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WHAT BOLSHEVISM MEANS

ITY PROPENSOR H. T. PRICE, A.A., PH.D. (Author of "Boche and Bolshevik.") We have read so much in the last day or two about Bolshevism being established in Europe, that it is worth while enquir. ing how it really work. The accounts of

TÁM HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER·STH, 1918.

license of the Soviet. You became the DEMOCRACIES AND THE alave of the Soviet and could spend FUTURE OF THE NEAR EAST. nothing except as they directed you.

IF THIS IS TO BE THE LAST

WAR.

This power was mercilessly used to crush PROBLEMS THAT MUST BE SOLVED opponents. All mines and factories were nationalised and passed completely into the

control of the working man

Thes lived on the capital of the firm, gave them. selves high wages, and did no work. Most of the undertakings had to he closed, and I did not hear that the work-

case.

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(BY 918 MARK SYKES, M.P.] The time is not far distant when

the

“THOU SHALT. NOT," “ALL-COMMANDMENTS BROKEN BY GERMANS.

Catil this war one had an idea that the civilisation of those countries in which the teaching of Christianity had been practised for some centuries, was for its precepts. We have been taught to some extent permented with regard

feated with the hosts of Attila on the

held of Chalony, and we accepted the

it that have as yet appasted, speak only 18-men made a success of it in a single democracy of the world in general, and that paganism and barbarity were. dej

And they were far greedier than this country in particular, will of the murders and robberies. I wish in the capital ist. One

at a price to

They

Ainars

this article to ignore their bloodshed and i was making overshetrograd-called upon to consider the questions of inference that the actions of Christian!

simply to state what the Bolsheviks' ideals are and what is the result when these ideals are put into practice.

the Near East. For the purposes of this article the Near East may be defined as those parts of the world. which could be compassed by an 800-mile radius centred on Jerusalem.

nations must in modern times be tristian taught in the Sermon on the Mount. Bus this, like many another of our ed with the more humang doctrine cherished beliefs, has been shattered. The German of fatter days has deliber- role of The Scourge of God." ately taken upon himself the old-time

are

until they are solved must menace the Within this circle lie problems which

In Christian nations the Command- establishment of a permanent world peace.ments, though it is admitted that the undoubtedly determined that this war necessarily as furnishing an ethical code

The democracies of the Entente are are frequently broken, not be the last war unless they use the Christ enjoined their observancy, ex- ball be the last war, but it will certainly for the regulation of human conduct. accepted

victory which lies before then to remove plained their faller meaning, and gave certain root causes of war.

a positive application to such as were

Christianity for political purposes, has originally expressed in a negative form. The-German nation, while professing for many years set up, and taught in every school, a pagan aystem of moral of the Decalogue. regulations entirely different from those The Arst Commandmen; says! Thou

minds of this generation, will not be suf- The mere combination of goodwill and general war-weariness working in the It puts acient to prevent future generations drift-

ing into war. sider the elimination of certain future In this article it is proposed to con- elements in the area under consideration.

Their organ of government is the Soviet. of the former a mers grubber of the soil.. war-producen Regarded from an histori- shalt have none other God but me." The

Lenin boasts that the day of Parliaments has passed and that he has discovered something better, which will take their

...Bary,

but

about

The lead to future ware.

t

THE OTTOMAN EMPIEE

German! hearts have been cheered by blasphemous assurances of the Emperor that he, in view of his command of a military

At all events this is what we find. The Commandment forbids "murder.

sixth

WHY WORRY?

THY worry

? The War's over!" So it is. We have all heard that remark more than once, but there is much to "worry" about yet. We're not out of the game simply because the Huns have laid down their guns. What you gave on Heather Day and at the Fair is surely not the limit of your sacrifice! There are thousands and thousands of brave men condemned to pass the rest of their lives in misery unless we rally to the aid of the great work of healing. Thanks to the Army and Navy, we have had, and will continue to have, a very comfortable time in Hongkong. It is our duty then to "worry," in order that the maimed and sick, the human wreckage of the great war of Liberty, may be restored. Every one of us here owes a great debt to the men who fought and bled in the war-a debt which we can never repay. But we can show our appreciation by giving our last cent to the great work of mercy in which so many noble men and women are engaged at home. Money is urgently needed. Shall we grudge it now that the war is won ? Never let it be. said that our patriotism and honour petered out with » the echo of the last shot. Don't say that you put every cent you had into Heather Day and St.. Andrew's Fair. The War Bond Drawing is. for the same cause, and its success must be written down in the annals of the Colony's giving as another endeavour to show tangible appreciation of the brilliant achieve.. ments, on the battlefield and on the North Sea, of the bravest boys on earth. Make the result a Victory Offering worthy of the Colony.

PERHAPS IT'S YOUR LAST CHANCE.

selves of 4 roubles a pair. on the market at 13 tolibles a pair, the Choremhovo coal-mines the voted themselves 50 roubles a day-whe ther they worked or not. As a result all Bolshevism is a term which may be those public services

which depended on translated 21.3 **Maximalism.”

Cherembove coal, either showed a great The "Bolsheviks who demand the maximum of private enterprises dependent on Cherem deficit or had to put their prices up, while Socialism, re the Socialist whole-hovo coal simply could not continue. Munition factories after peace was signed, They start from the theory simply refused to bo shut down. They hoggers." that the middle-classes are incapable of insisted on orders being given them to Tule and that only two classes can- govern things as bad as this in the worst days keep them at work. Where will you find the country-the capitalists or the work of capitalism? men. Since it has to be one of the two. To come to the Land Question the Bol- they are determined it shall be the workshevik formuln is," No one is to receive men. Their watchword is not freedom for and his family or more than a man and less than is sufficient to support a man all, but the Dictatorship of the Pro- bis family can ealtivate. letariat, the tyranny of one class of society damper on all enterprise, sets the man of ambition and ability on the same level above all the others..

with the laay and the stupid, and makes

and distributed a large amount of agrical point of view this area has been the German teachers have said Blessed are The Bolsheviks boast of having collected cultural machinery.

littoral along which the tides of Eastern the makers of war, for they shall be But they have collected it from the less centuries. The moral and material children of Odia, who is greater than invasion have flowed and ebbed for count-called not the children of Jahoe, but the piacs all over the world. A Soviet is sim. rich farmers, who knew how to use it, causes of "this ebb and flow had spent Jaboc." The second Commandment for- ply a Council. "Its constituencies are the peasants who understand nothing sont conflict took place. There will be no more German teachers have arged their bearers and distributed it among the ignorant their force long before the present world- bids the worship of things of earth. The various Trades Unions, who elect members at all.

They have driven away the Mongol hordes sweeping across the world. in proportion to their numbers. The intelligent and educated men who were there will be no more Crusades or Jehads, to bow the knee to a horrible Moloch Soviet in turn appoint Commissars who the backbone of Russian agriculture and but the results of those past conflicts have correspond to our Ministers of State in their place bave put men who will not implanted in this ares the causes of exist. The third Commandment enjoins rever- whom they have designated Weltmacht. Exactly how the Commissars are all made be able to get out of the land a quartering troubles, which, unless up-rooted, willence. Throughout this war to go in the same direction I do not know of what their predecessors did. Lenin spent a good deal of time last year peasants are not grateful, but hate them in writing articles to prove that a Presintensely. The peasant wants to own his dent was as useless as a King and that bit of land, he wants to be free to develope no formal head of a Government is neces-

it, and he dearly loves the joy of battling British democracy is composed, we shall destruction, is properly to be regarded If we take the average man of which machine capable of dealing death and "Frozr what I have heard, the with a dealer for a good price for his End that in regard to this area he has as the All. Highest." If this is the absence of a formal head only leads to a crops. None of these things are possible already certain fundamental and import-attitude of the German nation towards series of intrigues between conflicting under the Socialista. parties, which very much hamper govern

We come to education. Here they have Constantinople is of itself of vast strategic to God, what can one expect with regard aat facts in his mind. He knows (1) that those Commandments which define duty ment while they continue. and generally persecuted the teachers who would not importance; (2) that the Armenians and to those which indicate man's duty to his result in some dominant personality acknowledge their power and put them subject races of Turkey have been rais- fellow-men 1 attaining the leadership and filling up on the street to starve. the chief posts with creatures of his own, towns they have declared that education potamia is a potential source of immense In some Siberian governed for centuries; (3) that Meso- The franchise, which is supposed to makes people bourgeois and that there-food-producing power, and that the Suez Those operating on German submarines include all those who work for their fore all schooling must cease at the age Canal is a station on the way to India are accustomed to gather the crew of a living, is a shamelessly artificial one. To of sixteen.

At Vladivostock they are (4) that Jerusalem is the sentimental fishing vessel on the submarine's deck, take but one instance. In Irkutsk the openly inciting their supporters to mur- centre both of Christianity and Judaism; Bolsheviks found themselves in a minority der all students and professors. Every (5) that Mecca is the symbolic centre of deliberately take away all life-belts, and in the Soviet. They thereupon declared body knows that if they were returned the Moslem faith; (8) that the Berlin after sinking the life-boat with the that the franchise must be changed, it was to power in Vladivostock not a single military clique intended to seize all these vessel, to submerge their craft and leave too bourgeois. They szasede in care te jet lifthe Oriental Institute would thinga ja order to subjugate the Eagleri. Water wretched men struggling in the ing through new principle the be left At the same time they are franchise should belong to

physical trying to make the stage and the cine and Boulogne in order to subjagate the two instances, but regularly, repeatedly, they to seize This bas been not in one or only; All such

occupations as matograph organs of Bolshevism.. demanded education were ruled out. play and ne film is to be levism. No ter torn world. He knows that to coun- and systematically. The seventh Com Some of the more enlightened Bolsheviks not Bolshevistic in tendency. It

that is ter this

move we fought at Gallipoli, on mandment prohibits adultery. Yet Ger- tried to obtain the vote for elementary that at Irkutsk they used to give even

is true the Canal, and in Palestine and Meso-man professors write calmly in German school-teachers.

potamia.

The British Democracy at any reviews" polygamy is, of course, a down Similar gerrymandering has taken providing the people with good

they Were shouted

at cheap prices with the idea of rates requires no teaching in regard to the necessity for the German people, in tedings place in every part of Russia. There is tusi fare. Mozart, Moliere, and the come to details the matter is much more only remains to organise a decent intellee main outlines of the situation. When we order to make good the losses of the war; Another peculiarity They are elected by physical labour, but gramme. But all they have done has been in the days of Queen Elizabeth appeared den to steal; yet looting has been the the Soviets. classic Russians used to figure on the pro-complicated. The Ottoman Empire which method of practising it. It is forbid who controls them! In no case members too, one-sided and special. Education de to be tottering to its fall, bas continued custom of the German armies in every of the working-classes. Lenin's principle mands freedom, and that is the one thing to exist, because the selfishnces and greed theatre of war, the Crown Prince him. is that the wor

working-man is too stupid to they will not give know what is good for him and he must

pre-war Europe have be told what to do."

One of the strangest Bolshevik novelties defenders. The Ottoman Empire bus eon of souvenirs which must be now be quite supplied it with self setting the example with a collection Soviet rule is a

constant series of champions and system by which a handful of political Laws, lawyers and judges wore abolished because the pre-war statesmen of the hot bear falso witness" has been written.

was their reform of judicial procedure, tinned to exist for two reasons. Firstly, a respectably large one.. adventurers first impose themselves on a at one blow.

"Thou shall party, and then impose this party on the for treason. Your judges would be chcean and improgressive tyranny blasting the again and again in attempts to justify

You might be prosecuted State

Grant Powers preferred to see from the people to officiate for this occa

barbarous Yet, perjured testimony has been used Bolshevism is a tyranny and like all sion only, perhaps they would not be that the redemption of these areas should tania and the murders of Miss Cavell other tyrannies bas great need of secrecy. able to read or write. The prosecuting

fairest regions of the world rather than such crimes as the sinking of the Lust with the idea that because Lenin publish You instructed whoever you liked to ap Ottoman Government has known, how to convincing illustration of it is furnished Do not let any English readers run away counsel would be a man of the same type add to the existing strength of a possibly and Captain Fryatt. Covetousness is cd the secret agreements of "Kerenski, he pear for you.

Secondly, because the the whole origin of the war; the most is therefore an enemy of secret diplomacy law and find on the fact at the same time, national finance.

The court had to make avail itself of the protection of inter by German dealing with Russia, Ros himself. He concluded the treaty of Having established what you had done, Brest-Litovsk with Germany, and the they would proceed to deliberate as 10

mania, and Serbia Russian people to this day do not know whether it came within their idea of a

If the Central European powers have On Sale, till 31st December, at all Banks, Hotels, Clabs & Stores. all that it pledged them to. At Irkutsk crime. The public were invited to help half century purchased its existence by cynic's addition, which says reporters had he right to be present at the then and anyone who chose might speak playing on the fears and rivalries of the sot be found out." Four years of this The Ottoman Empire has for the last have also not succeeded in observing the broken the ten Commandments, they debates of the Soviet and such reports as a long as he liked Even schoolboys European Powers, and by pawning and

"Thou shalt often issued a month late. At that time terrible for the defendant as might apants of its provinces to various groups humanising dictate, and, as the Allies did appear were officially prepared and joined in. The proceedings were not so mortgaging the resources of the inhabit was have exposed in all its hideousness Irkutak was on the verge of starvation pear. and it was necessary to put heart in the defend him, who could put his case certain middlemen these groups forced on

He usually got a real lawyer to of financiers.

their active repudiation of *very people with

Through the medium of promise of plenty. So from skilfully. time to time they oficially stated that Soviet was no match for him as a rule. tione, trafficked in bogus railways, and conviction that, until this canker bas The representative of the the Ottoman Government arms and mani- yet unfinished; they do so with the fit

consecrate themselves afresh to their teak they had reached an agreement with Judges were lenient except to China by which the frontier was to be Socialists and the Pres

other fore-stalled each other in obtaining con- opened. The statement it would have sheviks would arrest a group of people being taken to bring the Ottoman Empire were deliberate always certain of being tried. The Bal. these groups to prevent any drastic action

You were not cessions. It has always been the policy of cannot be effectually restored.

been excised, peace, prosperity and justice. untraibs In a been possible to fowe a debate on this as a charge of conspiracy and shoot the acts by kinder of lective control dominates the Dardanelles and Bosphorus and make the Government explain why the same day. The absence of laws bit because the financiers and their the frontier was still closed and declare the Press very hard its policy. In view of the fact that the obnoxious to the Bolsheviks were up minn Empire was controlled, the profits the hatching place of wars, the focus of All the organs men knew well enough that once the Otto is Turkish, so long will Constantinople be Union of Democratic Control, the fan pressed one by one: chester Gurihari, if tout would come to an end. It the Consort of It was only too of the concession hunter and the arma intrigues both political and Anancial I of that

have been such staunch you made up the law on the subject been part of the nemesis of the Allies that where its predecessor, supporters of the Bolsheviks, it is afresh for each case. extremely important to realise that under Soviet rule there is no democratie control havik rule In conclusion I should like fitted in exactly with Turco German mili

out of world politics. and even assisted in at all, and worse, secrecy than there ever to give a concrete instance of how EX

The Turk balds though they did was nader the Crar.

develop the country, Constantinople because no one nation dare To turn to commerce and finance. The man at Irkutak had by his talents and Turks, those weapons of precision which and dissension in

treme Socialism works. A professional anciers who suceceded in. foreing on the

trast another

With

10 great Bolsheviks call themselves Communista industry attained a distinguished pos- the latter have known so well how to use nationalized in the fullest sense of the

we know what Turkish

Guardianship and aim at the abolition of private pro- tion.

Come the Bolsheviks, commandeer perty Land may neither be bought nor nearly all his rooms, and threaten to turn during the war.

The remedy is for the Straits, to be inter sold, when you die all your property goes him out on the street and supplant him to be solved after the war it stands to Constantinople or not is a matter of litle

If the problems of the Middle East are to the State, and while you are alive the by one of their own men. When he pro- reason that they must be approached in consequence, but allied democracy, mun

word Whether the Sultan resides ut State may take from you what it pleases testa, they jeer and tell him he will Nothing is yours, all is the State's. The be able to work with his hands.

still effete Parliaments of the West generally was not the worst. He had a wife and those whose combined and co-operative and have on the spot an effective fores on

very different spirit to that adopted by That

be entirely responsible for the fairway, estimate their expenditure for the coming family, for whom he had ved some suspicion, greed and chicane were respon. Land, in the sea and in the air, which will year, and plan their taxation accordingly money. If he died, the Bolsheviks would

for the pre-war situation. so the Soviet. They do indeed levy immediately step in and take all he por ciers supported the power of the Ottoman I will have to see to it that concession hunt authority and supremacy beyond put ila taxes, but they are always in want of wife might get some sort of a pension. Ottoman Empire has used its power as between the Ottoman Government and We have seen how statesmen and finan. all question. Further, Allied democracy. Their plan is simple;

sessed, including even the insurance. His Empire. It is worth considering how the ing, financial intrigue, and the nearest rich man." and "touch his daughters would have to stop going within its own borders. The theory and individual Powers, are things of the past. him for the amount From one man to school

group £15,000 in three months. In many towns have to give up hie education and might the non-Turk, and to foment discord and one of the root causes of future

practice of the Ottoman Government has If Levantine finance is to they had bled the rich white and were manage to get a job as a cabdriver. The rivalry wherever party politics, family will have been left untouched... beginning on the middle classes. What Socialist says 'how splendid! The child

Noar Fast, then ever they wanted, they took houses, ren of rich and poor on an equality at antagonism offered an opportunity. As

conflicts furniture, cattle, horca, motor-cars last! Yes, the fagy and extravagant result of this policy extended over several less than organised corruption. A num foeling, sectarian diferences or racial organised in Stambul, represented nothing International finance, before the waLT, 43 without any compensation. If you were placed on exactly the same level as the ruined, you were brutally told to go and industrious and the thrifty, Whether centuries we find an work with Four hands. In one town, you spend what you carn, or whether where they took a house with all that save it, it is all the same for those who depth of poverty and misery, but tar by of corruption and villainy, the Ottoman peoples not only reduceglomeration of hef agents, touts, and hangers-on acted was in it the lady had just got in a came after yous On this rook, the artif it has been the devilish purpose of their

to the lowest as go-betweens twixt that degraded maks stock of underclothing for the summer.cial restrictions of Bolshevism are sure misralers to school them.

who a host of rivalries and.eamities in which Government, and the various cliques of Not conceiving what use these things to split. You will never persuade a man could be to the

in European capitals, she petitioned that that the State will look alter those dear CUTTING OUT THE CANCER.

mano in policyj they might be handed over to her. She to him as well

diplomacy interfered in finance, nations he himsel! can.

by the cars, wars promoted, We have therefore two problems to solve peoples toppressed, reforms delayed or The first is Turks dund might up,

rendered nugatory, in order that indivi-

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