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A Soviet Confession

HERE, THERE

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The Kaiser's Razor

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TREKKING THROUGH ARCTIC EUROPE

REMARKABLE JOURNEY IN LAPP COUNTRY

Massey on the stage of the Lyric LONDON WOMAN IN MYSTERY LAND

Theatre, and it is part of the "busi- resa" of the play for him to pre- tend to cut himself with it.

(By Mrs. Olive Murray Chapman.)

The relle is fully authenticated. and comes from Cologne, having

The Norwegian mail-boat in in addition to the Lapps, live sever- been given to Mr. Stanley Scott, the impresario, by a former member of which I was sailing for the Northlal Norwegians, including a police the Imperial Court who lives in that had crossed the Arctic Circle. official and a Lutheran clergyman. city.

Two days later, in a blinding The Lapps are Christians, and snowstorm and with the ship en-great numbers attended the Easter

A large and exceptionally heavy razor of the old "cut-throat" type,

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it bears the Imperial cipher and is cased in ice, I landed at Hammerfest services at the little church. altogether a majestic implement and boarded a small cargo steamer

Having made friends with bound for Bossekop, near the Ittle Lapps and gained their confidence, Anti-Hitler Book A book which has raised Nazi port of Alta, in Finmark, the most was invited to a wedding. .The leaders to fury will shortly appear northerly part of the Lapp country bride and bridegroom walked hand- in ita English edition-"The From that point I was to start on in-hand In procession to the Brown Book of the Hitler Ter the first of my long sledge journeys church, with bridesmaids and

ror."

It has been prepared by the In-through Norwegian, Finnish and groomsmen in front and behind, ternational Committee for the vic- Swedish Lapland.

and their relatives and friend fol-

tims of German Fascism under the My object, eventually achieved, 'lowing. presidency Albert Einstein, and was to study Lapp life in the three The bride has already appeared in German-

was resplendent in in Paris. Ninety-nine per cent. of countries, and to make a pictorial four silk shawls over her should- the German population, one may record by photograph and film of ers, and a fifth folded in front as Both she and her bride- guess, will never hear of its exis-the people and their customa.

I a muff.

Froom wore white reindeer-fur tence.

travelled alone, taking, on cach

shoes. Although a considerable portion stage of the journey, a Lapp from

After the service I joined the of the book is devoted to the burn- one of the various settlements to' ing of the Reichstag, its most con-act as guide and to look after my where the marriage feast was held. the procession back to the hut vincing part in the actual account soindeer. With these Lapps 1 had Tumbling over one another in their of the "Terror."'

to communicate mostly by means

excitement, the Lapps crowded in- The written evidence te in someþóf signs.

to the room. I was pushed in with cases anonymous for obvious rea- At Bossekop, a Norwegian Lapp the rest, and, to my embarrass- Bons, but the Nazis will have dif-village 400 miles north of the Arc-ment, given the place of honour at ficulty in refuting the photographetic Circle, I was fortunate in see-the head of the long wooden table. himself assumes the lead in the and the facsimile documents. ing the famous bi-annual market, As I was wearing Lapp dress I chorus of denunciation; and

to which Lapps from all over Fin-did not feel so much out whom, in the name of conscience,

mark came to barter and sell their picture as I should have done

Not

details.

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Hitler's Four K's

the same!

of the

of

Hong Kong, Saturday, SeptĮ 23, 1933. is it that he blames? It is the Bismarck wrote culture with a furs and other goods. It Was otherwise.

ignorance of the workers, the capital K. It was a he-man's cul-(wonderful sight. Hundreds of Large bowls of stewed reindeer incompetence of the officials that sture prescribed by a ho-man doctor. (Lapps, with their reindeer vara- ¡meat were handed round. The ure sternly rebuked.

Herr Hitler, in his Kulturkampt vans, slowly wended their way over tappe helped themselves in turn, word is said of the colossal for the regeneration of German the snowclad countryside, to the dipping in their hands and eating Of Failure.

folly of those who financed womanhood, has gone one better. music of tinkling bells. Many the meat with their ingers. I did

with the produce wrung His prescription has four capital(had come great distances. Orghonikidse, the Soviet Com-from the miserable peasants-k's-Kirche, Kueche, Kinder and When the fair was in full swing,

building missar for Heavy Industry, has the

Wolves Attack Reindeer of a modern Kleider, or Church Kitchen. Chil-the crowd of gaily-dressed Lapps! permitted himself some strong city and the Instalment of a vast dren and Clothes.

against a background of dazzling Leaving Karasjok, 1 made an- expressions of feeling upon the jarray of modern plant, and then Far the moment the Nazi resnow and blue sea made a picture other long trek of several days. state of the model industrial city left Magnetogorsk to decay into formers are concentrating on the shall never forget. The Lapps following along frozen rivers and of Magnetogorsk, the centre of ja junk-heap for the lack of clothes, under which head they in revel in colour. Their reindeer-fur lakes, to the Lapp settlement the vast productive area as efficient management and a skill-elude such adornments as lip-stick, dress, blue cloth tunies and quaint Kautokein. I travelled in a pulka, planned-of the Urals. He ad-jed labour force. The Bolshevik rouge, vanity bags and cigarette hats are

most picturesque, with the ancient type. of Lapp sledge, dressed himself, in a statement notion of national planning takes cases.

splashes of scarlet, blue and yel- and learned to drive, my reindeer which surprised and disquieted no account of such

Just how far the Nazis are pre-low. The women dress much like myself-not an easy matter, for Moscow, to those in charge of Scheme something_gigantic on parad to go in re-Teutonising the the men, but wear little scarlet these small canoe-shaped sledges that imposing aggregation of paper; provide the physical German woman may be gauged bonnets, and, on festive occasions, readily upset, and it is hard to mining and metallurgical plant, materials. The rest will look from the following paragraph, shawls of emerald, scarlet and or keep the balance when driving fast the creation of which was one of after itself-or woe betide the which was taken from the "Voel-lange,

downhill. One drives with a single the most cherished features of "class enemies" the spot ischer Beobachter," the

The market lasted five days, rein looped round the wrist with n the Five Year Plan. It is a re- whose treachery or slackness is jergan of the Nazi Party.

after which I started for Karasjok alipknit; consequently, should one markable story that the Com-the only possible explanation of Rouge and carmine may

go a Norweglan Lapp settlement near tumble out one is dragged along missar has to tell in this mina-things going wrong! Of all that with the grossly sensual faces the Finish border.

¡behind the reindeer uptil e tory document; remarkable not is nauseous in the moral spectacle¦ and thick lips of oriental races, In order to reach Karasjok I had chooses to stop. The next excite- so much for novelty as for its of Bolshevism, few things are but the worst thing we can meet to cross 116 miles of wildest and ment is waiting to see if he will frankness and its origin. It worse than this lecturing, by in- in the streets is a German woman most desolate part of Finmark. butt at one with his horns. Pres- comes from the pen of one of the fatuated monomaniacs in Moscow, who, in defiance of all the laws had been warned that travelling at simistic persons had declared that major divinities of the Moscow of the wretched victims of their of beauty, disfigures her austero this time of the year would be dan- this was sure to happen to me, but

Nordte lines and her blue eyes gerous. It was March-the worst fortunately it never did! Olympus, whose Jupiter himself own blindness. But of the thinge was but a few months ago pub-that are worse, the most mons- with shrieking colours. licly exulting in the completion trous is the letting loose of a of the heavy industrial equip-ferocious terrorism against those ment of Soviet Russin by means victims to make them scapegoats, of the Plan. That equipment, of the Kremlin; and it is the raid Stalin then, had been "more threat of this familiar device that than achieved." It was capable, jis to be read between the lines. And already many German res- in particular, of "producing on ajof Orghonikidse's statement. mase-scale all up-to-date weapons

on

Idle Ships.

the

official

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month for the terrible blizzards One night, after I left Kauto- One should be able to take a that frequently aweep the country-keino, one of my reindeer wander. sponge and basin in order to side; but as I was eager to reached farther afield than usual during show her real face to this poor Karasjok in time for the Easter the night, in search of moes to eat. German wandering in the festival of the Lapps I decided to He did not return. My Lapp went Oriental desert.

joff in search, and found that the reindeer had been attacked by wolves, and was so badly, hurt that My caravan consisted of ave it had to be destroyed.

I arrived in Karesuando, Sweden, reindeer and four sledges-two for

taurants BFG plastered with notices: "German Women do not |«moke,"

take the risk.

Sledge Caravan

for the army in the case of at tack." That is a case very un-

my baggage, one for myself, and about two mouths after leaving likely to arise, despite the Residents in ports all over

Facts You Did Not another for my Lapp "vappus" or Hammerfest, and my final destina- passionate

tion, Kiruna, was now in sight. I conviction of the world regret the presence of idle.

guide, Know. Bolshevik leaders that the sucships in their waters. So do"all

All went we at first. There had soon reached Soppero village, and cess they have made of Com thinking people, whether in ports

been forty degrees of frost and the for the last part of the way WAS munism in Russia has infuriated or elsewhere. For idle abips con- are being installed in London sub-travelling, but on the second day mall sledge.

Self service information booths surface of the snow was good for given a lift-by a postman in his the capitalist world to the point front us as conspicuous proofs of way stations, twirling dials telling bad weather set in, with driving of resolving to destroy them current perplexities, the pheno-persons, how to reach desired sta snow and a bitter north wind mak But if it ever should arise, an mens of an age in which many of Lions and the fares required.

the ships still running are doing

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ding the cold so intense that I wan

YESTERDAY.

Lyon Griffiths.

army that depended on the output of Magnetogorsk would}

forced continually to rub and pinch KOWLOON WEDDING so without proft. This comes home ·To protect fruit buds from frost. not remain very

my face to avoid frostbite, of which long in with peculiar force to Britons the method has been invented for already I had had a slight touch. the field, Foreign visitors - world over, both because their Em-spraying trees with asbestos mixed Darkness fell. To make matters those capable of judging there is held together by sea com- with an adhesive liquid to form a worse we ran into a snow fog and efficiency of vast undertak ings such as this have given it munications and because Britain costing that lasts for several could hardly see a yard ahead. I a bad enough character. But Possesses by far the largest indi-months. none of them have rated it quite

vidual share of the world's ship-

as low as does the Commissar ping, even in these days of grossly

direction.

do not know how my Lapp found At St. Andrew's Church, Kow- his way. Perhaps he was helped loon, the marriage was solemnised Twin windmills so pivoted on by his dogs, who raced on ahead yesterday of Mien Minnie Irene for Heavy Industry. They have unfair competition. Her position, vertical shaft that they travel and backwards and forwards; bark- Griffiths, elder daughter of Capt. observed the imbecility of mis-/40 legitimately based, would sta-around à circular track have beening as if to encourage, the weary and Mrs. H. Griffiths, of 1 Ho Tung management and the profundity bilise itself again if others would invented by a German to obtain the reindeer, who could hardly struggle Mansions, Hankow Road, to Mr. of technological ignorance, the abandon the folly of State, sub-aximum power from wind in any against the blizzard.

David Lyon, second son of Mr. filthy chaos in the workshops, the sidies, from which they derive a

Many hours later, when I had James Lyon, of Dumbarton, Scot- incredible rate of depreciation in purely imaginary gain. Who, then,

lbst all count of time, the sledges land. costly Imported machinery, and would not rejoice to see all our ter insulated houses are being ed reindeer lay down, and peering officiated and the duties, of "best On the principle of refrigera- came to a standstill: The exhaust- The Rev. W. Walton Regera other details that could escape no idle ships, in whatever injet lying built of steel frames that ar: anxiously and half-dazed into the man" were carried out by Mr. I. N. expert eye. But they have miss- once more recommissioned? But readily assembled on concrete darkness I found we had reached a Murray of the China Light and ed the Aner social points the alasi so inclusive a revival is never crowding of the workers into likely to be witnessed. Some of foundations and Alled with con- couple of wooden buts. The Lapp Power Co., where the bridegroom is half-built tenements with leaking the "hulka", will," as prosperity re-

carried my belongings into the first also employed.. roofs, the absence of drains, the turns,, "ro down to the sea again,”

of them, consisting of ons room, The bride, looking charming in a shortage of food and fuel, the but not all, perhaps not even the building schemes on land, but and here. I was snowed up for two gown of white satin and lace and lack of those amenities by which majority. New types have super on long experience, which limits

economic common senso, founded days,

carrying a bouquet of white gladioli life is made sumportable for the seded them, and even were the the effective life of modern ships,

und Honolulu, creeper, was given proletariat in the great cities ocean lanas to become as lively as Like the man who make them, they

laway by her father, As the hut had a stove, and 14 reception was subsequently held Inherited from the old regime, ever they, were," in"boom": "^ days, omnes All these things and more have modern vessels would be found on are all the time dying, and doubly had plenty of provisions with me at the Peninsula Hotel where a been freely said of Magnetogorsk sential to modern needs and would tacle they presant is veritably.

jand, a warm sleeping bag, I came number of friends offered the happy. so when laid up in port: The spec.

to no harm, and eventually, after couple congratulations. Later Mr. In the Soviet Press for a long quickly be provided. It is not mere tragedy, whether we take the short the storm had spent itself, was able and Mrs. Loon left for Repulse Bay, Hime past. Now the Commissar ostentation, as in some of the law or the long.

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At A Lapp Wedding

Eto: Journey on to Karasjok There, where the honeymoon is being spent.,