THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER
THE FIRST UNCENSORED MESSAGE
FROM RUSSIA IN TEN YEARS
The first completely uncensored message from Soviet Russia in the last ten years was made available to the Sunday Chronicle recently.
It tells the truth, the whole truth about Stalin's amazing ten-year reign of terror, hitherto hidden from the world.
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It reveals how millions of people were driven to exile, slave labour, starvation and death in the wilderness of Siberia,
5,000,000 Victims of Stalin Terror
Here is the message:
The Soviet Government's record of consistent persecution of the Russian people during these 10 years has been un-
broken.
Exocutions Without Trial
Even in the periods of comparative quiet, such as between the end of the famine in the autumn of 1933 and the murder of Kirov in December, 1934, routine and undramatic executions without trial continued throughout the country; the forced labour battalions continued to dig canals and lay railroad tracks; fear and sudden punishment continued as the most Important ele- ments in the nation's political life,
One simple test should suffice to prove the essentially ter- roristic character of the Stalin cra; namely, the use of the death penalty for "crimes" which In civilised countries are misdemean-
-ours.
Offences which at one time or another during the 1927-37 decade were made punishable by death include:- Killing a cow without official permission; Hoarding copper and silver coins;
Stealing State properly (in the U.S.S.R. this really means theft of any kind);
Attempting to leave the country without permission;
Refusing to return to the U.S.S.R. from foreign countries when ordered to do so;
Agitating in any manner against the Soviet system of government and economy.
MAY LOSE TITLE-Princess Baba, daughter of the English Rajah of Barawak (northern Borneo), shown with her fiance, Bob Gregory, 25. European wrestling champion claimant, at Arda airport near Belfast, Ireland. Her father, Blr Charles Brooke, objects to the engagement. Princess Baba, otherwise known as Valeria Brooke, is afraid she may be disinherited.
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ingless if it does not include Je Tenor Stalin's reign is rican. Mountains Under
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The balance sheet of 10 years of mean- the following items on the debit
Dispersal of the Opposition-This, the opening scene of Stalin's overlordship, involved the exile to harsh climates and distant arcas not merely of the leaders (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Ka- manev, Radek, Platakov, Rakovsk, Preobrazhensky, etc., etc.), but tens of thousands of their followers.
Ordeal of Political Exifos
Many of them were allowed to return, but even more were constantly being sent out to Siberia, Central Asia, and the Far North.
Arctic
Ocean
By Louise Morgan
A woman has discovered a hitherto uncharted range of submarine mountains between Jan Mayen and Bear Islands, in the Arctic Ocean.
She is Miss Louise A Boyd, American Arctic ex- The violent liquidation of those in the slightest measure plorer, now in London on her way home from her fifth disagreeing with Stalin has gone on without a day's interruption. Arctic expedition.
There are at this moment more political exiles in Siberia then ever under the Czars—most of them being punished, it happens, for harbouring the same sort of revolutionary ideas.
Engineer-balting.The famous Shakhty trial in May, 1928, was the signal for a nation-wide persecution of engineers and technicians which lasted for fully three years. Hundreds were shot on the thinnest evidence and on mere suspicion of sabotage, thousands were herded into concentration camps.
Liquidation of the Kulaks. This has been described_even by friends of the Kremlin as "the most spectacular act of ruth- lessness in those years."
CLIMATE'S EFFECT ON CANCER
By a Medical Correspondent A man living in London is only half as likely to die of cancer of the
Sidney and Beatrice Webb, likewise beyond suspicion of exaggerating in the Kremlin's disfavour, estimate that 1,000,000 skin as another living in Lancashire. peasant families wore liquidated.
But the chance of his getting cancer of the lung is nearly half as great
Five people being the accepted average for a Russian pea-tagala. sant household, their estimate means 5,000,000 men, women and children.
Children Left to Die
Hordes of others were denuded of their belongings, often including overcoats and boots, and driven into barren districts in their own vicinities.
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RADIO PROGRESS IN INDIA
Calcutta,
Proof that India is becoming more radio-minded is furnished by the Intest figures of the import duty on receiving apparatus, and of revenue from wireless licenina,
In the past year the import duty figures have risen 20 per cent, and the licence figures 30 per cent.
The statistics are particularly signflcant because Indian broadenst- ing is still poorly financed, undevelop- ed and lacking in trained men.
Football In Calcutta, Islington Corinthians, the London amateur association football team, received a most enthusiastic welcome on arriving in Calcutta. The members were decked with garlands and cheered by an enormous crowd. The first match ngainst 12 first-class Indian tearn ended in 21 goalless draw. The visitors, who were rather puzzled by their bare-footed opponents, show signs of being a difficult team to beat,
Canada
SOCIAL CREDIT
TRIAL
Montreal.
The trial of Mr. G. F. Powell, the London Social Credit expert, on a charge of defamatory libel, has been postponed until to-morrow. Ha counsel asked for adjournment to introduce new evidence.
Mr. Powell denied having any part in the preparation of the leaflet known as "Bankers' Trades," which elted the names of nine Edmonton citizens.
Trips to the Arctic Ellesmere Land, In the Arctic. has the "healthiest climate in the world," according to Mr. Edward Shackleton,
who is making a lecture tour in the hope of raising £1,800 to cover the defleit incurred by the Oxford Ex- pedition to the Arelle in 1934 and 1935. He thinks that Canadians will soon be making holiday trips by air to the Aretie.
South Africa
RISING PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS
Johannesburg. The Dairy Board's decision to cancel further imports of butter considered here to be
n gamble ngainst the weather. There is as yet no sign of a break in the drought in the areas which supply the Rand with dairy produce.
"How Important this inding is it is too early as yet to say," she told me of her Mayfair hotel, "but in this
Only 60 per cent. of local 'require- urea previously no soundings underments is being produced at present, is believed that rationing is 1,000 fathoms have been made. inevitable this week,
The position in regard to rising "We were able to map out prices of foodstuffs is daily becom thoroughly a considerable arca
ning worse. To-morrow deputations which the depth Whs
only 350
representing the House wives" Lea- fathoms When our sounding charts gue, the National Council-of-Women, | are worked out we shall find the the Trades and Labour Council, and area is probably even shallower." the Miners' Union will interview the Minister of Agriculture, Col. Reltz and a further deputation of railway- men will discuss the some matter with the Minister of Railways, Mr. Pirow.
HER 60LB, CAMERAS
Miss Boyd was leader and photo- grapher of the expedition, which was financed by her under the auspices of the American Geographical Socie- ty of New York. Her specialty is camera mapping, a highly technical scientific process, and "her cameras proclaimed weigh 60lb. each.
Elephants' Park-The Addo Bush, near Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, fumous for its elephants, has been national park. A scheme has been devised for feeding
ranges in a clearing. the animals by placing piles of
Natives Sentenood-Two natives
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These facts are revealed in the annual report of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, Issued to-day.
RAINFALL A CAUSE Hundreds of thousands were
She left Aalesund, Norway, in the loaded into cattle cars and
Experts studied the death rates unloaded in northern, Siberian, and Central Asiatic wildernesses towns. They found that
from dancer. In
the counties and scaler Veslekari on June 1 to study to shift for themselves.
it attacks the formation of flords and glaciers different parts of the body in in North-East Greenland. Meteoro- who tried to burn their grandchild to different localities.
logical observations were also mnde dieath because she killed one of their for the Norwegian Weather Bureau five years' imprisonment with hard fawis have each been sentenced to and soundings taken on the way labour in the Circuit Court north through the jee.
Kroonstad, Orange Free State, With her went Dr. Richard Flint, N. Rhodesia's Prosperity. The con- But this has no effect on the geologist and glaciologist, of Yale tinued prosperity of Northern amount of cancer as a whole in University, and his assistant, Mr. Rhodesia is reflected in the speech of the district.
Lincoln Washburn; Dr. Henry Aus- the Governor, Sir Hubert Young, Droves of children were left behind by desperate parents
tin, head of The rainfall may be one cause.
the department of at the opening of the Legislative to roam the land as bezprizmrny or homeless walfs. Probably the skin, cancer in commonest in wet Botany, Duke University; Mr. Fred Council session at Lusaka. Native the whole history of mankind will reveal fow tragedies of commonest in dry, probably because hydrographer,
climates, while in the bladder it is Buhler, surveyor; Mr. James Le Roy, taxation will probably be lowered, and other tax reliefs include 6d off Governmental terror to match the liquidation of the Kulaks.
the petrol duty and remisalon of the there more moisture is excreted by They were gone four months, with entertainments tax.
Ave weeks on land between the open-
There is some factor in the ernal conditions that decides where Disease and exposure killed off a vast number, the mortality the tumour will appear. being, especially high among children and the aged; others. died in the gruesome struggle to adjust themselves to the harsh con- ditions of the places where they were dumped.
In
the nearest
The most moderate estimate of deaths would be 10 per cent., the skin. or half a million. The total of suffering is beyond computation. ing, and cancer of the gullet is more were 300 miles north
A dry climate calls for more drinking and closing the ice. "We Australia Mass Executions of Scientists.-Two especially startling acts frequent. of official
settlement and thousands of miles. ruthlessness deserve a place to themselves in the] balance-sheet of the decade.
away from the nearest ships," she BATHERS KILLED BY sald.
Field observations and camera mapping, combined with detailed mathematical calculations, will able the contours of uncharted fjords tissues and glaciers to be accurately plotted
30 out.
RADIO MAY CURE In 1930 the Government shot 48 professors at one time, less showed that it is
Experiments with short-wave wire- similar to without trial for alleged aabotage of the food industries. In 1983 radium in its effects upon cancer it shot similarly 35 experts in the agricultural commissariats, growths.
In both cases the "evidence," in the form of supposed con- fessions published posthumously, bore plenty of internal evidence | of police tinkering and contained many childish and Impossible. statements.
Police As Taskmasters
It acts by heating the The waves were able to curo Lumours in mich.
To protect radium workers from the dangers of exposure, further renarch has been made,
Young animals were exposed to
Development of Forced Labour.-As a sort of by-product of the rays. This slowed down their
mass exiles, an extensive system of what was virtually slave birth rate among them.
growth and produced a very low
labour camo into being with the G.P.U. Police as taskmasters. The exact amount of exposure Most foreigners here estimate the population of concentra-during treatment can now be nectir- tion camps, G.P.U. barracks on the construction sites, and similar aicly measured. Very strict precau- places at 2,000,000.
tions are necessary to prevent contact with stray rays.
The building of the Baltic White Sea canal alone involved 250,000 prisoners, tens of thousands of whom died in Inying new railroad lines in Siberia and the East.
"Valuta" Tortures.-Beginning about 1930, and continuing for several years, the Government on an organised basis, rounded up people suspected of possessing valuta.
FILMS OF GROWING CELLS · A method has been discovered for graphy the growth of the minute] Imensuring by slow-molion cinemato-
body cells.
They are placed in fluid in an incu- stances can be examined.
and the action of different sub- Extracts
bator
promote growth.
"That is, foreign money, gold, or silver, and precious stones.
They were put through weeks and months of third-degree from glands and from bone marrow torture until they disgorged, if they had anything to disgorge.
In Moscow and Leningrad alone the victims totalled tens of animals are also effective, but the Muscle extracis from young thousands, and the scourge was conducted on a nation-wide activity soon disappears when they
grow older.
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Every Cyclist
"Has A Right
To His Wobble
Bolicitor James Taice of Formby (Lancs), sued for dam ages at Liverpool Assizes after his car collided with twenty-two- year-old cycllsh, John Mark Davies, who was killed, pleaded that the cyclist seemed to wobble in front of his car.
Mr. JUSTICE WROTTESLEY: "Every cycllat is entitled to his wobble,"
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The judge added that Yates had "cu i too fine awarded
£432 famages'against him.........
SHARK
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