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been pence, restful as mellow vinarchs and little children, is like of this extraordinary experience in yards, after the days of tension; that of the Czechoslovakian Army the epirit of sympathy and of bur the autumnal beauties of then there has been mad dancing which fled from destruction along den sharing that was developed in the surviving trees in Na-
the same Transiberian trail, an- Shanghal among them. Indeed, in tho capital as Communists
was that spirit that dually triumph-than Road, ed. Never did threaten revolution, bombs crash other Anabanis and it deserves an
other Xenophon to write ita annals, ed.
By the way we wonder how higher courage, and soldiers muster. A Acene of
• But even that desperate retreat more amazing determination or many of our little readers know remarkable and unsurpassed con-
has only the preface to further more stubborn refusal to yield to that the local trees (flora) were. fusion.
trials when the harassed "whites" the acemingly inevitable reveal built by the English when the were forced to flee from Vindivos-themselves than during the dozen
stark, volcanic pimple instead of tok at the approach of the Bolshe-ears ero the Russian colony of island of Hongkong was a bare, Shanghai found itself at Inst upon the stuffy, stuffed-up stuff it is viki.
something like firm ground, cenno From 1917 onward the struggle mically speaking.
to-day? And now, a devout young man, of the Russian refugees who fled Gil Robles, once a monarchist-ally, eastward is one of the eples of always a Papist, hus brought reli-modern times. In the cities of the gian back to politics. Senor Gil Orient to-day, especially in Shang-would have told you the Russian Robles is the leader of the Popular hai, you may gather something of Action Party. At one time he was the story, a bit here and a bit there, thought to favour a return to from the older members of the re- monarchical Government and made markable Shanghai "White" use friends with the royalists. Now, ian colony. because he feels himself strong enough to get along without them. no doubt, he has declared for re- publicanism. But he has retained the one great affiliation which welds his party close: friendship with Rome. Religion, says this comes first: politics second. What a refreshing change
In drab Vladivostok more than The turning point came, curious- in this day and age! Incidentally
As they faded away on their he yesterday upset the Government 10.000 refugees were huddled inly enough, in the Shanghai French daily breather run round the Now and there is a movement in Spain 1919, while "White" Russian troops Concession. This adjoins the In- Territories we caught a snatch of to the premier and others were trying to check the 'ternational Settlement on the south, their famous battlo song sung to clevate him
young man,
to
Ten years ago many in Shanghai would disintegrate, be colony swallowed up like so many other alien peoples by the teeming hordes of China. On the contrary, made up as the group was of men 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, by to talk of; for in the victory they aiding one another with empathy have won over adversity they know and encouragement, and with what
measure of content and would over of substance any hero and forget the past. Yet the very there might secure. About 1930 nature of that paat brings the the tide of their fortunes seemed to greater glory to their triumph. turn-almost imperceptibly at first.
On such and such-like medita- tions our mind browsed' as we tore along the throughfare on our bicycle. Contrary to our expecta- tions wo didn't take a spin until the second turning on the right when a coolle carrying a bamboo about thirty yards long took it into. his head to turn across the sirect causing a completo blockage of traffic.
We were still stroking our seat which had become dusty from contact with Nathan Road when a flock or covey of cyclists, hang- ing on to their front wheel pins. by the teeth, passed us liko n wust of gind.
Hongkong Telegraph political position lately occupied by Bulshevik advance to the count, and within its boundaries more the stirring tune of "The Lost
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1934.
JAPAN AND PEACE
Kuyamoto asserts that Japan
Lerroux and Samper.
POOR, OLD MAN
Pathetic?
BRILLIANT FUTURE
worn
influence,
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The Wheclera bold and bad are
We love to sail across the sca. But as we haven't got a boat- And anyway we couldn't sailor- On pedal cyc-a-ling wo dote, And scorn the sluggard sailor. With a hoy and a ho And a Shomshuipo We considal that Hiking's a
failure.
Wild reckless youth, we cogitat- ed, ruminating our precarious way homownrds.
Wo
10,
considah thet hiking's bolonie.
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES. By Judist Lowell. Who's Stuck?
s many other good presidents As that attempt failed the plight of than half of the refugees were Buttock of Bimbledeck." the Cortes,
thoroughfare men like Barrios, the refugees became more desper-living. Its principal
ate. Only Harbin, across hun-1s called Avenue Joffre, and the dreds of miles of dreary and gate. French rettlers in Shanghai used swept plains, or Shanghai, across to insist that this long and broad thousands of miles of icy seas, boulevard was as French as Paris. offered any hope of succotir. For each of these the refugees set But about 1930 Avenue Joffre He la whitehaired and
forth.
began gradually to undergo a sur- If the declaration by Admiral and weary. His eyes are pale and
In the harbour of Vladivostok prising change. Its French charac Kuyamoto, that Japan is willing very dim behind the thick lenses were three small and antiquated teriatic disappeared as the Russ-
He speaks with a cultured modula- to co-operate in every movement on which sets him apart from steam vessels still flying the blue-inns acquired shop after shop, cafe for world disarmament, betokens many of his former colleagues who and-white flag of the Teare. Into and restaurant and apartment a determination on the part of are with him here to-day and whn thom, vastly overcrowling their house. In another year Avenuo the Tokyo Government to work are rough, bull-necked men behind capacity, poured severnl thousand Joffre was no longer like Paris, but and very much like the Petrograd of
old. Its development was a kind of Percy, the Penny-farthing de- children. wholeheartedly for peace, it will their suave exteriors They all panic-stricken men, women be widely welcomed. Two facts, look for help, from him this old
barometer of the improving for veloped a limp in her rear hind leg however, have to be borne in he falls, they will probably fall also
man of seventy-five winters; for if The pathetic little fleet was com- tunes of the Russian colony. For at the Majestic. It refused to cog- mind. The first is that hopes The scene is the Chicago court-manded, by a former admiral, high as soon as one member of it found itate, rotate, or animate and we As we noored the dug out where for disarmament must continue
house and the pathetic figure in the service of the monarchy. himself established, he discovered had to walkit home oursgif. to lie in an eventual understand-stening 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 se River and then up the Whangpoo and, despite the setback of the past of cyclists, drooping over their medium of the League of American invcators out of suras ap- to Shanghai. Two of them no two years, that it will be main- handlebars like languid, illes Nations. The second is that, proximating $3,000,000,000 (Ameri- more than held together until then tained is indicated by the records passed us like a breath of gin.
As they faded away on their can currency).
Yes, under the terms of her two
and were heached on the muddy of the Russian Relief Society of years' notice, Japan will soon he is that. Ten years ago, when flats of the Whangros to disinte. Greater Shanghai, which shows second round of the N. T. we
no-one ever dreamed of the "de- grnte.
that, whereas in 1928 there were caught the second verse of their cease to be a member of the pression" he was a figure bend- For a long time the admiral him- more than 2,000 helpless Indigenta famous war cry sung to the tune fow of "Art thou weary, art thou It would therefore and shoulders above contemporaries League. seem that Japan's sincerity in in the Middle Western United self and others who had held re-requiring charity, all but a this matter would best be at- States. He was King of the Insullatively high places under the Tanr have become at least partially self-languld?" It was evident that The Wholera bold and bad are tested were she to decide not to Trust, former partner and adviser wore not permitted ashore, for the supporting. Some of the shop they were.
of the late Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Chinese Republic had in the mean-keepers have become quite well-to- cut herself adrift from the other President of the Civic Opera time recognized the Soviet and ad- do, professional men have grown
self-respecting once more, and We live on danger and weak tea. acores who a few years ago were We blaze a trial where'er we 'po, Powers but to continue within Company of Chicago, who spent mitted to China a great deal of its the League and co-operate ten million gold dollars to give
Our names are cut on every tree through-the only-channel which Chicagoan opera And....he was At last, however, this ban was penitens and well-nigh hopeless are
now contented citizens...
From Kowloon Tong to old Taipo We're known all o'er the Colonie. gives hope of definite action. president and director of half afted. The remaining "Russians"
Janded. But first the doughty com- Many former naval men Bre With a hick and a lock Obviously, the cause of world hundred thriving enterprises.
mander took his little vessel to Ben officers on coatwise steamers and And a Laichikok disarmament is best served by
and sunk her with the blue-and-a few are even masters. Others united action rather than by
white flag still flying.
are in the customs service and not efforts to secure bilateral under-
a few are members of the fire de- standings. On the question of
By that time in Shanghai there partments of both the International Mr. Insull was one of those men were more than 10,000 "white" Settlement and the French Con- Baval agreement, Admiral
had grown who great cities of America. Born in throughout the East, a few in
with the new Russions. Others were scattered cession.
So many jobs, indeed, are open will, at the conference next year, England, educated at Roading 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 everywhere hai will be no more. And what cess by which this end is to be ventor's manufacturing and selling else, in Hongkong, In Saigon, in applies in Shanghat more or leas Me" at my wedding? I'll let you attained. But inasmuch as lead-organisation, became a high officer Singapore, even in Macao and applies to the rest of the "White" come free of charge. In return
in his companies, and then branch- Bangkok. And how most of them Russians of the Far East. For you can kiss my bridesmaids. 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 genius, of a dif-ly have told. 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 pangioa, swift wealth from smail the intention is to press for such prise which was exploiting the only beginnings, vast Industrial enter. a measure of disarmament by
guessed at wealth of a new con- Britain and the United States as tlment. Insull, like the Govern- will bring them down to the ments of his time, was too con- Japanese level. Hopes of any fldent. He thought the tide of solution along these lines would prosperity would never obb. 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 Insull castle crumbled, and 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 fugitivo, though he himself said he factors which have undergone would sooner "stay and face it." no change warranting a de-Now he is standing In the Chicago parture from the percentages and fifteen of his former associates court before his accusers, his son agreed to. It is beyond dispute charged with him. The prospect that the responsibilities both of of prison is before him. And still Britain and the United States, Chicago listens to the Opera in the with their coastal defence and famous auditorium it still familiar- shipping protection obligations, ly calls "Insull's Arm-chair," a gift to the Community and an offering are decidedly heavier than
to Art, Japan's. This circumstance, coupled with the fact that there is no greater threat to Japan's nothing of her aggressivo security now than there waa military activities in recent when the last agreement was years, must be held inrgely res- reached, largely disposes of the ponsible for that fact. Hopes Japanese claim to naval parity, have, however, recently been However, these are issues which raised that Japan's diplomats will doubtless come up for. de- may be getting the upper hand talled examination both at the' of her militarists. If these are preliminary naval gatherings in soundly based, and if Japan London and at the 1935 Con- definitely comes out as n champ- ference as well. If, as Admiral ion of peace, the world will Kuyamoto anys, Japan has been breatho all the more freeland continually branded as Д war Japan will have made a definito dog, the ballicose utterances of contribution to universal amity
many of her leaders, to say and concord.
He
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