FIVE-YEAR PLAN DOOMED.
STRIKING FACTS FROM RUSSIA.
OUTPUT BELOW SCHEDULE.
The Soviet Government announ- ced over the wireless recently that it would take stops to stir Trak torstroy, the great tractor factory in Stalingrad, to greater activity. The method chosen has not been to draft more skilled labour there, but to relieve each shift of workmen only when they have completed the taska sot them.
puted at the lower wages prevail ing, the scat per tractor, 'düring January and February, of this year was over 3,000 roubles."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1931.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
SUNDAY, June 21.
"This figure does not include the LAST WEEK'S ACTIVITIES. hugo sum paid to the 'American specialists, nor the real deprécia tian charges. The actual destruc tion of equipment because of uns skilled labour and lack of proper lubricants is appalling, and at the present rate the entire equipment will have to be replaced within three of four years,”
Mr. Smith explained that this failure is due, first, to the type of workmen employed, and next to the hopeless organisation of the far tory. Russitus seem incapable of organising themselves, and staying This generally means a twelve-organised, and there is lack of hour day, and on one occasion re-
trained engineers and workers," he Brid: cantly involved a twenty-hour shift.
"Now The workmen, however, dan fort themselves with the knowledge that they are bailed as heroes of the Five Year Plan in the Soviet
Presa.
com-
that 95 per cent, of the Americans have returned home, the need for competent engineers will the present Russian educational be more keenly felt than ever, By
years' training; but 30 per cent, of his time is spent in political studies.
“JUNE” TO RE-MARRY JUDGE REBUKES SIR B..
SPILSBURY.
READY TO BE AN EXILE.
"MAN'S LIFE IN PERIL"
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LONDON CONTRACT
CANCELLED.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the
for murder at which he was to have famous, pathologist, was rebuked by Bailey for arriving lata at a trial given evidence.
> Exactly what I thought be Mr. Justice Charles at the Old
and Lady Peel moved to Mountain His Excellency the Governor
FRIDAY, Juno 28.
Lodge,
Commander Hatakeyama H.I.J. M.S. "Saga" paid an offcial call on His Excellency the Governor at Mountain Lodge.. representing His Excellency the Governor returned the calls of Capitain de Corvette Bersihand of Commander Hatakeyama H.I.J. the French Gunboat "Marno," and
M.S. "Sagn."? SATURDAY, June 27.
Captain T.A. H. Coltmen A.D.C,
Mr. A. E. Wood arrived at Mountain Lodge.
would do!" said June indignantly when I read to her, over the long distance telephone, the explanation published in The Daily Mail last month on behalf of Lord Inverclyde of his action to sujoin upon her perpetual silence, regarding him, says a Press correspondent."
Henry Frederick Andrews, A Southwark packer, was acquitted
a charge of killing his wife, the jury returning a verdict of "Not guilty" without hearing the defents,
Mr. Eustace Fulton, prosecuting, So he desires," slic repeated, who conducted the post-mortem ex- said that Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the removal of the public ignbamination, was not present. miny to which be has been cruelly exposed. Well, there's but one an swer to that,
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The following were the guests at dinner the Hon. Mr. Southern, tho "In his Edinburgh court action Hon. Mr. J. Scott, the Hon. MrI was accused of making libellous and Mrs. Hallifax, Hon. Mr. and Comdr, and Lady Mary Barton, contended that I could not be guilty Mrs. Creasy, Mr. and Mrs, Sayer; statements concerning him, but I
Mrs. North, Mies Hallifax, Miss H. Hanecek, and Miss R. Hancock
When Sir Bernard arrived, he went into the box, and was asked. by the judge, "How is it that you were not able to get hero-?"
Sir Bernard: I am extremely sorry. I had promised to give a lecture to the police.
The failure of "Boviet factories to methods an engineer is given three Mr. and Mrs, Hancock, Mr. and of libel because if he had medical where a man is being triod for his
work to schedule, the breakdown of transport facilities throughout. Rue
sia, and the general collapse of the Five Year Plan are emphasised in
Press interview
Mr. with
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has been seriously hampered by the "The organisation of the factory breakdown of transport facilities throughout the country. At the factory itself. authority has been decentralised and multiplied, with the result that everyone refuses to accept responsibility.
"So poorly equipped. are these young engineers that the Americans C. F. Smith, a British subject, who boys. There is a very poor spirit aneeringly termed them 'apprentice has recently returned from a ten among the workers, who are insuf months' engagement as organiser ficiently fed, poorly clad and and instructor at the Stalingrad housed, and who realise that they Tractor Plaut.
"The Stalingrad Tractor Plantara work. g for nothing. was designed and built to produce 154 tractors per working day," he stated. It is equipped with the most modern automatic machinery, and has every facility for main taining its scheduled production.
"Over 300 specialists from Ameri- en were taken to Stalingrad to start the factory and instruct the work- ers and farge, quantities of tools were purchased abroad, The pro- duction, scheduled in 1930 was or ginally 12.000 tractors, this being later modified to 5,000. The actual number of tractors produced, was 1,002,"
The mate
rials are of a poor quality, and suitable for Russian industry. American methods have proved un-
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have been similar to those I have "At other factories the results mentioned; and while Stalin in his speeches has been saying that pro
duction of iron, steel, conl, &c., was far in excess of the Five Year Plan. many factorica could not obtain half of their raw material require-
Schedule 35,000; Output 1,700. "Production for the present yoarments. ans been worse." ho continued, "The official schedule, originally 50,000, has been reduced to 35,000, but the actual production up to the end of March was only 1,700.
"The number of workers has been cut down from 17,000 to 10,000, but even at the lower figure, and com-
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"Russia can by starving and degrading her whole population export enough raw material and farm produce to pay for these fac tories, but she cannot make these factories produce goods in quanti- ties and of a quality that will pay for the vast expenditure involved."
· A TREASURE CHEST DUG UP.
BUT NO TREASURE.
for a century-old building at the Workmen repairing the foundations corner of Myddelton-square and Chadwell-street, near the Angel, Islington, found, when they had dug about 6ft down, that their picks struck metal.
They shovelled away the earth and found a large iron-bound trea- sure chest, reminiscent of the days of Captain Kidd and obviously several centuries old.
around it and two men tugged at Feverishly they released the earth the hand-gripa at each end;
The chest refused to move. With the help of two other men they got the chest out into the open. The locks were forced with a crowbar, but there were five heavy rustencrusted bolts, each of which required several blows with a pick before they could be removed.
Two men tagged at the lid, hut the lid refused to move..
the box flew open.
More work with the crowbar and
It was empty.
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certifientes to refute my charges he should have produced them in August of last year, when he knew that I was bringing the case. But he did not do, so, and he has det done so until now.
Her Charge:
to stop the case.
He had the power in his hands
But he didn't. With the produc-. tion of a medical certificate he could have stopped all publicity, but he dida's..
My divorce charge will be filed here in Reno in 10 or 12 days. The charge will be extreme mental cruelty.'
"The papers in the case will then be served on Lord Inverclyde. That, will take two or three weeks. He has 40 days in which to oppose my divorce. If he doesn't oppose the divorce-and possibly if he does- I shall get my decree. I shall in any case see to it that the case is tried behind closed doors, so as to. avoid unpleasant publicity.
Then, when the decree is obthin- ed in August, I fully intend to remarry. I quite understand that if I do remarry-I cannot return to England without exposing myself to a charge of bigamy. So I shall simply have to stay in this country. "If Lord. Inverclyde likes to do so he can bring a suit for divores and I can go back to England, but if he wants to he can make me an axile.
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a lecture, to the police is a loss Judge: I am sure you realise that serious matter than giving evidenco life. Fortunately, your colleague gave evidence which enabled the to arrive at a verdict. But in your absence that result might not have. been arrived at, and a man's life might have been put in peril. I hope it will never happen again."
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