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THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1933.

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Trade Outlook

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RUSSIA-PARADISE OR PRISON?

By YENDIZ MAHNED

The Very Idea!

THE WAR OF THE ROSES

way

A USE FOR THE LEAGUE..

With considerable unanimity, The eyes of the world have been i

By Eward Jo'a Enry Kelly. Britain's leading bankers, in focused on Russia' ever since that Russia, with the result that the lernt King's English reight (bein There is no "Opposition" in Ah've allus "ad t'ambition ter recept speeches, have testified to fateful day when the Winter party conference is not unlike an wan o' them Austrilyins), and tha some improvement in trade con- Palace was shelled by the re- English

tions at home, but one and all volutionaries and Kerensky, the which all sorts have been careful- cocded.

election meeting o can see fur thessen, Ah've suc- have emphasised the impossibili-leader of the Provisional Governly reserved. Lenin by of the improvement going volution been a

ment, took flight. Has the re-mitted that mistakes had been na' ha' tried, conli a feller bi t'name often ad- It were n't eensy an' Ah would- very for until there has been a Russia a paradise or a prison?

success is made. No mistake has occurrea O' Joe Murgatroyd's tackin' me to revival in world tride. This

Many hundreds of books and surprising that ordinary folk poodin' do ta neet.

A Russia since his death! Is it t Yorkshiremen's roost half an point was demonstrated very probably several thousand arti- have read their papers, asked ably by the Hon. Rupert Beccles have been written telling the hemselves, "Is Russia a paradige an' soz Ah could go-a anyweir in Joe 'a sez Ah've coom on gra-and, kett in lus adaress to sharehold" about Russia. The ony or a prison? and been unable to England ter-day, 'cludin' ers of the Westminster. Bank. | certain conclusion that can answer.

York He referred to the good effect

ue orainary, independ

shire, if Ah paid. which was produced by the ent man is the old one that Trut..

Busy Statisticians

Joe' a lernt me all abart England- Figurca cannot lie. The Soviet few as knaws that England's in and na Ahim glad ter be one o' t' Lausanne agreement, but which has many taces. Pilate if he weakened later in the year when even more despair in his voice matica are in exile. Otherwise, E 82% as 'ow t Australians can

were living to-day would have produces masses of them, ro Yorkshire, an not t' other it was seen how much seemed to when he asked "What is truth?"ow could they secure statistics" beeat England eensy ennuff but

oably the Professors of" Mathe: abart as commonly believed. depend upon the attitude of the

I have two friends, one a which show an increase in pro- theer's four Yorkshirmen darn un- United States towards War Socialist and the other a die-duction of 75 per cent., when the der the can't beat, an' that's why Debts. Consequently, Mr. Bechard." They both attended a kett was constrained to point banquet in Russia. One of them output for the particular industry we 'Strilians 'avent, a gooast o a out the importance which at told me that the leaders were

in the previous year was nii? The Rockne instrument panel, taches to the settlement of this hissed and that no one thought

Russia has always been a mass contains "aviation" type instru- vexed problem of War Debts if about anything but drink; the contradictions. The revolu Ah'll 'ave ter borry a dress soot ments which are attractively there is to be an improvement in other that the cheers shook the ton has not changed that. For fer ta do ta-neet. Joo's borrezed- (grouped and indirectly illuminat-International trade, while, with building and that every guest was instance, in a paper printed for mine.

A turn of the switch key equal force, he demonstrated the and policies that he almost for that the number of elementary theer, an' thees goin' ta bo mooga, so taken up with discussing ideals foreign consumption it is stated All t' best fowks 's goin' ta be starts the engine. Free Wheel need for international co-opera- got to eat. Both of these mer school children has increased from of beer. Joe sez tha can ate all, sup ing control is located on the faciation in solving most of the pro- saw exactly the same thing. But 7,000,000 in 1913 to 10,000,000 in all, an' 'e's goin' ta pat 'lev'n doli're

blems with which international what was the truth? .at left of panel.

1928. It is not stated that the a'eend for't. trade is confronted. In particu

expenditure per head is only one

'E's gave me all tinstructing lar; he emphasised the fact that

pound, whereas in Britain. It is abart me beaviour at t' do. Ah betwen five and eight pounds! "any nation or community that

maunt tuck me rag in me shirt is in a paramount creditor po-

In a Russian newspaper of ap-

froont, an ah maunt oondo proximately the same date we sition and wishes to receive pay

collar, wen Ah geta et, ment cannot bar the product Moscow now converted into the typical school there is only one owt messen.

find an outcry because in of men's hands and brains, and Palace of Work." The magniß-text-book for forty children and t'soop wi' a spoon an all, like tha say that she will accept as pay for workers, and no doubt thou-no writing paper, so that he does in t' Savoy Otel in Lunnon

cent building seemed a paradise ment only the token of exchange sands of readers, even those who wall! A little further on in this immenfooalk in t hack an' great

children scrible their work on the itself. If, added Mr. Beckett, were prejudiced, thought, "Well,

Wot's more Ah mauntslap f "you attempt to turn the ex the Soviet looks, after its work-Paper we read that it was anti- 'em wi "Ah ta' ode lass?" change medium into a commo- ers."

cipated that the industrial work-

ed,

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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1933,

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THE LIMIT.

We write this with one foot in

tual failure and stagnation as visited Russia before the War, millions in five years. Appar- Tha' can see fur, thessen the result-first, because we They would have recognised the ently the author could not see the nowt an ecasy job bein' a real ed- lack the necessary amount of fingers of the nobility, beast that the elementary school best an' if Ah succeed Joe's goin

his dicated Englishman, Ah'll do ma. building, not as the famous school. Connexion between this and gold; and, secondly, because which was at Petrograd, many children has increased by 3 ter pay me t'money e borrered what gold we can send only adds miles away, but as the alms- millions in 6 years.

frum me t'other day, he sez. to a superfluity which is doing house! The "truth is that the It would be easy to write à book Ba gum! Thaat reminds me.. good to no one." The demand building which was on almshouse in this strain, for there is certain-

Tdinner costs 'leven dollars par or a rise in commodity prices, under the Tsar has become a ly not a statement produced about

'ead, an' t' sum Joe borrered Year in and year out, the as a prelude to trade revival, is "Palace of Work under the Russia that cannot he contradict- were twentytwo. Ah s'pose it' Kowloon Residents Association being made with great frequen- Soviet!

ed on the highest authority!

at's w'at tha' calls coincidence. plods away, doing a work of ey, but the effect of such a rise Russian papers, and especially Whereas we in Britain are apt to Ba gum! Ah mus save me real value to those who live on upon the consumer has to be those published in other countries magnify our faults, the Russians appetite. Ah s'ant avs owt ta. the peninsula. Its claim, in the borne in mind. That difficulty with the object of securing good-have developed an amazing talent ate 'til Ab geta ta t'Ongkong 'Obel it has been able to make definite no doubt, be largly offset by the axiom of the propagandist: But annual report just issued, that will have to be faced, and will, will, are nearly all photographs. for covering them by talking ta neet.

Ah be seein' yer! never lies, is an loudly of their merits.

As Under Tsardom contributions to the. comfort, increased trade activity and a what about the two lines of writ IC Soviet Russia. has been

A USE convenience and well-being of reduction in the volume of un- ing under the picture?

FOR THE LEAGUE. misrepresented as a prison, where residents, is one which is thor-employment, but Mr. Beckett in-

In another now famous case, a food is scarce and life is cheap,

Our private enquiry agent in aurhly justified by its record of sisted that the rise must be photograph showed "workers it is the fault of he rulers, for credibly informed that when the activities during the thirteen brought about by natural causes quening up to invest in the great they have misrepresented then next series of Test matches is years it has been in existence. rather than by monetary and government Ioan." But

the selves. The conditions of the played the League of Nations will There are, however, grounds for currency inflation. There will Russian notice above the door vast majority of people would be asked to appoint a Committee thinking that the fact is not be general approval in orthodox when translated read Bread and seem to be very little different to settle disputes as and when they appreciated as it should be... It financial circles of the emphasis

arise, and to nominate the umpires. soup distribution !"

from those under the Tsars. Truths and Half-Truths

For some weeks it has been in- The revolution' of the last five is not too much to say that, but which he laid upon this point.

We have ben told that divorce years has been industrial but not creasingly obvious that cricket-or "for the Association, Kowloon

can be obtained by mere consent nearly so startling in its results than a game. It is now a matter. at any rate Test cricket is more residents would not enjoy many Mice and ElephantsTM before official. True; but the industrial revolution in the of international importance. of the amenities which have

would we like it if it were noised U.S.A. or Britain during the last

There is a suggestion in official been provided for them, in-l The best laid schemes of men abroad that a divorce is obtained century. asmuch the Association has and women-may "gang.. aft is a fact that an undefended suit paradise. It is just Rusis, a

in Britain in 3 minutes? Yet it Russia is neither a prison nor a be called in as arbitrator. consistently followed a policy of agley" through the intervention may take no longer, and if you vast country which has blundered keeping a close watch on the of mice and elephants. It was happened to step into the Law along for centurica, alternating

ADVANCE OF DEMOCRACY. needs of the peninsula and, by proved so one day recently in Courts at the right moment, and periods of great activity with constructive suggestions to Southend, when the well-organiz- left three minutes later, you might periods

Wooden replicas of film stars despondence and. the Government, has initiated ed traffic of that resort

ara being turned out by the million. was return to Germany and write a lethargy. By beating, the big numerous projects which other- singularly upset first by a mouse,

article about Britain's drum, twisting the rattle, and sequel is still more interesting. Interesting? Oh, yes. But the wise would have remained neg-and then by an elephant. Both divorce mill!

shouting, you can make flagging A Bill is being introduced into lected. This is, indeed, the va-mouse, and elephant, however,

Who is to blame for the wrap-spirits revive for a time. But Parliament to provide them all. lue of the Association's work:are inclined after due considera-ping up of truth in a tissue of only for a time.

with votes! it is not carried out in a spirit tion of the incidents to place the the death of Lenin, has been very followed activity by mental hibir- half-truths? The Soviet, since: The Russians have always, of obstructive criticism, but is blame on Woman. Woman, they enthusiastic about propaganda. war, but they have never been based on representating urgent say, was at the root of South- The Five-Years plan had to conquered. They are, like the needs to the authorities, with end's trouble. It was a woman succeed on paper, if it did not statistics of supporters and on the grave and the other in plaster whom it seeks to work in close that shrieked at sight of the succeed in fact. and cordial co-operation. Oc-mouse that caused the driver casions arise, as in the matter of a tram to pull up suddenly, of the alienation of the Central that made following motorcars British School site, when the jam on unexpected brakes, made Association sees fit to criticise the butcher's boy on his bicycle Government policy. The most swerve and dismount rapidly, that it can do in such circum- and finally held up a long stream stances is to call for a reconsider- of well-ordered traffic that gayly ation of the official attitude. perambulates Victoria Circus, Public opinion is certainly be- Southend's busiest spot. And hind the Association when it the elephant says it was a wo- claims priority for the school, man. She suddenly saw the citing in support of its conten- elephant wandering quietly. tion that economic conditions ruminatingly, and with slow are tending more and more to- and 'ambling, galt through wards the education of British quite an appropriate Victoria children in the Colony and thus Circus, and the unexpected making the provision of better sight made her alip, and educational facilities an urgent fall at the elephant's feet. Fac- matter. Transport and postaled with this unusual situation services, the water supply, hos-the elephant considers it acted pital needs and the provision of with tact. It picked up the playgrounds are amongst the lady's handbag. It is true that many matters dealt with during after swinging the handbag to the past year, and in all of these and fro for a little time it dis the Association has been able dainfully dropped it. But still, to record progress. It is a tri- the elephant says, It was bute to the enthusiasm and really responsible for the long public service of the officials of array of traffic that once more the K.R.A. that they should con- jammed Southend's busy spot. tinue to carry on their self-But as the mouse scuttled dain- Imposed task of improving the tily and swiftly away and as the conditions of residence on the elephant ambled slowly and ma- mainland, despite the failure of jestically. through Southend's the public to appreciate their other streets, did they both pon- work to the full. The member-der on how for a moment they ship of the Association, now were the centre of a little uni about four hundred, should be verse of incidents that interrup much larger than it is, and a ted powerful man's greater inclination to follow the scheme of things?..

not

ordered

ponents, a mass of contradictions. of Paris. Last night those same optimistic tootsies snuggled into a pair of hockey boots, the agenda being Kelly's XI v. Ladies "C" team. We have always liked the sound of hockey. We always felt we could do it on our head. Last night we found that was the only way we could do it..

URNITURE

"Drop around any time, Chuck. If I'm not in, just sit

down and make yourself at home."

The difference between hockey and our hockey is purely statis tical, the mortality rate of the lat-. ter being relatively higher. We collided with five forwards, three half-backs, a limousine, the goal- posts. Then we lost the

ball, While we were looking for it, we found the referee had disappeared with half the ladies' team.

We are beginning to realise why hockey umpiring is so popular in certain quarters.

BRIGHTER BILLIARDS.

Mr. Osmund dragged un to watch; him bent Sergeant, Herrlot, a pleasant led who used strategy and plenty of chalk against Os mund's Sheffield stael nerves. At the half-way mark, Herriot-played' with the wrong ball. This appear- ed temporarily to unsettia Ostaund and for the next quarter of an hour he submitted each white ball to a sort of medical inspection bej' fore. he was satisfied he was not trespassing. Once he appealed to marker to spot 'spot and as both. balle by this time must have;. developed measles, we almost choer ed when he got the right one,

But after watching Osmund, we: felt satisfied ourselves we werd cor rect in not entering. It would have been too easy,These fellowa, are not in our class.