The most difficult thing is, how-Jover, to obtain an extension of a visa'at Moscow. When I arrived there was informed that my visa granted at Peking had expired, und therefore asked the hotel inter= prefer to get me an extension. The usual - forms had to be signi photographs supplied, and special letter from someone' in" Moscow the Reforms as a subject. for unscrupulous propaganda, which will undoubtedly culminate next week in another field-day for the Extremists in the Assembly.
If the "steel frame" the Viceroy will Wave no altern: but to recommend to the Secretary explaining why I had been detained, All these took about four day then I was informed that T should get an extension after eight days more. As Iwas waiting to go, this was somewhat annoying so I went to the Passport Office and got back my passport. Upon explaining of State to ignore the dee! the position at the British Mission I the Assembly, thus pro} wax given a special letter. The Swarajists with a next day I engaged a special inter opportunity for denouncing prefer, and, armed with the letter, Reform schette as a went to the Passport Office where memorial fresh forms had to be filled up, and Despi after going through the usual red between the Europeans tape machine (which took nearly tens of thousands of two hours) I was informed that I Europeans could get my visa after three days, that a European mine again went to the British Mission receive fair treatment from the jand. reported the result, and they telephoned the Soviet Foreign parties striving for po!'tieal power Office and in due course got a re-were restraining influences too far released" Wel have "tated "wilh Poly buy and nothing sould be ounces ton Tae ly" that the Passport Ole was effort to manufacture race hatred,0m¥ mention this to shen ae, the Russian Commu shave not merely by insignificant news-adopted the old cumbrous routine papers and politicians but by the with passports. The Passport leaders of the largest party. That Office at Moscow is a disgrace to this campaign of poison knows no the Russian Soviet Government. Tt decency was demonstrated the other is crowded with people waiting for day when many prominent politi-hours to get a visa, and the clerks ians addressed a large public neeting and expressed inflammatory views, which they were 4 atten ti 'AS one Russian said we stacks of passports waiting for
h easier to get a than a visa on your pas paign against the British Gov-_ and this appears to be quite ernment. true.
he European community has T was informed that at the present, watched with growing concern the time if a husband and wife wish to continuous efforts made by the divorced all that is necessary;|Ieadérs of the people to bring the that they should make a joint ap-Government into contempt. Racial plication for divorce and it is animosity is fostered both by immediately granted. The result dividuals and newspapers; love for is that some men get divorced very religion and national pride are pros-Joften—my friend said he knew of stituted for political purposes by un-8 ease where a man got a new wife scrupulous persons. It is in re-every year. A great deal of stupid cognition of these conditions that nonsense was written in the British the community feels strongly that press about the "nationalization of the only safeguard for minority women" in Russia, but what it in fact for all the various peoples in amounts to is easy divorce similar India, lies in the hand of your to what they used to get at Reno Excellency's administration. jin the United States. ~The great objection to this is, that it ruins tthe lives of the children. For them A traveller from, Kansu, the Rev. it is a great tragedy. "The parents R. 8. Jamieson, who accompanied by indulge in "free love" as they call Mrs. Jamieson, is leaving on fur-it, but the children are deprived of Lough by the Empress of Australia, real home life. The children are says Kansu has a fair claim to be re-often packed off to what are called garded -with Shansi as the best "orphanages", but I was assured governed province in China. that an awful state of affairs exists However while Kansu is safe for} there as many of the girls become the foreigner and the bandits, who mothers before they leave these have been mostly confined to the schools.
Shenst border country" and are being absorbed into the army, give Physieal Training little trouble, the opium evil has; There is, however, one good side this question, and that is the Opium growing is carried on largely' way in which the school-children are throughout the province; 90 per developed. A. great deal of: time cent. of the population are probably la given to physical development, addicts to the drag and even and at Moscow I witnessed about children are taking to the pipe. a hundred girls going through their The Kansu Governor is actively as-physical drill. The object is to sisting Marshal Wu Pei-pi with Jmoney and material, if not men. An indication of similar assistance which is being afforded by Shansi was the transport the other day of 3,000 commandeered camels by the Peking-Suiyuan Railway to Kalgan, whence they, proceeded: by road to' They join the Chi milli forces. turn out childech fully developed physically, strong and health, issom and bright, with good appearance, adaptable disposition and honest characters. And from what I saw at Moscow and other towns in Russia the result appears to be quite good. "In the past the bad economic. conditions produced proletariat of stunted growth hardened features, harsh and rough manners, and a bitterness of sou that would welcome any change.
All education is free for' the proletariat bat children of the ole bourgeois class have to pay.
Kazan on the Volga, the University (Dom Utehonih, really The House of the Learned Men) had 3,000 students, and besides this there were four High Schools for Arts, Teaching, Agriculture, and Veterinary Science. All these had a total of 10,000 students, and at least 90 cent. were children of the proletarian, I was assured by one of the professors that very good results were being obtained. Thers is a scarcity of teachers owing to the rather low, but this is now improving.
All the educational books have been revised and are supplied free. They all emphasize the importance of work, and expose the dangers te the state of the selfish spirit, and of course the advantages of communism, The Bible is not used any school, but ethics and philosophy are taught,
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