THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 3, 1937.
M. LITVINOFF
RECALLED
Startling Rumours Created By Moscow Purge
WILL FAMOUS DIPLOMAT BE PUT ON TRIAL?
M. Maxim Litvinoff, the popular and clever Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, may be seen no more in the councils of the nations.
He has been suddenly recalled to Moscow from Geneva, where he was attending the League Council meeting, and, in view of the fact that his name was mentioned several times in the recent mass trial, it is considered that his fate is already sealed.
Simultaneously with this bombshell comes news of the spread
M. LITVINOFF.
of unrest in the industrial districts, where G.P.U. agents are active NAZI PARTY NOT
in ferreting out anti-Stalinists.
First news of M. Litvinoff's re- of
call was
OPEN TO
new evidence, together with UNLIMITED released in Warsaw, Bucharin, Rykoff and other mem- where the Soviet Minister spent bers of the alleged Trotsky group. MEMBERSHIP
Sunday with the Russian
by
JAPANESE ARMY NOW
READY TO SEIZE POWER-
SAYS MOSCOW
Moscow, To-day. Japan will shortly have a mili- tary dictatorship and her aggres sive policy toward China will be renewed, according to articles appearing in the Soviet press.
Most papers regard the change of Cabinet as being merely in the nature of a solution devised for a purely transitional period.
It is possible, they state, for General Hayashi's Cabinet to be replaced by a military dictator- ship whenever it suits the Army authorities to launch out in this direction.
Minis- - An extensive propaganda cam- ters to Poland and Germany. paign against the Stalin Govern-
Berlin, To-day. His wife, who is know to have ment is being carried out in in-
The recent announcement maintained close relations with dustrial cities,
Carrying the argument a stage where discontent
on further, the press states that all Karl Radek and Gregory Sokolni-is rapidly growing, according to Chancellor Hitler that the ban
new members in the Nazi Party hope of concluson of a Soviet- koff, has already been placed un-reports received in Warsaw. der close observation by 'G. P.. U.j G. P. U. agents have therefore would be lifted shortly does not Japanese non-aggression pact can agents.
started another "purge" which mean that there will be unlimited be abandoned. Trans-Ocean. has been extended to village farm-admittance into the Party.
HOUSE SEARCH
.:
Her house has been, searched ing communities, where there ha It is believed that only such per- The R.M.S. "Empress of Canada”
in-been increasing disturbances dur-isons will be admitted who have left Yokohama yesterday, is
and she is forced to remain
due
doors under
on guard. Sokolnikoff'sing the past weeks owing to bread rendered special service to the Nazi at Vancouver February 14, wife is reported to have been ex- and grain shortage. iled to Solovki Island.
It is also said that M. Litvinoff,
during his many journeys to Geneva, took the opportunity
to
Ocean.
the 20th and is due at Trans-cause, especially those connected leaves on
with the various organisations affi-Hong Kong on March 12 liated with the Party.
hold several meetings with Leon ROSE-COLOURED
Trotsky's representatives in Paris.
DEDIKE:TTILAATSELINCSOTIKI
London Embassy Denial
London, To-day. Widely circulated reports to the effect that the wife of the M. Soviet Foreign Minister, Maxian Litvinoff, has been plac- ed under house arrest by the G.P.U. and her house searched, are characterised by the Soviet Embassy here as "fantastic" and without foundation of any kind-Trans-Ocean.
Soviet press reports, declaring that his fate is already sealed, and that he will probably face the judges with Rykoff and Bucharin in the next mass trial.
from
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS The English papers yesterday carried columns of news their correspondents in Moscow and Warsaw, confirming other re- ports that further developments can be expected
SPECTACLES?
It is not expected that a gener-
al appeal to special classes or the professions to join the Party will be made.
The ban on membership had been in effect since May 1, 1933:---Trans- Ocean.
BRITISH SYMPATHY IN FLOOD DISASTER
London, To-day. The progress of the British spectacle lens industry was com mented on by the Health Minister this afternoon, opening an exhibi- tion of opthalmic goods in Lon- don.
had Improved types of lenses been introduced by British manu- facturers and the output had so increased that at the present time The King and Queen have sent probably only twenty-five per cent.a message to President Roosevelt of the home requirements were expressing sympathy with him and imported.
the American people in connexion
London, To-day.
It is estimated that the numbers with the serious situation arising of workers in the industry have from the Mississippi floods.
A Case For
doubled since 1921. During 1934 A similar message has been sent Baby's Own Tablets
British Ambassado
behalf of the British
British manufacturers produced through the some 553,000 spectacles compared in Washington to with 478,000 in 1930-British British Government.
Wireless Wireless.
FRENCH POWER IN AIR
PROCLAIMED
Paris, To-day.ary of statistics on French mili-
Feverish, headachy, peevish, dis- inclined to play almost every child is like this at times. The trouble is most often caused by some temporary de- rangement in the stomach or bowels which can generally quickly be correct- ted with a dose of Baby's Own Tablets, the medicine specially devised by a medical child specialist for the treat- ment of little children's health troubles. Baby's Own Tablets are perfectly safe even for the youngest or most delicate child, since they are entirely free from opiates and narcotics. The
The French air arm is equal tary aviation published by Mmild laxative action of the tablets re-
in the intestines, stimulates the action-
The “Daily Telegraph" learns to any in the world except that Keryllis, a Deputy, in the "Echo moves any congestion there may be that about 100 persons have been of the Soviet, declared the Minde Paris," and declared that the of the digestive organs, corrects diar- incriminated by the "confessions" ister for Air, M. Pierre Cot, number of planes was being in-rhoea, relieves colds and croup, expels ~~worms. When infants are teething of the defendants in the last Trot during the discussion on nation- creased rapidly.
Baby's Own Tablets are specially help- sky trial,
It is believed that they have anal defence in the Chamber of Since June last year the number ful, easing the pains and inducing sleep
of modern planes in active service in a perfectly natural way been arrested but it is not known Deputies yesterday. whether they will be publicly Admitting that in a few fields had been increased by 37 per If your child is ailing, do not delay, ch as that of heavy oil motors, cent, munitions by 50 per cent but get a vial of Baby's Own Tablets; tried. A far larger number, how-
you will be surprised how quickly they France was behind certain other and equipment by 70 per cent. ever, have been arrested in the
countries, Cot asperted that It is safe to say, the Minister restore healthy well-being. Obtainable "parge ordered by Stalin.
there is nevertheless no doubt but concluded that general producfrom chemists everywhere.
The Health Aid For that the French air force is one tion figures of the French aero "Daily Herald states that of the ongest and best equipped plane industry will show an in-
Children Of All Ages.. crease of 60 per cent this year. Karl Radek and Sokolnikoff may in the world.
NEW INDICTMENTS2
indicted once more on the basis The Minister denied the accur-Trans-Ocean.