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INDIA AND THE NAVY.

The Navy in India". (Henn, 30a.) once again reventa Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond's profound knowledge of naval history and his comploto mastory of the strategical

upon

CHOP STICKS.

I am glad to have been given the opportunity of reviewing the first copy of an enterprising little maga. zine published as a Ear Eastero monthly review under the title of Cпor STICKS. It is well got up and printed, and sells for the modest price of 50 cents.

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SLAVERY IN RUSSIA. { ́.

MORE PRISON CAMP.

REVELATIONS,

The impressive statements of per- sons deported to Salovki, with re- gard to the conditions of forced labour and the life in general in the Soviet prison camps, and cor roboration in an interesting no- count which has appeared in small news sheet, ir Bildirish," written in Turkish for private cir culation among Azeri.rolugees in Constantinople.

The author, Aghaoglou, a medi- cal student at Bakou University, was mixed up with a group of young Azori intellectuals with Rationalist tendencies, and acn- tenced to deportation. After ave years on Solovetzki island he site- eceded in escaping, and has recent- ly arrived in Constantinople.

He first describes the origin of forced labour.

At the outset political prisoners in the prison campa чете not a prisoner

named Frenkel hit upon the idea of harnessing the energies of his fellow-convicts to the task of ex- ploiting the forests of Karelia.

He drew up a plan, which was forwarded to Moscow. The authori- ties, as a result, created a special commercial office attached to the body officially known as Slon, and Frenkel was placed at the head of one of its acctions.

The Editor in his opening re marke" says "The existence of a new review requires more than word of justification" and the justification which he puts forward is that "Chor STICKS is the only monthly review of literature and travel in the Far East."

CHOP STICKS presents itself, therefore, as a publication which hopes to fill principles

which British

a very big any. Should it and and maritime supremacy bas been

hold the place which its Editor laboriously cared. In this, his hopes it will there can be no doubt latest work, we have the detailed that this review will be of very real history of the operations conducted intercet not only in the Far East by the English against the French but at Home and in America. In in the Indian theatre in the wars its pages one should be able to obliged to work; but between 1783 and 1783. The book learn what is being done and is based upon original paper let thought in by fellow Europeans in ters and despatches, many of which other parts of the Far East; it A Wage-Earner of Six. were placed at the author's dis- should enable these of us whose "Susan Spray" contains one cloposal while serving as Commander. business lies in South China to feel iment that I have not noticed in in-Chief of the East Indian Squad.a closer kinship with those who ron. Though the book is long, work in Tientsin, in Japan and in any other novel by the writer-the

and though, at times, Admiral Maleys, and beyond all that it element of irony, Susa in the oldest child of a poverty-stricken attribute to the various actore in Richmond is perhaps inclined to

should be able to present to those at home a picture of our lives and farm labourer, and grows up in the shadow of the Great Hunger of calculation and foresight than tic, will be considerably nearer the the drama a more profound degres interests here, which, if less roman-

Slon began to develop its nativi- of the eighteen-thirties, and of

probably inspired them, the lucid-truth than that based on the deep, strange Biblien) Calviniam

the ties and the system of forced labour, of the sect of the Colgate Brothrority of his writing prevents the book romances of transient novelists,

having produced ." brilliant " TC- to which her parents belonged. The

any time becoming tedious,

The Editor has been lucky insults for Soviet commerce, an at- novel contains the story of her

"The Navy in India" cones at securing for the first number of tempt was made to apply it to evolution from a terrified little a singularly opportune moment CHOPSTICKS & witty article by other branches of industry. Thus because there seems to be a very Stella Benson on the position of the people are sent like slaves to any wage-earnor of six, driven by a thunderstorm from the field where grave risk that those in authority White woman in China. Thore will part of the country where the whic was supposed to be searing may overlook the lessons that this the many, the present writer among Soviets require labour. In the birds, into a mature and dominat Eighteenth Century naval cam-then, who will dispute her deduc: Fetchorn region the Soviets are ing woman, using her umotional ¦ paiga in the East has to teach us.

tions, but they are none the less conducting drilling operations with and feminine power over the rich In 1703, as to-day, there was

amusing.

a view to extracting oil. husband she has married by accid-tendency to treat India as a pro-

Much-needed Money. ental bigamy to force him into blem apart from sen power. And building the temple and founding yet its defence, ita retention the community of which she may loss, was finally settled at sea, as be high-priestess. There is ironyit must be to-day. Then, as now, is this tale of evolution which is the maintenance of communication and trade between England and the also degeneration.

East was vital, and then as now, There is irony in the resourceful-

the neecssity of a fleet in excess of ly portrayed relationship between Susan, the Preacher, and Tamar, demonstrated.

France and her allies was amply her sister, the Woman of the Flesh,

A European two- Power standard was then necessary, There is rich and acid irony in the

In those days, to quote Admiral last scene of Sarah, the bigamist, Richmond, "the British Govern going to face her triumph. And

ment had too little reason to repose the harsher the irony, the finer the

any profound faith in internation- portrait of Susan, as though dial agreement of any nature after taste had taught to Sheila Kaye Smith penetration that could never ring.

love

from at

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If the subject matter of some of the other articles seems

a. little orevious, it must be remembered that this is the first, or introductory, Chapter of what the Editor hopes may become a sort of encyclopedia of everyday life in the East, and I feel that he has been wise in not wishing to rush straight into the middle of his book without this sort of preface.

played mainly on forest work, but The prisoners at Bolovki are em-

in addition to forestry the prison- ers are made to work in the State equipment factories at Nova Ostrov Severo-lean"), and on the con- truction of roads for commercial purposes between Kem and Oukhta and Kem and Parendevo. The work in these marshy districts,

extremely hard, and thousands die dotted with innumerable Takes, is

from direct or indirect causes,

the stage music, trade, etc., are all The notes on art, travel, curios, interesting in themselves and if continued in capatilo hands, should, the review, and make bound copies as time goes on, be the backbone of ita experience of the almost uni-of CHOP STICKS a really valuable veran) breach of the engagements reference book. In conclusion may sunde under the Pragmatic Sane I hid Chor Sticks a very hearty merchandise. The tion, and, the equally notorious welcome and wish it all the success failure of foreiga rulers to perform it deserves. those services in war which, in peace, they had engaged themselves to perform. The contrast between precept and practico

The Good Things in the Novel.

There are good things in the book besides the portrait of Susan. The plight of agricultural Sussex before the repeal of the Corn Laws, the interior of the farm to which strongly marked to allow great 'and'

wa

100

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Fre

Sion receives orders from Mostory

Moscow) and Jelless (the Section' in the Commercial adininistration at.

charge of railway wood equipment) for such and such a quantity of

orders excented by the conviets and the goods are despatched abroad in Norwegian and British ships.

Thus, at the east of thousands of human lives, Moscow obtains the foreign currencies of which she In his Foreword, which concludes stands in such need and spends Susan and Tamar are apprenticed, vital interests to be committed to with this woll-deserved compli them lavishly on the task of liher- the public house in Lanabeth at such a frail defence. The temptament, Sir Percy Sykes provides a which Susan at last finds Tamar-tion which the unprotected trade political background for her pic classes."

ating

" oppressed peoples and her benefactress instead of her would offer would prove too great turesque observations. Everywhere protégée, the adventures and ecsta-

for the agreements to be observed." warfare is being waged between thin places where there was not Agha oglou affirm that in cer- sies of the Colgate Brethren-all Are our rulers to day wiser than

Eastern traditions and Western suficient work for the prisoners, thesd are seen and described vividly the rulers of the past? Are agri-ideas, and nowhere can it be said the chekists hired them out na yet solidly, their physical details mente to-day more reliable May that a final decision has been roach beasts of burden or slaves to local memorised and reproduced with we not, with Admiral Richmond, ed-for, it is highly probable that farmers, who naturally ought to faithful care. The narrative, is legitimately doubt it!

the disappearanes of such strong obtain from them prim and skilful; the individual

men as fustafa Kemal and the amount of work. Beues alive on the mental stage.

present Shah will be followed by far-reaching reaction

The willingness of Afghanistan to be CONFICT: ANGORA TO AFOAN IETAN.

Westernised which led to Amanul By Rosita Forbes. With a Ish'a downfall - syrabolised by Foreword by Brigadier General "Punch," in the picture of a Sir Percy Sykes, K.C.LE., C.B., C.M.G. With 49 Half hirsute tribesman frantically Tono Platea. Cassell, 155, net. stamping on a bowler hat-is but This is the record of a journey which took the author from Turkey, vying in force from place to one phase of a ubiquitous factor

via Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and 'place and almost always incalcul Persia, to the borders of Afghaniablo Islam, though weakened by stan, and back along the Russian internal dissensions, is still a frontier through Azerbaijan and strong bulwark” against the deceivers, who desert their trus Kurdistan, and provided a con atheistical power of Soviet Russia, say on charges of violating. Ohio's.

ine.

It is not only because it is a good novel that "Susan Spray" interesta I feel that its writer dislikea the notion of women preachers. It does credit to her restraint and literary taste that she has drawn in rural, homoly colours a Susan Spray, and not a florid Carmel Sharon, & Sister Aimee. But one feels that Sheila Kaye-Smith would judge and convert them for the same offence-presumptuous self-

THE MIDDLE EAST.

tinuous spectacle of complex con flict, which in many places could only be expressed in terms recomb

up-

and it would not pay the Bolshevik tyranny to attengst the annexation of Turkey of Persia or Afghani

the maxin

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ARRESTED HUNGARIAN RELEASED ON BAIL.

Akron, March 27.-Paul F. Kas

plotted the destruction of the say, former Hungarian army offi- cur who is charged with having U.S.8. Akron, new giant dirigible of the United States mary now noaring completion hero, to-day was released on bail...

The bail for the release of Kas-

law was furnished by Communists, antisyndicalism or anti-Communism

"Until today I was not a Com.. muniet," said Kassay, who is des

woman's work to usurp the priest heed not intended for them. But there are Sister Aimees, and there Are Susan Sprays, and since this ling those of an experiment in stan. One of the most interesting oribed as a "Red" by secret service

novel is about Susan Spray and organic chemistry. It is a VAVEC sectious of this many-sided survey none other, it is a good novel, a

ous chronicle of vivid impressions, is novel

the collections of “Russian which justifies itself- Jemitical propaganda ngainst the defined by Sir Percy Sykes as "throw a flood of light on life under full of human interest, by a writer Tales (Chapters 10-21), which ministry of women or no.

gallant explorer, who is gifted with | Soviet rule. Here, then, is a road- deep insight into the mind of the able and reliable guide to the Oriental.".

life and political economy of the

It is the work of a novelist, not a propagandist, of a novelist who :is artist, enough to have perceived"! (Continued at foot of next column.)......... Middle East

munist." operators. "But now I am a Com-

In some quartora it in believed that Kassay is insame. He was detected, while employed as a work. man in constructing the Akron, in an attempt to bring about the wreck of the dirigible on her first trial flight by failing to install important rivets and by weakening. the supports of the control-cabin ---

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