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WORKERS IN SOVIET RUSSIA
WHAT A SURVEY DISCLOSES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 1932.
WHISKY FOR THE TRAVEL FOR SHANGHAI BANKS
"FASTING LADY"
ADMISSION BY ACCUSED MAN
In the case of the "Casting lady" at Margate, Robert Todd, aged 63, of High-street, Whit- stable, and Harry Gould, aged 36, of Hendon, were committed for trial charged with conspiring to defraud and obtain sixpence from three people.
CHILDREN
LATEST BRITISH ORGANISATION
London--An
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60,000 school pupils of various countries for educational holidays in other lands is aimed at this autumn by the World Explorers organization, whose headquarters is the clipper ship Friendship, moored at Charing Cross Pier,
HIGHER OUTPUT AND FALLING WAGES How far has the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in Russia proved able to Increase the wages of the
workers in relation to the carnhibited in a
It was alleged that the men ex- inga of other classes of the comfigh-street a young woman, wheLondon.
shop in Margate munity, or to raise them above the
was supposed to remain for 44 level required by economie laws?
An answer to these fundamen- days without food, whereas she
was fed twice every 24 hours. tal questions is provided in an
Gouhl, called as a witness for exhaustive survey of wage con- ditions in Russia since the be-Todd, said that as far as he knew
OVERFLOW
SILVER DOLLARS AND
TO SPARE
The stock of silver dollars in Shanghai banks has renched the highest figure in history. Twelve months
144,000,000 silver were held in Shanghai dollars banks: fo-day the figure has risen
Ago
to 240,000,000. -
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Violet Loraine Medicy
was running. fle was only con- rerned in providing premises and furniture, including
glass case containing the girl. first t is shown that in the
Gould read a statement. years of the Revolution Csny, which he submitted that it was 1918 to 1920) the workers, though|on the wording of the advertising tablish centres in buildings as- at that period they had greater | maiter that the girl would at signed rent free by the civic au- power than at any other time were tempt to fast that he presentedthorities of towns in various coutumulation of dollars in Shanghai unable materlaily improve the show to the public.
tries, thus greatly reducing the their position. The reason was In cross-examination, he denied cost of travel, In Germany a that the disintegration of the that be passed
the girl Food number of historie and attractive national economy made it impos- through a sliding panel. The buildings, have been assigned to When the Japanese conflict start- sible for them to profit socially only thing he gave her
was the World Expigrers, includinged at Shanghai in January, banks and economically from their whisky. He did not give her any
Castle Rheinfels, the largest of held $173,000,000 in silver. Their But front 1921 down dark substance to rub under her
the Rhine castles, and the Pont (stocks rose steadily during the con- to the beginning of the Five Year | vyes,
| Tor, the historic City Gate of Aix- |flict, and reachod the hitherto un- Plan their position improved
ka-Chapelle.
precedented figure of $200,000,000 rapidly.
In freland the World Explorers | In April. The Sino-Japanese truce have the use of Glengarriff Cas- | My was expected to bring re- tle. This year two attractive con- | lief, but did not. Internal disor-Scene from Julian Wylle's Production The tres in England have been opened, | dert exist quite apart from the one at Bamhurst Moner, and the Japanese conflict. Bankers do not ether at the Chantry, in Ipswich, believe there can be any substan- Parties of continental childrential improvement in this situation and students are continually visit- | for several months at least. ing there two places and being treated with great hospita- lity by the local inhabitants.
kupremacy.
Tricked,
Gould added that he never told The exact extent of this im-her to be careful with crumbs, provement is traced in an index and to put her head under the figure compiled from official delothes. if anyone came in sources and showing the ratio he- when she was eading. He did not tween wages, including wages in know that she was being fed. kind (e. g., social services) and the national income over a series of et From this index Agure it enn be seen that the value of the worker's earnings in relation to those of all other classes of the 4ommunity had increased, as com- pared with 1913, by 80 por rent. in 1922-8, and by 143 per cent, in 1927-8.
years.
Well-Being Undermined.
From then onwards it has con-
sistently fallen, till in 1991 The increase is estimated at only
per cent. over 1913.
in
Me. Drury (prosecuting )- Them it came to this; that you and Todd, both ten of the world, were being tricked by two girls? Ir the lady had any food, we must have been.
tiorld said that the bulletins were written by Raylett, who was the night watcher,
Mr. Drury produced a bulletin for July the last day), which stated: "Passed very restless night, leasing her weaker.”
Gould said that he gave Ray both instructions to write that, after he had taken the girl's tem- perature and inquired what sort
We of night she had bad. The reasons are twofold.
Look her puise. the first place. the enormous
Asics why Miss Tomlinsont the volume of capital accumulation, which began to be enforced by the Tasting lady") said he did not fake her pulse. Gould replied: Government under the Five-Year "Because she wanted to conie out Plon, undermined the economic well-being and social status of the of the cabinet, and had not the workers. Secondly, as economicourage to do so, fearing that the public would think that she had business conditions sup- planted purely revolutionary and failed. Therefore, she used any political polícies, wares levels method to ret out." came to dupend more and more . un the actual productivity of labour. The big increase 311 wages from 1921 onwards bart, in fact, never been justified by the level of output.
and
Todd. he said, invented the Namu "Blin June," and he
YOUNG WOMAN SHOT IN DOCTOR'S CAR
The organization has a list of 2010 schools in England ready to receive parties of 20 or 40 young people from abroad. Forty Ger- | muts have just concluded a stay (TRAGEDY OUTSIDE HER HOME at Tonbridge School and have been so delighted with the ex- perience that they have invited 40 Tonbridge boys to be their guests at Mainz next Baster.
Other countries making plans for interchange include Germany, France, Holland. Denmark, Swe- den, and Czechoslovaka. Canada has invited 200 boys and girls to camp with school pupils in the barkwoods of Ontario,
HAVOC OF STORM IN TUSCANY
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A shooting tragedy in a doctor's motor-car about midnight on Tues-.15 p.m. Las Soap. Programme Lux String day is being investigated by the Carditt police.
The victim was Miss Pauline Cafuin-road, Brailli, aged 23, of Cardiff,
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1,30 m. Studia and concern- She had been keeping company 5.30 pm. Dance music-lay View Hotel teeb.
Phlippine Constabulary land. with Dr. James Vesey, of The 10 ml down. Parade. It is understond that they met on Tuesday evening, and i after the doctor had kept a pro-] fessional engagement there was a second meeting.
#Gould), invented her age. Unti PANIC SCENES IN THE able time, when suddenly the doc-
he
was taken into
rustly he
thought it was a genuine fast.
Todd was allowed, hut tiould was refused, bail. They plended
The effect of these changes was that the income per head of the not guilty. working class population. which,
in 1913 had been about 2.8 times
as great as that of the agricul-MR. LLOYD GEORGE
tural population, rose to u maximum of 4.9 times as grent in 1926-7. But by 1930 it was back 19 3:45 Limos as great.
AND RUSSIA
Thus, the standard of living of A VISIT "INCOGNITO"?
worker average industrial
years ago.
DARK
Rome, July 19. Supplementary details of the devastating storni in Tuscany show that it was one of the most terrifying visitations experieared in recent years.
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Dr. Vesey then took the girl to her home in his car. Outside her house they talked for a consider-
for heard a revolver shot and found that the girl had collapred. He then saw, a pistol near ber
hand.
The girl was assisted into her home, but died within AL few minutes.
Dr. Vesey, a young Irishman, broke down as a result of his ordeal, and a specialist who was in attendance yesterday gave in- struction that no one should see
Prim
He has also forbidden Dr. Vesy to discuss the tragedy while in his present condition.
Dr. Vesey has been in Curdiff about three years and has built up an extensive practice.
Miss Brailli was a member of a prominent commercial family.
BRILLIANT GIRL GRADUATE
COMEDY OF AN ERROR
PORTER WHO MADE A MISTAKE
Paris, July 19. The most France to-day is the station-mas-
wretched
in
ter of a small Junction at Aigre- feuille, in Charente.
man
For several weeks he has been preparing for the passage of the Under Secretary of State for Pub- tic Works (which includes rail- ways), who was due to arrive on Sunday on an official journey. The station had been newly painted. the waiting-room and buffet swept and garnished, the only porter was ready in his Sunday uniform.
During the stop at Aigrefeuille the train was divided, one acction going on to La Rochelle and the other to Rochefort. The Under Secretary's saloon was to be taken off and attached to the part de- stined for La Rochelle, and the atation-master had decided to superviso the operation personal- [y."
At Odulo, near Brescia, the Vrenda broke its hanks, sweeping away three bridges, flooding the houses, storey high, and terrify- | ing the inhabitants, who were sur the
prised by the cyclone when most still remains. substantially im-
Rome, July 20.
of them were in bed. There were proved as compared with that of According to news published in panic scenes in utter darkness. the peasant, though. not to the the Osservatore Romane regard. At Ascanio, near Sienna, same extent as seven or eighting the reported visit of Mr. Lloyd thunderbolt crashed through IL George to Russia, Moscow, is pre-house when the family were at With regard to the relation beparing to give a solenin welcome to table. Passing unharmed a wo tween wages and industrial out-the statesman.
man feeding a baby, it throw down put, it is shown thut between According to the report, Mr. Seven people, killing one of them. 1922 and 1924 per cent. increase Lloyd George proposes to arrive then killed a watchdog, there in productivity was accompanied incognito among a group of Eng-after crashing through the roof. by an increase of no less than 113lish tourists. The message udda Near Bergamo a railway loco- per cent. in wages.
that the Soviet Governtment.. con-motive was struck by tightning. This naturally led to a large in-sider the prospective visit to be of and panic-stricken passengers de- At Saluzzo the crease in the cost of production considerable importance from the serted the train. of industrial output, which the point of view of Anglo-Soviet rela- storm
extraordinary WOUNDED ON EVE OF Soviet authorities presently saw tions.
violence. Thirty bridges were TAKING UP POST
Unfortunately, he WHA called to be undesirable. They accord- It is stated that a programme of torn up, roads destroyed. crops
away at the critical moment, leav- ingly changed their policy, and receptions and visits has bean pre-ruined, houses flooded, and the
ing the affair in the hands of the between 1924 and 1927 the in- pared, and that Mr. Lloyd George population left derelict, save for
only porter. Naturally, when he crease in wages was maintained will be received personally on his Government help being rushed to home, George Jackson (53), an returned to the scene the worst at approximately the same pra arrival by Stalin and Litvinoff. their aid.
At Vincenza, a thunderbolt hit unemployed engineer and inven- had happened; mistaking his in- portion as the increase in pro- After an official visit to Moscow ductivity.
and Leningrad he will be conduct-a trameur and dazed all the pastor, was found to-day suffering structions, the porter had coupled But in 1927 the rise in wages ed to the Ukraine and the Causengers. In the Genon hinterland from throat wounds, from which the saloon on to the wrong section and despatched the Under Secro- was further checked.
rivers have been turned into de.he died later.
In the house his daughter Miltary to Rochefort instead of La This policy," states the The message concludes by say-vnating torrents. Several land-
the (22), who recently graduated Rochelle, memorandum, "could hardly meeting that the Bolshevists presume slides are reported, including one:
B.A. at Swansea University, was with sympathy from the workers, that Mr. Lloyd George will be con- | with a 1,500 ft. frontage.
also found with throat wounds. but the dissatisfaction could not,verted to admiration of the Com-
She was taken to Swansen Hospi however, find expression through munist State, and that the visit
tal and detained. thoir respective Trade Unions, will contribute to giving a line to since in Soviet Russin these the political situation of this Unions are part of the State ad-statesman, which is al ministrative machinery for the "much depressed." management of labour.""
The effect of the change was
Casus.
Tokyo, Sept: 4. The Diet ended its business to present night. The closing ceremony will
be held to-morrow.—Neuter,
that whereas between 1927-8 and FEDERAL SYSTEM FOR only a few administrative links.
1929-30 output per head increased
by 18 per cent, wagen increased
by only 4 per cent.
BELGIUM
FLEMISH NATIONALISTS'
Swansea, July 20, In a locked outhouse at his
She was waiting to take up post as Geography mistress at Folkestone, and is stated to be a very talented girl.
[ widow and
Jackson leaves three daughters.
One daughter, Elva, in a nurse
a London hospital:"
Working On Invention.
with
Despair.
Arriving too late to repair the "disaster," the station-master could only try to mitigate its con- sequences by rushing to the tele phone and warning the authorities of Rochefort, who were not expec- ting the Under Secretary until two days later.
Confusion and consternation M. Louridan, Flemish Nation-in
roigued. Feverish directions were alist, said that the Flemings were
given to prepare the official ban- The final result is that in 1929-
exasperated by the behaviour of
quot, while the Muyor and Coun- the Government and they would Jackson, who is described as acil and other notabilities, hurried- 30 the average wage per worker had risen by 36 per cent, over
MOVE FAILS.
strive without ceasing for their elever engineer, had been workingly summoned from their Sunday liberty.
ou an invention. Ho WILS preoccupations, hastened to the sta 1913, whereas the groas_output
M. Vandervelde, lender of the Iviously in business Brussels, July 19.
his Ition to welcome the visitor. por worker had risen by just
There was a lively scene in Par- Socialist Party, said that M. Vos' brother, Mr.. Arthur Jackson, who Meanwhile, the authorities of under 75 per cent. Thus, after liament to-day, when a motion for project was unacceptable. has since left the town.
La Rochelle, who were drawn up sundry vicissitudes, the worker
the rovision of the Constitution The time for speeches having The dead man is understood to in mass on the platform, looked In at length Ands himself unable to
was presented by the Flemish Naboon limited to five minutes, and have been a member of a well- vain for the guest of honour, and secure an increase in remunerationalist Deputy, M. Vos.
M. Ward Hermans, Flemish, Na-known Manchester family. For after waiting without result for tion equivalent to the increase in
The object of the Flemish Nationalist continuing to speak in some time he was a member of another train, anxiously telephon- his output.
tionalists is the creation of a apite of the Speaker's remark, the the choir of St. Gabriel's Church, ed to Paris to ask if the Under Federal system in Belgium by the Chamber voted his immediate ex- and later at St. Barnabas'.
Secretary had forgotten his en- soparation of Flanders and Wai-clusion, byt M. Hermans remain- Lato to-night it was reported at gagement. lonia. Brussels › would be incor-led on his foot.
the hospital that the condition of As for the station-master at porated in Flanders, and the dis- The motion was finally rejected the daughter was unchanged, but Aigrefeuille, It, in reported that he tinctive rosions of Belgium would by Liberals and Catholics. The that her injuries are dot consider is not on apoaking terms with the
Pernambuco, Sept. 4. The Graf Zeppelin left on the
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