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Mr. Walling sets out, in unfolding admirable murder story, brighten the path of the reader with careful characterization of the principal personalities involved. He succeeds most pleasantly and in the process displays a pretty gift of humour and an acute sense of the necessary ingredients for a first-class murder story. Scotland Yard does job well, but, of course, it has to have the assistance of an' attractive amateur in the unravelling of the crime. Thus the Sherlock Holmes tradition is faithfully observed and Mr. Walling has once more earned the gratitude of devotees of the cult. communists stood out like poppies in wheat-feld. with among "them the
Workers, bowed. by' tol. welte hairs of id peasant women Hundreds "of young bobbed heads, Government offices. and shining under the are-lights the trim black leather Jackets of the active (irl communists, Wearing little toques brightened with Fed. rosettes, the regular uniform of the Women's Legion of Russia.
Dominique's picture of the new towns in Siberia where there is building to accommodate literally hundreds of thousands in the modern style—but still without water pipes and electric wiring and other essential—is a revelation. The scale upon which factories have been erected" and expensive machinery installed—or kept lying unpacked and rusting—is tremendous, but the results so far had not been si-tis factory, partly because essential material had not been delivered, and partly because of the low value of the peasant industrial workers and the insufficiency of expert techni-clans. The Government seems blindly to have made great plans, "which have been only very partially accomplished, simply' because. adequate means have not been available. Do-
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