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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6th, 1927.

WHAT IS BOLSHEVISM?

NATURE'S INTERMITTENT EPIDEMICS.

LORD ESHER'S PLEA FOR CLEAR THOUGHT AND

INQUIRY. :

WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

WASTE ON A CONSULATE IN OHINA.

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In 1991 the Treasury approved an estimate of £8,550 for the erection of a consulate at Tong- yuch in China. In 1993" the Treasury were informed that an excess of between £7,000 and £10,000 was anticipated" More over the district appears to be: subject to sporadic raids by bandits," and the work was not, apparently, finished by October,

In a volume of over 530 pages the "Civil Services Appropriation Accounts, 1993-1998" (Stationery Ofice, s), have just made their The following striking letter by Lord Esher appeared in the appearance. Those who want to Manchester Guardian of February 10th:-

know why it is that the estimates Why should not the organ which | greater than that of Rome or Baby- are so oftan exceeded, "anys. The possesses so much influence with the home of Voltaire, and a volume of and a great deal of interesting loa." We were not far from the China Express & Telegraph, will most highly organized provincial Tourgenief was lying on the grass reading in these pages. Here is a city in our country attempt to at our feet. analyse the human motive that

good example: underlies Russian activities in the policy of foreign States, even to the point of interference with our own domestic troubles of the past year? Is Bolshevism, for example rooted in idealism, or fait a mani- festation of greed; does it reflect the aspirations of man, or his in. destructible lusts? Is it an attempt to substitute a cruda industrialism for barbarous militariam-shining dollars for shining armourt Is it a silly attempt to appraise at a higher value labour that is manual than labour that is intellectual Is it based on disregard for tradi- tion, however fine, whether in the form of Wren's churches or Euro- pean letters; to revert in art, masic, and literature to savage forms, whether negro or Tartar?

Waves of Disease. There are some who hold that now and again a wave of disease, 4 plague, sweeps over portions of the earth's surface until arrested by some insuperable barrage of Bre or bygiene. Nature appears to Summon these destructive agencies

The Ground Prepared, It is not only in the books of Dostoiefsky, that we may learn how great winters, from Tolstoy and

the ground in Russia was prepared. for Lenin "Quand la Terre in this country, most readers have Trembla" has not been widely read seen" Once 1 Had a Home." Both these books reflect the personal observations of their writers. Their the symptoms of social disease, our lesson in the blindness of us all to proneness to respectable optimism, For years beforehand the disaster of 1914 was discernible, just as to day the struggle between a half- educated Communism and a gross capitalism foretelis & menace to our English social system. Between the forces ait and loll masses of our antagonism of these conflicting

except pleasure or the rapid acquisi people, indifferent to everything tion of wealth. They are preparing the soil to receive the seed of Lenin

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Their lordships expressed their great regret that owing partly to the inherent difficulties of the situation, but partly also to the inability of the officers in charge of the work to cope effectively with the situation, and, in lesser degree, to the failure of the department's officers at Shanghai to exercise efectiva contro, & very serious excess in the original estimate for this work must be in. be completed. curred before the building could

Archeology has not yet given up all its secreta, but we know enough to be aware that exaggerated devo- tion to pleasure and the mequal dia | QUEEN OF SPAIN BANS THE tribution of wealth keep pace with the decay of States. As the lamps

• CHARLESTON, of sacrifiove and memory grow dím

Society circles in Spain, at Queen The Charleston is not danced in Ena's request,

teacher of ballroom dancing, who Miss Belle Harding, the English. has returned from Spain, made this statement to a Press repre sentative.

the shadow of revolutionary change BUT ENJOYS OTHER DANCES looms large. What is important to in order to maintain the balance of all is a readjustment of the

WITH BRITISH OFFICERS. life and death according to a law values that should be attached to present undetermined. The the sources" of real happiness, to Black Death, the Plague, the determine whether humanity finds spread of hereditary disease, the its noblest expression in the in- Crusades, the Moslem attack on the individual or the aggregate; Southern Europe, the religious whether corpulence in a nation is wars in the Low Countries are a symptom of vigour or of decay; examples of Nature's struggle to whether there is an ascertainable Bustin an equipoise between the ratio between the cultivable surface rate of mortality and the reprodao of the earth and its population; tiveness of

where the roots of racial and social antagonism are to be found; with what limitations Nature can be safely harnessed to the forces of the service of man. These que tions, none of them novel, but all of them suggestive serve to show the complrity of our planetary life. Be- cause we have no Ecclesin prepared

man.

to

mediaval Church would have been answer these queries as the ready to do, it by no means follows that they are unanswerable.

"At the Hotel Principe de Asturias, at Malaga, she said,

and where I have been directing the have been staying with their family, "where both the King and Queen

dancing, we never had the Char- leston at the ten dances or balls.

the Crown Prince was in the hotel I noticed, though, that when

always watched the Charleston very while my staff were teaching he intently, and just before I left he bad arranged for some lessons in the flat Charleston, which is, of course, the only one danced now.

Into this category some believe that Bolshevism falls; that, unlike Buddhism or Christianity, Bobber ism brings in its train of destrue tion no constructive or humanising gospel that this eruel, ignorant, irrational, mercenary appeal to passion rather than to reasod has obtained & hold upon thousands of men and women weakened by the pains of the world war, much in the way that pestilence grips hold of a people weakened by famine.

In Russia the power of resist-

None Sees Clearly,- ance was undermined by long A few days ago a statesman ex- periods of misgovernment is pressed some doubt as to whether very disappointed about the Queen's "Spanish girls and women were government that by indefensible to see red" was not a more per decision, because they had all been methods of espionage and oppres-moious form of madness than to learning it and practising it. The sion, also by withholding education" be red." The answer is by no Tango is beautifully danced by the from the masses, had prepared the means easy, but here is this much Spaniards, and English visitors way for vindictive reaction. For to be said: that in the harry and did not attempt to compete with half a century and longer Russian bustle of our modern world it is them. literature so pathetically fine in quite unusual to ace" anything sonic respects-had disclosed to a at all beyond the limited horizon of saddened Europe the currents and our immediate desires. undercurrents, of a social system of

For this reason, at least those an Oriental mentality, ready to be who "see red" are rendering good come the prey of any charlatan. Iservice by focussing attention upon remember, when a boy, sitting on Bolshevik doctrine, its aims and MONI Up to $150,000 are the shore of the Lake of Geneva origins, and upon the nature of the First Class Mortgages Security subject Available for Investment of with Prince Gortschakoff, the Rus soil best adapted to its growth. For to a Trustes Valuation. sian Chancellor, his sons and young my part, I cannot see in history or nieces. We had been discussing in fact any sympathetic connection Mommsen and Gibbon One of us between Leninism in Russia, and had remarked that, at any rate, our our kindly, orderloving, liberty, civilisation was secure from bar-loving English people.. It would be barian invasion. The old Chancel- Interesting to know at what point, lor, who had listened in silence, if any, Lennism Europe should suddenly said: "Do not believe it be treated as Alra treated heresy The invaders of our civilization will and Lenin himself treated orthor- be the proletariat: our fail will be doxy in Russia.

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FOOT-AND-MOUTH SCOURGE.

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governor of the gaol in which he In 1923 there were 1,923 outbreaks was kept will probably lose his post Chairman: JAMES ORMISTON, Esq. in Great Britain, involving an ex-1 for permitting the operation.

Immediate Fast President, penditure of £2,205,000, and in 1824 Some months ago a peasant was 1,440, costing £1,389,000. The nam condemned to death, and was sent interested are Cordially Invited to be Members and Friends who may be ber of outbreaks last year was only to the gaol of Zajecar to await Present 204, costing the taxpayers £188,000, execution. and so

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