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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
SOVIET PRISONER
Londoner
Who Was
In Red Army
AN AMAZING STORY
London, Aug. 5,
An amazing story of his life in Russia and of being kept virtually a prisoner for 14 years was told by a young Londoner, Mr. Robert Greenfield, who has just re- turned to England.
He has been a member of the Young Communists' `League, an officer in the Red Army Cavalry, arrested as a spy, and tried for his life.
Taken to Russia by his parents in 1921, when he was
a boy of 14, Mr. Greenfield
found that it was impossible for
him to leave the country.
"It has taken me 14 years to get
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ROYAL YACHTSMAN
1935.
MACLEANS FALL OUT
Southampton Yacht Club Regatta off the Isle of Wight.
out of Ičunala," he said, "and dur- His Majesty the King, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York, racing "Britannia" in the Royal ing the whole of that time I have! outwardly, at any rate, been as ardent a Communist as anyone a But my one iden was to get out, and, опсе out, never to return. "When we first went to Russia conditions were almost unbeliev able. Food was so scarce that a, pound of brend was worth thou-i sands of roubles, Clothes
were i
unobtainable and people dressed
In vermiuridden sacks,
"Our month's rations, were Tilb.
Prince Mdivani Leaves Fortune To Ex-Wife
ALREADY RICHEST GIRL IN WORLD
New York, Sept. 1. Prince Alexis Mdivani, ex-husband of Barbara Hut- of black bread, 20z. of tea, and b, ton (now Countess Haugwitz Reventlow), has left a scarce that I exchanged a valuable fortune of about two million pounds.
of salt herrings. Butler was
gold fountain pen for a pound of
rancid butter. If you saw anyone month.
woaring dezem clothes you could
be certain that they had been foot-
ed from large houses.
"The police did nothing to stop this looting. No one dared to speak. against the revolutionary party. shut People kept their mouthe through fear of the machine gun execution squad. There was no compulsory education. Children
pleased themselves.
"We had to ve like caitle unt joined the Young Com- muniata League. Then things
changed as if by magle. I was given good educational facilities which enabled me, after giving a false age, to get a commission In the Red Army Cavalry. Life then became a bed of roses. I had as much food as I wanted. My people] sot an extra allowance.
"Most of my colleagues were much-married men. It cost 4. to:
NEW
The Prince was killed in a motor smash in Spain last TEW York banks hold liquid assets belonging to him valued £900,000, and anther £200,000 is held in London.
BARBARA HUTTON
...... 17.
get married and ts, to get divorced, reived another million to add to
and either party can divorce the
other three weeks after the marri
age on political or temperaments); grounds. I did not get married!
her riches,
myself, because I disliked the £4,000,000
system and always hoped for the time when I could get out of the country.
"Finally, I summoned up enough
for courage to apply my British passport. I was in- stantly thrown into gaol and ne- cused of being a spy. My life! hung on a thread,
"After months of uncertainty and rough usage in prison I managed to convince them that I was not a spy.
I was released on condition that I left Russin for ever."
The Army To Have A New Rifle
IT FIRES 50 SHOTS A MINUTE
Fortunes Forgotten
FORG
16-Year-Old Girl As Chieftain
SCOTTISH CLAN
MEMBERS ARE
DIVIDED
MEMBERS of a Scottish
clan are split over the
question:-
Shall a woman be our chief- tain?
Five years ago Colonel Alexander Hew MacLean, chieftain of the MacLeans of Ardgour, Argyllshire, died leaving no male heir.
He was said to have been the best-loved chieftain in the High- lands. He willed his estate of Ardgour to his eldest daughter Catriona.
Catriona will be sixteen thie month. Her mother, the Hon. Mrs. MacLean, assumed that
daughter, would be chieftain of the MacLeans of Ardgour.
The Clan Association dia-
Massage Made Catrions, an her father's eldest "Dead" Heart Beat Again
Farrer-rond,
agreed.
He has nips for only YOU
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and your compitition stays MIRROR FRESH
They claimed that a female could be chieftain of the clan only when there was no suitable male heir in the direct line of YOU'RE the only girl in the
succession.
MANCHESTER WOMAN WHO DIED MRS. Gertrude Roberts, of
Accordingly, some months ago, Manchester, "died" while being operated on Commander H. H. MacLean, of the Clan Association welcomed in Ancoats Hospital. Her heart stopped beat-Bursledon, Hampshire, as chief- ing. Her breathing stop-gour. ped.
The
tain of the MacLeans of Ard-
The Prince signed a willin
Jon. Mrs. MacLean January last year leaving his
The surgeon, who had strongly opposed this move. fortune in five equal parts to
nasal Miss Barbara Hutton, then his been performing a
Other influential members of wife, his two brothers David and operation, realised there was Miss Catriona MacLean.
the clan support the right of Serge, and his two slaters Nina i
only one chance of saving and Roussodana.
Miss Catriona said: This will is held by the her life. He took it.
"I want to be chieftain of the Prince's lawyer, Mr. Millard He operated again. He mus-MacLeans of Ardgour as my Tompkins, who is understood toanged her heart. After four and father was.
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be ready to file it shortly in Newļa half minutes it began to beat. "Commander H. H. MacLean York unless it is revealed that The patient breathed again. la an Englishman, and he has Prince Mdivani left one of a The woman who was dead no property whatever in Scot-i later date.
And heen restored to life.
land.
The will directs that his heirs
Mr. Roberis knew nothing of "I, on the other hand, am the shall meet to decide how they her escape until three days after-direct successor of my father's would like the fortune distribut-wards.
title, and I am heir to the ed.
"My first sensation," she said estates of Ardgour. There is a Venetian palace in "was that I had been in a motor- which Alexis and Barbara spent car crash, part of their honeymoon. This "All that I can remember is the is expected to go without con- mask being put over my face.... test to Countess Hugwitz Re-millions of stars merging into one ventlow, who has said she would...then darkness." Jike to own it.
Mrs. Roberts, slight and dark-
She originally presented the haired, is now perfectly well, al- palace to the Prince,
though her operation has left her weak.
Other properly is a furnished flat in Paris, forty poln ponics, oil stocks, and United States Government securities.
was
opera-
"Three days after my tion." she added, "my husband told me that I had 'died on the operat- ing table.
"I see no reason why I should be passed over in favour of a man who is my father's second cousin.
"There have been plenty of examples of girls being accepted as chieftains of Scottish clans, und my mother and I are de- termined to fight any attempt to pass me over.
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of the members of the associa-ENEKLERKENNENDESTACADASTREAMSALADIEVAL MEMEACALABASAN
my tion are sympathetic to
Prince Alexis, who was 28.
Her Only liners hind been the husband of two
"No. I have never suffered claim." IT very rich heiresses. He
from heart trouble. The only first married, in 1931, to Miss serious illness I have had in Louise Astor Vanaten, great influenza," grand daughter of John Jacob Astor, multi-millionaire.
MAYBE SOME OF
IS YOURS
FILM STAR SETS The surgeon was
Mr. Neville!
RULES FOR SON ORGOTTEN for tunes
Young, of Manchester. He tells totalling £4,000,000 are| The marriage was dissolved the story of his operation that being cared for by the Na- the following year.
saved a life in the current issue HE MUST BE SPARTAN He married Miss Barbara of the British Medical Journal, tional Debt Commissioners. Hutton in June 1933. She di It is a surgeon's story, written The sum represents the value vorced him early this year at for Burgeons, It tells how of British Government securities Reno, Nevada, and the day after adrenalin was injected; how the and their accumulated dividends the decree was granted married heart gradually reacted to mas- which have never been claimed Count von Haugwitz Reventlow. 8age: how the original operation by the original purchasers.
It was revealed at the time of was resumed when the heart action
One of these holdings in the divorce that Barbara Hutton Consola is worth nearly £200.- had made a marriage settlement 000. No one has ever come for on the Prince of £200,000. In addition she gave him an income Englishwoman living in Marseilles did not even know that of £10,000 a year.
ward to claim it.
An
FOLLOWING the adoption she possessed a fortune amounting of a new light machine- to £56,000 with accumulated divi-1
dends totalling nearly £20,000. gun for the British Army, a For years she had lived by new self-loading rifle will be borrowing or begging from rela- adopted shortly to take the tives or neighbours.
"It ja dimeult to give the reason
place of the present Service for the overlooking of what in rifle'S.M.L.E. Mark III.
many cases are substantial for- tunes." an official of the National
Exhaustive tests have been Debt Commissioners said.
made with two foreign rifles and five British, one of which is gas- operated.
Never Heard Of Again "Some people go abroad and are never heard of again: others,
It has been decided to adopt through illness or old age, simply one of British invention, and the forget that they own Government War Office are only waiting the stock, leave of the Treasury before nn- nouncing the type chosen.
"Both the securities and the dividends accruing can always be
The cost of issuing theɔnew claimed. rifle will have to be met by a Supplementary Estimate
will be about £3,000,000,
and
"But the responsible authori- ties do not go out of their way to discover the owhers.
to
"The present practice with un- The new rifle will be lighter claimed "stock is to wait until a than the present type by several claimant appears, and then ounces; it will fire at least 50 advertise for other claimants. almed shots in a minute in the "The Bank of England is rea- hands of a trained soldier as componsible for paying out dividenda pared with the 15 rounds a minute on Government securities. If such of the present rifle.
dividend is unclaimed it is trans- No muscular manipulation ferred to an account at the Bank will be necessary for reloading of England kept in the name of as is the case with the Service the National Debt Commissioners. rifle and consequently there "There are more than one hun- should be greater accuracy."dred- batches of securities worth The now rifle will be virtually a more than £10,000 each-many of light machine gun in the hands of them unclaimed for as long as a good soldier.
thirty-five years."
Joan Blondell's son has just celebrated his first birthday, and, to mark the occasion, the film "star" has formulated eight rules for his upbringing. had been restored.
Joan, who in private life was And it ends:- "The patient has shown no more Mrs. George Barnes, until last interest in the affair than a fleet- week, when she obtained a ing curiosity regarding the pre- divorce, wants her son Norman sence of an abdominal wound"
to be Spartan.
Huey Long who la mentioned has, a 'candidate for the~ next American presidential election, stämd toʻkava other Interests besides politics, and is here shown behind the bar tenching the bartenders how to mix drinks.
"He's not going to be spoiled like other stars kids,' she ¡declares.
And here are the eight rules she has drawn up-
"My Bon is
never going to be the 'best dressed kid in the neigh- bourhood'.
"There will be
no nurse or governess to wait on him. I didn't have any of these luxuries.
"He won't have things too casy, for that's the easiest way to spoil a child."
"Io will get no expensive toys
Joan Blondeļi for the neighbours' children or his father to break. I had loads of fun with oil sticks and a bucket as a kid.
He will go to a State school, where there are piris as well as boya; and, later, he will no to a military school for discipline. He will never have his name or his picture in the Press unless he has done something to eard it, and' perhaps not even then.
"He will be taught the facts of Ife as soon as advisable."
"No one" adda Joan, "will ever be able to point to my son and say:
That poor rich film kid!'"
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