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therefore, to-day to consider a little less loosely just what this Plan is, what it hopes to achieve,

ture, has also made glant strides. But the most successful of all undertakings has proved to be that of the Soviet farms, which have done much better than the "collectives."

These achievements cannot be regarded as greatly exaggerated, for the effects of these achieve. ments are already being felt in

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1931.

Naval Review

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PUREE. DE POIS

By

BESOMORO.

"FEACE GARDEN.”

A great idea, and a dolightful Two expression of a great inhou. Kreat countries set the world an

all parts of the world. For ex-THANK GOD FOR THE NAVY! ample, take the case of cotton. That may have been the thought The Lancashire industry has of many who were present at the been in a bad way. It is truc

at Happy Valley, yesterday. Undoubtedly the Sea-example which might very well be there has been a revival in that

men and the Marines on parade emulated elsewhere. To start with, industry in the past few weeks, | mude brave show, and I was

on the borders of Belgium, France and Germany. but a very great deal of ground especially impressed with, as it is "Flanders of the Enst." Why not? Later, in the

in Asia and the East seems to

Admirals and

But it should be no hasty dedica- have been cut from beneath the like appearance and the manner in the "Pence Garden" will remain a | Generala to say, "their fine seaman-

tion and no superficial pledge. For feet, as it were, of that indus- which they executed all move-standing witness to a pact. May it [ry. In these continents Rus-ments." The March Past was ex-. cecdingly wall done. The whole sian cotton is steadily making show was, indeed, a spectacular and intentions have withered and died. headway. Turn again to grain impressive one. export, and we find Russian

any

for customary

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never be said that the "Pouce Gar- den" stands while Man's good

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN,

Cinema "fans" and the formor admirers of this great comedian will, no doubt, welcome the newa that he is likely to visit Hong Kong before long. The Colony will ag suredly extend to him $1 very cardial welcome and, I daresay, ho will be lionised and feted as a world celebrity is lionised and feled to-day. I hope, however, he will be gracious enough not to ab- sent himself from some of the

grain entering into economic war MRS. HELEN MOODY. with the United States, Canada, | The Colony to-day feels happy and Central Europe; and Rus-that it should have in its midst,

for a even

short time, so dis sian grain appears to be gaining tinguished, a Indy as Mrs. Helen more and more ground

as the Moody.

Tennis "fans" are all days go by..

aflutter and await next Tuesday And so the tale goes on. It is with impatience, for they are most anxious to see Mrs. Moody playing something which cannot

in that game of which she is so longer be ignored or treated as great an exponent and mistress, "bluff." Facts are speaking for and at which she has earned [themselves. Whatever may be 30 many and such great dis- functions for which he nccepts in-

tinctions. I predict

I admire Charite as a record vitations. 1 the other conditions of the

attendance around the court screen artist, even recognise him |people of Russia to-day, there is, on which she plays, and hope the ns a genius in his line; but I don't at least, one agreeable spectacle, arrangements will be such as to admire his behaviour as recently Perhaps, I am not as und that is a whole nation at cope adequately with the enormous disclosed.

crowd which is sure to turn up. tolerant as I ought to be of the work.

Compare that picture Meantime, I hope Mrs. Moody will little liberties and peculiarities with that of almost any other thoroughly enjoy herself in Hong supposedly permitted to such great country in the world!

Of course, Russia is not yet out of the wood. There is yet

Kong.

and control of the Daily Mail and all the news- papers associated with it will be

men,

Personal Pars.

Mr. James Walker returned to Hong Kong by the President Madi- 8on from a business trip to the

Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Mr. Wil- liam Bell and Miss Mary Munro and what it has already achiev

ja risk that an economic crash in elections? Where do those came in Bell, B.Sc., to take place on Tues- ed. Mr. Stephen Graham, who the West, such as is an ever pre-

the scale of jungle uproar? Per- day, December 15, 1931, at 2.30 has recently published "an im-

haps even, a hippopotamus would

Mr. Lancelot Ruggles Andrewes sent source of anxiety to-day, find itself shouted down by a really has been appointed to act as As- p.m. at the Union Church, Kennedy

and Road. No invitations will be is partial study of the life

may ruin the Five Year Plan, resolute heckler or a Darwen Consistant Land Officer. sued" but all friends are cordially work of Joseph Stalin," enables invited to the ceremony and to the us to gain a glimpse of that years' time may be

and, that the Russia of a few sorvative in the act of puttingTM Mr.

Baldwin back where he belongs.- reception afterward at the Hong which we are seeking. He says. strange, *

a land of Manchester Guardian. Kong Hotel.

derelict factories. that the Five Year Plan may Then, and then only, may it be Mr. Esmond Harmsworth. easily stretch on to be a Ten

There is a special significance in north, accompanied by Mrs. Walker.. phenomenal ex-

the Announcement that during Year Plan. But points out, that said, that her

Mr. John Risley Putnam has pansion, as the result of the the absence of Lord Rother-

been appointed a Consul for the the Plan itself, and not the time

Five Year Plan, was one of the mere in Canada the

political United States of America in Hong limit, is important. The Plan

Kong, greatest commercial and finan-conduct was to increase industrial pro-

cial bubbles in history. duction 78 per cent, and agricul- |

His Excellency the Governor has tural production 30 per cent.

In connection with the recent exclusively in the hands of Mr. bean pleased to appoint, provisional- His Majesty's during the period 1928-1933. General Election, the Labour In my opinion this means that in A great deal has been said and This ambitious calculation was Party sought to establish as the time and not a very far distant pleasure, Mr. Chau Tsun-nin to be based on the possibility of turn-downfall of the late Labour Gov-time-Lord Rothermere will retire lative Council, with effect from It has beening to account the enormous na-ernment a "Bankers' Ramp." Is and the control of his newspapers December 2, 1931.

will pass permanently to his son. there a "Financiers' Ramp" or a

Mr. Esmond Harmaworth is not a "Capitalists Ramp" now being new figure in public life. staged to remove the Russian He was elected to Parliament at threat against Capitalism, and, the age of 21, and showed more in the staging, is either the of his generation.

promise than any other young man

direct cause of the financial To-day, at the age of 33, he is a degree. For, in addition to his knowledge and ex- perience of journalism, he is a first- virate platform-man.

Russia's Great Experiment.

where?

w

From Other Pens.

Esmond Harmsworth.

Harmsworth

written about The Plan-The Five Year Plan.

tural resources of Russia pro- praised, and it has been con- demned. About it a great con- perly exploited by machinery and troversy has raged, and to-day disciplined labour.

The first object of the Plan is, yet rages. Thinkers, who have

to support and facilitate large thought about it from a detach-

scale, agriculture, not only to ed point of view, are divided in

employ machinery but to make crisis in the West and clse. formidable to their findinga. Even experts, who have had opportunity to it, and so be independent of im- examine it closely. hold diver- port. The second object is, to make Russia self-supporting in gent views. And the general

manufacture. The third, to im- body public, it has talked about

prove the living conditions of the it loosely. But, it seems to us, that there has been, of late, a population as a whole. And the The Voice of the Jungle.

Reuter says that the authorities-Evening Standard, quickening of interest in this fourth, to prove by example and of the Durban Zoo have been carry- great experiment, as it now is economie war that Capitalism is ing out careful tests with "a super-

News in Brief. out of date and must be sup-sensitive microphone" in order to developing.

When, in 1927-28, the Plan planted by the Russian system. find out whether the noises of

civilisation are worse than the The next Congregation of the There we have what the Plan ngise of the jungle. was first disclosed, it was gen-

The reported University of Hong Kong for the erally scoffed at and dubbed "a is and what it hopes to achieve. results do not seem to be very com- purpose of conferring degrees will gigantic bluff." When the early Now let us consider what those plimentary to civilisation; the ex-be held on Monday, January 11 at stages of transition in this who are working the Plan are Pert who reports that "the noise of 5 p.m.

the average city office is about equal to that of a cage of orang-outanga" economic revolution in the Bfe said to have achieved.

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I predict that Mr. will be one of the few platform- www speakers commanding big audiences."

There are only three or four Buch platform-speakers in Britain to-day:

a result of his

of Russia were marked by much Near Rostof there are works is not erring on the side of too much tact. Perhaps at some earlier unrest and rebelliousness, the turning out agricultural imple-stage in his career he failed to make wiseneres said, "Bluff, bluff, ments and machinery; there is any impression on some particular- |gigantic bluff! Didn't we say a tractor factory planned to turnly beautiful stenographer and has harboured a slight grudge against | so?" Later, as this stage was out 50,000 tractors a year;

both the sex and the counting-house | safely and successfully passed factory for motor trucks and ever since. For he also appears to (safely and successfully, from a cars; immense steel works have have reported as Russian point of view), the ques-been started at Magnetigorsk; investigations at the microphone that "woman's ordinary speaking tion then was, asked, "Can it modern coal-cutting machinery voice is exactly equal in sound succeed?" To-day, it would has been installed in the old volume to a hippopotamus grunt- It is hardly the nicest way seem this question is again be- mines and new fields opened up; ing." ing asked. While there is yet cotton growing in Turkestan hns of putting it; it would have been some doubt, of its ultimate suc- been largely extended, and the kinder to have compared them to a gazelle or a giraffe. If the in- cess, speculation as to the result Moscow factories re-equipped vestigator in question is not a little mills constructed. more careful with his comparisons appears to be giving way to ap- and new prehension. Apprehension, be- Many schools and polytechnics he may find it rather difficult to the capitalistic system for training skilled artisang and get anyone of the opposite sex to

killed arti

go out with him for an evening---- lof the West seema to engineers, in the hope of replac- few young women like to be taken be crumbling, while Russia, from ing foreign service by skilled out by a gentleman who is haunted all accounts, is making pheno- Russians, have been established: by hippopotami every time they

open their mouths." menal progress.

and industrialisation, to some To escape from this decidedly de- It will not be out of place, extent attendant upon agricul-llcate subject, what about generall

Icause

ly, and subject to

an Unofficial Member of the Legis-

To-day's Thought.

Others contribute more to our happiness than own happiness.

our we do to

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chinn Mall”” of December, 5, 1921.1

To-day's dollar is worth 2/73%.

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Very real and deep regret will be felt at the news received by cable this morning of the eadth in Lon- don of Dr. Gregory Paul Jordan.

A resident here for over thirty years and the Colony's leading medical practitioner, the late Dr. Jordan was widely known amongst Europeans and Chinese alike as he

was highly esteemed.

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