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FOREIGN DIPLOMATS CHOICE OF FOUR BOOKS

IN RUSSIA.

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3.18 6.27 8.33 persons .ot Commissioner and 3,25 8.34 5.23 6.85 8.27 Mrs. Litvinoff, started the ball a-rolling with а reception on the birthday of the revolution There followed an equally brilliant affair at the Italian Embassy on tha birthday of the Italian King, a gathering to celebrate the Em- peror's accession to the throne in the palatial Japanese Embassy, a pleasant dance by the two charming daughters of the Norwegian Am bassador, a few intimate gatherings arranged by the Polish Embassy in honour of their American financial mentor. Mr. Dewey, and so on.

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But the writer did not intend to provide note for the social columns. Like a good many guests at all brilliant receptions, he begs to draw attention to the rieb die plays of edibles. On every one of these occasions the Press represtt- tatives, having professional licence of speech. wondered out loud what what would be done with the extra.

eats." The tables fairly groaned with the weight of flesh, fish, and fowl; not to mention endless assort ments of fore and after dishes, garnitures, sweets and drinks. Be- sides na abundance of Russian foods and beverages, there were, as is customary, a few delicacies in ported by Embassies from their

own countries." ·

Not many of those who helped to reliève the groaning tables of their weight, however, guessed that they were at that very moment in danger of starvation. These gatherings coincided with a flock of inspired rumours outside the Soviet Union to the effect that the Embassies were frightened by impending starvation because of the food, ehortage and famine in Russia, that Ministers and Ambassadors were looking for the nearest exit towards home and ham-and-eggs, that special arrange- ments were being discussed for feeding," the Diplomatic Corps,

etc.

These stories, some of which un- fortunately found their way into the Press abroad, were, of course, pure inventions. Members of the official foreign colony here to whom the United Press talked about this question were either annoyed, amus ed, or both. There is not one for eign representative here who has the slightest fear of starvation. Indeed, there is not one who fears that a shortage of food may in any way interfere with the well-fed social season now under way.

TO LIVE WITH.

BIBLE AND SHAKESPEARE USUALLY PICKED.

LONDON,

If you had to choose four books to live with, which ones whit, you prefer 1

for be

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day. (December 25thŁ.) Christmas Day.

Golt: Christmas Meeting, Fad ling.

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That was the question put to the

Cricket; H.K.C.C. b. Army, In- recent Library Association Con-dian R.C. Married . Singles. ference here by Dr. A.-D. Lindsay, and which has brought forth some from Literaty amazing answerg geniuses in London.

It was revealed by these answers

that the Bible and Shakespeare would, in most cases, be included, and that "Alice in Wonderland " was voted the funniest book in the world.

Interviews with leading authors here evinced the following replies:

Misa Radcliffe Hall, authoress of the book "Wells of Loneliness," which was recently banned in Eng land. exclaimed What an awful predicament if one really had, to make the choice. I should want Plato's Republic," the Bible, Alice in Wonderland," certainly and there must be a poet so we will have Browning.".

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, spirit- ualist and creator of Sherlock | Holmes, agreed to the Bible and Shakespeare. "because you can dig into them again and again. He then chose Gibbons's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but confessed that the fourth choice baffled him.

Doyle Enjoys Poe.

Football: "Sunday Herald Cup," China England, Clab ground. Queen's Theatre: "Hala." World Theatre: "The Better '0'."

Star Theatre: "Hot Water." Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsular Hotel, 4.30 p.

Dinner Dances St. Francis Hotel and Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 9 p.m.

Wednesday,

(December 28th.) Boxing Day.

Golf: Christmas Meeting, Fan- ling

Cricket: Craigengower C.C. Mar red v. Single, University 2nd XI.

V. Recreio.

Y.M.C.A. Ramble to Tai Mo Shan.

Queen's Theatre: "Hula," World Theatre: The Better 'Ole"

Star Theatre: "Hot Water."' Tea Dances: B.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, & p.m.

European Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Siberia (Yunnan), 9

2.00.

Thursday.

(December 27th.}' Golf: Christmas Meeting, Fan- ling.

Queen's Theatre: "The Divine

Asked if he would name the four, best detective stories, Sir Arthur Woman. said that he hardly ever read books of that kind, but he had enjoyed the stories of Edgar Allan Poet

Another writer who admitted. that she could not decide on the fourth book in such a situation was Una, Lady Troubridge, whose first. three were the Bible, Shakespeare, and Rudyard Kipling's poetry.

London's Most Popular Authors.

at Mudie's London best-known According to the chief librarian private library, the most popular authors at the present time are: John Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Rose Macaulay, Sheila Kaye-Smith, W. J. Locke and Bernard Shaw.

World Heaven."

Theatre: "Seventh

Star Theatre: Paris at Mid- ight.”

fea Dances: H.E. Botel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances:St. Francis Hotel and Lane, Crawford's Restaurant,

8 p.m.

European Mails:-In word: Europe vid Siberia (Nagato Maru). kiang), p.m. Outward: Europe zid Siberia (Che-

Friday,

(December 8th.) Prize giving Yaumati School, 12

Goon.

Hockey: Y.M.C.A. 2nd XL v. H.K. Club "A", King's Park, 5 p.EL

The secretary of the Authors' Club said the most popular book in their library at present time

St. Peter's Church YM. Clab was the Oxford Dictionary. Three other works in great demand were Dance,.8 p.m. the French Encyclopaedis, the Queen's Theatre "The Divine Dictionary of National Biography, Woman." and the Dictionary of Ethics and Religion.

However, part of the price paid by the Soviet regime for its pre- eent censorship is that it encourages the dissemination of

rumours. Until the censorship is lifted, the Soviet Union will find it dificult to make its complaints effective.

On the one story which has been most, in the news recently the food situation in the Ukraine-it may he stated that the facts have been. published here is

ample detail. Reports from non-official sources (such as American social workers in the region) bear out the substantial correctness of the published version. And having appeared in the news. papers, the censorship did not inter- fere with its transmission to the rest of the world.

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Russian Dramatist To Visit America.

World' Theatre: Heaven.!!

Seventh

Star Theatre: "Paris at Mid- night."

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, & p.m.

Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel, 8 p.m.

DISCONTENT AMONG SPANISH CLERGY.

PRIMATE'S REBUKE.

MADRID, Nov. 1st. A reent confidential Pastoral Let- ter, addressed by the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo, Primate of Spain, to the Spanish clergy, the complete text of which is published in the Catholic Preas organ, El Debate, calls attention to the seri- ous crisis as regards internal dis- cipline the Spanish Church is pass-

through. The

Censorship Of Newa.

The author of "Braai Poyezd

rate considers it his duty There is a great deal of misunder The Armoured Train"), Veeveled to address words of great frank- standing as to the extent of the Ivanov, informs the writer that ness and even severity to the sec censorship

news. he will start for his first visit to tion of the clergy--apparently a outgoing

section who have Chiefly it is not known outside of the United States sometime in De-considerable

cember.

formed a National Defence League Ruaid that foreign correspondents

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His play, as produced by the and who besiege the Primate" with ara permitted to send without ques- famous Moscow Art Theatre, is, **innumerable letters demanding tion anything appearing in the perhaps, the outstanding popular economic betterment, complaining, Soviet PresE.

success here in recent years. It is murmuring and protesting." based on an episode in the civil Primate disapproves the action of Senantional reporte circulated

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war in Siberia a war in which the the Defence League and of all those from frontier points which pro-author took an active part for members of the clergy who appear

YCETE.

himself to be losing faith in their prelates IVROOV fess to be based upon statements several in Pravda and Izvestia are palp-stories and in

dramatized it from one of his short to obtain a remedy for their hard the hands of lot The Primate says he is strain. ahly false. There are some twenty Stanislavsky's directions it became a ing every effort to obtain from the Government some alleviation, for foreign correspondents who cable massive piece of realism summariz the undoubted, sufferings of the lower clergy. His Eminence in. news out of Moscow daily. If sing the terrors and the ardors cf

the revolution.

vokes the Concordat of 1851 in sensation had appeared in the It understood here that the which Article 30 stipulated that the. Soviet newspapers, the censor could Theatre Guild in New York is plan- Spanish Government should in not under the practice here prevent ning to produce Breni Poyezd" crease stipends when circumstances

If true, it will have the would allow. its being cabled by these men; and soon.

The Fastoral Letter also author's personal collaboration.

aftudes it is extremely doubtful whether

Ivanov is only 23 years old; and to the progress of the pagan spirit- twenty in Moscow could persistent began his writing career with which is penetrating Spanish in- ly fail to see in cold type what series of powerful sketches of the stitutions and homes," The piety ane in Helsingfors or Biga sees 'no guerrilla warfare in which he took of Epain to-day, affirms the Pri andamizatzerdi art. He was brought to Petrograd mate far distant from the

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