1933-06-06 — Page 7

RUSSIA IN GRIP OF FAMINE

AS TERRIBLE AS IN 1921

"WE ARE DYING”

Berlin.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1933.

Strange Stories WOMEN INVADE

From Near and Far

money.

The one

in now

BRITISH MAPS OUT OF DATE

ORDNANCE SURVEY

"STARVED"

| 'TWO' MORE CLUBS

DWINDLING REFUGES OF BACHELORDOM ·

The great invasion by women of GANG ATTACKS man's last stronghold, his club, THE WRONG MAN proceeds apace.

POST-WAR CHANGE The movement has gained forco NOT RECORDED Here are somo of the strange ne a result of the recent decision things In the nows reported by of two more famous West End in-. The world-famous Ordnance Sur- Reuter correspondents everywhere:stitutions, the Oxford and. Cam-voy Map of Britain, which is the Six mon attacked Santiago bridge and the St. James', to follow basis of English land-tenure, local "Russia to-day is in the grip of Trigueros, of Valencia, in Spain, the example of many of their con-government, regional planning, famine which is proving as dis-as he was returning home. They temporaries in granting special land drainage and transport, may astrous as the catastrophs of 1921 beat him with clubs and took his facilities to women guests. soon be of value only to the his when millions died," said Mr. Gareth Jones, former political

torian, for this map, on which all undertaking others are based, is now consider secretary of Mr. Lloyd George, to the rest that they had attacked structural alterations providing ably in need of correction-owing when he arrived in Berlin recently the wrong man. The gang apo for a ladies' dining-room to ac- to the Geddes "Axe" and the un- en route for London after a long logised profusely, helped the man to commodate 70 persons; the other exampled re-development of Britain walking trip through the Ukraine his feet, restored his money--and has made the concession that wo-since the War. and other districts of the Soviet disappeared.

guests may henceforth be Union.

Mr. Jones, who speaks Russian Berlin reveal

Oficial recorda made public in entertained to lunch between 12 fluently, was the first foreigner to the German postal service.

some curiosities of and 3 o'clock on Sundays. visit the Russian countryside since In Dinkelsbuchi, Upper Bavaria, necessity to accede to the demand. Neither club was compelled by the Moscow authorities forbade there are still many houses where Each took the step deliberately, foreign correspondents to leave the the pastman delivers letters, not chiefly at the instance of city. His report, which was de-into a letter-box, but into a cloth or livered to the Institute of Inter-leather "pocket," which is let up

younger members. national Affairs explains the reason and down, outside the house, with a for this prohibition.

string. In an interview with the New York, Evening Post, Mr. Jones said that famine on a colossal scale was impending. It meant death to millions by hunger, and the begin-

Then one of the men announced

men

Ever-increasing areas of the most important economic regions of the country are not to be found reproduce every house, hedge, and on the map, which is supposed to minutest detail of Britain. Scores

its of flourishing towns are not to be found upon it, and in many cases, if post-War conditions continue. will

never be found.

RADIO BROADCAST

HAWAIIAN SELECTIONS FROM

THE STUDIO

From 2. B. W., on wave length of 355 metres (845 W/).

11-11.30 am. Stock and Exchange Quotations, Selected London and Now York Stock Quotations etc..

Weather Report. 11.30 am. gramme.

Chinese Recorded Pro-

12.30 p.m. European Programme of H.M.V. and Victor Records.

1 pm. Local Time and Weather 1.30 p.m.

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Rugby Press Nows etc. A Relay of the flotary Club Timin Speech,

2 p.m. Close Down.

450-7 p.1. Programme.

Chinese

Recorded

7-10.30 p.m. European Programme. Vocal Duct Paradise for Two

7-7.45 p.m. A Concert.

(Tato). Vocal Duct The Keys of Heaven (Brondweed)-Alleg Moxon and Stuart Robertson

C2014 Piano Solo-Spinning Song (Wagner Liszt)-Ignace Jan Paderewski 1549 Song The Tune the Bo'nun Played

(Loughborough) Seng-Harlequin (Sanderson)-Peter Dawson (Boss-Baritone) B3670 'Celto Solo-Impromptu (Popper) 'Cello Solo-Fond Recollections (Pop- per)-Phyllis Krauter 4185 Vocal Duct I've Found A Whole

World In You (Lealie).

Melville

and

Ever since the War the number [of clubs that have agreed to make The highest post-office Is 8,260 arrangements feet up in the "Schneefernhaus" of entertain their wives and friends tinue, surveyors are agreed that for members to If the prosent conditions con- the Bavarian Zugspitz cable rail- has slowly been increasing. The some day it will become necessary way.

list now includes the Junior to sacrifice all the work and expense Mr. Harold Bruce Lewin, who is Carlton, Guards, Bath, Bachelors of mapping England since the birth nings of serious unemployment in 71, has been tramping the open Reform, Devonshire, Junior United of the Ordnance Survey Department

roads of Australia for the last ten Service, the Royal Automobile in 1791, and undertake a complete Vocal Dust-Dainty Littlo Malden years. He has walked 53,000 miles, Club, and many others.

new survoy, as of an unexplored A black lamb has been born in

land, at a cost of about £35,000,000. the village of Mezek, Bulgaria,! The majority of these have built The extent of the problem of which has only one eye and a comb ladler annexes, including swim- maintaining the Ordnance Survey like a turkey. "I walked alone through villages

ming poole, dining, drawing and key map of Britain (on the scale of Receiving orders were granted in reception-rooma, and, in

some (25 inches to mile), even at the and twelve collective farms. Every-a Bankruptcy Court at Singapore cases, aquash courts. The most standard to which it has already where was the cry "there is no against a Chinese family, consisting recent example is the Devonshire sunk, is only now being realised brend; we are dying!" This cry of grandfather, father and son.Club, a new ladies' wing having in consequence of the attempt to

re-map Greater London.

a land which has hitherto prided itself on every man having a job. This summed up Mr. Jones's first- hand observations.

PITIFUL SCENES.

came to me from every part Russia.

of Renter.

"In a train, a Communist denied to me that there was a famine. I flung into the spittoon a crust of bread I had been eating.from my own supply. The peasant, fellow-passenger, fished it out and ravenously ate it. I threw orange peel into the spittoon; the peasant again grabbed and devoured it.

"The communist subsided.

my

Kingdom of Atlantis

Paris.

been opened only laat week.

THE OLD GUARD.

DEPLETED STAFF.

B3716

(Besloy) Winnie Derek Oldhani Pianoforte-Impromptu-Rocco

(Schutt) Pianoforte-Valse (Arensky)-Harold

Batter and Ossip Gabrilowitsch

8162 7.46-8.15 p.m. From The Studio,

and Ho Yuk-ming.

Howallan Selections by Ho Yuk-lum

01399

A relay of the Band of the 1st ducted by Bandmaster J. L. Gecks, Bitn. South Wales Borderers con-

from Mount Austin Barracks by Cour- tesy of the Officer Commanding.

10-10.30 p.m.

A Relay from Daventry of Marek Weber's Orchestra.

8 pm. Local Time and Weather Report Etc.

6.15-8.30 p.m. Vocal Gems. Sixty field-surveyors, or one-half The Yeomen of the Guard (Gllbert & No Institution fought so vigor-

Sullivan)-Light Opera Company ously for its principles of male of the depleted field staff of the

01807 exclusiveness as the Reform Club, the Geddes "cut" there were 500- Department before the War and

The Girl Friend (Rogers) Light The final resolution to admit

Opera Company

01309 women gueats on Saturdays and are now concentrating on Survey, Peggy Ann (Rogers)-Light Opera

Company In a desperate attempt to reviše Sundays was passed two years those areas which have changed

8.50-10 p.m. age, similar proposals having been

again. In most completely in the past 20 years defented' again and

or so. Had the Survey Department several other cases, too, the "re- been able to work there in 1928 "A. foreign expert returning from

DISCOVERYvolution" was brought at ut only and again in 1930 they could have Kazakstan told me that a million

OF ROYAL TOMB after heated discussions among revised certain sheets of the map. out of five million have died of

the members, for the old guard of using the landmarks which were hunger. I can believe it.

clubmen cling to their privileges. not then obliterated by development. "After Stalin, the

A royal tomb which may provide man in Russia is Bernard Shaw.clues to the fabulous kingdom of ataunch institutions, many of them that these landmarks have vanished There are still a number of Now, however, it is being found To many of those who can read and Atlantis has been discovered have read his glaring descriptions the Hoggur, the mountainous dis-are bound either by their rules or development has taken place, so in with political associations, which completely in places, and enormous of plentiful food In their starvingtrict to the Sahara inhabited by their traditions Iand the future is blacker than the the blue-velled Touareg warriors. claims

to ignore thethat revision is impossible. present

of the feminists. The Professor Gautier has heen Athenacum. White's-London's The land must be re-surveyed-a TOO WEAK TO WORK.. carrying out excavations at the oldest club-Brooks's, Boodle's, process which may take ten times "There is insufficient seed. Many covered

tomb of Tin-Hirian, and has dis- the Army and Navy, and Buck's, as long as revision. of the peasants

no fewer than eleven are among those which will prob- are too weak to chambers, each some nine feet by ably never succumb to the move-ed band is spending 50 days in work And while the surveyors reduc- work the land. The new tuxation twelve, and leading out of each ment. policy which promised to take only other.

that but for the Geddes cut would a fixed amount of grain from the peasant will fail to encourage pro-

artistic an impression on one Survey cor tution because the peasants refuse before which were found they celebrities, has one feature that ner, in Middicsex, Hertfordshire, to trust the Government."

Essex, Buckinghamshire, Co. Dur distinguishes it from its contem-

Birmingham, Glasgow, and the Cheshire Lanenshire, and

most hated

'The whole

and a wall, with a single gateway, haunt of literary and

enclosed by a ditch The Savage Club, famous as the have taken five and trying to make

iron arrow-benda,

.(Should reception prove good, this programme will be continued until 11 p.m.)

10.30 p.m. Ragby Press Nowas Close Down.

(All records in the above Eurofoan Local Programme are kindly supplied by Messrs, S. Moatrio & Co.

CHINA AT THE CHICAGO FAIR

COUNTRY'S GREATEST

ACROBATS

Chicago.

In short, concluded Mr. Jones,

hum, These objects all reveal a civili-poraries-its membership list con- the Government's policy of collec-antien dating frem Greek or Ro-tains the name of one lady. Dame tivisation and the peasants' resistiman days, but Professor Gautier Modge Kendal. The great actress Wholo South Coast, the last land- - ance to it had brought Russia to has also unearthed twenty-five was elected as an honorary lifmarks indicated on the 20 years' acrobats in the world. the fore-

the worst catastrophe since the well-preserved skeletons, weapons member in 1926.

the

famine of 1921 swept away population of whole districts.

Coupled with this, the prime reason for the breakdown was the inck of skilled labour and the col- lapse of transport and finance.-- Reuter.

SUMMER FLOWERS

IN WINTER

Horticulturists' New Discovery

Lafayete, Indiana.

·

rarer each

still has its are becoming year. Centuries-old gradually being

dating from the stone nge, fine

So bachelordom prehlatoric drawings and inscrip- language of the Touaregs. tions in Tifinar, the ancient refuges. But they

Everything points to the exist-traditions are enco of a far distant civilisation in swept aside as Eve continues on what is now the desert and which, her all-conquering way.

by some sudden natural cataclysm, was overwhelmed.--Reuter.

PILGRIMAGE OF 10,000 MILES

ENDS WITH AUDIENCE WITH POPE

Joseph Louis Wei,

Rome.

a

RAILWAY SERVICE.

HOPE FOR RESUMPTION TO SHANKAIKUAN

old official map are being obliterat- ed, making revision there, too, an imposalbility.

OUTER LONDON'S DEMANDS.

Outer London alone is expected to occupy half the present field staff for the next ten years. By that time the map of London again will be out of date, as well as the rest of Britain, As it is, much of rural | England depicted on the map was last corrected 50 years ago.

nance

The greatest troupe of Chinese

most actors and actresses of China, and scores, of other attractions from across the Pacific have assembled in Chicago for China's. exhibit at the World Fair.

Ziang Ling Chang, Chinese Com- missioner to the Fair, proceeded Immediately on arrival with the creation of A typical Chinese village on the Fair grounds, just south of the Jehol temple.

Commissioner Chang enthusi→ astically stated:—

"We in China are confident that this will be one of the great ex- positions in history. For this reason we are bringing over here many valuable exhibits never be

In the United States. The Chinese nation is intousely interested in the Fair and belioves that here we will have the op- portunity to show something of the real China."

One of the exhibits is a jade

The consequences of this post- War surrender, of our title as the best-mapped country in the world are already being felt. The Ord- Survey Department has thrown to the winds its former fore seen Peking, June 5,

programme of steady revision of Hopes have been revived for the England, region by region, and is early resumption of the railway leading forlorn attacks on the most By cutting about 10 hours a night Catholic pilgrim from Singapore, haikuan, and Chinese circles are sheets,

Chinese service between Peking and Shan- deplorable "pit holes" in its 60,000 off the "sleep" of nsters, dahlias arrived in Rome after aweet peas and panales,, horti-ten thousand miles in two years and through booking, if not through being driven to call in private firms, walking also discussing the possibility, of Local government authorities are culturists of Purdue Univeralty two claim to have discovered a com-audience of the Pope,

months. He received an traffic, from Peking to Mukden, at enormous coat, to map their mercially successful method of As though in answer to his prayer kunn and services on both sides of national map in some cases ruerely passengers changing at Shanhai- townships, since they appear on the making these flowers bloom in win-whon Wei got to Jerusalem he heard the Great Wall running in connec. na woods and windmills, and ond lacquerware, silks, embroideries, ter as profusely as in midsummer. that a Holy Year had been pro- tion-Reuter-

The dahlias are bigger than the claimed, and that his long pilgrim- summer blooms, and the pansies Rower in eight to 10 times their to Rome would gain double

significance.

usual profusion.

Wei had many thrilling and pain-

Charged with the theft, by false pretences, of a mah Jongg set and

templo 14 feet high that required is also a wealth of porcelain, eighteen years to complete. There

less complaints are made to the rugs, furs, carved iveries, furni Deportment for "alacioness."

A CHANGED LAND. Engineers and electricians, pro-

Its

supposed

The "sleep" of plants in their con-ful experiences during his long table top, a Chinese, aged 22, was perty owners and road-makers con- dition during the darkness of night walk. Near Rangoon ho was cap fined $60 or one month'e gaol by Mrtinually discover that the country when lack of light stops most of tured by brigands, who beat him on Wynne-Jones in Court this morning.. their synthesis of sugars and other the soles of his feet and left him Defendant obtained the sun and Its maps have no inter-reln- plant materials.

half-dead on the roadside-Router. protext that his "master" wanted it.

SLEEP CUT DOWN.

tion. The changed levels-Glamor- gan has in places sunk six foot oluce the last Iovolling-lead to floods when they are least expected, and it is widely asserted that the Thames in 1928 were due entirely. disastrous floods of the River

to an alteration of a few inches in levels, which the Ordnance Survey Department, given adequate means, would have ro-surveyed. at-

Yet the reversal of the "tem- from the Yaumati ferry Man Chae porary" Goddes cut, at a cost to yesterday, but was rescued and re-the nation of possibly £20,000

yoar, is belloved to be still all that moved to Hospital.

is necessary to arrest the rat before too inte.

In the experimental greenhouses

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF the flowers were allowed to go to "sleep" as usual at sundown on

MEEKNESS IS THE GRACE WHICH, A woman earth-carrier, Loung Lee, winter days, but after about four FROM BENEATH GOD'S FOOTSTOOL, was seriously injured in a fall from hours rest in complete darkness LIFTS UP A CANDID AND CONFIDING a new building in Bonham Road, they were awakened by artificial EYE, ACCEPTING GOD'S SMILE OF yesterday, lights. These lights burned, until FATHERLY AFFECTION, AND ADORING sunrise, giving the plants the THOSE PERFECTIONS WHICH IT CAN- equivalent of a 20-hour working NOT COMPREHEND James Hamil-tempted suicide by throwing herself day.

About 40 varieties of flowers have been studied so far under the

ton.

night lights. All showed that they the Repulse Day Hotel will be extend- To-morrow night's dinner dance at

can be made to bloom out of sonson, ed to 1 a.m. and entertainment will

A dostituto Chinese woman

Aroused by a noise at the door, a floor of 88, Hollywood Road, wont to investigate Inst night and found a

and several gave promise of excell-be provided by the popular dancere,Chinese teacher, living on the third Ing summer splendors after Helen- Don and Sally. tists find out more precisely how much light each species needs.

A workman at the Kwan Yick Btruck in the left eye by a stone Chinese lurking in the stairway. Ho Glass Factory at Banishulpe, was ad- The system permits this, growth thrown by one of a number of mis- chased him down the stairs and mitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital in any green-house with Inoxpen-chievous street urchins, Mak Tso, arrested the culprit in the entrance yesterday, with throw fingers of hla sive equipment and at low cost, say | destitute was admitted to the Govern of the doorway. Sentence of one right hand crushed through being the experimenters,—Router. -: ment Civil Hospital, yesterday, month was passed.

caught in a punching machine.

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