SOVIET RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19349, 9 December 1924, Page 7

SOVIET RUSSIA

BERNARD SHAW’S ADVICE. M. ZINOVIEFF ADMONISHED. FOLLY OF Til IE D INTERNATIONAL

Press Association—By Telegrach—Copyright

LONDON, December 7. Mr Bernard Shaw has given the Daily Herald exclusively a copy of a letter which he sent by request to the Moscow Izvestia.

Air Shaw writes: “As - the economic will finally dominate the political situation, it is quite possible that the Soviet will ultimately get better terms, both in regard to commercial treaties and guaranteed loans, from the present Conservative Government than the Labour Government dared to offer, but the Soviet will do well to dissociate itself from the Third International. Tell AI. Zinovielf that he must choose definitely between serious statesmanship and kinematograpliic schoolboy nonsense. I do not refer to the forged letter, but to tho constitution of the Third International. Its bourgeois idealism and childish inexperience of men and affairs have given a serious shock to the Soviet’s friends in England. From the viewpoint of the English Socialists the Third Internationalists do not know the beginning of their business. The proposition that tiie world should take its orders from a handful of Russian novices, who seem to gain their knowledge of modern Socialism from pamphlets by the Liberal revolutionists of 184 b to 1870, makes even Lord Curzon and Mr Churchill appear to be comparatively extreme Modernists. “Until Moscow learns to laugh at the Third International, and realises that wherever Socialism is a living force it has left Karl Marx as far behind as modern science has left Moses, there will bo nothing but misunderstandings, and a dozen negligible cranks in Russia will correspond with the same number in England. Both are convinced that they aro the proletariat. 1 sound this alarm because tho Soviet must waljo vp to Western realities unless it wishes to become the main bulwark of capitalists and imperialism in Europe and America. M. Zinovieff and the Third International did not intend to wreck the English General Elections in the interests of capitalists, and thereby make the Sudan a present to the British Empire and the Nile a present to the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, but this is precisely what they did by this inopportune literary romancing, which it suits our governing classes to pretend to take seriously.”—A. and N. Gable.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

SHORT-WAVE TRANSMISSION. • EXPERIMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. CAPETOWN, December 7. Wireless experiments at Milnerton reveal greater success as the wave-length shortens. 'The tests, started on 92 metres, are now working on 60 metres, and probably even lower waves will be tried. At one period, using an amplifier, the operators, standing outside a hut with the door closed, could read the signals emanating from head phones. The operators are satisfied that the signal strength was of sufficient intensity to admit automatic working at high speed. The Capo Times has received the first press message direct from England by wireless from Signor Marconi, who, replying to congratulations on the success of tho experiments, stated that experimental transmission to all the other parts of • the Empire had been equally successful. — Reuter.

AERIALS AND PIGEONS. MANY BIRDS KILLED. LONDON, December 7. The Daily Mail says that the pigeon societies are urging the passage of legislation to compel the owners of wireless sets bo place corks along their aerials to enable birds to avoid them. It is ascertained that tens of thousands of pigeons are killed or injured through striking unseen wires. It is estimated that there are 100,000 pigeon keepers in Great Britain. Tho aerials behead many wild birds. — Sydney Sun Cable.