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JOHN 1. THORNYCROFT & Co., Lim,

SHIPBUILDERS AND ENGINEERS,

LONDON, SOUTHAMPTON AND BASINGSTOKE ན、:,,,"“

Shanghai

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65, Szechuen Road.

MARINE MOTORS AND MOTOR BOATS,

MOTOR LIGHTING AND PUMPING SETS. SHALLOW DRAFT STEAMERS. THORNYCROFT CAP FUEL SYSTEM.

Commercial, High-speed and Pleasure Craft.

THORNYCROFT WATER TUBE BOILERS. THORNYCROFT MOTOR VEHICLES.

Our Mator Engineer and our Naval Architect," both Thornycroft. experts, now resident in Shanghai, will give attention to all inquires

Early deliveries can be made of 15.b.h.p. 30-b.h.p. 48-bib.p. and 10bhp Kerosene Marine Engines.

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RR ROXBURGH,

Manager for China.

LA PERLA DEL

ORIENTE

GENUINE

MANILA

CIGARS

SOLE JAZ

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMSÉR 17TH, 1919.

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TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,

10. DES VIEUX ROAD.

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

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IN. Manufactures the most Important Eoints in Improvement, and in Diebotica

Cleanliness. Science always insists on these Maxima.

Groundinat or, Feans Offfcan be used as a substitute for Ove Oil Batter or Lard, but when Blightly Dirty is injurious to health.

In Ching by the Ordinary Methods of Extraction," Dirt and Dust, are not guarded against Our Method allows great advance. By the age of New Machinery and New Kethoda Scrupulous Cleanliness is'Assured.

Our Machinery during the Procom Filters the où thi

Oil while our Factory is Free from

Burt. Our Oil is Clear, Bweet and. Bragnant;, and Compares most favourably with other Oils used for Culinary purposes; there is ng residue.

Prices are moderate so as to induce new business, de Analysis is always given before Shipment to Foreign Countries.

NAM CHÂU OK, Farnar OfBoe:--No. By Connaught Road West, HOSGEONG Factory: No. 3, Kwel Lin Street, SAMSHUIPO.

This Sole Proprietorship of this

"Chinao-Citizen--

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BOLSHEVIST RUSSIA.

A BRITISH AGENT'S TESTIMONY. GERMAN INFLUENCE ALREADY DOMINANT.

THEATRE

ROYAL HONGKONG HOTEL

MR. T. DANIEL FRAWLEY

FRAWLEY

presents the

COMPANY

In Repertoire of the Latest London and New York Successes.

At the War Office, on September 23rd, Mr Dukes, a British agent who had just 14 ja returned from Petrograd, gave some of his experiences of Bolabevist Russia dur ing the last ten months. Mr. Dukes knows Russia well. From 1910 to 1914 be was a musical student at the Petrograd Conservatoire. and afterwards assistant to Mr. Albert Coates, the chief conduc tor of the Imperial Opern. How he has got in and out of Russia during the last year doesn't matter, but he has crossed. the frontier seven times. He has been a member of the Bolshevist organisation. and bas seen the whole thing from the inside

He said the Communist Party wins a very tiny minority of the population, its membership being 260,000 out of a popu lation of from 150,000,000 to 150,000,000 In Petrograd there were 8.000 members out of a population of 800,000 It was hated and abominated with an intense hatred The Central Executive was com posed of hooligans, thieves, and the; scum of the population, so much so that Trotsky and others, who were, perhaps idealists, had proposed plans for the purging of the party. He believed that, at the head of the party there were a few idealists but they were very ignoranti and most ignorant of-all of human nature.

NO FREEDOM IN RUSSIA.

Having described how the Soviets were) elected last July and the sort of tyranny that is practised, he said there was no Press in Russia but the Bolshevist Press Even school bocks were "censored. -No- body who engaged cther people was allow | ed to vote. Those who employed a servant, or a man who employed an assistant in his shop, were all disfranchised. Secret voting was considered 'shameful. In the old Soviets 90 per cent, were Commu nists in the new ones 82 per cent. When he left Petrograd there were 75000 women and children in a concentration; camp being punished because their men folk had deserted the Red Arms. Men who could not desert into the White Army:" went into the Greens," who nambered bon several hundred thousand. They lived on the charity of the peasants, who fed them delightedly, thus, beating down the argu ment that we are starving Russia, Russia baving enough food to feed both berself and us. When the great time came. 28 it inevitably would." when, the Russian people themselves, without us and per haps without the Germans, would over, throw the present regime, there would be nothing to put in its place. The "Greens" would be useless, for their object wai merely negative, and they wally repre sented the attitude of the Russian people.

GERMAN ACTIVITY.

"When the end did come Russia would be under the influence of those who were there at the moment, The Germans were; there thoroughly, at the present time. Their influence in Russia was extra. ordinary they were, in fact, dominant- Apart from the fact that there was n afinity between the kustun and the onl man mind and Lepin to this day always, spoke, of Germany as the foremost, coau try in the world-there were other factors' which furthered German influence. There was in Moscow a German Soviet. Many prime questions of Bolshevist" policy were decided, not in the Kremlin, but in the German Soviet. German commercial, travellers were already overrunning Rus sia, selling foodstuff which the Germans no longer eat, because we and the Ame ricans are feeding them! While the food situation in Petrograd was very ·zevole there were sweet shops, open all over the town selling German saccbarine sweets and Turkish delight. The Bolsheviks bad invited German agriculturists, pre tending to be. Communista, to work the, land. The Germans had no more inten tion of working the land on the prin ciples of Communism than he had Their Sabject was to be on the apqt and secuPE the dominant influence when the over i-throw came.

BRITISH INTERVENTION WANTED.

All this would happen unless there was a counterbalancing influence to the Ger man. That influence must be our own." It was impossible to describe with what longing and yearning the Bassian people, the working man, detired the English to come in and save him from the present borrible despotism. It was incredible to the Russian that the British working man was ignorant of his situation. He was looking to the British working man force the British Government to inter vene in Russia and put an end to the horrors anti relieve him from tyrannys If Petrograd was not occupied befors winter it was impossible to say what ter: rible things might not bapped there. The fuel situation was hopeless. He suggest ed, that, from a purely humanitarian point of view, we ought to step in and atop what was going on in Petrograd The people who were suffering most were women and the working men..

Mr. Churchill, Secretary of State for War, who was present and introduced Mr. Duker; thanked him for bia address, making it clear that what Mr. Dukes had said bad nothing whatever, to do with the policy of the British Government which remained what it was when, be ex

plained it in the Hound Commons be

fore the recess

ADMIRAL JELLICOE

REPORT ON THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY.,

TO-NIGHT

TUESDAY,

Nov. 18TH: WEDNESDAY,

Nov. 19TH:

THURSDAY,

Nov. 10TH: FRIDAY...

Nov. 21BT:

SATURDAY,

NOY. LIND:

Frices

"SCANDAL."

as Usual.

TO-NIGHT

"THE FORTUNE HUNTER."

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FOREVER AFTER.”

LIGHTNIN

Booking at MOUTRIE'S.

FAIRBANKS PORTABLE PLATFORM

SCALES

The Most Frequal and Convenient Scales for Many Purposes.

FAIRBANKS PLATFORM COUNTER

→ SCALES

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FAIRBANKS FOLDING

SCALES

DIFFERENT STYLES AND SIZES IN STOCK.

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IMPORTERS AND ENGINEERS

No. 2 NORTH Soocnow ROAD

Telephone Nortt: 462 & 163.

1 K.W. Lighting Plant works entirely on Kerosine twice the

capacity of any plant in the market and half the cost: Stocks carried.

1SADE - RAJ

100

220

60

280

Pressure Gauges

for all purposes.

Sole Agents for

TEA DANCES will be held on the following Days

during the month of NOVEMBER

From 4.30 to 7 p.m. TO-DAY (Monday), 17th,

and

Friday, 21st, Monday, 24th, Thursday, 27th.

Admission to Dance Room Each Day $2 per bead, including Tea

J. E. TAGGART,

Manager.

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Admiral Viscount Jellicoth

whose minI

sion is the reorganization of the Austra lian Navy, has completed his report. This provides for the establishment of an Australian naval unit composed of eight modern battle cruisers. 12 light. cruisers, $4 destroyers, and 12 submarines and supply ships. This programme is to be completed in. 1823 at a cost of £5,000,000 annually is considered, doubtfax, whether the Government will accept thraq proposals.

Wireloni Telegraphy."

The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and have accommod For a laited number of Balcon Passengers: All steamers carry a duly qualified surg Ürgotsken at through rates to all-porte in Netherlands India and Australia."-

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York Building, lan Floor.

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FARM NEWS

HOUSE-FED

POULTRY

We are now able to supply our customers with own fed poultry and to meet all demands.

Our present stock consists of speciály selected birds which are in prime condition an I should give.

every satisfaction.

Calculating

Machines

Addition Multiplication Subtraction Division

Constructed for use in

every branch of business

Sundstrand

Marchant

All successful Business Men of Hongkong recognize the economy and efficency In the use of CALCULATING MACHINES

ALEX ROSS & CO.,

Machinery Department, 25, Des Voux Road Central, Telephone 2487.