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THE
Oh! Those Snobbish Bolsheviks.
By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.
"The Revolution will come
in
HE astonishing thing aboutt
"I Went to Russia," by Liam Europe," replies Mr. O'Flaherty O'Flaherty is that its author, who politely, "when people eat better in was one of the most notorious Sinn Leningrad than in any village in Feinera, has not been bamboozica France."
Which was not quite the reply she by the Bolsheviks.
He went to Russia prepared to expected. pray and he remained to laugh.
́ Mr. O'Flaherty lost his temper
The trouble, both in Hongkong and Malaya, is that people who con- tract the disense seldom go into hospital until they are in a very nd-June 30, 1091. vanced state, when their eure is
The Netherland Indian Gayern- That
In fact this is the only book sometimes-a thing which very few practically an impossibility.
ment has declared Swalow to be an
about Russia appear to they constitute a risk to others, infected port on account of cholera about Russia which gives you the writers
on the 11th July. The port of Amoy impression that its author did. not have had the courage to do. He there can be no doubt, But even
has been declared free of plague on have bis sense of humour confisent lost it very badly in the hotel in Leningrad where an insolent Boi- ed at the Customs barrier. such hospital accommodation as in the same date.
Over and over again. he cites shevik waiter refused to give him the Available is utterly inadequate for
Resulting from takinge of exquisitely amusing examples of breakfast. He shouted at alleviative even the measure of
Adalin, # young Chinese, named Bolshevik pomposity, of snobbish-Waiter.
You must unt shout,' saiti the Treatment which is possitile. 1 Wong Kat, was taken to the Govern-ness disguised under a proleturlan
It is contrary to the rules was stated in a Hongkong medicalment Civil Hospital from the Taining cleak.
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2.1.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The
"The devil he decan't, I replied
ip Lal, a workman at the Taikou whe ni carry little satchels contain-The devil does not exist, an I do'
ing State documenta, Sugar Holinery, was the victim of a mishap at the Refinery last night, These innocent-looking catchels when he ་་ས eaught in song are the emblems must machiney and suifered a larverted aristocracy, though the Bolsheviks,
whand witch ersilated surgent would murder you if you suggested Dostoievsky-looking young woman
the Government Civilit.
aderation at
St. Andrew's
Thr
of Communistic. Your dimned hotel is run by him."" He lost his temper, too,, with the
who teniled him up and down the He says:
Revolutionary muscum. "Let's get "As I lay on my bed, I meditatediout of here," he said. "It's desol Clubs are holding a with morone aatisfaction on the in-ate.”
"Yes," sla: moaned. "all life is debate on Monday at 9p.m. subject will That on should of men, who is such a bitter help in the Home." It will in: pro-mg of quality that he is pre-desolate."
to dracent to the lowest “Oh, damn that for a tuno!" he posed by the Rev. E. A. Armstrong,
eried. "Life in nat desolate. Let's and secunded by Mr. P. V. Wong. The depths and to the most base forms opposition will be led by Mr. S. Auf cunning in order to celablish find a field somewhere, or a river
Mr. R. H. A close distinctions.
with running water. ‚” Sweet, seconded by Woolley.
So that here in Ruasion, where Nor was he particularly pleased {the greatest experiment in. social
by the Bolshevik attempts to enter. Wang foi, charged with the larceny equality ever made by man is intain him. At the cinema, for ex- of 4 feet of chain from on beard the full forre, the more intelligent of ample.
Httle hope of recovery. Suflete has been written to niente the seriousness of the problem and the None the diflculties of solving it. less, the Lime must coine when the
A part issus will have to be feed. fruin the poor sufferers themselves, there is the even larger question of the nemen which the spreading of the disease constitutes to the public health. Not until some special, de- the Kowlcon gudowa wharf with the finite measures are taken to romantlin in his possesalun.
vinu ronvictions were admitted, that the george, can it be suid the authorities are alive to the dan xers of the situation.
Cinema ns Educator.
8.8. Tilawa yesterday, was gentraced the citizens have chosen the port- The Bolshevik have decided that to six months' imprisonment by Mr. folin as the heraldic sign of the only films that are worthy of Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy bity. The posarasion of tone
Tw pre
this morning. He was arrested but bring the passessor under being shown are propaganda filmus, If you can write the story of Cin- the suspicion of the secret police derella so that it will heighten the The possession of a little of nobility intensity of the "class war" you will Fuulit mean imprisonment, death, or
get your film produced. If you just dishonour."
write the story of Cinderella, you But the satchel
won't.
culosis.
Much interest has been aroused in scholastic circles by the upper-7 deaths from puinamary tuber. ance of a catalogué giving a long 1st of educational fins devised for
in schools
amazing
which
vistas ***
SVELN
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and living at 167. Temple Street, Parisian restaurant." Her cast has been sent referred to the Secretariat of Chinese Affairs,
la
....
t
!
Paschon lost their lives, among whom "When is the Revolution going to were four members of the R.A.O.U., come in Europe?" asks one of these
ladies. G.L.E.
line.
.
There was ane ease of cerebro- spinal meningitis reported to the health authorities on Monday, Thi
Therefore MT, O'Flaherty, who completed returns for last week show four cases of diphtheria, three fatal He went to Russia in a Bolshevik admitted to a regrettable penchant ensen of typhold, (one imported), one ship, and this part of the book is for Charlie Chaplin, was not great- case of piratyphoid, and me fatal;full of vivid ailhouettes of Bolly amused when he was taken to ense of puerperal fever. There were (shevik grotesques.
films dealing with the Russian Re- What could be better than the volution. The situation which Malaya has
picture of the captain, who, after
όχι the in. Nor was he greatly impressed to face in regard to the scourge of
Found wandering in a seemingly discoursing Bercely
nerve-wracking Kowloon fallibility of Karl Marx, retires to when, during a tuberculosis is by
no means dis.
aimless manorr at the
own wharves yesterday, a Chinese his cabin to read the latest novel taxicab ride fer the mountainous.
streets of Moscow, his companion similar to that which exists here in
WOMA was taken to the Police by Edgar Wallace? Hongkong. In both the one place pens
There by What could be mare charmingly expressed to him the astonishing the mind of one who got his "three Station by a watchnian.
that as writer he must. and the other, tubercular diseases
in the mul old way. Consider out the poles that she had had the ironic than the author's experiment view
intention of committing suicide and in Lipping? They told him that "nen 3 new ideology and write
for the Revolution only. take a terrible toll of death every
the possibilities of the school rosa
Otherwise was deliberating over the step when
***** |tipping
crime WRS considered
He is useless! literature she was questioned by the watchman. year and in neither of them is
cigema, What could not las dome
The woman, who gave her name issuinst personal dignity. But they
Imagination boggles at the idea expertly as any there any special institutional with it? Could any book or black-
Yeung Choi-bing and her age as the tips.
of Mr. P. G. Wodehouse under a d'hotel in a said that she was a married woman
fashionable which patients may receive treat-heurd-talks hope, to compete with a
Bolshevik regime, if he were told The yearly average of well-devised, film? Look back at
"Everything is organised in Rus-that he must "write for the Revclu
except common sense." says the tion only" | Beatles in the Straits Settlements, your own school days. You studied.
author, and soom shows you that In fact, one realises that if the A P. G. we notier, is about 2,700, which ainong other things, geography
for ng months, poring over un-
The following etter has been sent no words were more truly spoken. Russians had possessed warks out at about 2.7 per cent, f
to the Ceraniumder-in-Chief, China He describes his fist night in Wodehouse they would never havu Interesting heels and entering,
alghtmare of talk. had-a-revolution-at-all- the tripulation. That is about the
persildy, with only the haziest idea, mal, by. Mr. A. E. Manwaring: teningrat as
-Thr
boys f the Royal For hour after bour the Russians I do not wish to convey the im- same figure as Hongkong. Here in after all, of the world you live it. Antediluvian Order Bulfatoes it round and talk themselves into pression that this is a flippant book.
(Grand Lodge of England), China, This Colony, however, tuberenssis Can yun immagine getting geograping
have been anxiously awaiting news of state of frenzy, lustead of work-It is nothing of the sort."
ing, or rating, or
or sleeping, or dust- I regard this book as by far the is easily the disease with the Shrough the cinema? Would not a
the rescue in the Naval Ratings who highest inortality, accounting for hatch of selected. films inform went down in i.M. Poseidon. Uy the mantelpiece, the women best book on Russia, of its class, about the that has yet appeared. It is writ- fortunately the good news, which was jabber, jabber, jabber over 32 per cent, of the total deaths, child about this world in a
of the author's cleaties. In Malaya, we believe that few hooks could never equal? anticipated, will never arrive, and on marvellous country they are makten with brilliance and humour, and
behalf of the members of the I.A.0.B.ing, alth-nghi-they cannot even wall there in the echo re- Furthermore, the child would
(GLE) China, I extend to you and along the street wihout falling down challenging personality in every Hi Malaya, we believe, madaria hasmember what he learned–and lie || the relatives, their very deepestja hole in the road.
even higher mortality rate would look forward to the next sympathy in the sad disaster of June
9th, 101 when 18 members of 11.M.S.) than that. The probability, how lesson. Not all aspects of geography ever, is that both in the case of the nor all lessons could be taught thist Such big-bears Straits Settlements and Hongkong way, of course. the incidence of the disease is far of childhood as arithmetic, spelling greater than the death statisties and grammar can never be sugar- coated very much. But plenty of indicate, since so many Chinese.
things could be taught through the who contract the diseasé return to films. A child could be informed their native country when it is ap-about this world and the people who parent that there is no hape of live in it, and the work could be done quickly and thoroughly. The The problem is admittedly a dif.cinema can be one of the greatest ficult one.
It is true, as the official allies the school teacher ever had. to its replies to questions in the Singa- When we finally get used pore Legislative Council recently fullest potentialities, it is anfe to say that school children will not indicated, that much of the value be half as eager for holiday time of treatment in clinics would be
to come around. nullified when patients returned to insanitary homes, it, is for this reason that the Singapore authori- ties do not intend at the moment establishing cilnies. It is suggest- ed that this step should be left over. uutil housing conditions improve. That, however, merely means an indefinite shelving of the problem. Neither here nor in Malaya is the evercrowding question ono which overcome.. We will be quickly therefore find ourselves, in agree North River at Samehui West River at Shishing
ment with the Chinese member of North River at Tsingyuen 12.9 13.2 7.1 the Straits Counell who urged that East River at Sheklung 0.0
The level at Shinhing on the both protective and curative mea- 12th inst. was 20,6 and at Taing- sures should go hand in hand. It yuen on the 11th inst. the level
was 103.
recovery.
WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTHL AND EAST RIVERS.
The following table, Issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feet the water levels on the West River, North River and East River, on the dates named:
July July 13 14
21.7
is interesting to recall that so long The highest levels recorded are: ago an 1928 a special Tuberculosis Shluhing, 41 feet; Tsingyuan, Committee, in Singapore urged the 29.2 feet Bamshu, 27.8 feat; establishment of special hospitals Sheklung, 11.6.feet,
The lowest levels on record are
In order that tubercular, casce minus 5. fest at Bamshul, and. might be segregated so as not to minus 2.7 feat at Sheklungs
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PHIPPS sees some CONTORTIONS ON A BOWLING GREEN.
TR. Lansbury's official title la
Mrirst Commissioner of Works,
but it ought to be First Commis sioner of Play. "Great Open Spaces" is Mr. Lansbury's war-cry though some have pointed to his side whiskers and accused him of not practising what he preaches. Nevertheless, as George, Archduke, of Hyde Park, he is a popular potentate.
Yesterday's sa drew me in evitably to Lansburia. Past the putting green and the open-air res- taurant I went, over the Serpentine. whero men are men and bathing is mixed, and, so came to the latest addition to
to George's domain-the Bowling Green,
It is situated hard by the Princes. Gate, between the southern bound- ary of the park and the Serpentine.. The turf comes from Cumberland, but most of its patrons live a bit nearer. It is certainly as scrupul- ously massaged na any other groen it has been my privilege to see.
The green is divided into alx "rinke," on four of which play was
in progress yesterday. From the shade of the little pavillon which has also sprung up at a touch of the First Commissioner's wand, I watched four elderly men, two young men and two girls getting bowl-legged and thoroughly enjoy- ing it
To the unblased observer. Bowla looke a simple game-that is If you mordly watch the woods. But 12 you study the players...you, ronilaa imultaneously why the game is not
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