Tuesday,
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
December 12, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
BALKAN SOBRANIE
NANCY
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU, YOUNG
LADY?
I'VE GOT AN AWFUL GROUCH ON TODAY !
GRR-R--
NOW DON'T YOU START SLAMMING DOORS OR I'LL SPANK YOU /
I CAN'T HELP IT --- I'VE
GOT TO DO THAT WHEN I'M MAD!
FORCED LABOUR-Poles who have been impressed Into "work service" in the part of Poland occupied by Germans repair this bridge near Thoru, which was dynamited by the retreating Polish army to Im- pedo the Nazi advance.
Singing For Red Cross
COUNT JOHN MCCORMACK, who sang his farewell in London last year, while hundreds of women wept, has come out of) his retirement to help Britain in the war.
tenor
The fifty-five-years-old whose voice has been heard all_over "the world for a quarter of a century, sung at Manchester in aid of the Red Cross. And his volce will be heard again soon in London. through the winter he will go from one place to another.
Alf
"When I retired from concert work tass year," he said, " never-dreamed I should so soon be making such a strenuous tour. But want to show in a practical way. my sympathy for the country of Chopin, Paderewski and Kosciusko -they were all Poles,"
All the profits of his tour will go
WAR HIDDEN FROM KIDDIES
New York. Twelve hundred child refu. the conflict in Spain xecs of have been kept fa ignorance of the outbreak of the European war. The Spanish children are billeted in Franoc.
eight colonies In
Erio G. Muggerdge, Executive Secretary of the foster parents plan for Spanish children, sald Miss Eame Odgers, American. administrator of the group's headquarters here the chlidren might become "unmanageable," they knew about the war, be- cause of their fear of air rabis. Mr. Muggerdge said the chil- dren had endured for 2 **tho Incessant bombing Spain."
LEFT TO SINKING
DISOBEDIENCE SAVED LIVES
London,
Official appreciation of a lance - corporal's disobedience at Black-to pool was expressed by General Sir Henry Jack-
son
-
General Officer
Commanding in Chief
mand.
DIE NAZI
NOV 9
IN SHIP
BRITISH SEAMAN WAS LOCKED UP
MR. JOSEPH WILLIAM BARNARD, who was left die, locked in a cabin in the doomed German steamer Olinda, is back at his home in Dimond-road, Southampton.
He had served on German ships for some time and was a quartermaster in the Olinda when the war started.
The ship was bound for South America,
When the declaration of war was known on board, the captain
of the Western Com-ordered Mr. Barnard to be locked in a cabin as a prisoner.
The next day they met, a British "The British warship came quite warship, which ordered the crew to close to me once, The lance - corporal ||leave before the Olinda was sunk.
but I was nol noticed. They abandoned ship," Mr. rescued five
uncon-Barnard said "but left me still tack-
bo
a
ed in the cabin.
L
scious men from blaze at the Indian Theatre at Blackpool, and in spite of his severe burns, applied artificial respiration to them.
Two Hours In Sca
"I was trapped. I wrenched off a
and with it battered down the door -
"It turned away and it looked as though there was no hope.
The Lucky Turn
"But then it made another turn,
BIr. Barnard was landed in South
brass cuting from the electric light spotted me, and sent a bont." panel until there was a hole large America and was sent home by a enough for me to squeeze through." British Consul.
"But even then I was not out of danger. I had to jump overboard from the sinking ship.
"I was swimming about in the sea for over two hours.
STALIN'S DOWNFALL
FORECAST BY RED
By William Henry Chamberlin
CANNES.
to
1 period of Allied
intervention in Russia and told me with a smile that
of
BRIBE FOR DANES
£100,000 Fund To Buy The Press
Copenhagen.
A Nazi scheme to bribe or black-
to
Daginar Hus, Denmark's most up-to- date office building, by a "wrebege- sellschaft," or advertising and pro- paganda company, to place advertis- ing of German goods in Danish publi- cations.
It is not very often that Stalin he learned English In Brixton Prison mall neutral newspapers and perlo- criticised by a
when I met him in Moscow. He was dicats into printing pro-German and Soviet citizen. In subsequently exchanged and took anti-Allied material deed one might accurately say that command of naval operations of
has come the privilege of criticising a dictator Soviet gunboat flotillo on the Volga
light in Copenhagen. may only be purchased by ceasing River and
An office has been taken in the A citizen of the country over
the Caspian Sea. He he-rules.An-indictment-of-Stnim possessed some literary-talent and has just been drawn up by Fyodor published a play the French Raskolnikoff, former Soviet
Revolution entitled "Robespierre," Am- bassador to Bulgarts, who was re-
Open Letter cently declared an outlaw because of his refusal to return to the Soviet
From his place of refuge in Cannes, Union, where he doubtless anticipated Bouthern France, the fate of many other diplomats whe have been victims of Stalin's pro- longed and comprehensive purge. are characteristic:
"buying advertising space." Like many other individuals whu "You practice polities without
German agents have made it clear have fallen into disfavour in the ethics, power without honour, sociol- Soviet Union during the Jast few im without regard for the human that no Danish publications will re-
Way years, Raskolnikoff
a pictur-
being. This socialism is as far from selve any orders for advertising hin on the tour, as an accompanying esque and glamorous figure in the true socialism as your arbitrary per-spice unless they revise their artist. Miss Sarah Buckley, a former early days of the Revolution. A sonal dictatorship Is from the editorial policies in a pro-German Lancashire mill-girl.
leader of the turbulent Kronstadt dictatorship of the proletariat.
direction. The mora pro-German they show themselves the more ad-
years
of bolshevism.
In
The office is under the direction Raskolnikoff of n Mr. A. Jensen, and more than published an "open letter to Stalin," £100,000 in cash has been pinced at from which the following excerpts its disposal as a Arst instalment for
lo the Red Cross. All the largest halls have been booked, and he He thinks her contratto voice com-sailors, who were strong supporters "You have calumniated and shot vertising they will be allotted. hopes that thousands will hear him. parable to Clara Butt's, and thot se captured by the British during the Zinovieff,
Count McCormack will take with will soon be famous.
Raskolnikott was the companions of Lenin, Kamoneff. Dulcharin, Hykoff and others, of whose innocence you were very well aware. Before their death
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As soon as the full implication of you forced them to express Te-tils impudent scheme come to light, penience for crimes which they have a special meeting of the council of never committed.
Denmark's incorporated practitioners "On the eve of a war you are in advertising passed a resolution destroying the Red Army, the pride urging members not to accept the of the country, the bulwark of its account of the "werbegesellschaft". power. You have decapitated the Though the war has Ited Army and the Red Navy. You nearly all Danish periodicals, the two badly hit have killed the most gitted of our lending weekly magazines, "Hjem- officers, headed by the brilliant met" and "Dansk Famille Journal," Marshal Tukhachevsky. Where is have indicated that their Marshal Bluecher? :;(the
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Mr. Jansen has a staff of about 15 who talk persunaively to influential members of Danish Press. Raskolnikoff described his own! The "werbegesellschaft," is a link experiences as Ambassador in Sofie, in a chain which Germany hopes to where an. agent-provocateur had construct in all neutral States of caused the arrest of almost the whole Europe and America. Similar personnel of the embassy, from the gunluations are working or being military attache to the chauffeur,planned for Norway, Sweden, He called the roll of a number of Switzerland, Chulle and other coun- well known Soviet writers, Pilniak; tries. Tretiakuff, Arosles, Tarasov-Rodio- who had been arrested. He also
hed the
those
avlation constructor,
the modernisille the Follow the example your DOCTOR sets
trical producer Meyerhold as amont who had been arrested and two well known natural scientists, Pru fessors Ipatieff and Chichibonine, as having been forced to flee from the country, Apostrophising Stalin
again, he writes:
"Like Hitler you have rekindled the auto-dn-fes of books of the Middle Ages. I have seen with my own eyes huge lists of books, to be destroyed without delay, sent to Soviet libraries. On these lists, regard to numerous names of authors, one finds the instructions:
Suppress all books, pamphlets and pictures."
Further reproaching Stafin with re- fusing to admit politient refugees from Spain, and other countřice, Raskolnikoff ends his letter with a prediction that the Soviet dictator will be overthrown and that his crimes will be punished."
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