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THORNYCROFT AND KELVIN

MARINE MOTORS.

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

RUSSIAN COTTON MILLS,

[THE EFFECT OF SOVIET RULE.

Two Lancashire men who have just returned from Russia recently gave an interesting account af the state of the Russian cotton milis to x Manchester Guardian: representative. One of them has baan in Russia for twenty-eight| years, and has been manager of) one of the biggest cotton concerns there.

Their pictures of the state of the country is a rather hopeless one, and they describe it as having gone progressively wOISE [since the Bätsbevist Ravalation. They lived until Easter loa large industrial towa Dear Moscow, and conditions there,

SATURDAY, JULY 13" 1920.

A COMPLETE SHIPMENT OF

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"For money you can get vary cotton

the war 13 per cent of Russia's mixture has been 75 per cent.

supply little; for bartar you can Turkestan:

came

from Jof

to 25 per cent. of foundations. now there

are cotton. Tho state of the ma- almost everything. Flour and

not railways. waggons or rhinery in the mills is very bad. [potatoes are the chief foodstuffs

locomotiveX keep 110 Jon which we have lived,

an and repairs and replacements are efficient interchange of goods. Jurgently needed." little milles, and Turkestan depends on Russia for casionally a meat still mare seldom, perhaps corn and sugar. The breakdown two Englishmen under Bolshevik Stocks arrived.

The personaltreatment of these once in three months. For of the transport left Turkestan rule has been a long story of petty years we lived by bartering away starving, with the rasuls that persecation, searchings of clothes Jour clothes and furniture.

next year the cotton acreage was and honses, confiscation we hadn't been able to harter we greatly decreased and its place household lines, and of money. should have starved. The Soviel taken by food crops. There are Arrests on ridiculous charges. | Administration far foodstuffs

commandeered allows each still, it is said, üve million poods]followed by release after a few worker alb

bread daily; of the old crops in Central Asia, weeks, were ponctuated by Soviet but it cannot be brought into orders to remove Is smaller potatoes (generally frozen) a

sek: 21b. of cabbage a week; Russia. Recently the mills have houses.

swedes

A month: and occasionally a little sun-dried

fish. The ration for the bourgeoisie

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-WESTMINSTER ARBEY.

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London, Jane 28.

of

cluded) is the same, except that the bread ration is lalb a day and there are no swedes. The bread supply is intermittent. For three weeks from January I wei The Dean of Westminster, in a letter to the Press, earnestly up- bar none.

The price of the peals to the English-speaking world to subscribe £250,000 for the up- rationed bread to the worker is keep of Westminster Abbey, which, be says, is in danger of entering six roubles a pound, but to boƒ] a phase of steady structural deterioration. The funds of the Dean of Įmore you must pay in Moscow the Chapter no longer tattice for the upkeep of the Abbey.

300 roubles (230) at the old ex- The King has contributed £1,000 and the Ecclesiastical Commi÷- change rates, and 75 roubles a sioners £10,000. pound for potatoes. The work. The sum of £100,000 is required for immediate structural repairs, man's minimum daily wage is 48 The remainder will constitute a fund to keep the Abbey in complete roubles and the maximum 30] repair in the future,"

Troubles, BO that he has little The trustees of the Fund will be the Governor of the Bank of Eng-

chance, of buying much more land. the Marquis of Salisbury, and Sir Robert Hudraa.-- than his ration. My salary as The Dean points out that the space available in the Abbey for the manager would only have been commemoration of thehonored dead will soon become exceedingly limit- Jenough to buy Ghalb of butter in ed. Unless the removal of many less important memorials frors the

a month."

Abbey to the cloister is authorised, some other means of commentara Industry is nationalised. The ing the Empire's most illustrious dead must 300n be obtained. whole of the textile industries

A great scheme has been suggested by which space-could te are under the Central Textile obtained and splendid view of the Abbey from the southeast Institute in Moskow, which send secured forever, if a generous response to this appeal yields more material when it has it to the than £250,000. The surplus will be devoted to the purchase of the mills, and directs the distribution properts adjacent to the Abbey, enabling the carring out in the of the finished goods. This defuture of any necessary scheme sanctioned by the sentiment of the partment is in turn under the people. The ennar.butions should to addressed to the Dean of Council of the People's Property Westminister, The Deanery. Westminister Abbey, and envelopes The management of the cotton should be marked "Westminster Abbey Fund." The cheques should (mill at which one of our inform-be made out to the Dean of Westminister, or bearer, and crossed

ants was manager and his col Bank of England."

league and existant was, trans- A roll containing the names of all the contributors of £3 and ferred to board of eleven, of upwards will be preserved among the histone documents of the hom six were workmen, and Abbey. On the invitation of the Dean. The Times has taken up the Rates.ive members of the technical appeal

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staff. A derrer came that men ownershipchoold to removed, and [connected with the old capitalist

this meant the discharge of the manager and three others. Our In the House of Commons, raplying to Viscount Carzon, Mr. Lloyd informant was very sceptical of George stated that an Allied Committee wna considering steps to en- the efficiency of Soviet workshopj sure that the trial of war criminaleat Leipzig was not andaly delayed. discipline. The Sovie: Govern- Kepiring to Mr. Horatio Bottomley, Mr. Lloyd George said that Iment began by taking all admin failure to bring the ex-Kaiser to justice would certainly be a derelic-

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management, but had now but he did not think he was worth more bloodshed. He pointed out found it was necessary to fator that Holland had declined to Surrender the ex-Kaiser. He did not the power of dismissal I think it desirable to are forte. recently that was only administer Replying to Mr. Claude Lowther, Mr. Lloyd George declared that ed by the District Commissary, no pledge had been given that the Government would compel the sur- Then & change was made and the render of the ex-Kaiser if he was in the hands of a neutral Power management were given the whe declined to give him up. [opportunity of stating a case for Idismissal before the Commiss ars, but is the man's presence. and is such A way that odium of dismissal was thrown)

At the Democratic Convention, Mr. Jenkins, who intended to pro- the

complainant.pose Mr. McAdoo, announced that he had received definite instruc- The decrease in production has tina from the East" not to present Mr. MeAdɔo's name. been enormous, When the

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AMERICAN POLITICS.

San Francisco, June 30.

The leaders of the sub-committee on the platform agreed on the Soviet Revolution took place the League of Nations plank just as President Wilson wants. It follows workers were told they had been almost identically the phraseology of the plank of the Virginia plat- oppressed by the capitalists and form.

did not need to work so hari. According to several party leaders the sub-committee in drafting They slackened off, and now the the platform practically agreed on the prohibition plank of supporting Government was trying to get the constitutional amendment but with declarations for personal thers back to the old babits liberty and against vexations interferences. work. Up to Christmas a stand- ard wage was paid, although at jactual piece rates the men would, not earn half of it. Since then! bonuses and other inducements

ONDON DIRECTORY to more production have been

with Predicial A. Koralgi Bechioin, Kabla pendre SO BETAZOTZienta örnet wi MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS

in Loma and in fo Provincial Tower and Intuited Centre of the United Kingdom and

The Content of Eropa The · DALELOR... - sádremme and other detale are clamided under | more Abang 150% trade beadium including EXPORT BENCHANTS

with electes perica's of the foods shipped

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the

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introduced. The food shortage in the towns is driving large numbers of industrial workers' into the country villages, where supplies are more plentiful.

THE DROP IS PRODUCTION.

EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From Our Oum Correspondenta)

THREATENED STRIKE IN JAVA.

Singapore. July 2.

A general strike is threatened in the Java sugar factories owing

"No mill is working up to its to the refusal of the employers to raisa wazes by 100 per cent. The full capacity. I doubt if there are employes have given the employers a fortnight to agree.

more than a dozen cotton milla

turning round at all. Not a third

of our machinery was moving.

to erlend iz-it kompenfone, or Trade Derde osad although three times as man

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pan, be priced is a bet of $100 $0.29production was only a third of

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Bingapore. July 2, The Government introduces the Daylight Saving Bill, efecting) saving of half an hour, in Council on Monday.

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of fuel, though probably also for Jack of cotton. There is plenty of fuel if it could be got to the [mil}. The transport difficulty

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