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by Roland Pertwee and Harold Desurden
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 3, 1937.
RUMOURS OF GRAVE FRICTION BETWEEN RED ARMY
& G.P.U.
What may well be the most serious internal crisis which Soviet Russia has undergone : for many years seems-to-be-de- veloping following M. Stalin's order for a "purge" of the Red Army.
In spite of an almost iron censor- ship and an indescribable confusion of rumour and counter-rumour, news has leaked out alleging 4 serious conflict between the Army and the G.P.U., the Soviet secret police organisation.. *
The Stalinite charges of the in- trusion of politics into the Army is the cause of the tension, many officers, according to a statement from the Kremlin, being "ande- pendable from a political-view- point."
.
This led Stalin to order a gen-
GENERAL VOROSHILOFF
HITLER'S
eral "parge" of elements in the MORE BABIES
Army whose loyalty to the Soviet regime was under suspicion.
Voroshilov's Position
The names of all doubtful officers were to have been reported either to the Soviet Dictator or to the Com- missar for War, General K. E. Voroshilov.
CAMPAIGN SUCCEEDS
Berlin, To-day. Success of the Nazi Government measures to deal with the decline in Now, reports Trans-Ocean from population in Germany was reveal- Warsaw, to which city scanty.reed to-day when the effect of the ports of the crisis have been smug-laws passed four years ago was an- gled, Army officers have taken the nounced
bit between their teeth and have The laws, which were passed- to detained a group of G.P.U: officials. encourage marriage, granted, inter The reports hint that General (alia, a special State allowance for Voroshilov is not only sympathetic those who desired to set up house. to their action but actually took the Now it is stated that in the four initiative.
years of the Nazi regime 700,000 Generally regarded as the suc-marriages were concluded in the cessor to Stalin, either when the Reich, the State contributing t the Dictator dies or by overthrow of sum of Mks. 420,000,000 in loans. the present regime, General. Voro shilov is popular not only with the Army he controls but with the ma jority of the country.
Struggle For Mastery Special significance, therefore, at- taches to speculations made by a Warsaw paper yesterday whether Stalin will go the way of Robe- spierre, his counterpart in the French Revolution.
Approximately 500,000 children were born in this period by couples who had taken advantage of the State's offer.-Trans-Ocean.
GERMAN TRAMP SHIPPING
Hamburg Seeking Stimulation Of Industry
It is pointed out that both men rid themselves not only of their opponents, but of their former col- laborators, and following the fam- ous Moscow trials, when Stalin dis- posed of all the "old guard of the
Hamburg, To-day. That the condition of Germany's October Revolution, the suggestion tramp shipping is serious and that is made in some quarters that the
some action for its development present situation may develop into should be taken, is the contention ja struggle for mastery between the of leading shipping owners in Ham-
Dictator and the Commissar for burg.
War.
STRANGE STORY OF
POLITICAL
| MURDER
London, To-day.
Pointing to the tramp tonnage owned by Great Britain, the United States, the Netherlands and even the Soviet, it is emphasised that Germany has only a very small fraction of the tramp fleets of these nations.
The sanctioning by the House of Commons yesterday of the renewal of the annual £2,000,000 subsidy for British tramp shipping is one fac- It was revealed at the inquest in tor which has led to inreeasing London yesterday on a man who agitation that something should be had been shot in the street in broad done in Germany Trans Ocean- daylight by political opponents, that during the last four years eighteen political murders have been committed without the culprit
CANTON "FORTIFICATIONS”
The Kwangtung Government has or culprits being brought to justice notified the consular Body in Sha- in a single instance Trans Ocean meen that the Government has as-
signed a number of coastal strate
The submarine HMS. Phoenix, Igical points which no foreigners
MORROW GEORGE ARLISS IN "THE IRON DUKE" which has been undergoing over foreign ships or warships are allow
GAUMONT-BRITISH PICTURE
haul, left Hong Kong yesterday for ed to visit without a permit from Singapore to take part in the man- the Kwangtung
ment
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