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WILL
VOROSHILOV
HE is one of the most
important men in the world to-day, a man in whose hands is concentrated the greatest amount of latent force any individual has perhaps controlled since the world began. He is Klimently Yefrem o vich Voroshilov, Commissar for Defence of the Soviet Union.
its
Soviet Russin's "Cabinét,' the Politburo of ten men, is one of the best-balanced and most [richly endowed governmental juntas of modern times. In that vastly powerful inner council there are no passengers. But authority is not by any means equally distributed among members, and by general con- sent three men stand out--the redoubtable Stalin, the Jew Kaganovitch, an organiser of genius, and Voroshilov. The three are close personal friends who knew one a other many years before the Revolution and have the utmost faith in each other's ability and loyalty.
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VOROSHILOV is just over 40,
a simple man, of high spirits and a powerful personal magne- tism which is As difficult
to analyse as it is obvious to re- cognise. He is casily the most
Hongkong Telegraph.popular man in Rassia to-day.
WEDNESDAY, MAR, 11, 1986.
THE FUTURE OF
THE COLONY,
his rubicund face is on every mantelpiece and poster. Lord Noel Buxton, who lately return- ed from a visit to Russia, has testified to the prestige of the Defence Commissar; to him it seemed that Voroshilov is re
By GLYN ROBERTS
lages from which many of its men are drawn. It is ceaseless- ly purged of all disruptive ele-: ments; it is trained well; it la mechanised to an extent un- equalled by any other army of to-day. Russia's small but com- petent navy and her much-dis- cussed air force supplement it.
This air force-which is alter- nately boosted to the stature of a world menace and belittled as comically obsolete by jittery ⠀⠀ observers who believe they have reason to hate or fear. Soviet Russia-consists of at least 4,000 heavy, bombers with a low cruising speed but great carry- ing power. Fokker says it is the best equipped, best manned and most up-to-date force he knows. It is carefully kopt up-to-the minute, by a vast system of factories every square foot underground whose producing capacity is considerably greater than that of this country or Germany,
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THESE three instruments, to protect Soviet Russia by air, land and sea, are directed by Klimently Voroshilov. He has able
him-Bud- men under yenny, Tuchachovsky, Tehar- aykh, Blucher, Alkamiss and Eidemann. The last of these is at the hond of the remarkable society, "Ossoaviakhim," which counts twenty million civilans as its members. It improves the nation's physique, arranges stu- pendous displays, gives practi- cal instruction in defence against gas, and co-operates with the heads of thousands of schools.
The lessons of the civil war have not been lost on Russia's new rulers. They have organ-
There is much point in the garded as Catholic countries re- would smuggle ammunition, Russia can face the very real ised the nation to defend its recent comment by the Straits gard those whom the Pope has fling a bomb or run an illicit possibility of a stupendous war territory. All its power con- Times concerning the importance cannonised.
printing press if the party with at least as much confidence verges in the strong hands of of Hongkong, as an indispensa- He is a crack shot and a ordered it. Like the rest of the as any other Great Power. The Klimentiy Voroshilov, who, it is ble outpost of the Singapore brilliant horseman. To shoot "Old Guard" he "did time" in Red Army of nearly a million re- rumoured, is to be given the. naval base, particularly the pica as straight and to ride as daring- Siberia and elsewhere. At the gulars, and perhaps 16 million title "Marshal of the Soviet that machinery be set in motion ly as "Klim" Voroshilov is the Stockholm Congress he met trained reserves, is well equip- Union."
over
C. Bullitt. Within
GAMBLERS CITY:
Promi- THERE are over a million and printed and sold. Down in the a quarter people in Bombay, bazuar vernacular papers sell by the
for the conclusion of an Anglo-dream of every young Com- Stalin and liked him. He was ped, educated, fit, aware. It He will appreciate the honour. Chinese agreement whereby the munist. The Red Army wor- at Baku just before the Revolu- has largely superseded the now But in Western Europe he has whole of the Kowloon mainland ships him, and because he tells tion, organising the oil workers, obsolescent Orpu, and in peace another label. They have called would be brought under per- them Stalin is good for them During the crisis and after it he time does valuable Communist him "the Napoleon of Soviet petual British control. Mutual they swear by Joseph Stalin. served the Ogpa in various propaganda in the distant vil- Russia.". interests which bind China and when Maxim Litvinov's years capacities. Britain together dictate the of patient toil were rewarded It was the desperate Crimean desirability of such a step, and by American recognition of and Ukraincan phases of the. if the matter is properly handled the U.S.S.R., Roosevelt sent to civil war, which brought not there should be no difficulty in Moscow as Ambassador the blue- only Voroshitov but also Stalin renching an understanding. Actually, the only parts of the blooded, polo-playing William and Kaganovitch to
few nence. The brilliant Trotsky Colony ceded in perpetuity to
a million and a quarter gamblers and tips.
Every restaurant is a bookle's office. Britain are the island and just months he had to the dismay was conjuring armies out of and it is safe to say there are over tens of thousands with information
two square miles of the of Washington's Red-baiters-and-thin-air-and directing-seven-or-in-the-city.
with Children gamble
shells You can stand at the street corner Kowloon Peninsula; the re- Tokio's sabre-rattlers - estab- eight on different fronts-from
alip. It is nearly all cash mainder, known as the New lished, an informal friendliness Moscow. These three, less bril- "cowries." Rich men on cotton and any lay your bet and draw a
silver and forward prices. And the
betting and you could easily find Territories, is held on 99 years with the people of Moscow un- liant, were on the spot where vast majority of the population on takers for a lakh of
rupees. any other Moscow the situation was at ita most the closing figure of American cotton. lease, of which there are just known in
Not a day passes without a police, without They did over sixty years still to run. embassy. The explanation was critical.
Every night about two o'clock the Cecil Clementi, former simple. He had arranged polo sleep, without food, without closing price of American cotton is raid or a scuffle and murdors are flashed over the air. To-day it was common. The authorities are trying Governor, stressed the impor-matches between his staff and news-but they prevailed.
11.03. The gamble is on the "three hard to fight the evil, but with their Trotsky was the first War of permanent British Voroshilov's Red cavalry, who tance
Every speculator knows the open-present powers have a hopeless task. 1 act out the other night to see control of the lensed area in his made. up in lusty enthusiasm Commissar. Frunze, who suc- ing figure. Yesterday it was 11.02. for myself "What is the closing recent address before the Royal what they lacked in finesse. The ceeded him, died under an un. And he have double and trebleson figure tonight I asked my driver.
You can have double Empire Society in London. He ice was broken,
successful
Stalin closing and another
anonimentis & flotan gambling you think?" I asked the
or just speculative gombling opened the door. "Five," he replied, mill-hand, bazany with a look of knowing contempt for Every coolle
bit on Hundreds of systems are worker, taxi-man and waiter has his the driver. And so it went on.
Sir
laid emphasis on the fact that Voroshilov is a real son of the appointed the youthful Voro the island and the mainland are people. He has herded cattle shilov to succeed him. indissolubly one. Sir
Cecil and laboured in the mines of He has not been a failure. appears to have had particular- his native Lugansk-starting at Thanks largely to him Soviet
in mind the necessity of the age of seven. He was 12 permanent control of the New when he learnt to read, and, Territories from the standpoint very soon after that he was a of assuring the defence of the confirmed Communist, an 'agi- island, but doubtless he also tator, a rash adventurer who realised the larger implications
involved in the geographical
position of the Colony in rela-NOTES OF THE DAY
tion to general Empire defence.
It is this aspect of the matter
upon which our Singapore con- SERVICE REWARDED
temporary largely based its ob-
servations, and it is without
came
ap-
to
Congratulations will be general- question the one which would ly extended to Sir Thomas Southern weigh most with the Imperial on his promotion to the Governor- authorities. There is a sugges- ship of Gambia, which fittingly tion, in Sir Cecil Clementi's rounds off a colonial career extend- remarks, that the issue should ing over a period of more than be adjusted as between Britain thirty years. Sir Thomas first and the Canton authorities, but, entered the Empire's service as far slender as the ties are which back na 1903, when he was link Canton with Nanking, it pointed to Ceylon, and here he re- mained for over twenty years, would appear to be essentially serving the Colony in, many and a matter for the Foreign Office varied positions. He to take up with the Central Hongkong in 1920 as Colonial Government. Canton would, of Secretary, the right-hand man of course, come into the picture, the Governor, and has ever since and, in view of the community held that post. He has thus put of outlook and interest between in many years of arduous and res the two centres, there is.no rea-ponsible work in Hongkong, and It Is of interest to note that, with son to assume that obstacles would be encountered.
the exception of the late Sir Claud In a
Severn, ho has acted an Omeer few years' time, this Colony will Administering the Government on be celebrating its centenary. It more occasions than any other of- would therofore be most |ficial in the service of the Colony. appropriate were negotiations Apart from his official carcer, Sir to be set in train well in advance Thomas has won much popularity: of that event, with a view to furamongst all sections of the com- ther cementing the relations munity by reason of his urbanity between the two countries by the and his social qualities. His de conclusion of a mutually Batls-parture will be widely regretted, as also will be that of Lady Southorn, factory agreement covering the whose good works are so well point under notice.
known to all.
"Seven,
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
in
"I told him if he ever kept me walling again I'd do something horrible. What do you think it ought to bo?"
there
What do
ked the poon who
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Round about two o'clock the aceme was like the start of a big race. The "bookies" busily took last-minute beta, and balanced up. The crowds
Bizo
nad excitement. Than prevent Jobs." Suddenly in the dis- tance I saw the crowd surge towards a corner. I could see by standing up in the car a thin, under-sized paper- and flashes of white as his svares were snatched from him. Teen," (three) was shouted down the street. Some smiled and laughed and shouted. And most looked glum and
is a close-down to'
boy,
"Teen"
pat,
So widespread is this last digit bet ting that now, during the day when there is the long wait till the Ameri can result comes through--you nee small knots of men at the street corners betting on last figure of the first taxi number-plate to pass after a certain time.
Crime is, of course, on the increase as a direct result. So and so lost 300 rupees and the lobe of his edir," began a report of a polico case the other day, Thore are scores of stab bing cases and murders. Fines on gaming houses are ridiculously low and only occasionally are the prin- cipals caught. Somo "gutta" makers actually form companies with high-sounding titles like "The Ameri- Somu Co." can Cotton Investment
and when just lurk at street corners. moved on write their telephone num- bers in chalk on the pavement,
book.
With this social evil rampant it is. regrettable to rupert that some of the socially highest in the town join- ed to help the Quetta Relief Fund by solling numbered programmes for. concert and that to certain selected numbers money prizes were attached. The police said this scheme was legal which may be one of the reasONA why Bombay smalles at their efforts to put down "autta" gambling,
"My boayer has just told, mò that to-morrow's figure la "eight." the odds nine to one I'll risk my daily rupee.
With