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WENTY YEARS and traditions which make up this year was short of the N the other hand, no fewer than sixteen cavalry divi- the essential English character. quantity planned, and, what have now elapsed

"It is astonishing," said that seemed to him much more sori- sions are maintained, and at the since Lenin, that

sympathetic student of English ous, there was a great falling- munoouvres huge masses of horsemen have been thrown into rare combination of a affairs, "with what docility off in quality.

tank-dominated areas, "In a masses of Englishmen, supposed rigorous ideologist with

peace," says Captain Liddell ruthless man of action, in- to be jealous of their personal

Russian liberty, will obey a revolutionary THE Russian is not mechanical Hart, "it looks like a colossal. minded; he lacks that age circus; in war it would probably augurated the

junta which taxes and commands experiment. in practical them and decrees when they long tradition which makes the mean a huge cemetery." Evi- Communism. Has it proved shall starve and when they shall English craftsman the most dently the ancient Mongolian capable in the world. Ho does confidence in mounted forces successful in improving the fight.”.

not know how to run and caro survives us an obsession. Again, lot of the Russian people?

for a complicated machine, Agri- in all the totalitarian States masa Are they better off than THERE is now in being a re- cultural machinery is malused, is cultivated without reference voit not only against the con- and cannot be repaired when it to mobility. Thus, when Musso- they were under the Tsarist regime? A few years ago trollers of Trade Unions but also breaks down. It is very doubt lini bousts of Italy's "forest" of of the ful whether collectivination has eight million bayonets, he does Socialist in this against the leadership every

Labour Party. The danger of increased agricultural produc- not consider how much of it country would have answer this up-from-under movement tion as yet. It had not done so could be made as mobile as the ed these questions with an can only be gauged by those in 1984, when the creation of Wood of Birnam in "Macbeth."

make myself,

a State farms out of 61.5 per cent. Marahni Saxe, that Eighteenth Stubbs Rd. emphatic affirmative. To who, like

day, you get an

Occasional systematic study of street-poll- of peasant holdings had led to Century master of warfare, said tics. (I have listened to over one fall of 9.8 per cent, in agricul- that "multitudes only serve to negative, and I

hundred of theau atroot-corner tural producta and a decrease in perplex and embarrass" like prised when a Labour speeches in the London district cattle of 38.7 per cent. A new Sherman, later on, he saw that leader, asked to enlighten during the last two years. It interpretation of the old Latin mobility fixed a limit to the me as to the economic con- was the late Richard Seddon, the epigram: tatifundia perdidere economic size of an army. the dition of Russia at the New Zealand Premier, a fellow- faliam! A heavy penalty has Esmeralda Silva e Sam Lazaro, present moment, replied Lancastrian, and a pattern of been paid for the liquidation" of democratic common senso, who the Kuluka, most of whom were

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POPPY DAY APPEAL

It in an incredible

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Lenin himself, whose por- ditions there since the failure of ders. traits are everywhere rever- the Five Years' Plan. ed as ikons.

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Precious Blood Hospital, Maria aged 31 years, dearly beloved

Russian obsession dating. wife of Mr. B. Sam Lazaro or "Taken as damned." Many pressed on me the importance of thrifty, hard-working, intelligent RELIANCE on mass is another Shanghal. Funeral will pass the of the younger Socialists "keeping one'

ear to the peasants who had made a suc from the far past. It is said (Shanghal and Macao papers are shocked at the sight of ground," if one wishes to anti- cess of their small holdings. The that the Red war-chiefs could the Russian revolutions cipate pivotal changes in pablle Soviet Government dare not he mobilise 6,000,000 men at a fort- it opinion.) The only convincing held responsible for all these night's notice, and that in a year continuing to devour children, including some of reply to those who maintain the failured. Hence the continual the trained reserves would reac'

myth of Russian welfare is a de- selection of scapegoats as the 10,000,000. But Tukhachovaki (recently, liquidated) in his 1935 report, uttered a warning that, even in internal · opérations, it does not do to count on the rapid transfer of considerable masses. fairly efficient organisation in of troops. The doubling of the NOW that the manual worker THE Army seems to be the one

has not the benefit of a re- Russia. New and old ideas are Trans-Siberian railway and the POR all that the street-corner gulated market, prices of neces- strangely intermingled in its accumulation of supplies on the

orator still holds up Russia aries even for him are forced make-up and methods. It is “RICORDI” “CARL FISCHER" shameful fact that a consider as a model for imitation, affirm-sky-high by the foreign export certainly very strong in tanks spot have helped to make the able proportion of the English-ing his faith in the "dictatorship policy which sells them at cur- and air-borne unite. There are comparatively small Far Eastern

of the proletariat"a resound rent prices abroad and ignores many thousands of aeroplane though by

Army much ΠΟΤΟ efficient, speaking population of the ing phrase as gratifying to his the needs of the people at home. pilots, and more than half a mil-sufficient. It has been said that no means self- British Empire is actually in hearers as the "blessed word Owing to this policy, famines lion skilled parachute-jumpers a tin-opener is as necessary to

was to the old ignorance of the purpose of the Mesopotamia”

have occurred where there has They could be used for what is its rank-and-file as a rifle. Very lady in the anecdote. Always been no crop failure. Members called the "parachute-stroke," of low mobility, as the result of Poppy Day Fund. A greater he asks. for the blessing of his of Trade Unions, I find, are ni- which an example was given poorly-equipped and badly man. proportion has only the vaguest audience on the attempt to create ways deeply interested in the during last year's manoeuvres, aged railways, the world's worst, sort of notion of the aim of the a similar tyranny in Spain at frenzied efforts to increase pro- when a force of 1,200 men with and the lack of good roads, It might shock any cost in blood and treasure: duction. Especially in the great 150 machine-guns and 18 light would prevent the utilisation in organisers.

Ever since Lenin declared that Stakhonov studt, recently aban- field-guns were carried 100 miles war-time of more than a small Hongkong people to know that Spain would be the next scene of doned, which was started when in aerial troopers and dropped proportion of the cannon fodder numbers old enough to remem-a "social revolution" the Komin- a miner of that name hewed out on an aerodrome behind the provided by a population of over ber the Great War, who quite tern, with the help of the Soviet 102 tons of coal in a single shift. enemy's front. Within eight 170,000,000. And industrial in-

Government, has been stirring The piece-work system then. in minutes of the release of the capacity would render it impossi well recall the terrors they up trouble there. That such troduced led to capable workers parachutes the force had assemble to bring the supply of muni- experienced when air and sea appeals are effective, despite the being paid from 5 to 40 times as bled and was ready to go into tions up to the standard required raids worried Great Britain, and contrary teaching of T.U.C. re- much nis their less efficient action. Probably such a blow in in modern warfare or to make presentatives, justifics George brethren. Always it has proved the back would be more effective good the wastage of war-like when they had to go without

Santayana's doubt as to whether impossible to keep up to the paychologically than physically. mechanisms without undue de- sugar and butter and such neces-the working men of the towns planned production. They only French observers, who know lay. Russian factories could not sities, have quite forgotten that any longer have the instincts the other day Mezhlauk, Com what they are talking about, change at once to munition-mak- army of voterans for which the

missar for Heavy Industry, ad- speak highly of the skill and ing as ours did in the War. post-war years have been lack- uneducated men, who are

mitted that the quantity of cast- spirit of the Russian air forces, the iron, steel, and sheet-iron pro- but severely criticise the tactical ing in everything which sup-responsibility of the Poppy Day duced in the first five months of handling of them. posedly constitutes happiness. Fund. It is these men on whose, These veterans came out of behalf Eart Haig appealed for France and Flanders, Mesopo- tamia and Egypt, out of African heat and Russian cold, from

The British. Legion, which i every battle front. Some of them were fever-ridden, crippled, administers large suma for the PRODUCING a play can yield much instructive amusement, although a state of semi-re-establishment of War veterans the entertaining; side of it is rarely invalidism for the rest of their and which does splendid year-realised until the play has been round work in collecting funds satisfactorily performed and all the days. Others were without limbs, or without the blessedness for its work, finds the number worry and anxiety is over.

of old soldiers whose age makes I remember in amusing incident during rehearsals, it is the fidgeting ing and hoping in vain to be dis- that occurred once at 1 school of those players who are not speaking missed. There is no definite evl their lot doubly hard in the Shakespearean production. Some or in artian at the moment. This is dence, however, for believing labour market, an increasing mischievous lads had put their heads a very difficult nervous habit to curb. that the era of disillusionment

One famous producer found it so together, and at the conclusion of the responsibility. Thousands of performance they coiled loudly for intolerable that he introduced wooden has set in. Visits of investiga-

"Author! Author!" They had ree-tubs for his actors to stand in while tion to the "capitalistic men of this type, and their

koned without the wily producer, rehearsing, so that they could not tries" are strictly forbidden, and

plan. He move restlessly about. dopendants, have been helped who not wind of the

the masses can still be persuaded answered these humorous calls in back to happiness and indepen- the guise of the bard, and in a neat The funniest thing in producing a

that they are better off in every the inhabitants of That was twenty years ago.dence by means of the Poppy speech thanked thens for the en-play that I ever heard was a descrip- way than Many of these battered men have Day, Fund and similar contribuusiastic reception they had given tion from a relative in the US.A., of England and France, which are

n performance of "Rob Roy" out overcome their afflictions, have tons.

It is interesting to hate During a performance of Shakes there, given by a group of enthusias supposed to have reached the last stage of social disintegra- Soveral real Scots in the audience tion. fought another sort of battle that among ex-officers alone the peare's "Julius Caesar" I achieved unters

unexpected distinction by appearing

n wrist-hod almost to be carried out help- than they experienced in Legion hne assisted 7,708 men s Mark Antony wearing

leas with laughter when Helm Mac-. watch. A welt-watch in ancient unfform, but none the less 'grim. to positions in Great Britain Rome

confronted The English tlékled the audience, But gregor It was a life-or-death struggle since 1925, and has contributed from the moment I noticed the error soldiers with a peremptory order to I suffered dreadful suspense until I "Scram!" I should like to have seen still. lli-equipped, many of to the education of 4,556 of their could go off the stake and remove the that show very much.

As a member of an amateur drama- them have never been able to children.

offending timepiece. •

the society, one learns to work hard World Revolution is a pri reinstate themselves in the social

To describe the work of the This experience was outdone by and to work cheerfully, and also diary concern of Soviet Russia. cover that everything has its use. Yet the youngest generation. see this ideal scheme, though they are as fine Legion and all its departments that of a friend of mine, weld tally have seen an old mourning cout of still hopes to

appearing as Itob Itoy, accidentally my father's turned into citizens as their comrades who would require a volume. Suffice dropped in full view of the audience Jacket for Long John Silver in "Tre Army as an implement for that

pase realised, and regards the Red. brand of nure Istand," with only the artistic have won succe. 3. Others have to say that thousands of ex- a packet of a popular

Addition of some gold braid here and very purpose. The former MIII- during there. died. It is with the thousands soldiers, their widows and child-cigarettes.

Instructive things emerge

tary Commander of Moscow, ren, benefit enormously by the

rchearsols on many occasions. While Then, again, when two gid mon- of old soldiors-many of them generous benevolence of the rehearsing a one-act Jacobite play bers of our campany had their hair General Tork (executed with remain country every year. It can be one winter, I can recollect a group of babbel, our producer seized their dis- Tukhachavski, probably for dan really old

safely said that there is no more smaleur players gelling a surprise carded tresses, which in due course gerous popularity), insisted that: what they were bofore they deserving charitable cause than when the producer pointed out in and were turned into pigtails sulable for it would be used to destroy the Capitalistic. Governments., "IS joined the Colours in the War that of the British Legion and of the scenes that porridge was not plays when British tore of the old

enten in 1745 as It Is to-day. Two days appeared.

(Continued on Page: 5.) bowls were the vogue then, one of years, simple, unlrained, often its annual Poppy Day.

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legality, which wo call froe- dom, does not exist in Russia; the components are lacking. The authority of the State is ab.. solute, even more so than in the Fascist countries, and the in- dividual has no rights whatso- porridge and one of milk, each spoon- ever. The cumbrous and ill- ful of porridge being dipped in the advised Soviet machine is work- milk before being eaten.

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