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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 3rd, 1927.

CHRONICLE

HOW

RADEK'S HAND IN SHANGHAI,*

MURDERER-AGITATORS WERE TAUGHT THEIR WORK.

(BY DR. EDOvard Lusoff, Author of "A Red Tear," etc, etc.)

The reign of terror at Shanghai has thrown the Rod lenders at Mos cow into a paroxysm of self-con- gratulation and delight. *The

WESTERN MUSIC IN THE EAST.

SPREADING THE TASTE IN JAPAN.

BEETHOVEN AND BACH.

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Japanese, Chinese, and Indiana | P. & 0. Bank . Are Frequently seen in Lendou concert audiences, but it is not generally known that a taste for Europeau music is quickly spread ing. in the Far East. Japan, inne

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of opportunity for Hong Kong Tags ........................$1.10 nòm, Japan and China to take to their Indo-Chinas (Pref:) $30 nom. hearts the whole of Western music from Byrd and Palestrina to Stra. vinsky and Holat.

Pensants Army," the Cheka, and other Soviet institutions have, now appeared at Shanghai as they did at Petrograd in November 1917, and we can now better understand] the repeated declarations of Soviet Jeaders reported in the Javesty and the Pravda, to the effect that:

The Chinese revolution will develop under conditiona which the experience and aid of the victorious revolution in

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- Eminent Western musicians re- regularly appear at the Tokyo Imperial Theatre. A play there lasts for 20 consecutive days. The re maining 5 or 6 days of the month Kailan Mining Ad........38/ now.

Langkate (combined)....The. 21 nom, are spent in rehearsing a new play

Do (single)...Tis: 93 nom. and the theatre is then available Bhai. Explorations Tir. in

for concerts. Kreisler, John Mc-

Shanghai Loane ........T. nom. Cormack, Louis Godowsky, and Baubs... ROM. such-like celebrities are always Tronoh Mines sure of a great welcome there. Still, the Far East is not yet a certain source of profit- for the touring artist. Mr. Skram Enivel dis- courages all hut the wealthy or the adventurous ita "Pierre Key's Music Year-Book" (New York) He gives warning of the fatigue of constant packing and unpack- ing, long journeys from place to place, beat, mosquitose; but be also hints at musical responsiveness in unexpected places. The untutored populace "responds gloriously" to the classics,

Soviet Russia will be utilised. Moscow has been concentrating on Shanghai sinca 1924, when it was oporfly declared that that city

"the key to

the Chinese Revolution," because it was "the

·Citadel of Imperialism," and hence much coveted prize for the

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Eastern Revolution.

While arrangements for military action were being made with the Cantonese general, Chu Chen Min, who was accompanied on his visit to Moscow by the General Secretary

Barefooted Audience. At Hakata, in Japan, he has known of the Canton Government and an audience, barefooted and sitting army experts, the Chinese Comou the floor, to applaud vociferous

ly a Bach Toccata and Fugue, and mission" was deliberating on ways Beethoven's Sonata Appassionata and means for revolutionary ac- an audience of people, whose cars tivities.

have for generations been used only to the "rasping singing of geishus and the curious sound of shimo

As a result of these deliberations, plans for the present Shanghai | sens." terrorist organisation were outlin- ed and adopted. The actual forma tian took nearly three years, but it was made possible through the work of Chinese graduates of two Mosrow institutes-the Institute of Eastern Toifers and the Sun Yat Sen University-where Chinese agitators were trained in "real re- volutionary tactics."

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China To At Tokyo the visiting artist is sorts, always beginning on the 25th Chins Providents engaged for a minimum of five con

of the month. He is invited to Constructions luncheon partien-at-which-Young Dairy 1 Stravinsky. But the mere mention of H.K. Electrics... Japan discusses Schönberg and Der A Wings Puccini's" Madame Butterfly "ox Macao Electrios ..... cites unrestrained merriment. As H.K. Roper (old)

Do, the Daily Mail's Tokyo correspon-

(now) dent was not long ago telling us, Lane Crawfords. members of the audience have to be

Mackintosha..... carried out, ill with hysteria, when Sinceres this quaint travesty of. Japanese It appears, however, that the psychology is played. early graduates disappointed their troubles European music

When China has composed her should mentors, sines on their return to have a great future there too, China, and especially to Shanghai, Kreisler had a first-rate success in they revealed a philosophical turn a Peking theatre with a purely Chinese audience. In Java there of mind and began to study is, thanks to the Dutch, "a real Communism as they had previously musical life." In India the Parsoe stdied Confucius" According to Mr. Enivel suggests that if only is very responsivo to music; and Karl Radek, the Rector of the Sun one enterprising concert, agent

were to take other Oriental coun

The Sixty-fifth Annual Issue Yat Sen University, these philoso-

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Malay States--the natives, there Ox studies that they actually "consi-weak soon be gladly drinking in dered strikes and risings as of no Bach and Beethoven--Daily Mail. consequenos" and therefore neglect

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ed to go to the mas508 This mistake was rectified with the batches of second and--third graduates, who were taught more practical work.

Schools For Murder, The Pravda describes the instruc-

HONGKONG, the Treaty Ports of tions given to Chinese students at

CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM,

- STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO,

THE PHILIPPINES, ETC.

This Large Vodme of approximately 2,000 Pages gives, in addition to the usual Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical List of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of Nearly

20,000 FOREIGNERS.

Arranged, with the initials as well as Surnames, in strict alphabetical order so that any name can be found instantaneously.

It is a volume indispensable to business houses.

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Moscow as being identical with those given to Russian Leninists,'

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This service is primarily intended for the benefit of the residents of Kowloon Tong and others living in the vicinity. The buses will start

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whose syllabus includes such in from Star Ferry to Kowloon City O teresting and significant subjects as ri Nathan Road, Yaumati, Mong leaderships of Ina88 revolts," kok and Prince Edward Road and "revolutionary strategy," "pište

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Leninism at Moscow."

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It is obvious that by the present

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ATLANTIC CELEBRATED

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reign of terror Moscow hopes to The U.S.L. Leviathan, with a onsure the victory of the extremist lunch to 400 guests, celebrated its spotion of the Kuomintang. It is 50th journey from Southampton to quite aware that the moderates God's Own Country "-in object to these taction and that they water.

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The King's health was drunk-in Hence the jubilant note in the foo-water-coupled with the health

Shanghai will

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HEIR EXPECTED TO JAPANESE THRONE. NATION'S HOPE FOR A CROWN PRINCE.

The Empress Nagako, youthful wife of Emperor Hirohito, is ex pected to give birth to a second chiki this autumn.

The announcement that the E: press was expecting a child was made some weeks ago and it now is expected the newest descendant of the Sun Goddess will be born

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where the Emperor and EmprEKS Hor are living, in September. Majesty's physicians announce she is in excellent health and probably will nurse her second child as sho did her first, the little Princess Shi geki, born on December 6th, 1998. Rugby, May 1st.

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If the child is a boy--and Japan. 34.931 ese refuse to consider the possibility 12.13.26/32 of a girl-he will be the Crown Prince of Japan succeeding his father on the dragon throne of the Empire.

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