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TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935.

WHEN ANOTHER WAR COMES TO EUROPE

SOVIET RED ARMY

IS MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN WORLD

A MILLION MEN ARE READY TO. BATTLE U. S. S. R. ENEMIES

Moscow, Sept: 10.

Outbreak of war on either. the eastern or western front of the Soviet Union to-day would find this country in a far stronger position, both militarily and economically, than a year ago.

Although the leaders in the Kremlin are keenly aware that war would dam the current of economic progress and expose the Communist regime to danger, they have less reason for fear than at any since the revolution. The Red Army has grown to be the most powerful-if not the most efficient-land force in the world. And behind it stands a bulwark of productive farms and factories to feed and supply the fighting machine.

The transportation system continues to be the weak spot in Russia's armour. But even that is improving-slowly, but steadily.

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industry all lags in efficiency be- hind that of Germany or America, But the days of amusing tragic) ruinous handling of com- plicated machines are over.

Slowly unskilled peasants have From a force of about 600,- i been converted into fairly able 000 men, the Red Army has been factory operatives. On the collec- expanded within the last year tive farms alone is the mishand- to 910,000. Military expertsling of machines still an acute believe the Red Air Force now! problem. The Soviet press reports includes some 4,000 airplanes, that in a certain district possoss- In speed and flying range they ing some 900 combines, less than are inferior generally to Ameri- one-twentieth are functioning. can, British or Italian planes But their mere number makes them formidable. Moreover, they are manned by pilots of first-rate skill and bravery.

of

Weak In Sca Power

But the growth of factories is shown by production figures and also these: Workers engaged in large industrial enterprises in- creased 6.8 per cent during the last four months; the number of engineers

technicians in- and ercused 10.7 per cent; and the labour productivity of the plants case 16 per cent. capital

Food Supply Increased

Russia's might on paratie in the Red Square, Muscow, The Soviet can put a million soldiers into the field

immediately.

Napoleon once said that "an Oldest Person

In World

EUROPE Winding Up! American Winding Up!

G-Men Unmask Huge Racket

HOW IMMIGRANTS ENTERED U.S. ILLEGALLY

New York, Sept. 3.

An avalanch HUGE immigration swindle,

to practically every large city in the United States of America, has been discovered by G-Men, or Federal investigators as the Government now prefers to have them called, after months of painstaking detective work.

Sufficient evidence has been collected, according to Special Prosecutor Samuel H., Kaufman, who was in charge of the investiga- tion, to indiet ten Government cm- ployees at Ellis Island. Agents are now on the trail of the "brains" of the racket in the States.

Mr. Kaufman says that in^adkill- tion to paying from £10 to £500 for faked Immigration papers, aliens who enter this country il- legally are blackmailed regularly thereafter. No less sum 'than £200,000 is collected from them an- nually by gangsters and racketeers, Catspawa

One Ellis Island official has al- ready been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for helping immi grants to enter the country illegally. Three others have been convicted. Six more are awaiting trial.

But these men, according to Mr. Kaufman, are merely catspaws,

"We have not caught the ring- leaders yet," he said in an inter- view, "but when we do wo will have them right.

"The nature of these cases, with the documentary evidence involved, makes it almost impossible for them to escape conviction."--Renter.

ROAMED THE WORLD

SEEKING A COUNTRY

On the sea, Russia still in a third-class power. Its ships are of a type considered obsolete. by the American, British and Japanese navies 15 years ago. But in the shipyards of army fights on its stomach." And the Baltic and Pacific & food, the basic need of military considerable number of light preparedness, is increasing too.j submarince and destroyers are The spring. Mowing this year was under construction. These types completed by May 25, as compared versels arc ideally sulted) with June 10 last year. Yield of for coast defence. And because grain in the southern regions this MUMMY THAT LIVED of Russia's position. as a con- year is estimated at. 10.5 centners, tinental power, nearly self-sum per hectare, above recent averages, elent economically and with no Although hatred of the peasantry The world's oldest mummy, Overseas possessions to defend, à for the Kremlin's ruthless collec- carefully pieced together after | navy is not so important to it as tivization programme, which re-lying in fragments for years, is to a nation with far-flung colonies) sulted in millions of needless now one of the "star" exhibits like Great Britain or America. deaths from starvation, has not died in London's most gruesome The mission of a Soviet navy. isjout entirely, it seems to be sub- museum. only to prevent the landing of siding. More then 500,000 in- Five thousand years ago, what Police Court to-day.

dividual peusants joined the collec- Industrial-progress-during-thditive farms this spring.

erinkled-skin-walked-and-talkod Russian railways continue to last year has equalled if not sur- be the most backward in Europe and feasted-a man of wealth and

hostile troops.

paredness. According to current official statistics, the industrial output of the Soviet Union during the last five months increased by 20.2 per cent over the correspond ing period in 1934,

5,000 YEARS AGO

jis now a shell of blackened and

strutting his way through the Lazar Kaganovitch, they are im strange life of ancient Egypt. first five months of this year rose antiquity lies in a glass case in the proving. Car loadings during the To-day this shrivelled relic of 10.4 per cent over the same period munimy room of the

museum of

in 1934. Locomotive and car fac- the Royal College of Surgeons, in tories are increasing their produc-Lincoln's Inn Fields. tion. And the double-tracking of

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REVOLUTION - WAIF'S STORY

Bath, Sept. 3.

One of the world's wanderers, a man in search of a country which will, give him refuge, just discharged from hospital as a "lost themory" case, stood in the dock at Bath

Problem Of Man With

79 Children

Efficiency Stepped Up

the Trans-Siberian, nearly com-one knows for certain.

Who he was or what he did no BRITON WHO BECAME Blast furnaces and factories are pleted, vastly strengthens Russia's operating now where a few years military position in the Far Enst.. ago were bleak steppes. Soviet-United Prrea.

Diana Wynyard Gives

Up £300 A Week

DOESN'T LIKE WORK

Diana Wynyard, star of Hollywood's greatest talkie, "Cavalcade," has torn up her film contract-a £300-a- week contract.

She will not go back to Holly- wood.

She said: "I saw a representa- tive of Metro-Goldwyn-Muyer in London, and after a long dis- cussion we have agreed to for- get about my going back.

"I don't want you to think that I am one of those people who go out there, carn a very big salary, then come home and say vitriolie things about my employers.

“It is just that I know I don't like filming in Holly- wood; that I know that my real future lies on the London stage; and that personal ties keep me here. I would very much rather stay with my mother and father."

The parting of Miss Wynyard from M.G.M, follows a summons to the studios at the expiration of her London "holiday." She returned home for six months und appoured in "Sweet Aloca" in the West End.

In the middls of the run the play was interrupted while sho

IN HOLLYWOOD

Cold Smile

ile is an enigmu. He lies there under the glass, with just the faintest suspicion of a cold, dis- dainful smile on his blackened lips.

It is believed that he is or was, five thousand years ago-Ra Nefer,

A ZULU CHIEF

Capetown, Sept. 1. The South African Gov- ernment has now started its difficult task of rounding-up the scattered descendants of

a nobleman of the "Old Kingdom" John Dunn, the Briton who of Egypt, but experts are not became a Zulu chief. Inbsolutely sure about this. -

A

"All we know is that it is John Dunn came to South Fifth Dynasty mummy from the Africa and settled in Zululand tomb of Ra Nefer, discovered by during the latter part of the last

He was accused of failing to produce a certificate of registra tion under the Aliens Act. His name was given as George Henry Shelking. This was the astonish- ing career ascribed to him by a police superintendent.

Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) in 1004 of, so he claimed, British parents. Saw his father murdered by Beds and their farm looted. .He WOR then thirteen.

For two years lived a hand- to-mouth existence with his mother and sister in Lenin- grad. They died of fever, leaving him alone.

Joined" Wrangel'a forces in the dis-

Crimes. When they were armed went to Finland, joined the Finnish White Army. Was wound- ed and shell-shocked on the Russo- Finnish frontier and discharged.

Frontier To Frontier

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Sir Flinders Petrie," explained century. He adopted the native Joined the British Army of. Oc- Dr. A. J. E. Cave, asaistant con-mode of life and eventually be-cupation in Cologne as interpreter. servator of the museum, to #

came a recognised Zulu chief- reporter.

tain.

"Of course, we know that he was a noble because only the lead- ing men of ancient Egypt were mummified in those days. Who- ever he was, there seems to be little doubt now that he is the oldest intact mummy in the world so far discovered."

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"star" exhibit. The work of

He had 79 children, and when he died the Government was faced with the problem of dividing up his land among them.

When the British Army left wandered to England, Spain, America, and Copenhagen.

to

Later, in 1930, went Heligoland. There arrested as a suspected spy and escorted to Danish frontier.

Danes took him to Belgian fron- were Great difficulties

en- tier. Belgians took him to French countered, and finally # Bill, frontier.

There are other mummies in the known as the John Dunn (Dis- Stayed in France, returned to collection. but this one is the tribution of Land) Bill, was Spain, wandered on to Constanti cataloguing this. extraordinary introduced into the House of nople, Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna,

Switzerland. collection has been undertaken by Assembly, providing for a Com- Dr. Cave and Mr. Warren R.mission of three to investigate Dawson, the Egyptologist.

Scientific Anatomy

"Some people may wonder why

the cuse.

Claimants To Moot

Mr R. Stuttaford, the acting.

Swiss took him to Austrian, frontier; Austrians to Jaga-". Slavian frontier.

Reached Sweden, Norway, Finland again,

Left Finland in a motor-boat in

"Certain matters arose," went to done to protect Dunn's descendants Ireland. Full over a cliff hour "Of course, the study of from exploitation. Provision had Galway Bay. Dimly remembers mummy does not necessarily help been made in the Bill, he said, that train journey to London, after a surgeon, but Its Interest to him the land could not be allenated, landing In Liverpool.

a five-thousand-year-old mummy Minister for Native Affairs, de-1932, landed in England, should have a place in our collec-clared that everything would be tion," said Dr. Cave.

la to be found in the fact that, for transferred, or sub-divided without Kindly motorist gave him a lift thousands of years, there were in the consent of the Governor- to Bristol. Wandered to Bobh Egypt people accustomed to reGeneral.

Now remanded in custody. moving the Internal organs of the The Commission, presided over body before carrying out the by Mr. I. C. Lugi, Chlaf Native embalming procesa.

Commissioner for Natal, has de "And they did it very neatly,cided that on November 5 all claimants to this land shall meet at "It was this ancient practice in Mtunzini, in Zululand, near the Egypt which made it possible for coast. the Greek anatomists working in Because of the slowness with WYN-Alexandria-not in their own which offelal news often travels in -"my real-future country-to lay the foundations of the most distant kraals, the author-

acientific anatomy."

lities are now-three months be

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went into, a nursing home-for-YARD an appendix operation.

lies on the London stage."

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fore meeting-announcing the nowe of the forthcoming Battlement of the claims to John Dunn's land.

Descendants from all parts of the Union are expected to attend, in what number no one knows, though it is thought that they will run into several hundreds. Not all of them... however, will have a valid claim to the land-Reuter.

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