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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY VERMIN,

CHEKA METHODS IN CHINA.

PETROFF AN EXPERT IN ASSASSINATION AND ROBBERY,

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 19th, 1927.

NEW CHINESE RAILWAYS.

PROGRESS OF CONSTRUC- TION IN MANCHURIA.

A DIRECTOR'S · REPORT.

Director J. Fujine, of the S.M.R.

COAL MINE. AMAL- GAMATION.

SIR ALFRED MOND'S PROPOSALS.

REGULAR EMPLOYMENT AND BETTER PAY.

FILM · VILLAGE

WONDERS.

CHINA: IN LONDON.

SCENES FOR SIR ALAN

́: COBHAM'S STORY.

Two of the most interesting and Co. who travelled over the S.M.R. of the mining industry and its

The whole question of the future the biggest outdoor scones ever pres Lines to inquire after the welfare organisation will be discussed at an pared for the making of British of the Company's servants at the early date in the House of Comfilms will be in use when in the The debate will be raised by the Hertfordshire) studios a complete fields surrounding the Elstree minor stations returned to Dairens, says the Daily Express,

Socialists, who will call attention by the express on the 10th inst.

Tho North China Daily News in ;) It was also planned that Madame the course of a further article on Litvinoff should be detained in the Russian influence in China, some way so that her safe could be written by a former colleague of searched for the diamonds. M. Borodin, the workings of the this she learned, however, and after Chinese branch of the Cheka aroj she had reported what she had heard to the consular authorities described. The writer, states:

Most of the information used in Borodin heard of it and gave extorting money from wealthy Chi.orders that she was not to be

molested. Lebedef was arrested He says:- by one of l'etroff's agente, a certain ad though some of the "bail"

rese and Russiana was obtained

The Director's remarks concern- ing the new Chinese railway lines under construction can not fail to be of interest.

now

to the prevailing unemployment in fair, with merry-go-rounds, peep- the industry. This will open the door to pleas for re-organisation shows, strong men, and performing and

selling arrangements. seals, is coming into existence The debate will take place on the ready for the new boxing picture first available supply day, which "The Ring," while at Edgware will probably be next week.

lane aerodrome, a completo Chinese (Middlesex), adjoining the Stag

which SWBTMB of seroplanes will hover, has arisen ready for scones in The Flight Commander," the picture from an original story by Sir Alan Cobham.

Sir Alfred Mond, giving evidence mission, explained the benefits of amalgamation.

K-, locally recruited, who was in was raised by friends, nothing like Puiyintala line, the surveys are before the Railway and Canal Com- village, over

Satinate touch with all the wealthy the sum expected has been forth anen of the community. To make the work of collecting from the

coming, so he is probably still in gaol. This by the way, is one of

tain, Eugene Chen was aware of because Chinese policemen's uni- forins were secured with his know- edge for the Cheks agents who ar rusted Lebedeff.

As regards the now Tahushan- over. The proposed site for the new terminal station has already been chosen at Paiyintala, and the construction of dwellings and other buildings is in progress according to Mil-Com, Wu Chun Sheng's

not yet started, but things will ha definitely fixed during the current year,

victims easy, it was essential that troff's excupades which, I am certown-plan. Construction work is those who refused to pay should disappear without trace. I know eight cases in which Petroff's gang did away with wealthy Chinese in such fashion that thoir friends were completely anystified and the com munity duly terrorized.

The

Cheka ngents watched patiently for opportunities to seize #hem in quiet places. They were

Harrying the Poorer Classes.

It would he said, enable the owners to offer better terms and conditions to the men, and would help to are regularity of em- ploymont. He looked forward to a ro-organisation of the whole in- dustry of the country by means of district amalgamations with satisfactory, results.

It is officially announced in Paris that the soul embargo, which has already affected the British export- ing areas, will probably be with- drawn in a few months.

..

The Chinese village has takea over 100 men more than a month lo build, has used up acres of tim ber, tons of plaster, as well as tons entirely a local product, as even of nails and of paint, and will ve

chitecture have been done on the the Chinese signwriting and or-

spot,

Highwayman Picture. In addition to those two big undertakings,

film

production generally is more active than it has been for many years in this country.

QUEEN'S

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His Super Farce Comedy

Oh, What a Nurse"

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DANIELS TORRANCE BEERY

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Zane Grey's Thrilling Story HERITAGE OF THE DESERT

WORLD

WALTER HIERS

in

they taken at night to boats at the folk of the city. There are of needs be traversed, and the point na inquiry into the proposed anal ture starring Mr. Matheson Lang SIXTY CENTS AN HOUR

Czech,

At last year's flood, why the loss to the Tronan-Augangchi Line was heavier than that to the Chinese Eastern Railway, was chiefly owing to the former being a new line, while the latter had a more solid road-bed.

Hulan.Hallan Line. Speaking of the Hulan-Hailun

first begun in May last year, and traffic is open from Sungpu, on the other side of Harbin, up north to Suihuo.

MARKETS ABROAD.

Sir Alfred Mond appeared as a witness before the Railway and Canal Commission, which began gamation of the South Wales an- thracite colliery concerns, including Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries, Ltd., of which Sir Alfred is chair. man, and the United Anthracito Collieries, Ltd.

Worcestershire has been agog for daya past over a highwayman pic- picturesque scenes for which have been staged in and around Evesham.

The Sir Harry Lauder 6m, "Hunting-tower," is in full swing Sir Alfred said that for some where on Monday the production at the Cricklewood, N.W., studios, time he had been interested in the of the film from an original story amalgamation of business concerns. He was approached in 1922 with reby Mr. Anthony Asquith (promis- ing some unusual peeps into the gard to an endeavour to amal gamate the anthracite industry of South Wales.

lives of film actors and actresses) will also begin.

At an early stage he was con-

Mr. Nelson Keys. vinced that

the finest smoke- Mr. Herbert- Wilcox, while less fuel in the world was not known as it should be. He advised finishing off "Munsee," to which Miss Pauline Frederick is starred, the formation of propaganda, com- nittees to make it more widely announces that in his next picture, to be called The Tipster, Mr. known.

Nelson Keys will be starred for the first time.

I do not think that anthracite has been what I can call sold at he said. There has al- all yet, ways been a large export market for it in France, Italy, the Mediter cranean, and the Baltic ports, and

the Canadian market."

Welsh Anthracite.. Sir Alfred went on to say that

Preparatione for "The Constant Miss Nymph" film, in which Dorothy Gish will play Tessa, with Mr. Basil Dean making his debut as a film director, are practically complete.

Owing to the damage done to the road-bed the other dal, trains are being run only as far as Heing Being also a new line, the accom lungehen, 55 miles from Sungpu.

inodations leave very much to be

Mr.-Ivor Novello, considered the desired, but it is provided with the city of Montreal Buint 1,000,000 most popular of all English screen ap quite condilings for train tone of anthracite a year, and the players, is well Par

operation. The rolling stock is of Dominion as a whole 5,000,000 tons

Vortex, The the same type as that of the S. M.R. more than the output of South Somme" and The Battle of the Co. On the whole, the new line is Wales. The anthracite coal of Falkland Islands," anong other better equipped than supposed Wales was superior to that of noteworthy British films in course

America.

of production, are practically com casually,

This fine runs through the most The need for regularity of em-plete. fecund country served by a railway ployment in the coal industry was in Manchuria.

On the Taonau-Angangchi Line, the whole line is in operation. On that particular section in the north, which was visited by last year's flood, the trains are still required to slow down. By the end of this A very large part of Petroff's en-month, the repairing of this section will be finished. Some people are ergies are also devoted to spying heard criticizing construction of out disloyalty to the Red régime the railway in a district liable to among the workmen and the humblébe visited with an overflow of the same section must Nen, but the sam Bund, ostensibly bound for Wu- course spies in every shop and fae of the shortest distance has been carefully solected. In the other chang, and in mid-river wore drop tory and even the most insignifidistrict, also liable to the flood of ped overboard after they had been cant meeting of workmen is at the same river west of Angangchi Station of the Chinese Eastern In one intended by a

Cheka agent weighted with stones.

A Railway, the water has not yet of ruffians and subsided, keeping the country still stance two German. travellers and a veritable army

in the date of a lake. third person named S-, were sciz criminals were enlisted by Petroff ed in the French Concession and | as-his-ayouts, and these fellows would probably have met the same lounge about markets and public fate had not news of their seizure places, join in tea house gossip, aunched the German Consul. They make aquaintances in hotels and were held by the French police and private houses to get access to per Petroff, to cover his original pur sons under suspicion. Anyone de pose, atteinpted-to-have-small-bot-nouneed is arrested at night. byline, the work on this new line was

les of poison slipped into their pickets, taken out and shot. To effects so that he could have them heads of this system know the charged with an attempt to poison material they are using and there- Borodin. The French police, how foro' are well aware that many of ever, intercepted the bottles and their victims are innocent of any evidence against the political offence but are being put finding no Germana, roleased them.

out of the way to settle an agent's private quarrel, but they are satis The disappearance of a ons Milatch, who arrived from fied if they can believe that a ver Ichang-in-a-junk, whs credited to tain percentage of those mentioned Petroff's account by the Red or are really counter-revolutionaries ganization in Hankow. According At the time when Chinng Kai to the story that I heard, he wits Shok's "treason" was the subject suspected by the Choku of spying of excited discussion in official Hankow there were for Yang Sen, and on this ground circles in he was apprehended, although it wholesale massacres of those sup- posed to lie his partisans or well was afterwards admitted that his

wishers and even children were shot down for murmuring against Com not in espionage. At any rate, bemunist methods. It is surprising was shipped to Wuchung in care of that these horrors were given so Brin who, as he told me himself, little publicity, but these ghastly tied a 40-lb. stone to him in the doings were confined for the most middle of the Yangtsze and drop-part to native quarters of Hankow ped him overboard. A country house was rented near Hankow as a tor ture charter, but the wails and groans of the victims could be

Slaughter of Children. heard all over the countryside, sBO these operations were shifted to I saw one of these butcheries my- Wuchang whither Petroff proceed-self in Wuchang. Six youngsters, ed every morning and stayed two | the eldest of whom was not 17 years or three hours.

of age, wero shot in my presence, May 9th, because they had declared in the military school to Cheng Po that Communists like Borodin. were not helping the Chinese people but since it is a good illustration of eunply destroying the nation. It Petroff's system of raising money is doubtful whether Cheng Po re- for his secret spy service, it is ported this, but it happened dur- worth explaining. It was learned ing one of his lectures

interest was in an arms deal and

Blackmail and Extortion.

The arrest of General Lebedeff on obscure charges has remained a my stery to foreigners in Hankow, and

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and Wuchang seldom visited by foreigners, while few Chinese in those days had the courage to carry-

tales.

Ex-General Manager -Ostromouff of the Chinese Eastern Railway, who is the building contractor for the new railway, speaks of that particular bell as superior even to the most fertile region in all Rus for 40 years to come. sia, that will need no manoeuvring

G.E.R. Eastern Section. As to the C.E.R. Eastern Section

to Progranichnaya on the Usuri frontier, matters remained much the same as when M. Ostromouй had the Line under management 4 years ago, save for the opening of new stations here and there.

Unlike the Southern Section be tween Harbin and Kwanchengtzu, the Eastern Section has only one train run cach way daily.

In Kirin, the progress of the new Kirin-Tunhua Line construction was witnessed. The bridging work across the Sungari near Kiris has been finished to the extent of 80 per cent. and by next August, the bridge itself will be ready for

traffic,

essential both to the coal-owners and the men, and by this amalgama- tion he thought the present posi- tion would be improved.

Mr. Jowitt, K.C. (for the col lieries): Do you regard the terests of men and masters as an- tagonistic?

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Sir Alfred: No. On the pros perity of the industry depends the prosperity of the men.

Is it good economy and finance to pay low wages-No, that has never been my view.

Sir Alfred agreed with counsel that the re-organisation of industry would in time have to be carried qut from the international point of view. In fact, the whole ten- dency

of industry Wis inter- national. The continuous disturb ances in the coal industry absolutely devastating. By amal- gamations he thought that concerns would be able to offer better terms and conditions to the men.

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Mr. Justice Sankey (chairman): What is the limit of amalgaina tion?

Six Groups,

Sir Alfred: I don't know. Onc The, Ger- man coalfields are in six groups,

can hardly, determine

YOUTH IN BUSINESS.

LORD WINCHESTER'S OFFER TO PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS.

The Marquess of Winchester ad- ounced at the first ordinary nn- mal general meeting of the Drapery Trust, Ltd., at Winchester House, Old Broad Street, E.C., that the directors had decided to employ hoys from public schools.

The retail trade, as well as the manufacturing and wholesale trade, demanded the best brains. He add ed:-

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We propose to improve the posi tion in so far as. we are concern ed, and the directors have decided to offer to young men of the right type the opportunity of entering our business and studying it from the beginning to the end, going. through each department.

As regards construction work on the other side of the Sungari, thanks to the transport of building materials over the ice during laat and they produce as much coal as winter, work has made much head-

in the whole of England. In way, the rail-laying work having America, too, collieries are organis been doar more than 10 miles.

Over the about 24 milo section ed If there is good management this side of Loayethling Pass, the there is no reason why in England should not be divided into collieries work has been done to the extent of roughly 70 per cent, and grant

Sir Alfred Cope, deputy-chair- meeting (April 30th) to devise with released from the grip of this gov. Laoyehling, te bo 8,000 ft. long, Conaco, said that one of the main

traffic may be extended to near

man of Amalgamated Anthracite BOMBAY'S COLOURED NIGHT. tunnel by next winter. Companies, Ltd., who also gaye Petroff a scheme for making the ernment by hangmon o

that This tunnel most of Lebodeff'a présence. It was evidence can be taken, thero will being the most difficult piece of objects of the amalgamation was

engineering on the whole line. well-known that he had wealthy be enough trustworthy testimony.

One day's progress of excavation is the elimination of economic and a blue moon was observed in Bom- 5-6 metres, and already almost half wasteful competition.

regional districts and satisfactory

accidentally through & Russian My first band knowledge of such -priest that Lobedeff was in Haukow affairs is of course limited but I

and Borodin promptly called Bam sure that, if Hankow is ever ing that everything goes well results obtained.

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Russiap, friends who would pay for forthcoming to prove that I sun his release if his life were in dan exaggerating. The stone wall gen, and Borodin had an idea that the house that used to be Yang a Madame Litvinoff, who was sup- Sen's now the country residence of posed to 017 some valuable Golikoff, will testify by their bullet diamonds and to have other assets, marks to the kind of work that would advance a ransom for Lebewas done there if there are no doff. It was, therefore, planned human witnesses China will never that Lebedelf was to be arrested on forget Borodin, of that we can be political changes and that his certain, bat, she must never forget "bail" should be fixed subsequent Petroff other, nor her own pock ly at: $100,000. After his release marked Chen, who has tortured and he was to be put out of the way murdered enough innoount persons by: Petroff's exports when it would with his "own hands to have an lie announced that he had abscond- infamour place of his own in his ed and that "bail". was`forfeit, tory.

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