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Up to noon, the Preussen, carry borne in mind. The province is ing the mail from Ilome via Suez certainly in need of a clean-up dated April 7, had not been regarding bandits and armed rob-sighted. bers, but it is much more in need ef good and stable government, or: peaceful industry and develop ment, of ordinary social induce- ments to neople to lead honest, in- dustrious lives. In a well-govern- ed country most people are honest and well-behaved because it is best for themselves that they should be,
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SATURDAY, Mar 7. 1927.
L. Roberts, of H. M. S. Titanin, has reported to the, polise that jewellery valued at $185 was stolen firem is easin yesterday.
The Alsuta Maru carrying the Homeward mail to-day, sails fully booked, most of the passengers embarking here being from Macao.
published corrected lists of persons authorized to sign death certif calea, the Dental Register and List of Medical Practitioners.
IN THE SMOLENSKY MARKET.
A Medley of People, and Things
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On Sunday, which is the big has only been introduced in the market day, one finds all serta of larger stores of the city. On the people and all sorts of things in market and in Moscow street trade Market. generally no sale is made without Moscow's Smolensky This market, which is the largest a prodigious amount of chäffering. of a number of similar places in in which the bayer begins by offér the city, stretches for several ing half of what he expects to pay, blocks along one of Moscow's cir- while the vendor starts out by cilar boulevards. The whole arendemanding twice what he expects. is crowded with buyers and to get.
sellors. Some of the latter have Besides the staple goods of the their stands and booths; others market one can hit on a bowilder- simply hold their small stocks of ing variety of old and secondhand goods in their hands or heap them objects, some of them practically up in little piles and watchfully worthless, others interesting and stand guard over them.
valuable. Here is a little pile of
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There is need for watchfulness old ikons, religious paintings of in Smolensky Market; for it is a saints and scriptural scenes which favourite resort of the "bez-plous Russians hold in great re- prizorni," or homeless waifs, who verence. Near by one can pick live by what they can beg or steal.out of a jumble of knickknacks Smolensky Market is not as rich silver buttons worn by the Russian and picturesque as it was three boyars, or old nobility and silver or four years ago. Then one spoons of a former generation. A but in China at least to a large in to-day Gorernment Gazette is could go there and see the trans-bronze vase with Arabic charne- extent the man who is honest
fer of the visible symbols ofters inscribed on it, the work of and peacefully inclined is the prey
wealth from one class to another, some Mohammedan artisan in dis- of the lawless. It will only be
Members of the old properlied tant Turkestan, is another typical class, reduced to poverty and want object. when Kwangtung is honestly ad-
by the Revolution, went to the ministered by incorruptible affi-
market to sell their last objects The market also has its supply rial, and when more regard is Prizes won at the recent Rifle or luxury and comfort; rugs, of pictures and books, old and new,' •
Meeting are to be presented on pictures, silverware, fine linen, good, bad and indifferent.
Stray paid to the social amenities, triday next when the Hongkong These were bought up by the "new copies of Rousseau's "Social Con- tice. Hiberties and privileges of Volunteer Defence Corps is holding bourgeoisie," the supple and adept tragt" and Goethe's "Faust," of old the common people. That there will smoking, concert, at Ileadquarters.perulators we were able to get book of poetry and fiction in ahmad after freedom of trade was varions languages, can be picked come about a diminution in the
restored, by agents of commission up very cheaply. The demand nombor of hangless ne'er-do-wells, The Oldekerk, from Bremen and stores and by casual ferein to-day in Russin is for the ortho- | who'inve beenne what they are Manila, 'reports that it was impos-visitors.
dux works of Communist political sible to obtain wireless bearings Now this process of transfer is economy, for the writings of Marx by reason of the lootie'nvirom
trom 'Aguilag Station at 9 pan.pretty well completed. One can and Lenin, and also. for modern ment in which they have been on May 5 and again at 6 am. May still find curios and beautiful | iiterature. rented. Bandit suppavasion and eradication is a much caster pri- blem than can be solved nærely by the use of troops.
Anti-British.
The news concerning thing the Plast fow
has indicated Rays
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The Maud, from Swalow, reporta in Latitude submerged junk 2216 North, Longitude 116:12 East, about two miles South of the Workdeld bhoal, at 6 p.m.'on Mag
6.
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Mr. T, White has reported to
trinkets, memorials of an aristo- Besides a medley of people and cratic era that is apparently gone things, Smolensky Market offers a forever in Russia; but their num-medley of sounds. Above the ber diminishes from year to year general hubbub of noisy bargain- and to find them one must combing more definite sounds pierce the the vast expanse of the market air: a cracked record on an old more and more carefully.
gramophone whoszes out the song of some tenor of bygune daya and
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But Smolensky still has the shrill cries of "Pirogi, pirogi, attraction of extreme variety; it advertise the merils of "pirogs," a is always turning up new and favourite Russian delicacy consist-
# Tull far the police that thieves broke into interesting thing for the curioing of small rolls encasing bits of The official tendency of Soviet
DA auti-foreigniam is concern.
revelation" is cleaned out by the
The s.5.
workers'
BANDIT SUPPRESSION.omething of
a garage attached to No. 3, Chat-pert and the bargain hunter. meat, cabbage or egg. ed. and apparently the Nation-ham Road, Fight before last,First of all one notices the more The document which we reprint- alist factions are Jos busily and stole tools and spare parts prosale frequenters of the market, trade and industry is toward Instead of the old ed yesterday from the Canton occupied in fighting nae another,feum his moterear, to the value of peasants who have driven intilstandardization, uniformity, ceni-
Mescow in their jolting little tralization. Gazelf, outlining a scheme for the preparing for battle, to pay $30.
wooden carts to sell the products stores with the names of the much attention fa The enemy."
that farms yield in every country, owners, one comes to see more and suppression of, bandits throughout The move on Hankow is developing,
Then more shops with such titles as City of Wellington, milk and ergs and hay. the province of Kwangtung, was aand it may be that we shall hear
wives with "Workers' Co-operative No. 17." the fall of the Communistie arriving from Dalny and Shang- there are typically all-embracing kind of reginte in that city ere
longbai, states that a propellor blade shawls avey their heads who go The state industries try to pro- To the market to buy a joint of duce goods of standardized type: manifesta, to which we have Tong There are one or two joints where was lost ca ponte. The ship was
trica to plot in singe become used. Nearly every the "Reds" are proving trouble-docked at Kowloon en arrival, forment for the soup dish which is fand the Gosplan, or State Planning advance the whole graph of the some, but their numbers are not repairs, and will be alleat again always prominent item in the Commission, new Commander appointed in Can-very formidable, and once the cens during the week-end.
Sunday dinner."
This winter Moscow has been country's economic life and draws fon sets out with great gusto tofre of the "revolution within a
passing through a severe butterup reports on how many yards of many convince everybody around him
moderdi party, these sporadic Tues. Huirhow, arriving from shortage; and some housewives gu textile goods and how that he is at last goin to rid the uiberace of extremiat position Tientsin and Weihaiwel, reports to the market in the hope of find-pounds of sugar every pensant province of the bandit evil, and a should become a thing of the past, the death of one male deck pasing butler at something less than family will regnire.
of varisly and contrast, will long and elaborate statement is far may look a little ahend, then,senger from opium poisoning; the the prevalent speculative price of Bat the individualist, the lover,
Seattle and about 1 a pound. and visualise the arrival of a time, Protesilaus from
The peasants buy as well as always have his outlet as long as usually made. But little else fol- in the near future, when the Na Milke, a suicide, no details of
case of sell; some of the booths are pro- Smolensky Market, with its extra- fws, as a rule, though we hope tionalist body will again weir awhich are given and
vided with textile goods, nails and ordinary hodgepodge of goods, old that in the case of General Isa semblance of perfect unity, and tuberculosis on board.
other bardware products which and new, useful and ornamental, The rampaign against the North-
Ivan Muzhik is likely to need in sprends out its treasures for the
Sandit-suppression scheme, there tempt to find a basis for a trareports for the week ending Satur-rule in
the market; the new-ing. he resumed. And will be a little more actual suppres-One wonders whether there are
dag last contains the followingfangled innovation of fixed prices cases: Plague, Rangoon 3, Port sion than has been the rule hither any foreigners, especially any
There can be un doubt that Britons, in China to-day, or who Said, Bassein, Bombay and Cal- have recently been resident, here, cufta, 1 each; Cholera, Italphong lawlessness and bandit outrages are who imagine that the anat elimina 134, Calcutta 121, Saigon 56, Bang- kuk 14 and Bombay 2; Small-pox,, still far lon rife in a Profine, lien of the "Red" element will which is supposed to be under a mean an abatement of the agita-Calcutta 36, Bombay 77, Rangoon new and enlightened rule, and if tion agains: non-Chinese nation-36, Madrus and Canton 6 each, als, or the intense campaign of Bangkok and Dairen 2 cach, Sai- General su can do anything vilification and calumny against gon, Macao, Shanghai and Yoko- materially to reduce the evil he will everything British. If so, they hama, 1 cach have performed a much-needed are likely to be sadly disillusione.l. One has only to take Caaton to- service to his fellow-countrymen, day, to realise what the real posi- But one wonders why he needed in is. True, there are no active to have dragged Hongkong and attempts at hostility towards Bri- tish nationals in the "moderate" Macao into the list of reasons for rons, but that is probably not un- the existence of banditry, and he connected with the knowledge of spot what would have been a the ability of Britain to exact
Mexico City, May 6. good summary of the causes of the satisfaction for outrage-although delay in establishing the Nanking evil when he says the "foreign in-sanctions is likely to diminish that
A message from Guadalajara the says that 200 rebels were killed in perialists' order of assistance and attitude considerably, But
encounter with Federals. against an constant Propaganda
'hing-dang, the hated author of "orners can be continued or the at- The Health Bulletin of Eastern his daily life. Bargaining is the eager buyer every Sunday morn
to.
what then?
MORE MEXICAN REBELS.
TWO HUNDRED KILLED.
refuge bas also increased the num-everything British continues un- Reuter'a American Service.
A PAMOUS INVENTOR.
W. H. C.
CALMER US, VIEWS. RUBBER RESTRICTION.
NEW VISION OF BRITISH NOTE.
New York, May 6. A calmer view is taken by the Press as regards the British debt Note.
AMERICAN CRITICISM AT
GENEVA.
Geneva, May 6. Addressing the Economic Con- ference, Mr, Henry Robinson, the President of the National Bank of
The conviction is growing that Los Angeles, said he did not see the Note is intended to correct how the British rubber restric- erroneous impressions current in tions could ensure a continuity of Europe rather than embarrass the supply at a high level, and prove United States or reopen the discus- of ultimate benefit to the world. sion of war debts, renewed discus-He wondered also whether the fact sion of which is at present regard- that over 75 per cent. of rubber was consumed by a non-producing ed as futile.
The New York Times declares country,, while the country con- that if the common man comes to trolling restrictions consumed only see war debts hampering foreign 7 per cent., might not be regarded trade and hurting prestige, he will as discrimination.
Mr. Robinson was referring to be readier to reconsider and re-
¡Sir Max Muspratt'a statement, arrange them.
The Herald Tribune concludes a made yesterday, that, with the leading article as follows: "Hevi- rarest execptions, there is no dis- sions may be justified later, but it crimination against the rest of must be left to our good will and the world in the export of raw..
materials.
good judgment as to when and how."
"Reuter's American Service.
COTTON FOR CASH.
ber of bandits." Surely it is carry abated. The Canton Gazette, the ing his anti-foreign feelings to organ of Nationalist opinion, and
at present the organ, one pre-HUDSON MAXIM DEAD. the point of obvious exposure.
sumes, of the so-called "Whites" when he blames Hongkong and on the mainland, has not sincken- Macao for the presence of briged its anti-British fervour in the anda in Kwangtung? It is per- least. The most recent issues to hand contain evidence of the un-
New York, May 6. that Hongkong and failing attacks made in its columna fectly true Macho provide safe refuge for against us. The headlines not
The death is announced of Mr. Chinese who keep the peace andily emphasise it; but the deliber
ate alteration of wording bears Hudson Maxim, well-known ingen- obey the law, and if it so be that out this intense hostility, In one or and explosives expert.—Reûtér, among the thousands of Chinese issue we have before us, there is
Colonel Day referred in the House whe daily come and go between a cartoon of a semi-favourable pa-
lure, to China, from an American of Commons last month to a report Cunton, Hongkong and Macro paper. It depicts the alleged of the investigators of the Advisory there are some who do not keep commercial viewpoint of the three Committee of the League of Natious
Interested in
London, May 6, the law when they are in Kwang-principal Powers
on Opium and Drug Addiction in
The Liverpool Cotton Associa tang though they keep it when in China. Our Canton contemporary which they stated that there were reproduces it with the heading, in0,000 men and women engaged in
tion met the general committee of flöngkon; and Macue, then the large black type, "Down With blame is obviously on the absence British Imperialism!" So much rope in the illicit als of cocaine, the Federation of Master Cotton morphis, heroine, and opium, a Spinners Associations, at Man for "moderation". Instances of
chester, and discussed a proposal of law enforcement in Kwangtunkinis kind reflect the true nature or great percentage of theso being em-
from Liverpool to sell cotton only The rights of the case are so ob the agitation in Nationalist circles
on cash terms. vious as not to need arguing, and to-day, and it is as well to bear General Hsu has been ill-advised them in mind.
to declaim so foolishly as he does
ployed in Great Britain. Mr. G. Locker Lampon; replying, stated that the Advisory Committee had not made investigations und no such re- poft nu the hon. member mentioned. had been made. Neither the Ad The ordinary general meeting of visury Committee nor, so far as be When it is confessed that the shareholders of the Douglas Steam-wan aware, any responsible body cause of banditry is the excess ship Co., Ltd., will be held at the had made the statement mentioned of unemployed vagrants, disheart-company's offices, on Saturday, which, he was informed, was with-
May 21, at noon.
in this particular.
out foundation.
MANCHESTER-LIVERPOOL DISCUSSION.
The much-criticised rubber restrictions, he said, did not dis- Leriminate in favour of Britain, but had been introduced to ensure a continuity of supply of a product essential to modern civilisation. -Rerter.
INDIAN GOVERNMENT PRECAUTIONS.
BRITISH BATTALIONS KEPT ON PLAINS.
الده
Simla, May 6. As a precautionary measure, in communal riots at
No statement was-issued at the view of the close, but it is understood that the Lahore, and the general tension. pinners are known to be opposed of publie feeling, the departure to to the withdrawal of the custom-the hills of the British infantry ary ten days' credit, owing to the from the neighbouring canton-
ments in the Punjab and Lahore. financial position.
Credit to some firms has already has been indefinitely postponed.
--Reuter. been stopped.-Reuter,
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