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UNDER THE SOVIETS.

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EVIDENCE OF HOLLOW "INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY.”

HOSTILITY OF MASSES.

It is true that in Russia to-day there are few workmen (I do not,

Russia."

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tion. responsible for all the real or imaginary crimes of the Bolsheviks, This being so, there is nothing ex- traordinary in the fact that in the course of

BRITISH TROOPS.

THE CHINA GARRISON CHANGES

LAST MONTH.

STATISTICS OF WEATHER IN MAY.

The

The

from Egypt-Reuter.

events the Bolshevika TO BENEFIT OXFORD. were able to absorb the majority of the most active amongst the work- ing masses into the apparatus of their dictatorship.

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Importance of Being a Communist

ENDOWMENT: FUND FROM

RHODES SCHOLARS.

New York-Plans are being con- sidered here to provide a trust fund for the benefit of Oxford Uni-

HOTTEST AND COOLEST.

THE CHINA MAIL,

KING PREMPEH. STORY OF HIS CHAMPAGNE LUNCHEON.

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ARMED GUARD.

REPORTED THREATS ON JUDGE.

COURT PRECAUTIONS.

I have written to My. Justice Avory, assuring him that I did not write the threatening letter and that I had no knowledge that such a let- ter bad been written.

·CHINA'S ORDEAL.

LURE OF NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM.

THE IDEAL

(By Dr. David Yul, National Secretary

of the YM.CA. In China)

There are two appeals to youth in China to-day. Broadly, they may be termed Nationalism and

their country and the service of In common with the mankind. whole of the vast country, the thoughts and Ideals of youth are in a state of chaos, but these two ap- peals remain.

The situation in China is exceed ingly confusing, not only to you who are at a distance, but to us who are on the spot. I must confess to you that things are developing in such a way that at times one feels it will be difficult to and a way out. China presents at the present time

Revolution.

We are going through the most gigantic revolution that the world has ever known. It affects the social, educational, moral, constitu- tional, political and religious as pects of Chinese life. In addition, we are involving ourselves in in creasingly complex international re- lations.

MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1928.

democratic and. eficient Govern- 'ment (for China is, and always has been, a democratic country), Its further... alms, are to revise all treaties with foreign Powers, plac- ing China definitely upon a plane of equally and reciprocity; and to raise the level of morality and edu- cation amongst the masses.

This, then, is the ambitious pro- gramme of the young people of China, and they have already set to work in a practical manner.

At least a comparative degree of education for China's enormous number of literates is the first goal to be attained. It is bitterly true that to a country's welfare there: la no danger so great as

A mass uneducated democracy. education campaign, therefore, has heen inaugurated under the aegis of the Y.M.C.A., and a system evolved whereby 1,000 of China's common- eat characters may be easily learnt. The movement is divided into two groups, one for adults and another for children.

ON TELEPHONE.

MURDER HEARD OVER- WIRE.

A CASHIER'S CRY.

Berlin. A dramatic but unavail- ing. call for help was heard on the telephone by

o giri operator on the Berlia exchange. She was rung up from the Avas motor-track outside Berlin, and heard somebody calling out "Help!"

The cry was followed by the sound of revolver shots.

She immediately advised the nearest polles station, and · police. cara dashed out to the scene, only to find. Wilhelm Sellenthin, the cashier of the track, lying dead in a pool of blood and with several The bullet wounds in the head. till had been robbed of about £100.

Reuter.

A SHORTER BIBLE.

A "HEARTY DISPUTE” IN PROGRESS.

A REDUCTION.

London, Saturday,

The 3rd was the "coolest" day Detectives, reported to be arm Seven battalions of the China Inst month when the minimum ed, were present in the Court of of course, speak of the Commun- Garrison are going Home next win temperature recorded at the Criminal Appeal. These officers ists, we believe that the dictator-ter and five battalions are expect Royal Observatory was 68.9 de- have been detalled to guard Mr. ship of the Communist party is theed to be sent out as relief, thus grecs. The "hottest days were Justice Avory in consequence of an antatorship of the proletariat. On a reduction of strength is for the 23rd and 24th when the mean anonymous communication sent to Internationalism-the saving of the contrary, the barrier between shadowed for 1929 and the garri temperature was 82.7 degrees. "them and "us" grows more and son will be almost entirely changed The highest maximum recorded him towards the close of the trial more evident to the Russian work- by the adoption of the principle during the month, however, was of Kennedy and Browne at the Old

of short tour service in China. on the 25th, being 88.5 degrees. Bailey recently. And that is natural ing class,

Obviously written in a disgulaed units withdrawing from The mean temperature, for the Nevertheless the Govern- the enough:

hand, the letter contained a threst Shanghai Defence Force whole month was 77.4 degrees. ment is not looked upon as though include the First North Hants,

No sunshine was recorded on to the effect that his lordship it were something not of the Rus-Second Welch Regiment, Second gix days out of the thirty-one, "did not get Kennedy off," it would sian people, writes a "Wanderer in Suffolks, First Bedfordshire and these being the 2nd, 18th, 26th, "be the worse for him." Without Herts who go to Malta, Singapore, 29th, 30th, 81st. The total num- being shown to his lordship, the The masses were not the main India and India respectively. ber of hours during which the missive was sent to Scotland Yard, motive force at the beginning of

and detectives were instructed lo second Staffords from sun shone was 198,9, the Bolshevik seizure of power, yet Shorncliffe, First Norfolks from Rainfall was recorded as foll- watch over him. So discreet was in the course of the struggle to save Egypt, Second Wiltshires from In-lows:--

the "guard" that Mr. Justice Avory the achievements of the Revolution dia are going to Shanghal.

Days Inches himself was unaware of it.

Under this system many of the 18.41 The first East Yorks, will go to At the Observatory. 20 the destiny of the masses was close-

Two detectives sat in the body of a pleture so vast and complicated Univeralty, Junior College and ly allied to that of the Bolshevik India from Tientsin and be reller Botanical Gardens...20 19.13 the Court and. It wad be that the most experienced politician | Middle School students are making lieved that two more were in the I would hesitate to analyse or con- themselves the responsible and dictatorship in so far as the coun-ed by the first Somersets from Matilda Hospital

The first Queen's Royal (Mount Kellett) 18 16.72public gallery. Later in the day, ¡jecture. The disintegration ter-revolutionaries of all shades Egypt.

of voluntary teachers of a number of fought under the anti-Bolshevik flag Regiment are going to Malta from Taipo police station 19 13.61

when the Court was sitting as a China is in process, the old civiliza-fititorate people.

The suggestion made at recent The lowest reading of the baro-King's Bench Divisional Court, and tion is passing; and my own feel. and made the Russian Revolution Hong Kong, the second Scots

Modern Miss Chlua,

meetings that this generation itself and the Russian working Guards to London while the second meter at mean sea level was there was no one present who could ing is that, before a better state of

And what of the position of wants a shorter Bible has roused then the carries of this Revolu- Royal Scots will go to Hong Kong 29,664 inches at 5 p.m. on the not easily be identified, the guard affairs can be brought about that

rith

left the court, but was still main- disintegration will have to complete women in China to-day? For it is many friends and enemies. We The maximum squall velocity

itself with the utmost thorough-indeed true that no nation can hope read of preachers thundering was 42 miles per hour at 9.08 fained in the gallery.

Mrs. Kennedy, wife of the con- ness. That is to say, things may to rise above the standard of its against it, while others appeal for p.m. on the 1st of the month.

have to be a great deal worse in womanhood. Since the establish- further revision as well as selec tion and abbreviation, and Sir Other "means" for the month demned man, said:

China before they can become bet- ment of universal suffrage in 1926, Arthur Quiller-Couch tells us that were:-humidity 86 per cent.

all doors, have been open to women "at the present moment every- cloudiness 78 per cent., barometer

❘ter.

in China. They have taken their thing is done to make the Bible (at mean sea level) 29.83 inches.

place in Parliament, in the Diplo repellent," so much he dislikes matic Services, in Law, and in all the usual way of printing it and other professions according to their the division into chapter and I have also made it clear to him

ability. So far, indeed, their op verse The very heartiness of The N. E. P. (New Economic

that, although I am still firmly con-

portunities have proved to be great the dispute and the number who Policy, which was introduced under

vinced that my husband had

er.

than thoir abilities, but have plunged into it offer signi pressure from the peasantry, veralty.

nothing whatever to do with the

there is no doubt that time and ex-ficant evidence of the interest brought a psychological change. Three former Rhodes scholars,

actual shooting of Police-constable

perience will enable them to stand, which the English people still a New The work of restoring Russian in-Messrs. Franklin Russell,

Gutteridge, yet I was tremendously

in all things, on an equality with take in the Bible, but we might dustry was accompanied by an un-York attorney, Henry Moe, secre

have more light without so much exampled exploitation of labour.tary of the Guggenheim Fonda (By Capt. Victor Cazslot, M.P. impressed with his (the judge's)

There is, serious de. heat. For very many years it has "Rationalisation" In the West Euro- tion, and Carroll Wilson are the who recently visited West Africa scrupulous fairness throughout the pean sense simply does not ex-leaders of a proposal to establish in company with Mr. J. H. Thomas, trial, and, indeed, the fairness of must not allow ourselves to be con- fect in le, however, one ferrous, in been possible to buy Bibles which fused or terrified by the multipli- China to-day. In some schools, the do not disturb a reader of Sir ist in Russia-the technical and ad- in the United States a Rhodes and paid a call with him on King all those connected with it.

Prempeh, the Ashanti King, who

As the result of inquiries It was city of detail which this revolution curriculum is almost identical with Arthur Quiller-Couch's suscepti ministrative leadership is far too Scholarship Alumni Association, to corrupt and dishonest to allow of provide means by which 600 or 700tion in 1896 and reinstated in his conviction would be entered on rather endeavour to view the situa- domestic arts are insufficiently em- is printed and bound like any

was deposed by a British Exped! ascertained that an appeal against puts before our eyes. We must that in schools for boys. The bilities by.verse divisions,

the reader prefers a Bible which such a thing. The working class Rhodes men here, and other well-

behalf of Kennedy. Among the tion as a whole, and to think of the phasized. Women so educated are other book, that also has long gradually came to the conviction wishers of the British University,

grounds was to be that the case was happenings around us in terms of apt to acquire extravagant tastes been made for him. And, finally, that it had committed a political may give or bequeath money to

Oxford. error somehow and somewhere, and

Their standard abridgements or volumes of selec that the Government does not real-

{Browne and Kennedy were sub-may we preserve sanity and a sense for home-making.

of balance. "'.

of living is much beyond their in- tions from the Bible. grant a separate trial. sequently executed.]

1. What effect is the revolution

The loud objections which have having on youth? Naturally, it la

The result is that both young been made need not now be taken MURDERED PARENTS. psychologically disturbing. Many women and young men of this type as an afirmation that every page of the old accepted belief and hesitate to marry and prefer a free of Scripture is of equal value. In Glasgow High Court before institutions have been overthrown life without the responsibilities of There are, doubtless readers still Lord Blackburn, a

restrictions young man, Moral

have been matrimony. The consequent evils who made it a duty to leave out Divorca W18 never William Watson Malone, was slackened.

are obvious enough-and, as all the no verse in a regular daily portion charged with the murder of his easter. Youth is thinking experi- world over, it in the women who in which brings thent continually from end to end. But those who father and mother in a house in mentally and living experimentally the end suffer most heavily.

Nevertheless it is to Youth that denounce a shortened Bible as "a. Commercial-road, Glasgow, on Feb. --something with disastrous re-

China must turn for. salvation, and new Bible" are not to be con- Bewildered and intoxicated with Youth makes mistakes, they are strued as insisting that the Gos- dom, not a few of the young men experimental thinking is honest, of the same power in the modern and women of China are rushing to and must inevitably lead them ul world. Most of them would readi extremes. Impossible idealism and timately to the best possible con- ly admit that selection is lawful and wise. What they fear is the intense materiallem go hand inclusions. China has arrived at a

selections of other people, and hand. But, out of the welter of

tion. She is in all kinds of way sympathy. Though the omitted putting off the old and putting on matter may be of minor import- the new with unparalleled rapidity: ance, though they might habit To those who are looking on, I ually skip much of it, still they * China's IdenL

would say that 'It is a time for the desire the background and the at- Nationalism must not be confused spirit of sympathy and anderstand, mosphere. And we suspect that with the Nationalist Partytha ing rather than that of criticism this preference for one's own

The and abuse-"Daily News and Weet judgment and one's own impres two are absolutely distinct.

sion is at least as strong in the Nationalist Movement has been mis-minster Gazette."

young as in the old. London understood and misrepresented It has been termed Bolshevistic, anti- A fine electric telechron clock has Daily Telegraph.". Christian and anti-foreign. It is just been placed in the lobby of the,

The way of evangelisin In China. not any of these things. It is an Foreign Y.M.C.A. building, Shan- ideal rather than a party. It has hai, a gift from Mr. M. J. Nathan, has been a story of tears and no leader and no organization. Its the well-known stock and share blood. Rev. F. T. Lord (Coven- aim is to unite China under the broker,

tage.

1924.]

Who would have thought that

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Experience is teaching us that we

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The Icadera of the movement quips and cranks of Mr. Snowden's Drejudiced by the judge's refusal to years rather than days. Only thus and not infrequently to prove unfit the booksellers have not lacked

heart of "Darkest Africa" 7.

Yet such is the case.

state that there is no necessity to levity would have reached to the make any urgent appeal for funds.

His taunt They believe that many Americans {' who have received the benefits of about Mr. Thomas's white shirts

champagne and

preceded who Oxford will gladly support a plan knows how?-the arrival

of that to create an endowment to be

distinguished gentleman in the used, perhaps, in providing addi-

Gold Coast. tional fellowships or as a contri bution towards new buildings at the university, or to supplement the present Rhodes endowment.

It is proposed to hold a meeting of former Rhodes scholars on June 18 at the Harvard Club, New York,

We shall never know how it was that Nana Prempeh, former King of the Ashanti, knew of Mr. Thomas's bourgeois predilections. Netheless the fact remains that at 9 o'clock in the morning on one

ly defend the intercets of labour. This process of estrangement from the Communist dictatorship has reached great intensity amongst the labouring masses. Workmen who join the Communist party nowadays are not, as the "Pravda" boasta, of the "best" On the contrary, they are the scum of the working class carcerists and "men on the make," bent en personal, gain and advan- Rut there are not many of The "hundreds and thou- sibly come "straight from the mine borated for submission to the con- had ever enjoyed, in the midst of a solemn and magnificent reception $ very distinguished ex-Cabinet Minister, the real and most im- portant ceremony of the occasion of iced champagne. solemn conclave in the parlour of Prempeh's house, we were served by little black pages with the best Perrier Jouet.

them.

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suits.

come.

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sands" of new membora who osten- when tentative plans will be ela of the hottest days the Gold Coast and Lord Blackburn issned an order an unaccustomed degree of free at least hopeful mistakes. Their pels and the book of Leviticus are

or factory" are mostly young Com-sideration of the Oxford author-given by this great native chief to munists or Communista who have itics.

"come of age" (that is to say, young Communists who have reach-

King's pleasure.

ed the age of 23) who are admitted | factory councils, trade unions, "pro-was the presentation of two bottlesed suicide more than once, and had confusion and destruction, Nation cataclysmic period in her evolu with that distrust we have much

Into the party. A self-respecting Russian proletarian nowadays does not join the Communist party, the members of which are looked upon not as "the defenders of the work ing class," but as "defenders of their own skine." The workman

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duction committees," delegates, fac- tory elections, and all the various methods of "control by the working class." Of late there have been no violations of electoral rules as there

Was it a token of honour, irony used to be. The masses now realize, out of their long and bitter or part of some intrigue engineered who does join the party is usually experience, that they cannot break and concocted by Mr. Thomas's quite frank about it—I shall get a down, the wall by dashing their opponents in the Labour Party That again we better job," he will declare, "and 1 foreheads against It, and that It in England? shall not be dismissed." This, in does not matter in the least whom shall never know.

Everything about the reception fact, is what a workman, admitted they elect-whatever they wish or to me the other day. He was one decide, it makes no difference, the was magnificent. We were even of those who had joined the Com-real decision always remains with privileged to inspect a tartle farm. munist party after the "October those who are "on top." The weari-Time alone prevented as indulging manifesto"-"I shall soon get a job ness and the apathy of the masses, our epicurean tastes in a dish of through the party Labour Ex-the monopoly of the press and of real turtle soup, change," he added; "you can wear public meetings, and the threat of out a pair of boots before you get diamissal from the factory are now one through the ordinary Labour sufficient to keep the spirit of Exchange." He had been a "young volt in bounds.

Little could Prempeh have dreamt as he langulabed-or rather as he grow stouter in detention in the Seychelles-that within short period he would be clinking glasses with an ex-Secretary of State for the Dominions, and also his former "Keeper" Sir Joseph Byrne, now | Governor of Sierra Leone,

Communist." These things are said | In times of criaia (now, for ex- aloud as though they were perfectly ample, when there is a short obvious and natural.

age of food) the workmen are allow Contemptuous Hostility. ed to feel their privileged position Another highly characteristic They receive extra rations, and

It was a good thing perhaps that thing is that there were always none except those who are employ- the reception was a private one police apie amongst his relatives; ed in the factories is admitted to and that cartoonists were excluded "A cousin of mine," he said, "has the co-operative stores.

from viewing this unique cer just joined the G. P. U.. The pay's Nevertheless, in spita of such con- emony. We have often heard of bad, but they make it up"--what cessions, the working class Is ald sorrows being drowned, In old he meant was that his cousin sup beginning to realize its true state. wine, but seldom can a national plemented his pay by accepting The Communist Opposition has blunder, such as was the Impri- bribes. And this man is typical of done a good deal in this respect. sonment and deportation of Frem- the workmen "straight from the The Opposition derived what force peh 30 years ago, have been mine or factory," who have been it had from the ever-growing dis obliterated. In a cheerful cup of trying to enter the Communist party content of the masses, who, with champagne at a time of the day during the last two or three years.faltering steps, are seeking away when moet mortals are sipping a But amongst the broad masses of out of the blind alley into which cup of coffee.

Ee Russian working class contemp- the dictatorship has thrust them. tuous hostility towards the Com- The workmen have not entirely munists is growing visibly.

MAJOR SEGRAVE.

ceased to feel that the factories, in- The vanguard of the old Labour deed Industry as a whole, äre movement has almost vanished from "theirs," but complete disillusion- Major H. O. D. Segrave, the rap- the factories: The more intelligent ment is coming, for the pressure on ing motorist, was summoned at West workmen who fought in the Great the working masses is too great, the London Police-court for driving War and in the civil wars have all conditions of labour are too hard, along New King's-road, Fulham at been absorbed by the administra- and the management of the fac- a rate of thirty-five miles an hour, ton. What remains of the older tories reveals the "employers men He did not appear, but Mr. H. R proletarians la submerged in the tality much too plainly. As for Brimt, representing him, pleaded vast mass of urban youth and of the the trade unions, they are always galley, and said that this was Mejor "villagers who have never seen or on the alde of the management. In Begrave's first conviction for ex- read anything but the fruits of Boldeed, this is where, in my opinion, ceeding the speed limit on the shevik wisdom. These do not un- the breach is widest and where the road." Cerstand the many symptoms and new awakening of the Russian The magistrate imposed a fine of

aro unable to generalize. They do

not see that, it is the dictatorship

as a system that la throtting them. Hollow “Industrial Democracy, Ostensibly "factory, democracy

working class has really begun, £400

Our trade unions do not defend us We have no organization that ra

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presents "our cinteresta" -- Such | Dora”, are heard more and more

prevails overywhere. There are often Manchester. Cuardian

A plea of insanity was sustained that Malone be detained during the Medical testimony was given that Malone was subject to insane delu- sions of persecutions, had attempt homicidal tendencies. He had been living under the delusion of receiv- ing spiritualistic messages by way of wireless down the chimney, *-

He was also firmly convinced that these messages were intercepted by certain newspapers in Glasgow. He also talked about being watched, and that things which happened in his house were written up in the

newspapers.

The doctors were of opinion that Malone had been insane for a long time, and had been living in a world of delusions.

alism has emerged. It is the faith of the whole of thinking and edu- cated China to-day.

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