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Roosevelt's Mau For Moscow While Senator McAdoo has been delighting his Moscow hosts with eulogies of Russia's progress, Mr. John MacMurray, the newly-ap- pointed American Minister to Es- thonia, Lativa and Lithuania, is on his way to his post.

The appointment is eignificant. American advocates of recognition say that Mr. MacMurray is. Prest dent Roosevelt's-man for Moscow.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1933.

FAMINE'S RETURN TO RUSSIA-II

RUSSIA'S STARVING

PEASANTS

SOVIET ACCUSES THEM OF HIDING GRAIN

(By An Expert Observer.)

Ac-

This striking revelation of the acknowledge, that famine exists. famine in Russia is a report made They even officially deny it.

either no assistance, after an independent surrey car-cordingly, ried out in May of the Northern from the State or from benevolent Caucasus agricultural arca, the institutions, is afforded.

present article forming the second

Last spring the State sent seeds.

to the collectives, but the Adminis tration kept strict observation that

Slim, sad-looking and serious. Mr. MacMurray is a former career diplomat who served several years' in St. Petersburg before the war. In the grain areas of the Nor-the seeds were used only for, "State In 1925 he was appointed Ameri- thern Caucasus, bread as a rule has purposes." On September 23, 1982, Can Minister in China, and resign-completely disappeared from the the Soviet Government, by special dietary of the individual peasant decree forbade the rendering of any

ed three or four years ago.

Last year he visited Soviet Rus-owner. A few collectivist peasants assistance

authorities.

by local sia and wrote an extensive report have a small reserve of their share Therefore the assistance rendered on Russian debts to the United in the last crop.

by the Government itself by the In a few collective farms some distribution of seeds in the follow- States in relation to the recogni-j tion issue. His friends say that assistance in food is given. A mem-ing spring can only be regarded as tolber of the collective who has done la confession f the existence of so a certain amount of work may have unforeseen and extraordinary pri-

he would never have returned diplomacy and, above all, to small a post as Latvia, unless he a small quantity of maize-tour-vation. had the promise of the Moscow em.usually up to a little more than half a pound-advanced to him on BC- bassy in his pocket.

count of his share in the new crop.

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Your Daily Smile

In a Line or Two.

Some little help is also given to collectivist peasants by public soup- kitchens, where only actually work ing members of the collective farmi The soup given|

This year's famine 18, without a doubt, more acute than that of 1921. During the latter hun- dreds of thousands of human beings were saved, thanks to the help of the American Relief As- sociation, while now no foreign help is possible.

Still, it is hard to scare a man may be served. with talk about a cheap dollar when there is, however, of very little food the man hasn't any kind.-Lunch-value, being made with the minimum does nothing. I was told of many

burg Va.) Nere.

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admixture of food-products.

Despair And Complete Apathy

The bread which is distributed

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The Soviet Government itself

cases of sufferers, swollen from famine, who implored help from the

were village soviets. They

told the bread

and that, no famino at all existed.

In fact, the authorities explain the

The country is divided, roughly, Those who classes: into two

Government employees is also, as far which they had got hidden away. established will become the prae-thought Prohibition would solve the in the towns to the workmen and that they should ent

as I could see, not made of pure tice of settling the larger issues liquor question, and those

flour, but contains considerablo at Geneva." But this is aside think repeal will-Detroit News.

amount of various mixtures auch as present situation by insisting that Hong Kong. Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1933. from the narrower question of

there is no lack of grain, that the the new technique of diplomacy. The captains of industry are petmaize, beans, &c. People not used,

matter of finding it. Various Enlarging on that point, Sir feetty willing to have the Govern to this bread can eat it only with peasants hide it, and it is only a Changing Diplomacy. Victor remarks: "Formerly diplo-ment assume control of any kind of the greatest difficulty.

It is possible to obtain some food-pastera are exhibited in the villages matist spoke with the prestige an enterprise. just so long as it's Everybody has taken "judicial of the military force behind one that isn't paying dividends.- stuffs in the markets, but almostbearing that explanation.

always of a very inferior quality and Soviet State's Export Of Grain knowledge" of the fact that them. To-day they have to use San Diego Union. moderá diplomatic practice as the language of tariffs, of pro- been greatly altered from that of thibition, preferences, embargoes.

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milk

products,

These arti- | a very high price.

There is no doubt that last spring mostly

igrain was concealed in many cases. the maize-bread. barley, &c. The mar The Government at that time forms-

Or

ed special permanent committees of Young Communists, male and

where only foreign money or gold female, who, carrying fron rods; is accepted in payment-one rarely want prodding the soil in the anda flour. Yet for many people

tion.

lout of the victim's mouth.

might prove to be hiding-places for

that cles propuses Now a catti-man

be slaughtered and la century ol so ago. It is a inflation, deflation and the like old bulls

Ankets never provide pure bread commonplace that the telegraph to reinforce the logic of their meat given to the unemployed. and telephone have to-day made arguments, and they are brought the unemployed Hadn't swallow-four. Even in the Targain shops an Ambassador something like a into far closer contact than ever ed enough buil aireads Dunbar direct and daily correspondent before with the bankers. the Weekly (Phoenix). 101 his State Department or traders, the industrialists and

large quantities of buried grain. Foreign Office. No longer is it lesser Tolk who go to make up

In localities north of the Arctic Train is the only means of salva-asant courtyards, thus revealing These committees still continue possible for a diplomatic repre- the economic life of a nation."

to weather men,] circle, according

In Krasnodar there were cases of sentative at some distant station, The new diplomacy may be sim-only one thunderstorm in ten years bandits attacking passers-by. Teeth to visit the villages in many places, to set himself up as 4 power pler in some ways than the old can be expected. Even so, we're containing gold-fillings were broken seeking freshly dug spola which

deal with of his own but surely it has to almost independent

still not sold on those places as re The classic in enormous dificulties. No one!idential sections. Arkonars government. stance, of course, is that of Lord (can tell when they may arise in Gazette.

Con- an ut Stratford de Redcliffe

almost threatening m stantinople so many years, who Hence the new importance, in made himself an imposing and the new diplomacy, of the selec- almost controlling figure in tion of trained men for diplo- Turkish affairs, so that he won matic positions who will be able age. there the name, full of awe and to translate the policies of their mystery for the rest of us, the Government into reasonable and "Great Elehi." We have changed skillful_action, and to value prac- all that, whether for better or tical results above any passing with The New Deal, I am not re-stricken provinces almost without during the last few years reduced worse. The complacent boast to reputation for having achieved a sponsible for day is that diplomacy has been diplomatie victory. mude "open." This sometimes Beems exposed to the same taunt

Ins the open mind-that it lets

Better "Best Sellers."

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everything

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The fact that, even with the im-grain. I was told of one case in mense mortality from famine, no which hidden grain was rerualed in attack of any importance is made a courtyard whose owner had died And Under Forty

upon the State apparatus is a proof, of starvation, together with his en- Woman-Must be over 2 years of on the one hand, of the strength of tire family, so frightened had they of being detected apparently been that apparatus. and, on the other, of the complete helplessness of the removing the grain from its place of concealment. Semi-starva. {population.

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can

less trumps,

traverse the famine- tion and extreme privation have

any of its debts.-risk, in spite of the growth of the demands of the population to banditry, and of numberless home-an extremely low ebb. So used scanty diet adults and children, have they become to who wander far and wide. Resign-that lives might be saved at very ed despair and complete apathy small expense. The distribution of characterise the people, rather than one pound of bread per head daily would prevent death from starva- wrath and bitterness.

tion.

J. H. Lee.

Itsy Bitsy Crawly Then at the seventeenth, Ho That the "best sellers" of to-day mans's putt from. one foot stopped nothing. More Important than are book of higher quality than a few blades of grass short of the changing methods is the

those of the time before the war is hole, and Goodwin was wormie.

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Frenzied Finance Jour time. This is emphasized in

DOW

a recent article in "The London me censorious minds. The Vice-

Chancellor of the University

of An altercation arose between

Villages Made Desolate During last year's famine in Siberia many sought salvation by moving into more favoured locali

Times" by Sir Victor Wellesley-Liverpool, when he argued the Walter N and Otto H— ra- in the industries. Now the situs

in

(Continued on Page 11).

ties, or into the towns to seek work, CUSTOMS STATIONS

tion is quite different.

The engagement of new, workmen

for the industries and State farma

ON GREAT WALL

Himself in the diplomatic ser point before the Libraries Associa-aulting in a fiscal encounter vice, and familiar with the tion, maintained that sixty years of which H. bit Non the ear course and trend of diplomacy compulsory education, if not 1. since the time of his grandfather, effectual as we might have hoped in Deyll Cake, No Doubt

is carried out by the collective To Be Under Chinese

Maritime Customs. Lord Cowley, who was British improving the intellect of the na John Barrymore's favourite pet is farms and village. councils, who | Ambassador at the court of tion, have had some, good influence a South American vulture, purchas make special contracts with mem- Napoleon III, his general concluou the popular taste in reading.ed the day it was hatched. Hebers of the collectives seeking out- PREVENTION OF JAPANESE sion is that the business of The librarians were assured that keeps it in a large cake in his side work. The village council has

DUMPING SAN diplomats to-day is far less the modern author of tales of my aviary. political than it used to be. In stery and thrill has to attain a

Peking, To-day...;:. ternational relations have become high standard of craftsmanship to

of these contracts; At the rallway It is learned that, as a result of more predominantly economic. win success. Comparison of the The 'defendant had been charged station tickets are issued only to recent negotiations with General

There is now scarcely any form "best sellers" of different periods

course,

Court Wreckoned Right.

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Harvard astronomers are- analy-

the right to issue permits, of leave for outside work only on the basis

of the creation of the League of judges will agres with him that it Because of the earth's motion Nations. It has facilitated in an is. The style is in general more objects: dropped into a deep cop- unforeseen but highly important careful, more thought has been per mine shaft in Michigan do not way personal contacts between spent upon the scheme, and our fall to the bottom but lodge against Ministers and diplomatic repre- best selling authors work with a one side," sentatives of many different severer self-criticism than those of governments. It is Bir Victor the past. Tas larger and larger A coin operated, attachment for conviction that "the more the number of people who each year typewriters has been 'Invented in League of Nations grown in su; are treading books are demanding, Germany thority, and inquence in inter- and obtaining, a better average of to be made on lasertion of a Ron,

pfannig co Inational affairs the more firmly work

of human activity which does not is difficult. Some of the suthera with wreckless driving and failure people who can show the permit of Okamura, vice-Chief of Staff of

He was not the village,

the Kwantung Army, the Chinese Under auch conditions, the stary- authorities have decided to create in some measure enter into the who sold their many editions be- to heed a stop sign: mosaic of foreign affairs. Not fore the war are selling as many found guilty of the wreckless driv

ing peasant is practically prison- Customs stations at Shanhaikwan,, only politics and economics but or more now, and as worthily. The ing charge.

er in his village, as he has no horse Kupeikow, Heifengkow, Lengkow, Befence, art and literature, sport qualities which make, for mass

Facts You Did Not to travel by, and is not strong Ychyuen, Chatlingkow and Pans and sociology contribute their popularity are always various,

enough to walk far. He has no chiakow, under the direct control Know. [quota. These influences have, of Marie Corelli was a "best seller"

choice but to remain in his village of the Chinese Maritime Customs always been present and so was Mrs. Humphry Ward.

and await the endogene

authorities. throughout the ages, but their There are great successes with

The present situation, in the The sole object in establishing active participation in the day-sentiment and with psychology as to-day contact of one nation with well as with crime and adventure, ing the chemical elements of Northern Caucasus may be summed these customs stations along the Great Wall, according to an official In some villages the population explanation, is to prevent this another has never been so mani-The test the Vice-Chancellor set meteors by photographing them in up as follows som

is almost extinctii siekia dumping of Japanese goods on, fest as now." Sir Victor. sign-was: To the quality of entertain-night with high speed-spectros-

cople cameraaS jallzes que great change which ment in the popular novel, higher

In others about half the popu: Chins and does not mean the de facto recognition of a boundary has come about in consequence than it used to be? Most sound

Finally, there are still villages line along the Great Wall. It is lation have died out,

not so frequent

the economic point of view. £26 in which death from famins is purely as expediency measure, from But famine in some degres reigns The Chinese Maritimé Customs averywhere in the regions which authorities are sending a high of

ficial to North China to investigate have vialbed.

the condition of the above-mention

Official Denials Of Fame

A distinctive feature of this,ed-points as a preliminary toward faizine is that the authorities have the establishment of the Customs not acknowledged, and do not now stations Central News Agency,