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WHAT REVOLUTION BRINGS.

RUSSIA'S 2,000,000 ORPHAN CHILDREN.

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Terrible but authentic is the pic ture of life fa Bolshevik Rusein, giveo in Professor Karigren's Bolsheviat Russia" (Allen and Unwin, 12 6d.), by far the best book yet published on the present condition of the Soviet dominions.

Mr. Karigren is Professor of the Slav Languages at Copenhagen, and is by nationality a Swede. He has a thorough knowledge of Russia

LENIN-REALIST OR ROMANTIC?

A RIVAL'S PORTRAIT.

WHERE HIS POWER LAY.

A portait is drawn of Lenin by his life-long antagonist and rival, Victor Chernov, in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, the quarterly review published in New York by the Council on Foreign Relations He writes:

ĮTHE WEEK'S DIARY.

To-day.

42nd Annual meeting-A. S. Wat- son & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel,

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als Yearly eating The Dairy Farm, Lee and Cold Storage Co., Ltd., Town Office, 2, Lower Albert Road, noon.

Football and Cricket: Details in to-day's issue.

p.m.

"Lenin's power consisted not in the depth of his theoretical under- Cup.

Yachting: Re-sail of "Ladies" standing, not in his foresightedness Now Territories Development and skillful" predictions; his ding- Show Committee meeting, Lady Ho noses and prognoses again and Tung's farm, Sheung Shui, 230 again fell Bat. Capricious history p.m. continually set stumbling blocks in

12th Annua! sporta meeting of the way of their fulfillment, Lenin's Hong Kong University Athletic power consisted, in the first place, Association, Pokfulam Ground, 2.30 in his will, developed to an anual and is a master of the Russian laa-

degree and thus casily dominating guage.

over other weaker characters; in Valley.

1st Extra Race Meeting, Happy Communism, he tells us, has not the second place, and most brought uplift" in Russia: ant, in his skill and resourcefulness Savoy And Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

import-

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel As BOUN

as we come to the as a tactician. Lenin in his strug Dinner Dance, Cale Parisien, villages" we notice at once what gles disliked

the careful planning p.m. perfect pest the Komsomols (Com-out of tactics; be infected everybody munist young people's unions)

with his readiness to try now one village street, to which stratagem, now another, to retreat the Komsomol soon transferred once and again, and at the same its activity, resounded with noises me to save energy for new attacks of a horrible nature; the inhabit-

and faith in ultimate victory. ants lay trembling in their huts behind bolted doors, shuddering for fear of the young ruffians fresh exploits."

are

The moral standard is of the lowest-

Hong Kong University Union social, Great Hali, University, a p.m.

Last of Mrs. Cheyney." Theatre Hcg Kong A.D.C. present The Royal, 9.15 p.m

Craigengower Cricket Club dance, "Her Big

With all this Lenin was a thorough realist, unceremoniously 8.15 p.m. thrusting aside any theories and

principles which stood in the way, Nin's Theatre:

not excepting his own. And it was not always clear whether he created From the Komsomols moral in for the simpletons who could net such theories and principles merely fection spreads to the Pioneer

get along without them, or whether Unions (children). A party re- he himself was fascinated by them port in December, 1925, states with that cold, purely mental that here and there cases are fascination of a builder of systems, noticed of sexual excesses among who is carried away by their har- the Pioneers (6 to 10 years old)."mony, symmetry and immensity of Care for the sick hardly exist:-

sweep. Hospitals have beea closed Learn was not a romanticist by throughout the land ... even in nature. He possessed exaltation of the Leningrad Government 2,000 different kind; it was the ex- hospitals hare ceased to existaltation of intense hatred, forged In the Riasan Government the by the years of prison, exile, and hospital generally consists of two life in hiding, and by the oppres rooms with an unheated waiting sions of a despatie autocracy.

And room; the patients lie there in it was this spirit which generated and 3d systems saturated with the roman a day is allowed for their main ticism of violence and retaliation, tegance; in the Pakov Govern- of will and power' that same ment this allowance is 2d. a day. spirit which the great romantic This meagre allowance is all they as a longing to put one's hand philosopher, Nietzsche, has defined have in a country where prices cre- much higher than in England.

upon the centuries as upon a piece of soft wax.' '

their own clothes

As for the Russian unemployed, their position is desperate.

Only 34 per cent of the whole number get any assistant at all, and the sesistance given amounts ta 14 or 16s per month, .e., & pittance upon which it is quite impossible to live.

The condition of the orphan child ren is heartrending:

In numbers calculated by the Commissariat for Publie Health at the fabulous total of 2,000,000, they wander about the streets and slums, friends and homeless,

A workman describing travel impressions in Pravde at the beginning of 1996 says: came to the town of Omsk, there

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The announcement made by the directors of a large circus at Bom- bay that a man would be burned alive on Hindu funeral caused widespread interest and the climax nearly resulted in a riot.

A large crowd gathered round an enormous pyre of wood soaked in petrol while a small Japanese who was to be sacrificed was lashed ou

at the very station neglected top. When the pyre was set alight children were lying quite naked. dense smoke hid everything and the great heat scorched the crowd, . Afterwards I Samare, and

saw stark which was forced back naked children lying on the bare ground cowering together in the cold."

The state of the country schools

World Theatre; "The Devil's Cargo."

and "What Happened to Jones"

Star Theatre: The Lotus Eater"

Principal Mails:-Outward: Europe Marseilles (Haruna oru), 2.30 p.m., Europe vi Siberia (Kueichou), 2.30 p.m.

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In the beginning of 1924 primary schoolmaster's salary in the towns amounted to 14.5 rou bles a month (293,), in the coun- try to 10.13 roubles (20x ed.). These irregularly pard pittances

serve at most to" stave off actual starvation but do no more. Even the balf starved pensanta look upon the

Thursday.

Entries cloze for Hong Kong Lawn Bowls League!

3rd Annual general meeting Simplex Plaster Co., Ltd., 2nd Floor, Powell's Building, 3 p..

H.K.C.O.Tennis Tournament (détaila in sports column daily). The school itself is furnished with Savoy, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 Tea Dances: HK. Hotel, Hotel

schoolmaster and mistress as ង. kind of beggar proletariat.

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The schools that are still work.

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HEC.C. Tennis Tournament (details in sports column daily)..

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

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ing present a perfectly incredible Engineer leeting Institution of Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., St 38th Ordinary annual meeting and Shipbuilders of George's Building, 11am." pisture.. With their broken Hong Kong. windows, eagging roofs, slanting Dinner dance, Cafe Parisien, & walls, they give the impression of p.m. hopeless decay.

I visited Principal Mails: Inward: Europe various villages where the school vid Suez (Wales). lay desolate or had been adapted to another purpose; in one village the Soviet's chief representative there had installed his horse in vit.

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Can auch a state of affairs last For Professor Karlgren is quite clear that everybody in Russia ex- cept a few Communist officials is miserable. But he says that tho peasant is completely inert, and the town artisan in his wretchedness is buoyed up by the dream of a great world revolution, which is to enso his position by aaking" all, the world as miserable as himself.

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