THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
·FEBRUARY ́: 6, 1937.
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Defence Of Russia: Reply To Critics
ATTACKS AGAIN ASSUME GUISE
OF RELIGION
By A. J. CUMMINGS
London, Jan. 30.
I would be interesting to discover what force there is behind the anti-Russian propaganda which is begin- ning to reappear in the British Press and on the British platform.
And what is the reason for it?
The attacks on Russia are now assuming a religious guise. One had supposed this phase of the anti-Soviet complex, to be at
an end.
But "godless Russia" is be coming once again the favourite theme of a certain type of par- son and politician.
In his recent. broadcast address calling the nation hack to religion, the Archbishop of Canterbury gave the discussion an impetus by denouncing the "aggressive atheism" of the Soviets and their "anti-Christian doctrine" of class-warfare, "REINFORCED!"
Writing from the ecclesiastical scelusion of the Athenarum Club, Sir Arthur Page reinforced the Arch- letter point of view in bishop's prominently displayed 137
the Times
recently.
Sir Arthur Page's letter deserves, 1 think, some attention since reflects so well the confusion and ignorance which exist on the subject of our re- Intions with the new Russin,
In this astonishing production, Sir
tlans (of whom, I hope, Sir Arthur Page was one) pledged their names a year ago,
It was not "godless" Russin but Christian Italy which broke ita solemn word and murdered a helpless fellow neatur of the League. PRIESTS' MONEY
It is not "godless" Russin, but a still normally Christian Germany Which threatens the peace of Europe
to-day.
And it is the money of the priests, supported by the Christian Govern- ments of ilerlin and Rome, which has helped to inspire and prolong bloody rebellion In Spain agalust the people's Government. One may remind Sir Arthur Page also that the Archbishop himself could not avoid drawing attention to the "more insidious menace" in Ger- many and Italy, where even in the name of religion the idols of Race and State are usurping the supremacy of
Christ,"
ACID TEST
Is it the view of Sir Arthur Page Arthur advances the jumbled argu-and those who think like him ment that if the Archbishop's plea
the is ta xucceed we must say good-bye that we should have avoided
"iniquity" of a gentleman's pact with Soviet Russia.
Italy: and that we should refuse even to debate with the German Govern- ment, whose philosophy has certainly "usurped the supremacy of Christ," such questions as un agreement to limit armaments or to bring back: Germany to
League?
An alliance, he says, between Christian Britain und {1 repentant" Russia would cause us to drift to "eluctable disaster." DANGER?
He sees the danger of our being
drawn into war on the side of the U.S.S.R., whose undisguised policy is not only to root out Christianity, but "obliterate moral standarda upon to which the British Commonwealth was founded."
con-
"No Individual_or_nation," -tinues this profound Athenaeum moralisi, "cun shake hands with in- quity without, in the long run, suffer- Ing degradation and punishment."
Indeed, Sir Arthur regards it as no "mere inconsequence" of Britain's welcome
to Itussia, on her admission to the Lengue, that "since that de claration of friendship, our foreign relations have become progressively unstable and involved."
Finally, he clinches the matter, to his own immense ⚫ satisfaction, by pointing out as "a fundamental and a platitude" that Christians and anti- christ go ill together.
It would be difficult to put together, in so short- a ̄ ̄space, ̈¤ greater farrago of pletistic non- sense.
to the Surely, according to Sir Arthur Page's thesis, this would be to shake: bands with the devil.
I fail to sec, also, how Sir Arthur would permit us to go on collaborat- ing with the non-Christian people of India, or
with the multitudinous tribes of our Colonial Empire, who out-heathen the Russians.
It is time we abandoned for ever the bumbugging pretence that we cannot have decent
with Soviet Russia until Stalin has signed
relations the Thirty-Nine. Articles or officially proclaimed his reattachment to the Church Rasputin adorned.
The British Government, at all events, gave up the pretence, if was ever seriously entertained in Downing Street, when In 1935 Mr. Eden went to Moscow and signed with M. Litvinov an Instrument de- fining the common peace interests of the British and Russian Govern-
ments. Russia, in fact, went "godless," not because of the innate wickedness of The suggestion that our foreign re-her Bolshevik revolutionary lenders, Jations have deteriorated because but because it was the almost inevit- "godless" Russia joined the League of able reaction from the greed, cruelty, Peace is about as faritastically irrele- and vile corruption of the Orthodox vant as to say that the sun shines in Russian Church under the Czars, Italy when it is Wednesday over here. TRUE, BUT
Sir Arthur Page does not give a single fact in support of his ridi- eulous assertion. NEARER HOME
if he could lift his gaze for a moment from the repulsive spectacle of godless Russia and look a good deal closer home he might discover a much more real and obvious explant- tion of the deplorable breakdown of our foreign policy.
It is a sufficient commentary on his distorted vision that the nation from which he recolis in horror is one of the few great Powers, if not the only. one, which, in these last two or three perilous years, has
pursued steadfastly the cause of
peace and collective security through the League the cause to which cleven million British Chris-
The reaction was violent and it was accompanied by many terrible ex-
cesses.
Sincere Christians all over the world were affronted, not only by such excesses, but by the cynical revolution in the early days mocked at religion as "the capitalist'a dope." It is undoubtedly true that in the early days the Bolsheviks perse cuted large numbers of priests and their faithful followers in the con- viction that religious practices and counter-revolutionary activities were synonymous terms. But a change for the better has taken place.
As the new regime became more firmly established more tolerance was shown in matters of religious con- selence.
He Has £2,000,000 To Spend
LONDON, JAN. 30.
THE MAN WHO HAS £2,000,000 TO SPEND IS BEING SNOWED UNDER WITH SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW TO SPEND IT.
He is slim-built, greyish-haired, spectacled, 40-year-old Mr. L. P. Lord, newly-appointed manager of Lord Nuffield's £2,000,000 Trust Fund to aid the special areas.
Although the office of the Nuffield Trust will not be opened until to-morrow Mr. Lord pointed out to a reporter that they nlready had a hard-worked wastopaper basket.
"Some people have the idea that the money is to be given nway. That is absurd. It is to bo invested in Industry in the distressed areas-to start it up arkin.
"We have sound schemes, and
Channel Bid
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Spring Cleaning For
The Coronation
Hongkong buildings are already receiving their spring cleaning for the
Coronation. This photo was taken in Ice House Street.
PROBES CAUSE.
OF EPIDEMIC
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results, while subsequent tests proved positive for Shiga.
on
deaths were Seven of the eight those of children who were attacked with symptoms
November 1. The remaining child who was attack- ed on November 16, was on infont son of the Chinese house-boy engaged in one of the houses where two children had died of dysentery. Infant had been given the clothes of the deceased European infants and it is surmised that this was a case of carriage of infection through infected clothing.
IMMEDIATE PRECAUTION
BIG POST OFFICE SURPLUS
HIGHEST RECORDED IN HISTORY
London, Feb. 5. The General Post Office had the largest surplus in its history at the end of 1936. It amounted to £12.
500,000.
The increase is due to improvement The
in business by commercial and in- dustrial enterprises.-Reuter Bulletin Service.
The Report discloses that the only -dairy-in-Hongkong containing à the Dairy pasteurisation plant is Farm, which promptly Instituted pastcurisation of all milk and cream immediately it became known that there was a possiblity that milk was the source of infection.
"The other dairies, not having posteurising plants, were unable to adopt this measure of safety," Dr. Wellington states in his Report.
All of the 24 cases taken on November 8 and 9 drew their milk from the Dairy Farm, and almost all had consumed "Nursery MUR", differing from ordinary milk in that the butter fat content was raised. This milk was prepared and bottled at the Pokfulam depot.
The Government Bacteriologist re- ported that pasteurisation showed a marked difference in the bacterial unpasteurised count. While raw,
milk contained 102,000 organisms per cubic centimetre, the pasteurised product contained only 700 per cubic centimetre, a result "which easily the milk) within brought it (the
fur standard requlfed in England Grade A pasteurised milk.
EMPLOYEES EXAMINED
A total of 113 stools of Dairy Farm. employees were collected by the Bacteriological Institute. None gave a positive reaction for Bacteria dysenteries of Shiga.
Eight stools, however, gave positive reactions for one or other of the types of Bacteria dysenteries grouped under the name of Flexner, which is by far the most common form of dysentery in Hongkong, according to Government Bacteriological examina- tions since 1934. This type is as u rule comparatively mild, and cases which receive proper treatment early usually recover.
Of the eight Dairy Farm workers who gave positive reactions, three were milkers, two were bottlers and three were ice cream workers.
The eight men were immediately relieved from their duties, and their places were taken by other ployees who had given negative reactions.
em-
Dairy Farm may fairly be described, as a high class institution where. speelat precautions are taken to produce a clean milk," the Direc tor of Medical Services says in his Appendix on Conditions at the Dalry
at full speed. Discussions have to swimmer, one of a number of Farm.
take place with two
Government departments
scheme does not end
от
three Indian women athletes who will
"Lord Nuffield's the bo-visiting-Britain for the first sanitary cowsheds. All are subjected
Weekly meetings of the trustees of
gift. time next May, is to attempt to He is taking a lively interest in swim the Channel. everything that is being done."
'An Indian women's cricket team the fund-Lord Portal, Mr. Secbohra will also necompany' the athletes. Rowntree, and Mr. Nigel Campbell They will play British women's teams are planned.
In England,
"There are 1,200 cows housed in
the to routine Veterinary Surgeon, and all are
examination by
tuberculin tested. Special care is taken in washing and sterilising.
"Altogether it can be said that the milk is handled in a sanitary manner from the cow to the consumer," "and" would be called Grade A at home,
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· FLIES INVADE PLANT
"With regard to flies there 'can be no doubt that at times the farm depot is heavily infested with these insects. The Pasteurisation plant, the cooling plant and the bottling plant are in what is usually described as fly proof rooms, but flies do find entrances and do settle sometimes on the cleaned cooling plant and on the cleaned and sterilised bottles and on the bottling machine.
The Company place the blame for the flies on the Pokfulam village on the opposite side of the road-a collection of huts or small houses occupied by pig keepers and market gardeners.
"From time to time for the last 18 years this village has been · proved 10 breed fles,
"The Sanitary Department, on the other hand, have proved that the manure pits of the Dairy Farm itself are fruitful breeding places for flies. "Action is being taken by the bring an Sanitary Department to abatement of the nuisance."
PASTEURISATION URGED
Presenting the case for pasteurisa- tion of milk, Dr. Wellington states: "Attempts by sanitary authorities to obtain a clean milk solely through supervision of production and dis- tribution have everywhere failed.
"In practice it has been found im- possible to exercise the control over detail which necessary to ensure freedom from contamination.
"The milk sold in some towns may be cleaner than that sold in others, but in no clly is uncertified milk safe for consumption unill it has been subjected to come process of steri- lisation.
"Reallsing this, the authorities of Toronto, New York and many other rities have decreed that no mille shall be sold unless It be certified or sterilised by pasteurisation or other- wise.
generally admitted that the of milk contamination are less in a dairy which employs educated Europeans then in one which employs uneducated Chines The rise in Toronto are therefore less than in the Hongkong Dairy Farm, and very much less than in most of the smalt dairies in the Colony.
"If it is necessary to safeguard the purity of milk in Toronto by com- pulsory pasteurisation, 11 13 many times thore necessary in. Hongkong. "Compulsory pasteurisation of ali locally produced inille Is recom- mended.
Dr. Wellington reveals That, although dysentery is not listed as a notißablo disease" In Great Britain, India, Malaya or Hongkong. It is list ed ná such in New Zealand, in certain provinces of Canada and Australia, in Germany, France, Panama, Japan, Nanking, Pelping and Shanghai.
Nouncation of dysentery ALB n disease is recommended in the Report.
RADIO BROADCAST
A Short Recital Of Maori Songs
WALES V.
SCOTLAND
Radio Frogramme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.c's.), 31.10 metres (9.32 me's.).
IL.K.T.
12.30-2.15 p.m. European Pro-
gramme.
12.30 Marek Weber and His Or- chestra.
1 Time and Weather.
1.03 Mantovani and Orchestra.
His Tipica
1.30 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements;
1.40 A Variety Programme. 2.15 Close Down,
4-7 p.. Chinese Programme.
p.m.-12.15 nm. European Pro-
gramme.
7 Light Russian Melodies. Gipsy longing (Kempner); Sorrow- ful-Waltz (Schwartz); Placi tigan,
Romante Rondo ♫ Ju Turko
(Mozart); The Volga Bontman; On
River; tle Volgo
Czar Iván (arr. Maurice Igor);
or). The Ballad of the 12 Brigands: Russian Soldier's song.... Michail Gitowsky (Bass).
7.30 Hongkong: Exchange Market Report und Stock Exchange Sum- mary.
733 The New Mayfair Orches
tra.
"Bow Bells"-Selection (Sullivan); Songa Everybody is Singing; Memo- ries of Horatio Nicholls; Medley of James Tate's songs.
8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and Announcements.
8.03 Variety.
Humorous-Huntin'....Elsie und Doris Waters; Plano Solos-Charlie Kunz Piano Medley, No. R. 23..... Charlie Kunz: Vocal-This Year of Theatreland,
and, 1936...Janet Lind and Webster Booth; Vocal-No Regrets, Miracles sometimes happen....Leslie
མ་ Hutchinson; Vocal-Carroll Gibbona
Vocal feather in Birthday Parly:
Gracie Fields; her Tyrolean hat..... Instrumental--Mile-or-me Bird Rag Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings: Vocal-A fine romance...Fred Astaire; Accordion-The whistler and
his
dog......George Scott-Wood;
and
onesonic
Humorous-Another day's Broad- casting.....Clapham
Dwyer; Jonesome Vocal-The trail of the pine....The Hill Ellies; Orchestra-
It's love again"--Film Selection. Louis Levy and
non.... British Symphony. Vocri- Medley of songs from Shirley Temple Pictures.... Mae Questal; Plano Duet-Waltz memories from Vienna, Schubert Time....Rawicz and Landauer,
0.15 London--News And An- nouncements.
9.35 London-A short Recital of Maori Songs by Elleen Driscoll New Zealand Soprano: Hoca Ra (Piri pala), Puhihula (Mari Hamutana), Tahi mei Taru Kino (Piripala) and Tararata Kita-(Alfred-Hill);
9.45
pany.
The Light Opera Com.
"The Quaker Girl"-Vocal Gems (Monckton); (a) Honeysuckle and the bee (Kapps-Fitz), (b) If you want to know the time ask a police- man (Burando-Rogers); (c) Sweet Genevieve (Tucker), (d) At Trinity Church (Gilbert).
10 p.m. London-Big Ben.
A Relay of Dance Music from the Grill-Room of the Hongkong Hotel.
London-Wales v. Scotland: 11.25
national
A running commentary on the Match
by
Football
The
Captain H. B. T. Walselam, from St. Helen's Ground, Swansea, broadcast will comprise a summary of the first half of the game, and a running commentary on the second.
12.15 am. Close Down.
SUNDAY'S BROADCAST
A Sacred Recital By Molly Portallion
R. U. R. BAND PROGRAMME
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.c's.), 31.40 metres (0.52_c.c's.).
ILK.T.
10.30 a.m.
A Relay of the Morn- ing Service from the Union Church. 11.30 am. A Relay of the Morn- ing Service from the Hop Yat Church (Chinese)..
12.15.2.30 p.m. European Pro-
gramme.
12.15 p.m. Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (Dvorak), played by Arthur Schnabel, (Pianoforte) and the Pro Arte Quartet,
...
12.48 Four Light Songs by Tino Rossi (Tenor).
1. Colombella (De Pierlas-Fer- nay); 2. Reviens Cherie (Cyrleroy, Gardoni and Patruno); 3. C'est n Capri (Nazelles and Grosz); 4. Le Chaland qui passe (de Badet and Bixlo).
I p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 The London Symphony Orchestra,
Concerto for Orchestra in D (with
Night- Organ), (Handel); May Overture (Rimsky-Korsakov); Love of the Three Oranges (Prokofieft).
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