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The Italians, having recently won Ja ́world's Soccer championship in a competition, in which neither Eng- land, Scotland, Wales nor Uruguay! took part, are now to receive the rewards of victory,"

IS THERE FAMINE IN RUSSIA?

CENSORSHIP STIFLES

DROUGHT NEWS

SIGNIFICANT PURCHASES

(By Malcolm Muggeridge.)

A sum of £300 has been voted D the bulk of to-day's news. Moscow's stupendous statistical

ROUGHT all over the world is When the time came to realise

by the Italian Football Association,

that

to each player who took part in the But however much we hear of expectations it was. found final. The Fiat Motor Company

Europe and far from the yield; of agriculture

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conditions in

has presented a car to each player. America, Russia, where drought having, increased as a result of Finally, the whole team were re-may also be ravaging, is silent. collectivisation, it had fallen to The Soviet censorship is exer- levels not hitherto known in ceived on July 1 by Mussolini him- self and presented, corporately and claed too skilfully for any reliable Russia.

accounts of what is happening Individually, with the football V.C.,

Despite this, the Government Le, a new Italian medal for sport outside Moscow to reach abroad. earried out its grain collections That there was famine in the according to plan. That is to say. bravery.

North Caucasus and the Ukraine in its agents took everything the Those who play for England the winter of 1932 I know, because peasants had produced. Peasants against Scotland are offered saw for myself.

whoresisted (and there were }choice between £6 and a medal. ·

Subsequently, enormous 'statisti- plenty who resisted) were labelled achievements on the Agricul-class enemies, and either exiled or A MIDNIGHT ELECTION

Itural Front have been recorded; shot. (and Mr. Duranty, according to his Remarkable details of the elec-

The Bolshevist Mind the "New messages to

York tion of Dr. George Sydney Arundale Times," found the Soviet country- is the

The Bolshevist mind (and this

at once source as head of the Theosophical So-aide flowing with milk and honey strength and its ghastly humour- of its

clety in succession to the late in the autumn of 1988. On the lessness) has a formula for every Annie Besant have been published. other hand, it is notable that, des-emergency. If the fields were full The election took place in the pite this plenty, growing crops of weeds instead of corn, if there Blavatsky Hall in Madras. An have sill to be guarded night and were no horses octagonal table with no legs was day for fear that peasants should peasants were starving and the or cattle, If the placed in the middle of the hall. steal and eat them unripened; town workers on short rations, it Round it sat the referees, their lege bread rations in the towns have was the work of counter-revolu- crossed Buddha-wise.

not been appreciably increased, tionaries, of kulaks.. Therefore, to Prayers were offered in five and now the Sovlet Government is hell with kulake! ancient and five modern languages, buying grain abroad.

And, for their purposes, every and from ten minutes before mid- This last fact la particularly peasant was, or could be labelled,' night silence was observed,

significant since Russia used to be a kulak. In other words, the As the clock struck the zero hour, one of the greatest wheat produc- Dictatorship of the Proletariat was extinguished, and the result the one dimly burning blue light ing countries in the world. felt strong enough now to make was declared in darkness.

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It is in Germany of course that the Youth Movement has

It should be realised that the war on the peasants, made war on been most widespread and most

new Soviet ruling class has the them, is still making, war on them. Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 24, 1934. vocal. It is also there that it is

sort of contempt for agricultural This was precisely the impres- most difficult to understand. The THE FORTUNATE BEGGAR workers that you find amongst sion I got in the North Caucasus German comic papers have. had Dr. Arundale, who was born Industrialised

urban populations in highly in- and Ukraine.. I found a wilderness their occasional jokes as some of Surrey 54 years ago, is a brilliant once referred to the peasantry as and occupied by the military and countries. Stalin inhabited by famished peasants the extreme forms of enthus scholar with a long association with reserves of the proletariat." He the Ogpu. If ever I saw starving meant that the function of the people and derelict agriculture, it

Youth Movements.

1

In every generation the older iasm, such as the nudists, but India. members have had to take warn- the spirit of young comrades has One ing from the old saying "the been essentially serious.

He was appointed by Annie peasants was to fatten factory was there; and I had a feeling Besant to teach Krishnamurthi, her workers while they built Socia that what was being fought out younger generation is knocking gathers the impression that a at the door." There comes God-sent leader could have done world Messiah candidate. He was lian. When that edifice was com on this melancholy battlefield was time when most men feel that anything with these millions of the first Englishman to marry a plete and working smoothly, it not a class war, not even a war

they must make a deliberate aspiring souls disenchanted with high-caste Hindu girl.

might be possible to transfer cer-between Industrial workers and

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effort to adjust their ideas to the doctrine of militarism and As President of the Theosophical tain of the reserves from the com- land workers, but a war between new ways of thinking that are the traditions of the Prussian Society, Dr. Arundale has now to minsaniat department to the more Ideas, formulae and the nature of definitely at variance with the drill sergeant, looking for some give up all his possessions. This exciting and better remunerated things.

If the former win, I thought, principles in which they have new inspiration for national is a yearly renunciation, and the Industrial Front; meanwhile, their been brought up and by which idealism. The result of not find "clean-up" takes place on the last business was to provision, and, by then all is up. If it is possible they have conducted their lives, ing any leader during the years day of every year. On that day providing agricultural produce for for a Government to decree a on penalty of being pushed aside of the Republic of the Weimar the President gives away to charity export, pay for the Five-Year harvest as it decrees demonstra-

-was partly to everything he has, from a bank as old fogeys. If the adjust-Constitution

tlons in the Red Square, if crops ment is successful they may hold spread the moral force of the balance to a safety-pin.

can be produced at the end of a their place for another ten years organisations into separate and On the morning of the new year In actual fact, the reserves have gun as easily as cheers, then the or so. Otherwise the best thing divergent aims that merely coun-he rises a mendicant, the poorest of proved difficult to mobilise. Not whole of human history up to this to be done is to give up the teracted each other, and partly the poor. His financial troubles, only have they failed to fatten the point has been a meaningless struggle. One of the most firm-to damp down the hopes into a however are of short duration. On urban workers; they have, for the farce. ly established rules is that morass. of dejection.

the breakfast-table he finds though the younger section of Nothing surprised the outside cheque with his monthly allowance, each generation has to learn by world more than the collapse experience much the same truths without a struggle of a system of life, it is never willing to of government which had had learn them directly from their plenty of time to get firmly into fathers. The old problem has the saddle. The lateat account Inever been so insistent as in the of the revolution which brought last ten years. It is not so much the Nazis into power is by Prince lactose of individuals impatient Hubertus Loewenstein, who

to step into other men's shoes, as in a position to offer a whole un- a definite mass movement to dis-farmed army for the defence of per cent for amusement."

sants stopped producting; and card what it is fashionable to the “black-red-gold" flag, and met But that adds up to 120 pe: Lenin realised the old gistracy this morning for allowing call an "ideology," 鼗 whole only discouragement and dilatory cent"

either have to allow private trad-Beach at 10.30 am on June 29.

her dog to wander on Tai Wan method of looking at life. The indecision. There were plenty

"That's right."

ing or undertake a war against new discoveries in science, espe of supporters for the Republic,

She stated that she had taken the whole peasantry. cially those that have made but no one to lead them. Tak-

the muzzle off to wash the dog and more ing the policies of the Third the merits and qualifications of their

He chose the former course before doing so she had made sure transportation so much

Two Negroes were boasting about The New Economic Policy

was, in- easy, have something to do with Reich one by one, it is a clear respective motor carn; both typical troduced; and Russia enjoyed that there was no one else on the the result, but it is impossible in that each must have been bitter-worn, shabby, old wrecks.

beach. what is regarded now as a sort of any social or political enquiry to ly unwelcome to thousands whose One of there said "Dey's just one Golden Age of Plenty, CHINESE BOY BITTEN get very far away from the opinions have not had any effect reason why Ah cain't run dishesh cah

After having been bitten by a But from the point of view of dog, said to belong to Lau Min-bi, shock of the massacres of those on the course of events. The mine 200 miles a houah," the Bolshevlats the situation was of No. 20 Tal Wo Street, a boy fateful years 1914-1918. The old-greatest lesson the revolution faAn' whut'a dat reason?” asked the deplorable. The famine had gone.named Yee Kwok-lat, was sent to

most part, failed to provide them with the minimum necessaries of life. The first famine of 1920-21 was a direct consequence of the Soviet Government's system of re- |quisitioning food supplies. Just "How do you spend your in-having the land was scant con- come?"!

solation when everything the land "About thirty per cent for shel-produced was taken away and forty per cent for food and twenty with such circumstances, the pea- Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Ma- ter, thirty per cent for clothing, nothing given in exchange. Faced Road, was fined $10 by Mr. E. I.

other.

Mathematically Speaking

er men have at least the oppor- that leadership and action count "De distance is too long fo tunity of comparing one period for more than high ideals, and shawtness of de time," said the with another and making allow enthusinam, when the task is the ances for the conditions of stress governance of a nation.

Prompt. Fame.

first,

Dog At Large On Public Beach.

Mrs. Van. Ogen, of No. 2 Hanoi

debut in consequence of the abnega. the Government Civil Hospital yes- tion of their principles the small terday for treatment. The dog was peasant proprietor, who was the

in which their crities first be The youth Movement of Sir Struggling Artist (being danned for everything they most detested

basis of the new prosperity, stood to Kennedy Town for observa-

tion gan to come into contact with Oswald Mosley in England is for rent and endeavouring to put Either, they

DRIVER BITTEN ON PEAK. felt, they -munt life and its problems; and if hardly past the incubation stage, bold: front on things): "Let me tellquidate him or he

Chan Ying-hing, a licensed motor they are sensible they will ad- and freedom of thought and will look up at this miserable studio liquidate them.

you this in a few years' time people

would driver, reported to the Police yes- terday, that he had been bitten by

mit that it was a very disorder comment makes all the conditions and say, Cobalt, the artist, used to Communist party members were a dog said to have belonged to No. ed world they saw, and that there different, but the moral of the work there 1

"persuade the peasants to join to the sent out all over the country to 529 The Peak. Chan was admitted Government Civil Hospital. collective farms; and, since their for treatment. methods of persuasion were, to

is everything to be said for a German conflict should not be Landlord: "If you don't pay your drastic change it it can be had forgotten. If the next few rent by tonight, they'll be able to say The "rub" is the question whe years are to see a great debate

it to-morrow!"

ther any of the programmes of between Fasciarn and Commun Facts You Did Not Know say the least, forceful, the success the "youth movements". provide ism, and if there is a third clai- a.remedy.

mant for popular support, in the

system.

of their mission was so great that

it even caused the Government

Corrupt adanagement

RAID ON KOWLOON GAMING HOUSE.

Coolie Gamblers Fined.

via media of personal freedom of The newest projector for television certain embarrassment We may read with every sym- thought and action, the victory pat 3600 times more light on a screen pathy such explanations as are will in the end be with those, than the original pinhole scanning available, and yet be more and old or young, who are willing not more puzzled. In France there merely to cheer for their cause, is no doubt of the impulse to but to do active work for it. warda, peace; of the absence of any wish to revive the Napo leonic tradition of the will to cleanse the Angean, stables of Stavisky finance, But those sen- timents are consistent with almost complete lack of any im General Shang: Chen, pulse to study the sentiments of Governor of Shansi and

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