1937-02-09 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 9, 1937.

STALIN GOES ON WITH 'PURGE' Over 2,000 Said Arrested In Last Few Days

Tramway Strike in RUMOURS OF

Shanghai

In

Shanghai, To-day.

The tramway service in the International Settlement was completely disrupted this morn-" ing by a strike of the employees.

Reuter

AN EASTERN LOCARNO

́NO OBJECTION BY BRITAIN

STATEMENT IN COMMONS

心

MAN OF STEEL'S ILLNESS

Over 2,000 men and women, including many foreign Communists, have been arrested during the past week by G.P.U. agents, says the London "Daily

Express."

Apology For Royal Oak Incident

The

London, To-day.

Valencia Government has apologised to the British Government over the bombing of the battleship “Royal Oak”"”. off Europa Point.

The Government declare that they "very much deplore the bombing."-Reuter.

This is apparently the direct result of Stalin's BRITAIN wish to remove all opposition as long as he is still alive and in power.

AND SPAIN

RECOGNITION OF VALENCIA TO CONTINUE

London, To-day.

The conflict between the Soviet It is regarded as possible that the Dictator and Marshal Voroshilov, rift may be healed during the ex- Commissar for War, has now re-traordinary session of the Central ceded somewhat into the back- Executive Committee of the Soviet, ground, and has been replaced by which is scheduled to meet in Mos- recurrence of rumours regarding the cow on February 16. state of the Dictator's health.

VORONKIN'S ARREST There is 40 doubt that the rest of the G. P. U. Commissar and Asked in the House of Commons former commander of the Baltic whether the Government were pre- Fleet, M. Voronkin, has caused pared. to reconsider recognition of general consternation among the the "present regime of the Left in general population, although there Spain," since latest information is naturally a general reticence to went to prove it represented not the airing of opinions.

only a minority but was directed

The "Daily Express" correspon- dent in Warsaw alleges that Stalin's London, To-day. “It is still the view of His Ma-health is in a precarious condition jesty's Government that the elim- and that he has summoned a meet- ination of friction and suspicioning of the Congress of the Soviets between the various countries of to appoint his successor. Eastern Europe is one of the car- dinal factors in the field of Euro-! pean progress.”

Soviet

ar-

was successful at the last Spanish election:

They were not prepared to re-

1,200 PRISONERS consider recognition. British

TAKEN

TRIUMPHAL REBEL

ENTRY

Wireless.

MULTI-COLOURED TRAINS

CONFIRMATION IN MOSCOW Confirmation of the "purge” or- The charge against M. Voronkin by Moscow for many years, Lord dered by Stalin is provided by the is that he had prepared a plan for Cranborne, replying in the absence This statement was made in the semi-official

newspaper the escape of the chief accused in of the Foreign Secretary, said that House of Commons to-day by Lord "Pravda."

the recent mass trial, M. Piatakoff. the information of His Majesty's Cranborne in answer to a question- The paper admits that the chiefs

Piatakoff, so it is asserted, was Government was that the present er who sought to elicit the attitude of local Communist organisation in so confident of the success of the Spanish Government contained re- of the Government to the so-called Kieff. Propetovsk and Roctoff have alleged plan that he suffered a col-presentatives of all parties except Eastern Pact between Poland, Rus-been dismissed from their posts for lapse when he was led from his for one or two small groups com- the "gravely neglecting their duties." cell to the execution Trans-prising the Popular Front, which sia, Germany, Czechoslovakia,

The neglection apparently con- Ocean. Baltic States and Finland, which

of sisted of their failure to discover was discussed in the Summer

the Trotskyist plots which had 1935.

Lord Cranborne reminded the been hatching in the territory un- House that the repudiation of the der their control.

The paper also states that the Treaty of Locarno by Germany in the following year had modified the chief of the Ukrainian Communist Party, M. Lioff, who was supposed situation.

The efforts of His Majesty's to enjoy Stalin's especial confidence, Government had, since then, been has also been deprived of his post. directed in the first instance to re- VOROSHILOV TENSION

Western Other Party organisations in se- storing the position in

Salamanca, To-day. Europe, but as indicated in the veral other Ukrainian districts are

Scenes of enthusiasm attended i communique of July 23 last, it was also undergoing complete reorgani- the entry into Malaga of the main

The Commissioners of the Victorian expected that progress in the nego sation, according to the "Pravda body of the insurgent troops.

(Australia): - railways have decided tiations for a new Western Agree- The main topic of discussion in When the rebel banner was hoist-

that their trains, in the past, have ment would lead to the widening of diplomatic and journalistic circles, ed over the town hall, insurgent been drab, so they have decided to

be- the area of the discussions so as to however, is still the conflict

flags made their appearance all brighten them include the solution of other Euro- tween Stalin and Marshal Voroshi-

over the city and, in spite of heavy

They are starting with special lov. pean problems.

rain, inhabitants staged a parade. boat train from Melbourne to Port colour schemes for special routes. The

High ranking rebel officers ap Melbourne is now sky-blue. Other peared later at a meeting in the suburban routes are being dignified by main square,

where speeches of a rose and moonstone train and still others by light red coaches with a welcome were made..

grey stripe Petrol electric trains on- Insurgent headquarters point out certain short routes are distinguished that with the capture of Malaga by diagonal silver stripes on the their front has been greatly front, while the "Overland" Express shortened and the coastal road to to Adelaide is gold, green and black. Other colour combinations are in the Almeria thrown open

experimental stage.

FRANCE AND RUSSIA Replying to another question, Lord Cranborne said that no com- mitments existed whereby under

ABUSE OF PRESS FREEDOM

the Franco-Russian Pact, Great Bri M. Blum's Homily On tain would be involved in a Euro- pean war

He added that he thought the French and Bussian Governments were fully aware of our position in this respect--British Wireless:

NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE

Dangers

Paris, To-day.

Australia Tries New Scheme

:

One special train, the Better Farm- ing Train, which is really an agri- cultural college on wheels, for the benefit of outback farmers, and which has run for many years with consider- able success, has always been painted

A strong warning against abus- Twelve hundred prisoners were ing the privileges of freedom of taken during the last stages of the the press was delivered yesterday advance on the city, where Govern by the President, M. Albert Lebrun ment militia tried to set fire to

M. Lebrun was addressing the several blocks of houses. annual Convention of French Re- Meanwhile the situation in San-bright yellow. publican Journalists in Paristander, which is still in the posses- Such freedom, he said, could be sion of the Government, is extreme- come very dangerous when it de-ly critical

RADIO RECEIVERS

Berhiz

There are 8,881,139

London, To-day teriorated into provocations, which All communications with Bilbao No further obstacles appear to must necessarily happen when peo-have been cut off and the in-owners of receiving sets in Germany, be in the way for putting into effect ple were inflamed by passion and habitants are suffering from the control plan of the non-inter-hatred.

according to an announcement by the German Broadcasting Company.

land

The ist available figures for

w a total of 7,996,306 steners Trans Ocean

tered

serious shortage of provisions.- vention committee, and February The President reminded his au-Trans-Ocean: 22 is already being mentioned as dience of the regrettable sequ the date when control of the ences of the thoughtless publica- Ng Sung, aged 33, and an un-

The RMS.Empress Spanish civil will commence. tion of various documents, especial-known Chinese were removed to the

The anb-committee of the nonly in view of harmony among na Government Civil Hospital suffer leaves. Shanghai to-night intervention committee meet tions which was to be pursued more ing from the Tects of lysol poison is due at Hong Kong on

Trans- than ever for the sake of peace taken at the Wing Ya teahouse, at 7 pm and leaves Hong Kong

Possession Street

for Manila on Friday

Wednesday this