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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1936.

Room

Abyssinia

60 CHIEFS APPEAL TO BRITAIN

101: Nerve Centre Of OGPU COATS & MILLINERY

AN appeal has been made to

Great Britain to accopt ឆ mandate over 50,000 square

miles of Western Abyssinia- one of the most fertile tracts of East Africa which marches, with the borders of the Sudan.

It is understood that Ras Imru, the dashing Abyssinian war lender who in carrying on the Ethiopian Govern- ment at Gore, In this Gaila country, is prepared to co-operate in the man- date if a acepled by Great Britain.

The invitation to Great Britain was inade through the British Consul t Gore (Captain Kaur N. Erskine),

the Foreign. who forwarded it Office.

1rs

pi

Without thinking it worthwhile to inform the British public of the)

eti Government appeal the evasive reply to the chief, and there the mutter resin,

The attacle of that Government i that Great Beltain has brendly quite nih mandates on her hands and that it does not want to complicate the International situation and course on outery from Italy by accenting another one in Abyssinja,

Althout the original plen came in June the Galla chiefs are still Hoping | int the League of Nations and Great Britain in particular-will du something for them before the Italian j advance is resumed at the end or September.

GOLD AND PLATINUM The area concerned is the richert In Abyssinia. It contains platinum mines and alluvial gold, which the Italians are planning to work on an extensive seule.

SHE DIDN'T WANT THIS PHOTOGRAPH

The Ears That

"Quren" Belen Werner. for many years a key figure to Los Angelen polities, was objecting, violently, to having her picture taken when Euother camerainan snapped this picture in the 2.0 Angeles jail. Erwin Werner, her husband, and Mrs. Werner were arrested on an indictment following in liquor corruption investigation.

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*Ras Imru in reported to be carrying FUTURE admirals of the British Navy soon will be

tribes.

Listen

To Russia's Whispers

Drastic Purge Of

Secret Police

1,500

Class 1 prisoners have light, airy cells, not unlike small hotel rooms. Class 2 cells are normal prison cells. Class 3 cells are padded with cork,

TRANSFERRED have no window and practically no

Mouthpiece

Of Stalin "Grilled"

ONE THOUSAND FIVE

HUNDRED

of

the

army of the OGPU secret palice, who guarded Stalin în

fresh air.

Electric light burns night and day. There is a constant temperature of 80 deg Fahrenheit.

Class 4 cells drive their Inmates mad within 24 hours. They have no windows, electrie Bghts glare night, and day, and there is a care- fully calculated ration of air which Is just enough to keep a person alive. But they become infernos by a constant tropical heat which never falls below 110 Fahrenheit.. Salty water is given to these per- a day. They never last Kons once longer than 24 hours without los- ing thely reason,

Great subterranean tunnels con-.

Kremlin fortress,

Stalin's

Six thousand picked Dinu soldiers are borracked within the Lubyanka

the Kremlin day and night,neet the Labyanka Prison and the have been transferred to Ou headquarters with other parts of Soviet Russia. It is believed that the find- ing of a wreath bearing the walls. They receive five times the pay of the ordinary Red Army sol- inscription “In memory of dier, and have better food than high the Old Guard Communist Red Army officers, icaders, Zinovieff and Kame-| where, they can buy luxuries which neff." leaning against the cannot be obtained elsewhere in Moscow or the USSR. There Ogpu wall of the Kremlin close to soldiers can even buy their wive the Lenin mausoleum, isk stockings- luxury unknown to

the ordinary Soviet citizen. responsible for this move.

NO BUDGET Yagoda can give them these be-

The Orpu have their own shops,

the Ogpu.

Karl Radek, foremost learning their job aboard a one-time German liner. Soviet jouradist, popularly cause he receives as much money un on un orderly Government with the! co-operation of the Galla

About four months ago Messrs. furniture, furnishings and equipment regarded as "the voice of he wants, and there is no budget for Joseph and Benjamin Martin, thr! sons of De Martin (the Ethiopias Thaman W. Ward, Ltd., of Shefeld, to the general public at knock-dowa Stalin," whe was placed yngoda, next to Stalin the most Minister in London), and ofteers of j bought for a song what was only two prices before the iner salls early the former Addis Ababa military years ago the world's largest ship. next month to darrow or Inverkeith- under house arrest because powerful man in, the USSR, is flat-

Cunard White Star linering for breaking up, training schoot are helping with the the

his name was mentioned in tered, courted, by everybody. Even high Soviet lealers go out of their 16 Majestie, formerly the German liner Kovernment

attempting

Now, antie suddenly. the the Zinovief trial, suffered a way to keep on good terms with organise fritte to combat thDiamorek.

Majestle has been promised another Itaffans.

lease of life as a training ship for seven-hour,cxamination by naval cadets at Rosyth, and all the dreaded attorney, Gener- It is said that Soviet Foreign arrangements for leaving the ptori || have been cancelled.

turns al Vishinsky, in the OGPU During the past few days a mum headquarters. ber of Admiralty experts have been ¦ aboard.

But the arms at the disposal of Itas Imru gre totally nutquite, and unless he receives help from out:lite it is only a matter of time before he is overpowered by the Italians,

ENGLISH AS WRIT AT

WESTMINSTER

For many weeks Tatimber uf Ward's men have been selling off

Ban These

Nine Hymns

Says Bishop

DECISION SOON

Sir John Thornycroft, hend of thei

to 12

him.

A

Commissar Litvino never re-

from abroad without large box of the choicest Havana cigars for Yagoda, who loves them.

Warsaw, Sept. 15..

Yagoda. by birth a Lett, who has CRIGORI YAGODA, Chief

sent thousands of persons to their To-day they were accompanied by of the Ogpu, whose death in the Inst 18 years, is a sentimentalist. He likes music and famous engineering firm which acts word is life or death in enjoys "voda evenings," when he BISHOP OF CHELMSFORD, | 28 agents and repairers

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Soviet Russia to-day, is sings Russlan, ballads. Dr. Henry Wilson, suggests

working 18 hours a day had to give up all this and sit hour that nine famous hymns should

after hour to Room 101, the nerve "diminated from our

LORD BERTIE AS CRITIC

it Lord Bertie of Thime, revented in a Blue Banks recently which published evidence given be-be Tore the Joint Committee dealing with pertoire for the next twelve the National Health Insurance 1, months." takes an Interest in

Brammatical

10-

Dr. Wilson says that hymns sunt questiularly goes through Govern-when he vist churches number

clozen.

He

ment

crrors,

Dills

noun of

to see if he can discover and

especially whether a multitude takes the singular

or the plural.

It was stated that the Committee decided to leave a word as "whleo," although Lord Bestie urged that it should be “whom."

He suggests a ben on these

"All People That on Earth de, Dwell,"

"We Love the Place, O God." "City of Guit,"

Watchers and Ye Holy Onis,"

" Thank We All Our God."

Lord Berlic agreed that it was true He My Soul, The King of

that he had taken a certain interest

in the grammar of Parliamentary

"I did so," he said, "in the cause

O God, Our Help in Ages Past.”

"The Church'a One Foundation."

"Lead Us, Heavenly Father."

"If we are expressing our thanks-

ol Hrammatical consistency. was giving," says the bishop, "it seems actualy Viscount Sankey who, when that the choice is restricted to he was Lord Chancellor, laid it down Praise, My Soul' and 'Now Thank that if поип of multitude were We All Our God."

referred to in the plural It should | "The former of these hyrins 1 continue in the plural and that if it frequently sing twice a Sunday, and were in the singular it should re- I have even once sung it three mnih so,"

times on the same day,"

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SIX YEARS OF

HORROR IN CONVICT CAMP,

INNOCENT MAN'S STORY

Far into the night he sits in a room known as "ROOM 101" in the drab red stone Lubyanka, the vast building which is the Oppu headquarters.

SUPREME

But the last two

centre of the Ogpu.

weeks he has

MOSCOW AND TROTSKY Moscow has asked for the expul-

sien of Trotsky from Norway

A statement made by the Soviet Minister in Oaks to Norway's Foreign Minister formulates charges against Troisky, and refers to the discursion

the State within the State,

There he is the supremné ruler of by the League of Nations of action

with against terrorist activities. new powers from Stalin to arrest any person, no matter what rank, whom he suspects of anti-Stalin intrigue.

All the threads of this most effi- cient and dreaded secret police in the world are concentrated In his |

office

13 taking off the telephone receiver, pressing a button, he is immediately in touch with his sub- chief in one of Soviet Russia's 24 | most important ellies.

No one can listen-in to his con- versation.

GUARDED LINES

The telephone lines are direct Ogpu

Sainte-Nazabe, Sept. 10. DIERRE, LARTIQUE, a French con- viet found Innocent of murder after six years in the dreaded prison camp of Cayenne, near Devil's lines and are guarded by Ogpu police. Island, returned to Sainte-Nazaire But Yagoda can and does listen-in to to-day.

any other telephone conversation in

I story is reminiscent of that of the USSR if he wants to, whether it Louls. Dreyfus, the innocent French-s conducted by two workmen or by mnn sent to Devil's Island 30 years two of the highest Soviet leaders. age for spying and then brought backt.

Lartique was met at the quayside by his sister. His wife and mother died of shock the day after his con- demnation. He was sentenced to 15 years' hurd Inbour at Pau Assizes for the murder of a man and wife named Dommercy. New evidenco 1155 caused the authorities to withdraw the sentence.

LIVED LIKE ANIMALS To-day he told the story. of his six years of horror.

"I have lived through some fer- rible hours," he said.

It he wants to listen-in he leaves]

lt "considers" that further asylum for Trotsky "would. Injure the friendly relations between the two countries.

Trotsky is virtually n prisoner in Norway now. He is to be interned, possibly in a fortress, unless some other country will receive him.

"Missing Link" Find

DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Pretoria, Sept. 20. Great enthusiasm has been aroused

in scientifle circles by the discovery

la study, enters the next room at Sterfontein, Transvaal, of what is known as the "Black Cabinet," the Ogpu "listening-in" central.

On the other side of his study is "Department 'K'" (control). This department is the spy central while under Yaroda's orders can shadow and spy on any person in the Soviet Union

The number of Orpu agents under this department has been quad- rupled during the last week to ferret out read pr imaginary enemies of Stalin.

believed to be an adult specimen of a species allied to the Trungs ape. This is said to mean an important step' forward in the search for the "missing link."

Ife

The discovery was made by Pro- fessor Robert Broom, the Keeper of Vertebrate Paleontology and An- thropology at the Transvaal Museum. According to Professor Broom, the discovery provides for the Orst_time an adult speelman of the South African non-forest anthropold. The Lubyanka has its own short- "feels sure that within a few years wave sending and receiving station For a year I lived in camp like with a secret wavelength" changed solved, and solved in South Africa." every other convict, sharing their every week. lives and work, suffering the worst In the vast quadrangle of the

Professor Broom maintains that known shame. Words cannot deg building. where recently Zino- the discovery shows · conclusively cribe the physical and moral spect-viev, Kamenev, and 14 others were that in South Africa there acle of these men, ilving like put against the "wall of denth" and large anthropoids during the plels- animals aide by side.

shot, there is a three storey building..tocene epoch not closely allied either to the chimpanzee or the gorilla, and

"Luckily 1 escaped from the hell known as the tree-cutting camps. Few come away alive. Men are re- duced to such a slate that the slightest accident usually breaks their characters and health and they

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