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“Routine Rinkert ban” •

DAY BY DAY

PURITY IS THE FEMININE, TRUTH THE MASCULINE, OF HONOUR.-ilare

The Empress of Aala arrived Vancouver yesterday at 2 a.m.

at

Crawford's restaurant on Friday next

at

SUMMING UP THE FIVE

YEAR PLAN

NLY a little more than athey receive, and last, but not least, formal completion of the famous cally described as "liquidation Soviet Five Year Plan of national the kulaks as a class." economic development, which has banishment of Russia's most eff This wholesale expropriation and perhaps excited more interest ab-

ONLY 4 little ma until the to the process which is cuphemisti-

every

pm, the Rev. Erris C. II. Trib Bed success or of complete failure

estimates. have been exceeded; animals is not as big an item in ek will speak on "Some Sociological can be pronounced. Some of these tion whether this enormous loud others have not been attained in the minus side of the country's

Problems near at hand.".

However much Japan may seek to Justify her actions, the fact does remain that, as the Lytton Report expresses it, her armed forces have forcibly seized and occupied a large area of territory belong- Ing to another member of the Longue. That is the dominant fact of the Manchurian situation,

road than any other feature of cent, farmers is disastrously re- and it must certainly be recorded

flected in the present food supply To-day in the anniversary of the Russian life in recent times. that the weakness, uncertainty

The question naturally arises: of the country. The national agri- Accession of the Queen of Holland,

what sort of balance-sheet can be culture received a stunning blow and lack of unity hitherto dis-who ascended the Throne in 1890.

shown for this extraordinary eco-in the wholesale destruction of played on the matter by the

A reminder in given of the meeting nomic experiment, this first effort ivestock during the winter of League cannot by any stretch of

in the Institution of Engineers and of a nation in peace time to plan 1929-30, when half the pigs, a panse of its third of the sheep, and a quarter the imagination be held to have Bhipbuilders at 6.45 p.m. to-day, when in advance

Mr. W. H. Owen will read a paper economic development?

laf the cows were slaughtered, dlacouraged the Japons Ju

an "Architecture."

If one takes as the yardstick of partly as a protest against colloc- earrying out their aims, However,

Judgment the eriginal estimates of tivination, partly because the peo- the Longue now hnd n lant oppor- At a meeting of the Hongkong the Pian, it soon becomes clear sants lacked sufficient fodder, to tunity of doing Juulive, and it ro- Practical Psychology Club at Lane that no verdict either of unquall-maintain their animals.

It is, perhaps, a serious ques- malus to be seen how the members will reget in the immensely serious | problem with which it la now

faced. The other matter which In Hop-ko; a mess "boy" employed many respects the development of capital balance as in the now in economic life has run along linca dustrial construction on the credit mess, Wellington has caused publie disappointment at the officera

Barracks, was admitted to the Govern different from those which the side.

The Five Year Plan promised is disarmament. So far, months mens Civil Hospital yesterday suffor-makers of the plan envisaged.

Indeed, one rather suspects that that the Soviet city dweller would of disewasbonn have produced na ina from a dog bite caused by

animal belonging to Master Gunner it is not so much the technique of be consuming 27.7 per cent, moro tangible result, and there is now Balley. The dog was removed to planning, which has proved far meat, 72 per cent., more eggs, and from infallible practice, as the 56.6 per cent, more milk products an openly expremed fear that if Kennedy Town for observation.

concentration of the industrial, at the end of the Plan than at the The Hongkong St. George's Society agricultural, financial, transporta- beginning. Communist statisti A beautiful six-leg console model too strong a line in taken against:

conspicuously with butt walnut panels and the Japan over the Manchurian issue, Is hating its annual ball at the tion, and inbour resources of the clans have finest

craftsmanship, the Disarmament Conference muy Peninsula Hotel on Friday, January country in the hands of a Govern-silent about these figures recently. cabinet

Armed

dictatorial' But there can be no reasonable Has powerful nine-tube Super-te entupletely wrecked. If this is th, 193. Instead of the usual set ment

supper, there will be a running buffet

most striking achievements of the facts as the scanty allotments on heterodyne completely shielded

on St. George's Day this year; other-

ration cards, the fantastically chassis with push-pull Pentode, the outcome, the treat purposes similar to the one at the dance held on that has made possible the doubt, in the light of such unable

wise, the ball will be run on similar last four years,

In some branches of industry, high prices in the open market Automatic Volume Control, Tone for which the League wis enta-

natably in oil tractor production, the execrable quality of food in and Static Control, Full Vision blished will undoubledly be en- lines to those of previous years.

general and agricultural machine-almost all public enting places. Dial, Phonograph Pick-up Jack; | dangered.

Two cases of diphtheria with one building, the estimates of the and the complete lack of such sim- Voltage Compensator, Antenna

the death, two cases of typhoid with one Plan have already been definitely ple things as tea and sugar in Equalizer, and all modern Events have shown that

death, two cases of moningitis with SPARTON engineering features. League is an instrument which one death (and imported case) and exceeded. At the same time, other the agricultural regione, that the A remarkable instrument of can be used either to do the right one case of puerperal fever, were re-basic branches of industry are con- great majority of the Soviet popu- ported to the local health authorities siderably behind the figures which lation is much worse off, as regards highest quality.

right during the past week. Deaths from the Plan set for achievement in food supply, than was the case

before the Plan was initiated. Height 44 inches. Width 26 inches. Depth 12

inches, thigs from being done. It does pulmonary tuberculosis totalled fifty-it last year.

eight. One case of puerperal fever inches.

was reported on Monday. Weight 58 pounds.

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COOKE.-On November 22nd, 1932, at

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thing

or to prevent the

the Great Powers-are

It ru- and

not con-

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with

been

The Second Plan.

The second Five Year Plan..

the

The Fallures. The Soviet Union will certainly not produce during the current which will run from 1933 until The second meeting of the Hong- IDEAL RADIO SERVICES control its hellvities, and if the kong Branch of the English ABBocin-year the 75,000,000 tons of coal, 1937, has been framed with a view tion will be held on Tuesday, Decem- the 10,000,00 tons of iron, and the to making up some of the holes in the first. So the population [R Governments--especially those of ber G, in the Helena May institute, 10,000,000 tons of steel which the

when the Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen will Plan demanded for its last year promised two or three times as speak on "Goethe as a world figure." The quality of Soviet industrial cerned to make it function eners Membership for the year costs three production, as a general rule, re- much food and manufactured goods

by 1937. And the Certainly the process of forcing getically and purposefully, the dollars; while an additional subscrip- mains unsatisfactory,

tion of five dollara covers membership

efficiency of some of the newly con ahead the industrialisation of the League cannot possibly be the of the Central Association.

members are entitled to copies of the structed hage plants, as is only country at the expense of effective instrument of Interna-bulletins and pamphlets issued in natural, remains considerably be

hind that of similar enterprises in living standard of the population in goneral and of the peasants in tlounl co-operation and peaceful England from time to time.

other countries.

particular, has been carried to the Yet, even after one has made imit, and perhaps beyond the development it ought to be and

Professor W. Brown, speaking at But the Rotary Club tiffin Gloucester proper discount for low quality is capable of being made.

Govern-Building yesterday gave a picturesque and ineffeciency, the addition to limit, which, from any standpoint

can be considered profitabic., the plain Tact is that

description of a voyage he land under-Russia's, Industrial capital repre-

So the Five Year Plan has-net brought anything in the nature of wife of David Cooke and sister of the achievements of the League the resting place of Robert Louis Dnieprɛtroi hydro-electric power millennial finality. At its end o Ballarat, Australia,uments can only succeed in limiting taken in 1920 to the Samoan Islands, sented by such undertakings as the Stevenson. There was a large atten-plant (which has just been open- L. G. and I. Y. Fenst, a 'daughter, so long as the penples in the dif- dance over which Mr. P. S. Cassidy led), the Stalingrad and Kharkov too-heavy industrial structure resta

preskled. The guests included ferent countries tolerate or are

Messrs. B. A. C. North, Eric Grimble, tractor plants, the big Rostov somewhat precariously on a nar.

The righting of this dis-equili indifferent to the failure or Lieut. D.A.II. Horneil, (H.M.S. Kent), agricultural machinary works, the row food basis. fusal of their representatives to Messrs. fl. A. Schoeneri (New York Magnitogorsk Tron and steel plant brium is far and away the most A. C. Jeffreys, Capt. Kere (Van the Amo lorry works in Moscow, discharge in the proper spirit thecouver), Dr. F. Goldby, Mr. E. W. the automobile plant in Nizhni urgent problem before the Soviet

Novgorod (to mention only a few leaders to-dny. A second duties, obligations and responsi-Tape and Lieut. Col. H. L. Murrow.

of the largest and best known of important problem which can per- bilities which membership of the

the Five Year Plan enterprises) haps take a somewhat longer period of time for solution is whe- League should entail. When the fail to illuming many dark places remains impressively large.

In agriculture the situation in ther the Soviet regime can train "endres". (Le.. trained men of all peoples determine that the League in English history. There are in-

concerning much less satisfactory. It is true! its grent purposes, numerable questions shall fulfil

be an that the planned figures for col-kinds, from directora of big fac Parliament that need to

leetivisation of agriculture have tories to mechanles) fast enough Governments will respond.

swered; and this inquiry will been sweepingly exceeded, and that to staff and adequately operate the

Industrial enter answer most of them. Why did 60 per cent. of the peasant home- country's new

prises. the people wish to be represented? stendu are now in collective farms,, On the Track of M.P's.

When did the House of Commons while thirty million acres are in- A Committee of scholars, his first become ao important that Mincluded in the new State farms.

But collective and State farm- League of Nations is becoming torians and members of Parlin-sters of the Crown began to desire ng, bitter experience has involved over the Sino-Japanese ment appointed by the Treasury election thereto? How did the pay shown, is not necessarily efficient dispute, to recall that Mr. de three years ago to investigate the ment of members, which was re-farming. Extension of the plant- When ed acreage has been largely, if not Valera, in his capacity of Presi-personnel of Parliament from the cently revived, originate?

has now was the first by-election fought? Juntirely, offset by poor cultivation dent of the League Council, re- earliest days until 1832

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1932.

TESTING TIME FOR LEAGUE

It is interesting at this June-

tare,

when the prestige of the

giving expression within the

ca be

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very

STOP THIS ROT

By Edward Kelly, Barracker. The attempted downfall of the

cently marked his entry upon the issued its interim report. It ap-. For £30,000 the history of one of of the fields, attributable in turn M.C.C. team in Melbourne was due

bour power, to dissatisfaction of international political stage by pears that there is abundance of the most famous and beneficent in- to lack of human and animal lawe gather, to a wet wicket and a the peasants with the scanty person by the name of Nagel. It is useless using recriminations for Iamounts of city Adopting the role of candid critic, evidence available; but it requires stitutions in the world

products which

the collapse now-the damage is study and preparation. Much of elucidated.

done. The wicket got wetter and wetter and all were swamped out. However, blame must be attached to the wicket-keeper, who, allotted the job of keeping the wicket, neglected to dry it and further- more, things are coming to a pretty pass when a man cannot keep a miserable wicket clean. For in- stance, the cable tells us that this Nagel fellow actually found a spot on the wicket. Tut! Tut and again Tutt

appear

that his frankness

Reform

as it is

the evidence is in manuscript, and League to the criticisms that are though facts concerning many M. often heard outside. It wouldP's of the pre-1832 era are lost be- wasyond recall, there will be no fewer not altogether appreciated, for than 30,000 biographies to be cam- we read that his first speech in piled. Before the Great Geneva was received in dead sil.Bill, whose centenary has just been ence. Whatever we may think of celebrated, the Commons wero sum-| Mr. de Valera's own idens of the moned to more than 250 parlis- ments, the membership of the lower sanctity of treaties, as evidenced house varying from 204 to 658. The by his atlitude in the Anglo-examination of the record of each Irish quarret. There is

anques-member's career, so für tionably foundation for his state-possible at this date, will probably ment "there is a suspicion abroad take several years and cost some- that little more than lip service thing like £30,000. The Govern is paid to the fundamental prin- ment is willing to pay its share of ciples

on which the League is the expense, and the chairman of the committee, Col. Josiah Wedg- [founded: that the actions of the wood, M. P., la determined to carry League in the economic sphere on the work whatever happens. An can be paralysed by the pressure appeal for funds has been made by of powerful national Interests, the Prime Minister over the wire- of this the purpose laborious inquiry into the precise personnel of Parliaments long since vanished. Mr. Ramany MacDonald The auspiclon which Mr. de himself answered this query. Those Valera voiced does undoubtedly who never look into the past, he exist.

been said, will never look forward into

Atronger

the future. Then Inquiries will recont during months. It is only necessary to add to the prestige of a form of re- presentative government at a time refer to two outstanding pro when representative government is blems at present engaging the being attacked in many parts of attention of the Longue to illus- the world. Finally, any further trate the causes of public disap-information about the growth and nantment and dissatisfaction. development of Parliament: cannot

and that if the band raised less. Some people may wonder against the Covenant is sufficiently what is

strong. It can smite with punity."

and it has thán

never

im-

"Let's all get together next Wednesday and go to the

chiropodist."

This Nagel bloke should really be withdrawn from the game. The man is a positive menace.

Five or six times he knocked down the small wooden stumps erected for the protection of the |wickot keeper.

Whether this was done in a spirit of malico or from a mis- guided sense of humour is not re- corded.

Howover, if the spirit of our glorious Empire le to remain at full strength, this horasplay must stop immediately. It la cortainly not in keeping with the spirit of the Ottawa Conference.

We hesitate to mention names, but going from the cables, it acome that one of the Australian bowlers. "set a trap" for our cricketers. Is this right? Is it fair?

Are our men, travelling thou- -sands of miles across the ocean to be treated like so many mice?

It sooma. 80. And this is the vaunted Australian idon of fair. play! HAI HAI

This Nagel annoyance dismissed young Mr. Larwood for a duck. (Continued on Page D.)