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teresting. The first Indiscretion by installing caque about in a singular manner. "PYRENE" Fire In need of a holiday, seemingly, Extinguisher. Rakowsky went to Moscow. "PYRENE" will There was a dispute In the Com- kill fire without munist Party, an exciting and damage to the long-drawn-out dispute, in which engine, woodwork personalities and doginas were or upholstery dramatically involved. Trotsky Water spreads and Zinovieff were in opposition potrol fire; sand is to Stalin and Rykoll. A kind of inefficient and will modernist" group within the put the engine out
party was on the point of expell- rens of action.
ing the opposition leaders.. The Central Committee of the party was summoned early in August to decide the issue. Rakowsky took Trotsky's sido and signed his de- claration to the Communist Party.
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15. 1927.
DAY BY DAY..
A MAN MAY SMILE, AND SMILE, AND BE A VILLAIN.—Shakespeare.
The Government is calling for tenders for the construction of an Chan. The work consists of site Anglo-Chinese School, at Cheung formation and erection of school and outbuildings.
H. E. the Officer, Administering the Government has been pleased to | recogniso Senor Don Eleodoro Rouillon as Peruvian Consul Gen- eral at Hongkong with jurisdiction. in the British Colonies in Asia and the ports of India.
A compromise was reached. Trotsky and Zinoviet were warn- ed that they had yet another chance to prove their loyalty. Hakowsky returned tur France later. The Opposition declaration to which he had attached his signature in Moscow referred to the alleged danger of war against Soviet Russia and contained this19th. passage: "All· honest prole-
A workman engaged in decorat- tarkins of the capitalist Statesing the interior of No. 53 Dee must actively work for the.defeat Voeux Road Central was admitted of their Governments. It is the to the Government Hospital yester day with Injuries to his head and duty of all foreign soldiers who arms. It is said that the man fell do not wish to support the slave from a plank suspended fairly drivers of their countries to pass high up in the building. into the ranks of the Red Army,
A RUSSIAN PROSPECT.
Strolling Down the Nevsky..
soon 213
to their
quite like Leningrad's Nevsky Russia, its glittering room, filled There is no street in Russia up in the Black Sea provinces of Prospect, or, as it is now called with the priceless baubles and in honour of the date of the trinkets Tears and Tsarinas: Bolshevist Revolution, the Pros- Jowelled swords and sabres, toilet A chair coolle was yesterday re-pect of tho Twenty-fifth moved from Gough Hill to the
of services in solid gold, richly orna- October. Wide and spacious, mented snuff boxes and watches, Government Civil Hospital suffer lined with large stores, bookshop, the work of French and Italian ing from injuries to his caused by falling down the hill-with the imposing structure of the sixteenth century.
head banks and other public buildings, and German goldsmiths of the side near the chair coolies' shelter Kazanskaya Cathedral, built in
All these valuable collections at Victoris Gap.
imitation of St. Peter's in Ronic, are preserved in excellent order; rising on one side, the Nevsky is and the Soviet education nuthor!- the central highway of the city's ties, by organizing excursions of flowing populace.
workers and soldiers and students The fact that Leningrad is no and other groups, are mak ng a lonicer the capital of the Russian consistent and genuine effort to Tsars is forcibly impressed upon introduce the masses the traveller
he national inheritance of artistic emerges from the October treasures.
formerly the Nicholas) Station.
If one turns to the left off the Local theatre goers who remem- The squat, clumsy equestrian ber with pleasure the visit of the statue of Tsar Alexander III still Nevsky, it is not far to the maa- Chaumier Comedy Company will stands in the square outside the sive pile of St. Isaac's Cathedral, be pleased to learn that it is station. But on the statue is with its extraordinary mosaic enjoyed a very successful season written a grim couplet by the pictures of the saints. Nearer the at Peking and Tientsin.. The Com-popular revolutionary poet, Dyem Neva, the slender golden spire of pany is leaving for Kobe on the yan Byedny, to the effect that the the Admiralty Building pierces the statue was only spared as a scare sky; the size of the Admiralty is crow, a monument to the people's ļa testimonial to the vaulting hatred of, the Romanoff dynasty ambition of Peter the Great to and all it stands for.
make out of Russin a great sen power, Strolling down the Novsky (the The bridge over the Neva com- bld sign still remains on many mands striking panorama. street corners, with occasional People cross the solidly frozen confusing shifts to Twenty-fifth river on the ice. On the side of October), one may be attractel opposite the Admiralty rise the by the vivid pictures on the out- frowning bastona of the Petropav side to enter a motion picture lovak Fortress, where the chief for the Union of the Soviet So
theatre where "The Wings of the political offenders against the power of the Tsars were 'confined cialist Republics is the fatherland
Serf" is being given. This is a SATURDAY, OCTODER, 15, 1927. of all the workers...... Whoever
new Russian film, which, almost in solitary dungeons, with the vies with the "Potemkin" in its most elaborate precautions against is hostile to the defence of the killed. The man was employed to- fascinating treatment of a Rus-any attempts to 'escape.
sian historical subject.
This fortress, after temporarily Before long the Prospect of the housing the ministers of the fallez Twenty-fifth of October intersects autocracy and of the short-lived the Street of the Third of July Provisional Government which (named in honour of a revolu-succeeded it, finally lost its For sticking posters in Aber- tionary uprising on that date); original character as a prison, and deen without the proper authority and this recalls one of the "best the dungeons are now preserved of the Captain Superintendent of of the jokes which are now going only as historical relics. Police, two Chinese were charged the rounds in Leningrad. A pea-mint which coins Russia's new before Mr. R. E. Lindsell thissant woman, so the story runs, copper money is located within the in response to a firm stand by ches of discipline among resermerhing. After it was aseertain asked directions us to how to reach confines of the fortress. the French Government against vists in the French Navy. Ined that the posters merely related a certain point in the city. "First A building of more pleasant and any request to reconsider the mat-connexion with the recent protests to business, Mr. Lindsell imposed you take a car on the Third of inspiring associations, visible from
a fine of $5 on one of the defen-July, and then change to another the bridge, is tur. It will be remembered that against the execution of Sacco dants, and discharged the other, as ear on
the Leningrad the Twenty-fifth of Academy of Sciences, which cele this question has been under con-
and Vanzetti, Communist agita- he was only an assistant.
October." was the reply. "Oh, ifrated the two hundredth anniver- it takes so long, I'lf walk," wa sary of its establishment in the sideration for some time, the
tion has again been very con-
Saturday finds the Colony's the woman's embarrassed answer, fall of 1925. Many notable dis- Soviet insisting that the Ambassa-3picuous. With this evidence of
three principal cinemas each show-
The large Hotel Europe, no coveries are associated with this dor's recall would involve friction the fruits of Seviot activities ing a picture of excellent stan-loss frequented than it was in the great cultural centre of Russian thrust upon them, the French dard, the Queen's Theatre afer days when the city was the capi- activity; and to-day the solitary between the two countries jire
Government could do no less than ing "The Song and Dance Man,tal of Russia, offers the traveller inventor and the returned ex-· judicial to their probable #grce-
samutuous most with Tom Moore and Bessie Love perhaps
ploring party hasten to report the protest against the issue of an ment over negotiations now in
in a charming story of stage life, accommodation available in the standpoint progress. That
appeal to open treason over the the World Theatre presenting Hour Soviet Union. There is mus
with dancing several evenings a maintained even in the note d signature of the Soviet Ambassa-Gibson in his latest Western week (public dancing is generally
comedy, "The Prairie King," and
The grimy factories which send claring compliance with Frante's do accredited to France. As
frowned on in the Soviet Union) out their smoke from the Viburg the, Star Theatre showing ine repeated
writer in the Times observed in
and it is said that some person region, on the other side of the request. The
Air Mail," an exciting story with Quai
from Moscow occasionally come river, have their romance, too; it D'Orsay has pointed out that M. mail week; the Soviet Government, a strong cast leri by Warner Bax-
up for a week-end in Leningrad was from these factories that Rakowsky abused the diplomatic for obscure purposes of its own, Ler, Billie Dove, Mary Brian and merely to enjoy the gaieties of the thousands of the Red Guards rush-
Douglas Fair. Jr.
Hotel Europe. A little farther ed out to administer the last blow privileges accorded him by in is terrifying the Russian, people,
the Nevsky a little store called to the tottering Government of tervening in the debt discussions with the spectre of imminent war. A leakage in the gasoline tank De Gourmet" offers chocolate Kerensky in the fall of 1017.
of a motor bus, No. 80, belonging with whipped cream of extremely is a good sign that these factories before they had concluded,
No one, of course, has any inten-
to the Kowloon Motor Bus Com-delicate flavour. bably with the intention of shap-tion of making" war on Soviet
pany, caused the car, which was on
are now smoking at full blast; ing public opinion in favour of Russia. The Soviet lealers know its way from the Kowloon ferry to
The crowning glories of the two or three years ago many of them were standing idle or work- Moscow. At any rate, he issued this, and if they commit the folly Shumsuipo, to catch fire just out-
Nevaky the Yaumati Government
These smoking factories are a gave the street its original name. symbol for the general activity of The driver was not aware Branching off to the right, a few the city. Leningrad has its pro- that there was a leakage at the steps bring one to the large open conclusions that had not been is only possible to assume that the alarm was given two fire a
A FALL FROM GRACE.
The decision of the Soviet vernment to recall M. Rakowsky from Paris, where he had been officiating as Ambassador,
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A Chinese coolfe who fell from the third floor of the old building of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery to the street yesterday was instantly
gether with a number of others U.S.S.R. is a traitor to the cause in the work of demolishing some of the world proletariat." This old machinery. His body was re- singular declaration immediately moved to the Public Mortuary. attracted the attention of the French Government. time past Communist agitation has provoked a number of brea-
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impression pf how the discussions scare which multiplies their own were proceeding, and suggesting economic difficulties, tenfold, it tank until the blaze started.
aquare before the Winter Palace, bloms and difficulties; its figure if reached. Further, it is known there are very serious internal pliances arrived on the scene and where the reviews and parades of 170,000 unemployed and its intru which had hitherto been especially that he has associated himself' troubles
in stopping the blaze the Tsar's crack regiments formar-duction of the space rationing from which they des-without difficulty. There were no
ly took place.
characteristic of Moscow are with activities by agents hostile perately desire to divert atten-
passengers on the car at the time destined to follow in the footsteps signs that it has not escaped the to the existing French administration. It all seems to point to the the fire started.
of the Paris Louvre; part of it general evils of unemployment
and inadequate housing. tion, and in this way has proved conclusion, steadily growing dur-
Among the interesting events has already been taken over as In spite of the transfer of the himself first a Communist, and ing the past few months,
there is something rotten in the ing screened
that depicted in the topical gazette be a supplement to the Hermitage. only surondarily a diplomatic re-state of Moscow.
at the Queen's the famous art gallery of Lening- capital to Moscow, however, which presentative
Theatre to-morrow is the arrival rad which adjoins the Palace has brought with it a reduction of Soviet Russia.
at London of the world fliers Another part has been turned into of approximately 20 per cent, in the numbers of the population, the Brock and Schlee after their hopa Museum of the Revolution. across the Atlantic. Brock and
One could spend days, almost city has very decidedly "come com-Schlee.
it will be remembered, weeks, in the Hermitage, with its back," in comparison with the cold propagand plaints which the Kowloon Resi- visited Hongkong, but found when rich treasures, of painting and and hungry years of the revolu- through its representatives ofici dent's Association are making they reached Japan that it would sculpture (the art gallery is tien and the first difficult period
regarding the indifferent lighting be impossible to complete the ci especially rich in the works of of reconstruction. ally neeredited to other countries of certain streets on the Peninsula cuit of the globe, owing to the Rembrandt. Rubens, Van Dyck and f'factories have revived at last, and. in undertaking which has been its position as Russia's an sin pr repeatedly abused everywhere fully justified) it is not inappro-ing in the Pacific. The lease able and interesting collections of on the Baltic makes it an import-
priate to remark that the lighting film in
pottery and ut factor in foreign trade. of some of the principal streets in at the Queen's Theatre will be Scythian archeological finds, dog
to-morrow's programme early Etruscan
| France's strong stand for the sanctity of the Soviet undertaking to refrain
from
will have the commendation
Dall Lighting.
In connexion with the
the centre of the City is by, no "Miss Brewsters' Millions," means brilliant. We will nota feminised version of George Barr Ko 50 far as to
say that McCutcheon's famous story. is inadequate, because it
it
all the other democratic govern- ments. This fall from grace of the Russian Ambassador at Paris, shows up clearly Russia's failure is possibly just adequate and no more, but it cannot be denied that very dull and sombre aspect, after the centre of the town wears a
the shops have closed. Only where a late closing shop adds lie money is there any relief from Brussels its light to that provided by pub Paris
EXCHANGE RÅTES,
to appreciate the motives of other nations when they decided to re aume relations with the Bol sheviks. The Moscow Govern- ment has been accepted back into international relationships 01 the dead monotony of a dimly Amsterdam trial, and has abused that trust lighted and seemingly dead town. Berlin
Hongkong never did have a repu- Copenhagen repeatedly. Britain has definitelytation for gaiety at night and Vienna ... severed relations, and if Moscow and one of the reasons, we think,
Helsingfors Lisbon does not alter its methods, other is that the city is so unattractive
80 dismally gloomy after, say, Bombay
Bucharest countries will probably be obliged nine o'clock at night. There have Yokohama to follow suit.
been one or two efforts made in New York Commenting on this aspect of recent years to brighten things Geneva the question of Russian methods up in a small way but Hongkong Milan
refuses apparently to budge out Stockholm abroad, a Home paper only recent of its snug way of going home and Oslo ly pointed out how France has staying there. That might be Prague quite all right, but we do think Madrid continuously been goaded to pro: that the Government might give & Athens test against M. Rakowsky's little encouragement to those Buenos Aires
Shanghai tivities. The history of the dia- who are trying to cater for people.
Hongkong pute, which has culminated in the who don't wish to stay indoors
Silver. (spot) always by making our city silver (forward) insistence од his recall, is in- illumination a little less moan.
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