be the creation of ed to have swallowed the sticks power, and I kep. the peace for North Chinas
the with which they beat their men. many years, and if Russia bad Unions machinery for which exists in the The spectacle is marred, however, not betrayed the world there Yangtszes that thereby they could have got a fairer shake in their hard lives. looked after the empire's
department, which by the inclemency of the weather would be peace now. I have Far Easterns petroleum
oil "On the stroke of noon the made mistakes, but no man is The tragedy of it all is that
an more innocent of this war than during the war, King, in a carriage, with interests to-day--and I have this personal- ly from Sazanof, former Prime and which is still an active escort of gendarmes. proceeds L
institution: This machinery leisurely toward the Court of I did not want war. Nicholas China Fires" Minister of the Czar-those fact-
George did the Honor. The officers representing did not want war. be charged ories of Petrogard and Moscow task of acting
petroleum the different army corps, etc, have not want war. No ruler wanted into
which they hoped the adviser for all departments, in- reached the Galerie des Glaces war. We were all dead against Bolsheviki would bring some cluding the army, and what is where the ceremony is to take war. War was made by the sunshine and justice are all
more important, the navy. It will place-by another route. In the diplomatists. The whole guilt of closed.
have control over concessions for centre of the gallery an altar the war rests on the Russian and there were been more paydays; the development of possible oil has
erected:" in the Government, even the small pay of the Czar territory within the empire, and rear,
dais secret forces at, work in the а very simple time days is not forthcoming will advise and assist British encircled by sixty flags and Russian Government."
The Kajser is entirely impeait- now. The working people seized
companies от individuals in standards of the Crown Prince's the factories and the bankrolls obtaining concessions and leases army corps. The hall has no ent. He is not only convinced of and the machinery and the office books but to day they find them-n foreign countries, as well as other decorations. The ceiling his innocence. He sees himself help them to conduct their impressive contrast is adorned as one who strove harder than selves in possession of only so
with Lebrun's striking represent any man in the world to avert countries mach brick and paper and steel outside
Theation of Louis XIV. with his war. As for being put on his Sugars
trial, he laughs at such an idea. cogwheels, with the life gone from importance of the ministry will calm, majestic air. the buildings, with the purchas-be better understood when it is "Preceded by the grand- If he thought he was to be ing power gone from the bank-realised that a large part of the marshal and followed by the arraigned before an international he would destroy rolls, with the whirr gone from undeveloped oil territory of the Hohenzollern and other German
fear Kailans the machinery, and all meaning world lies under British law, the Princes, William advances in the himself,, not our of any gone from the once eloquent capital of every oll
midst of a throng of officers, who of the result of such a trial, but Langkats
audience almost because he would regard such an Shanghai Loans operating in British territory form must be not less than 60 per cent. exclusively.
ordeal as insufferably undignified. S'hai Explorations
Raubs British owned, and all the control
"The King pausing at the altar, He says" must be in the hands of British the preacher. Rogge, proceeds to
Tronohs citizens.
laud the great event, which is to
Urals The next move in the develop-assure Germany's and the world's Then, ad- promises. ment of this policy, it is asserted, lasting happiness.
is. the combination under the vancing to the dais, the Crown to avert the calamity of war." protection of the Government of Prince on his right, his brother. the most important oil companies Prince Charles operating in British and neutral Bismarck at the base of the dais, in countries, if they are wholly of the white uniform of a cuirassier. partly British owned. These in- he reads, in a firm voice. his Jude such concerns as the Royal brief address of acceptance of the Dutch, the Shell, and the Lord imperial crown; stating that he has apprized the German people It recently became known that of his resolution by means of a
columns of the office books....
One doesn't have to take sides in the Bolshevik question to realise the grimness of what has happened to the working people of Petrograd. who believed
the Bolsheviki
in
I must admit that I myself, as a forward-looking American. lis tened to the Bolshevik promises in those early days and went about the factories of Petrograd and Moscow delighted with the happiness. independence. and hopefulness of the factory bands.,
business oil
in
the empire.
I have sat in their great office Cowdray interests. tea-rooms with them at three in
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"1 answerable for my conduct only to God, and God knows how I strove, to my own peril and the peril of my throne.
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the afternoon, their day's work the British Government was proclamation, which his Chan- ended, and heard them praise buying the holdings of the British cellor is commanded to read. the new "time that had citizens in the Royal Dutch, the Whereupon Bismarck, in a voice has undertaken to co-operate with come and look forward to the ownership of which was then vibrating and filled with joy," the National Research Council
But it's all ended in Petrograd conceded to be 50 per cent. Durch says a witness, proceeds to read in the prumotion of fundamental West Points
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German Princes and the $500. 000 (gold) to support over a were equally interesting stories the Sazanoff told me, now contains concerning the Shell Transport free cities to restore the German five-year period research fellow Ewor not more than 700,000. I have and Trading Company's securi- Empire, the Imperial German ships, the administration of the
not been funds and details of the plan to Lau Kung Mows n. talked recently with a man who ties whose ownership was closely dignity, which has had just left there. He said that allied to that of the Royal Dutch exercised for sixty years, he con- fbe in the hands of the National Orientals
S'hai Cottons hollow-eyed men and women in This Royal Dutch-Shell group siders it a duty towards the Research Council.
The Foundation, has been Yangtszepvos the working district, too poor controls immense production in country to give his assent to that to leave the city, come out from many lands, including properties appeal and accept the imperial studying for some time to deter- mine in what way it could be of their houses and cut pieces of the Oklahoma-Kansas-Texas, German crown and soo meat from the bodies of cah horses California, and Wyoming fields,
"The Grand Duke of Baden the most service in the develop- of "pure research" in that have died in their tracks of and has a foreign department then came forward, and, salating ment
which takes note of all that is the new Emperor, acclaimed him physics and chemistry; that is to
work
aimed "My friend had seen human
with three cries of hoch, which say, scientific beings taking meat from one side going on in the oil world.
the assembly repeated with primarily at the discovery and frenzied fervor, brandishing their understanding of basic principles sabres, tossing about their hel-rather than the development of mets, and uttering enthusiastic, particular products.
For example, the discovery of Columbus, April 2.-The Ohio guttural criesa singular scene,. most as bad. The great stores Senate passed bills yesterday which by its crudity might well the natural laws governing light of cotton at Vladivstok have barring the teaching of German recall the outbursts of the ancient has resulted in numerous invent- not been carried to the Moscow in the elementary branches of the Germans in the depths of the ions based upon those laws, such as the microscope or the mills. For a time the Moscow public, private, and parochial Hercyman forests.
"In the evening, as befitting telescope; but the aim of pure spinners kept their great forces schools, and requiring teachers to of working people on half-pay, take an oath of allegiance to their the occcasion, a gala dinner is research is the discovery "of the though they
At country before they can hold given by the Emperor to the natural law rather than the last that
to
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delegates human invention. MORCOW the working appeared before the House of of the Reichstag. French wines people, at least those in the Representatives in response to a figure abundantly. Toasts are ment of the plan, which is simul- Brit. Burmaha cotton mills, did not want to seize resolution requesting him to give drunk to what the Moniteur, the taneous with an announcement the factories; they had seen the the Legislature all facts in his official paper, will call "the great made from Washington by the tragedy of the Petrograd move possession relating to German est event of the century." The National Research Council ment. But the trains stopped propaganda in the schools. He inhabitants of Versailles have the some 130 colleges and universi- moving, because the railroad menarged the enactment of laws feeling that a tombstone has been ties in the United States, says: The fellows will devote their would not work: coal did not barring the teaching of German. solemnly sealed, consecrating the come, because the miners joined A bill introduced in the House greatness of Prussia, master of time to research, and the results in with the railroad men.
would prevent the use of the Germany, and thus omnipotent of their work are to become public And now Moscow is dead.
German language in any lecture, in Europe, while vanquished property; and in no case shall the There is a terrible tragedy in concert, opera, or other enter France is regarded as half dead!" all this for one who, like. myself, tainment.
side at the same time."
In
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PROJECTED GOLF LINIS AT YONGSAN. The formation of a big golf course at Yongsan, projected by the Seoul Office of the S. M.
fellow have any proprietary in terest in his discoveries. It is expected that" under the plan adopted the research personnel Railway Company. at an esti- will consist largely of men not mated, cost of Y60,000, is suffer- that time when "Russia thought From all I hear in Paris, this
only of adequate training and ing delay, says the Seoul Press, a new, better world had come. centre of world news, about The extermination of mosqui-special fitness but man still owing to the postponement of the arrival of a foreign expert charged age (25 It is only two years ago that it Russia, I should hate to have to toes by means of bats is being at
to 30 all happened, but all those go back to Petrograd, into the encouraged in the Philippines, years) when their imagination with the task from Shanghai smiles and hopes have gone. Of homes of the working people I where the Govenment is distribu- and creative powers are at their The Shanghai professional golfer all those thousands of march-knew there, and try to tell them ting free to all who apply for best. Their association in groups died only recently, which, per ing men and women, as many that Lenine and Trotzky were them the plans and specifications is expected to afford mutual hapa, was the cause of the delay.) thousands as possibly could do so right. You'd take your life in of a suitable bat roost to harbour stimulus that will prove of the According to information now have broken up their homes, your hands to do it.
the bats. It is claimed" by some highest value,
received, the company has recent given up hopes and fled to corners Peoples in other corners of the observers that this is the most From the educational stand-ly asked a certain foreign gentle- mau in Kobe to superintend the of Russia where they might find world may defend the Bolsheviki, successful scheme of fighting point the plan will constitute a
construction of the links. The food. Others, thousands of them, or, at least, demand that they be mosquitoes that has yet been climax or culmination of the
system of the company intends to start the whose voices we heard in their given a hearing. But the work devised, and in many localities educational great chant of freedom, have died ing man and woman in Petrograd the pest has been exterminated, country. It will not compate work immediately on his arrival, of hunger. And some of them, and Moscow are the folke in this by this means. The presence of with the graduate work of our so that the links may be thrown still left, are eating the rotting world who know the truth about the bats is regarded a8 &universities, but will supplement open to the public as soon as pos
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