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BRITISH OFFICER IN BOLSHEVIK

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M. Bailey, the Indian political officer,

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THE CURSE OF THE SLUM.

18 IT JUSTI

to

DE, REINSCH AND AN AMERICAN FLEET. "THE OUTSTANDING NEED OF

· NATIONAL COMMERCE.

It is particularly essential thas ope Pacific trade should be provided with "a"..

The Standard Oil Company of New York SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL Beuter Agency Esa received a detailed bine called a meeting to increase the capital

The Rev. H. Copley Moyle in his sermon account as complete as is available at the of the company from * $775,000,000 present moment in view of the paible $150,000,000 and doctare a dividend of 200an the morning service at St. Joha

Cathedral on Sunday took for hin exe danger to people still remaining in the per cout country of the erperiences of Major F

-Hionh (0.8). He hath showed thee autoiont number of vessels of high speed O man what is good; and what doth the and great carrying capacity, says Dr. Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and Paul S. Reinsch, former United States.

Minister to China, in an article in San to love mercy y

to walk humbly with

Francisco Business, thy God," and asid:---

The prophes Micah was a contemporary The Communist party at Vladivostock has passed a resolution to issue a statement of Issiah bus younger than he. He lived similiar to the agreement recently signed

whose sudden reappearance on the Persian THE RUSSIAN FAR EASTERN frontier after a period of prolonged silence in Central Asia, has occasioned so much interest.

GOVERNMENT.

FATE SEALED.

In August, 1918, Major Bailey, acenta.

The American nation cannot possibly panied by another Indian officer, Major Blacker, arrived in Tashkent, having been seat on a special mission to the local

obtain the advantage implied in the pos suthorities by the Government. Shortly after they reached that town, Sir George between the Vertine-Udinak Government Fnd prophesied in the reigns of Jotham and session of our Pacific coast with its magni- Macartney, the Britian Conssl-General Kashgar, also arrived in that place with and the Communist members of the Vladi Hezekiah, kings of Judah. He did not ficent ports unless we provide immediately a view to returning home on leavs vid rostock so-called "Pesce Delegation (belong, like Isaiah, to the ruling classes, an adequate fleet of fast merchant possch

cognising the supremacy of Verk but was one of the poor country people. In all those aspects in which speed is Rassia. On his arrival Major Bailey had disk in Eastern Siberis pending

at

to get any satisfaction from them Biof the conferences between the Far Eastern George Macartney, who soon found that has Governments, and providing the Verkhne could not return, as he had hoped, too Udinsk guards shall occupy the railways dos eid Russia, had to make arrange after the oracuation of the Japanese).

This action on the part of Vladivostock ments for going back through India Tr due course he left, and Major Blacker also Communists is regarded as scaling the fate returned, leaving Major Bailey alone in of the movement to unite the various Far, Tashkent, the latter and the American Eastern Governments and as spelling col Conan, Mr., Tredwell, being the only two lapse of the negotiations. Allied representatives in the place.

AGITATION IN KOREA. VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM.

Shortly after the arrival of Major Bailey's mission, there had unfortunately been a collision between the British troops and the Red army near Askabad, and this had the effect of making the Bolsheviks very suspicious of the British Officers. In the meantime numérons messages were gont AMERICAN CONGRESSIONAL PARTY in no uncertain words to repent.

to Moscow, and Major Bailey awaited

THREATENED.

several interviews in his cupolakrylk the holding of a general election. It seems that one of the unexpected results essential, our entire American national British officer with the

Unless we have authorities in Turkestan, but was unable agreeing to Verkhre Udinsk as the venue of the reforms of the good King Hezekiah, commerce with the Pacific countrice is de

was to make the religions leaders of the pendent on this factor. people more dependent on the ruling clean rapid and regular mails, and unke the then they had been. They build up Zion the personal representatives of our com with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.merce and industry can reach the various The heads thereof judge for reward, and points around the Pacife speedily without accommodations on foreign vessel, our com the priests thereof teach for hire, and the being always dependent upon obtaining prophets thereof divine for money. The merce in those regions cannot be develop country had prospered, and increased trade ed. It is gratifying than a small beginning had made the rich richer and the has been made by way of the assignment to Miosa rebuked the greed Pacific routes of ten large and fast vessels poor porrer. which took no thought for the wel under construction by the Shipping Board fare of others as long as self could and now nearing completion. We need accumulate riches. Ho called the evil direct and rapid contact with the great markets and sources of supply on the other and reminded them that their religion side of the Philippine with Singapore, must be shown in their life. It was all the great Oriental emporium; with French some kind of recognition, but this was re- fused. One day he and the American

The following semi-official statement was

very well and right to maintain the temple Indo-China, Java, and Sumatra. Burmiab The immediate- Consul and practically all the Allied sub-published at geout on August 18th:-

alone for the run "Korean #gitators, having been frusservice, but that was no substitute for up and great India itself. jects in Turkestan were placed under

San Francisco to these regions. Arrest Major Bailey and Mr. Tredwall trated in all their attempts to incite the rightness. Shall I come before the Longnment or other provision of at least were not themselves put in prison, although.

old 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thou-from

at! the present time the

of our pational the others were, but were kept for twenty populaen to fresh disturbances, are now with burnt offerings, with calves of year fire fast vessels

"Thus a bomb was thrown in the Pro-Bods of rams, or with ten thousands of is four-bours under arrest and then released. resorting to violence and terrorism.

rivers of oili he asks, and goes on to say on tstanding need In the case of Mr. Tredwell full apology vincial Office at Pingyang on the evening What dath the Lord require of thee, but commeres. In order that this possibility was given by the Bolsheviks authorities but nothing of the sort was rendered to of August 3rd. Some window-paaes were Major Bailey. It came to the notice of broken but nobody was hurt The bomb Les service, who were subsequently shot, about nine o'clock yesterday evening an Major Bailey through friends in the wire thrower has since been arrested. Again, at that a message had been received ordoning other bomb was thrown at the entrance to his return to India, and that another res Shingishu Station Hotel. A few window sagabaing sent from Moscow ordering his pants were broken but beyond that there arrest. He then applied for official sanc-was no damage done. The bomb throwers, tion to leave Tashkent and to return to however, escaped. India, but the Chief Commissary refused to grans this. The Turkestan oficials did not apparently want to arrest him, but aid that grave suspicions were enter tained regarding him at Moscow and is consequence it was clear that the local Bol- sheviks wanted to detain him peading for ther instructions from the Soviet Govern. med AUDDEN, DISAPPEARANCE.

To view of these circumstances Major

tions he thought it would be possible to re-enter Tashkent At that time, it was

"The rumour is current that agitators are scheming to make a demonstration on the occasion of the visit of the American Congressional party to Seoul on the 24th inst, and furthermore that a plot is afoot to wreck the train conveying the party, in order to produce international complica tions. The police are taking active steps to prevent any such untoward occurrences."

most

distance it will be necessary for us to have to do justly, and to love mercy, and to should be approached within a measurable It is high standard that the prophet sets at least three-fold of our present shipping before his hearers. It would be di cult Facilities, so that we may not at many walk humbly with thy God?" to and a higher before the time of our Lord points be either entirely without the means. Himself, who taught us the higher law of of developing our commercial activities or with-all-thy-heart

and thy neighing to other nations." bour as thyself.” love Thou shall love the Lord thy God dependent upon merchant marines belong-

Bus in spite of nearly 3.000 years of Christian civilization have we yet reached the standard the prophet suggests?

To do justly everyone carried out that recept this world would be a fere taste of Heaven If in all matters the With it pay," but "Is it just the question asked were not, as it so often is., remit,would often be different from what

SNUFFED OUT.

The "Personal" columu of The Times

contained the following:

Messrs. Jame Taddy Co," 42-45, cigarette manufacturers, give notice that Muorice, Londen, E., 1, tobacco, snuff, and their factories have closed down on and

*June 23rd.**** This date,

is is now. We all like to think we are just, from this but azo wel It is recorded that the late This action. It is understood, follows Archbishop of Canterbury used to count it week's strike of workmen who demanded bacco Bruce The one of the highest commendations bestowed a mostantial increase of wages, granted,

vening News that" whatever the result upon him, that semer boy, whom he had the legal by ether punished when Headmaster of Prote, come to his parents Bugby general manager informed the London Temple is a benut, but he is a just beast." of the strike the works have cloned per- Would it makes great change in the com- manently." "Taddy's brands of tobacco. mercial and industrial world, if wages and have been on sale, for 180 years. prices were fixed on a besis of justice? Is

Balay suddenly disappeared. Through A STANDARD OIL SKYSCRAPER the assistance of aortain friend he was my to the way enabled to cater a house in his ordinary, attire and to emerge from another, shortly Twenty stories a height and costing in afterwards disguised in Austrian uniform, the neighbourhood of $4,000,000, plans are A rigorous search was subsequently made being prepared by the Standard Oil Cam for him all over the town, but he was Pany of California for a skyscraper that helped by friends, and for a fortnight re will be one of the most distinctive commmer mained hidden, without once venturing cial buildings in the United States. The into the street. All kinds of reports were Standard Oil Building will be on the soath current, one rumour being that he had west corner of Bush and Sansome Street, it just and right here that large members

On one San Fancisco, and will be the last word of the population should work hard and the Nineteenth Century common lands were been captured in Samarkand occasion A wine resembling him was seen in modernity as applied to steel, brick long for a paltry pittance that barely plentiful in England. Is it just to take. and arrested. At the end of his fortnight's and stone construction. A fity-year lease, suffices to keep them alive, while other for personal property what is meant for he went out for the first time, and at a gross rental of $2,000,000 has been people came here and in a few years make public use? The fact that the land had biding in disguise drove & cart out of the town announced by the Anglo and London Paris enough money to retire and live in luxury been taken from the people, and was largely He failed in an attempt to lease Turkes National Bank for a large portion of the and idle self-indulgence for the rest of their held by a few great nobles was one of the tas, and he found that all the roads were ground floor space of the Sansome Street lives

God made man and gave land to provide causes of the Russian Revolution,

Here, in this Colony, I believe practically rigorotsly guarded. The authorities gere frontage of the building

him with food and air to breathe and water all the land belongs to the Crown, and thoroughly suspicious, and Major Bailey

to drink: Is it just that one man in England was also much hampered through sickness

been granted as to make it practically At this period he found it quite impossible which all the spies of Turkestan wero en- should have thousands of acres of land though in some cases rich long leases have to enter Tashkent as a counter-revolution gaged. Dressed now in Russian clothes, while others should have none but the crowd private property, yet in theory here the had broken out. Every house was search Major Bailey left by train for New Boked stums where there is little air or Sunland belongs to the Government and a ed and all suspects, arrested. No fewer hars, spending some six hours en route at fight and no beauty. Is it just f Put that Crows rent has to be paid for it. That is thaa 4,000 persons were shot, and in fact, Samarkand An extraordinary thing question to yourself and think about it no doubt the reason that we are so free great proportion of the men of the upper accurred in Bokhara, for while he was don't answer it baskily, don't brush it aside from taxes in this Colony. It is certain classes of the town were wiped out there the Bolshevik agent who was scooms impractical, but think it out, Is it that the modern systems of land tenure received wireless from just in England has led to idle luxury on the These unfortunate people had a farcical

panying him

I was reading last week an article in

one hand and to squalid poverty on the kind of trial, at which no defence was Moscow asking if any news had been re

Century by Dr. allowed. The head of the Swedish Bed ceived of the Anglo-Indian officer the Nineteenth

has another requirement which, he says, Cross, who had no possible connection with Bailey," Major Bailey helped to draw Scharlieb, that is calculated to make the other Is it just 1-But the prophet Micah politics, was among those shot. They were up the reply to this informing Moscow me thoughtless think. The article is

mercy. Justice and mercy must go stripped of their clothes and kept waiting that it was believed on the information of called "A Terrible Census" and it reistes rod expects to find in mes, and that is naked in the freezing cold until their time spies, that three Europeans, desguised, to Report issued by the Medical Depart together. Mercy can never take the pisos for execution. As a matter of formality one of whom was doubtless Bailey, were at ment of the Ministry of Nations Service of justice. It is not enough to give money- a list of those executed was prepared, but that moment en roste for the Famira on the results of the Medical examination to help such charitable causes ca the Hames was subsequently lost

BANK DIFFICULT ESCAPE of men in England who were liable for mili for poor destitute children, if the fact of During all this period Major Bailey, In the hotel at New Bekhara, Major tary service. They were divided into four those children being poor and destitute is

· remained in hiding, but after the execu Bailey found Mohendra Pratab, the graden. First, those who were quite fit; Jue to injustice. There are people who being naturally unable to enter the town,

notorious Indian agitator, who had spent these numbered 38 per cent. Secondly try to salve their conscience for riches un a considerable portion of time during the those who with some treatment might he justly acquired by giving largely to expected locally that the British force Kar in Berlin, and who, described himself come fibieze were 20 per cent In the charities, but such gifts are no compen as President of the Provisional Govern third grade were these ho could nation la God' aight for injustice Mercy, which was at Mery, would advance, and ment of India Major Bailey got in become fit. These numbered 31 per cent as we were thinking last Bunday morning, he thought better to wait until this had touch with this person, and conversed with The fourth grade were hopeless invalida is an attribute of God Himself, and He been accomplished. But time passed, and bim for over two hours in German. On these numbered 10 per cent. Only 50 per looks to see it reflected in our lives. Our news.come through eventually of the the following day he left for Bokhars cent or a little over half the male papu Lord Himself has-bidden us be merciful tirement of the British and the impos

ten miles distant, Here be lay co-lation of England were in anything like Be ye, therefore, merciful, as your Father ability of anything like an advance into sled for a period of two months, and moral physical heals, and when we ask is merciful, and it His Barmon on Turkesian. This caused the most bitter cented

he had known that the Bol disappointment to the Mohammedan inhi

roport of the presence of Brivnike, the mower suggested by the write tho. Mount He placed more amongst the bitants of Turkestanda

unhealthy surroundings. The housing of they shall obtain mercy IN BOLSHEVIK AECRET SERVICE. officers in that towns fetatious. One is want of enough load, bas housing and beatitudea Blessed are the merciful for night Major Bailey accompanied by 's the working classes bad and nahealthy mil But the prophet Minh adds yet another Major Bailey then realised that he bad number of Russians and Austrian Tho over the districe and not only in the towns requirement justice and mercy are required to get out of Tashkent somehow, and, there wafe, anxious to dscape, roda, qua of the were baly two ways in which this could be town, trossed the railway, and in two days and urban districts. The country cottage by the highest teachers of natural religion. Accomplished either to get employment in reached the Oxus The party numbered are often ill hailt, inconvenient, damp and But in revealed religion something further Bolshevik Administration or to make a twenty-five, and they were mostly harm without ply of clean water, auch is required," to walk Bumbly with thy bolt aurces the desert, which at that season of They had period of prolonged to low such a state of things when we have performed our duty to our God. We have not done all our duty is the judgment of Dr. Scharlieb. in and considerable suffering was impossible. After several weeks Major Bailey by means into which traversed for some days until they the causes of this state of things (there upon us. And we know more of God than would be unwise to go eventually become reached the Kand Railway Here they are other casos no doubt, contributing to Micali did. We have received the revela engaged in the Bolshevik counter espion found the line held by the Bolsheviks, and the time end) is the private organadition which Ji Christ given "uz age service as an Austrian who had lived they had encompte to or under cover and Wherever that a been allowed it, we know thist He has redeemed ns, Ye for two years in America and apoke a little of darknce They then had another three has resulted in luxury on the one band and are not your own for years bought with English. At this moment the Bolshevik days experience of the desert, with severe poverty on the oth the historian J. B

lives, religion is not system of Commimaries, bad received information of shortage of food, being compelled to eat Grin notes in his history of Briain onder pro flod demands-a-place in our the presence of a number of British off the forage for their ponics They came the Roman Empire, Hore, as in Italy or ethics, but cers, who were said to be in okhara across wells here and there, but the wateral, the population probably declined a derrotion to organising the Bokhara force against the in the surface ons was too brackish to the estates of the landed própristors, grew Christian fe Beds. Of these twy wanted details,

ds, but drink, while others were of immense depth larger, and the cultivators sank into sorts) There are many ha profess to be Chris they realised that is was very dangerous one, for instance, was more than 750 ft whose cabins clustered round the luxurious sings who sim at nothing higher than the Work Eventually a sgreement was fixed deep, and it took ten minutes for each villes of their lorde. The late Profesor Brat two requirements of Micah. If they up by which Major Bailey was to do this camel to pull up a bucket Pollock, of Oxford, in his book, The Land do just and "low mercy," they work, and he had no interview with the Finally the little party resched the Per Law speaks of the time when Pete think they have done that can be re- Chief Bolshevik Commissary in order to sian frontier, and unfortunately, at the property in land, so we now underetan quired of them, But he is not the receive his final instructions. Happily this very and of their journey, they ran into was struggling novelty England talk took place in theatrons and the patrol of antive Bolshevik troops who the Middle Ages all land belonged to the Major, who was armed with all kinds of at once opened fire upon taom Their aim King the representative of the nation pasports many of which were fictitious, watery wild, and although Majo Baileydewsted on cadition of ser succeeded in getting his arrangements and his companions disposed of two of the made without-the-close-inspection which Reds none of the fugitivos, uno hits: Aft would have been mado had the exami tion the experience, another five days- taken place in the Commisar?

10 braught Major Belley and his com

of the year, owing to drought and heat, angist Anthroughs tas desert, which waste containe? It seems to me that one of neighbour. God who made us hag claima

diffiantinued at fout wat erst

rendered by the holder, bub

ism-passed--

me the uncal thing though.

personal union with, and personal. Baviour. nothing low than that..

Christian standard 2 Christ bas told us that

we must first of all love God, and then must love our neighbour. That is, indece

high standard 46 sink and one)

is life-time may prové son short, to attai #Bakiandaré not be constant both anythi

Lower, and through the grson of Our Lord W may at length attain 44