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THE COMMUNIST TERROR IN RUSSIA.

- PRINCE DOLGORUKOFF

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THE WEEK'S DIARY.

To-day.

Rugby: Club 1. K.O.S.B.'.. Happy Valley, 3.30 p.m.

Dinner dance, Cafe Parisien, 8

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43rd Yearly meeting Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd., St. George's Building, 11.20 min

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Tennis Tournament Last week-end, writes a Forth (details in sports column daily).

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel China Daily News correspondent The black moter lorry which from Suchien, N. Ku, on March Savoy, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 nightly leaves the courtyard of the 10th. Suchien startled by | P.I. Lubianka Prison at Moscow with rumours that preparation was Branch) annual meeting. Mesare. British Legion (H.E. and China corpses of persons executed in the be made here for some tens of thou Jardine, Matheson's, 5.15 p.m.

sands of soldiers. What did it basement of the most dreaded menns i was the query on everyone's Cheka prison in Russia recently lips. Wore we coming into the war took the body of another Russian zone! All were very much relieved Prince to a nameless grave in the by later reports that they were Marshal Sun Chuan Fang's men, suburbs of Moscow.

that they were coming to reat, and According to an item published that people were not to be afraid, in the Fercheraya Moska (Evening for whatever the soldiers bought Moscow) nowspaper Prince Dof gorukoff was executed by order of would be paid for.. His men in the past have left's good name behind the Soviet Peoples Commissara.

Accompanied by eighteen other them. We were quite out of the men sentenced to capital punish-world for about a week or 10 days, with no mail coming in and much ment Prince Dolgorukoff was ma difficulty in sending it out, but that ched into the basement of the

has passed and we are getting Lubianka Prisen where a single re volver shot in the back of the head papers again. killed him and his companions in turn.

H.M.8. Danae dance, Lane, Craw- ford's Restaurant, 8.45 p.m.; H.M.S. Titania and Submarine's dance, "Helena May Institute, 8.43 p.m.

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Queen's Theatre: "Her Night."

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Star Theatre: "The Lotus Eater" Principal MailsInward: Europe 4 Negapatam, letters (Eumacus). Friday.

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Tea Dances B.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy, King Edward Hotel, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

Diocesan Girls' School annual speech day. Prize Distribution by Mr. W. Hornell, C.LE., M.A. (Vice-Chancellor, Hong Kong (Uni-| aversity), 5 p.m.

It looks as if, when China's civil wars are ended, there will be a big The execution of the Prince ac job waiting to be tackled in the cording to the Soviet newspaper tufei. Everybody declares, that, has brought to light a sordid story in the country districts, never has of greed and treachery story. The there been anything like it. Some Prince had twice attempted to en- of their doings are unwriteable. ter Russia to visit estates in the Our soldiers are out most of the Kursk district where his family time, but as soon as they reach the hal hidden a store of treasure. disturbed districts the rufet change Last November Prince Dolgoruinto ordinary farmers. It is too koff met a Russian in Paris who casy a way of growing rich and the claimed to have influence with the ordinary people are being demoral Soviet Legation there. This Rua-ized by it. sinn offered to obtain false pass- Your correspondent heard of ports to enter Russia and volunteer case the other day which shows that ed to accompany the Prince in

some deliberately choose the excite order to show that there was no ment of this life. In a rich cou treachery intended. Crossing the

try house, near here, there lived a Polish-Russian frontier the pair young woman of about 20 years, finally reached Kursk, where, in who was betrothed to a member of due course, Prince Dolgorukoff another wealthy family in a neigh- found the family treasure untouch bouring village.

She was never ed. He divided the treasure with allowed outside the door and her his guide, as arranged. A few homestead was well-defended, the hours later the Prince was arrested, gateman having a quick-firing gun. his guide turning out to be a trust One night, so the story goes, be ed Cheka agent, who had been sent was bribed, and opened the gate to from Moscow to lure him into the tufei. She wa Russia.

after three months in their hands The treasure of the Dolgorukoff a ransom of 82,000 was paid and she family has been confiscated, and the was brought home. Five nights Cheka agent who betrayed the later she climbed the garden wall Prince, and whose name has not by a ladder, carried off some 8800 been disclosed, has been promoted.of her mother's money and return- ed to the tufe. Now she is amongst them, riding a horse with one of these quick-firing guna

CHIANG KAI SHEK.

[BY J. H. FREEMAN.]

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The farmers are getting anxious. It has been a strange winter and spring with so much rain. Some of

31st Yearly meeting The Dairy Whereas Mr. Eugene Chen, the the low-lying ground was still un- Cantonese Foreign Minister, has de: water in autumn, and it was Ltd., Town Office, 2, Lower Albert

Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co., | Mon to become a familiar personality to hoped the people would be able to Road, noun. English people, little is known in plant maize in the spring, but with

Football and Cricket: Details in this country about Chiang Kai these repeated rains it is still to Saturday's issue. Shek, the Cantonese Commander-in-wet to plaugh. Chief.

Yachting: Re-sail of "badies" The dollar is exchanging for 3,380 Cup. Of the two, Chiang is much the cash and everything is accordingly

New

Territories more remarkable figure. He is the dear. One is grateful to report Show Committee meeting. Lady Ho Development Napoleon of the new Chins. there is no anti-foreign feeling Tung's farm, Sheung Shui, 2.30

Chiang is still only 39 He was here, and event the tufei seem not to p.m. Lorn in 1889 in a village between want to brother foreigners. In one 12th Annual sports meeting of Hangchow and Ningpo-in the village they succeeded in taking, Hong Kong University Athletic district across which his armies they told the Chinese evaage Association, Pokfulam Ground, 2.30 have been sweeping on the way to list stationed there "to go on with p. Shanghai. His father died before his work, "and if anyone hindered 1st Extra Race Meeting." Happy Chiang was a year old. His mother him to let them know, and theyValley. was poor, and his carly years were would see to it." passed with relatives. The inten- tion was that he should become a merchant. He showed no aptitude for trade and was sent to the, military college, and later he was then 21-to the officers' academy.

An career was clearly in- dicated.

He proved, indeed, one of industrious cadets in the the most academy, and be was sent to

military complete his Strangely enough, it was there that

Aret

came under the influence of the late Sun Yat Ben, founder of the revolutionary Cantonese move, ment, and when he returned to China be was an ardent revoln tionary.

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Years were to pass before he was given a post of real power and one in which his military gifts could [34 serve the revolution. It was not, in fact, until Sun appointed to take charge of the Wham Chiang poa Military College at Canton that he had his first big chance."

A record landmark in his career came when Sun sent him to Moscow to study the tactics and the technique of modern war,

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Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel •Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. annual meeting, Jardine, Matheson's Navy League (H.K. Branch) Board Room, 5.30 p.m.

Dinner danes, Cafe Parisien, 8

Europe vid Marseilles (Paul Lecat), Principal Mail:-Outward:

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38th Ordinary annual meeting Green Irland Cement Co., Ltd., St. Goorge's Building, 11 p..

20th Ordinary annual meeting Gande, Prince & Co, Ltd., No. 2, Ice House Street (St. George's Building), noon.

Whatever the Cantonese Army is to-day is due in largest part to this young man, Chiang Kai Shek. He may be said to have trained it both in the class-room and on the Extraordinary general meeting battlefield. It was on his word of China Light and Power Co. (1918), command that the march to Han-La., St. George's Building), 2.30 kow

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