The Archive · 1923

Window-Dressing

It may or may not be advisable suggests our mentor, but never robbery. Perfectly true; there ought to be something in the nature of a hint of violence or force about a case of robbery. so, we presume, making it the more heinous crime. In the same way, we are called upon to note. a burglary may not be committed during the day, except in certain of the American States Under common law a burglary takes place in the night "or when there is not daylight enough to discern a man's face,' but we believe that certain hours are sometimes specified. Other-to take a pinch of salt with those] into' th wise, apparently, the case statements in Reuter's letter, becrednsinee ae ieee! published to-day, from Vladivos- makes its laws and its terminologitok, which do not come under the} cq} distinctions, and the bad correspondent's own observation. characters carry on their jobs of Vladivostok is, plainly anxious! work Jittle heeding them until impress foreign business MeN} snafied or otherwise brought to favourably, and Vladivostok is now only another name for Moscow. The question is, in what spirit are these concessions to private trading made? It has been wittily said of Russia to-day that Bolshevism is dead but there is no undertaker." In other words, the Communists are still supreme, although they have had to relinquish communistic practices in business. At heart they are unchanged and as we know that it is part of their aim to revive Russia with the deliberate intention of making trouble abroad, we may well view their present overtures with suspicion. Zt dona ferences.

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