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...Fortescue-Massie case whipped up a great pother of official excitement and activity in Honolulu and Washington. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii, island-born son of an island-born father, found himself under sharp, critical attack for Honolulu's lax law enforcement. Businessmen led by Walter Dillingham, railway tycoon, demanded a cleanup. Worthy citizens held mass meetings to protest against being "shushed"' by politicians who fairly screamed that Hawaii's raucous medley of race and sex was all an exaggeration. The Grand Jury met and dawdled while Governor Judd summoned a quick session of the Territorial Legislature, recommended...
Busier was another Commissar last week, Andrey Andreevitch Andreev, recently appointed Commissar for Transportation. Fortnight ago he utilized his new powers by condemning four railwaymen of the Trans-Siberia Railway to death for criminal negligence (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week he attempted to counteract this unfortunate impression by announcing that a special de luxe train on the Trans-Siberia run will in future make the trip from Poland to Manchuria in seven days instead of eight. The good impression did not last. Three days later news got around of an accident even more dreadful than usual...
...Khabarovsk, Siberia, four railwaymen of the famed Trans-Siberia Railway were arrested for "gross criminal negligence," swiftly tried and sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense?execution by shooting...
From his Moscow desk Commissar Andreev ordered Red railwaymen throughout the Union to "stop writing uselessly long reports," announced that Red railway executives will hereafter devote at least one third of their time to outdoor railway work. He decreed that within five days 25% of all railway office workers must be transferred to "permanent manual field work": cleaning locomotives, sweeping platforms, greasing cars, working switches...
...things considered (from the Japanese viewpoint) probably most fun was had last week by three humble Japanese sentries patrolling the Japanese South Manchuria Railway Station at Mukden, capital of Manchuria...