THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935.
IF ANOTHER WAR COMES TO EUROPE
SOVIET RED ARMY
IS MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN WORLD
A MILLION MEN ARE READY TO
BATTLE U. S. S.. R. ENEMIES
Moscow, Sept. 10.
Outbreak of war on either the eastern or western front of the Soviet Union to-day would find this country in a far stronger position, both militarily and economically. than a year ago.
Although the leaders in the Kremlin are keenly aware that war would dam the current of economic progress and expose the Communist regime to danger, they have less reason for fear than at any since the revolution. The Red Army has grown to be the most powerful-if not the most efficient-land' force in the world. And behind it stands a bulwark of productive farms and factories to feed and supply the fighting machine.
The transportation system continues to be the weak spot in Russia's armour. But even that is improving-slowly, but steadily.
From a force of about 600,- 000 men, the Red Army has been expanded within the last year, to 940,000. Military experts believe the Red Air Force now includes some 4,000 airplanes, In speed and flying range they are inferior generally to Ameri- can, British or Italian planes. But their mere number makes them formidable. Moreover, they are manned by pllots of first-rate skill and bravery.
industry still lags in efficiency be- irind that of Germany or America. But the days of amusing
(or
tragic) rulhous handling of com-
plicated machines are over.
Slowly unskilled peasants have been converted into fairly able factory operatives. On the collec tive farms alone is the mishand- ling of machines still an acute problem. The Soviet press reports that in a certain district possess ing some 900 combines, less than one-twentieth are functioning.
But the growth of factories is shown by production figures and also these: Workers engaged in large industrial enterprises in- creased 6.8 per cent during the last four months; the number of in- engineers and technicians creased 10.7 per cent; and the labour productivity of the plants
or 16 per cent.
Weak in Son Power On the sea, Russia still is a third-class power. Ita capital ships are of a type considered
Food Supply Increased obsolete by the American, British
Napoleon once anid that "an and Japanese navies 15. years Jigo, But in the shipyards of army fghts on its stomach." And tho Baltic and Pacific a food, the basic need of military considerable number of light preparedness, is increasing too. Hubmarines and destroyers are The spring sowing this year was under construction. These types completed by May 25, na compared of vessels
Ideally suited with June 10 last year. Yield of
Russia's might on parade in the Red Square, Moscow, The Soviet can put a million soldiers into the field immediately,
American G-Men Unmask
Winding Up!
Winding Up!
Huge Racket Winding Up!
HOW IMMIGRANTS ENTERED U.S. ILLEGALLY
New York, Sept. 3. HUGE immigration swindle, extending from Ellis Island to practically every large city in the United States of America, has been discovered by G-Men, or Federal investigators as the Government. now prefers to have them called, after months of painstaking detective work.
Sufficient evidence has been
to collected, according Special Prosecutor Samuel H. Kaöfman, who was in charge of the investiga tion, to indict ten Government em- ployees at Ellis Island. Agents are now on the trail of the "brains" of the racket in the States.
My. Kaufman says that in addi- tion to paying from £10 to £500 for faked immigration papers, aliens who enter this country Il- legally are blackmailed regularly liereafter. No less sum thaA £200,000 is callected from them an- nually by gangsters and racketeers. Catspaws
Ona Ellis Island official has al- ready been sentenced to four years' Imprisonment for helping immi- Prants to enter the country legally, Three others have been convicted. Six more are awaiting trial.
But these men, according to Mr. Kaufman, are merely catapawa,
"We have not caught the ring- leaders yet," he said in an inter- view, "but when we do we will have them right.
"The nature of these cases, with the documentary evidence involved, makes it almost impossible for them to escape conviction."-Renter.
Oldest Person ROAMED THE WORLD
In World
for coast defence. And because grain in the southern regions this MUMMY THAT LIVED of Russia's position as a con- year is estimated at 10.5 centners! tinental power, nearly self-suffper hectare, above recent averages.
5,000 YEARS AGO
cient economically and with no Although hatred of the peasantry The world's oldest mummy, overseas possessions to defend, a for the Kremlin's ruthless colleccarefully pieced together after navy in not so important to it as, tivization programme, which re to a nation with far-flung colonica sulted in millions of needless lying in fragments for years, is Mike Great Britain or America. deaths from sinarvation, but not died now one of the "star" exhibit
London's most gruesome The mission of a Soviet navy is out entirely, it seems to be sub-in
More than 500,000 In-museum. only to prevent, the landing of siding. haatile troops.
dividual pensatts joined the collec Five thousand years ago, what is now a sholl of blackened and live farms this spring,
Russian railways continuo to crinkled skin walked and talked be the most-backward-in-Europe, and-faasted a man of wealth and but under the administration of power, a member of the nobility, Lazar Kaganovitch, they are im-atrutting his way through the proving. Car loadings during the strange life of ancient Egypt.
To-day this shrivelled relic of first five months of this year ross
Industrial progress during the last year has equalled if not sur- passed the speed of military pre- paredness. According to current official statistics, the industrial output of the Soviet Union during the last five months increased by 20.2 per cent over the correspond ing period in 1934.
Efficiency Stepped Up Blast furnaces and factories are operating now where a few years ago were bleak stoppes. Soviet
in 1934. 10.4 per cent over the same period antiquity lies in a glass case in the
SEEKING A COUNTRY
REVOLUTION
WAIF'S STORY :
Bath, Sept. 3.
One of the world's wanderers, a man in search of a country which will give him refuge, just discharged from as a "lost memory" case, stood in the dock at Bath hospital Police Court to-day.
Problem Of
Man With
Locomotive and ear fac-mummy room of the museum of 79 Children
tories are increasing their produc- the Royal College of Surgeons, in tion. And the double-tracking of Lincoln's Inn Fields.
:
He was accused of failing to produce a certificate of registra- tion-under-the-Aliens-Act-His- name was given as George Henry Shelking. This was the astonish- ing career ascribed to him by a police superintendent.
Born in St. Petersburg (now he Leningrad) in 1904 of, 50 claimed, British parents. Saw his
farm lootel. İle WILS then thirteen.
the Trans-Siberian, nearly com- Who he was or what he did no BRITON WHO BECAME father murdered by Reds and their pleted, vastly strengthens Russia's one knows for certain. military position in the Far East,
United Press.
Diana Wynyard Gives
Up £300 A Week
Cold Smile
He is an enigma. He lies there' under the glass, with just the faintest suspicion of a cold, dis- dainful smile ou his blackened Hips.
A ZULU CHIEF
Capetown, Sept. 1. The South African Gov- ernment has now started its difficult task of rounding-up It is belleved that he is—or was, five thousand years ago-Ra Nefer, the scattered descendants of a nobleman of the "Old Kingdom" John Dunn, the Briton who of Egypt, but experts are not became a Zulu chief. absolutely sure about this,
John Dunn came to South "All we know is that it is a Fifth Dynasty mummy from the Africa and settled in Zululand
DOESN'T LIKE WORK IN HOLLYWOOD tomb of the Nefes, discovered by during the latter part of the last
Diana Wynyard, star of Hollywood's greatest talkie, "Cavalcade," has torn up her film contract—a £300-a- week contract.
She will not go back to Holly- wood.
She said: "I saw a representa- tive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in London, and after a long dis- cussion we have agreed to for- get about my going back.
"I don't want you to think that I am one of those people who go out there, earn a very big salary, then come home and say vitriolic things about my employers.
"It is just that I know I don't like filming in Holly. wood; that I know that my real future lies on the London atage; and that personal ties keep me hero. I would very much rather stay with my mother and father."
The parting of Miss Wynyard from M.G.M. follows a summons to the studios at the expiration She of her "London","holiday." returned home for six months and appeared in "Sweet Aloes"
in the West. End..
In the middle of the run the
play was interrupted while she
FILM STAR DIANA
went into a nursing home for YARD 32, an appendix operation.
Sir Flinders Petric," explained century. He adopted the native Dr. A. J. E. Cave, assistant con-mode of life and eventually be Iservator of the
came a recognised Zulu chicf- reporter.
tain.
museum, to 13
He had 79 children, and when he died the Government was faced with the problem of dividing up his land among them.
"Of course, we know that he was a noble because only the lead- ing men of ancient Egypt were. mummified in those days. Who- ever he was, there seems to be little doubt now that he is the oldest intnet mummy in the world Great difficulties were en- so far discovered."
countered, and finally a Bill, There are other mummies in the known as the John Dunn (Dia- collection, but this опе
Is the tribution of Land) Bill, wag star" exhibit. The work of
introduced into the House of cataloguing this extraordinary collection has been undertaken by Assembly, providing for u Coin- Dr. Cave and Mr. Warren R. mission of three to investigate Dawson, the Egyptologist.
Scientific Anatomy
the case.
Claimants To Moot
For two years lived a hand- to-mouth existence with his mother and sister in Lenin- grad They died of fever, feaving him alone.
Joined Wrangel's forces in the Crimea. When they were dis- armed went to Finland, joined the Finnish White Army. Was wound. ed and shell-shocked on the Russo-. Finnish frontier and discharged.
Frontier To Frontier
Joined the British Army of Oc cupation in Cologne as interpreter. When the British Army left wandered to England, Spain, Amerion, and Copenhagen.
Later, in 1930, went Heligoland. There arrested as a suspected spy and escorted to Danish frontier.
to
Danes took him to Belgian fron- tier. Belgians took him to French frontier.
Stayed in France, returned to Spain, wandered on to Constanti nople, Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna. Switzerland.
Swiss took him to Austrian frontier; Austrians to Jugo- "Slavian frontier.
Reached Sweden, Norway, Finland again.
Left Finland in a motor-bont in 1932, landed in England.
"Some people may wonder why Mr. R. Stuttaford, the acting a five-thousand-your-old mummy Minister for Native Affairs, de
"Certain matters arose," wont to should have a place in our collec- clnrul that everything would be tion." said Dr. Cave.
done to protect Dunn's descendants Ireland. Fell over a cliff near "Of course, the study of a from exploitation. Provision had Galway Bay. Dimly remembers mummy dogs, not necessarily help been made in the Bill, he said, that train journey to London, after a surgeon, but its interest to him the Innd could not be alienated, landing in Liverpool.
Kindly motorist gave him a lift is to be found in the fact that, for transferred, or sub-divided without
to Bristol. Wandered to Bath. thousands of years, there were in the consent of the Governor- Now remanded in custody,
| Egypt people accustomed to re-General.
moving the internal organs of the The Commission, presided over body before carrying out embalming process.
too.
the by Mr. H. C. Lagg, Chief Native fore meeting-announcing the news Commissioner for Natal, has de-of the forthcoming settlement of "And they did it very neatly, tided that on November all the claims to John Dunn's land.
claimantal to this land shall meet at Descendants from all parts of the "It was this ancient practice In Mtunzinly, in Zululand, near the Union are expected to attend, in Egypt which made it possible for coast.
what numbor no one knows, though the Greek nuatomists working in Because of the slowness with it is thought that they will run into WYN-Alexandria-not in their own which official nows often travels in several hundreds, Not all of them, country-to lay the foundations of the most distant fraals, the author-however, will have a valid claim to scientific anatomy:"--
ities are now-three months be-the land-Reuter.
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