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DEATHS.
SATURDAY,
ferences to native political move- ments, and especially against the Nationalists is this provocative
AUGUST 27. 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
ACCEPT YOUR LIMITATIONS. SEIZE
attitude most apparent. Possibly, YOUR OPPORTUNITY, ENJOY THE the Nanking, Canton and Iankow GOOD OF THE HOUR, IMPROVE THE regimes have within them much BAD, AND, IF YOU CAN'T, LET IT DROP. that is undesirable, but we ask,J. S. Blackie. "What' possible good can come of continually telling them that they are no good at all7" Shanghai
ono
:
A gold bracelet, valued at $70, the property of Mrs. A. C. Peter sen, was stolen from her residence at No. 3, King's Park Building. yesterday,
An amendent has been made in the regulations governing hawkers by which wong Nei Chung Rond is added to the list of roads in which hawkers' cries are prohibited.
"
Various articles and money, amounting in value to $41.60, are reported to the police as having been stolen from the residence of Mr. Baptista at No. G Mart Avenue.
SOME
SOVIET SOUVENIRS.
The Leningrad Museum of the Revolution.
*
To visit the Museum of the Ro-tionary movement during most of An Annamito cook-boy, employed volution, which is housed in a part the nineteenth century. An in
dustrial
working class only by Mr. Tremouillet at Pokfulum, of the former Winter Palace, is to
to Tho see one of the most striking of began omerge in Russia. died suddenly last night. body was taken to the Mortuary.
Leningrad's many historical con- late la the nineteenth can- trasts. A large portion of the tury,, when the street 80- has done Httle else but condemn
edifice where the Taars held court cieties "Zemlya | Volya" and "Na- and criticise for montha past, and
is now given over to preserving the rodnaya Volya," amall in numbers we often wonder whether Shang-
memories of the men and women but strong in courage and resource- who for the last century and more fulness, fought the Tsar and his hai knows what It wants or how
struggled with pen and under-secret police with every means at to get it. Some little time ago,
ground printing press, and every their command. There are, among of the leading writers in
other weapon of force and persua- many relics, copies of Herzen's sion, to overthrow autceracy and paper, Kolokol (The Beli), which Shanghai was very angry because
set up some sort of people's govern was published abroad and amuggled |a correspondent of the Manchester
ment In its place.
into Russia; copies of the paper, Plentifully supplied with pictures Zemlya Voiya (Land and Liberty), Guardian dared to accuse Shang-
and posters, together with other published by the revolutionists in hai of having the "Treaty Port
more grim relics, the museum is the teeth of the Tsarist prohibi- outlook," and the Shanghai
better suited than any textbook to tions.
There are many pictures of these publicist almost want so far
give a bird's eye-view of the high (If our memory serves us aright)
points of the Russian revolutionary revolutionists, and one sees faces calculated to turn one's thoughts the same time one senses something n's to deny the existence of such
movement. Its very location is which it is difficult to forget
of the inevitable failure and trage in reminiscence to the past. an outlook. We can assure
him
The museum is arranged in dy of this small group of idealistic that here in Ilongkong, where
chronolo~ical order. One first "en-educated people, lacking any effec- Apart from the information counters the earliest and most ele tive connexion with the dark Rus- those who care can take a more or
that the two parties concerned in mental Russian revolutionary sian masses, and vainly beating less detached view of what is
the C.N.C. dispute were still in figure; the peasant. Crushed against the stone walls of the happening in and around Shanghai touch with each other at Shang- beneath the yoke of an Asiatic aerf- autocracy. and along the Yangisze, there are hai, there were no further deve dom far more savage than that
which prevailed in many European With the exhibition for the year many who regret the continuatlopments in the situation to-day.
countries before the French Revolu- 1905 we see at last a popular revo- irritation and pin-prieks which are
A battalion of the Bedfords and tian, the Russian peasants, especial-lutionary movement,
The peasant administered by Shanghat's lead- Hertfords left Shanghai last Sun-ly in the southern and eastern pro has again awakened to revolt: a vinces of European Russia, shook map coloured in red shows that the ing foreigners to all Chinese poli-day by the Blue Funnel transport the very pillars of the Tsarist state southern, and eastern provinces of purpose of taking a summer holi edifice by their revolts in the seven-Russia are again covered with a
teenth and eighteenth centuries. wave of agrarian disorders.
But these uprisings suffered the tistical diagrams showing the grow Besides an exciting drama of general fate of peasant revolts in ing number of workers and strikes: elemental, too unorganized and un-ist officers to suppress the pering Smith," the programme at disciplined to overthrow the central-workers' uprising in Moscow, and things, is a typical outlook--and the Queen's Theatre to-morrow ized power of the state. The final other similar evidences, teatify to We have will offer an additional attraction reckoning of the Russian peasant the emergency of a new revolution- a very regrettable one.
in the latest Felix, comedy, with his hereditary enemy, the land-ary figure, the manual worker. in common with others had to "Felix Kept
on Walking," 3.
Upstairs are exhibitions of the lord, only came in 1917.
March and November revolutions criticise much in China during the picture which will delight all who
of 1917. There is a model of the past year or so, but we have enjoy the quaint antics of this
One leaves the room with its famous "cat." realised and tried to steer clear of
memorials of the peasant revolta cruiser Aurora, which sailed up the A would-be suicide, a Chinese, and enters the room of the DecabNeva from Kronstadt to fire its 10- cisive shots against the Winter the danger of getting into an im-
hostile who said that he was unemployed, risti. There is a strong contrast Palace. An interesting, feature is placably critical and frame of mind. And we suggest which he had
was taken from the harbour into between the figure of Pugachev
thrown himself with matted beard and peasant cosa, sort of revolutionary time-table, that if many foreigners here and from the Praya wall at Kennedy tume and the uniformed pictures giving the precise hours when the in Shanghai and in the whole of Town yesterday. Questioned, the of the Decabríati, that group, of Bolsheviki carried out the various
maan said he had wanted to go to young army officials who attempted steps of their seizure of power.
As a sort of epilogue there is a the Treaty Ports" indulged in a Singapore but was without the about the succession to the throne room devoted to memorials of tho
to take advantage of the confusion
little serious introspection and necessary funds. self-examination to-day, they
Herminus for Weihaiwel for the
tical endeavour. That little or nothing good has been done for | day. years, nor can be done by "the bunch of political and military
Sta
ROZARIO.-At her residence 4, St. scoundrels" now in charge of railway pioneering called "Whis the Middle Ages; they were too copies of orders issued by the Tsar-
Joseph's Terrace, Petronila Maria, on Friday, 26th August, at 7 p.m. Füneral will pass the Monument to- day, at 5.30 p.m.
PARKER.-Suddenly in Hong- kong. on the 25th August, Broughton Parker, "Aged 42, 2nd Engineer, Hongkong Cau- on & Macro Steamboat Co. Ltd.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
eracy.
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There are
in 1825 and overthrow the auto defense of Leningrad against the counter-revolutionary army of Gen- To-day sees the final run of Many of them had been in France eral Judenitch, which approached would have to confess to having three interesting pictures, namely at the time of the Napoleonic Wars within a few miles of the city' in SATURDAY, AUGUST 27. 1927. drifted into an attitude of con- "Sandy" at the Queen's Theatre, and had brought back to dark Asia- the autumn of 1919.
tinuously condemnatory criticism., with Madge Bellamy as a young tic Russia the French revolutionary flaring posters, maps, appeals to In the workers to hold the city at any THE "TREATY PORT There is much danger in that attigirl who defies convention in her idents of liberty and equality.
search for thrills; "Captain the Decabristi one sees the heralds cost. MIND."
tude, and we invite a personal and Blood" at the World Theatre with of a new revolutionary type; the The Leningrad Muscum of the serious examination of it.
J. Warren Kerrigan as the hero idealistic intellectual, who rebels Revolution has been successful in of Rafael Sabatini's famous rom- not so much from a sense of per-preserving not only the main facts, ance of the Spanish Main; and soul grievance as from a moral but also much of the characteristic "Dance Madness" Theatre with Conrad Nagel and bad and intolerable.
at the Star conviction that the old regime is atmosphere of the various phases of the Russian revolutionary inova- Claire Windsor as the central
W. H. C. figures in a very witty story..
The Indianisation Question. The matter of the Indianisation of the ludian Army is bound up with the gradual Indianisation of the Government of that portion of the Empire, which was decided
It is this idealistic intelligentsia ment. that dominates the Russian revolu-
the
PROMINENT INDIANS UNDER ARREST.
There appears to be growing up), among foreign residents in Hong- kong and the Treaty Ports. of China, an anti-Chinese feeling. Perhaps it is inevitable that, in
The Health Bulletin of Far Eas- face of all that has happened dur-
tern Ports for last week, issued ing the past two years, thereupon some years ago as part of yesterday by the Principal Civil should be some such re-action the self-government scheme which Medical Officer, contains
came as a reply to the request of following cases: Plague, Bom- the inhabitants of the country. bay 4, Rangoon and Bassein 3 each The extremists went so far as to and Singapore 1; Cholera, Basrah introduce the notorious non-co- 99, Calcutta and Shanghai 12 operations agitation, which did so each, Amoy 6, Bombay and much harm, stirred up so much | Negapatam 3 cach, Haiphong 2,.. ill-feeling, and threatened to and Bangkok, Tourane and Macad wreck the constitutional govern each; Small-pox, Bombay and ment of the land. However, the Bandiermasin 5 each, Negapatan Raj, as the Indian Government, is" and "Rangoon 2 cach, and Bas- termed, by a policy of great sein, Saigon, and Nagasaki 1 diplomacy, averted an issue which each. agitatora of all shades had seized upon for their own ends, and to day non-co-operation" is largely discredited, and its fountain-head, Gandhi, the man who just five all that sort of thing, yet, in his years ago had risen in the everyday attitude, sometimes un-timation of his followers to the Paris consciously, he is very antagonis-position of a 31ahatma, or saint, is New York tic. What has been termed the little heard of. So, wise control is Brussels
succeeding, where either harsh Geneva measures or weak surrender would Amsterdam
Milan
among those against whom the Chinese have railed so much and often. Incidents have occurred in which foreignéra have been scandal ously treated, and it is possibly only natural that many foreigners should entertain a "grouse" against the perpetrators of those incidents. Every foreigner would probably assert that he is a friend of the Chinese, would like to see thom progress and settle down and
es-
EXCHANGE RATES.
"Treaty Port" outlook" is a very real and dangerous thing, and we have been disastrous. But the Berlin
Indianisation of the Services in the Stockholm like to warn against it. We are as country, whether civil or military. Copenhagen sincere as any in our condemna- essentially visualises a certain oslo tion of all the wrong and futile amount of British participation. Vienna It is said by the critics of the Prague happenings of the past, and We
plan. the dic-hards of the old Helsingfors keenly realise the sad absence of school, that the new system is Madrid good and honest motives among so bringing the administration to a Lisbon lower level than hitherto, in the Athens many of these leaders who are
Bucharest way of efficiency, chiefly because Rlo struggling for power in China the fine type of Briton who was to
Buenos Aires to-day. But we would like to pro-be found in the Government aer Bombay test against the endless "nagging," real Sahib, they declare is grow- Hongkong vice is no longer attracted. The Shanghai moralising, preaching, and con- ing rarer: That view is probably Yokohama demning indulged in by most a prejudiced one, yet has its Silver (spot and forward) foreigners in the Far East to-day ever the civil administration may suggestion of justification. What-
of training on
FOLLOWING A BANK FAILURE.
THE PORTUGUESE CABINET.
ARMY OBTAINS ITS RECONSTRUCTION.
Lisbon, Aug. 26. Calcutta, Aug. 26.
The army having expressed a Mr. B. K. Lahiri, a member ofwish for Ministerial re-constitu- the Bengal Legislative Council and tion, Senhor Carmona has recon- former managing director of the siructed the Cabinet, which Berral Lakshmi cotton mills, and a includes Senhors Passos o Sousa director of the Bengal National Bank, which recently closed its Minister of War, who has not resigned as rumoured, also Betten- doors and
compulsorily court was
Rodriguez för Forein liquidated, has been arrested on a Affairs, and Joao Bello, for the charge arising from transactions Colonies and Marine. relating to cotton mills.
Senhor Passos e Sousa has re- Mr. B. N. Bannerjee, the manag-fused to combine the duties of War ing. director of the Bengal Minister and Vice-President of the National Bank and a director of Council, so Senhor Carmona, will the Lakshmi cotton mills, has sur-combine the latter position, which 12.13% rendered to the police in connexion is that of the head of the Govern
a similar ment, with his functions as Presi- .89.25 with a warrant on .20.48 charge-Reuter.
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A FRANCO-BRITISH AGREE.
MENT.
dent of State.-Router.
GIANT AEROPLANE PLANNED.
TO CARRY ONE HUNDRED PASSENGERS.
New York, Aug. 26. The Herald states that a biplane
Paris, Aug. 26. The Cabinet Council has de-is being constructed to carry 100 which will weigh passengers, - 1/11%
liberated a Note from Britain on ....25% the reduction of the Allied armies 100,000 pounds, have a length of -British Wireless.
in the Rhineland, and at the con 100 feet, a wing span of 200 feet, clusion of the meeting M. Briand and a cruising speed of 105 miles announced that the British and an hour,
Its cabin will have a double French Government had virtually
quired to operate the plane,→→→ Router's American Service.
EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA.
ARGENTINE GOLD EXCHANGE.
It is a cult that is lending Chinese become in time, however, is more and foreigners wider apart, and a domestic matter: what is of is a section of Indian politicians reached an agreement on the sub-deck, and six airmen will be re-
unfortunate greater concern is the Indianfea who desire to see the idea hurried ject-Router. only prolonging an
tion of the Army in India, which
on, while the Government in India estrangement.
involves the granting of uncon prefers to "hasten slowly." As Perhaps nowhere else in Chinaditional commissioned rank to cabled yesterday, Sir Wiliam Bird- ie this very negative outlook ao selected Indians after a full course wood, the head of the army in the widespread and articulate as it is given at Sandhurst to the infantry of Australasian war memory, has a par with that country, and the famillar "Birdie" in Shanghal. There the people officer of the British army. A emphasised the necessity for and especially some of the news-committee has sat and issued a re-efficiency, whatever changes be
NO DAMAGE SUFFERED. paper writers have allowed the port. Briefly, it was not a par-made. The matter is one of the
STABILISING THE PAPER PESO. ticularly encouraging one, doubting greatest import, involving as it more recent past to overshadow whether all the higher ranks does the defence of India and the
Santa Barbara, Aug. 26.
Buenos Aires, Aug. 26. their whole outlook towards should be entirely Indian, and maintenance of orderly govern- Two sharp earthquake shocks A Presidential decree reopens
recommending the retention of a ment among the many races and China, so to circumscribe their certain number of British officers. varying creeds. It is as well, Californian town.
were felt this morning at this the conversion office for gold currency, which closed down in vision that they cannot acobe It is also doubted whether, in just therefore, that the Cominander
The citizens ran into the streets 1914. yond the Settlement boundaries or a few years, a training school can in-Chief should sound a note of be established in the country on
puffered. Reuter's American Sor-convertible Into 44 contavos gold. tions at the very commencement
Reutera American Service. vice. tive adjectives abound in most re- Sandhurst. It appears that there of a delicate transition period.
the horizon of the day. Deprocia an exact par with the English warning against too eager altera-in alarm, but there was no damage: Thus the paer peso is again