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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1936.

Lt. and Mrs. Hawkins strolling in the Members Enclosure at the races on Saturday.

TRUTH ABOUT THE TRANS-SIBERIAN

Record Of A Nightmare Journey

(BY LUCIUS O'R CONOLLY)

(Governing Director of the Australian "A. and G" News Ser- vice, and one of the leading commentators on foreign travel for the Australian Broadcasting Commistion.)

To those who say that traveling by the Trans-Siberian Rail- way is good, I say, bluntly, they lle.

Police Inspection

Continued from Paxe 1.) Lance-Sergt. 8485 Abdul Majid Khan-Fourth Class' medal for bis extremely courageous action in challenging and pursuing a gang `of six or more robbers, armed with automatic pistols in Shataukok 'Village at 3 a.m. on May 17, 1934 while he was on duty with a pat- rol on that road. As a result of his are two robbers were wounded. one died and the other was arrest- ed.

Class 1 Boatswain W29-Lo Yau (Joined Mar. 2, 1910)—Colonial Po- Lice Medal for kung and faithful service.

DISTRICT WATCH MEDALS „District Watchman Defective No, 8 Leung Chi-First Class D... W. Medal for consistently good work since 1924. During 1935 he secured 21 cases, all felonies or serLOJEN misdemeanours. He has a clean sheet since 1928.

District Watchman Detective No. 106 Fok On-Second Class D. W. Medal for consistently good work in political and confidential en- quiries. He joined the Force in 1925 and has a clean sheet.

District Watchman Detective No. 76 Sin Kan-Third Class D. W. Medal for consistently good" work under the Women's and Girla Ore. dinance. He obtained 17 cases during 1935 all of which were fe- Janies or serious misdemeanours. GOVERNOR'S COMMENDATIONS Acting Inspector A, Wright -For performing his duties as Sub-Inspector in charge of Water Police from 1932 to 1938 in a con sistently creditable manner.

Acting Sub-Inspector W, N, Dar- kin-For praiseworthy work as Of- ficer-in-Charge of Taun Wan from 1930 to 1935 and of Cheung Chau from July 1994, to December, 1835. Police Sergeant Ag F. Nolan For his loyal and valuable, sup- port in the capture of a pirate boat at Kong Mun Pass on April 12, 1934.

Between Manchoul, where I boarded the Trans-Siberian train, and Negoreloye, when I thankfully left it, were seven days and seven nights of dirt, discomfort, and discourtesy such as I had never experienced before, and which I certainly hope I shall never experience again. The journey is a nightmare. The train is indescribably filthy. The food provided is often, literally, had, and always disgustingly served. The seating and sleeping recom- [modation for the great bulk of the passengers is uncomfortable.

and unclean. The bedding is inadequate. The service, where, it exists at all, is crude, uncouth, and often deliberately offensive,

The restaurant-car stam con-lice and soldiery, by whom the sists of a cook and two assistant |'platform is crowded, took wen- cooks, a head walter, a waiter, two fed and smart. True, they bristle female attendants, and a scullery- I with weapons. and you may won- maid; and from eight o'clock in der why so great a parade of Police Sergeant A77 A. F. Estall the morning to eleven o'clock al armed force is necessary hundreds For, displaying conspicuous abli- night that staff is worked to death. of versts from the frontier. But❘ity and zeal as Officer-in-Chiet of They are worked so hard that that's not your business. Let us Au Tau from November, 1933, toj they never have time to wash their go through the waiting-room. and September, 1935. hands or faces. Certainly they view Comrade Bolshy at close never have time to ever wash out quarters. the kitchen ar the kitchen utensils or properly to wash the table- ware used by the passengers.

To reach the dining-car from my compartment I had to pass the kitchen. Its door

always open, and I used to try not to look inside; but my eyes, drawn some morbid, horrid fascina- tion, always took a hasty glance; and always. I was sorry.

WSS

No witches' kitchen could equal, for sheer frightfulness, that dreadful place, where hellish brews were concocted and offered at ruinous price: to. the Soviet's paying guests. On the left, under the steaming, grease-bespattered windows, & -waist-high bench ran the whole length of the arcaen. Here the cooks, in indescribably Althy clothes, forced loathsome dollops of flaccid meat through rusty mincing machines, pounded dark, unwholesome-looking douga into brick-like bread, and did, all the dark mysteries of their craft, while they spat and sweated und stank in an unventilated hole.

On the right, running parallel with the mixing bench, a squat black stove, thick with the caked and baked dirt of years, belched black greasy smoke from every joint, polluting the air of all car riages in its rear, and even pene- trating forward, where it added its stench to the ghastly eluvia emanating from the packed manses of unwashed humanity, stale food, bad vodka, and un- speakable beer in the hermetically sealed dining-car.

If my description of the bench and stove on the Trans-Siberian train fills you with any desire to travel on that route, let me add that the narrow strip of floor be- tween is the depository of all the scraps and offal of the kitchen. There it is thrown, and there it stays. Should a piece of food in tended for the pot fall on the floor, it is retrieved, but that is all.

And what of the great open spaces, through which the "Ex- press" crawls, bumps, and staggers on its way? I will tell you Left to · themselves, the great open врасся are fine Not even the Bolsheviks cân mar the beauty of the open steppes, or thess up the majesty of pine and birchclad hills. But stop at a station while the train gets up steam for an- other dash (at thirty miles an hour) across the plains, There la plenty of time, twenty minutes is the average halt; let us walk

a little way, and see the town and the happy, joyous, cultured com- rades of the USSR..

The chances are that the sta- tion," "viewed." from the train, will.

| look quite clean. Fresh distemper colours it. A few flowers in boxes brighten the foreground. The po-

No the waiting-rooms are not savoury. They are full of people, but the people are not standing up dancing country dances or singing the praises of Stalin. They are sitting on their bundles or on the floor. They are wrapped in the uddest assortment of clothes-if they are clothes. Isn't that old,

old

woman wrapped, Mixe

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Seaman W45 Wong Tak-For zeal and courage in mounting guard over a pirate boat at Kong Mun Pass on April 12, 1934.

THOSE PRESENT Among those present to witness the ceremony were the Hon. Mr. R. A C. North (Secretary for Chinese Affairs), Hon. Mr. R. H Kotewall, Mrs T. H. King, Mr. C. G. Perdue, Deputy Inspector Gen-

eral of Police; Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. T. Murphy, Mr. A. R. 8. Major, Mrs. W. P. Thompson, Mrs.. L. H C. Calthrop, Mrs. P. Grant, Mrs. R. H. E Marks, Mrs. J. Murphy, Mr. Kamp- shire, Messrs. Wong Iu Tung, L4 Po Kwal, Tam Wun Tong, Ng Iu Wan, Li Yau Tsun, Tang Shiu

mummy, „la old sacking? They are silent, stolid. workstained. Their miserable bundles are tied in old bags, old raga, anything. and so is the stench. Let us hurry Their clothes are indescribable. out into the street. Surely these sad-faced, stricken people are refugees from Kin.

miserable, poverty-

some famine stricken ärea-THEY cannot be examples of the free, joyous, happy, cultured products of the October Revolution.

We are outside. Here, somehow, the station looks different. It has been

painted, true, but it was many years ago. Few traces re-

and legs are wrapped in tattered sacking. His clothes are in ragu. There are gaps in the rags, where the scurried skin shows through. We give him a coin. Be xium- bles thanks. Into his eyes there comes an almost huuran look. We main. The rest is peeling plaster, go back to the comparative clean- and leprous looking patches. Aliness and cheerfulness of the drivers Blt huddled in their an- row of pessimistic looking drosbky train. cient vehicles The horses' heads. hang. dejectedly.. A cold wind whips eddies of dust from the un- paved street, but the droshkies are plastered with mud. Last winter's,

and the winter's before."

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Two children sidle up to me, their voices pitched to a low whine. In the street" "a passing cart bumps over a stone. A few handful of grain are Bhaken through the

And so the trip goes on. Station after station, and behind each

show window, dirt, distress, des- pair. It comes to us that there is something oddly familiar about these people-something in their eyes-they are all the same.

So, for once, the truth is told about Siberia. And for one rea son, and one only, the trip nas a value. Have you Communistic leanings, Brother? Do you be- lieve in the happy, joyous, cultured lives led by the Comrades of the PUSS.R.? Thẹn travel by the Trans-Siberian! See for yourself if I have distorted one fact, ex- aggerated one word! Here is an- other truth. Seventeen, years ago those Russian Comrades behaved like wild dogs," Now they are liv- ing in the kennel that, "with their own pawS they bullt.The Elis feet "London Morning Post,"

Boor of the cart. There is a rush. „An old. grey- bearded man and two youths fling themselves on their knees in the dust. Carefully. anxiously, they scoop up the grain letting the dust sift through, their Angers. From his place against a brick wall another old mau watches en- riously, but helplessly. He 34 crippled. His long grey beard is tangled on his breast..

~ Mia, Fringle is seen in the foreground chatung with friends. Some Lies of the crowd that-attended the race meeting on Satur- day may be ganged from those in the background.

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