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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

SOVIET PRISONER

Londoner

Who Was

In Red Army

AN AMAZING STORY

London, Aug. 25.

An amazing story of his life in Russia and of being kept virtually a prisoner for 14 years was told by a young Londoner, Mr. Robert Greenfield, who has just re- turned to England.

He has been a member of the Young Communists' League, an officer in the Red Army Cavalry, arrosted as a spy, and tried for his life.

Taken to Russia by his parents in 1921, when he was a boy of 14, Mr. Greenfield found that it was impossible for

him to leave the country.

"It has taken me 14 years to get

ROYAL YACHTSMAN

SEPTEMBER

1935.

MacLEANS FALL

FALL OUT

Sonthampton Yacht Club Regatta off the Isle of Wight.

16-Year-Old He this eyes for only YOU

Girl As Chieftain

SCOTTISH CLAN

MEMBERS ARE

MEM

DIVIDED

EMBERS of a Scottish clan are split over the question:-

Shall a woman be cur chief- tain?

Five years ago Colonel Alexander Hew MacLean, chieftain of the MacLeans of Ardgour, Argyllshire, died leaving no male heir,

He was said to have been the best-loved chieftain in the High- lands. He willed his estate of Ardgour to his eldest daughter Catrionn.

month. Mrs.

Catriona will be sixteen this Her mother, the Hon.

Catriona, as her father's eldest daughter, would be chieftain of the MacLeans of Ardgour,

out of Bussin," he said, "and dur-| His Majesty the King, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York, racing "Britannia" in the Royal ing the whole of that time I have! outwardly, at any rate, been 'ns ardent a Communist as anyone. But my one idea was to get out, out, never and, oner

to return. "When we first went to Russia conditions were almost unbeliev-; able. Food was scarce that a pound of brend was worth thou- sands of roubles. Clothes were unobtainable and people dressed in verminridden sacks.

Prince Mdivani Leaves Massage Made MacLean, nasumed that

Fortune To Ex-Wife

ALREADY RICHEST GIRL IN WORLD

New York, Sept. 1.

"Our month's rations, were 141b. Prince Alexis Mdivani, ex-husband of Barbara Hut- of black brend, 2oz. of tea, and lb. ton (now Countess Haugwitz Reventlow), has left a scares that exchanged a valuable fortune of about two million pounds.

of salt herrings. Butter was

SO

gold fountain pen for a pound of

The Prince was killed in a motor smash in Spain last

raneld butter. If you saw anyone month. wenring decent clothes you could

he certain that they had been loot-

ed from large houses.

"The police did nothing to stop this looting. No one dared to speak against the revolutionary party. People kept their mouths shut through fear of the machine gun execution sqund. There, was compulsory education. pleased themselves.

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Children

"We had to live like cattle until I joined the Young Com. munists League. Then

things changed as if by magic. I was given good educational facilities which enabled me, after giving a falne age. to get a commission In the Red Army Cavalry, Life then became a bed of roses. I had as much food as I wanted. My people got an extra allowance.

"Most of my colleagues were

much-married men.

It cost 48. to

BARBARA HUTTON

get married and da, in get divorced, evived another million to add to and either party can divorce, the

ather three weeks after the marri age on political or temperamental -grounds. I did not get married

myself, because I disliked

her riches.

system and always hoped for the £4,000,000

time when I could get out of the Fortunes

country.

for

"Finally, I summoned up enough

to apply enurage my British pasport. I was in- ! stantly thrown into gaol and ne- cused of being a spy. My lifej hung on a thread.

"After months of uncertainty and rough-usage in prison I managed to convince them that I was not a spy,

Forgotten

NEW

[EW York banks hold liquid assets belonging to him valued £900,000, and another; £200,000 is held in London.

The Prince signed a will in

fortune in five equal parts tal

"Dead" Heart Beat Again

MANCHESTER

The Clan Association dia- agreed.

They claimed that a female coull be chieftain of the clan only when there was no suitable

succession.

via your countsuch slags

world to him-be sure he reca you at your best! The first time you make up for the evening your skin looks Its loveliest. Wouldn't you like to stay that way-without repowdering!

WOMAN WHO DIED male heir in the direct line of YOU'RE the only girl in the

Accordingly, some months ago MRS. Gertrude Roberts, of

Farrer-road, Manchester, the Clan Association welcomed "died" while being operated on Commander H. II. MacLean, of in Ancoats Hospital.

Bursledon, Hampshire, as chief- Her heart stopped beat-tain of the Macleans of Ard- ing. Her breathing stop-gour. ped.

nasal

The

Hon. Mrs.

MacLean

Other influential members of the clan support the right of Miss Catriona MacLean.

January last your leaving his The surgeon, who had strongly opposed this move. Miss Barbara Hutton, then his been performing a wife, his two brothers David and operation, realised there was Serge, and his two sisters Nina!

only one chance of saving and Roussadana. This will is held by the her life. He took it. Prince's lawyer, Mr. Millard He operated again. He mas-MacLeans of Ardgour as my Tompkins, who is understood to saged her heart. After four and father was.

be ready to file it shortly in Newa half minutes it began to bent.

Prince Mdivani left one of a

later date.

The will directs that his heirs

Miss Catriona said:

"I want to be chieftain of the

"Commander H. H. MacLean

York unless it is revealed that The patient breathed again. is an Englishman, and he has

The womUI

who was dend no property whatever in Scot-

land. had been restored to life. Mrs. Roberts knew nothing of) "I, on the other hand, am the shall meet to decide how they her escape until three days after direct successor of my father's would like the fortune distribut-wards.

title, and I am heir to the "My firal sensation," she said estates of Ardgour. There is a Venetian palace in "was that I had been in a motor-j which Alexia and Barbara spent car crash. part of their honeymoon. This

ed.

"All that I can remember is the

is expected to go without con-mask being put over my face test to Countess Haugwitz Re-millions. of stars merging into one ventlow, who has said she would....then darkness." like to own it.

Mrs. Roberts, slight and dark-

She originally presented the hatred, is now perfectly well, nl- though her operation has left her palace to the Prince.

weak.

Other property is a furnished fat in Paris, forty polę ponies, oil stocks, and United States Government securities.

Prince Alexis, who was 28 had been the hushund of two

MAYBE SOME OF IT very rich heiresses. He

IS YOURS

I was released on condition that FORGOTTEN fortunes

left Russia for ever."

The Army To Have A New Rifle

IT FIRES,50 SHOTS A MINUTE

totalling £4,000,000 are being cared for by the Na- tional Debt Commissioners.

The sum represents the value

Was

first married, in 1931, to Miss Louise Astor Vanaten, great grand daughter of John Jacob

"Three days after my opera- tion." she added, "my husband told in that I had 'died' on the operat- ing table.

"I see no reason why I should be passed over in favour of a man who is my father's second cousin.

"There have been plenty of examples of girls being accepted ng chieftains of Scottish clans, and my mother and I are de termined to fight any attempt lo pass me over.

"We know that a great many

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of the members of the associa- KLEKOGEDDUISENSORGENBI tion are sympathetic to my

Her Only Illness "No. I

never suffered jelaim." have from heart trouble. The only serious illness I have had in influenza."

The surgeon was Mr. Neville Astor, multi-millionaire. Young, of Manchester. IIe teils The marriage was dissolved the story of his operation that the following year,

FILM STAR SETS

RULES FOR SON

saved a life in the current issue HE MUST BE SPARTANİ He married Miss Barbara of the British Medical Journal.

It is a surgeon's story, written Hutton in June 1933. She di-

surgeons, It tolla how

vorced him early this year at for

Joan Blondell's son has just celebrated his first birthday, of British Government securities Reno, Nevada, and the day after adrenalin was injected; how the

and, to mark the occasion, the and their accumulated dividends the decree was granted married heart gradually reacted to mas-

film "star" has formulated which have never been claimed Count von Haugwitz Reventlow, sage; how the original operation

eight rules for his upbringing. hy the original purchasers.

It was revealed at the time of was resumed when the heart action One of these holdings in the divorce that Barbara Hutton

had been restored.

Joan, who in private life was Consols-Is worth nearly £200.- had made a marriage settlement

And it ends;-

000.

"The patient has shown no mare Mrs. George Barnes, until last No one has ever come for on the Prince of £200,000. In interest in the affair than a fleet-week, when she obtained a ,ward to claim it.

An Englishwoman

addition she gave him an income ing curiosity regarding the pre-divorce, wants her son Norman living in

of £10,000 a year..

sence of an abdominal wound." to be Spartan. Marseilles dil not even know that

"He's not going to be spoiled like other stars' kids," she declares.

FOLLOWING the adoption she possessed a fortune amounting of a new light machine-t56,000 with accumulated divi-

dends totalling neuriy £20.000, gun for the British Army, a. For years she had lived by new self-loading rifle will be borrowing or begging from rela- adopted shortly to take the tives or neighbours, place of the present Service rifle S.M.L.E. Mark III.

"It is difficult to give the reason

for the overlooking of what in

many cases are substantial for Lunes,” an official of the National Exhaustive tests have been Debt Commissioners anid, made with two foreign rifles and five British, one of which is gas- operated.

It has been decided to adopt one of British invention, and the War Office are only waiting the leave of the Treasury before an- nouncing the type chosen.

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The cost of issuing the new rifle will have to be met by a Supplementary Estimate and will be about £3,000,000.

Never Heard Of Again "Some people go abroad and are never heard of again: others, through illness or old age, simply forget that they own Government stock.

"Both the securities and the dividends accruing can always be: claimed.

"But the responsible authori. ties do not go out of their way to discover the owners. "The present practice with un- The new rifle will be lighter claimed stock is to wait until a than the present type by several claimant appears, and then to ounces; it will fire at least 50 advertise for other claimants. almed shots in a minute in the "The Bank of England in res- hands of a trained soldier us com- nousibio for paying out dividends pared with the 15 rounda minute on Government securities. If such of the present rifle.

dividend is unclaimed it is trans- No-muscular - manipulation ferred-to-an-account at the Bank will be necessary for reloading of England kept in the name of as is the case with the Service the National Debt Commissioners, rife and consequently there "There are more than one hun- should be greater accuracy, dred batches of securities worth The new rifle will be virtually a more than £10,000 each-many of light machine gun in the hands of them unclaimed for as long as

good soldier.

thirty-five years.".

Huey Long, who la mentioned asia, candidate for the next American presidential election, seöme" to“ Kave other interesta besides politics, and is here shown behind the bar leaching the bartendere how to mix drinks.

And here are the eight rules she has drawn up:

"My son is.

nover going to be the best dressed kid in the neigh ¡bourhood',

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"There will be

no nurse or

governess to walt

on him. I didn't have any of these; luxuries.

"He won' have things tool,

easy, for that's the easiest way; to spoil a child.

"He will get

no expensive toys Joan Blondell for the neighbours' children or his father to break. I had loads of fun with old sticks and a bucket as a kid.

"

'He will go to a State school, where there are girls as well as boys; and, later, he will go to a military school for discipline.

He will never have his name or his picture in the Press unless he has done something to earn it, and perhaps not even then.

"He will be taught the facts of

ffo as soon as advisable.

"No one," adds Joan, "will over be able to point to my son and say: "That poor rich film kid!'"

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