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CASE OF YOUNG MARSHAL

T. V. SOONG SEEKING AID OF GENERALISSIMO

Canton, To-day.

Although the "Young" Marshal

7. Garrick Street, Londen, WC2 has been obtained special pardon,

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the State Council has reserved

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WORKER UNREST CAUSE

OF STALIN ANXIETY

PRESIDENT-TO-BE SWINGING MORE AND MORE TO THE RIGHT

(BY DONALD DAY)

EHIND the executions of the and died. Stalin.then took con-

decision on the judgment of the BELGIAN LEADER IN LONDON All communications intended for Special Military Tribunal de M. Henri Rolin, who is the publication should be addressed to priving him of civil rights for leader of the Socialist party in the Editor, and be accompanied by five years.

the Belgian Senate, is better the Writer's Name and Address

Mr. T. V. Soong went to known in Geneva than in London. group of self-confessed terrorists became dictator. not necessarily for insertion, but as a guarantes of good faith.

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DEATH

FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS

B Trotsky-Zinoviev-Eaienev trol of the communist party and

Trotzky was again exiled and

Fenghua by air resterday to dis-But his reputation secured for in Moscow another drama of the cuss the matter with Generalis-bim a full house for his lecture bolshevik revolution is unfolding on later deported to Turkey. He policy at Chatham the Russian stage. Like the other denies all complicity in the terror- simo Chiang Kai-shek and to re-an Belgian

carefully staged trial, the detailsĮist conspiracy which the OGPU quest the latter's petition to the House last month.

and publicity had been planned discovered in Moscow. The League of Nations has 20 Nationalist Government for fur-

Disagree On Revolution than this 45-months in advance. The guilt of ther consideration.-Our Own Corfimer supporter HK$ 9.00

the defendants was only an in-

Trotzky and Stalin disagree on year-old Professor of Interna respondent

tional Law in Brussels Univercident. The court proceedings

were the prologue. Other trials the interpretation of the commun- Isity.

The writer recalls how last June are promised. Arrests are being ism of Marx and the dogmas of Lenin. Trotzky and his followers The following forthcoming mar-he battled all day at Glasgow made throughout Russia. A new

with the Committee of the Inter-wave of Red terror has been in- still believe in the possibility of world revolution. They advocate POTTS. — George Hutton Potts, riages are announced:----

that all the resources of Russia aged 72, at Swatow on Mon- Cyril Wallis, Marine Engineer. national Federation of League of augurated. Hundreds of execu

tions and thousands of exiles are!

should be directed toward fulfill- day, 4th January 1937. The residing at No. 9 Cameron Road. Nations Societies.

The Federation, of which he is promised. funeral will take place at the Kowloon, and Miss Pamela Anna

Josef Stalin and Leon Trotzke ment of this dream. was holding a Con-1

Stalin wants to make the revo- Colonial Cemetery, Houg Nice, stenographer, of the same President,

¡gress, and a public evening session began their death feud in 1927. Kong, on Wednesday, 6th Jan-address.

But long after It was ten years after the revolution in Bussia a success, give everybody a better living under bolshevik rule than they can ob- tain under the capitalist system, and develop Russia as the leader and the home of all dissatisfied and revolutionary elements abroad. Then, says Stalin, the world revolt will become a natur- al, instead of a forced, develop- ment.

uary 1937, Those who intend James Douglas Pattullo. Lien-was advertised. being present are requested tenant in the Corps of Royal - the appointed time the platform to be at the gate of the Pro-gineers, residing at Postbridge, remained empty, -testant Cemetery at 5.15 p. Repulse Bay Road, and Miss Jeani

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1937

OLD MAN

CREDULITY

Old Man Credulity is a very old man indeed every day as old as the human race. And there is no evidence that he is nearing the end of his tether.

Indeed, despite the spread of popular education and other

The

Finally, when Scottish patience Orde Bigg-Wither, of the Penin-had been exhausted in all but

few enthusiasts. M. Rolin, trium-i sula Hotel

Donald Arthur Webb, Restaur-phant and unfatigued, led the de- ant Manager, residing at No. 3 legates into the hall.

Then he read the resolution of Hankow Road, and Miss Cecilia

Italo-Abyssinian question Dolores Lee, of No. 302. Nathan the

which had caused such protracted discussion. It was a magnilo- quent appeal to the constituent so- {cieties

Road.

LOCAL ESTATES

MRS. SUSAN HIGGINS

LEAVES $5,800

Local estate, valued at $5,800,

means of supposedly dissipating was left by the late Mrs. Susan darkness, many people even in Higgine, who died on January 29, those countries generally sup-1933. An application by the law- posed to be most advanced are ful attorney, Mr. M. M. Watson,

not less respects credulous than the most bar-for sealing the certified copy of confrmation of the executors, has barous tribes.

In

many

to redouble their eforts so that public opinion in their coun- tries, undeterred by any sense of disappointment or unreason- ing or extravagant reactions, should be mobilised as energeti- the re- cally as possible for establishment of law and order. The few present held up their hands, and the resolution was car ried unanimously.

An idealist is M. Rolin.,

Your Daily Smile! With Violet cuddling in his arms He drove a Ford-poor silly. Where he once held his Violet

Now he holds a lily.

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In developing this policy Stalin has been forced to swing more and more to the right. To-day few traces of communism remain ia Russia. Instead there has developed state capitalism. Workers Exploited

to

The industrial workers, whom Trotzky and his supporters STALIN THE RUTHLESS.

are making their appeal, are be- tion that the iron discipline of the ing exploited far more in Russia than abroad. In its management communist party was shattered.

Sent into exile by Lenin, of industry and all enterprises Trotzky was recalled to Moscow the state has proven a more exact- by Felix Djerjinski. He was to ing and cruel taskmaster than the become Djerjinski's mouthpiece capitalist for a

A year ago in the Danetz coal new moderate policy. Trotzky betrayed Djerjinski and basin a worker named Stakhano- formed an alliance with Gregory vetz made a new Russian record Zinoviev, Leon Kamenev, and Kari for mining coal with a pneumatic Radek

drill. He became famous over-

This is especially so where been granted.

Mrs. Yee Leung Sze Fung Kam. the hope to make sudden riches) is the driving force. Hence alias Leung Fung Kama, alias Mrs. the thriving business that is Ellis, late of No. 2, Flying Dragon done by share-pushers and other Terrace, who died at No 2, Ten plausible scoundrels who infest Loo Euilding, Causeway Bay, on August 8 last. left local estate to modern life.

Djerjinski, when he discovered night. Decorated with the Order With the revival of national the value of $17,000. The probate

Old Maid: Has the canary had its the plot, called a special session of Lenin, he was brought to Mos- prosperity in Britain they have of will has been granted to Mr. Lo

bath yet? Kin-chak.

of the politbureau, the highest cow. He became the symbol of been launching a vigorous cam-

Servant: Yes, ma'am. You can governing body in Russia. At a increased industrial production paign, and it has been held by

come in now.

stormy session, he had a stroke Workers, seeking similar honours, some of the joint-stock banksper head, and yet providing

made records in other enterprises. to present such a menace to the fully adequate nutrition even said the chic young thing from New other breeds

"Oh, what a funny looking cow!""" Others are dehorned,

while

These records were used by the public that they have taken the for the heaviest labour.

York Why hasn't it any horns?" have horns at all. There are many government in fixing new work- unusual course of warning their The ostensible reason for There are many reasons,” reasons why a cow sometimes does ing norms.". A working norm is Professor Saiki's researches was swered the farmer, “why a cow does not have horns. But the chief rea- the amount of production expect- The banks emphasise that a desire to adjust. workers not have horns.

bore son that this cow does not have any ed each day from each worker. the resources of their informa wages to correspond with re- without horns and do not have any hors is that it isn't a cow at all.

(Continued on Page 7) until the late years of their life It's a horse." tion departments are at the ser-duced expenditure on food-by vice of those who are in doubt communal dinners in factories. ———— about investment opportunities schools, barracks and villages- that are seductively brought to and thereby clear the way to their notice.

further intensification of com- Unfortunately, whatever is petition in world markets. done to put a spoke in the wheel

customers.

That the existence of a sys- of the share-pushers, they will tem ready to put into operation never lack for victims.

at a moment's notice carries a It is estimated that in the high emergency value-for] past few years many millions unusual occasions such of pounds have been taken by blockade and war -- is presum- bucket-shops and share-pushers ably no more than a detail. from unsuspecting investors.

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Dr. Johnson described a widow- Believe It Or Not er's remarriage as an example

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of the triumph of hope over ex- Nutrition tests carried out perience. So high do some by the learned Professor of the people with money to invest imperial Government Institute pitch their hopes that they have an interest distinctively never learn where to draw the their own.

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Bradman's Outing

It was discovered, for in- stance, that a police officer de- mands (and needs) more Mr. D. G. Bradman seems to nourishment than any other have laid his bogey most eff.type of individual and that ciently at long last and the teachers may be coupled with Third Test issue has resolved it-tram conductors to this extent: self into the simple question: Both require more nutriment

than manual labourers. By how many?

Civil servants Not that there is any special reason for an English demon- tioned, which is most provok stration of gloom. Events have ing.

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opinions are favourable.

It will take more than a Startling it seems at first single and solitary miracle to glance. Actually, the idea is rob Australia of this leg of the not quite so revolutionary as series.

the Nazi arch-propagandist may have supposed

Mass Dieting

In Britain it has been the unwritten law for years, and Japan moves steadily closer Hong Kong carries on the tradi- to national regimentation on tion in quite an earnest spirit. the lines of the totalitarian Book reviewers, art critics State.

and film experts are the most

To ensure a system of collec-complaisant and complimentary tive dieting under Government class existent. They are cer control, Professor Saiki, official tainly experts in the art of dis- nutrition expert, has compiled stillation of the milk of human no fewer than 500 daily menus, kindness and in refusal to all costing less than 20 cents blast promising careers!

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