THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1937.
OGPU'S PRISONER "HOME
WITH A SECRET
Briton Dare Not Tell All
For Parents' Sake
ROBERT VALENTINE BELL, twenty-eight-year-old
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Englishman, who was held for four weeks in Leningrad Ogpu gaol and grilled by secret service police on a charge of espionage, set foot on English soil for the first time recently when, expelled from Russia, he landed in London with £3 and the suit he was wearing.
I joined him at Gravesend in the Finnish steamer Leo, which he boarded at Helsingfors after being escorted to the Soviet frontier by a secret service policeman, writes a special correspondent.
His parents were allowed to see him only once during his im
father is the last prisonment. Els
British doctor practising in the Soviet, and because he and his mother, brother, nud alster are remaining In Leningrad, Bell has to be careful what he says about his experiences.
Friends had planned to keep his
LESLIE, 14,
SURPRISES
arrival scret, but he talked win THE
in hatting English.
He laughed at the Ogpu charge that he had copted secret plans of
NAVY
To say that Leslie, a London
the Red Army's telegraph and tele- fourteen-year-old phone system and sold them to a foreign Power for £300 each.
boy, has made naval history
"It is really quite funny," he midis perhaps an exaggeration, "I just did my job and took no part in espionage or politics.
TEN ARRESTED
"I had been working since 1930 for a Leningrad telephone and tele- gruph company, and was their chief engineer. Last July I was suddenly told that my services were no longer required.
"Soon afterwards ten
yet Leslie has just done something that no other naval recruit has ever done.
He has passed the strictest eye- tests after being previously sight disqualified for colour blindness.
When Leslie applied to enter the Navy his physique, la medicni his- of the tory and his school reports were ex- other officials who had been werk-cellent-but it was found that he could not distinguish green from red, court-
or yellaw from green.
Ing there were arrested. maritalled, and shot.
"On August 31 I was sitting at home with my mother and brother
Leslie's rejectlo nwas inevitable. Six weeks later the authorities were surprised to see Lesile again.
and sister when three men ente die nsked for more colour tesis. arrested me. They searched the Ant and went through all my belongings. "I was put into quite a nice coil, with a bed, a washbasin, ond a chair. my own I was allowed to clothes. Not once was 1 allowed 10 communicate outside."
He passed them all with case. Now Letlle is taking the normal Arethusa tralaing ship course.
wear
The explanation? Between those two examinations Leslie had under-
gone a special treatment for cor- rection of colour-blindness.
British consular oficials tried to secure Mr. Bell's release, I was reported that Public Proseculor | There Vichinsky was anxious to bring him quickly to trial, but that the Soviet Foreign Ofee was anxious to have him expelled without trial.]
were
The famous Vic-Wells troupe is presenting in London a new modern ballet the theme of which is a game of chess. The ple- ture shows a scene from the bal let when the troupe were practis ing on the root of the Sadler's Wells Theatre.
Difficult Mistresses
-By The Cook.
SOME of the "grouses" of servant girls will be told to mistresses by 22-years-old Florence Davies, cook-
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DOO disqualifications general at a flat in Sloane-square, London, SW.,
for colour-blindness by the Navy during the year 1030-37 out of a total of 18.447 applications.
Ten per cent. of the male population of cities and, large towns is colour- blind, according to J. Foster-Smith, the American authority on colour vision.
War-Defective colour vision, like short
["Foreign Office officials feel that an expulsion order would be far leza likely to affect Soviet-British a spectacular relationship than trial," said the Daily Express saw correspondent then] -Bell went.on: "The food was good and I was treated with great con sideration.
"But it was terribly monotonous, and although I never really feared for my salety I spent a lot of time wondering what would happen. Newspapers were forbidden, and knew nothing of what was going on outside.
"Afier about a fortnight my ques- tioners sald they believed I was doing propagando. That anti-Communist
wus absurd. I never interfered in Iny own Russian politics, or aired views.
SILENT TO CONSUL "Exactly four weeks after my arrest I was told I was to be expelled, Mr. B. J. Gillat-Smith, the British Consul-General, saw me in my cell two hours before I was set free. Even to him I could not talk about what happened during those cross-examinations.
"What am I going to do now? hope to get a job over here,"
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Mr. Bell was driven to the West End home of Lady Muriel Faget, organiser of the British Subjects in Russin Rellef Association,
sight, has increased considerably during the past twenty years. Says Mr. Foster-Smith: "Actually "culour blindness is due to the ab- sence of green in urban life. You don't and people living in country suffering from it.
Florence has decided views on the servant problem.
"Girls would not mind going into; service if they were not looked down upon," she said.
"People seem to think that all the fault lies with us, but, bo- Hove me, there are a lot of........
difficult mistresses.
the "I have been lucky, and only had
two places since I came
up from
"It is not inability to distinguish Swansea five years ago to go into
masses of colour, but to discrimin- | service." ate between colours mixed in small patcher, spots and specks."
Riddle Of
Stolen Chinese
Vase
TIME OFF
Florence thinks it is just as im- portant for a mistress to have a refer- ence as a servant.
She does not believe, however, that commillees of mistresses and servanią act up by employ- ment exchanges to draw up
contracts, would
ever
model
work.
She thinks every mald should have two half-days a week and one other evening off.
Her working hours are: 7.30 am. to 3 p.m.. and 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m... |with half-days on Thursday and Sunday, and Saturday nights off for dances.
She does not agree with girls who go into factories and shops, thinking Scotland-yard experts recently they will stand a better chance of made photographic enlargements finding a husband.
of the lettering on a rare 18-
HE APPROVES "My young man thinks I am far
inch-high Chinese vase belong better off working in good home ing to Croydon Corporation than I would be in digs, and he Museum.
Parted After 52 help them to find out why the com-
Years
Now York, After 52 years of married blian an 84-year-old woman, who did not like being accused of "zolam around with other mon," granted a separate maintenance .decreo at Maryville, Kansas.
WAS
The husband, who is of the same
They hope its translation muy
panton vase--the pair ore worth about £500-was stolen from the muscum at Thornton Heath Lodge.
It disappeared during one morning | when the museum was open to the public.
It was three-quarters full of water, which was used to weight But not a drop of water was found on the floor or anywhere else In the room.
And that in spite of the fact that
age, said, after the case had been the theft was discovered within fudged; that he was glad it was, all few minutes.
over,
A divorce petition was first Bied Mr. I. Websler, superintendent of
by the woman, but she later amended it-Central News,
Dogs Imprisoned Down Drains
London, Sept. 30,
the musein, said: avery other exhibit
Though coin- here is
not. Their
logued, these vases are history is unknown.
"We do not know who gave themi to the muscurn, where they came they from, or even to whint period belong.
"Toally the Chinese lettering. when we know what it means, may give some clue to why a person should want to take the vase.”
All night huntamen were calling jout the names of two dogs Imprisoned
down a 20 ft. drain at Overacren. Farm, Otterburn, Northumberland. Scotland-yard's Anger-print ex- After working for sixty hours in re-perts examined the vase that was 1875, farm labourers were able on loft in the hope that the thief might Wednesday night, to fren two tors have left clues. They found nothing riers, belonging to the Darder Hunt, to help them.
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WHEN
WH
A
when
Pact Kept For More Than Thirty Years
London, Oct, 5. William Shaiv, of Ogmore Vale,
· Glamorgan, who was demobilised-ai the end of the South African War, made a pact with his brother John 10 meet at Cardiff every five years, For more than thirty years the pact was kept, but Willlain, aged sixty- two has lied In Bridgend Hospital and relations cannot find John to let him know.
knows that I will be able to run our
married horne when we are
next year," she said.
"Girls ought to be paid according 10 experience. Beginners should start si 156, a week.
"After all, with our laundry, food, and keep, we are a lot better off than factory girls who have to pay for their own board and lodging aut of 15s, or £1 a week."
In spite of all she said in favour of domestic service, Florence declared that in a couple of years there will be no more girls going into service in private homes.
Sooner or later I expect women will all be doing their own work or living in hotels. It will not worry me, as I'll be running my own home by then!" she added,
MAN
TAKES
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AWAY YOUR WIFE-
/HAT should a man do when another man takes
away his wife?
Mr. Dummett, Bow-street magistrate, gave an answer recently.
"It is not a criminal offence," he anid, "It is a great tragedy-but you bave to grli your teeth and bear it ike a man.
"Many another man has to do it. “You do not regain ile affec- tion of a woman by striking her lover.
Courier: Loaves Record
Butte, Mant. Corncilus F. Connors, 48, Jocal postal carrier, who claimed a national record for delivering packages, dead. Connore, postal oficials said, broke all previous records when he delivered 300 parcels during on eight-i hour shift. The average number of deliveries in about 200.
You must face the fact that the woman has gone out of your life."-
The man to whom he was giving this philosophy was Alfred Charles Eden, of Brixham-road, E., who was summoned for assaulting John Ernest Williamson, licensee, Loampit-vale, Lewisham.
of
Eden, who wept na ho gave evidence, said he saw, William- mors, and his who meet in a atrect, Williamson kissed her. -So he struck Willamson,
Williamson and he was about.to assist a woman into his car when he was pounced on and struck several
times...
The magistrate dismissed thé sum-)
imony.
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