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WHITE RUSSIANS IN
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THE FAR EAST
By MARY T. GREENE
In the "Christian Belence Monitor"
The Very Idea!
WE GO CYCLING
(By George) Spain, land of the bull-fighter. and sweet, warm wine, home of the
VESTERDAY being a fandango and stronghold of rell gion, has experienced a little of all
nice day we instruct- these things in its polities of recent. months. Ever since King Alfonan THE light from Europe into Hundreds of the refugees had ed the boy to use some
old Asia of a mighty horde of never known what manual labour Brasso on our
penny- precipitately left Madril, political leaders have been waving and banished Russians, soldiers and meant, nor want of anything what farthing with the idea of OUR NEW AND EFFICIENT thrusting at the balls of the Op- etvillans, men and women, patri- ever, strandinary experience is taking a spin and admiring
for a little there has position;
archs and little children, is like of this "MOBILUBRICATION" been peace, restful as mullow vin- that of the Czechoslovakian Army the spirit of sympathy and of bur- the autumnal beauties of
in yards, after the days of tension; which fled from destruction along don sharing that was developed then there has been mad dancing the sume Transiberian, trail, an-Shanghai among them. Indeed, It the surviving trees in Na- in the capital na Communista
was that spirit that
at finally triumph-than Road.
By the way we wonder how threaten revolution, bombs crash other Anabasis and it deserves all-
other Xenophon to write its annals.ed. Nevor did higher courage, and soldiers muster. A Beene of
But even that desperate retreat mora amazing determination or many of our little renders know remarkable and unsurpassed con-
was only the preface to further more stubborn refusal to yield to that the local trees (flora) were fusion.
trials when the harassed "whites" the seemingly inevitable reveal bullt by the English when the were forced to flee from Vladivos-themselves than during the dozen island of Hongkong was a bare, tok at the approach of the Bolshe-years ore the Russian colony of stark, volcanic pimple Instead of Shanghai found itself at laat upon the stuffy, stuffed-up stuff it is something like firm ground, econo mically speaking.
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WEDNESDAY, Ocr. 3, 1934.
JAPAN AND PEACE
of the
SENOR GIL ROBLES
viki.
From 1917 onward the struggle And now, a-devout young man, of the Russian refugees who fled Gil Robles, once i monarchist-ally, eastward is one of the epics of
Ten years ago many in Shanghal always a Papist, has brought rell-modern times. In the cition of the gion back to politics. Senor Gil Orient to-day, especially in Shang-would have told you the Russian would disintegrate, be Robles Is the leader of the Popular hai, you may gather something of colony. Action Party. At one time he was the story, a bit here and a bit there, swallowed up like, so many other to from the older members of the re-ullen peoples by the teeming hordes thought to favour and tid
return
A
friends with the royalista. Now, lan colony. because he feels himself strong enough to get along without them. no doubt, he has declared for re- publicanism. But he has retainedly to took of, for in the victory they the one great aflation which have won over adversity they know wolds his party close: friendship a measure of content and would with Rome. Religion, says this forget the past. Yet the very young man, comes first: politics nature of that phat brings the second. What a refreshing
up as the group was of man and women whose former lives had lain | far apart, socially and economically, It is not a thing they care great-still the refugees clung together; alding one another with empathy and encouragement, and with what ever of substance any hore and there might secure. About 1930 the tide of their fortunes seemed to turn--almost imperceptibly at first.
In this day and age. Incident greater glory to their triumph.
he yesterday upset the Government and there is a movement in Spain to elevate him to the premier political position Intely occupied by so many other goot presidents of the Cortes,
men like Harrios, Lerroux and Samper.
POOR, OLD MAN
In drab Vindivostok more than
The turning point came, curious- 10,000 refugees wore huddled in ly enough, in the Shanghat French 1919, while "White" Russian troops Concession. This adjoins the In and others were trying to check the ternational Settlement on the south, Bolshevik advance to the coast and within its boundaries mere As that attempt falled the plight of than half of the refugees were the refugees became more desper-living. Its principal thoroughfaro ate. Only Harbin, across hun-is called Avenue Joffre, and the dreds of miles of dreary and gale French settlers In Shanghai usci swept plains, or Shanghai, across to insist that this long and broad thousands of miles of icy cons, boulevard was as French as Paris. offered any hope of succour. For cach of these the refugees sot But about 1930 Avenue Joffre began gradually to undergo a sur-
He is whitehaired and wornforth.
all
*
to-day?
On such and such-like medita- tions our mind browsed as we tore along the throughfare on our bicycle. Contrary to our expecta tions we didn't take a spin until the accond turning on the right when a coolie carrying a bamboo his head to turn across the street causing a completo blockage of traffic,
We were still stroking our sent which had become dusty from contact with Nathan Road when a flock or covey of cyclists, hang- Ing on to their front wheel piña by the teeth, passed us like a wilet of gind.
As they faded away on their daily breather run round the New Territories we caught a snatch of their famous battle song sung to the stirring tune of "The Buttock of Bimbledeck.
Lost
The Wheelers bold and bad are
100,
We love to sail across the sea. But as we haven't got a boat- And anyway we couldn't sail'er On pedal cyc-a-ling we dote, And scorn the sluggard sailor. With a hoy and a ho And a Shanshuipo
Wo considah thet Hiking's a
failure.
Wild reckless youth, we cogitat- cd, ruminating our precarious way homewarda.
If the declaration by Admiral and weary. His eyes are pate and In the harbour of Vladivostok prising change. Its French charac Kuyamoto, that Japan is willing very dim behind the thick lenses were three amail and antiquated teristic disappeared as the Russ |to co-operate in every movement/He speak with a cultured moduln- i steam vessels still flying the blue. lane acquired shop after shop, cafe
tion which acts him apart from
restaurant and apartment for world disarmament, betokens many of his former colleagues who and-white flag of the Tears. Inte and In another year Avenue a determination on the part of are with him here to-day and who them, vastly overcrowding their house. the Tokyo Government to work are rough, bull-necked men behind capacity, poured several thousand Joffre was no longer like Paris, but panic-stricken men. women And very much like the Petrograd of
Percy, the Penny-farthing de old. Ita dovelopment was a kind of wholeheartedly for peace, it will their suave exteriors. They
children. be widely welcomed. Two fucts, look for help, from him this old
barometer of the improving for- veloped a limp in her rear hind leg The pathetic little fleet was com tunes of the Russian colony. For at the Majestic. It refused to cog- however, have to be borne inman of seventy-five winters; for if he falls, they will probably fall also mind. The first is that hopes The scene is the Chicago court-in the service of the monarchy. himself established, be discovered had to walkit home ourself.
manded by a former admiral, high as soon as one member of It found itate, rotate, or animate and we- for disarmament must continue house and the pathetic figure
As we neared the dug out where to lie in an eventual understand-listening to the charge is Samuel He, Gleboff, guided the vessels a place for a comrade.
across stormy waters into the Yang- That the victory has been gained Percy and we live, a flock or covey. ing being reached through the Insull, accused of defrauding tse Biver and then up the Whangpoo and, despite the setback of the past of
drooping over medium
the Winto two years, that Bethack of the past handlebars 10 Enguld tiles of American investors out of sums apto Shanghai. Two League Nations. The second is that, proximating $3,000,000,000 (Amari-more than held together until then tained is indicated by the records passed us like a breath of gin.
can currency). Pathetic?
Yes,
As they faded away on their under the terms of her two hole, that. 140 years ago, when ints of the Whungpoo to disinto- Greater Shanghai, which shows second round of ther of their
and were beached on the muddy of the Russian Rellof Society of years' notice, Japan will soon no-one ever dreamed of the "do.
grate.
that, whereas in 1928 there were caught the second verse cease to be a member of the pression" he
wag nfigure bend League. It would therefore and shoulders above contemporaries For a long time the admiral him- more than 2,000 helpless indigents famous war cry sung to the tune seem that Japan's sincerity in in the Middle Western United self and others who had held re-requiring charity, all but a few of "Art thou weary, art thou this matter would best be at States. He was King of the Inauli Iatively high places under the Tsar have become at least partially self-languld?" It was tested were she to decide not to. Trust, former partner and adviser were not permitted ashore, for the supporting. Some of the shop they were..
of-the-lato-Mr.-Thomas A.-Edison, Chinese Republie had in the mean- keepers have become quite well-to- cut herself adrift from the other President of the Civic Opern time recognized the Soviet and ad- de professional- men have grown Powers but to continue within Company of Chicago, who spent mitted to China a great deal of its self-respecting once the
and League
co-operate ten million gold dollars to give through the only channel which Chicago an opera. And he was of hulf a gives hope of definite action. president and director Obviously, the cause of world hundred thriving enterprises. disarmament is best served by f
united action rather than by BRILLIANT FUTURE efforts to secure bilateral under- standings. On the question of
2
influence,
moro, and scores who a few years ago were peniless and woll-nigh hopeless aro now contented citizens.
At Inst, however, this ban was lifted. The romaining Russians Handed. But first the doughty com-
Many former naval men aro mander took his little vessel to sea officers on coatwise steamers and and sunk hor-with the blue-and-a few are even masters. Others white flag still flying,
are in the customs service and not a few are members of the fire do- partments of both the International Settlement and the French Com cession.
+
*
By that time in Shanghai there Mr. Insult was one of those men were more than 10,000 "white"
swift wealth from email vaat Industrial enter-
ovident that
The Wheelers bold and bad are
We live on danger and weak tea. We blaze a trial wherc'or we go, Our names are cut on every tree From Kowloon Tong to old Taipo We're known all o'er the Colonie. With a hick and a hock And a Laichikok
We
considah thet hiking's bolonie.
•
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES.
By Juliet Lowell. -
Who's Stuck?
Janet GO TO
(Signed)
naval agreement, Admiral who had grown with the new Hussland. Others were scattered Kuyamoto asserts that Japan great cities of America. Born in throughout the East, a fow in So many jobs. indeed, are open will, at the conference next year, England, educated at Reading and Japan, many in Harbin, Mukden to them that, with the return of THE REVELLERS seek to decrease rather than in- Oxford, he went to America in and other Manchurian cities, a normal times generally, the long-ZBW crease naval power. Nothing is, 1881. He worked with Edison for handful in Peking and another in acute Russian "problem" of Shang- Hongkong however, disclosed as to the pro-years, perfected the great in- Tientsin, stragglers everywhero hai will be no more. And what How about singing "O Promise cess by which this end is to be ventor'a manufacturing and selling else, in Hongkong, in Saigon, in applies in Shanghai more or lens Me" at my wedding? I'll let you
organisation, became a high officer Singapore, even in attained. But inasmuch as lead-in his companies, and then branch- Bangkok. And how most of them Russians of the Far East. For you can kiss my bridesmaids,
Macao and applies to the rest of the "White" come free of charge. In return ing Japanese statesmen and ed out for himself. There was no existed they themselves could hard-there is now a new Russia in the Navy officials have again and doubt he was a gentus, of a dif- ly have told.
Orient and its capital is Shangbal. again declared that Japan will ferent sort than Edison, his friend. insist on parity at the con- Those were days of colossal ex- ference, it is to be assumed that the intention to press for such prise which was exploiting the only a measure of disarmament by guessed-at wealth of a new con- Britain and the United States as tinent. Insull, like the Govern will bring them down to the ments of his time, was too con- Japanese level. Hopes of any fident. He thought the tide of solution along these lines would prosperity would never abh. He not appear to be in prospect others who followed his road. was wrong. So were millions of The point to be borne in mind on The Ineuli castle crumbled, this question is that the existing with it went his fortune. On the ratios were based on a considera- advice of friends, he became tion of geographical and other fugitive, though he himself said ho factors which have undergone would sooner "stay and face It." do-No
Now lo lo standing in the Chicago no change warranting & parture from the percentages qurt before his accusers, his son- and fifteen of his former associates agreed to. It is beyond dispute charged with him. The prospect that the responsibilities both of Britain and the United States,
and
a
of prison is before him. And still Chicago listens to the Opera in tho
with their coastal defence and famous auditorium it still famillar-
shipping protection obligations, are decidedly heavier than Japan's. This circumstance, coupled with the fact that there
ly
calls "Insull's Arm-chair," & gift to the Community and an offering to Art,
is no greater threat to Japan's nothing of hor aggressive security now than there was military activities in recent when the last agreement was years, must be held largely rea-. reached, largely disposes of the ponsible for that fact. Hopes' Japanese claim to naval parity. have, howover, recently been However, these are issues which raised that Japan's diplomats will doubtless come up for de may be getting the upper hand tailed examination both at the of her militarists. If these are preliminary naval gatherings in soundly based, and if Japan London and at the 1985 Con- definitely comes out as a champ ference as well.. If, as Admiral ion of punce, the world will Kuyamoto saya, Japan has been breathe all the more freely and continually branded as awar | Japah will have nado a definite dog, the bellicose utterances of contribution to universal aniity many of hor leaders, to say and concord.
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I'm very busy.
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