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CABLES.

NBARLIER CABLES. THROUGH BEWTER'S AGENCY.]

"MARKING TIME."

TONE OF SOVIET OBSERVATIONS ON TRADE AGREEMENT.

PRESENTAT

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS," TUER

MOIVER. RETIREMENT OF CHIEF BOARDING OFFICER,

Mr. W. McIver, chief boarding offoer, was the recipient, at the Harbour Office, yesterday, of a handsome silver bowl LONDON, February 7th. from the Harbour-master and staff on the Marking time" epitomises M. Chi-occasion of his impending departure from charin's Note to Lord Curon acknow-the Colony on retirement. At the same time ledging receipt of the draft trade agree ment. According to a Moscow telegram, the Soviet pleasurably notes that as re- gards the general conditions no diver gencita exist which are incapable of

settlement between M. Krausin and the British Government Departments con cerned. But the preamble is ambiguously worded," necessitating "exhaustive discus sion." Then follows a catalogue of denials of Britain's accusations in regard to Sovjet activity in Persia, Asia Minor, Bokhara and Afghanistan. The Note counter-accuser the Entente of irrecon- cilsble hostility in Persia, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, the Black Sea and Poland.

GERMAN KVASION.

SEARCH FOR PRETEXTS.

to bombard Barlin.

the opportunity was taken to present Mea Malver with a silver bag and, that they might not feel out in the cold, the two little Misses McIver each had a handsome box of chocolates. The inner courtyard of the Harbour Office was decorated with flags in honour of the occasion, and with these as a back-ground a photograph of the party was taken as a souvenir.

Commander Beckwith, in making the

~FEBRUARY, Sam, 1921.

As in London stage society, one's'place MR. H. G. WELLS ON RUSSIA.

fit in the house is determined by halot, and SALVING THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE for the most part there is no paying to

go to the theatres -

OF THE COUNTRY.

TASK FOR MAXIM GORKY,*!!

In the second of the series of articles written by H. G. Weila after his reture from Soviet Russia he writes of culture in Russia as follows:-

Among the things I wanted most to see amid this tremendous spectacle of social collapes in Bussis was the work of my of this from members of the returning old friend, Maxim Gorky. I had heard labour delegation, and what they told me bad whetted my desire for a closer view of what was going on. Bertrand Russell's account of Gorky's health had also made me anxious on his own account, but I am happy to say that on that score my news is good. Gorky seams as strong and well to me now as he was when I knew him first in 1906, and as a personality he has

grown immensely.

extraordinary and personal one.

It was a very reassuring display of tree speech, for Gorky did not so much argue as denounce, and this in front of two deeply interested English inquirers.

GOBEY RESPECTED.

-

But he has gained the confidence and respect of most of the Bolshevist leaders, and he has become by a kind of necessity the semi-official salvage man under the new regime.

For ons performance ticketa go, let us Ayto professional unions; for another, to Red Army men and their families; for another, to school shildren, and so on. Some selling of tickets goes on, but it is not in the present scheme of things. I had heard Chaliapine in London, but I had not met him personally thers.

We made his sequaintance, this time In Patrograd we dined with him and saw There are two step children, almost something of his very jolly household. grown up, and two little daughters, who speak mies, stiff, correct English, and the youngest of whom dances delightfully.

ко

ÄSTEET DEFIANT. Chaliapine is certainly one of the most

early in 1918.

But the position of the theatre among the arts is peculiat. For the rest of the arts, for literature generally and for acientille, work, the catastrophe of 1917-18 was overwhelming. There Fremained no one to buy books or pictures, and the scientific worker found himself with a salary of rables that dwindled rapidly to less than a Eve-hundredth part of their original value.

If I had no other reason for satis faction about this trip to Roads I should find quite enough in the hope and com- fort our mere presence evidently gave to many of these distinguished men in the House of Science and in the House of Literature and Art.

Upon many of them there had evident by settled a kind of despair of ever seeing or hearing anything of the outer world again. They had been living for three years, very gray and long years, indeed, in a world that seemed sinking down steadily through one degree of privation they had seen something of one or two after another into darkness. Possibly

of the political deputations that have not know but visited Russia-I do manifestly they never expected to see again a free and independent individual walking with an air of baving come quite easily and unofficially from London, and

of its being quite possible nat: only to come but to go again into the lost world of the west. It was like, an unexpected afternoon caller strolling into a cell in jail.

GERMAN REPARATIONS.

DETAILS OF GOODS HANDED

OVER.

The Reparations Commission, in communiqué issued on January 2nd, gava the following, detailed. figures of goods handed over by Genanny to the Allies, in accordance with the Treaty of Ver. Failes, to December 31st, 1920-

Coal-17,818,840 tons.

Shipping (steam and sailing vessels)→ 2,004.729 tons.

River Navigation Material-380,970 tons, Live-stock—380,176 head. Seeds-8,602,389 kilos. Locomotives,871,

Railway Cars--199,585. Motor Lorries—5,000, ......... Permanent Railway Equipment-140,000 tona.***

Agricultural Material-131,505 machines and implements.

Ta addition, Germany has surrendered All the musical people in England know dye-stuffs, chemical products and sub- the work of Glazounov. He has conduct marine cables. ed concerts in London and is an honorary Up to December 31st. Germany had doctor bath of Oxford and Cambridge. I restored to France 13,546 agricultural was very deeply touched by my meeting machines. 181,161 tons of industrial mate with him. He used to be a very big, rial. a number of locomotives and rail- forid man, but now he is pallid and very way cars, and works of art and personal much fallen away, so that his clothes property. The Reparations Commission hang loosely on him. He came and talk have distributed the surrendered goods ed of his friends.Sir Hubert Parry and among the various Allied countries, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. He told nithough the allotment of telegraph me he still composed, but that his stock cables, submitted to the conference of of music paper was almost exhausted. experts at Washington, has not yet been

Then there will be no more!"

settled-French Wireltan.

HUNGRY FOR · PLEASURE.

MR. SMILLIE AND THE DUKES IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO BE HAPPY.

revolution had the formation of a Soviet Maiver to accept, on behalf of the intellectual life of the world. He haegard as the first French revolution, tion, not I had my friends in Eughind. be impossible, that people of that class

wonderful things in Bussis at the present time. He la the artist defiant and magni-; beent. Off stage he has much the same vitality and the abounding humour that Russell wrote that Gorky was dying and made so delightful our experience. presentations, said: Mr. Malver, We that perhaps culture in Russis was dying,He refuses absolutely to sing except for pay00,000 roubles a performance, have asked you to come here this morning too, Russell, I think was betrayed they say, which is nearly £15-and when little time before you actually leave the an artistic contemplation of dark and the markets get too tight he insists upon Colony to present you with a souvenir purple. He found Gorky in bed and of affection and respect from the Harbour afficted by a fit of coughing and his payment in flour or eggs or the like. What he demands he gets, for Chaliapine Department. You have been 28 years in imagination made the most of it.

Gorky's position in Russia is a quite on strike would leave. too dismal & hole this department and have served with me

Ho is altogether in the theatrical world of personally for some fourteen years; I could have wished that you might have no more of a Communist than I am, and Petrograd. So it is that he maintains what is perhaps the last fairly comfort stayed a few years longer and seen my I have heard him argue with the utmostable home in Russia, and Mme. Ohalia time through, but your health and that freedom in his flat against the extremist pine we found so unbroken by the re- of your family come first. By your depositions with such men-as Boknies, revolution that she asked us what people LONDON, February ath, parture the Government loses a trusted cently head of the extraordinary commis- were wearing in London. The last The Germans are busy finding pretexts official and one hard to replace, and the sion in Petersburg, and Zalutsky, one of fashion papers she had seen, thanks to for not complying with the Allies de public, a courteous and obliging servant. the rising leaders of the Communist the blockade, dated from somewhere

Through the war, Hongkong was a port party,

I said there would be much more and mands. According to the Lokal Anzeiger, of very considerable importance to the

that roon. He doubted it. He spoke of reservations will be made with regards Empire, when shipping was the life blood

London and Oxford. I could see that ho was consumed by an to disarmament in East Prussia, which of the nation, and some 29,000 ships, re-

almost intolerablo General von Speckt, who was present at tonnage, were handled here by depleted

longing for some great city full of life, presenting fifty millions of ocean-going

city with abundance, with pleasant the conference of Premiers in Berlin, has staff. From 1916 you were my assistant and

crowds, a city that would give him still

Speaking at Newcastle recently, Mr. declared is vital for Germany.

He were of great help to me generaly. You

sudience in warm, brightly lighted places. Robert Smillie said he bad never spoken arted that the Polish demobilsation is can take it, from me that you dig

token to him that such things could still the Duke of Northumberland. The latter When I was there I was a sort of living against the Duke of Northumberland as duty well and truly, I am handing you A pretence and the Poles could in this cap filled to the brim with good single day's good maroh be in a position wishes from us all for your future health of the value of Western science and cul-fighting, robbery, murder and the wildested in the twilight, and the low lines of

He is possessed by a passionate, senso The new crude social organisation, which gave on the cold, gray.Neva, deserts I do not know sufficient about him be. He turned his back on the window might be, and probably was, as honest

and sincere as he was himself. wealth, prosperity and long life-to draw a well-earned pension and sometimes tare and by the necessity of preserving disorder, had no place for them. It had the fortress prison of St. Peter and St. about him. What I speak against is the personally to give an honest opinion The Bolshevist bogoy is also being, rethink kindly of your many old friends in the intellectual continuity of Russian life forgotten them. For scientific men at Paul suscitated. According to the Freiheit, Hongkong.

-through these dark years of famine and first the Soviet. Government had a little

class of which he is onc. the Communista in Bavaria are urging a

In England there will be no revolu It is quito imposible, or ought to Commander Beckwith then asked Mrs. war and social stresa-with the general

which had "no need for chemists Government as well as an alliance with Harbour Department, & silver bag as a found a steady supporter in Lenin

many good friends in England,”

should have the fullest amount of hap- Russia against the "Entente.

These classes of workers, vitally im

I was loath to leave him, and he was piness, knowing that they have tena of moments of their regard. He and the His work illuminates, the situation to portant to every civilized system, were loath to let me go. Seeing all these dis thousands of pounds per week income RUBBER PAVING IN LONDON,sta sincerely hoped that she and her an extraordinary degree, because it reduced, therefore, to a state of the tinguished men living a sort of refugees produced by other people and not by family had many long years of health and collects together a number of significant utmost privation and misery. It was to life among the impoverished ruins of the themselves, and that the women and happiness in store for them all.

factors and makes the essentially cata their assistance and salvation that fallen imperialist system has made me children of those who produce are living Mr. Melver, in acknowledging the gift, strophic nature of the Russian sitaation Gorky's first efforts were directed.

realize how helplessly men of exceptional in penury and poverty." said that on an occasion of this kind, oné plain.

SALVAGE ESTABLISHMENTS.

gifta depend on securely organized civiliza Mr. Smillie said with regard to Na- felt handicapped in not being able to

The Russian smash at the end of 1917

Zion, LONDON, February 6th.

tionalisation it was asserted that they Thanks very largely to him and to the express one's feelings adequately in words was certainly the most complete that

The ordinary man can turn from this had failed. They had not failed. Wo It is stated that the recent experiment to those who had always shown every has ever happened to any modern social more creative intelligence in the Bolshe in paving a strect in the Borough with kindness, Daring his period of service organization. After the failure of the rist Government, there now has been to that occupation. He can be a sailor have only made a beginning. I never rubber sheets having proved satisfactory, in the Colony, he had looked forward to Kerensky Government to make peace and organised a group of salvage establish- or worker in a factory, or a digger, or by such a Government as we have at the a what not. He is under the general Fresent time, I have no desire to na- it has been suggested that the West- the day of retirement, but now, as the of the British naval authorities to relieve I ments" of "which the best" and, most necessity to work, but he has no internationalise the mines and have them carried minister City Council adopt a similar time approached, his feelings were those the military situation in the Baltic, the fully developed is the House of Science demon which coripels him to particular on under bureaucratic control, but I feel scheme for deadening sounds in the of mingled joy and regret. He hoped to shattered Russian armies, weapons in in Petrograd in the ancient palace of the thing and nothing else, which compels sure the ultimate ownership by the people neighbourhood of Charing Cross Hospital. enjoy his retirement but he was sure he hand, hroke up and rolled back upon Archduchess Marie Pavlova, The idea is that the schieme, it successful, would often think of the days he spent in Rossis a Blood of peasant soldiers, making Hore we saw the headquarters of the might be extended to all streets in the Hongkong and wish he could retura and for home, without hope, without supplies, social rationing system which provides proximity of hospitals. It is stated that meet the old friends in the department without discipline. That time of debacle as well as it can for the needs of 1.000 although the initial cost is roughly double, and in the Colony generally. He thanked ne s time of complete social disorder. scientific workers and their dependents, rubber-blocks would long outlast wooden Commander Beek with very much indeed It was social dissolution

in all perhaps for 10,000 people. At this for the kind remarks made about him and In many parts of Russia there was centre they not only draw their food his services to the department; if those peasant revolt. There was chafenu burn- rations, but they can get baths and a BONDS OF THE ENTENTE.services had been appreciated by his chiefing, often accompanied by quite horrible barber, tailoring, cobbling and like con

and all others concerned, he was satisfied. atrocities. It was an explosion of the reniences. There is even a small stock FRENCH PREMIER'S ADDRESS. During the way, as Commander Beckwith very worst side of human nature's des-of boots and clothing. There are bed

bad remarked, the staff had to work short pair; and for most of the abominations rooms and a sort of hospital accommoda- handed, and more work was expected of committed the Bolshevik are about nation for cases of weakness and ill health. A Havas message says:—

them, in order to facilitate the shipping responsible as the Government of Aus It was to me one of the strangest of my Russian experiences to go to this M. Briand read to the Chamber and frequenting the port. The existing staff tralia. the Senate a communication from the was able to keep the office open without People would be held up and robbed institution and to meet there as care- Government about the Paris Conference, a break for three years, holidays and Sun- M. Briand declared that the essential day included, and on the whole he thought result of the conference was the tighten their efforts were appreciated by the pub ing of the bonds of the Entente, con-lic. He had to thank Commander Beck solidating the peace front, which will with personally for all his halp. He would prevail over all resistance, and oblige be leaving the service worse off if it had the responsible for the ruins of France not been for the Harbour-master, who was to sequit their debta. Parliament ap- always easy to approach and willing to plauded unanimously..

PROPOSED FOR HOSPITAL DISTRICTS.

blocks.

PARIS, February 7th.

- GREEK CABINET.

listen to legitimate grievances and put them forward for redress. As Commander Beckwith was about to go on leave he took the opportunity of wishing him a NEW PREMIER'S STATEMENT good holiday, and a return with redoubled

REGARDING, M. VENIZELOS,

vigour.

He thanked them all for the handsome presents made to himself and ATHENS, February Sth his family and assured them that the gifts The Royalist M. Callogeropoulos is would always be treasured as coming from forming a Cabinet including the late the department and as souvenirs of the Cabinet Ministers, and, ulso, M. Theor. Colony where the best part of their lives tokis, ex-Minister at Berlin:

had been spent.

ז'

STRUGGLE OF 1918.. ·

'EFECTS OF BLOCKADE.

to be a particular thing or to die.

him

desired to have the mines nationalised

But a Chaliapine must be a singer or of their own mining property is as suro nothing: Favloff is Pavioff, and Glare as that to-morrow's sun will rise." und. So long as they can go on doing their particular thing suck mon will v and flourish

LEADERS ARE DYING.”

Chaliapine still acte and bike every other form of trading, is illegal sings magnificently in absoluto defiance of Probably the books will be distributed to every communist principle. Paylofi con schools and other institutions. In this tinues his marvelous researches in an old matter of book distribution the Bolshevist at sad with his study piled up with authorities are clearly at a logs. They are potatoes and carrets he grows in nis sparo a loss upon very many such matters. time. Glazounov will compore nntil his In regard to the intellectual life of the Paper runs out. But many of the others community, one discovers that Marxist o are evidently atriekea much harder.

munism is without plans and without ideas.

Marzie communism has always The mortality among the intellectually been a theory of revelation, a theory not distinguishod men of Russia has been merely incking in creative and constructive terribly high Much, no doubt, has been idless, but hostile to creative and construe due to the general hardship of life, but in tive ideas.

any cases I believe that sheer mortifica

Every communist orator has been train- son of great gifts become futilo has been ed to condema utopianism; that is to say the determining cause.

hag been trained to condemn intellige 1919 then they could have lived in a Kefir man of the older type is quite such

They could no more live in Russia of planning. Not even the British business kraal. Science, art and literature are hot believer in things righting themselves and house plante, demanding warmth and in muddling through a these Marrists, respect and service

government now

even to their shirts in open daylight in worn and unprosperous looking figures the streets of Petrograd and Moscow, some of the great survivors of the no one interfering Murdered bodies lay Russian scientific world. Here were such a whole day, with passengers on the foot men as Oldenburg, the Orientalist; walk going to and fro. Armed men, Karpinsky, the geologist; Pavelaff, the often professing to be Red Guards, enter Nobel prize, man; Radloff, Bielopolsky ed houses and looted and murdered.

and the like-names of world-wide cele brity, They asked me a multitude of The early months of 3918 saw a violent questions about recent scientific progrese struggle of the new Bolshevist Govern- the world outside of Russia, and made ment, not only with counter-revolution, me ashamed of my frightful ignorance of

It is a paradox of science that it alters finds itself face to face, among a multipli much matters. but with robbers and brigands of every

whole world and is produced by the genius city of other constructive problems, with description. It was not until the summer

of men who need protection and help more the problem of sustaining scientific life, of of 1018 and after thousands of looters If I had known that this would happen than any other class of workersg

sustaining thought and discussion, of pro- The collapse of the Russian imperial moting artistic creation. Marz, the pro and plunderers had been shot that life would have taken some sort of a report began to be ordinarily safe again in the with me. Our blockade has cut them system has smashed up all shelters in which phet, and his sacred book supply it with no streets of Russia's great towns.

off from all scientific literature outside such things could exist. The crude land at all in the matter. For a time Russia was not a civiliza of Russia. They are without new instruinto bourgeoisie and proletarist, which se

Marrian philosophy, which divides all men tion, but a torrent of lawless violence, ments. They are short of paper. The with a weak Central Government of in- work they do has to go to unwarmed experienced rulers fighting not only laboratories. It is amazing that they do against unintelligent. foreign intervention any work at all, yet they are getting but against the most complete internal work done, CABLE disorder. It is from such chaotio condi- Paviott is carrying on research of tions that Russia still struggles to astonishing scope and ingenuity on the mentality of animals. Manuchin claims Art, literature, science-all the refine to have worked out an effectual cure for ments and elaboration of life, all that tuberculosis, even in advanced cases, and

· [THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY-), we bean by civilization were involved so on. I have brought back abstreets of in this torrential catastrophe. For a Manuchin's work for translation and NAVAL DEFENCE IN THE PACIFIC, time the most stable thing in Russinti publication here, and they are now being NEW YORK, February 7th.

culture was the theatre. There stood put into English. Mr. Chamberlain's statement regarding

the theatres and nobody wanted to loot The scientific spirit is a wonderful the cancellation of inter-Allied debts, has

SYDNEY, February 6th.

them or destroy them. The artists were spirit. If Petrograd starves this winter created a sensation at Washington and The Sunday Times mys the Australian accustomed to meet and work in then the House of Science, unless meantime has evoked criticism of the Government warship Brisbane is about to convey and went on meeting and working. The some special effort is made on its behalf, for concealing information on the subject. Admiral Grant, of the Naval Administra tradition of official subsidies held good will starvs too. But these scientific men State Treasury officials decline to comtion Board, to Singapore to participate Bo, quite amazing, Russian dranistic and said very little to me about the possibility ment, but intimate that a proposal may in an important conference of senior operatic life kept on through the most of sending them supplies. have been made anofficially. If so, it was officers of the East Indian, China, Cana extreme storms of violence, and keeps The House of Literature and Art talked not regarded seriously,

dian, New Zealand and South, African: on to this day.”

little of want and miseries, but not the {Squadrons on the question of zaval In Petrograd we found that there were about was the possibility of getting land and America the production of goodAny one who knows human nature wilk scientific men. What they were keen MARSHAL PILUDSKI IN PARIS fence in the Pacife..

scientific publications. PARIE, February 7th.

M.Callogeropoulos assorted that he is friendly to the Entente, and declared that the presence of M. Venizelos. at the London Conference in any capacity was FAR EASTERN inadmissible.

INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S STATEMENT CREATES SENSATION.

NEWS.

PALESTINE IMMIGRATION.

10,000 IN A YEAR

JERUBAIZU, February 7th.

de:

Last year's pioneer Jewish immigrants numbered 10,000, including 3,000 re- patriated, 3,000 from the Ukraine, the Crimen and Armenia, and 3,500 from Lithuania, Poland, Galicia and Germany FALL OF AN ARCHDEACON.

A Havas message says:- Marshal Piludsky, head of the Polish State, arrived this morning at Paris and was received at the station by M. Briand Marshal Foch and General Weygand. Marshal "Piludeki visited M. Millerand and in the afternoon deposited a wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier.

HAPSBURG RESTORATION

MOVEMENT. -

KING KARL OF HUNGARY ↑

GENEVA, February- ethi Hapsburg partisans held a conclave st St. Moritz and decided that the ex Emperor - Karl must reach Budapest by Easter, as Hungary wants a King.

Continued at foot of nezl Column.) adultery.

FOUND GUILTY OF ADULTERY.

LONDON, February 6th. The Consistory Court has found Arch deacon Wakeford, of Stow, Preceator and Canon of Lincoln Cathedral, guilty of

energe.

#!

TORTY SHOWS OPERATING.

1

NO FIXED PROGRAMME. Bolshevism, having no schemce, must im. all social life as stupidly simple class war, provine, therofore, clumsily, and is reduced for collective mental life, but it is to the wreckage of the intellectual life of the old had no knowledge of conditions necessary to these pathetic attempts to salvage the credit of the Bolshevist Government that it order, and that life is very sick and na has now arisen to the danger of universal happy and seems likely to die on its hands. intellectual destruction in Hussis and that, it is not simply scientific and literary in spite of the blockade and the unending work and workers that Maxim Gorky. struggle against mbsidized revolts and trying to salvage in Rusia. There is a invasions with which we and the French third and still more carious salvage or plague Russin, it is now permitting and ganization associated with him. This is helping tl with the house of science is the headquarters in the former British embassy. these kalvige organizations, ** the expertize commission, which hag im

house of literature and art. Writing of When a social order "based on private new books, except for some poetry, and proporty crushes, when private property in painting of pletures have cessed in Russia, with some abruptness and no qualifications but the bulk of the writers and artists have abolished, this does not abolish and destroy found employment upon the grandiose things which have hitherte constituted pra- scheme for the publicatios of a sort of rate property, Houses and their gear ro. i encyclopedia of literature of the main standing, still being occupied and Russian

In this strange Bussis of conflict, cold, when those people have fled.

used by people who had them before, except actually going on now a literary tanks that tion a hose, or take over famine and pitiful privations, there is When the Bolshevist anthorities requis would be inconceivable in the rich England they find themselves faced by this problem deserted palace, and the rich America of to-day. In Eug of the gear, da

more than forty shows 'going on every

Eiteratura at popular prices has practically understand that there has been a certain might In Moscow we found very much

KNOWLEDGE APPRECIATED,

[*] ceased ̋now." the same state of affairs. We heard

esmount of quiet annexation of desirable Chaliapine, the greatest of setors and They valus knowledge more than bread.

Because of the price of paper the mental things by madvertent officials and perhaps singers, in The Barber of Seville" and Upon that matter I hope I may be of food of the English and American mance less inadvertently by their wives, but the in Chovanching." The admirable or some help to them. I got them to form authority cares a rap The Balsbevist od it is set very stently against looting dwindles and deteriorates, and, nobody in general spirit of Bolshevism is quite honest, chestra was variously attired but the committee to make me out a list of all Government is 24-est a shade above that and such like developments of individual conductor still hold out valiantly in ewal books and publications of which they stood level. In starving Russin hundreds of enterprise, lowtails and white tie. We saw per in need, and I have brought this list people are working upon translations, and LOOTING POLITICAL formance of Badko." We saw Monar back to the secretary of the Royal Society the books they translate are being. Bey up There has evidently been comparatively chol in Tzarevitch Alexei" and as Jage of London, which had already been stir and printed works which may presently little looting either in Petrograd or Mon- in Othello," with me. Gorky-Mime, ring in this matter, give the new Rasia such a knowledge of cow, since the days of the debecis. · Loot. Andreievna as Desdemona.sk p Funds will be needed, three or four world thought as no other people will ing died against the wall in Moscow in

When one faced the stage it was as thousand pounds perhaps the address of possess. I have seen some of the booka.

the spring of 1919 In guest houses, and if nothing had changed in Bussin, but the secretory, of the Royal Society to

FRAGMENTARY BY write

sch liks places noted that everything when the emtain fell and one turned to Burlington House, W-but assent of the Of the work going on "I may

with wes numbered and listed, no the audience, one realized the revolution. Bolshevist Government and our own to no certaints because, like everything else For greater security, there has been a There were now no brilliant uniforms, this mental provisioning of Russia has in the ruined country, this creative work gathering together and cataloguing of no evening dress in the bores and stalls, been secured, and in a little time I hope The audience was a uniform zase of the first parcels of books will be going people the same sort of people every through, to these men who have been cut where, attentive, good humoured, well off for so long from the general mental behaved. and shabby.

life of the world.

la eservially improvised and fragmentary everything that could claim to be a work How tips world literature is to be distri. of art by this expertise commission, and hated to the Russian people I do not know the palace that once theltered the British The book abops are closed, and book selling embassy is now. like some congested seconde

(Continued at foot of neet cólíma.) band art shop in Brompton road,