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ECHOES OF 1858

51.--The Official and Unofficial Councillor (ompared

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KEEP YOUR DOG

MUZZLED

Europeaus Fined "Yesterday

Defendant was absent owing to the Cicala leaving this morning on gun trials. She was sailing to- morrow and would, not be back until November.

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His Worship said he would com÷ municate with the. Naval 'authori- tles and adjourned the summonis

Mr. H. Stehr, 109, The Peak and meanwhile.

42, Lockhart Mr. Leo Landau, Road were each fined $8, Mr. Landau was discharged on a sum- mons. for keeping the dog without a licence, stating that he secured a licence seven days-before the issue of the summons. He pro- duced the certificate..

Fines totalling $16 were imposed at Central Magistracy yesterday | on Mr. T. A. Mitchell of Messrs. W. R. Laxley & Co., in connection November 4, 1858.

the Governor was empowered to with unmuted doga. Mr. G. nominate, first two and then three Duncan who appeared in court That Legislative Council of ours of the Justices of the Peace to be on behalf of Mitchell said

the that the latter was in hospital, really

most melancholy Legislative Councillors In spectacle sort of excrescence of Arst instance, the bench of jus- Leut-Commander E H. Blockett- our old Colonial system which was tices ballotted for the selection. Pugh, of HMS Ocala, living at rife with nepotism, favoritism, but subsequently we think the 152 The Peak, was summoned for apathy, exclusion and frumpish Governor made the selections him- a similar offence. ness-a decided extravaganza upon self. At all events, there they are the reformed and liberal institu- the very soul and conscience of tions which Great Britain" actual- the Council. It is indeed most ly enjoys as broad a Pantomime gratifying to observe the able and in "which upon utilitarian measures, popular determined manner principles, and patriotic profes these gentlemen perform the pub- stons as can be very well conceiv-lic duty they have undertaken. It is the contrast between their in- We must premise our remarks itelligence, their integrity, their de by stating that this Colony is not termination to do what is right, only self supporting, but that it and the apathetic conduct of the yields a surplus revenue. That the official members of the Council public from whom the revenue is that we would call attention to non-official members most derived, have, notwithstanding, no The voice whatever in the legislative, certainly da, although it was never executive, or municipal arrange meant they should, represent the feel ments. That the Governor who is entire community, and we the president of the Council, is a bound to say represent it well too. man notorious for the enunciation They enjoy to the fullest extent of radical republican views," in the public' confidence, and cannot fact a disciple of Jeremy Bentham possibly have any other policy or These premises being admitted and object than the public good. The in the Maritime Province,, which, understood our meaning will not official members have no interest with the port of Vladivostok, re- the in the Colony beyond their presents Russia's access "to be difficult of comprehension.

salaries, and are notoriously quite Pacific.

Self Assurance. There appeared some years ago, careless as to its welfare-they strong symptoms of a clamour for should be the servants of the pub- the admission of a little of the lic, but they palpably assume the Incidentally I note a substantial popular element into our legisla- position of its masters.. It the accession of something very much ture. This made the Red tapists three non-official members are in the nature of national pride in in Downing Street quail, for they unanimous in opposing any men- the Soviet Union. It finds - ex- knew right well that such sure, we submit it to be bad taste pression in a multitude of ways. elamours, making the meat they in the salarled officials carrying it There is the constant organized feed on, could not be quieted and right in their teeth by a coup de glorification of this or that success must therefore be compromised or main. We maintain that in doing in industry or agriculture or in- arranged in some manner. Con- so they are forcing upon the pubvention. There is the readiness to sequently to avoid anything like an lic a measure that they ate adverse accept a substantial commercia! election or the smallest chance of to, and at the same time are com-loss rather than yield to the press. any expression of popular feeling. pelling them to pay for it.

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ure of the British embargo and re lease the two British engineers who received prison sentences in the re- cent sabotage trial There is the

The Position In Soviet Russia robustly boastful speech which Mr.

A NEW ACCESSION OF NATIONAL

PRIDE

4. Kirshon, one of the younger generation of Communist writers, pronounced before an audience of foreigners who attended Moscow's Theatre Festival, Mr. Kirghion triumphantly cited the prospective 40,000 trictors From the now Cheliabinsk plant and the length of a new canal which was built largely with forced labour under the direction of the Gay-Pay-Do as proofs that Russia was not only. far removed from Asis, but rapid- ly eclipsing Europe. There are the struck than the permanent resi-general expressions of indignation dent by the amount of new, build-that the recent four power pact ing which has gone on gradually, should have omitted, the Soviet just as the old inhabitant" is Union

major European more apt to notice the everyday power. hardships of existence.

, BY WILLIAM HENRY, CHAMBERLIN

Moscow.A Group of foreigners here were recently discussing the vast and controversial subject of Russian living. conditions. Some thing of a cleavage of viewpoint developed between those members of the gathering who had lived in Moscow steadily and those who were revisiting the Soviet capital after an absence of a year or more. The revisitors were more optimistic than the permanent residents.

"The external appearance of the eity has certainly improved. Any one can see how many new build ings have been covered with asphalt paving. There are some really at tractive shop windows now: cer tainly a novelty in Moscow. And people are surely better dressed at the opera and in other public plucss than they were a few years Age."

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arguments of the optimists. The permanent resi. dents, with one or two exceptions, were more skeptical.

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This growing national self-assur- anes is a very natural development* in the Soviet Union. When the Bolshevik Revolution first occurred Soviet eyes are fixed on tho Far the official Bolshevik viewpoint was East when question of foreign po-op of an imminent world, or at that it was the herald and precur. licy pome up for consideration least European, revolution. that Japan is playing for very big there is a tendency to seek compen There is a general impression here this prospect has been fading away, stakes on the Asintie mainland and sation in exalting the domestic that the Soviet Union is more achievements of the Soviet Union; directly affected by the Nipponese and this is relatively easy, in view forward movement in Manchuria and North China than any other of the Soviet Government's com

mand of an unsurpassed apparatus country, except China itself.

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of propaganda and the very great The Societ offer to sell ite share isolation of the population, especi of the Chinese Eastern Railway is ally of the younger generation, an effort to retreat with dignity from first-hand knowledge of other. and a little cash from a situation countries. It would not be the that was rapidly becoming unter- least among many Soviet pardoxes able, because of repeated disputes it what began as an international between the Manchoukuo officials revolution ended in the systematic and their potent Japanese advisers infusing into the Russian masses "Look at the difference in food ch one side and the Soviet off of a much more intense form of supply between 1990 and 1927 and cials responsible for the opera-patriotism than they possessed in the present time," ran their coun- tion of the railroad 01 the pre-war times. ter-argument. *Remember that other. It was impossible to foresee rationing was unknown until 1928. when such a dispute might asume Now you can see empty shop win a very serious character and, as dows, struggling queues of people the Soviet Government has not the before the booths where bread is slightest desire to fight for the Chi sold at the commercial price of nese Eastern Railway, the course four roubles (nominally 82) of wisdom seemed to be to dispose pound. Make as liberal an" allow ance as you like for the meals that some prople get in factory and office restaurants, and you esn't mistake the fact that a good-many on this question is not dictated by The conciliatory Soviet attitude pex ble, especially of those classes pacifism, which has no place, or which are not employed ni a state plant or institution, are definitely only a contemptuous place, in the Communist's vocabulary, nor get undernourished in Moscow to day by any feeling of permanent in And Moscow is a land of milk and feriority to Japan. It is rather honey compared with smaller towns based on the realistic consideration in the provinces. Moreover, while that time is likely to alter the the new building has improved the balance of power in the Far East *ppearance of the city, it hasn't

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of it," regardless of the protests which the Nanking Government has been voicing in this connection.

benefited the man in the street very in favour of the Soviets As much. Population has been grow. Siberia becomes industrialized and ing at least as fast as new houses equipped with metallurgical plants are built. The average Muscovite with warlike potentialities, as the still lives in cramped quarters, process of colonization thinkens the rides to and from his work on a population in the vast spaces of chronically overcrowded street car, tion of a Soviet army on the east eastern Siberia the strategic posi- subsists on pretty short commons.

ern frontier automatically becomes And if you look more closely at the

stronger. well-stocked shop windows you will usually see the little sign Torgsin, The Soviet objective in the Far which means that only customers | East: to day is limited to "preserv with gold or foreign currency needing the integrity of its territory. apply. This certainly shuts out Communists profess confidence that the great majority of the Russians the defensive measures which have of all classes.

been taken since the latter part of of argument could 1931 have borne substantial results proceed endlessly. Of course, it is and that an invader would find quite natural that the foreign who more than one unpleasant surprise revisits Moscow should be more (Continued on next column)

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