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Background of the Socialist State in Chile

By PAUL VANORDEN SHAW,

HE concurrence of forces and came to awaken a dispirited peo

and the republican.

gard to Manchuria la the more re- grettable from the fact that, on the eve of the appearance of the. Lytton. Roport, document which will present an unblassed study of the situation, the Tokyo Government scus it to compromise the position by deciding on early recognition | Napoleon. of the new State. Indeed, Count

ly antagonistic, has resulted in grudgingly given reforms, to the Uchida's recent

Owing to unforeseen circumstances the Socialist revolution. A politi-conviction that social justice was declaration of the concert arranged by the China cul current with liberal and actually attainable. policy, ill-timed as it was, can be Light and Power Recreation Club for

SocinBatic objectives crossing an The colonial superstructure construed as something in the nacelled.

next Saturday has had to be can economic whirlpool of discontent which had been giving away but

ture of an

and suffering has brought forth gradually, groaned with the pres affront both to the

Another 31 sacks of Siberian mail the first Socialistic state in the sure of these rapid changes. The foundations of the nation were League of Nations and its Com-

are due to arrive in the Colony to-history of the Now World. missioners.

morrow on the o... Yosulcuni Mary,

rocked and society was uprooted A Chilean was once asked how when the economie debacle of 1930 According to an announcement made the Chileans of the interior of his laid low the remaining props of Looking at the situation broadly, by the Postal Authorities.

Ropublic worked and lived. With the two old régimes, the colonial we cannot but regret, in common

a fleeting amily he replied, "They with all who have the interests of

During demolition work the do nothing, there is no riterior' Kwong Tung Rubber Factory, of Nam in my country," I more serious

While this internal trend was peace at heart, that the position Cheung Street, a coolie, Wai Kam-yan, wears such a gloomy aspect as it aged 46, fell from the first floor and vein he went on to say that this folding itself another grow. Il is too common a phenomenon to He explained in large part the absence need elaboration. Always a proud sustained Injuries to his lega. does. All right-thinking people was later removed to the Kwong Wah of "tropicainess" in the Chilean and patriotic people, the national-

Hospital.

character. Truly there can hard-ism of the Chileans was fanner will agree that disputes such as

ly be an interior in a land 2,000 into a flame by the successful War those which have arisen between The death occurred in Hongkong miles long, with an average width of the Pacifle (1879-1883), and China and Japan should be capable yesterday of the octogenarian grand- less than the distance between from that time it has been swell- mother of Cheng Kwak-yau, who was New York City and Philadelphining until it is as high and strong of solution by pacific methods; in recently convicted by a specini jury Furthermore, the habitable land as the very Chilean Andes them- deed, the whole trend of interna-n a charge of procuring the murder beginning at the very shores of a

of George Fung, and whose rase tional contact in recent years has now being argued before the Fall tricky, tempestuous rea, rises to These then

the peaks of volcanic and eternally

are the politicni been in the direction of creating | Court.

trends. snow.clad mountains. Moreover, machinery towards this end, of

After partaking of some Chinese much of this land is desert and his garden one morning and lo! A Spanish padre gazed out on which the League of Nations and medicinal drink, Li Kam, aged 21, ex much of the rest is not suitable to some of his plants were higher the Anti-War Pact, together with his wife, Chan Clusoni, aged 3, of altivation.

than the others. He bad brought By "tropicalness" WAS meant from the Andean deserto some the Nine-Power Treaty in specific moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital the leisurely manner. the florid reference to Chim, are outstanding last night suffering from the effects of speech and the emotional naturs arren soll and thrown it into a

prisoning. It is stated that

their of peoples who dwell in larger and nature of the peculiar properties.

| corner until he could discover the illustrations. But Japan's attitude, condition may be serious.

warmer lands. The Chileans have it exhibited when fire was brought in evincing a disposition to ignore i

no room to be expansive and n-near it. And it hnd fertilized the all that these agencies, imply, has Victoria and six from Kowloon, with controlled. no time to waste in soil where it day. He had dis- Teen far from helpful. China may

six deaths, were reported last week. Kynceľni gestures and little neca-covered nitrate of audal Two There was only one ease on Monday, sion to orale nimlessly abon hundred years later, in 1816, a not be free from all blaine, but the Three cases of

with typhoid

four sunsets and violets. Not even in Englishman

the opened

first provocation she has received is be-

case of meningitis enlontal times could they take life nitrate of soda plant. deaths, and one with one death, were also notified dur-

Twenty- easily. From the first they had two years later the first foreign yond question. It remains to being last week. Deaths from pul-

to fight a grand but forbidding shipment went on its way and seen how the Powers will react to monitry tuberculosis totalled 48,

nature and the most warlike In-from that day until the World War nny developments which threaten

dians found in America. They Chile maintained undisputed and The fortnightly meeting of the the ponce of the Far East. The Sanitary: Board was held yesterday in won both fights and a sign of their exclusive control over the markets the Board Room, the business trance sportsmanship is the little metal of a product that brought her resposibility, which weighs upon neted being purely formal. Mr. G. representations of Canpolican, the revenues, wealth and prosperity. them in this crisis is indeed grave. R. Sayer, the President, was in the great Araneanian warrior, that Nitrate took its place beaide cop-

thair, and the others present were the most Chileans wear on their lapels, per. Let us hope that it will be dis-Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson (Vice-

Copper and nitrates, whose These struggles developed the histories need not be repeated here, charged in a manner helpful to President), Dr. G. W. Pope, M.O... Chileans into a hardy, tempered, were the apparently inexhaustible

Me

Wong Kwong-tin, Mr. L. G. F.

and active people. but almost sole source of wealth Bellamy. Dr. Li Shu-far, Mr. disciplined Champkin, Mr. . H. Gelling, secre- They learned co-operation much of a hard-working and orderly tary, and Me. Ng Mui-kai, assistant as their New England brethren people.

wards a wise and lasting adjust- ment of the issues.

Listening Through Your Hat

81, Shanghai Street were both res

Eight cases of chutera, two from

secretary.

CORRESPONDENCE,

Lost Letters.

had learned it on the rock-bound

selves.

coasts of New England. Whether All Chile's

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eggs, were in one it be the peon-the famous roto- basket. Hard-pressed peoples the landed aristocrat or the more needed a substitute for the padre's With a radio set in his helmet

recent industrialist and engineer.discovery. Germans developed If Count Uchida really believed there will be times when the

physient and mental courage are synthetic nitrates and the basket that his

declaration of London hobby" will be quite

outstanding attributes of Chileans fell with a crash. The monopoly Manchuria Peady to admit he has “a ben iù Japan's intentions in

[To the Editor, Hongkong

Proud and practical are they too, and the spell were broken. While A news dispatch an-

Telegraph.J

frantic efforts were being made to would, as he averred. remove the his bonnet."

It is no wonder then that the save a tragic situation, another enses of Sino-Japanese friction, ces that a group of London

Sir. As a resident in Hongkong political history of Chile has been calamity altacked the Chilean to be equipped with with relatives in Macao I am in one of steadiness and stability, economic structure. Copper prices he must by this time be completely police are

The speech has miniature sets the essential part the habit of sending letters and From 1833 to 1861 has been called fell, all prices fell. Great Inns disillusioner.

of which is carried in the bowler newspapers through the post to the the period of the aristocratic Re-had been floated in the world's been received with indignation in

ar helmet and operates to enable ter port very frequently and public. This was the heyday of new eredit centre and the pay- since a few months ago I have the landed aristocrat. The elec-ments on their service came with Chinese circles, and it is now fore the man beneath it to hear whatnoted with surprise that n consider- tions of 1861-nnd Chilean elec-1 annoying and deadening shadowed as a probability that ever may be received 130 the able amount of correspondence tions have usually been genuine larity. The fountain of credit Japanese recognition of the new wavelength to which it is attuned., failed to reach Its destination. elections ushered in the era of not only dried up, but everything State will be followed by the order. The chief value lies in the facility do not know whether this experi the liberal aristocrats who intro-else, and Chile found herself for ence is unique in my regard but daeed a number of needed reforms, the first time in her history obliged ing of a punitive expedition by the with which central stations may

certainly it is obviously a very Exactly thirty years later, after to default on her bonded indebt- Chinese Government against Man-gut in touch with the men rious matter that fosses like this the only revolution in Chilean his-fedness.

No should take place so often. With-

tory between 1833 and 1924, minis- Hope came again for a brief development patrol in cases of emergency. #

chukuo. Such

the and

Londam

the

JOHN S. H. WANN.

I

rugu -

are

known nationalist clamor arose against the executive "who had sold Chile to North American capitalists." Whether this was the case or not, perhaps a majority. of the Chileans believed that it was true.

virtually place China and Japan at equipment. In fact, the police.iwo out of ten letters or papers truly democratie form of govern-panin Salitrera Chilena, or the would mean a big upheaval and i varphones are used in this new out exaggeration I may say that terial responsibility and a more moment when Cosach, the Com-

disappear in transit. man gets no more of a sign than

ment was wrested from the aris-Chilean Nitrate Company, was It might the message

Since the above occurrences I tocrats.

formed. All the nitrate interests War one with another.

sent out by his send all letters by registered mail. I

This slow democratization was of Chileans and of North Ameri- lead to even graver consequences, superior. His muse does not even | have lived in many other ports but speeded up in 1920 when the first cans and Britishers in Chile en- possibilities of which could not but light up nor a whistle blow. But never experienced the like before man of the people was elected tered into partnership with the be viewed with the utmost concern. radio receivers do funny things in order to safeguard the rights of President, Don Arturo Alessandri; Chilean Government to save the

the people who utilize the post, I it would have been, that is, if a day. The arrangement, Meanwhile, the signs of growing sometimes

feel that thorough investigation of deadlock with the Congress and technical and to describe them are ap-"bobby" who gets too close to some this matter in necessary. I ant Sino-Japanese hostility

a revolution had not intervened. would serve no purpose. Nor, a of the electrical contrivances on not aware of having ever lost any When Col. Carlos Hinez made him a Chilean writer has said, would parent on all hands, notably in

his beat may gut impressions of correspondence between Hongkong self President, democratic reforms it serve any purpose to determine Shanghai, where the situation

more than one bee in his bonnet" and other cities; it is only between appeared to reactionary and, a whether the opposition of the would appear to be drifting into if a hum of the proper dimensions have taken place. Yours, etc.,

here and Macao that such lasses comprehensive programme of Chileans to this combine is valid social legislation passed by execu-in fact. For, almost as moon as dangerous channels. The inten-falls into step with his wavelength.

tive deeree and other methods the terms of Ita charter were alve form which the boycott move- But this radio-in-your--hat iden ment is assuming, coupled with may be popularized, says terroristic activities on the part of Christian Science Monitor. The organisations seeking to prevent appeal of listening to the Crispy the Bedtime Lhe sale of Japanese goods, is quite Cruller Crooners, naturally causing offence to the Bugaboos and the Singing Syneo- pators may be great enough to Japanese, whilst, on the other hand, prompt a general demand for hat Undoubtedly the evidence of Japanese prepara- [sets for street usé. tions for the possible use of force it would be a great pleasure to is also an aggravating factor in an saunter through the park to the already highly-charged situation. tune of "When the Merry Moon- There are, of course, charges and beams Mobilize in May," or rest a while by the riverside while counter-charges, £11 tending to

Sidney Softus sobbingly sang the obscure the position, but there can stirring straina of "Suddy Soap for be no doubting the fact that under-

Soapy Suds." lying everything is mutual distrust, if not hatred. It will be sur-

A belated issue prising if, in such an atmosphere, Times, slelayed owing to the holding there is not another flare-up in up of the Siberian mail, gives a full the near future. Unfortunately, erklots and Miss Iris Walter, which of the wedding of Dr. G.A.C. neither side appears disposed to at- took place in St. Peter's, Eaton as reported in Square, on July 21, as tempt methods of pacification aim-

this paper at the time. There was ing at the creation of a calmer at a large and fashionable gathering, mosphere. Thus the tension grows Hongkong people who were present. and the feature was the number of day by day, with the ever-present The many bridesmaida lent an addi- to the proceedings. danger of a recrudescence of the tional charm

thono Among

at the ceremony prosent at clash witnessed in the early part were Sir William and Lady Peel, of the year. That trouble, local Mrs. C. G. Mackie, Mrs. R. M. Dyor, Mrs. II. P. W. Hutson, Mrs. Oakes though it was in character, was a and Miss M. Cakes, Major and Mrs. Gordon Home, Mr. G.W.A. Tufton, reaction from Japan's policies in Mr. A. II. Crook, Professor Robert- Manchuria, and the point to be kept son and Mrs. Roborison, Professor Sheilshear Professor Digby, and Pro in mind is that these polices, fessor Middleton Smith, all of long- far from having been modified, keng University, and Canon II. G. G. have become Intensified, thus na bridegroom) and Mrs. Herklots. The Horktots, of Winnipeg (brother of the

turally heightening Chinese feal-best-man was Mr. Boamo Jonyns, ings. The Japanese attitude in re merly of the Hongkong Civil Service. now of the British Museum, and for.

of the London

"Meadows, can't you find some paper cups? These glasBCH strike the wrong note for a plenic.

were

Cosach served as much as anyi- thing else to cause Chileans to examine their own national re- sources, their industries and their productive processen. Many had never realized how much foreign capital was invested in their land, how many industries were control. led by North American and Euro- pean capitaliste. And in a period

Americans when North taking their own bankers to tank and laying at their doors the blame for a world cataclysm, ignorant Chileans, and well- educated ones, too, for that matter. ean hardly be blamed for seeking to shift much of the responsibility for their woes on Uncle Sam'a children. Uncle Shylock to them.

Despair and destitution seemed to face the Chilean people, Gov- ernment after government, „solu- tion after solution, failed.

A

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trend of a century in the direction of political and social justice; many decades of an in- tense nationalism recently in- flamed by fagots saturated with unreasoning fear, hatred and sus- picion of foreign capitalists; and an economic collapse that came later than it did in other landa. but with a suddenness and comple teness that would have annihilated a loss hardy people, havo lod them, now fully aware of their rights, awako to nowor, possibili ties, and but recently so tantaliz (Continued on Page 9.)

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