1936-09-22 — Page 3

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1936.

Room 101: Nerve Centre Of OGPU COATS & MILLINERY

Abyssinia

60 CHIEFS APPEAL TO BRITAIN

AN appeal has been made

to

Great Britain to accept a mandato over 50,000 square miles of Western Abyssinin- one of the most fertile tracts of East Africa which marchen with the borders of the Sudan.

It is understood that Ras Imru, the dashing Abyssinien war lender who ja carrying on the Ethiopian Govern- i ment at Gore, in this Galla country, is prepared to co-operate in the man-j date if it is acepted by Great

Britain.

The invitation to Great Britain was made through the British Consul at Gore (Captain Esme N. Ersking). who forwiratur it to the Foreign omer.

Without thinking it worth while to inform

the the British publie of appeal the Governmen Tat 50 evasive reply to the chiefs, and there the matter rests,

The atitude of the Government is that Great Britain has already quito enough maradates on her bands, and that it does not want to cumplicate the International attuation and cause sin olery from Italy by acceptlag

nother une In Abyrsinle,"

Although the original plea came ta Junie the Galla-chlefs are #417 hophut that the League of Nations--uni Great Britain in purticular---will do something for themi before the Hallon ! advance is resumed at the end of September.

GOLD AND PLATINUM The area concerned is the richest in Abyssinia. It contains platinum mines and alluvial gold, whleb the Italians are planning to work on in extensive scale.

SHE DIDN'T WANT

THIS PHOTOGRAPH

The Ears That Listen

"Query" Weten Werner, for many years a key figure in Los Angeles politica, was objectlug, violently, to having her pleture taken when another cauerumne snapped. this picture in the Los Angeles Jall. Erwin Werner, her husband, and Mrs. Werner were arrested on

indictment following a liquor corruption investigation.

Admiralty Buy

Majestic To Use

As A Cadet Ship

Southampton, September 10.

Ras lmru is reported to be carrying FUTURE admirals of the British Navy soon will be

learning their job aboard a one-time German liner.

on an orderly Government with the co-operation of the Galla tribes

Joseph and Benjamin Morlin, the ; 'About four mouths ogo Messrs. | furniture, furnishings and equipment gons of Dr. Martin (the Ethiopian Thomas W. Ward, Ltd., of Sheffled, to the general public at kuument Minister in London), and atcers of bought for a song what was only two prices before the liner, sails tarty the forner Addis Ababa military years ago the world's largest ship. next month to Jarrow or Inverkeith-

Cunard training school are helping with the the

White Star

linering for breaking up. government and attempting to Majestic, formerly the German liner orgtimise

the Bismarck," combat to

Italians

fores

For many werks a number

•

But the arms at the disposal of Ras Ward's men have been selling off Imru are totally budequate, and

unless he reecives help from outside it |

is only a matter of ime before he is everpowered by the Hullans.

ENGLISH AS WRIT AT

WESTMINSTER

Was

Ban These

Nine Hymns

Says Bishop

the

Now, quite suddenly. Majestic has been promised anoliter lease of life as a training ship for naval exdicts at Rosyth, and all

To

Russia's

Whispers

Drastic Purge Of

Secret Police

1,500

TRANSFERRED

Mouthpiece

Of Stalin "Grilled"

ONE THOUSAND FIVE

HUNDRED

of

the

army of the OGPU secret

Class 1 prisonera havá llaht, alry cells, not unlike small hotel rooms. Class 2 cells are normal prison cells. Class 3 cells are padded with cork, have no window and practically no fresh air,

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

Cinas 4 cells drive thele inmates mad within 24 hours. They have no windows, electriș lights 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 infernas by constant tropical heat which never falls below 110 Falirenheit, .

Salty water is given to theso per- sons Brice a day. They never last longer than 24 hours without fox-. Ing their reason.

nect the Lubyanka Prison and the

Great subterranean tunnels con-

| policy, who guarded Stalin in the Kremlin day and night, have been transferred to Ou headquartera with Stalin's other parts of Soviet Russia. Kremila fortress.

pay of the ordinary Red Army' sol-

It is believed that the find-are barracked within the Labyanka Six thousand pleked Ogpu soldiere ing of a wreath, bearing the walls. They receive five times the inscription "In memory of dier, and have better food than high the Old Guard · Communist Red Army officers. leaders, Zinovicff and Kamc- neff," leaning against the wall of the Kremlin close to the Lenin mausoleum, is responsible for this move.

where they can buy, luxuries which The Ogpu have their own shops, connot be obtained elsewhere in soldiers can even buy their wives silk stockings a luxury unknown to the ordinary Soviet citizen.

Moscow or the USSR. These Ogpu

NO BUDGET

Yagoda can give them these be-

Karl Radek, foremost Soviet journalist, popularly enuse he receives an much money as regarded as "the voice of be wants, and there is no budget for Stalin," who was placcă Yagoda, next to Stalin the most

the Oppu.

under house arrest because powerful man, in the USSR. la fat- his name was mentioned in tered, courted, by everybody. Even high Soviet lenders go out of their the Zinovief trial, suffered a way to keep on good terms with seven-hour examination by bin. the dreaded attorney, Gener-| at Vishinsky, in the OGPU During the past few days a num-headquarters. ber of Admiralty experts have been aboard.

'arrangements for leaving the port

have been cancelled.

It is said that Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinos never IC- turns from abroad without a large box of the choicesi Havana cigors for Yagoda, who loves them. DECISION SOON

Warsaw, Sept. 15. · CARIGORI YAGODA, Chief

Yagoda, by birth a Lett, who has To-day they were accompanied by of the Ogpu, whose death in the That

sent thousands of persons to their Sir John Thornycroft, head of the

18 years. Is a famous engineering firm which acts word is life or death in sentimentallst. He likes music and

enjoys vodka evenings," Soviet Russia to-day, is sings Russian ballads,

But the last two working 18 hours a day directing Stalin's purge, the greatest the USSR has ever experienced.

as agents and repairers to Cunard White Star Line.

the

Reports were satisfactory, so the liner will remain here while she is to Rosyth, Thornycrofts before going

rerefitted by

LORD BERTIE ÁS CRITIC BISHOP OF CHELMSFORD, Dr. Henry Wilson, suggests Lord Bertie of Thume, it sevealed in a Blue Book recently that nine famous hymns should which published evidence given be be "eliminated from our fore the Joint Committer dealing with pertoire for the next twelve the National Health Insurance Bill months." takes an Interest in grammatical questions...

He regularly goes through Govern ment Bills to see if he can discover errors, and especially whether noun of multitude takes the singular

or the pured that the Committee |

It was state

decided to leave u word as “whien." although Lord. Bertle urged that it should be "whom."

Lord Bertie agreed that it was true that he had taken a certain interest in the grammar of Parliamentary Bills.

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

Dr. Wilson says that hymns, sung when he visits churches number dozen.

He suggests a ben on these: "All People That on Earth do Dicell?

"We Lore the Place, O God." "City of God."

"Ye Walchers and Ye Holy Ones.“

Thanks We All Our God."

Beaver."

"Praise, My Soul, The King of

Cod, Our Help in Apes Past." The Church's One Foundation." "Lead Us, Heavenly Father."

"I

we are expressing our thanks of grammatical consistency. It was giving," says the bishop, it seems actually Viscount Sankey who, when that the choice is restricted to he was Lord Chancellor, lald it down Praise, My Soul and Now Thank thut if a noun of multitude were We All Our God.". referred to in the plural it should "The former of these hymns 1 continue in the plural and that If It frequently sing twlee a Sunday, and ware In the singular it should re- I have even once main so."

times on the same day."

PRESIDENT

LINERS For Speed

18 DAYS TO SEATTLE

31 DAYS TO EUROPE

There was a persistent rumour here some time ago that the Majestic had been bought the Government by

as an alrcraft carrier, to be held in known as "ROOM 101" in the drab For into the night he sits in a room reserve for any emergency, but that red stone Lubyanken, the vast building has been dented oilcially.

which is the Ogpu headquarters.

SUPREME the State within

There he is the supreme ruler of the State, with new powers from Stulin to arrest any person, no matter what rink, whom he suspects of anti-Stalin Intrigue. All the threads of this most eff clent and dreaded secret police in the world are concentrated in his office.

taking By

the telephone receiver, pressing a button, he is Immediately in touch with his sub- Ichief in one of Soviet Russia's 24

most important cities.

If the Majestic goes to Rosyth, her funnels and her mast will have to bel eut down; otherwise she cannot under the Forth Bridge,

SIX YEARS OF

HORROR IN CONVICT CAMP,

INNOCENT MAN'S

STORY

Sainte-Nazaire, Sept. 10.

sung it three PIERRE LARTIQUE, a Fretch con

American Mail Lino famous President Liners sail fortnightly Hongkong to Seattle. Through fares include first class rail by any direct route across America or Canada (Pullman and Meals Extra).

Visit the Pacific Northwest-Rainier National Park, only three hours' drive from Seattle-

HONGKONG TO EUROPE £101-7-9 FIRST CLASS £67-0-8 TOURIST CLASS

Including Atlantic passage by S.S. Manhattan Washington

SAILINGS.

Pres. McKinley

Sept. 28

Pres. Grant

Oct. 10

Pres. Jefferson Pres. Jackson

Pres. Jefferson

Oct, 24

·Pres, Jackson

Nov. 7

Pres. McKinley Prek Grant

Pres. McKinley

Nov. 21

Pres, Jefferson

Dec. 10 Jan. Лап, 16 Jah, 30 Feb. 12

Pres. Grant

Dec. 5

Pres. Jackson

Feb. 27

For Reservations and further particulars apply to

AMERICAN MAIL LINE

12 Paddar Street, Hongkong.

Telophone 281.71.

CANTON BRANCH:-21 French Concossion, Shameen,⠀

found innocent of murder after six years in the dreaded prison camp of Cayenne, near Devil's Island, returned to Sainte-Notaire to-day.

off

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

GUARDED LINES

The telephone lines are direct Ogpu lines and are guarded by Ogou police. But Yagoda can find does listen-in to any other telephone conversation in the USSR if he wants to, whether it

iwo of the highest Soviet leaders.

It he wants to listen-In he leaves his study, enters the next room known as the "Black Cabinet," the Orpu "listening-in" centrai,

i

when he

weeks he has

had to give up all this and sit hour after hour in Room 101, the nerve

centre of the Ogpu.

MOSCOW AND TROTSKY Moscow has asked for the expul- sion of Trotsley from Norway, Minister in Oslo to Norway's Foreign A Matement made by the Soviet

Minister formulates charges against Troty, and refers to the discussion by the League of Nations of action against terrorist activities.

It "considers" that further asylum fur Trotsky "would injure the friendly relations" between the two countries.

Trolsky is virtually a prisoner in Norway now. He is to be Interned, Dossibly in fortress, unless some other country will receive him.

“Missing Link” Find

DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Pretoria, Sept. 20. Great enthusiasm has been aroused in relentine circles by the discovery, at Sterfontein, Transvaal, of what is believed to be an adult specimen of a species oliled to the Toungs ape. On the other side of his study is This is said to mean on important "Department 'K" (control). This step forward in the search for the department is the ADY central "missing link."

His story is reminiscent of that of Louis Dreyfus, the innocent French is conducted by two workmen or by man sent to Devil's Island 30 years ugo for

spying and then brought back

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 hard labour at Pau Assizes for the murder of a man and wife named Dommercq.

New evidence hus caused the authorities to withdraw the sentence.

LIVED LIKE ANIMALS

which under Yagoda's orders can shadow and spy on any person In the Soviet Union

To-day he told the story, of his out real or imaginary enemies of an adult Provides for the Arst Ume

six years of horror.

The discovery was made by Pro- fessor Robert Broom, the Keeper of Vertebrate Paleontology and An- The number of Ogpu agents under thropology at the Transvaal Museum. this department has been quad- According to Professor Broom, the rupled during the last week to ferret discovery Stalin.

speciman of the South "I have lived through some ter-

African non-forest nathropoid, He The Lubyanka has its own short-feels. sure that within a few years rible hours," he said.

"For a year I lived in camp like with a secret. wavelength changed solved, and solved in South Africa." wave sending and receiving station the problem of man's origin will be every other convict, sharing their every week, lives and work, suffering, the worst In the vast quadrangle of the Professor Broom maintains that known thame. Words cannot des- bullding.. where recently Zino- the discovery cribe the physical and moral spect-viev, Kamenev, and 14 others were that in South

shows conclusively Africa there were nele of these animals side by side.

men, living

like put against the "wall of death" and, large anthropoids during the pleis- "Luckily I escaped from the hell

shot, there is a three storey building, tocene epoch not closely allied either known as the tree-cutting comps.

In Czarist days it was an Inno- their teeth show that they were to the chimpanzee or the gorilla, and Few come away alive. Men are re-

cent little family hotel. Now it is nenter to the stock from which man duced

to such a state that the

the dreaded Ogpu prison, where urosc. slightest accident, usually breaks

thousands have met their deaths their characters and health and they

and thousands have gone mad,

The structure of the milk pre- dle. At the end of a year I was al-arrested Soviet Militory Attache to peculiar type, not likely to have been There now General Putna, the molars in the Taungs ape are of a lowed to act as assistant to the pri- the USSR Embassy in London, Sokol- twice evolved. son doctor, eating and sleeping alone.nikov, ex-Ambassador to London, This was heaven in comparison."

CHARGE STILL STANDS

four generals of the Red Army, and taken on the whole, come nearer to In the present discovery the teeth, hundreds of others accused of anti- man's than those of either the gorilin Stalin netivities are waiting their or the chimpanzee, but they are Although Lartique has been freed, trial... the charge against him has not been

FOUR "CLASSES".'-

very much larger than those of any of the human racca withdrawn. Under French law it is There are three storeys of this Professor Broom claims, that necessary olther to hd the real building above, the ground, but four discovery can safely be placed in t culprit, or else to produce startling below, and those four contain lie now species undoubtedly allled to evidence in order to make a court four "classes" of Imprisonment, the Toung npe, thought it is pre- rovoke its sentence. It la proposed ranging from comparative comfort to sumed that it is a much later form to alter this statute

holl

than the Taungs spe-Reuter,

the

ARRIVED BY THE

S/S RAWALPINDI

LIGHT WEIGHT

WOOLLEN COATS

FOR

AUTUMN WEAR

IN THE VERY LATEST STYLES.

COLOURS:

NAVY, BEIGE, BROWN,

SAXE & BLACK

$62,50

Each

MILLINERY

FOR

AUTUMN WEAR

A

FURTHER CONSIGNMENT

NOW UNPACKED

IN

THE LATEST MODELS.

All Sizes from 634 to 72.

COLOURS:

BEIGE, BROWN, NAVY, BLACK, WINE, BOTTLE, FAWN, GREY, ETC.

PRICES

FROM $7.50 EẠCH Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ.

Investment Bankers and Brokers in Securities and Commodities, Daily New York Exchange Service Commodity Futures on the principal American markeas. Members of New York Cotton Exchango.

Chicago Board of Trade,

Winnipeg Grain Exchange.

Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York.. Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc., Montreal. New York. Cofce and Sugar Exchange.

Correspondents for

Hayden, Stone & Co., New York and Boston. J. E. Swan & Co., New York,

Telophone 30244.

Cable Address: SWANSTOCK. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building.

Hongkong.

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel der Wägons Lits, Peking

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LIMITED, PENANG.

The most fashionable

and

leading Hotel,

Finest position with magnificent Sea-front.

Private Cars

Same managemont Crag Hotel, Penang Hilla 2,400 ft.