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THURSDAY DECEMBER 3, 1931

THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1931.

own efforts, disciplined by their own undertakings.

Of main Importance to-day, how- ever, is the manner in which India will receive the news of the post- ponement of responsible govern- ment. The outlook is gloomy. Threats of renewed civil disobe- dlence are being made, and in more than one province, there are ugly premonitions of a no-rent cam- paign, likely to be more definite than the attempts of inst year be- cutse of the Increased agrarian distress. The Prime Minister's statement offers nothing to the en- thusiasts. The best that can be hoped Is that Mr. Gandhi's expres- sion of thanks indiented a sincerò | appreciation of the difficulties.

True Munificence.

There are people. who AMRUN wealth and keep it to themselves; ethers, who, when riches come their way, make a point of remembering

those hess well-to-do. As he once

if you Lived IN RUSSIA

THE TOPSY TURVY LAND OF THE SOVIETS.

AS SEEN BY. JULIA BLANSHARD

DAY BY DAY

nitentimQRUČUDOJIMAS KABANAT✪

ALL MENOKITIES SUFFER FROM A supRIORITY COMPLEX. --- Sidney Dark.

Among the forthcoming weddings notified at Shanghal is that of Hugh Raymond Vaughan-Fowler of 1 Sno- chow Road to Winifred Hazel Fowler

Homton Court,

In the land of the Soviets, "equal rights for women" means equal labour, too. Julia Blanshard saw women performing all kinds of jobs. Above, a woman locomotive engineer and woman fremsti girls loading wood on the Volga; below, a woman machinist at a Stalingrad plant.

again indented in the announce. ment which he made yesterday. Sir Robert Ho Tung belongs to the unselfish class. Having already arhieved a reputation of spending with almost prodigal Uberality on others, Sir Robert has now decided to make a munificent gift of $200,- 000 to the Colony. The manner of alloention of this big sora is charne- teristic of the man-il is to be spent on the needy. Half will be devoted to the creation of a Chil- dren's Welfare Centre in the New Territories, and the remainder to the provision of free education for poor children in the eastern dia- triel of the city.

Thus does Sir Robert once again dispense with a The spectre of communal strife free hand some of the wealth which of hang morkingly over the Roundte has accumulated as the result of his keen business instincts, his Table Conference to the end. foresight and his perseverance. It India, desperately in need of may come as a surprise to many provisional settlement, must go people to know that in his early pusatisfied, not because the will is life Sir Robert knew what it was tacking in Britain, but because the to go without very many things Indian delegates were unable to which he would have liked to enjoy. But, although born in humble sur- patch up their differences, All

ruundings, he set out in life with the Prime Minister could really do

determination to make good. In winding up the prolonged dis-How well he has succeeded every-Yuk.ying. No. D, Third Street, West prejudices, against your doing the cussions was to remove, finally, the body knows. It is worth reculling Point. suspicion. mysteriously aroused, that his first position was in the that the National Government was Indoor staff of the Maritime Cua- ALLEGED PERJURY BY hostile to the Conference, its aims toms in Canton, which he entered

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If you were a woman living in least on every shift," the official Russia

told me. "They raise the morale." " You would have "equal rights" them or not. with men-whether you wanted In the Youth Day parade I saw two women sailors, obviously re- You would be expected to work gular "gobs" marching with men and support yourself and be of asanllors. much use in building the new) Ruania has two women generals The following fortheomtinagg

wed-Soviet በ። Any man. There is in the Red Armų, dings are Frank Buttress. No, 13, Macdonnell You could enter

announced:—Mr. Erie absolutely no sex discrimination. Two-thirds of all the medical

profession studenta in Russia are women. Road to Miss Doris May Biddeck, and rise to a position of authority, who is travelling to Hongkong on if you made good.

Women lawyers are icgion, wo buned the 5.5. Chitral; Mr. Poon Sze-

men architects work side by side You would find no barriera or with men on all the new buildings, wai, Chinese Y.M.C.A., to Miss Mak

Travelling in the south of Rus heaviest ur the most disagreeable sla, one night we got off while the Kind of manual labour.

train refuelled. A woman engineer bricklayer, lumberjack,

You could be a cement mixer, stepped out of the locomotive's street cab. A woman dressed in clumsy cleaner, manager of a collective felt boots and man's coat, big hose farm, furnace Bloker,

tractor in hand, climbed up and realled operator, butcher or head of the the water tanks. {government's mosi important The next day we saw

electrical plant.

laying a railroad track. Russian women have always at Lewisham the Corner (Dr. Wmobilized for the Five-Year Plan young, attractive Russian giri.

At the conclusion of an inquests as if the government has Beat" in Moscow is run

been used to heavy work. Now it The huge Park of Culture and by R H. Whitehouse) #tute that he

HIDING IDENTITY OF FATHER.

which

[wor!

01

Care

the

J No woman

West Frontier Province is to gain thing for aged beggara, thus de-London, N., and it had been stated I looked the top of this dam] in Moscow.

new status,

cement.

•

Women

At one of the district dispen- saries I met one of Russia's grand (Continued on Page 3.)

is fully in sympathy with India's amination, out of twenty candid- aspirations, that

ates, of which he was the youngest. Federation and responsibility at post, earning a meagre salary of For two years he remained in this the Centre is still the goal of those about $30 per month. There is no in authority at Westminster. The need to trace his career through would send the papers in the case, sent them into every field. Belty Glan assurance is to be given greater to the high eminence which he has

to the Public Prosecutor on

never had much use for Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, is enunt of the perjury whic

C-women workers until authority by the publication of Mr.now renched, but it will not be out feged had bees committed by the Busain," is the tribute paid them Through her efforts

to the. tireless foe of illiteracy. Ramsay MacDonald's declaration of place to remark thint the habits others who were witnesses,

Russia is by Colonel Hugh Cooper, eminent organized with the slogan, "w as a White Paper, to be endorsed of thrift and caution which he

The inquest

Amerien engineer building Dnci- will teach. was on Mr. Robert by both Houses of Parliament. So has since displayed were incaleat Walter Lomax. harrlater, age rostrof, the largest dam in write by 100 body to read and

world. "I nover even had

oman holds a position of far as it goes, it is satisfactored when, as a lad, he made a prac-155, of Brunswick-square, London.o stenographer

tice of Having a few cents daily WC., who was knocked down by n

at home supreme importance.In the Com- The Governors'. Provinces in

large motor-car

came on this job I found munist party for no wenian be- from bis small

in high-street had to consult women engineers, longs to the Supreme Economic future are to be graated a large ande. From the money so saved, October 24.

allow Lewisham, on Saturday afternoon. hire woman labourers. And do you Council. But many a local Soviet measure of autonomy. The North he always aimed at sparing some-

The car was driven by Benjamin, and better than men!"

know, they are more conscientious has a woman head. Wolfe, of Highbury New Park,

I went to one abortion clinic The same applies to monstrating a thoughtfulness for that-there were also in the car his the temporary road end

All of the four Sind. But the real issue, the others less blessed than himself two brothers, Joseph and Kauf-women, with great fet loots on

down hundreds of feet to doctors examining women and per-

saw forming operations wore women, Future constitution of India as n

which he has carried with him man, and a man and won as pns- their feet triping down the new whole, is placed on one side, by this trait is the further characteris-

throughout his life. Coupled with sengers, virtue of necessity.

When the inquest was opened on The com- tie by which he is known of con- that they had no idea who the man

"We always put one woman at October 27 all three brothers stated munal issue proved the complete demning extravagance in any har to progress.. The Conference form. Sir Robert is true beman's nutne was

and women were except that the would not have ended in the lever in the maxim that waste, that they understood that he came, Woodhouse, and manner outlined but for Hindu under any circumstances, in unpar- from New Zealand. He and the obstinacy and disunity.

donable. He has built up his suc-woman were being The

driven from Moslems presented a strong fronts by qualities which have stood London to Folkestone for a visit and a set of hard demands. They circumstances he has been called into the witness-box and was asked

him in good stend whatever the to the Continent.

Later Kauffman Wolfe went enrried the smaller minorities with upon to face. On the happy if he had produced the passengers them and presented the indus occasion on which lie and as witnesses. with a group agreement which, his life's partner have received "I cannot control their move- if self-Government had not meant the felicitations of innumer-ments," he said. "I have tried to Hindu-government to the Hindus, able friends, he bas added find these witnesses. It la not my vilered a prospect of peace.

yet another claim to be remember fault they are not here." It wased as one who never forgets those Coroner then asked: "Might the There was IL pause, and the summarily rejected and despite all less well-circumstanced than him- man passenger be your father?" that has been said to the contrary, self.

Wolfe I the second meeting of the Con.

Woodhouse. ference has ended in failure. When

The Coroner-If I consider you all is said and done, the

are hiding these witnesses and nat Prime

giving full information I shall com- Minister's eagerly awaited declara-

mit you to prison. Are you certain tion of the Government's policy, in

that the man in the car was not the last analysis goes no farther

your father7

than his statement of January last. The goal remains the same, but A charge of theft of a progress towards it is not, at pre-son's foor polish was brought the car, also admitted that the man Benjamin Wolfe, the driver of against a house coolie employed sent, discernible, unless meaning is by Mrs. I. O'Connor, of 1. Chatham Was his father. His real name was attached to Mr. MacDonald's de-Path, on his appearance before Mr.

Charlos Walfe. claration that if the Indians are line the Contral Police berately ite to the Court on the

The Coronor-Why did you de Court this morning, unable to agree among thmeselves, The

who had been i last occasion 7-I didn't want the

HOUSE COOLIE

SENTENCED.

STOLE A TIN OF FLOOR POLISH.

in of

repeat, the name is

After considerable hesitation Wolfe said: "Yes, I admit he was

father

my

the Government will be compelled the camera service for the world to know the condition my

drunkard.

to apply a provisional achemo. Our past four months, was arrested father was in. He is an habitual early this morning by an Indian

The jury returned a verdict of

own view is that the problem can constable in May Road at its not be solved in that manner. No junction with Chatham Path. He accidentul death, and added that Federal scheme la, in our opinion, was the Lin of wax, valued at 32.76. negligent driving. They said that was carrying a basket in which the driver should be censured for workable unless all the parties His Worship imposed a fine of the negligence was not sufficient to thereto are harmonized by their $40, or four weeke hard, labour,

Amount to criminal negligence or manslaughter,

"A woman to-day should look her bost at 45-of course, Mrs. Walsh, I mean when she gets to be 45."