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MEDIAEVAL ASIA CHANGES

INDUSTRIALISM REARS ITS HEAD

of

In the twelfth century Ragusa A

biblical

as the town is still better krown. was a busy cosmopolitan port

who had owned this cloak must have been а contemporary Abraham and - the patriarchs.

'Queen Mary's Lifeboats

attached

to enter port

were

TASHKENT AND THE SOVIETS "COTTON OFFENSIVE”

(By Rosita Forbes)

↑ Samarkand I was obliged men in khaki with enormous re- to stay longer than I in-volvers, and the girls in cheer- tended. For days no space was ful cottons, with permanent trains, and waves. lipstick and nail-varnish.

Experience proved that this was cattle, were The

140 days.

2

move the

The authorities there were the available on any first to try to deal adequately with eventually I left in a two-ton Motors of the Ogpu

lorry belonging to a sanator-jamong cofton trucks and the suppression of plague.

ium, finishing the journey in local carts with their Sft. They built a landing-stage some distance away from the ordinary the van of an "assistance train" wheels and the driver hunched which rushes, special comparties in a saddle between the shafts. But I noticed that in Central From time to time we still THE greatest lifeboat fleet ever quay, and incoming vessels

held up for a "trentina," or period of shock-workers to their emer

Asia the police, in spite of an liner to an ocean hear loud denunciations of the

With me, closer packed than outsize in “guns,” are regarded evils of the capitalist system. are carried by the Queen Mary, of 30 days, before being allowed 8ency destinations.

number of as the natural resource of those "Inseparable" evils, it is usual-the newest giant plying the waves ly added, and Socialism or across the North Atlantic. Nationalisation is declared to fleet comprises 24 all-steel boats ret long enough, and the period igorous young people who had in difficulty. People talked

If the soine 36 feet long and 12 feet wide. was extended to a "quarantina," or come from the immense hydro-them and of them without re In fact, throughout electric plant at Vaksh Stroi,straint.. be the only remedy,

which is already irrigating ap-Usbegistan and Tadjikistan I note has become more sub-others 30 feet long and 9 feet wide.

proximately 25,000 hectares found townsfolk and villagers dued of late it is because the Each lifeboat can accommodate 145 than

and is destined to fertilise four much more friendly, confident industrial world is in good people-a greater number

times this acreage in the Aral and expressive of individual heart again. So it may well the entire complement of 115 pas-

- opinions than in European Rus- be if during the first six months (sengers carried by the first Cunard

My companions were going to sia. of this year there have been steamship "R.M.S. Britannia" in

Eastern Tadjikistan to help Women's Club Life wage increases amounting to 1840. All of the boats are Diesel

Outdoor Work

with the ploughing of cotton The walls of old Tashkent are £275,000 a week in the full-powered and are capable of a speed

"Are you a clock watcher?" asked lands. Afterwards they might time rates of 2,000,000 clerical of 6 knots The equipment con- and manual workers in Britain. sists of: radio; 21 pounds of bis the employer of the candidate for a work in Siberian wheat or Cau-made of earth mixed with chop- casian rice. "It's all the same red straw and camels' urine, Assuming that things go on as cuits, a quart of water and a tin job.

"No, I don't like inside work." re-to us," said one youth, "so long shaped by hand, but shoulder- at present the wages bill in of condensed milk per passenger plied the applicant. without heats we can get ahead of the their way among the flat

mat- "Tm a whistle listener."

goofs and blind walls I saw a England will be up this year by distress flares; oil lamps; $35,000,000. Nor is that the ches: fish oil for calming rough

In the same breath he in-printing-press, a full story, for this figure takes waters; a sea anchor: axes; com- no account of overtime and passes; oars, mooring ropes; and "What a big family you have, Mrs. formed me that his generation gynaecological clinic, creches, a of Konosomols and budding training-school for narses and other earnings, and the addi-bilge pumps.

"Yes'm. And the funny thing is Party members had been order midwives and an enormous club

tion to the purchasing-power of the people must be very much larger. Even in the coal- mining industry the increased rates represent an extra $8.000.000 a year in wages, land the miners will get the major share of the benefits ac- eruing from the coal market- ing scheme, which came into force recently. The engineers!

OLD BUILDING MADE NEW

Changes In Wanchai Landmark

Extensive alterations are being

had an increase of two shill-made to an old building, which ings in 1935, which will be

raised by December next to

is one of the landmarks of Wan-

five shillings by means of three chai, situated at the junction of

Your Daily Smile!

When you say "Dionne" to the man district. filling your car with petrol, it means "five gals."

*

*

*

The "Haitch"

"Jones,” said the visitor.

A

that all the names begin with haitch. There's 'Orace, Erbert, Eary. Ugh. Thert, Arold, Arriet

Plan"

garage,

а

ed to take no further interest for women, where wives and in politics and that a girl in the daughters, hitherto household and Etty-all except the last one, corner, no different from the goods, can bank in their own others in her print overall and names the money they earn for looking after silkworms or em- red kerchief, had so much sex

and we ad 'er named Halice.”

WOMEN FIGHT IN SPAIN

Militia Battalion

Organised

appeal that she disturbed the broidering the fanciful skull-

daily average of work.

Confidence In Police

caps which have ousted the tur- han from all heads but those of mullahs.

In Tashkent the Soviet has In that same club I met coun- won its fight against the Middle trywomen who had walked Ages. Here is definitely three days from the hills to pro- modern town with gay, red test at premature marriage, or trams clattering through the the polygamy of elderly hus Madrid. Women as soldiers streets and one-storeyed white bands. Johnstone Road and Gresson were recognised officially in Spain houses embedded in trees By law all children must go successive rises of a shilling Street, and formerly the French last month, with the formation of From a distance nothing can be to school, but it is difficult to Certainly there are dark spots

a militia battalion composed-com-seen but karagatch (black enforce this among the nomads here and there, but in almost Convent and Hospital.

The lower door and basement pletely of feminine fighters. elms) and poplars with the who are retiring towards the all the staple industries there is

Reports from various sectors newer. two-storey buildings Chinese borders. Polygamy is a call for every skilled man's the building are being pulled services, and in some places out, and will be converted into throughout revolt-torn Spain de climbing out of them Flower forbidden, but in many a house shops. The first and second clared the women have been play-sellers lend gaiety, to the an old man introduced me to there is an actual hue and cry doors will have their rooms al-ing an active role in combating squares, and as Tashkent is the "sisters." "cousins," and to find men.

tered, and servants' quarters and the Fascist revolution.

capital of Usbegistan and the "granddaughters," who were in This is a wonderful experi- Swo flush systems will be in-

Some have participated bravely, centre of Party administration reality wives. ence when one compares it stalled in each flat,

militia officers said, in fighting in in Central Asia, there is much The officials of the women's with the conditions prevailing When the work is completed, the Guadarrama Mountains and in traffic.

club are Usbegs, and the two or three years ago, and we there will be room for six large certain districts i Southern The Sovnarcom (Party HQ)[public has already produced

entitled to be soberly and two small shops on the

lis full of young Russians, the Spain.

(Continued on Page 8)

*BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

are

thankful for the transforma-ground floor, where formerly there

tion, especially when, we re-

had been four flats and six base-

merts, which were used as go

member that it has come about not by strikes and the threat of downs, except one occupied by a} strikes, not by Labour walking small store.

out or "staying in." not by po

litical action, either mild or

wild, but by reason. Industry

by industry, organised Labour?

OBITUARY

has presented its requests. It MOTHER OF BISHOP

has been fairly and squarely

RONALD HALL

met at the conference table. The existing machinery of con- ciliation and negotiation has News has been received in Hong been utilised to the full in a Kong of the death of the mother spirit of goodwill. When we of Bishop Ronald Hall, Bishop of remember how the all-too-short Victoria, which occurred peace ¡period of recovery after the fully on Tuesday last Mrs. Hall war was almost wholly thrown was taken ill on August 25, which away by desperate strikes like was her 68th birthday, death in- the coal strike of 1821, and by tervening about a week later. the extortion of wage ad- The Bishop is at present in Eng- vances under the threat of land and was with his mother strikes which the conditions of when she died.

British industry could in no

wise justify, we see how radical

DANISH PREMIER

is the change. We are culti- Copenhagen, to-day-The form- vating our garden instead of er Danish Premier, Dr. Niels trampling it underfoot. And Neergaard, died here yesterday, we are wisely keeping the aged 82. Dr. Neergaard belong fences in good repair.

ad to the Moderate Left and has also been Minister for Finance

What The Navy Means and Defence.-Trans-Ocean Ser-

To Britain

Ivice.

were offering a different but). Britain's Navy Week closed even more valuable kind of bos- with an attendance 100,000 in pitality to British subjects who excess of the figures for last came on board at Spanish ports. year. The increase is the more On the closing day at Ports remarkable because the weather mouth the

Commander-in- offered singularly few-tempta-Chief addressed a brief speech tions to excursionists, and be of thanks to the public-m cause the number of ships on terms which reflect the inti- view was considerably less than mate relationship of the Navy had been intended. When the with the British people's life. programme was announced the During the last twelve months situation in the Eastern Medi-events have again *** drawn terranean had so far improved attention to this association that the warships which had of Britain's ships with long in of Alexandria had Britain's safety, and the grow- been enabled to return to their jng attendance at Navy Week 16] bases; but before the public evidence that the public mind is could see the Fleet civil war alive to the essentials of „de- had broken out in Spain and fence in spite of pacifist propa- vessels which had hoped to wel-ganda ae voluble as it is mis- come visitors in home waters leading,

The FIRST CUNARDER

R.M.S.BRITANNIA

DID NOT CARRY AS MANY PASSENGERS

AS CAN A SINGLE LIFEBOAT OF THE QUEEN MARY

EACH LIFEBORT IS MOTOR-DRIMEN

TEDDY

BEAR

POTATO

Rased by

EQUIPPED WITH WRELESS

ARSWW.HOME, EAGLE, Mach

Creded

FRED

ROB YEE LAUNDRY

CHINESE

SORYMAN

CAL ILLUSION

IS-A-BELLE MARTOM HETHERINGTON

`of Vesleyville, Pa. HER NAME CONTAING 10 DIFFERENT WORDS

IN ORDER.

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