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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17th, 1927:
Mackintosh
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from Bangkok and Manila
and a wide selection of Oriental articles
both Useful and Beautiful
are always on view
Your early inspection is cordially invited.
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21, Queen's Road (Next H. K. H. Garage).
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nothing so refreshing as
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Look in at
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[4.1.5.]
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FURNISHING DEPT."
BLUE TICKET BARGAINS
COLOURED DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS
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24 dozen
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Usual Price $12.50
$7.50
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SOVIET RUSSIA FROM WITHIN.
LIVING IN DREAD OF SECRET SPIES.
500 VICTIMS OF THE G.P.U., EXECUTIONERS.
A revelation of Russia under the new Red Terror is provided by
Mr. H. J. Greenwall, the Daily Express special, correspon- dent.
His despatch below, the first uncensored news of the latest phase in Russia, shows a picture of a land where every one lives in drend of the secret agents of the G.P.U., the organisation that replaced the ill-amened. Cheka.
About 300 people wore executed during the wave of G.P.U. vengeance that followed the Arcos raid in London. Between 2,000 and 3.000 others were arrested. "In many cases nothing of their fate is known.
WHERE SPEECH IS DANGEROUS.
[By H. J. GREENWALL. }
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HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
[ORDERS BY THE HON, MR. E, D. C. WOLFE, CAPTAIN SUPERINTEN
DENT OF POLICE.]'
Parades.
The Chinese Company (excepting efficients in Part I.) will parade
in multi at the Central Police Station for squad drill and rife exercises under Sergt. R. J. Hunt at 5.30 p.m. sharp on the following dates:Thursday, Aufust 15th, and Tuesday, August 23rd.
The Indian Company will parade at Central Police Station for equad drill under Sergt. R. J. Hunt at 3,30- p.m. sharp on the following dates:- Friday, August 19th, and Monday. August end.
All ranks of the Police Reserve
will note for future reference that any parade or drill is to be cons sidered as cancelled.at the event of
•
In the French Revolution people marked down by the Committee of Public Safety were taken to the the G.P.. fetches them in motorcar and has them shot in afore the time for which the parade cellar. That is all the difference.or drill is ordered.
When I came to Russia I made
* Armlet. up my mind I would write of nothing I did not know to be ab
Eyery member of the Police Re golutely true. I have faithfully serve shall, always carry his armlet carried out the promise I made to in his pocket, and if called' upon myself. There is a censorship in Moscow, and the cursor is a charm to engler assistance in case of ing and courteous gentleman who emergency shall (unless in uniform) sits in a room on the Sith floor of wear it on the left arm, above the the Foreign Office every day from eleven to four, except Sundays. elbow. He speaks English, French, and German.
There are some things which cans not be told in Moscow. There are things one can tell about Moscow when one is outside the confines of guillotine in a £umbril. In Russ12 | stendy rain falling half an hour be Russia, but one must be careful in the telling, otherwise the G.P.U (State Political Department), which has replaced the Cheka, will bestir itself, and unhappy people will be fetched from their homes and taken no one knows where
The Cheka when first founded was much like the Committee of Public Safety of the French Be volution.
Then in the course of evolution it became sort of Surete Generale, but in times of terror the G.P.U. switches back and becomes the Committee of Public Safety, which
safety first "for the Soviet Gay- ernment.
Foreign Section Chist
тел
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The G.P.U. is housed in building close to the Foreign Office. It belonged formerly to an insurance company, and the style of architecture, with its clock tower and red Bag föating above it, is much like that of a French hotel de ville, say the Town Hall of Versailles. I do not know who is the real read of the G.P.U., but I do know that the head of the foreign section is cne Yagoda. The functions of the G.P.U. It has D are many and varied. force of about 100,000 men, not conscripts, but volunteers who join up for a period of three, fre, or seven years. The men have pri vileges over and above those of the members of the Russian Army The G.P.U.
the troops form frontier, and railway guard; and their headquarters are at Lenins rad, Moscow, and.. Odessa.
In the event of an unpopular war they would be held at home to prevent disturbances among the
Hank-book-- The Pocket Policeman."
He takes one's dispatch and he A copy of this useful little band- reads it through. Then he begins book is being issued to every mem- to talk. I must say he is very fair.ber of the Police Reserve, who shall In the dispatches 1 iubmitted to
him I never had one word censor always carry it with him for refer- cd. I soon learned what one might ence. or might not say when submitting. a dispatch for censorship.
This dispatch has not been sub- mitted. But this much I must say: The Russian censor is much fairer than either the Rumanian or Spanish. In these countries dis patches have to be given into the post office. They are censored un- by the writers-and the seca Rumanian and Spanish post offices retain the money even for words censored.
.
Two Thousand Arrests.
There has been much exaggera- tion about the arrests and shoot- ings in Russia during the recent terror, but even the true figures are About five hundred appalling. peuple were put to death, and be tween two and three thousand ar- reated. I know of two cases in which the people arrested by the
(Sgd.) G., B. HARTFORD,
D.S.P. (R), Adjutant. Hong Kong, August 16th, 1927.
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PRESIDENT LINERS.
IN AND OUT.
The President Taft which arrived here on Monday, under the com- mand of Capt. C. M. Cochrane, took twenty-one days from Sant Francisco. She brought 112 cabin and 447 steerage passengers and 5,000 tons of freights. Of the pas sengers, 48 cabin and 245 steerage disembarked here. The liner also brough; 300 bags of mail and 3.900 ons of merchandise for this port. Amongst the passengers were
-peasants; but in a popular ar- GPU were never heard of again Miss. Ruth Jones Th Toule..._to_!
say war against Poland and Britain-they would be used as shock troops.
My-frienda know-of-other-cases........
to
Many of the executions were of Manila. Miss, Jones is a personal people foolishly compromised by friend of Mr. L. M. Carmack, chief White Russians living abroad. clerk, Bureau of Insular Affairs, Whereas the G.P.U. soldiers can be seen and heard, the civilian These people, by their clumsy Washington, D.S.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Garmezy, members wear no badges, and a specebes and writings, have caused mas never knows when he may be the arrest and death of hundreds accompanied by their son Robert, talk. ig to one. The conductor of and, hundreds of their relations of Wichita, Kansas, en route
Russia has spy Manila. Mr. Garmezy is repre a tramear, your door waiter, the and friends. barber, most certainly one of the manis, and is constantly accusing sentative of the Atlantic Gulf and hotel hall porters, any or all of Great Britain of employing Rus Pacific Company, these people may be employees of sians, Poles, and Fians to spy in Russia. The GP.U. acts swiftly, the dreaded Cheka, or G.P.U.
and death is carried out without any sort of trial.
Woman's Fear,
"When I hear a car stop outside our house at night I am in a state of terror until it moves on," said 4 young woman-the bearer of a famous name to me the other day.
PONTIANAK COLD..
CONSIDERATION OF MR. F. C. PECK'S REPORT.
A report by Mr. F. C. Peck, an inspector of the company was sub- mitted to the shareholders at the adjourned annual general meeting of Pontianak Gold Dredging COD- cessions, Ltd, held at Raffles Hotel, Singapore. Dr, H. A. Yau Dort presided.
The Chairman stated that the report contained serious findings, and while Mr. Peck was protected in his position as inspector, anyone disclosing the contents of the re- port did so at his own risk.
Writing letters abroad and re- ceiving letters from abroad is ex- tremely dangerous just at present, and the writer or receiver in con- stantly watched by the G:P.L,
to
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis R. Springer, of El Paso, Texas, en route Manila, Mr. Springer is connect- ed with the Benguet Mining Co. of Manila.
Mr. Walter J. Diehl, representa- tive of the Associated Oil Company of San Francisco, en route to Manila.
Mr. E. W. Hoskings, of Los
Angéles, en route to Manila where
"A LA CARTE" AT OUR he will be representative for the
CABARET.
ANOTHER CAPITAL
PERFORMANCE.
SPECIALITY DANCE A
SUCCESS.
Mr. Charles Chamier's "Our Cabaret gave another capital per formance at the Star Theatre last night when they presented "A La Carle" to a house that was crowd- ed despite the unfavourable weather condition.
"A La Carte" is something out of the ordinary run of revues, and
Mr. W. G. P. Bell proposed that all the talented artistes were given the directors refer Mr. Peck's re- ample scope to show their merite. port and the evidence taken by him The speciality dance by Rita and to the company's solicitors for ad- Delia Vivienne was quite refresh- vies as to what action, if any, coulding and made a hit right away, be taken by the company against Mr. Wilson.
The proposal was carried.
MI. Wilson's Position.
A further proposal by Mr. Peck to forward a copy of the report to Government departments
Tarious
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Associated Press.
Mr. Louis Weinzheimer, of Calamba Sugar Plantation, return- ing to Manila.
Mr. D. G. McVean and daugh ter returning home in Manila.
Lieut. Manuel Liwanag, connect- ed with the Constabulary of, the Philippine Islands, en route to Manila
Mrs Helen Greedy, Miss G. Greedy and Master F. Greedy, of Berkley, Cal., en route to Manila. Mrs Greedy is wife of Commander Greedy, Medical Corps, U.S.N.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Flood returning to Manila Mr. Flood is connected with the West Coast Life Insurance "Company.
Mr. Tom Wright and family returning to Manila where Mr. Wright, is connected with the Ass- ciated Oil Company.
Mr. Cari Hess and son return
to Manila.
ing
Dr. and Mrs. W. Dwight Pierce, Charles Mason, Kenneth Rayner, Fred Collier, Charles Chamier and of Lincoln, Nev., en route, to others who each contributed from Manila. Dr. Pierce is connected the Memories of the Old Time with Victoria Milling Company. musical comedies" were loudly apatila as representative of the Mr. J. H. McCarthy en route to plauded and encored,
Burroughs Adding Machine Com- pany.
This excellent performance will be repeated to-night. This will be was lost, an amendment by Mr. followed by "Here and There" On Arthur Barker to the following on Thursday and Friday. effect being carried instead:- Saturday Pot Pourri" will be
"That no further action on Mr. staged. Peck's report, be taken; noT LEY publicity be given to any of the charges made in it, until legal ad- vica, has been received."
Mrs. C. Nickelsen and family returning to her home in Manila.
and Mrs. Whitner Harb, prominent auto dealer of Little Rock Afk
Mr. and Mrs. R. McLoy of the *****_National_City Bank of New York are passengers from Shanghai to Hong Kong.
"During the conduct of the in- vestigation which has resulted in
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Whisky,
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Like Caesar's Wife, Must be above suspicion.
MARCHANT'S WHISKY
is.
That is why it is supplled to the Ward-rooms & Messes of the Havy, Army and Air Force throughout the world.
Ask for
Marchant's Whisky by name, and-
Buy a Bottle for the House.
Stocked by the leading Stores,
or it can be obtained from the Sole Agents:
T. E. GRIFFITH, LTD.
Tel 3517.
6, Queen's Road Central.
Those who left by the President to Shanghai, after a business trip Jackson were
to Hong Kong and Manila, Mr. Pang Shiv Ki, in charge M., Yeung Wa Yat going of a party of 20 Chinese going to Mr. Peck called on Mr. Wilson this report I considered it necessary. The President Jackson also Shanghai in connection with the through to the United States. Mr. Yeung is connected with the Ling- to reply to the charges he had tande. to obtain legal advice... Acting now left here on Monday for Shanghai Far Eastern Olympiad.
la answer Mr. Wilson said: "Ac-on that advice, I refrain from and from thence to San Francisco. Mr. B. Steel and daughter, local and University, Canton cusations of so serious a character making any statement at this meet having been made against me in ing. I leave it to my leval adviser this report, it will be readily under- bow. I can best take steps to clear stood that being entirely guiltless myself."
and having a clear conscience, IThe meeting then concluded. am only. too eager to refute them The ordinary business of the an- at the earliest possible moment. nual general meeting was further (Continued at foot of next coleom.) adjourned.--Straits Timer.
Among the passengers embarking residents, making a short trip to here were Mr. Ng Sze Kwong, the Shanghai.
The President Jackson will leave Changhai with about #200 Taing Wah students, travelling first class,
one time" Chiness tennis champion Mr. Ng Bie Kwong, well-known of the Cojony, and Mr. Fang Shiu local tennis player, going to to the United States. As a result Ki. These two gentlemen are going Shanghai in connection with the of this beavy movement, through to Shanghai to participate in the Far Eastern Olympiad.
hopkings from Hong Kong and Mr. EC-Bogle, Oriental Audiother ports have had to be car tor of the Dollar Line, returning tailed.
Far Eastern Olympiad games,
(Continued on next Column.)