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That all is not well with the Washington, Jan. 5. internal workings of the Soviet M. Steng left yesterday to roturn He declared to the The Republican majority in the Government (which cannot oven to Morocco. Senate was astonished when the claim to have a big following press that it was now possible to opposition Senator Bruce, of Mary among the Russian workers) is be optimistic and added that with- land, spoke eloquently in favour of disclosed by the official, Tass" out overlooking the possibility of dherence to the World Court and agency report of a congress at fresh military action, he would League of Nations. He only de- Moscow on Dec. 21, which reads intensify' political action and obtain contact with all groups who have sired that the Court be not so in park:-. transformed by reservations that Mrr Stalin criticized the two not yet submitted. the nations already therein should deviations from the policy of the be unwilling to accept the United Party of certain known members States as a member. He declared with regard to the peasants' ques- "that there had been a time when tion. Adherents of the first were the nations of the world were will underestimating the importance of ing to pay almost any price to get rich classes of peasantry, and sup- America into the League but reporters of the second were overes cently there had been a noticeable timating this danger, because they change for they found they could did not understand the great rolo get along without us, and that even played by the middle classes of without our aid war could be nipped peasantry. The second opinion in the bud. Europe was no longer was shared by certain leaders of in a mood to tolerate airs of con- Leningrad who based their view- descending patronage by us or point on wrong statistical data praises from our own lips of our composed under the preconceived own perfections."-Reuter.
SYRIAN AFFAIRS.
CHIEFS FAVOUR SUBMISSION.
opinion as though the well-to-da - peasants, possess sixty-one per cerit. of the grais surplus, whereas the statistical investigation shows that forty-two per cent belongs also to the middie peasantry.
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Regarding the question Maghzen, he emphasised that this action has resulted in a few wooks in the submission of more than ten thousand families belonging to tribes that have never yet experi- enced French influence. He added- that he would increase the institu- of education, hygiene, tions medical assistance, and essentially French means of propagands. Indopacifi.
DUTCH FLOODS.
THE LATEST "SITUATION:
Amsterdam, Jan, 5.
The rivers Waal and Mouse are
Later.
Her Majesty the Queen of Hol- lend has opened with a donation of 10,000 florins a public subscrip- tion for the relief of food sufferers,
The Congress applauded enthu-falling-Reuter siastically Mr. Stalin's declaration that the Party will liquidate pain- Paris, Jan. 5, According to the Times correa-lessly, and with the same unant
it conquered pondent at Beyrouth, it is stated that during a meeting held in Trotskism," this deviation, which Djebel Druse, numberous chiefs pro- might result in kindling a class
struggle in villages and in rever- Steanders have reseued hindreds nounced in favour of submission: On the other hand, the Sultan At-sion to the policy of military com-
of refugees from the dyke in the The situation trenche decided to continue the munism, in sharp contradiction Arnhem. district.
with Lenin's policy. The same between the rivers Meuse and Waal fight.-Indopacif.
can be said of the second devia-have worsened and the level of the tion,
MOSUL QUESTION.
REPLY FROM 'ANGURA,
which is already over £20,000.
water has risen. Several more villages are inundated and many houses have collapsed." The dyke of the river Yser has collapsed and at Deventer a part of the town is flooded. The Ministry of Navy has sent motor boats, dinghies and thousands of naval men to the dis-
Party Organization. Turning to the question of the organisation of the Party, Mr. Stalin pointed to the rapid growth of the Party during the year and a half, from 446,000 members and The Turkish Ambassador has re-candidates to 1,025.000, amongst ceived a reply from Angoru which 534,000 belong to the work-tressed regions.-Reuter. to the British proposition regard-Ing. class,
London, Jan. 5.
ing Mosul. This will be handed to However, he called phantastic
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the Foreign office to-day and will the proposal of the Leningrad or The Academie. Francaise has
refusal.ganisation to include in the Party
not -constitute Indapurif
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GREEK SITUATION.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS SUSPENDED.
London, Jan. ō. The Daily Mail states that with the exception of the First Article, instituting the Republic, all the other articles of the Greek Cons- titution have been suspended.- Indopacif
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Valery as members in succession to the late Maurice Barres, Count d'Haussanville and Anatole France.
Claremont, Cal., Nov. 21.- Hidden away in the human body is វា minute compass-like" In conclusion, Mr. Stalin ex-
organism hitherto undiscovered, pressed deep certainty of the pos- which gives the sense of location, sibility to cope successfully with
the department of zoology at the differences existing inside So- said Dr. W. A. Hilton, head of viet countries among the elements
Pomona College here, in his of socialism and capitalism, even
announcement of this find as a without the aid of the West. Whoesult of lengthy experiments. is afraid of difficulties does not The so-called instinct that tells a believe in the victory of socialism.seasoned buntor how to head for Admitting all errors and mistakes camp after a day in the woods, which have been made, it must be the same sense that guides some recognised that successos achieved persons, apparently instinctively, in socialistic reconstruction exceed through the winding streets of by far having enormous interna-strange cities, is traceable to this.
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