New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1921, Page 12

BATUM AND TIFLIS SEEN BY REPORTER A. P. Correspondent Describes| Conditiong in Russia Batum, Oct. 28. — (By Associated Press)—Entrance into Russia through the Black Sea may be compared to a visit to a dreaded battle front. There's lota of fear of death and destruction, but somehow one does not find them. Theso elements to uneasy sleep seem to lurk always just a little farther along. The traveler has hiinself rammed full of vaccines — vaccines; against cholera, pest, smallpox and typhoid, is made properly ill in advance, only to find that these diseases are just now out of season. The only thing he needs is quinine, not for himself but for malaria patients about the sea- ports. “ Fear of Russia should not be based on fear of violence, of bodily hurt, so much as to the discomfort of living in a land where social and economic conditions are very hard. Money is hard to earn. ' Dock laborers at Ba- tum, when they work, may earn 8,000 rubles, or eight cents pe: day, and this is the price of two pounds of bread. month, furnished, and servants may be had for their keep, and glad of the job. . CHINESE STUDENTS DON'T WANT TO PAY Urge Action to Suspend Further Boxer Indemnities Peking, Oct. 28.—(By Mail)—A plea for remission of the .unpaid balance of the Boxer Indemnity as one of the advantages that China might reasona- bly expect as a result of the Washing- ton Conference is put forth by the Peking Daily News, a student- controlled daily. The paper declarcs editorially that its appeal is not to international altruism but is based on justice. “Granted that the Chinese were entirely to blame for the events of 1900—and the Chinese of the present day are willing to admit it despite the incendiary record of the powers in the decade that preceded -the re- bellion—the indemnity was g1l out of proportion to the losses incurred by the allies,” it is argued. “When the day of reckoning came the other powers—to her lasting credit Japan was one of them—were aghast at the outrageous claims avanced by Germany and Russia * * * * Germany After all the stories of revolutions, the murders and what not. one 1§ dis- tinctly surprised to find pecple going about as usual. There seem to be mgre peaple. than ever before. One ‘wonders where they come itom. They swarm about the cities, the train sta- tions in the country, thick as ants. Yet rich and poor seem alike en- gaged In the process of getting out of Russia. Many of the rich have done s0. Their old life has' been broken up, their social life, their life of educating and rearing families. Their manner of living and thinking doean’t fit in to the new chaos, and they prefer to get to Constantinople— s0 much so that it has become almost a Russian city — and thence filter through to Europe and there live on charity and their wits. Some manage to retain wrecks of their fortunes, for old Russia was rich beyond the dreams of- western Europe. Everybody seems to have had gold and jewels in abun- dance. Those with property are still slipping away, and without too much difficulty or hindrance from the So- viet. Only they must use caution. A cer- tain Melikov, the Russian-Armenian owner of the newspaper Horizon, in he got leave to depart to Constanti- nople. On the way his baggage was searched, a diary was tound telling his inmost reflections about the Bolshe- viki and the new order of life, a diary that he possibly was inténding to pub- lish. ' The foolish man was hauled be- fére the “Cheka’ the street police with extraordinary powers, from whose de- cision there is no recourse, and he was executed. [ Landing from one of the various passenger and freight vessels that run weekly in and out of Batum, to and trom Constantinople, the traveler finds that the Bolsheviki are mnot such dreadful, people after all. It is far easfer than getting to or from ship in Constantinople, where the' Allies reign, There are a-Jot of guards at the gangplank, to steer departing travel- ers through the customs, but most anyone passes back and forth who wishes. There is first the formality of telling the port control who you are. He is a good-humored, patient, glori- fied Red guard who knows no lan- guage but Russian, and that indiffer- ently, there are so many dialects of Russian, He wears a peaked cap pushed on the back of his head, with its red star and the spade and shovel of labor. The passengers, who have carefully . collcted all sorts of credentials :n Constantinople from Soviet commer- clal missions, crowd about him, and he takes their names and looks cas- ually. at. their vises.' The Americans, who, have only a bit of typretwritten paper, a receipt from the United States Consul for their passports, generally have a et letter in addition. The control officers doesn’t stamp their papers afresh to show they may land. He merely indicates with a wave of the hand that passengers may debark, and they do, full of surprise that they have not been disturbed.. Travellers in Europe are so in the habit of being ‘bothered that they think something is wrong, here, that they haven’t been. Ashore,. in the sunshine, amid the tree-lined streets, sitting in a carriage with rubbet tires, driving to a good restaurant, the traveller is still won- dering why something hasn't happen- ed to him; but it probably will not so long as he has money to pay his way and especially if he is an American, thanks to American charity influence and the general good standing of Americans in the hearts of the people. In Batum, now controlled by the Moscow Soviet, affairs seem to slip along in a certain groove. Nobody worries much about the political changes, but they do fear the “Cheka.” The most notable social change in the people of this little San’ Francisco, eew by the seashore amid palms and flowers at the foot of a fertile hill cotntry, is that on the beach. In the old days the girls and women of the city used to bathe often without bath- ing suits in a space set aside for them where no men were allowed. During the past two years the wire fence shut- ting oft this space has been stolen, and the place for the women may be encroached upon; but many of the women continue the old custom of bathing without suits. ‘While there is less and less furni- ture in the fine houses behind the park, at the leading restaurant may be had as good a meal as in Paris or London at one third Paris or Lon- don 'prices. The strict morale of the early Soviet days has gone everywhere. Nobody resents or prevents anybody else trom having n good time, if they have the money. The poor, who live in requisitioned villas or who sleep in the empty warehouse sheds along the waterfront, according to their luck, do not Tesent any longer the good fortune of others. Those who have better clothes or better quarters are merely more-fortunate, that's all. For the spring, summer, and fall, the ports and littoral ‘of Black Sea, for foreigners with money, would prove cheap and pig n esorts, Bolsheviki or no, house may be r especally was rapacious in her demand for her pound of flesh * ** ¢ After much deliberation all the protocol powers, except Germany ac- knowledged the unreasonableness on the charge on China, and only ac- cepted the position when the German representative imperilled the unanimi- ty of the negotiations.” The writer cites Dr. H. B. Morse in his “International Relations of the Chinese Empire,” quoting him as fol- lows: ‘“The American envoy urged that a demand for a Ilump sum within China’s capacity to pay should be made, and the claims of each power scaled down to fit that sum ****, The Germon envoy saw no reason why the powers should show excessive generosity in the matter of cutting down claims ****. The American plea for moderation therefore fail- ed. ‘At the behest of Germany,” the writer continues, ‘“the other allies agreed to saddle China with the debt which they acknowledged in the of- ficial documents exceeded the justifi- able amount. International moruality would point to the reparation of that crime ‘of injustice by a remission of the portion in excess of tHe net claims. The opportunity is ripe, with the only recalcitrant power of 1900 out of the way. The allies can now give expres- sion to the feeling that wah thwarted by Germany twenty years ago. The United States rectified the wrong in NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, | ;"ltfl'l"'Hfil“}"m“h;lml‘%}.A i == SR R S e | STARTLING VALUES TO MAKE DUR STORE YOUR STOR 1921. NEETENR LADIES’ COATS and SUITS Cloth and Fur Trimmed ‘Also FUR COATS and FUR SCARFS on EASY PAYMENTS Boston Clothing Store 63 Church Street VALLEY IS MADE BY THE MERGED RIVER Dr. Matthes Completes Tour Through Sierras Yosemite, Cal.,, Oct. 28.—Qut of the living granite of the Sierra Nevadsa mountains, the Merced River, hun- 1908 and so eased her national con- science in the matter. Now she pro- poses to go further than a mere act of atonement by an act of grace * * > . “At the time .when the Allies al- lowed her to suspend the annual pay- ments for five years, China had paid labout 40,000,000 pounds or two-thirds of the whole. In suggesting that 40.- 000,000 pounds should liquidate the initial charges we are not pleading for international altruism; the plans of Justice is sufficient ground on which to advance the plea and is warranted by the Amegican estimate in 1900. China redresSed the wrong of 1900 by dethroning the principal :conspirator and in addition she has paid the greater part of her indemnity. In meeting what must seem to her the eternal payments she is constantly re- minded of something that she would rather forget and have the allies for- get.” g The paper concludes with a por- trayal of Chinals illiteracy and points out benefits tha\ would accruc by di- version of the ‘Boxer payments to the promotion of 8ducation. dreds of thousands. of years ago, first made Yosemite Valley, California great outdoor playground. Dr. F. E. Matthes of the United States Geologi- cal Survey, declared here after return- ing from a recent three months’ ex- ploration trip through the wildest portions of the high Sierras. fter the river made the first cut, a great glacer came dlong and gave the valley its finishing touches. The Merced Dr. Matthes claims, made a great V-shaped gorge, and the glacier added a few curves and converted Yosemite into the U-Shape it has at present. 3 Dr. Matthes' beliefs form another contribution to the many tHeories re- garding the origin of Yosemite. He has held this theory for some time and declared findings on his trip confirmed it. Accepted theories as to the forma- tion of the Sierra Nevada mountains were s trengthened by Dr. Matthes' observations on his trip. The theory is, he said, that a series of terrific up- thrusts tilted the immense block of | granite covering the earth to form the mountain range. - Mount Lyell, the highest peak in the Yosemite National Park was lifted to its present height of more than 13,000 feet from a com- paratively low elevation of 5,000 feet, .t is through. Dr. Matthes, on his trip," went into the southern Sierra Nevadas and covered practically the entire eastern watershed of the San Joaquin river. CITY ITEMS Dancing at Danceland Friday night. —advt. Henry Hoar, general chairman of the committee, State Sunday school convention which meets in this city for three days beginning Tuesday of next week, delivered' an addresi to the Boy Scouts of troop 14, at the Stanley school last evening on the life of Itoosevelt. k Scout Executive Waljter ‘O. Cook also -spoke. Vi.irolas and Records, Henry Morans. —advt. The New Britain Rifle club will have target practice at the armory this eve- ning at 7:30 o’clock. ) Dancing at Danceland Sat. Night— advt. The office of the internal revemue collector, William W. T. Squire, will be open all day the last two days of every month, to receive current taxes and help file returns. This month it will be tomorrow and Monday. A dry artesian well in Newark, N. J., has emitted a steady blast of cold dry air for the last 25 years. More than 3000 rural schools in New York state have an attendance of less than 10 pupils ea~h. [ NATIONAL MEAT STORES CO. 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Tells of Experiences Titlis, Soviet Georgia, Oct. 2.8— (By a_ Staff Correspondent of theyAs- sociated Press)—What happens to the foreigner locked up as a political suspect even under the supposedly mild Tule of this Soviet, may be judged from.the case of Mrs, Liana Edwards, the Russlan wife of James Edwards, of Youngstown, O., who has just been released through ‘the efforts of the Dutch consul; ' representing United States’ interests here. |- N ———— Men’s and Young Men’s SUITS and COATS, Boys’ SUITS, COATS and MACKINAWS. SUITS and COATS espeéially for STOUT % MEN; also Pants, Hats and Shoes { on Weekly Payments. Mrs. Edwards had a perfectly good passport, obtained as the wife of James Edwards, whom she married here 16 mopths ago while he was an officer of the Near East Relief. Hs went away on business so he told her and has not since returned. When Georgia again passed into the hands of Moscow last March, after several years as an independent Te- public, she fled with many others to Batum but there decided to refnain and take her chances. She worked for a time as translator of English under the new Soviet and then in August whs arrésted by the secret police, charged with being a foreign spy and was offered money to go to Constantinople and work for the Soviet. This she refused and so she was sent here and imprisoned. In prison most of her clothes.were taken away, ostensibly to be burned during the cholera epidemic and those she had on fumigated. She was mot givén a bed but told to sleep on the floor. Her food, sn shé relatdd, consist- ed of a pound of bad bread per day. HARTFORD with hot water in the morning and thin soup at night. She scrubbed floors during the day. Also, each day she was told she would be shot as a bourgeois. ‘What aroused the special hate and attention of the Bolsheviki was her maiden name of Romanov. 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