1937-12-27 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 27,

HOUSEHOLDERS BUY SAND FOR AIR RAIDS

Householders in England are to be provided "at very small expense” -with a cheap hand pump, shovel and bags of sand to deal with fire- spreading bombs which are likely to be dropped in the next air raid

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The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, mentioned the scheme in the House of Commons when he moved the second reading of the Air Raid Precautions Bill

Laughter greeted the annpurice- ment of these details, and Sir Samuel said:

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"War Closer Than Ever" Cry In Soviet Elections

(By AIR MAIL)

HE WAS ONCE A MILLIONAIRE

But Now Works For £5 A Week

Joseph Harriman, aged seventy, once multi-millionaire head of the new defunct Harriman National Bank and Trust Co. has started work as 25 a week motor-car sales- man a few miles from the million- dollar Long Island country estate he once owned.

Moscow, December 12- from the Soviet motor city Gorki, All day long the State stations sounds the same alarm, telling this have broadcast fervent appeals for faithful pupil and co-fighter of the individual candidates in the Soviet great Stalin' how joyous they are general Elections. There have been to have as their candidate "the or Harriman was sentenced in 1954 oratorios by massed choirs in hon-ganiser of the destruction and to four and a half years' imprison our of Stalin and his Constitution, quidation of the Trotskyist-Bukhari-ment on charges of falsifying re- songs from Cossack horsemen; and nite spy gang

cords and misapplying bank funds. wild native tribes have been hailing A giant appeal to the electorate, He was released on parole two the Red leader as "Our Sun, Our occupying the entire front pages of years later. Guiding Star, Saviour," and So all newspapers to-day, signed by the

forth.

Central Committee of the Bolshevik "Some of you may laugh, but ex- These broadcasts have been am-party, also explains the necessity for perts tell me, and I believe them,plified over Moscow's city squares maintaining. that even a simple apparatus of and main streets, now permanently "Well organised punishing or this kind, used as soon as one of hung with red flags and decorated gans capable of rendering harn- these small fires starts, will prevent with illuminated portraits of leaders less spies, wreckers and other the spread of a big fire in a great and local candidates.

enemies of the US.SR centre of population like London.

of

Gaily-lighted street bazaars sell food and toys but no drink. Trams "We feel that the only way to

and trolley buses are bright with deal with this very large number o fires is to have such great mobility red burting contrasting sharply with to-day's heaviest snowfall this that the machines will be constantly

winter. patrolling the streets and not sim- ply be based upon the local fire sta- tion.

WORK FOR CIVILIANS

Several Law Snits.

Several lawsuits are still pending against him. He said "With a job of my own and earning a little money I be better able to answer them. I'm seventy, but starting life afresh.

A well-organised and equip-

Harriman's last words before he ped Red army, capable of defend-

entered jail were, "I shall come ing the Soviet's frontiers, and

back A reporter asked. “In "A well-thought-out and gradu-banking?" Said Harriman, "In any ally realised policy of peace, to thing. Peanuts, bananas. expose seizure policies of mill-always opportunity." tant circles in capitalist coun fries.”

terrible

there's

COUNCILLORS VOTE GOLD MEDALS FOR THEMSELVES

grower medals. The medals are for the

APPEAL FROM THE ARCTIC Nearly all candidates have now personally confronted their electors Its refrain, repeated 10 times, is except the leader. Stalin, the Pre-All those who share our aims and mier, Molotoff; Marshal Voroshiloff, glory in our achievements will vote Air raid precautions were essen- Lazarus Kaganovich, and Active for the united bloc of Communists tially the work of the civilian. The Commissar for Internal Affairs, for- and non-party candidates"

From Usbekistan come field was a civilian field--the field merly the Ogpu, Nikolai Yexhof of the householder, of the father of and also, of course, the intrepid tales of backward native husbands

The sum of £72 has been voted by the family, of the local council, the Papanin, detained above his omin maltreating their wives for taking the City Council of Santiago de local Red Cross and other local or-ously cracking Arctic ice-floe, from undue interest in the campaign. Chile for the purchase of 15 gold

which point he.sends by wireless ap- One collectivised cotton ganisations.

peals to his constituency. Petros hanged his wife from a barndoor-members of the council. Referring to the proposed Govern-avodsk, on the White Sea..

it was the third he had murdered. It was considered fitting that ment grants to local authorities, Sir Marshal Budienny's harangue to Another stripped his wife naked municipal rulers should be honour- Samuel added: "I am afraid I must a "meeting on the frontier of his and, pushing her into the street, ed in this way. saf to members opposite that the electors in Shepetovka, near the said: "Now go and vote like that!" Subsequently, on the motion of a Government cannot put up this ex-Polish-Soviet frontier, sounds the The local party and the prosecut councillor, it was agreed to increase cess grant beyond the very high rate keynote of all yesterday's ultra-ing authorities have been reprimand-the number of medals to 17 so that of 75 to 85 per cent, which appears patriotic electoral speeches. led for not taking such atrocities there would be one for the present in the provisions of the Bill.

"War was never so close as it is seriously enough.

Imayor and one for the previous. today" this popular Cossack ex- A warning to the public not to be N.C.O. asserted. "Events beyond lulled into a false sense of security lour frontiers convince us of this. by believing that their gas-proof) "All humanity,” he continued, rooms were adequate safeguards in looks to us to save it from the an air raid was given by Mr. Wil-giant, dammable Imperialist slaugh fred Roberts (Lib, Cumberland N.).ter, regarding is as saviours able

"Our gas-masks are the cheapest to prevent a world war in Europe and I have seen cigarette "Capitalists are doing everything smoke going through them," he said. possible to start that war and cer- "Would it not also be possible fortainly intend to attack us first of

all. gas to go through them ?”

ISLAND NURSERY FOR MONGOOSE

...

"We tell them, "We are grown 50 big that we can now smash you, wholesale and retail, day and night, winter and summer.*

"We must now mobilise as never before. Let us mercilessly root out the Trotskyist-Bukharimite division-

Yugoslavia's Cure Forists and spies let there be tenfold

Snakes

vigilance!”

“ORGANISER OF DESTRUCTION

A petition presented to the On an island in the Adriatic Yu-Commissar for Internal Affairs, goslavia has established a special Yezhof who has not yet addressed "nursery" for mongoose to combat his constituents, even by radio poisonous snakes all over the coun-fon behalf of 75,000 of his electors try.

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was freed from poisonous snakes in

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WRITE

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