1936-10-03 — Page 6

The New

THE

HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1936.

Has Stalin Found Deadly

Drug?

The Mystery Behind The Moscow Purge

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MEN'S WILLS AWAY

Salt Lake City, Oct. 1. Twenty years ago Locksmith Jack Flowers was called to Fort] Dougins army post near here to replace a lost key to a safe. Re- another key for the antiquated safe, he appeared with one rendy. mode.

YET VICTIMS SEEM TO cently when he was called to make

BE NORMAL :

By Gereld

Heard,

whose writings and broadcast talks on popular acience

have made him known to thousands

"I knew you'd lose the key ngnin some day, so 20 years ago I made an extra one," he said.—United Preas.

much that she certainly would not otherwise have spoken about That did not matter much in maternity cases. But it was long

THAT was behind the Moscow massacre?' There is

an uneasy suspicion that something peculiarly before criminal investigation depart- horrible has taken place.

ments happened to bear of this fact: and to put it to thele own uses.

Every one who reads the accounts of the so-called trial felt there was a nightmare quality about it, a mix- this drug was a gift of the gods-or ture of horrible fantasy with deadly realism. ›

Whot could be the inside truth; strictly limited power. For, firstly, about this bloody businesa? What you can only hypnotise certain pro- turked behind all the staged publi- plc. Perhaps one person out of three city-the abusive charges and cannot be hypnotised at all. abject confessions?

Hypnotised

Asked for Death

And, secondly, of the remaining Nowadays we are all used to die-two the kind of thing which you can make them believe, say, and do has a tators "bumping off" their rivals and very definite and fortunate restric- erstwhile friends. What makes this tion. purge stand out by itself is not the ruthlessness of the executioner, but the behaviour of his victims. Never before havo men an capital charge, even when they have been tortured, behaved ike these men.

Now, the wretched sixteen in Mos- cow behaved as though their wills from them. I 18 had been taken when we come to this point in the trial that ordinary informed people feel that they are at a loss.

They ask not for their lives, but for death. They beg "only to see the working classes" before they die, be fore they "rightly explate their trea- son to the proletariat."

Speaking Dolls

So these men's words prove be- yond doubt that they were being controlled by their killers as com- pletely as the ventriloquist controls bla speaking doll.

But "hypnotism" is easier said than done, caster accused than proved.

Up-to-date hypnotism has only been able to prove itself to be a very

You cannot make them say or do anything which goes clean against what they think to be morally right, or against their deepest tense of de- cency or safety. These two facts,

then, rule out any ordinary hypno tism in the case of the sixteen..

whereby on n he hypnotised There is now to hand a method any moment and be made there- after to du unything.

The final discovery was made by: some French doctors. The results have only lately been published in technical papers. The discovery, like so many revolutionary discoveries, came at the end of a long series of chance finds.

The story begins with the use of a drug to make childbirth · easier. That led to the famous twilight sleep treatment.

Where third degree was used, there devils. Hence the scandal about the "Truth" drug

But the "Truth” drug was only half the truth. It was a flukey method, even if you were resolved to use it. You could not be sure of scopolamine the strange drug main- ly used.

Scopolamine

GOES RADIO

Alico Fayo has temporarily desert- ed. Hollywood for broadcasting. A recent photograph.

Then some French doctors, interest. Admiralty Ban on

Pillion Riding

ed in trying to cure morphin and cocnine dends-the hardest of all addicts to cure thought of using this scopolamine. But to make it safe and sure, they combined it with the ordinary sleeping-drought chlorni.

Then they discovered they had n drug which was not only safe and sure, but of unexpected powers.

The tests have shown that there is no one who can resist the treatment, effects of a deadly poison. The worst any more than any one can resist the cases of drug addiction are cured and stay cured.

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NO

RESPONSIBILITY ACCEPTED

Fleet Orders issued recently state thal Admiralty personnel, whether nuval or civil, are expressly forbidden to proceed on duty journeys as pilllon the Admiralty will accept no respon- passengers on motor cycles, and that sibility for injury or death arising

from an

accident sustained while

riding as such nor will any allowance be payable for the carriage of a Pillion passenger.

The Order stated it had been ascer-

£1

But what is not so cheerful is the fact that any order given to any one under the drug is obeyed exact-tained that generally motor cycle in- ly when they come to. What surance policies do not cover clulma plilion more, the patient completely for arising from injury to gets that he has ever been treated. Passenger carried by the Insured

person. He has no memory of what hap- pened to him for some hours before fore warned against the practies of Owners of motor-cycles are there- he was given the infection and then carrying pillion passengers in view of told what he would do when he woke up.

the risks of incurring heavy financial The queer fact that turned up in this research was that the patieni

liabilities in the event of injury to Can there be any doubt that this the passenger in an accident for very often talked a great deal when to the weapon which is now in the which no other person can be held under the drug. and gave away hands of the Russian secret police? responsibic,

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