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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY

The Truth About the Soviet's Latest Treason Trial

STALIN CRUSHES A REVOLT

They were taken before a close his secrets to such a source "terrorist" trial in Moscow He was Stalin has struck and lucky.

secret tribunal, and charged with there is not only reason for his re-exonerated then, but it has ↑ long struck hard — against treason and giving information cent attack of nerves but every rea- been known that he favoured closer about Russia's military strength to son for believing that he has faced r ions with Germany, and for -- reason the eyes of Stalin's se- those who have once

a "foreign State which pursues an in the last seven days one of the t more dared to defy his unfriendly Soviet Republics."

policy against the Union gravest situations which have arisen cct agents have never been off him. within Red Russia since he became He was to have formed part of the of

legation to King George's Corona-

· rule of Red Russia. Eight A few hours after this secret trial Dictator.

Mon: A few hours before he was due chiefs of the Red Army Logan they were sentenced

It can fairly safely be supposed to leave he developed a chill that he regarded the situation as illness which proved diplomatic, and were executed recently.

being in hand before the outside in the light of recent events may world was allowed to know of the prove serious for this youngest Mar- confessions of these high officers, shal in Europe. and it was easy to believe that no T is not like Stalin to mince mercy would be shown them.

words. The only State to whom

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shot immediately.

(OVIET Russia remains a my A Plot

SOVIET

stery to the outside world. Only at rare intervals is the veil lifted and a glimpse permitted of what is really going on in that vast country

to be

the reference to an unfriendly pow- Tuchachevsky, for instance, who er could apply is Germany, and if was second in command of the Red of eight and a quarter million Stalin really has discovered a plot Army, has been a marked man since square miles, but it is usually only by high officers of the army to dis- his name was mentioned in the last a glimpse. Then the curtain falls and the doings of 165,000,000 people

become again as mysterious as they THE

have always been since Russia went Red.

WORLD GOES BY By ULYSSES"

an

General Putna, another of those accused, has, had more associations with the outside world than most Russians, and it is perhaps signi- ficant that he has been a military at-

tache in Germany.

But, it will be asked, is this lat- est "purge" the result of fear or sheer lust for power which sooner or later in some form or another comes to all Dictators?

Once A Wrecker

STAL

盆

It has been said that the basic

TALIN is not the sort of man strength of the Soviets is that all

that most would choose as the outside world is the enemy. Thus

NEWS item in a Home paper is a telegram stating that Mr. H. O. friend. The son of a cobbler who Air has made a speech in Par-had been a peasant, he knew the the Soviet State is not only self-

the other day referred to a T.

of the revolutionary in the contained but self-sufficient. There fire in a liner, and said that the blaze liament to the effect that the statis-risks is no longer any doubt that it is ab- originated in the enquiry office of tics of imports of Hot Dogs by time of the Tsars. Five times he

ship. Our crime

reporter Hong Kong show signs of decreas-was exiled. He knew many prisons solutely ruthless and no more

“That'll do,” he says, and from the inside, and so when power than to the unfortunate people who opined that somebody must have ing.

asked a "burning question.” China gets down to it. within its borders happen to dis Mail reporters are like that, always merry and bright. This particular agree with its policy.

one, if he is not mighty careful, is in peril of degenerating into a mere Ulysses, or charivaria pro ducer.

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A week ago the world got to hear that one of those periodical up- heavals that have several times taking

shaken the Red State was

place within its borders. From Paris

came news that a new "purge".was

the

The Leader

a

came to him he wielded it with ruthlessness that few civilised men can imagine.

Once a wrecker himself, anything which aims at upsetting the regime for which he stands is to him to-day something to be crushed. As recent- "That the statistics of Hong Kongly as April, in a speech to the party imports generally, and of Hot Dogs in Moscow, he said a couple of in particular, are the special con-words on the wreckers, diversion- “Naturally cern of this Colony, is a proposition lists, spies and so on.

will have to be that may be advanced locally with-these gentlemen out any considerable diffidence. As crushed and, uprooted without mercy was well expressed in the Mother as enemies of the working-class, na of Parliaments at Westminster by traitors to our fatherland.” saint would be. The devil got Mr. H. O. T. Air recently, when he well, the devil a saint was he."

in progress and many reports and Convalescence rumours reached Europe.

"Terrorised?”

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tic

became known that Garmarnick,

"The devil was sick, the devil

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saying that chill. pe Thousanuary. conspiracy trial.

referred to the visible diminution It is more than probable that this the tide of health creeps slowly in the importation by this Colony latest “revolt" for obviously, it is back (or the hang-over slowly dis of Hot Dogs, it is impossible to a revolt against the Red regime if appears), the old Adam floats in on view such a significant alteration not against Stalin himself is but the political head of the Soviet it. Your meekness dwindles with of the figures to which we have a recrudescence of the defection now Army for the Soviet Army must your weakness. You feel like the been accustomed for years with- many months old of once highly concern. Were it pos trusted men including three form- be communistic as well as militaris-Iron Duke with Blucher coming up, out grave

or like a fleeing boy whose feet have sible to overlook"

er vice Commissars involved in the had committed suicide, and it touched his own doorstep. Round

Many was an easy inference that some you turn, thumb to nose, fingers ex- noble rage and freezes the soul of thousands of minor conspiratora tended. How quickly fades all genial currents, we might refer to have been detected and arrested, thing big was imminent.

vivid, true recollection of the emo- these statistics doubtless, as show-several commissariats - have had to tions of illness in wellness, You ing that the solution of the pro-be reorganised, and production in It took a week for the news to

see differently, think differently.blem sooner or later must be look- many important departments reach the outside world, and in that In becoming yourself again, you ed for in the direction of the ex-fallen sadly below schedule because time eight of the Red Army chiefs have become another man." By ploitation and development of the of the disruptive influence of form- had been deposed, arrested and the time you have grumblingly paid manufacturing capacity of the Hot er chiefs.

your doctor, the value of the warn Dog industry...." And so on, and forced to confess their complicity ing is entirely lost. The burning so on, as fluent as beer coming out in happenings which may be of the child does not always dread the fire of a jug. He only stops twice in his canter, once to take down a greatest importance to the whole of

dictionary. "to see how many f's Europe and the world.

there diffidence;

It had been suggested that Stalin

the supreme master of Red Rus How Leaders

sia had b 1 "terrorised" into Are Written

the belief that a plot was being

take a dictionary of quotation to

has.

TALIN

has reason for his nerves" He may not be "ter- verify his impression that it was rorised," though even that may not Byron and not Milton who invented be too strong a word, but probably the quotation. He scores out Byron no one more clearly than he sees and substitutes Milton. His per- the danger to Red Russia that might oration about the lavish supply of follow the defection of the Red Hot Dogs and happiness contingent Army.

hatched against him. It was even The leader-writer has had a big hinted that Voroshiloff, his right breakfast, including porridge. He on certain reforms in the govern-

be a

hand man and next to him the most has paper and typewriter before ment is a masterpiece, the last He once said he who wishes to powerful person

in Russia, might him and not an idea in his head sentence containing 119 words and lead a movement must conduct victim. So far Voroshiloff Does that dismay him? It does 17 commas. These things are alfight on two fronts →→→ against those seems to have steered clear of the not. You don't understand these ways a joy to the intelligent read-who lag behind and those who rush things. With less study than an-er, who loves to mark what a lot ahead." He is probably finding to- trouble, but eight of the leading

other man would bring to the tying some men can say without saying day the need for every quality of figures of the Red Army were not so of a tie, he goes to it. Before him anything.

Jleadership.