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THE CHINA "MAIL," SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1946, -

VOICE FROM THE GRAVE

Accuses Stalin Of Lenin's Death

Vatican Says Don't Vote Left

.

Vatican City, May 24. An Episcopal letter of the Central Italian Department of Bishops in the "L'Osserva- tore Romano" has told Cat- holics that voting for Marxist of "Laicist" partics in Italy's June 2 elections exposes them Canon to "sanctions of the Law."

Mources

Trotsky's Book Just Published

NEW YORK, MAY 24.

LEON TROTSKY, IN A BIOGRAPHY OF JOSEF STALIN PUBLISHED TODAY, POSED A SERIES OF QUES- TIONS WHETHER STALIN MIGHT HAVE HAD A HAND IN THE DEATH IN 1924 OF NICOLAI LENIN, HONOURED IN RUSSIA AS THE FOUNDER OF THE SOVIET UNION,

THE BOOK ASKED THESE QUESTIONS, AND DID, NOT

OFFER OR SUPPLY A DİRECT ANSWER: "What waR

Stalin's role 'at, nietsurably more active in his

measures.

His

over-

NOT TRUE

Paris, May 21 The

weekly

Nous paper "Samedi Soir" said in editorial that President Tru.. man and Generalissimo Stalin in Vienna about may moet June 10 to sign a 25-your treaty of friendship and son aggression between Russia and the United States,

While In Washington the House and that there was no truth in the reportAsso- ciated Press.

Fighting In Sumatra

arms

Batavia, May 24.

Fifty extremists, carrying smali ms and bottles filled with petrol attacked a camp at Gloegoer, on the east coast of Sumatra, the Netherlands East Indies Army In- formation Service atated.

NOTICE

THE AMERICAN CLUB

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W. T. STANTON,

Chaferman,

F. R. PIDCOCK,

Secretary. Hong Kong, May 13th, 1946.

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC.

From and including May 27th, 1946, our telephone numbers will be changed, as follows:-

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With extensions to:-

General Manager. Manager.

the time of Lenin's illness? Did seul than love for the oppress- not the disciple do something | ix). Prison. xile, acrifices, to expedite his master's death?" privations did not frighten him.

Dr. van Mook, Lieutenant- It is a monstrous suspicion. He knew how to look danger Governor General of the Nether- A Catholic authority said the Trotsky says, "but that cannot straight in the eye. At the landa East Indies, is to leave for word laicist in Italian mean anbe helped, when it Toitows from same time, he was kernly sen- Singapore tomorrow for dis- anti-clerical party which the circumstances, the facts and | sitive about such of his traits cussions with Admiral Lord Louis vocated complete separation of Stalin's very charncier."

us his slowness of intellect, Incl: Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Com the Church and State to the The book. "Stal, an Ap- of talent, the 'general colour-nander in Southeast Asia, whom extent that the Church would priusnt of the Man and His In- lessness of his physical and he has not seen since last Decem-

ber. it not have any influence even on fluence." (Harper Brothers) is moral countenance.

was reported today. Republican papers in Sumatra, moral questions),

published six years after Trof- weening ambition was tinged quoted by the Netherlands News Simultaneously, the Bishops sky. Stalin's bitter political with

ill-will. His Agency, repordenes on the west envy and

fighting in the of Calabria in southern Italy foe, was assassinated in exile pertinacity marched hand-in-Tapanoeli told their communicants there in Mexico city. Trotsky had hand with vindictiveness."

coast of Sumatra, when Republi was irreconcilable upposition completed about two-thirds of "Stalin," Trotsky nino ob-cans from the east coast of the between Christianity and Marthe book at the time of his serves, "has always been what island attempted to overthrow the xism.* They

instructed their | denth, but left an online, he remains today-a politician | local authorities.

Government members to vote only for can-coptous notes, and memoranda of the golden mean who does not The Republican didates undertaking to respect and partly-written pages from hesitate to resort 1o the most intervened to stop the fighting, the

News Agency added. and defend all those principles | which the editor and translator, extreme

Strategi- which are the basis of a healthy Charles Malarth, completed cally he is an opportunist; tacti- Christian concept of the State the lengthy work. The chapter cally he is a 'revolutionist." He

Vatican

explained relating to Levi's dath is in-is kind of a revolutionist with that panctions of the Canon cluded in this falter section. a bomb." Law could include a denial of The book's existener has long Trotsky devoted much space. public sacramefits to Catholics been known; l

labouring was red for memes

small

They set the barracks on fire voting on the Communist ticket | publication at de time of Pearl

. to try to show that but the fire was later extinguish- and prohibition of burial of Harbour, 11 publisher's note Stalin in the early days wasn't ed. Many extremists were wound-

hxlies

consecrated says, "but its appearance was figure of importance. The future ed in this engagement, the repor ground.--Associated Press.

then postponed by the publisher Generalissimo's "imprisonments added-Reuter. until after the end of the war." weren't onerous, hin exilcs

weren't

the hard. In short. Lenin Worried Trotsky says that when Lenin Cazarist authorities didn't re- was bedridden after a stroke in gard Josef Djugashvili (Stalin) Trotsky's biography hammers with alarm," aud that his "chief London, May 24.

that Lenin didn't source of worry

London, May 22.^- 4 Stalin," on the idea British troops are expected then Secretary-Gentral

and that of the regard Stalin highly

**I hope we shall not be by the Greek Government to Communist Party. Lenin pro-

"there was nothing even remote stampeded by a wave of publi-' stay in Greece so long as Rus-

ly resembling persona! ie city suggesting that, because sian troops remain in the Bal-posed that a way be found to

timacy" between the two. At the juvenile delinquency figures remove Stalin from his poal- kan States, said the Greek tion because he had concentrat- the same time Trotsky quietly have risen, we sluli Under-Secretary for Forged great power in his hands and keeps emphasising his own im severe." said Mrs. M. Robinson From Monday, 27th Affairs. M. Philip Dragoumis, Lenin wasn't sure that he wouldportance and his closeness chairman of Stamford House 1946, rice will only be issued to in London yesterday.

Juvenile Court, a the Magis-articled crews and to a reason- trates Association conferenceable number of the Compradore at Trowbridge, Worcs.

Staff. A list of names digned

their

Britain in Greece

Till Reds Leave December, 1922, he was name as a very dangerous character.

use it properly.

hind

Dragoumis told a press con- | "In those days." Trotsky ference that there are about 200,000 Soviet troops in Bul-y. "Stalin was murose. garia "facing southward" and his fate was at stake. Ile

made up his mind to overcome 800,000 to 1,000,000 in

all obstacles." Rumania. There are, in ad-

Greek Government had, no ̈de-] ension to ask for the with- | drawal of British troops,

Towards the end of 1923, de-

clares Trotsky, Stalin told him

Lenin-Associated Press

Rhineland Separatism

"with nilience and friendlyTM re-

Old-Fashioned Methods

"They have never-interfered wanted the poison at hand if he Rhine province, British political might be possible

be more

It

Assistant Manager, Cashier and Bills Dept. Travel Department. General Office.

Compradore-Direct Line

No. 23531

NOTICE

RICE FOR CREWS

May,

X. C. LEE,

Rice Controller.

CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED.

NOTICE 'IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twelfth Or dinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Registered Office of the Com- pany, King's Theatre Building. 5th floor, on WEDNESDAY, the 29TH DAY OF MAY, 1946, at 12 o'clock to receive the Directors' Report and Accounta as at 31st December, 1941 'and 31st December, 1945 to elect Directors and Auditors and to transact such other business as may be properly transncted at an Ordinary General Meeting · of the Company.

AND NOTICE IS FURTHER HEREBY GIVEN that the Register and Transfer Books of the Company wil be closed from the 23rd to the 20th day of May 1946 both daya inclusive,

George Y. K. Sun,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 18th May, 1946.

HEREBY

CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED,

NOTICE IS GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of China Entertainment and Land In- vestment Company, Limited will be held at the registered offico of the Company, King's Theatre Building, 5th Floor, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, on Wednesday the Twelfth day of June 1946 at 12 o'clock noon when the subjoined resolution will be proposed as a special resolution.

That Article 71 of the Articles of Association be altered by substituting the figures "$1,200.00 to $2,400.00" for the figures "$600.00 to $1,200.00.",

Dated the 18th day of May 1916.

George Y. K. Sun,

Secretary.

NOTICE

Mr. S. Grove,, A.C.A. 'has been

28

inf

By order of the Board of

Directors.

"I think that such a method by the Captain; must be Bub- inf treatment is dangerous," she mitted by the Company when

added. "People whe talk like applying for such rations. Sum-appointed Secretary of the Hong that have forgotten that the cient rations will be given for Kong Telephone Co., Ltd., dition, about 150,000 Bulgarian

Herford, Germany, May 24.

old-fashioned methods, which the duration of the ship's stay from 22nd May, 1946. troops on the Graeco-Bulgarian

A and others that the sick

separatist "Rhineland were tried for many years, were in port, and to the first port of border, he added.

Dragoumis declared that the Lenin had suddenly called him people's party" which demands not abandoned for sentimental call.

in and asked for poison, Lenin the formation of a new state reasone." saw another stroke approach-

One of the greatest problemis Ing. he was suffering and helations with the Western allies," for magistrates was how to sort

is being formed in the north out juvenile delinquents.

under the intelligence disclosed yesterday, new Education Act for many "We have established that difficult children to be dealt with the party has genuine support; as educational problems. and it will be set up in every Capt. Ransley, of the Borstal district where it can show such institution at Portland, said support," a sentor intelligence youths should not be imprison- officer stated.

ed for offences before a period He added, however, that the of Borstal had been tried. British authorities emphatically did not favour the establish- ment

of a sovereign Rhine-

in the internal affairs of Grgece," he said Associated hopeless. *Press.

COMMONS DEBATE

became convinced his case was

Poison' Sent Lenin? Trotsky continues with an in- Array of suspicions, tricate suggestions and charges until bis climax:

"Whether Stalin sent the pol- son to Lenin with the hint that the physician had left no hope for his recovery or whether he

HE WAS RIGHT

Jerusalem, May 24.

A number of explosions oc-

ON EGYPT

London, May 24. Reuters political correspondent states that Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden will be the principal Conservative Opposition resorted to more direct means Ruhr atate-Associated Press spokesmen in the House of Cun-I do not know. But I am firm- mops debate today on Egypt. ly convinced that Stalin could

Conservatives are urging tha: not have waited passively when Mr. Sydney Box, 39-year-old curred in the Palestinian Mr. Ernest Bevin should open the his task hung by a thread and film producer, is to succeed na coastal town of Nathanya to- debate by giving a resume of the the decision depended on a spall, chief of the Gainsborough Stu- day after police had previously Anglo-Egyptian Treaty so far as very small motion of his hand." dios, Mr. Maurice Ostrer, who been informed by an unlmown

The book, from the opening is resigning, owing to policy telephone caller is understood hun expressed hir paragraph, is a viclent attack difference' with Mr. J. Arthur plosions intention of speaking last, presum-which has to be accepted or re- Rank.. ably so ns to deal with the points feeted on its face value, for it, made during the debate --Reuter. is almost impossible to check

negotiations for revision

of the

they have gone, but Mr. Bevin, it

YUGOSLAVS SEIZE

ITALIAN CRAFT

Rome, May 24.

the allegations. Yet, there is much of historicul importance un the story of Molshevism which forms the background

The Italian Government has for the Stalin biography and for asked the United States and what in its essence was a Stalln- Britain to investigate through Trotsky battle for leadership, 'their Embassies at Belgrade re- Trotsky didn't live to sec porta that Italian fishing boats, Stalin's leadership of Russia in are being seized by armed the World War II. Whether he Yugoslav forces in the Adriatic would have altered his appraisal and their crews interned, in any way must reinain a mat-

A Foreign Office spokesmanter of speculation.

would

sociated Press.

SALE OF OLD STORES.

Tenders are invited for the purchase of the following stores.

Scrap Iron and Steel Firewood.

15 Galls, and 25 Galls. Drums. Towing Wire, old Paper Roila,

and Scrap-Air Craft, over- load Tanks..

CHINESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS AND KOWLOON

CANTON RAILWAY, BRITISH SECTION

JOINT RAILWAYS TENDER BOARD

NOTICE

It is hereby notified that Tenders forms can be obtain-scaled tenders in TRIPLICATE that the ex-ed at Section VI of Naval Store which should be clearly marked `occur.-As-¡ Department, H.M. Naval Yard, Tender for Erection of Rail- between 9.30-11.30 a.m. 23rd way Wagons" will bo received to 25th May, 1946 and should at the offices of the Kowloon bo returned in a sealed cover Canton Railivay, British Sec- addressed to the Suptdg. Navaltion, until noon of Friday, 7th Store Officer, H.M. Naval Yard | June, 1940. on or before noon on Friday 31st May, 1946.

"LISBON MARU" P.O.WS. SEND CHEQUE

London, May 23.

The British United Aid to China Fund has recoived this week A cheque from ex-survivors of the “Lisbon Mara” who -havo made the donation in tributo to the Chineso who roscued and helped thom when they were'torpedoed in the China Sea on Oct. 2, 1942. More than 1,800 British prt- Helped British POW's'

at the me. Of island which had only one very

Bald that at least 12 boats had; "Impersonal Machino" soners of war were on board+ "I personally was on a small

been seized and crews totalling

CHETNIK TRIAL

An Indictment of 6,000 pages the longest in Yugoslav records- 'describes the Chetniks alleged

·war crimes,-Router.

Trotsky: writes in his intro- the veasel

saved them. He writes:

British

Į

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC,

COMPANY LIMITED

The wagons which will ha required to be assembled on railway tracks at Hung Hom consist of the following types?

165--40-ton box "cars ·

9-20-ton Ant wagons 134-40-ton high gondolan 22-20-ton high gondolas 2-10-ton flat wagons.

Full particulars may be ob It is desired to draw the tained on application to the

NOTICE TO .CONSUMERS

more than 100 interned-As-duction that Stalin is neither these, more than 960 were lost. ramshackle fisherman's hut. The attention of the General Public, Mechanical Engineer, Kowloon sociated Press.

* thinker, a writer nor an The organizer of this contribu-, listerman gave us all his rice and more especially those whose Canton Railway Workshops, crator," and that he took postion in a covering letter, de- without hesitation. I may add supply of electricity 18 at fung Hom on the deposit of a session of power, not with the scribes the debt which those that the Chinese islanders also present being maintained, to fee of $1,000.00 with the Belgrade, May 24. uid of personal qualities, but who lived through the tragedy helped in the escape of small the very serious situation which Accountant of the Railway at Owing to new developments in with the aid of an impersonal feel towards the people who selected bands of British pri- has been brought about by the the Head Offices of the Kowloon the ovidence against General Draza machine."

unscrupulous. Honers of warto the mainland acts of

wiring Canton Railway, which will be Mihailovitch, the, Yugoslav milit-

Ho tella of Stalin's birth na ary court has not decided on the the son of

Tells Of Rostuó.........

of China, 'I'. S immensely contractors and other person refunded on the submission of n- a. shoemaker daty of the trial, but it is presum-

in "When the ship link we all struck with the loyally and kind possessing a slight knowledge bons fide tender, The depoalt chat it will

of electricity. be held

speculates on found ourselves in the water ness of the Chinese in the Georgia and

These men are going round tender. The successful tondorer receipt must be attached to the Laiddle of June, 1)

whether the Soviet chiefs about six miles from: a small "This cheque is fent as a Mongolian blood in his veins group of islands, Those of un small donation to the

offering to conacet a supply of will be required to sign. a Ho cited detalls, largely by

electricity to those premisca who got to the falands were met United Aid to China Fund by which have had to be shut off. formal contract and give nocu- quoting others, to show that

with very strong off-shore cur- 600 odd remaining survivors of the boy Stalin became heart rents which made funding very the Lisbon Maru' who are eager taken from the wiring of then cash to be deposited with the As thin supply has to bority in the sum of $10,000.00 in and grim througa frightful The statue of Queen Victoria beatings by his father, and

to repay in some small way the dimcult.

| the faithful performance of the at Nico, removed by the Ger sensed the humiliation of Bo

"Lucal Chinese came out in help and kindness extended to consumers whose supply in beAccountant of the Railway for

give warning to restored with appropriate care- while a student in theological many men taking them to the ly saved their lives." The Fund all such consumers not to allow The Bohrd does not bind itdef mans during the war, is to be clal inequality, and finally their campana and picked up them by Chinase who undoubted is forced to comply terms of sucli contract.

shore.

They did this in spito of reached a total of £1,763,829

their wiring or installations to birthday, now celebrated as Em- God. At the age of 15 he, got might take in reprisals on thom

the risk that the Japancso this week! -

bo used for such a purpose,

to accopt the lowest or any ténder. piro Day.

In all cagon such consumers | London, May 24.

will bo disconnected and – thei

1. B. TREVOR, The British nown service in offendera punished by law. Gerthany reports that Edmond Huber, former head of the Gibb, Livingston D

Co Ltd "Gauleitung" for Lower Austria of

de

Agente. and clona collaborator Gauleiter Jury, has been arreat

Hong Kong, 24th May, 1040, od Rontar verd

mony today Queen

Victoria's school," deserted religion

revolutionary idene.

健

and

~ The Haguo, May 24;

Purpero In Life`. Princesu Juliana and Prince In summing up the Stalin, of Bernhard of The Netherlands the order of professional to returned to the Royal Palace Volutionists, Troisky naya! by nie from Switzerland this] -"Ho naw the purpose of his evening. The plane was piloted life overthrowing the powern by Pringe Bernhard-Reuter that be Hatred of them was im

for helping up. Once on shioro, they got to work to clothoug many of us had ttle or no clothing loft-to feed us out of their very slender stock, and house us in their own homes, Their hospitality was almost unbelievable a

› Chalimau, Railway Tender Board

Hong Kong, 24th