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are now to appeal againat this decision.

As may be Imagined, both the Binding of the Judge on the point of law involved, as well as the nominal character of the penalty imposed, has aroused considerable comment in circles which had hoped that a modern Chinese court would have dealt with the accused in no uncertain manner. The con- tention of the Judge that because! the accused acted from patriotic motives they could not be accused of theft, would not seem to bear!

As a moment's serious scrutiny. counsel for the municipality put it, a plea that a man had been shot Jor patriotle motives would not suffice to explain away a murder. Or, another commentator has put it, the wrongful deprivation of another of his property is theft, whether it be conunitted by a boycott picket or by a man who is starving and has no other means Ex- of obtaining nourishment. tenuating circumstances might be pleaded in the latter case, It the offence would still be theft. Despite the fact that the men necused in the infringed case under notice bad

China's Criminal Code ander several headings, they have merely been asked to pay a nominni ne some time

future. in the

The Court did not even order the resti- tution of the stolen property, which, as it happens, appears to have been nut Japanese but Chinese in origin. All that bas happened is that the four accused

is T if their conviction may, membered and their whereabouts can be traced, be called upon to Day lines aggregating $80 in Nov- erber, 1993; having in the mean time been allowed to make off with private property valued at more than thirty times that amount.

IF YOU LIVED IN RUSSIA

THE TOPSY TURVY LAND OF THE SOVIETS

AS SEEN BY. JÚLIA BLANSHARD

The vision of the future and the key to it all-Regardi!mss of whether it is a deceptive_mirage or portent of a great day that is really coming. Soviet Russia's ambitious Five-Year Plan for ast industrial development and agricultural expansion is bending millions of Russians to their tasks with an enthusiasm like that of America in war time. This striking picture showing two Rus- inns gazing over the spiras of Moscow's ancient Kremlin at a vision of a busy Utopla of pro- sperity and plenty typifies it all.

DAY BY DAY

THE

If you lived in Rosaiu-

Occasionally it is altogether im- You would live in a drab and possible to buy what you want

for example. Once I shabby land but a land that is alert, Good soap vigorous and hopeful.

could not get envelopes. Butter and some- You would have lear to eat, less often is unobtainable space to live in, less to wear and times costs $6 a pound! AYURMATORtusare less to spend than in America. But

you would not starve.

On the corner stands a cop. He ABBE SIEVES HAS DRAWERS FULL You would not be unemployed. Is in uniform. He raises his hand OF CONSTITUTIONS, TICKETED, READY, Everywhere is activity.

us we approach. It is a traffic... ANNOTATED. THEY You would live not for yourself cop and above him is a modern, CLASSED AND CAN BE APPLIED TO ALL TIMES, ALL alone, but for the State. Like it automatic traffic signal. I see two CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH THE EFFICACY or not, that is Russia.

autos and one truck the whole of A

MEDICINE Burke have just returned from my length of the street! But Russia MODERN SOCIALIST IN AN-second visit to the U.S.S.R.theis planning to have more.. Union of Socialist Sovlet Republics.

I pass a sign prohibiting jay- OTHER ARBE SIEVES.)

The first was in 1925.

fine for Five cases of diphtheria, three from

Arriving in Moscow again, the walking, "One rouble Victoria, one from Shaukiwan and Alexandrovsky station scema almest crossing in the middle of the block." Other "safety Arst" signs say, "It one from the New Territories were empty of the groups of ragged reported to the M.O.H, yesterday, families that used to huddle to-is prohibited to get on tramcars

while in motion."

Street Owing to sudden indisposition, Missgether, sleeping on the concrete

ears pass in a steady pro- Luba Fecker is unable to give her floor, waiting for their trains. The recital at the Helena May Institute rough cobblestones leading from cession, each car has one or oven the station have been replaced by two trailers. Every one is jammed. has men, on Thursday, 3rd December.Adul

a smooth, wide, asphalt street. Every back platform II.E. the Governor, Chief Scout for New buildings are in progresa all women and children hanging on.

of beggars You get on the back, pay your 10 Hongkong, has kindly consented again along. I see no hardes

kopects (Ave cent) fare, get a re- to take the chair at the annual as there were six years ago.

Sidewalks are crowded with eelpt and push through to get off meeting of the H.K. branch of the

If you are a pregnant Boy Scouts Association at 5.16 p.m. drably dressed men and women go the front. on Tuesday, 22nd inst The meeting ing about their business. There mother or a mother with children will probably be held in St. John's are no lines waiting in front of you get on in front.

agencies for news of employment Cathedral Hall.

jobs. There are no breadlines of cow has 2,500,000 population. It

people,

Farts such as these deserve the utmost publicity, as showing how ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

ineffective even the new Chinese courts are against popular move- Mrs. 1. Marques and family wish

PATENT andments such as the anti-Japanese all relatives to thank friends who kindly attended boycott. It has been freely stated the funeral and for the Boral in Shanghai that & Judge situuled tributes and condolences dur- ing their recent bereavement, as was the presiding officer in this case are not uphold the rule of ANNOUNCEMENT.

law when it runs contrary to even the Announcement is made of the forth public opinion, while

cuming murringe of Mr. William advocates

appear against Bell and Miss Mary Munro Bell. A.Se, to take place on Tuesday, hoycott pickets run the risk of December 15th, 1931, at 2.30 p.m.physient violence.

However this al the Union Church, Kennedy Rund. No Invitations will be may be, there seems little doubt; issued but all friends are cordial that a great deal of money is being ly invited to the ceremony and to the Reception afterwards, at the Ilongkong Hotel.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1931.

BOYCOTT SCANDALS.

who

starving

Crowds wait at every step. Mon-

might house and transport 1,000,-

The Royal Observatory reports that

But there ΑΓΟ lines of 000 comfortably. the unticyclone to the N.W. of Peking has weakened slightly. A depression people farther on. hey Te is sill shown to the cast of Hokkaido.

customers waiting at the co-opurk-

I notice a motor ambulance pass": with a red cross on its side. A woman in soiled white apron and sits inside. She is the with a kerchief round her head Interne. Some big buses pass, une is a

made by various people out of this boycott movement. It is even rumoured that as the boycott in Shanghai is proving somewhat unpopular, the Anti-Japanese As- sociation is considering changing its tactics by issuing licences to trade in "enemy" goods. In other words, blackmail is being added a Felice Sergeant at 50 yesterday Sometimes they must wait hours The tragic discovery was made by live stores for their allowance of meat, fresh tomatoes, melons. to theft. The whole business is morning of Mrs. D. 9. Carvalho and return again the next day for wife of a Portuguese resident. lying nauseating in the extreme, the in an unconscious condition in Castic the simplest necessitles, for Russla more so since everything is done Rend at the foot of a retaining wall is short of practically everything sight-seeing one, crowded with

(Continued on Page 8.) of patriotism. near her residence "The Hut. She and in addition has not solved her

had multiple Injuries, including a problem of distribution. Japan may be absolutely wrong in the municipal authorities caused all that she has recently done in the arrest and prosecution of four Manchuria; But Chinn is certainly members of the Anti-Japanese pot helping her own case by per- foolish excesses to Association, charging them with mitting the

which we have referred to con robbery in connexion with the

tinue unhindered. Beizure of a big consignment of

Something of a sensation was recently created in Shanghai when

Koods from H piecegoods hong. It was admitted by the serused men that the goods had been

under the

name

New Road Repair Process.

har

fractured skull, resulting donth after reinoval to the Govern

ment Civil Hospital at 9.30 am. It is believed that the unfortunate lady, who was only 27 years of age, fell from the top of the high wall, the drop belug something like 30 feet.

seized, in the bellef that they were. After the many criticisme roller.

if they would kill if

at

of that part Government's retrenchiment

rond surface, thus rendering it

liable; next to remove the sør-j face layer with rakes; lay a thin surface of asphalt and complete the restoration with a steam In some cases, It is not the necessary to iny a new top dress- of Japanese manufacture, but they levelled claimed that they

pro-ing: the old road broken up by were acting under the Instructions of their gramme which deals with road heat and raked smooth sufices. maintenance In the Colony, it is Experimenta along these lines superiors. When asked in Court perhaps venturesome even to hint have been made before, but a their at a possibility of effecting further naked flame was used and this was superiors asked them to do so, reductions. Nevertheless, we feel found to destroy the road material. Our atton-Tho new machine, which can be the prisoners answered that they emboldened to do so.

an ordinary lorry, would not, as such an act would tion has been directed to a new mounted on be unlawful. They apparently process of read-repair which will produces hot air by forced draught render heavy work with pick and up to 600 degrees Centrigrade by refused to admit that the geizure shovel and "Road Up" signs on the means of fuel oil. This hot air le surfaco of another man'a goods was any same stretch of road for months, directed on the road thing but legal in the circum-dreams of a clumsy past, if experi- through a hood eight feet square. surface immediately stances. In the result, the Chinese meats begun in England full The old Judge of the Special District their promise. Roughly speaking, becomes ready for the rake and the process is that of "roning" can readily be shovelled away, in Court, before which the case was the road surface, a method which England, where the first trial was heard, held that the action of the gives new roads for old in a few held less than a month ago, an accused was a form of patriotic hours. Road surfaces wear little arterial rond section in a very bad movement, and could not be des Ronds have to be repaired again state of repair, was brought to space near perfection and opened to cribed as robbery. However, he and again because the Aned each of the men $20 for an between the solid foundation and traffic in an amazingly short space the top dressing tends to vary. It of time. The cast is less than one offence against

personal

Is claimed for the new process that Afth of the coat by ordinary liberty of the proprietor of the it removes the road engineere methods. It appears to be a pro- specially Invented for hong, sentence being suspended greatest problem. The basic idea cess (for two" years. The municipal is to apply tremendous heat to the impecunious governmental -

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