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LIFE IN DUBLIN,"

YOUNG ENGLISH OFFICER'S

IMPRESSIONS,

THE HONGKỤNG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13mm, 1921.

girl passing stopped casually and looked in at a shop-window.

At the corner of Suffolk-street there was a crowd. The faces of the men and women in the crowd sought an exi aplanation here-vore a faintly-cynical;

faintly unused, expression,

Wo reproduce from the Times an pression of life in Dublin to-day by young Englishman, unconnected with the staff of any newspaper, who determined, on his release from military duties, to visit Ireland and to form his own opinions:-

A middle-aged spinster lady, eating a fishcourse, laid down her folk sharply.

That's a bomb!"

aries standing in a lorry.

"We do want indipendence. But if the Government would frankly call a free conference now and proclaim cruce. making at the same thie a definite offer, soun thing might be done.

tion.

relations i

{it!"

THE NEW RUSSIA. COMMUNIST STAGE OVER. įSOCIALISM THROUGH CAPITALISM. The Special Commissioner of the Loudon Observer, writing from Riga recently, said;-.

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END

OF THE PROLETARLAN

DICTATORSHIP.""

THE CONCESSIONS,

4.

Lit

STATE-MADE CRIMINALS. LIVES RUINED-BY. SAVAGE SENTENCES..

· restored. ?

As to the Dictatorship, tuere empty phrase." There is the Dictator- already proofs the it is nothing but a ship of the pensants, of hunger, of neces site, but not sence of the proletarian victions to the Home Office, because this "1. am going to said this list pf.com- May I ask what you call an offer "i VIE

Ulater would come into the Doni-

dictatorship, Од the contrary, the sort of offenen«should really be made Hulle! What's up?"

inion of Ireland as a federated State

workers are already murmuring that.thenow to see how many people in the The Communist stage of the Russian the great sufferings of the Revolution which I had hoped had passed away, but interests and privileges they earned by country have been ruined by a system for their own use, I suppose.",

"Oh! Bagging somebody else's piano and if all the rights that Canada has For that Australia has were granted es,

revolution is over-that is the meaning are being sacrificed in favour of the

which some "people so cowans including, of course, fiscal, autonomy,

af Lenin's utterances since the Tenth they actually attempt to organise them Wallace, K.C., chairman of the London pensants. But they not only protest- And there they were., Sat a gentle

These remarks were made by Sir Robert we might waive our demand for separa-Communist Congress. The new stage of selves so as to be able to get along Sessions. recently, then he had beford man in green this time, but a tall young

the revolution. Lenin christens "State is a kind of mass movement to desert pleaded guilty to stealing from the Bon without the aid of the State, and there him Jane Williams, aged eighty-one, who man in khaki anda Glengarry cap. "And the Army and Navy-Foreign Capitalism." Now be openly proclaims big industry and start little shops Marche at Brixton. bandishing a revolver as though it were Everybody else in the dining room hairbrush, and, lounging about the

not only the inevitable return of to make goods for the peasants. This A large number of convictions were re Stopped eating for a nioment..

"Yes,street, which was otherwise empty, half- We must have control of our ports; enpitalism, but makes it the aim of the isorganising industry and corded against her, dating, from lock, that's a bomb," they agreed-and weat armed. Now there is probably no more country. Fercigo relations must be our development. To Conununists who have plan. Here is where the new aspect of penal servinde, and there had since been

a-dozen similar young men, similarly and why British garrison in a free Communist Party o asist capitalistic threatening to smash all chance of reviv. when she received six months for the

ing centralised production according to In 1822 she was sentenced to seven years? on with their talk and their food. respectable-lanking street, in the worldcone: rn na much as the concern of

In any other city of the civilised world than Suffolk-street, Dublin. And yet, Canada, Australia, and South Africa been accustomed to speak for the last the thours of concession to foreign terms of penal witade words been the sound would have been put down sure enough, there was a piano rakishly no more and no less,

three years about Communism as already

capitalists comes in.

teed years, as well as smaller sratences. simply to a motor-ear tyre bursting. But and mysteriously appearing out of an Who wants the Government of Irr accomplished in Russia, this admission

that it should have bem nossible for this city was Dublin, and the hour the upstairs window, slowly and solemnly land Act? the presently added). Why, of

descending into the armis, of four Auxili-102 Irish M.P.'s, not one has voted for must be a horrible shock; and I am sure started, the idea was to permit, foreign for her second offence, the theft of fannel, When the first talk of enacessions was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude normal one for such occurrences.

A young woman of thirty-four to bo And so the peaceful inhabitants of the

tremendous discussion is going on now capital only in the remotest parts of possibly worth 1 sd.. serms incredible," hotel went on with their dinner. The Only one other impression was needed

In reply to my questioning, he went in Russia, though it is very carefully sup its co-operation, but keeping foreignOf course, when she came out of penal Russia, thus getting the advantages of said Mr. Arthur Bryan, who defended. fooly person who took any interest in the to stultify the faculty of surprise. on ro speak of the rank and 6 of the

maiter was a traveller who had arrived Prosperity now. is the keynote of Irish Republican Army as being inspir. pressed.

enpital strictly isolated. The problem servitude, her relatives dead, and her at Westlandrow half an hour earlier. Grafinu-street, especially on a hot May ed by a mystical passion of nationality." To him the incidery conveyed two facts afternoon when everybody is out, shop- adding that mistakes had been made and articles, in which he in his extra to develop the remote parts of Russin, how could she be honest the anest I take it chiefly from Lenin's speeches task of foreign concessions is now not it was not possible for her to be honest wears now "quite a different aspect. The friends having nothing to do with her, this the uccurrence really was a normal ping orgamusing themselves, and motor by their leaders. He spoke of the sl by reason of the hollowness of its es- Kerbs. You do not expect to see charg. turning home, he heard of the 13 assassition of the unseen irreconcilables. But believed that during the next few years boueless, hopeless. oue in the city's life and that the bamb, ears and cars and pony-enṛta line theness of that Sunday evening when, re-ordinary brutal way smashes the oppe

but to create centres of gravitation for sasage sentence, as that? the revival of Hussian industry. It is bez prison friends to fly to She was

She had odly" plosion, was hot heavily charged,, huting up such a thoroughfare, with nosinations.

That was a bad day for he himself is not breken, and is far from it will be necessary to create an ex- was probably a ensing i tonated. more warning than its own clatter, an Ireland:"

ans, sense of tragedy or failure..

If she is mariminal." concluded Mr., His Hastily finishing his dinner, the new inmense lorry, caged in with wire-net-

CURFEW PARLIAMENT.

tremendous personality is as active as

tremely privileged position for workers Bryan dramatically, I say it is arrival went out, following the direction ting and bristling with rifles balanced at

In his brilliant sketch of Lenin,

in order tas attract, them into factories, her fault, but the fault of the State not Our Curlew Parliament of nights be from which, two or three streets away, the present" by a cure of soldiers in fore the hotel. Are was not so luminous Maxim Gorky said that Lenin's life of the grain and other supplies received which allowed these savage surtens the sound bad come. He was still exsteel helmrt. You might as well expect

as tax will not enable the Government Sir Robert said that William was Epectant of commotion. At the corner of such an apparition in Bond-street.

as the author of Imaginings and titanic activity obliterated his. owz (the street two soldiers - stoud laughing And then came across a young clerk in Reveries" in his quiet study.

theory that personality does not count to supply the workers in transport and gained nearly fifty years ago, dod ho Homegoers, a few, were the office who has a curfew pass and was expressed, perhaps more truly because in the history of human progress-only For the rost Lenin will depend entirelvia home in order that she shou hê not end other most indispensable industries. doped it would be possible to find her with a girl. Spassing down Dawson-street. Atram held up in the small, hours by Black-more chaotically, the Dublin of this day: Lenin's astounding, courage and will on foreign capital. To attinet workers. Der days in prison.

economic forces count. To Gorky. The Irish lawyer kept his own counsel and the American" journalist contributed were creating a new Russia, despite little; the middle aged land agent, how economic forceS. ever, had to say that in his part of the country a farmer's land which in pre-war times had een worth $25 was now worth £50, and that the ambition of the farmers was not Ireland Republic but an Ireland in which a man can till his soil in peace and hand, it down in fee- simple to his children.

Contradictory to this view was that old inndowner, descendant of Grattan, who

clanked past Group of soldiers, young men, and girls were standing about the north side of Stephen's Green exchang {ing—obriously-evening pleasantries,

When night finally closed down and as earlow' hour approached, the side of the people wet. hurrying over the O'Connell Bridge towards the tram junction at the Nelson Pillar. The street lamps were lit Land there were vague, shadowy masses of people through which one had to press Fone's way. Black motor cars containing mysterious" booking men rushed out of

and-Tans.

"Most of them were drunk, and they swore at me and asked for my pass, and swore at my again and loosed off their rifles and drove away.”

"A.E."

Several times-so crowded the impres- signs of these first few days after a seven years' absence--everal times one had to remind oneself of "why one was there; and, remembering, to burry off to Merrion-square, where, in a red-brick

But it

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LENIN UNDAUNTED- We see now the "theary of economic forces justified. But, defeated in the frontal attack on economic forces. Lenin is not surrendering, but attempting an encircling movement. He is now SO enthusiastic about the possibilities of re construction, and of Socialism through reconstruction, that he does not grasp

concessionaires will be permitted to im- port food and pay workers much higher wages than customary-

THE MONEY PROBLEM.

Sentence was postpouc«l,"

-folk who have comparati ly little likely to become & gritti catastrophe. money-will suffer severely. This is

The Government is discussing mea-

The finance problem, which has trouble Communists bat little for the

at the years they were so confident sures for the coinage of, sile many for that money was dying & natural death" nullifying paper man, opening the that they could afford to joke over the the back encouraging banking accounts, "historical services of the printing etc. The joint congress of the Soviet, Press now threatens, to become most the Perle's Reonom, League, the trade dangerous. It sounds incredible, bap it unions on May 15th, is likely to prove is a fact, that Russia, with hundreds of of decisive interest. The heads of the

College Green at breakneck speed like Georgian house which rivals anything in had fought the constitutional fight for the extent of the failure. That is one thousands of millions of paper money, People's Economy Jengue, are enthusias bats or night insects. The town alkoge. Bath or Brighton, "A.E." presides like upwards of a generation and whose clen-explanation of his almost cynical frank- suired not from too much, but rather tically, supporting the new course. Theip

ther became rather mysterious. ...

the reincarnation of an ancient Irish Half an hour inter-silence. I looked hurd. George Russell stands for a sec net of a window high up, and saw spires,tion of Ireland not alone by the essen chimneys, roof-tops bathed in moonlight, tially Irish quality of his mind, but by and beard sound and rifle reason of his physique, the stature of the shot.

man, the massive heart and nutbrown board.

An

À GENTLEMAN IN GREES.

ness.

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ched fist is raised to-day at the methods of the Crown.

Lenin's new theory is that, possessing from want of, moves. The Bolte rik organ," Economic Life openly advo They rush about our country roads full power, the State will be able to con- Printing 'ress never satisfied the de cates the denationalisation of small in in their lorries, firing their rifles, and trol capitalist development, permitting mand. any necessary works were fluste frightening our wives, and daughters, only the amount of capitalism it thinks stopped for lick of money. The sluggish belief in decrees and sive

"it is time to throw aside the murdering.

If so much as good, and not a grain more, and that reason is that the money wever the desire to subordinate small industry hair of the heat of one of my family or then the Communist Party will manage relatud.. Russian pensants who once to a nationalised big one." Within the any of my dependents is touched-Re- capitalism till by

Rome method it received money cold never spend it tremendous organisation of the People's member, it's a vendetta! "It's blood for succeeds in converting it into Socialism. in for lack of manufactured goods, Economy League there are blood and life for life. The Irish Apparently Lenin is coving back to the se, accumulated millions. The mo- semptoms of transforming diferent bran noticeable people will not forget this thing unto evolutionary doctrines of Socialism. He ment the towns are able to offer mand ches of industry into big syndicates We the third and fourth generation.

retains, however, both his chief theories:factured goods, the peasants will food will be extremely interesting to follow We were prospering, my friend the Proletarian dictatorship and economy by Press with their stupendous heaps of the different aditude of ur made unions country was settling down; and then-pian. Both these pillars of Lenin's com

The value of money will fall and heads of the People's-Fronomy this gang of assassins. And the work of munism are incompatible with capital: endously, and the workers in towns League to the new aspects of summi

Lism, and Lenin is bound to give way. Continued at foot of next column.) policy,

All Governments are rotten-though Next morning that first curious im their individual members may be honest ression multiplied Turning into Nas men because they act not upon what saa-street I looked down the exceptional is right, but in obedience to forers more y long barrel of a revolver, the owner powerful than themselves. of which was a young genibman in a Irish have hatred of England; our dark green uniform, sitting on a lorry, hatred is of the English Government, smoking a cigarette. his finger-visibly which treats Ireland, and has so treated on the trigger. The lorry rattled op, a ¡her through centuries, as a slave race.

ours lifetime undone.”

Droney.

THE

WORLD THEATRE

By kind permission of Col. Wyndham & Officers

THE BAND OF 2ND WILTS.

will play

9.15 p.m. THURSDAY, 14th July.