'The excitement' oyer> Comriunist activities, reported in France interesting, coming as. it does' so [soon after that country's recognition fof the Soviet. M. Herriot will' find Jas we in Great Britain have found, the only safe course (as indeed th only digni one) is to keep ithe Bolshevik at arm's length, There has been a good deal of evidence recently of his activities—at Reval, in Jugo-Slavis rance. report published by in Egypt and now in 3 Matin" of Paris, a very well-{informed paper, that Great Britain about to propose in [common to France, Ttaly and Moslem Powers to bar out underworking, "is significant.
'Two explanations of the Soviet' activity are possible, ingly together. The most obvious is that Moscow, baulked of the hold it hoped to get on Britain lby the now mercifully exploded treaty, redoubles its propaganda, itor venge. The "other is that ism begins to fear that it losing its hold and therefore of sport in water-tight compart-hy certain that Bolshevism can only proselytizes the more furiously. It bpp po fle any aay emt to, break Smtle red survival within Russia. is an excellent argument ags live by propaganda and that its progress abroad is vital to its be another argument for keeping That. should have to issue if we were Picture the sort of document wel Russia rigidly at a distance #0 long Jas the Soviet remains in control as, requested to furnish detailed. work-jin the long run, the friendliest ing accounts of each section of course towards the Russian people sport. There are, including the bar, themselves. For there can never be round dozen mentioned in the pre-la state of healthiness for them or seit statement...... And where|anyone else while Red Moscow would it all lead? Merely _to survives. bickerings and endless arguments' While attendance at the bar of any [lub in the Far East is probably one of the most popular of all pastimes, this first occasion we know of that it has openly been referred to as a spor', ranking, in the case of the club we have in mind, with tennis, racing, cricket and other means of obtaining exercise. We must confess to being still in the dark to the connexion between attendance at a club bar and sport, for however! proficient a person may be at that essentially bar-side occupation, fle ing the elbow, there is nothing in it of what is commonly known "sport." We can only conclude that the chairman was thinking of that thrilling pastime so popular with coloured inhabitants of the Southern States of the U.S. A., which consists in violently agitating little cubes' of ivory in a leathern drum and fervidly invoking a mystic old lady with the excellent patronymic of "Luck" to bring her good offices to bear on the quality of the marks on the cubes that shall face the heavens when those cubes are gently, almost, lovingly in the case of some "sportsmen," ejected on the table, The Singapore Base The semi-official announcement brought by Reuter this week that the 'Singapore base is to be completed is jas expected. The last Conservative government decided on this base after consultation with the Dominus, to whom it is really pledged in the matter; and as the base is not question affecting the nation's economic policy, like protection, there is no reason why construct should not Te sincerely to be hoped that the Jap: ese people will not be misled into taking an erroneous view of the good deal of very injudicious stut was written when ithe base was first mooted and susicions were excited for which there was never any need. A glance at the map shows that Sisgapore is a most important point on the highway of Imperial. communiestions; Jas such. it, needs protection. analogy. may be found: in the cass
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