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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1930.

OLD RUSSIA AND THE NEW.

SOVIET EMPLOYEES ISOLATED.

Lesson to Be Learnt from Nijni-Novgorod,

BUILDING A TRADE CENTRE.

jai-Novgorod, U.S.S.It.,

September 22.

To Combat Influence of Environment.

SECRET CONCLAVE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

NEWSPAPER POLL ON LIQUOR.

NEW

SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.

Law Commission Denies COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

Responsibility.

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Entertainments. To-day- Queen's "It's a Great Life

To-day Central Theatre Tanned Legs."

To-day-World Theatre, The Madonna of Avenue A.”

To-day

Star T'heatre.

Noah's Ark"

To-day-Majestic "Lilac Time."

Thestre;

Washington, Oct. 15, Paris, Sept. 25..

Membors of the Wickershum Determined to isolate its em-

intimate contact Law. Enforcement Committee, to- The ancient splendones of this ployees from

sadly with the Parisian populace, the day disclaimed all responsibility city on the Volga are tarnished. Its chief glory, the un-, Soviet Bank director here, M. for the action yesterday by the nual Nijni Pair which once drew Mouradian, has decided to rent Federal Prohibition Bureau merchant princes from the whole a spacious house in Boulogne-sur- asking 3,000 newspapers of the Russian empire and the neighbour-Seine where the entire bank staff United States whether they favour as well as all accredited commer- or oppose the Eighteenth (Prohib}- ing Orient, is no more.

Enforcement Act. Nijni-Novgorod, older than Mas-cial representatives will be com- tion) Amendment and the Volstead It was revealed, however, that cow and once the most coveted ofpelled to reside.

The decision for this segrega- Russian possessions. hus seeming- ly slumped to a drab provincial tion of Communists in Republican members of the committee expect city. Il-dressed people trudge the surroundings was taken follow-that the result of the poll of muddy streets between delapidated ing a secret meeting recently held journalistic sentimen: will be sub-via Suez (Khyber) 10,30 a.m.

mitted to them for consideration, houses and impoverished

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Sports Sea Special Sports Dlary on page

Home Mails. To-day-Inward from America (Pres. Cleveland)..

To-morrow-Outward for Europo

Meeting. To-day General Meeting of

"KINGSHIP OF CHRIST."

THIS FEAST will take place on SUNDAY, the 20th October, 1930, at the Catholle Cathedral, with the same services as in pre-

vious years.

MORNING SERVICE 8 A.M. EVENING SERVICE 4 P.M.

EXHIBITION.

PICTURE EXHIBITION of Water Colours, Oil paintings and Pastels at Messrs. KOMOR & KOMOR, Art and Curia Experts, opens at First Nav- criber.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN.

The Motor Vessel.

"DANMARK ".

or at the Soviet Bank, attended by boarded-up shop windows. Strag-more than 200 Soviet employees, in the same fashion as the bureau's Arts Association of the Hong Kong gly queues from the doors of cu-The mysterious gathering is be- estimate of the consumption of University, Union' 'Assembly Hali having arrived, Consignees of cargo

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quor in the United States.

Political Purposes.

of University, 8.30 p.m..

Lammerts Auctions. October 29-At 8. Carnarvon Eidg., household furniture, 11

RTL.

of lieved to have hit upon the idea operative stores, the longest then apparently in front of the of isolation of its agents as the of combatting the

Great interest has surrounded of re- vodka emporiums. On the surface best means it seems just another run-down old ever mounting number Russian city; fatalistically resign-fusals to obey Moscow's summons the attitude of the Bureau in thus for questioning or trial in the boldly going after figures which ed to its twilight.

But the writer disenyered quick-all-too-frequent event of bungled may be utilized for political pur poses, possibly against the Ad- ly enough that under the surface, missions.

Orators at the meeting are ministration by its political op beats new life and new hope.j What outsiders accept as twilight said to have been unanimously ponents, and the newspapers have three

anew agreed us to the cause of this commented widely upon their entry the Communists dawn. As the northern terminal alarming situation: "the middle-into the prohibition controversy.

Until to-day's disclaimer by the that the Soviet of the great, Volga highway-class habits"

avigable citizens, acquired in their con- Wickersham group, it was believed .13,000 kilometres

pro- tact with the French bourgeoisie, in many quarters that the Bureau rivers flowing through a

with the digiously rich but undeveloped (Such a community as envisaged was acting under specific instruc continent-Nijni-Novgorod is plan, was deemed indispensable, to the tions in

activities, status and sentiment, ned to become an important indus- requirements of the Communist general survey of law enforcement trial and trading centre. Many of party.

The most notorious example of since it was not felt probable that the billions of roubles being press- ed out of the nation and poured the Soviet agents' refusal to com-a federal bureau would voluntarily into the development of the Volen ply with the Red Government's embark upon such basin are going to the building upforder of recall was that of M. course

of

the Paris police of having been Press. icarly strangled by members of the Soviet Embassy upon his at- tempt to escape from the building on the Rue de Grenelle...

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are hereby informed that all goods are being landed and placed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra- hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., where delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns, and all- goods remaining undelivered after the 31st October, ID30. at p... will be subject to rent.

October 30-At 175, The Peak,

Land Sales. household furniture, 10.30 am

October 27-At P.W.D. Offees, lots of Crown land at Shamshulpo, 3 p.m.

Miscellaneous... To-day Amateur Dramatic Concert, St. Andrew's Hail,. Kow-

All claims against the veszel 'myst loon, 9 p.m.

To-day Union, Church, Hongbe presented to the Undersigned before the 4th November, 1930, or they will Kong, Jumble Sale.

not be recognised. To-morrow-Carnival and dinner, dance at Repulse Bay Hotel. -

IN. REDS' HANDS.

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of fact-finding without outside reason-United REPRESENTATIONS BY FRENCH

LEGATION.

Peking, Yesterday.

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN RUSSIA, the Chinese and foreign priests and

of this city. Indeed, the outward Bessedowsky, who complained to some poverty, the evidences of food and goods shortages, are part of the investment for that upbuikling. -

The Panorama. · We stood on the Kremlin hill,

M. Bessedowsky subsequently the panorami

the looking down on "sprend beneath us like a relief Fevealed to the police and map. In the foreground the per- Parisian Press that such a sum -mons to Moscow was virtually a death sentence.-United Press.

Boatman (to angler with tangled line): "Would you mind letting go that rope when you're finished your knitting."-

Passing Show, London.

a

forated Kremlin wall underlined with its zigzag strokes á portion of the crowded tower city. From the huddle of rooftops rose closter of pear-shaped blue domes, a ribbon of roadway showed here and there-all of it like the en. graving one runs across in old Russian books. Beyond that, a

GRACE DARLING'S COBLE.

To Find Permanent Home In Northumberland.

The coble in which Grace Dark ing, with the help of her father, saved nine lives from the wreck of the Forfarshire on September 5, 1838. is to be moved to Bam borough, Northumberland, where it will have a permanent homes

The ceble is an open boat, 21 feet long. It belonged to the Longstone lighthouse, of which William Darling, Grace's father, was keeper, and, in 1912, was pre- sented to the Royal National Life- buat Institution.

The Longstone. lighthouse, on the Farne Islands, is four miles off the coast of Northumberland, and Lord Armstrong, the owner of Bamborough Castle, has presented the institution with a piece of land overlooking the sea and facing the lighthouse.

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an obstacle

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It is learned that in addition to

nuns already reported, eight Chin- ese priests are in the hands of Com- munists at Kianfu.

(By Henry Royce.)

The French Legation has in- Since 1917 Soviet Russia has re-structed the Consul-General at mained a great enigma. What is Nanking to make representations, going on in those vast and mysteri- to the Central Government for the The ous plains behind those silent fron- release of the captives. tiers? We know that the Soviet French Consul at Hankow has also lenders

in brushed away n' made representations to the Klang- most ruthless fashion whatever they si authorities.-Reuter,

in their Iዩ። path.

But are they really suc-[ A golfing husband? was enter ceeding in raising the standard taining a friend. They were left

living

industrial, alone talking for some time after and agricultural masses? The rid dinner. Then the wife entered the die becomes all the more perplexing dining room to hear her husband when we see Russia exporting pass some remark about "a hole in cheap industrial goods, at a time one." when the cost of the same articles

"Oh, my goodness," she said, to the Russian consumer is fantas- irritably, "are you still talking tically high, and exporting food, about golf?" supplies when, according to re-

of

of their

"No, dear," replied her husband linble reports, under-nourishment with a smile, "we were talking

in Russia itself. and even starvation are widespread about socke."

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The chief difficulty for foreign observers of Russian conditions is, the absence of rellable unpreju- diced information. In the circum- stances, the Annual Report of the D.rector of the International La- bour. Office of the League of Na- tlons has acquired an

increas ing reputation as by far the most, accurate and Impartial' survey ei. Russian conditions. The 14th Re- port surveys the most recent situa- tion. In 1929 both the total aren under crops and the area under

per cent. over 1928.

On the other. fiat éountry with the Volga (attion had less than 200,000 inhabit. cereals had increased by some 4 this paint just a timid stream) ants, now contain nearly half winding through it, and branching million, and several hundred thou-band, owing to a bad harvest in the

duction was diminished by sharply from the Volga, the river sands more will inevitably be southern dtricts, the total pro- cent. The growing Oka. Leaden clouds pressed down drawn into the area as factories: on the distant horizons.

are put into operation in the next ly 9 per

surplus was, therefore, only 6.9 The young Russian newspaper two years.

near-

man who stood besides us, however, Thus the most interesting fact million tons in the spring of 1929 saw neither, the XVth Century en- about the oldest of Russian cities as against 9.2 in 1928, and the food graving nor the flatness beyond.are no longer its legend-studded, problem became extremely serious, For him it was only the physical past but Ita immediate future. Forcing the Government to resart Ja series of rationing measures.. foundation of the city-to-be. He; What is true of Nijni-Novgorod is knew by note the budget figures, true of scores of Soviet cities. The price of grain sold licitly of the bread # consequence of capital Investments, the econo- Some, like Stalingrad at the other rose more than 100 per cent. As mic prospects of his Nin end of the Volga or Novosibirsk in

shortage, a shortage of all other Novgorod of the future..

Siberia, were insignificant towns As he talked to us, we shared before the war and now are de- foods was felt, and rationing had his vision. Bridges spanned the liberately artificially being lifted to be Introduced for these also, while the result of the Government rivera. River craft crowded the to industrial dominance. Others,

control Was a renewed conflet, phantom docks. A powerful hydro- once famous but accustomed to a

the-

and between

Government electric station supplied its energy ateady hopeless decline, have sud- the peasants resulting in to huge, chemical, paper and auto denly been jostled out of their motive plants. New housing quar- ters replaced the hovels In the engraving. The population swell.

ed to metropolitan proportions.

A Solid Purpose.

despair.

A Contrast. Nijai-Novgorod is a striking in- stance of the latter class. No won

severo

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of..

coercive j-number

measures against the latter.On the other hand, Industrial produc tion increased in 1928 and 1929 by nearly 24 per cent, over the pre-

Nor is the vision entirely der the more alert of its citizens, vious years. Both the number of phantom. Dozens of Americane and especially the younger people, workers employed and their output and Germans working here at are off-hand, sometimes even con-rose considerably the average technical experts can attest the temptuous of the old Fair and the normal month wages rose by 10 earnestness and solidity of the other memories.

They are keen per cert, and cost prices fell by plans. The beginnings of the for the future..

younger newspapermen's city-to-be

4.4 per cent. Wholesale and retail prices and the cost of living, how-

are already visible. Over 12,000 The new House of Soviet going ever, rose considerably, the last workers are busy finishing the up in the centre of the Kremlin named by nearly 9 per cent. The Ford plant, the construction of lara colourless harrack-like struc value of real wages is estimated to which is progressing under the ture, more like a sanatorium than have risen by about 3 per cent.

The Director's report declines to guidance of the American flua municipal palace. It seems a Austin & Co. A vest chemical blasphemy upon the time-soaked prophesy what will be the result combine is going up. The hydro Kremlin walls and ancient strue of the further development of the Mlectric stations being rushed. tures near by. But young Russia Russian "Five Years Plan. Ob- Barges bring timber to the paper is tired of picturesque backwardiously, Russia is to-day event and celluloid mill, whore troness. It is keen for comfortable more than in previous years, in a machines are alračily working, and standardized prosperity state of tradition. The next issue which when completed will be one Perhaps nowhere in Russia is of them Director repeat should of the largest factories of its kind this fact more clearly etched than show whether the Social lenders in the world. The sitrand Its here against the background of will be able to overcome the diff

calties at present facing them suburbs, which before the revolu Nijal's rich past United Press.

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JEWISH POLICY.

NO PART IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

ALL SECTIONS ADHERE.

Jerusalem Yesterday. The Jewish National Council has held an eight-hour meeting, understood it was at which it is unanimously decided to issue o antement to the Government de- clining to participate in the new Legislative Council, or to have any share in Parliamentary In- stitutions, on the ground that they

the arrest are calculated to

national tablishment of a Jewish.

According to the local Press, all sections of Jewry are adhering to this decision. Reuter,

home.

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