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HARD FACTS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The damnosa hærédits of Com- munist propaganda is still a cause for constant. anxiety even in Eng- land, where all the conditions pre- Results of Ten Years of cedent to the French and Russian upheavals are lacking; but the world revolution so earnestly pro- moted from Moscow seems farther off than ever,

Bolshevism.

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COURT POSES.

GIVING CONSENT TO A MARRIAGE.

AN "INVIDIOUS TASK."

"From the economic standpoint} -and it is from this angle that Mr. H. G. A. Bingley, Maryle- "Ten years ago to-day the Rus-Bolshevism, which ia primarily an bone magistrate, in giving his stan Revolution broke out in Petro- economic doctrine, must ultimately consent to the marriage of a grad. Three days later, on March be judged-the failure of the youth of 19, and he regretted 16, 1917, the last of the Tsara, the Soviet system has proved even more that the invidious task of over- ill-fated Emperor Nicholas II, aban- complete. Although since the riding the views of the boy's doned his throne, and a provisional complete collapse of 1921 there, has natural guardians should have Government was set up," said the been a certain improvement in been put upon magistrates by the "Times" in a leader in mail week, economic conditions, this change Guardianship of Infants Act. adding that it is at length passi has at every turn been achieved ble to survey the events of the last simply and solely by the abandon- ten years in some sort of historical ment of Bolshevist principles. perspecive. What did the Bol shevist revolution set out to do and what has it actually accomplished?" and in answering this the "Times" goes on to state-

"The avowed purpose of Lenin was the complete destruction of the State as such. The French appeal to the peoples of Europe was mere- ly a by-product of the revolution; but the Communist world revolu tion is, na Trotsky has repeatedly stated, the essential condition of the success of Bolshevism, which

aima not merely at the reconstruc- tion of the political maching but at the complete transformation of the ethical and economie basis of human society by means of uni- versul eluss war

Before the court were Martin and Charlotte Schutz, of Chalcott The New Policy, a Deathblow.

crescent, Regent's Park, who "The New Economic Policy, were, summoned by their son, initiated by Lenin himself and since Cecil Stuart Schutz, a clerk and extended by Stalin, which has per- teacher of foreign languages,, to mitted the peasant to dispose of his show why the court should not produce to private persona and to give consent to his marriage to hire labourers to work his land, has Ella France Hatai, a girl of 21, In fact proved the deathblow to living at Gloucester Crescent, Communism in Russia, and has con- Camden Town.

fronted the Soviet Government with The defendants stated at the: the paradoxien task of attempting previous hearing that they ob to found a Communist State in ajected to the marriage partly be country peopled by more than a cause of the boy's health and hundred million pensant lease principally because of his im- holders. Nor has the complete elimination of the private capitalist providence. proved any more feasible,

It is a

The son, recalled, stated that "Although two-thirds of the the combined earnings of his "On the political side the Bolshe-means of private production has intended wife and himself were vists aimed at the complete elimi-bean nationalised, the merchant £6 a week.

Mr. Bingley asked why they nation of the aristocracy and the and the small manufacturer, in bourgeoisie and the setting up of a spite of crushing taxation, have could not wait until he was 21, so-called 'dictatorship of the pro-managed to maintain a precarious as his parents wished. letariat' which was to embody a but persistent livelihood.

The son replied that they could fundamentally new conception of significant fact that (according to save faster for a home when political society. The destructive a statement made at the seventh

married. part of the programme was per-Congress of Russian trade uniona The father said he could not formed with a thoroughness at last December) the workers were which the world still stands aghast, buying 60 to 80 per cent. of their give his consent until his boy was but the 'dictatorship of the prole foodstuffs from private traders, in a position to build up a home. tariat has proved to be nothing Moreover, the whole apparatus, of The girl was alsó recalled, and more original than the tyranny of a 'capitalist' economics, with its said she had saved. nothing. smail Communist clique.

banks, trusts and managers, has Asked if they proposed to take At What a Coat.

been restored under the cumber- a furnished room, she replied: "Peasant and artisan alike have some control of an Inefficient "We shall take two or three exchanged one form of absolutism | bureaucracy.

rooms." for another incomparably more op- "Even the mid of the private for. pressive; and at what a cost, not merely of human life, but also of physical and moral degradation, The old bourgeoisie has indeed van. Ished, but only to be aucceeded by a new class of officials and of weal thier, or rather less indigent, pea sants and small traders, 28 result of the concessions extorted by economic necessity from the pure theory of Cummunism.

"And the world revolution has been a dismal failure. Though a world-wide spirit of unrest, was sedulously, fostered, and in a few countries, like Hungary, Commun- iam temporarily gained the upper hand, the foundations of society have proved equal to the strain.

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Mr. Bingley: You speak very vaguely, but you will not be in at position to keep a Buckingham Palace of this money.

"Well, we will say two rooms.". she replied.

eign capitalist has been solicited, and in the year 1925-26 no fewer than fourteen new concessions were granted to German firma. These modifications of Communiat practice have been extorted from the Soviet Government only under Asked why they could not wait the experience of the direst priva- another year, she answered that tion. In spite of the enormous neither of them was in a very effort which has been made to in-comfortable position at home, crease production, the general and they would be better off standard of living is far below the together. miserably inadequate level 1913.

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"Even according to official figures the yield of agriculture, after the good harvest, of 1926, is barely 90 Continued at foot of next column

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Mr. Bingley, giving his decl- sion, said it seemed to him an extraordiary responsibility to put upon magistrates to ask them to. override the decisions and 'views of the parents of young people in such a matter. The Act did |not give the magistrates any help or direction in coming to a deci- sion. Dealing with the parents' objections, Mr. Bingley said the young couple's combined income would be £800 a year, so that! from that point of view there was no valid objection to the mar riage. The parents also said the boy was unstable. Of course het was at his age; and as for his stopping out late at night-he was courting his girl. As he could not see any valid objection to the marriage, he gave his con- sent, and said he only hoped that the young couple would be happy.

EGYPTIAN CABINET CRISIS.

Cairo, April 19.

The Cabinet has resigned fol- lowing an adverse vote of the Chamber which rejected a vote of thanks to the Government in con- nection with the support afforded to the Bank of Misr, founded four years ago to encourage purely Egyptian national Reuter.

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per cent, while Industrial produc tion has scarcely reached more than 70 per cent of the pre-war level. A reliable estimate places the total product of Russian Industry in the year: 1925-26 at 4,625,000,000 roubles, as compared with rather more than 7,000,000,000, roubles: In 1918. NOAA VAL

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