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"Good morning, sunshine | " "Go to blazes ! " "Now, now - temper | That's not like mummy's little blue- eyed boy."

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Oh, go and climb a tree. I hope you get a thick head like mine. Teach you to jeer."

"Thank you, I can jeer perfectly well- I don't need any lessons. As for the thick head so long as I stick to Gimlets or have a stiff glass of Rose's lime juice before I glide beneath my mos- I'll never get one." quito set

** You'll get one now if you don't clear out. [Pause.] What did you say about lime juice ?" "My dear fellow the path- ology of the common hangover is interesting. The blood alcohol content falls rapidly after ad- ministration of Rose's Lime Juice the stomach...”

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Fred does this stuff work retrospectively?”

"No harm in trying. Send your boy out for a bottle of Rose's now." "BOY!"

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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 1, 1940

Kremlin, The Citadel Of Soviet Russia

the

Finnish diplomats unsuccessful attempts to demands and here

satisfy Russia's was peace concluded.

massive walls, of Within the

çante Moscow's Kremlin, Stalin and his various henchmen pursue their inscrutable policy. Even during Tsarist days Russians looked with superstitious Because the Kremlin and all it im- Kremlin. "Above plies is deliberately cut off from the upon the Moscow is only the Kremlin. and rest of the world, the result is isola- above the Kremlin is only heaven,"tion with all its disadvantages.

The usual contacts between the runs an old Russian proverb.

diplomatic crops and the Government of the State to which they are ac- credited, so valuable to mutual com-

are non-existent prehension, Moscow.

Seen as the tourist sees it from the has a Red, Square, the Kremlin strange unearthly beauty, as indeed it G. E. R. has from any angle, says Gedye in the "New York Times."

Its architectural features consist of a forest of gilded cupolas, nineteen towers built into its sixty-five foot wall, and the imposing buff-coloured front of the Great Palace.

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The Kremlin seems to pay little attention to reports of Soviet diplo- mats abroad, apparently relying more on information of a secret or a semi- secret character.

A carillon constructed

As a result, while it is excellently many years ago chimes forth twice daily the notes informed concerning the hidden mo-

tives "Internationale."

behind

and This same

the professions of the carillon used to play "God Save the actions of foreign Governments, it is Tsar" in pre-Bolshevist days.

often lamentably ignorant about pub- Within the Kremlin's walls arelic opinion in foreign countries. many buildings some of which used to be churches. One of these is now barracks

a military academy and

ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION

Representatives of foreign

news-

and another is the Court of Justice.

Here we find the Lenin Mausoleum. The ashes of a number of revolution-papers, too, live in isolation in Mos- ary heroes have been buried in the outer walls of the Kremlin.

INACCESSIBLE TO

THE OUTSIDER

news-

cow. Their only source of informa- tion now is the official Press Bureau which just doles out stuff that has

in Soviet appeared already papers or has been recently broadcast. Russian citizens shun foreign cor- Every one of the buildings within respondents because they are afraid the Kremlin is inaccessible to the of becoming involved in outsider. No sacred city of the Orient | purge. is more jealously guarded.

some new

They remember only ton well that hundreds of Soviet citizens have been executed in recent purges for having supplied information to foreign coun- consider even tries, und now they

Foreign journalists are sometimes allowed to be present at the sessions of the Supreme Soviet in the Great Palace Before a newspaperman can get a Press permit authorising him- harmless information having nothing to be present at one of these sessions to do with State secrets as taboo.

the he must obtain the consent of Commissariat of Internal Affairs.

Although Press passes bear holdier's photograph, every journalist authorised, to enter the Great Palace of must go through the scrutiny policemen at four different points be- fore reaching the Press gallery which contains nearly as many detectives as newspapermen.

the

Which only shows that the Russian O.G.P.U. takes no chances. After all, some of the Russian big-wigs, and sometimes Stalin, are present at the meetings of the Supreme Soviet.

Precisely what activities the Krem- lin houses forms a part of its mys- teries. Stalin seldom leaves the Krem- lin on political business. Although he has the use of several country houses for recuperation, nobody knows which, if any, he is visiting.

WHERE POWER IS CENTRALIZED

Consequently it is within the Krem- lin's walls that Soviet power is cen- tralised. The Politbureau of nine members meets there as does

the Council of people's Commissars who constitute Russia's Government,

The Commissariats themselves are not in the Kremlin but are housed in various buildings in Moscow.

All the recent epoch-making pacts Here were signed in the Kremlin.

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N.Y. RELIEF FUND

New York, To-day. A nationwide campaign for $5,000,- 000 (£1,250,000) to provide shelter in the United States for European` chil- dren now in Britain is being launched this week by the Allied Relief Fund, which was recently organised to com- bine

the efforts of various - relief agencies throughout the United States. The campaign, which begins on In- dependence Day (July 4) was under- taken at the request of U.S. Govern- ment officials and with the cordial endorsement of Lord Lothian, the Bri- tish Ambassador, states Mr. Winthrop Waldrich,. President of the Fund,

Children coming to the United States will be those who took refuge in Britain from France, and children of British parents, who will naturally be more numerous.-Reuter.

WANG KEH-MIN (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Peiping, Yesterday. Wang Keh-min, former head of the Peiping Political Council, is going to Tsingtao early in July for a holiday. He recently returned from Japan. Havas.

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