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A VISIT TO ADMIRAL KOLTCHAK.
OUR PEKING LETTER.
(From Our Own. Correspondent.)
A CHARACTER SKETCH.
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Now for the events of the week. The Presidential mandate of last Sunday enjoining the students
not to meddle in polities but to return to their studies did not
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are met in
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SATURDAY, JUNE 21. -1919.
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SHOULD WIVES HAVE WAGES ?
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A WOMAN'S VIEWS,
Mrs. Henry Fawcett, LLD. writes in the. Daily News follows
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LEST WE FORGET.
What a beautiful thing is the
Hun!
The recent production of a play dealing with the hard case of the poor wife of a rich man has led many folk to suggest that wives ought to receive wages for what and other women workers are paid, they do, in the same way that and Mrs. Henry Fawcett, the They famous economist, is among those who think that it would be well for the law to be amended in this On respect.
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*It has always amused me to find that in the Census returns married women are described as unemployed women," said Mrs. Fawcett.
Said the Hun, "We'll have
fun in Belgium." wonderful for bad the Hun.
*
tore the babe from its mother's breast,
And held it up on high the point of a bayonet, agony,
The
While the mother watche
it die.
•
house that has been their home for years
(You have sung of Home so
sweet!)
fired by the brutes; burnt to the ground.
And lies smouldering at their
feet..
•
The aged father a brave old
"That stands among the uncom- cious humours of the Census Office, for married women are really among the hardest-and Is perhaps, most sweated-women workers in the world. If a woman has to keep a house and bring up her children and generally manage domestic matters, and yet reeives no money to spend in what way she pleases, she is really nothing but a slave. The idea of wives having wages' may sound very curt and unromantic to some people, but there is no doubt that the time has come for the position of married women to be established on a firm and fair financial basis.
in such respects: other women however are far less fortunate, and their legal position is very
bard.
"The average wife has but the
Is
man,
(And many there were in the
land.)
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made to dig a hole for a grave,
And then on the brink to
stand.
A sharp report--a sickening thud,
A coarse, half-ṣavage yell ; And the woman is thrown on top.
of the man
By these beautiful beasts of
Hell.
*
Said the Hun, “We'll have
fun in Belgium.”*
WILLIAM HILL Hongkong, June, 201919.
VIEWS OF BARON OKURA. The Izrestiva, according to the Probably no private company Stockholm correspondent of thethas more extensive intersis in Manchester Guardian, declares China than Mesaro. – Okura and Peking. June 2.
Ona Home mail specially that nearly all the best of the Co. It is, therefore, Interesting marked via Canada was brought younger generals of the former to have the views Baron Okurs The Government of Chins to-
Vladivostock, May 26-After by the Empress of Japan yester Tsarist army are now serving on the question of the new Bank day stands helpless before an a long series of futile attempts day, and delivered this morning with the Soviets. It mantlone ing Consortium. As quoted by
Miliukov's organised movement of students
inadequate pro- Asked to explain the cause of Generals Maximoff, and Kalabed- the Asals, the famous Japanese gressiveness, Kerensky's dis the which is embracing the whole sorted efforts, Kornilov's tragic General said that, so far notions also Generals Klembovski.no hesitation in describing the delay, the Postmaster aroff. The Golos Rossiya mabosiness man says that he has country and is giving force to a and heroic movements to re-information had been received. Gutor, and Tcheremisoff, all of new scheme as a welcome one national expression of dissatis-establish arder-land at last There were two possible causes whom held high rank in the old on the whole. If the Allies ara fxotion which cannot be ignored.
emerging out of the for the delay, but these were army. Kaished aroff commands allowed to indulge in mutual watery wastes of the Russian entirely surmises. The first a unit of Sorokin's army intrigues and needless competi A first the Government en- flood in the form of the
was that there might be -move- | which is operating in the tion in the master of the deavoured, mildly it is true, but | Owsk government. Perhaps any ments of troops in India in con- Kuban and Don districts, in the exploitation of natural resources would. nection with the Afghanistan Northern Caucasus, and around in China, with an eye to securing still endeavoured to suppress the other government that
have offered a programme to the trouble which, in certain cir-Astrakhan at the mouth of the better rights and interests for movement. This was a mistake. Russian people could have cumstances, would interfere with Volga. The strength of this army themselves, not only will the It WES equivalent, to sitting achieved an equal success. The the mails, and another was that is about 110.000 men, but it has wholesome exploitation of China's on the safety valve. Admin fact remains however, that it the point of delay might be no single front; its most southern-resources be impossible but it will edly the situation was awkward has beez this government and no Egypt, where, it had been sug-ly unit is stretched along the not be conducive to Chinese in- for the Government, but it was other which which has establish- gasted, there was difficulty in Terek river at the northern foot terasts. Nor will any benefits be water to allow the students to ed a bit of terra firma in the flux getting coal for bunkers. of the East Caucasus. The army derived by the Powers concerned. blow off steam and exhaust their of affairs. And the personality
contains 10,000 sailors from the It is, in these circumstances, very exuberance rather than to take of the leader who accomplished
former Black Sea Fleet and many gratifying to note that the scheme action which made martyrs of a it and who has, in six months
Chinese and Kalmucks; but it is maturing among the capitalista -number of them. After all is said time, from nothing evolved an
main strength consists of Bollof Britain, America, France and and done, the students are doing arty of five hundred thousand, to have all Hongkong mail shevik soldiers from the old Japan to form a syndicate so a useful work in rousing a must be of vivid interest in these despatched by the Blue Funnel Caucasus army, and from that that they may act in harmony patriotism which has been largely days when the power of the per- steamers, which leave every quarter come its artillery and for the exploitation of inarticulate. Merchants may sonal equation has been proved Thursday. This is a regular ser-material. Sorokin is an ex-school China's natural resources. Since have been to engrossed in their so repeatedly and beyond ques-vice and takes about 40 days, teacher, a Cossack by birth. The Japan is placed in a special but it is thought better to own affairs, while the mass of tion.
army contains about 1,500 of cars position geographically it is well this It is by way of a snowy Omsk have
somewhat the people have been indifferent
slower from the former Imperial army. for her to utilise her position to through ignorance, but the road, overhanging the wide | bat regular service rather Its general organisation it in the full and wisely guide the new students belong to the educated expanses of the Irtish rivet, that than an irregular and uncertainherited from the former army Consortium, thus making her best class, whether they come from one comes to the residence which delivery by the quicker route..
and according to the Bolshevik endeavours for her own profit as the aristocracy, or the com houses the Supreme Ruler of
journalist Lieshkoff it is "not a well. as" to confer benefits on monalty, and while their judge-Russia. A guard so small that it
Red Guard but a Red Army"— | China. · has been a matter of concern to
HARD ON THE WIFE. ment may not in the main be
ie, an.army more or less of the
In participating in the new "As things are at present, in accurate the fact that they are more than one well wishes of the
former type but Bolshevik in banking Consortium, Baron focusing public attention.oa
Omsk government is posted" at
matrimonial asin all sex matters. spirit.
The so-called "working Okura proceeds. Japan must it is to woman who is the chief wrong inflicted upon their country the wrought iron gates which
translates. Oc Cossacks-that is, Cossacks with demand that Manchuria and sufferer when difficulties arise- shows that their sentiments are open into a modest garden and a
casionally his eyes burn up
little or no land-have entered Mongolia are placed outside the especially financial difficulties- worthy of the highest commenda- road leading by a few steps to
AD almost in large numbers.
The main pale of the new Syndicate and and, there is every reason why tion. If their activities create a
the house. Admiral Koltchak's luminously, with way has been a thorny, one bet startling brilliance, when some function of the army is to defend that her vested rights in Shan the amendment of the law in What a beautiful thing is the real body of public opinion in
tung be excluded from the pool favour of women is urgently Hunt China, the unfortunate decision ween Social Revolutionaries and thing interests him: The Con- Astrakhan.
stituent Assembly, for instance,
Moscow papers contain a few Japan's special position in the needed. In discussing the fin- of the Peace Conference regard-
Monarchists but certainly neither always a contested point with the facts about the Bolshevik forces Far East had China's recognition ancial position of the married ing Tsingtau may prove to be a could quarrel with his setting. Social Revolutionaries. "Moscow which now occupy the greater in the past, it has also the ap-woman, we must not overlook the blessing in disguise.
The residence, belonging to a Russian engineer, has the dignity taken and Bolshevism broken." part of the Lattish Republic of preciation of Britain and France, fact that many men treat their And wonderful fan had the Hun. he declares, "then can come the Livonia. Of the main comport Particularly in the case of wives with the utmost fairness of space, high ceilings, long Constituent Assembly. But now tion of these forces two different America, she confirmed it in an windows and the beautiful wood it would be only a net for Bol accounts are given. Sometimes agreement which was entered of the pomp of place. floors of Russia but no suggestion sheviki." The impression deepens for diplomatic reasons the Soviets into a few years ago. ("Several the outer hall as he talks of a secret source of protest that no recognised Red years" is the expression used power behind that ascetic face. Guard unit is among the aggres-Tae Ishii-Lansing agreement was by an officer and escorted into This is the leader who has sors; but sometimes their news-only concluded eighteen months vaguest ideas concerning then many cases that some funda- an immense salon, evidently
assembled and disciplined five papers describe military suc-a80.) The American proposal actual amount of money which mental reconstruction is vital. once a billiard room, bare except for a billiard table and a hundred thousand troops, the cesses as almost entirely due under review, however, stipulates her husband earns. I believe The relation of wife and husband few chairs about thewall Through only army of all the armies in to Trotsky's Guard. The Izrestira that the vested rights of the Pow that at the outset of the war,
is certainly a personal matter says thet the main forces ers concerned should be trans- when many men joined up and which should the world fighting Bolshevism.
make their in Livonie are Lettish Russian ferred either to China or to the their employers offered to con-
economic partnership, an easy SHOWS TRACES OF ANXIETY. forces took part in the capture of new Consortium. If this ruling be tinue paying their wages to their atter for mutual arrangemant; Riga; but nearly all of them, it accepted by Japan the result will wives, many of the latter were dignity, and security of women I but for the general independence, There are traces, too, of grave appears, were withdrawn: and be the loss of her special position astonished beyond words was equipped and the army of the exception of the more prosperous. Inasmuch as this will not only men folk really received Under were amended, so that every wife anxiety. The army of the west the Lettish peasants, with the and vested preferential rights. discover how much mones their think it would be well if the law south was getting under way for This newspaper account I have disturb international faith and the law to-day a man can give his as just claim to a certain the spring campaign but, in spite heard confirmed by two German order but affect Japan's future wife just what amount of money proportion of her husband's earn- of the fact that the British had Baltic province nobles now in destiny, it is to be hoped that the he likes for household and otherings that she should have the sent much ammunition, there Stockholm. These inform me that Japanese authorities will give this expenses-whether it is sufficient money to spend to cover all was always a shortage. The in the country where their estats phase of the question the closest
recognised household expenses- morale of the army was good and are situated that is near Wenden attention. In short, Baron Okura portion of his earnings, has reader account to her husband to meet expenses or a fair-pro and such like without having to General Guaida excellent. But the Haw Red Guards preserved says, he cannot approve of the nothing to do with the case for every farthing. again the conditions under which perfect discipline, but the Letts American proposal unless the the troops fought were appalling, plundered and killed. On the above-mentioned exceptions are
Anyway, a wife has to take what
LET OTHERS SPEND MONEY, she is given, and she can make Agaj 19 those terrible road small picked units of Red provided.
no legal claim for more money
"The
fact that teachera early days of the war. they Guards always march first. The
except by putting herself and her medical men, and other authorities. were fighting without ambul scouting detachments which are in the Admiral himself, with an
children on the parish. This is on every band in all parts of the ances, medcine or doctors, stuffing sent on ahead assure the people
unfair position for country say that one outcome of occasional superaded touch of wounds with newspapers and too that no harm will be done to any in Russia. At the Putiloff Works surely an fire. An official is just leaving often freezing and dying where one except the bourgeoisie, but until lately were being built lim
women. Why should the Guard-separation allowances has been and the Supreme Ruler himself they fell unless they were able these promises are not usually bere and artillery toolcarta: but ians have powers to compel a to make a marked improvement husband to pay maintenance in the clothing, health, and Next day there were student comes out with him and shakes to drag themselves back to the fulfilled. At Riga the Red Guard such a toolcart, according to
money which his wife can-general welfare of children proves demonstrations, more street hands with his callers in the camp. For men who long to be shot sixty marauders, and was Zhisa, cost the Soviet War Com-
not obtain on her own beyond-question the benefit of eratory from perfervid youths and punctilious Russian fashion; a possessed by a cause, Admiral about to shoot many many more missariat last October not less
account? The difference Hes in mothers having money to spend more trouble with the police. map of medium height and mas Koltchak is an enviable men, for when 20 order. from some than 150,000 roubles-a price cot Consquently there were further cular body, acquiline face wom if ever a face showed purpose (unknown
quarter forbade surprising in view of the state the fact that in the one case the in their own right--and does away Arrests.
A new feature was lean with thought and feeling and graven in its lines, it was the executions.
ment of M. Hessen, formerly ratepayers suffer through the with the fallacy which some introduced at this time. Girl illuminated with dark eyes set pale serious face, with the eagle
editor of the Retch, that the one husband's neglect in the other husbands still hold that women students decided to make their far apart, mystic and dreamy. Of glance, which the light of the A SHORTAGE OF SMALL ARMS. locomotive built since the Soviets case, it is only his wife and are not to be trusted with having Fopinions felt and in a body 700 broad Russian feature there are windows illuminated,
The Moscow War Commissariat seized power cost 4,000,000 children—and many women con-money to spend as they please!
tinue to suffer in such ways for "Now that the National Union of strong, they marched to the Pre-none and the impression quickly
has since January called up men roables. sident's Palace and demanded an stamps itself: This is ao man The most compelling force in of the service years 1894 and Of the spirit of the Red Guards years because they will not follow Women's Suffrage Societien bave interview with His Excellency of the steppe but of the Admiral Koltchek is, perhaps, 1893 who were registered for one gets contrary accounts. It the hated course of *going on the been turned into an organisation This was of course declined. Stili mountains. He is, as a matter of his personal integrity and his mobilisation last July but not seems to be best at the fighting parish.
for obtaining equal rights of citiz patriotism. Whatever the 'au-with the exception of the Moscow fronts, namely because food is
HER LITTLE SAVINGS, they returned to the charge next fact, from the Causagus with an
enship for women with men, the day. By that time the Govern infusion of Tartar bloed. His tagonism has been and there, has city contingent, called up.". These there more plentiful. That the
Even if a woman saves amendment of the matrimonisi ment had again wobbled. It had uniform is simple, khaki colour been much from both Left and men are to be given four months" discipline is good is shown by the
part of her housekeeping money. laws in favour of women is among cided that mild measures without gold braid, suplemented Right wings the purpose of the training a sufficient term, as fact that though the review fixed through her own careful man the things to which we intend to should be employed towards the by the red cross of a naval order Admiral himself has never been many of them served in the old for February 23rd in Moscow had agement she has no claim to such give particular attention. The students, and the Tuan Chi-jui at his heck and the Russian Crox questioned. And in & land army and saw fighting. The to be postponed because the savings the money belongs to her financial position of wives and and Hau Sha-chen advice to de Guerre. He wears dress boots where distrust and suspicion of shortage of small arms soldiers where faint from hunger, husband, and he can, if he so mothers must be put on to a better punish the students was turned without spurs and an anchor others' motives has become is great. No rifles whatever there was no mutiny. On the south likes, compel the restoration of basis in return for their down. But the students were not tattooed on his left hand indicates the very sir breathed. this are being manufactured in ern fronts successes have raised money so saved if he finds his wives must have some satisfied with this. Those who him a sailor.
nquestioned integrity is be-Russia; and it is difficult to do the Guards spirits. Their leaders wife has spent it in other things wages, Many men had nobieved arrest disapproved The smaller private office is yond value. In Omsk far more any except elementary repairs, assure them that the present for her own pleasure or use! wrong position of wo of their prison doors being opened furnished with a plain desk, a than in. Irkutsk and far, The Krasnaya Armiya complains hunger of Russia is due to the Besides, even with men who are respects, and are.
not at all mean," and who towards a readjus kun so that they could leave if they heavy bear rug and a painting or far more than in Vladivostock, that millions of good rifles are lost Entente blockade and to the sur- wished. Nothing less than a two; dignity in few strokes. Here one feels the tension of the through neglect, and that "aven, rounding counter-revolution. grudge their wives nothing within are still soome men public apology would satisfy one receives a more vivid im struggle against Bolshevism. The now, despite severe penalties, ary" conspiracies, which prevent reason, the mere fact of having who are like the them. And they got it from the pression of the Supreme Ruler, as country devastated by Bolsheviki comrades de no not always treat peaceful work at home and that to ask for money whenever it is turned Pacification Commissioner ap he sits in a cathedral-back chair, is not to be trifled with; it is their arms as the good pessant if all the former Empire is Bol-wanted for personal mat pointed by the President. the light from the two windows savagely intense. And as the should treat his home. In the shevised, and perhaps also gal Having vindicated the right of bearing strongly upon the aquiline memory recalls that reserved and East: R
the Central Europe, Bolsevik So wis freedom of speech, they are still features. Through training in grave figure at the desk facing defeat
soldiers cialism will be able to work out with haranguing the populace, but it England, he speaks English but the lines of peasants sledding on
in peace. That at for the pected that in a little time prefers to communicate through the Irtish, there comes e they will become hoarse and the fences will have lost some
ten
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teams
were busy
have the desired pacifying effect It inflamed the students. At a meeting held the following night
an open door one glimpses a the student body decided upon smaller drawing room. A long the resumption of their street mirror is placed between two compaign, and on Tuesday the windows looking out over the throughout the city. The gend with faint lines of peasant sleds river veiled in snow and marked armes, who are commanded. by crossing the white gulf. A small sa officer loyal to President Hsu. lamp is burning before silver were fairly indulgent. but the ik. At the right opens a door police were not so well disposed, through which officers come and for the reason that their chief igo but there is no suggestion of
nominee of Tuan Chi-yui, who
an armed camp or even of ar is inclined to strong measures-overstrenuous officer: rather an The net result is that the Un-atmosphere of quiet, seclusion iversity compound was turned and thought. into a military encampment. and that some 300 cr 400 students were arrested and placed in durance vile.
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ADMIRAL MAN OF SIMPLICITY.
And this impression is repeated
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an interpreter. He speaks foros. - sasurance that the government fally but lapses into apparently in strong hands. This is no habitual thought a while the man to trife with Bassin
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