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The FOXES: "Strange! There are no tracks leading out!"
NY day Stalin's two children can be seen rushing helter-skelter
residence, B Austin Avenue, through the Kremlin gates
Kowloon, at 2.45 a.m. on June 9, 1939, after an illness, aged 60. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day. (Shanghal, Manlia and Macno papers please copy). (No flowers by request).
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Currency
ANY
NY JAPANESE hopes that the presaged a currency collapse appear fall in rate of the Chinese dollar
to have been doomed by the revela- tion that the Stabilisation Fund has dellberately allowed the rate to falf to a better economic level and will re-enter the market possibly to-day. Actually, the Chinese dollar bas for some time shown a stability which in the present state of affairs is little short of astounding and in the un- oẞlelal markets in both Shanghai and Hongkong has been freely quoted at a premium over the Japanese yen.
For some months after the out- break of war even the normal rote of 14 pence was held without great difficulty until the Japanese attempis to force into circulation the notes of their puppet Reserve Bank in North China compelled the Chinese Govern- ment to institute some restriction on
on their way to school.
The Tartar towers look down on them, but the children do not bother to return their stare. The barbaric beauty of these old towers and all the secrets they could tell are just part of their daily background,
Svetlana, the youngest, is a pretty vivacious little girl, about ten years old, and intelligent: above the average. She takes her school work seriously. Be- fore the last quarterly examina- tions she was in bed with a chill. This cost her her place as head of her form. She was disgusted with her luck.
Boy Resembles
His Father
-With acknowledgments to Msop's Fables.
What Stalin's children are
taught at school
together on the same sum. One times a caricature is tacked on. was doing the work. The other Apparently this works wonders four were blissfully cribbing. It in maintaining order and a rea- was supposed to be bad for their sonable amount of discipline.
Her brother Vassily,' about character to work separately. At In 1930, 1932, and again this five years her senior, has his that time, most of the schools year I looked over hundreds of father's great shaggy eyebrows. were one long glorious non-stop essays written by children in So far he has shown no particu-political demonstration.
schools widely scattered all over lar ability.
These days are over. The the Soviet Union.
kens's "David Copperfield," of holidays in the country, of ad- venture stories with animals, of the tales of Jules Verne.
now
There is no summarising the endless variety of books finding their way into the school libraries. I asked some of the younger children their favourite | English authors. "Dickens and
Rudyard Kipling," they said.
When Russians want to start anything now they find or Invent a story to illustrate the idea. Every Russian schoolchild knows by heart a legend that has been about Kirov, Bol- circulated shevik leader of Leningrad. He was assassinated fifteen months ago. Before his death he did a great deal of work for education, so he has since been made a kind of patron saint of schoolchildren.
The story goes that when a child at school Kirov was asked_
It is prophesied-that-when-he Russian classroom is now a place--Formerly there was a deadly by his playmates to allow them leaves school he will fade into where serious individual tuition monotony about the content to crib from him. He refused the background and do a modest is given on much the same lines matter. What you read in Mos- to do it, but instead this worthy job somewhere or other, as his as in any well
you run British cow
re-rend older brother now does. Much secondary school.
in Tiflis, little boy helped them to do the Kharkov, and Baku. The Five-work for themselves. Framed more is expected from Svetlana,
There are regular examina-/ Year Plan, collectivisation in large letters across Russian Nothing in all Russia can tell tions. Rewards are given for agriculture, the might of the schoolrooms is the moral of the you more about the kind of so- specially good work. Ways are Red Army, the sins of the kulaka tale: "I shall not allow you to exchange. Thereafter, the market eiety that is being built there found of making troublesome it was always the same bald copy, but I will help you."
than to follow those children to children feel disgraced.
reproduction of current political school.
events.
Story With
quotations for the Chinese dollar steadily slumped to just over eight- pence, but at that point the currency has been freely convertible Into foreign exchange,
r
Exactly what is the state of the Chinese trade balance it is now almost impossible to say. Statistics for the first quarter of 1930 indicate that the adverse balance is Some- where between £7,000,000 and
Classmates'
There is nothing in the build- ing and equipment of the school Black-List
Well-Stocked
Libraries
A Moral
they attend to distinguish it)
There is no evidence that this A favourite device is to ask from a hundred others. It is their classmates to black-list
story is true, and no particular Now every essay begins to reason why it should be. It be- bright and airy, has ap-to-date them. This usually means stick- have its own individual flavour. longs to the same species: as science laboratories and an ex-ing their names up on a promi- They are writing about Chekhov, "Bruce and the Spider" and cellent gymnasium.
nent part of the wall. Some Pushkin, and Tolstoy; of Dic-"George Washington never told
£9,000,000, but these figures need notHis Meals
be taken too seriously, for so much trade now passes through channels which scarcely fall within the pur-
vlew of the statisticlan.
The sterling - resources of the Stabilisation Fund have been provided by the two Chinese Government banks and two Hong- kong British banks, the establish- ment of the fund being made possible by the Indispensable Rnancial guarantee of the British Government. To lend its credit in this way is, Indeed, the very least that the Governinent could doBritish Nunncial Interests in China for outweigh those of any other Power. und Indeed those of all other countries together. Though Britain's trade with China Is
In the middle of the day n hot meal is served to all the pupils. Those whose parents can afford it pay a little for this service, the poorer children receive the meal free. There is nothing unusual in that. You will find the same sort of thing in every new Soviet school.
But where this one scores is in having as its principal one of Russin's wisest old teachera-a man more than sixty years old, but still vigorous:
He has seen and survived much. What he had to say
proportion of the monly a small about-education-was-so-sensible
tota!
trade, it is by no means insignificant the total was £10,491,000 last year and £14,101,000 in 1937 before the country was ravaged by Japan. And in the aggregate British capital in China certainly exceeds £200 millions and
and may be £300 millions.
China, therefore, is almost a incm- ber of the sterling bloc; and nny threat to the Chinese dollar from the establishment of the yuan can now have, little Importance. The Jopan- ese can have no legitimate.cause for complaint. One could wish that the apposite were true. Not merely our, own interests, but common decency also demand That Britain should con- Linue to support China against the wanton and brutal aggression of Japan. Financial · ald' should not be allowed to rest until Britain has done
Its uttermost to help China defend
·herself (and· incidentally, our own. interests) against the menace Japanese_domination.
that I wondered how he had fared during the earlier revolu-
ask him. His eyes twinkled tionary years. I ventured to
In His Pupils'
Interests
As a good Bolshevik, he said, ho had made some show of out- wardly conforming to each pass- ing experiment in turn, But as a responsible educationist, ho added, he had stuck as much as he dared to the methods which he knew to be in the eatin terests of his pupila
I recalled how, in 1932, I watched five small boys working
a lic."
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
TRUCK
Capt. 1119 by Matted Pastare Traduate,.
"What with all my charity funcheons and toas. I just
managed to oxist through fast winter.”
It serves its
purpose. It underlines for the Russian child the Government's present atti- tude towards education. He must learn to do individual work, not depend on some one else do- ing it for him.
Stalin has most pronounced views on education. Ho is the terror of his more romantic col- leagues. He has made a clean sweep of all the fantastic theories that were crippling the schools a few years ago. Ho in- sists on matter and methods that. are thoroughly practical, He wants the younger generation. that will enablo them later in life to handle high power modern machinery with a technical eff- ciency sadly lacking among their cldors.
Parents Are Puzzled
In this the children aro his ardent supporters. They are crazy about model airplanes and engines and love playing about with chemical and electrical-sp- paratus. Many of their parents look on, bowildered by the things their children know,
Stalin has declared war on technical inefficiency. It is In the schoolroom that he expects to have his greatest victorles,
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