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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL

OGPU

MAN FROM

GAOL TELLS ALL

CONFESS-YOU WILL SEE YOUR FAMILY:

PLEAD GUILTY -YOU WILL BE FREED?

Grilled' For 4 Months By

Commissars

HE "Telegraph" is able to publish_to-day the first

Tpersonal record of life in a Soviet secret prison and of

the methods used to obtain confessions. The story is given exactly as it was told by a man who left his wife and children in Moscow-a man who can never go back.

HERR

WARSAW, MAR. 21. [ERR ARTUR' THILO, 34-YEAR-OLD BRITISH. BORN GERMAN JEW, EXPELLED FROM SOVIET RUSSIA AFTER BEING HELD WITHOUT TRIAL FOR FOUR MONTHS, WAITED UP WITH ME TO-NIGHT TO HEAR IF THE BRITISH AUTHORI. TIES IN WARSAW WOULD GRANT HIM A PASS. PORT ON THE GROUNDS THAT HIS MOTHER WAS BRITISH AND THAT HE WAS BORN IN BRADFORD. charming girls. They came from all parts of France.

Thilo must leave Warsaw by to-morrow midnight; if} the passport is not granted he does not know where he can go. His wife and two children remain in Moscow, but he can never return.

in prison for a year without con- frysing, but that is not going to help them.' I was told the Ger- man Embassy would do nothing to help me.

"Then, when I had never even hopett for it, Oppu officials brought me out a few days ago on Satur where a young woman offelal read day. They took me an office,

was

to

me out nolfee telling me that I to be banished from Soviet Russia

station.

The "Parts Exhibition Queen 1937" will be selected from these

GAS: HINTS FOR

THE

HOME

AND OFFICE

1937.

RÁDIO BROADCAST

Studio Recital by Winifred Lawson

CHILDREN'S ' CONCERT

wave-

Broadcast by Z.B.W, on lengths of 355 metres (845 k.c's).. 31:49 metres (0.52 m.c's),

H.K.T."

12.30 Pianoforte Recital by Benno Moiseivitch, with Songs by Mavis Bennett (Soprano).

1 p.m. Time and Weather,

1.03 Light Orchestral Music.

1,30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather Forecast, Time and An- nouncements.

1.40 A Light Retital by Webster Booth (Tenor).

1.53 p.m. Debroy Somers Band. 2.16 p.m. Close Down.

6 p.m. Relay of Dance Music from the Hongkong Hotel Roof-Garden.

6 p.m. From the Studio. A Children's Concert.

6.30 A Military Band Concert. Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (Weber) ...Garde Republicaine Band of France; Bells of St. Mary's (Adams). Annic

Luurle Gladys

Carillon); Swastika March Entry of the Boyards (Halvorsen. arr. Winterbottom)....Band of II.M. Coldstream Guards; Rokoko Love Song (Meyer-Helmund);

Had you but known (Denza-Bruggemann) Richard Tauber (Tenor); Ship Ahoy March (arr. MacKenzie), Seit Songs Medley (No. 3), (arr. Vaughan

Williams) Massed Bands of the Royal Marines (a)

(a) Piece en torme d'Habanera (Ravel-Le Duc), (b) er Thirds (ScriabiViolin) Study

Sziget!) ..Joseph Szigetl

The

Jolly

arr.

Roger (Dewar-McCall) Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone); Sing a Song (lies)....Massed Bands. 7.15 p.m. Renara at the Piano.

Gershwin Medley; "Two For To- night" Plano Medley; Miracles some- ilmes happen.

7.30p.m.

Stock Quotations and Exchange Market.

7.35 p.m. By the Sleepy Lagoon (Eric Contes), played by Eric Contes and Symphony Orchestra.

7.10 p.m. From the Studio.

From the Studio.

A Recital, by Winifred Lawson (Soprano), Lindsay A. Lafford at the Piane.

French Songs-1. Jeunes Fillettes

If you were in London and were to look in at No. 17, without trial. The same evening they brought me to the fallway Aldermanbury, the narrow street of business houses he

In a special compartment in hind Guildhall, you will find yourself in one of the... (arr. Weckerlin): 2. Mon Ham- the train which I was in were five strangest exhibitions ever staged in the City of London. Oppa officials.

"My wife and two children were -brought to 7 thủ trrt, 30 Ma

Pale and dour, his nerve strained to breaking-point, Thilo described to me how he came to be accused of spying for Germany and

could with Trotsky conspiring terrorists.

"A1

the

cau; 3. Le coeur de Mamle.......... (Jae- ques Daleroze); 4. Le Grand....

(Theo Botrel).

English Songs 1. Clue Morning-to

early....

(Diuck); 2. The Spring has

ittle home....(Eric Coates)..

8 p.m. Time, Weallier and An- nouncements.

8.03 From the Studio. 'A Talk

You may not believe that the next war will come in nay good-bye. My daughter your lifetime, but the Lord Mayor and the City Corpora and my son is three and a half. tion of London are taking no risks. Their motto is "Become,...(M. Valerie White); 3. Our

Polish border this evening "I will start from the be- Now I am praying that everything

I was handed over to Poilsh officials. Prepared."

The object of the exhibition, which was opened by the Lord ginning," he said. "Four will be all right for me to come to Mayor, is to teach City men what to do in the event of an enemy

England. My sister is in London months ago ~

It was on want to reach there us soon a gas attack at their work by day or in their homes by night. November 4, at two a.m.-1} Artur Tulio returned

awakened by loud knocking at my door. opened it. Several walked in.

was

NARROW CELL

men

"They took me to the Lubyyanka Prison, put me into a cell about five feet

and

TO EACH HIS COSY CORNER Every from England to Germany in 1913,

onc should convert his He remained until 1928, then went cellar or basement, or some room if He the dwelling is a flat, into a "refuge to Amerien as an engineer. returned in 1031 to Moscow to roam," which he should regard as work in the Amo Auto and Tractor

his first line of defence. St. Jolin Works. He is one of the nine Ambulance Brigade men and officials of the Special Air Raid Precautions Committee of the Corporation will

Germans who have just been ex- pelled from. Bovici.Russla

wide by twelve feet long. Killed Second Ex-Wife

Another man was already in

it. They slammed the door, At Re-Wooing 'Party'

and that was all for four or five days.

"The warders treated US There was no rough handling. For breakfast they gave us black bread, for lunch soup, and for supper a kind of parridge.

"Then

came

עמ1

Kirst

Chicago, Mar. 25.

tell you how to ft up the room. Read some of the instructions:

Take up the carpet and illl in all cracks round the skirting board. Seal all trap doors, skylights and hatches. Stop all ventliators in the outside walls and the chimney with rags or paper,

Model exhibits in the refuge room on view show you how to resist the enemy. When you have got tho- roughly well set for the attack and have turned on the wireless, or-sat down to a game of cards-dlso in- cluded in the exhibits-you ought to be able to live for 12 hours in the refuge room before sensing an air of suffocation,

THINGS TO KEEP HANDY

2

by Lee Wai-tong on Football, (Chinese).

8.25 A Relay from the Lee Theatre' (Chinese).

11 p.m.

Close Down. 8.03-11

p.m. European Pro- gramme from Z.E.K. on a fre quency of G10 kilocycles.

8.05 p.m. Variety.

Spes

Organ Solo-Six Great Melodics No. 2. Harold Ramsay Vocal-- Empty Saddles....Bing Crosby: Vocal Twilight Serenade... Clarrle Wright; Instrumental — Wedding Chimes....

The Brothers Bertini (Banjo and Guitar Duct); Vocal- Time on my hands.......... Denny Dennis; Vocal-I've got you under my skin

Day:

Instrumental-- ...La Argentina (Castanets Solo): Vocal-Melody Trumps No. 2

The Four

Aces; Hawalion You may already have the mate- Tropical Hulas On the dreamy South Sea Islanders; carpets for barricading Variety Sandy Powell's 1930 Road the windows, wet blankets for the Show.. Sandy Powell and Com- inner doors, and plenty of brown pany; Organ Solo-Fifty Years of paper for posting over the chinks.

You should niso have a good stock

Song. Terence Casey. of that strong transparent paper used for wrapping round cigarens packets. This is for pasting over the winauwe panes. The shock of an exploding bomb might truck unprotected gloss, and two or three layers of the paper would prevent the gas passing through the cracks.

root-old

well. BRILLIANT Chicago specialist Dr. Frank Furch jun, rials for fitting up your gas-proof Moana shore..

aged thirty-eight, is expected to recover to face charges of shooting dead one of his former wives and attempting to kill another, himself, and a maid at a "reunion" last night.

cross examination by the Ogpu com-

missa. I find fifteen Cross examinations al told. In the end they broke me down. Sometimes they lasted one hour, sometimes us long as five.

They were always carried out in the same way. One, two or three Ou commissars used to fire ques- tions and statements at me. They said: 'You are guilty of committing espionage for

alty for Germany. You are also guilty co-operating with the Trotskyists. I replied: There is no Bring your evidence! truth in that "The com

commissars used to laugh, aald encouragingly: 'Come on now, sold

and you'll be freed.' Grud- own up ually they tried to make me belleve that I was guilty and promised everything would be all right as soon ns I admitted it.

.

"I refused to give in, asked them ring material proof. Then they sald, There is no hope of escaping prison unless you confess. As soon as you confess that you have com- mitted espionage and have been co- operating with the Trotskyists we will free you, and you will be able to see your wife and children."

replied. It is absurd trying to confess things I have never done. I would only be making such

up confessions

Tho

Orpu

commissar replied, Then make it up. "By the middle of December admitted-quile forcefully-that

I

had committed explonage on behalf of. Germany. Then I realised that

my position had not been improved,

in the least by confessing.

Brides: Nazi Pattern

5 your girl of Corman or

kindred blood?

These are two of 10 ques- tions which young officers.or non-commissioned officers of the German Army will have to answer with "Yes," according to a new military law, before receiving a permit to marry.

Other questions, says Rou- tor's Berlin Correspondent,

aro:

TOS-

Has your girl a good reput- ation?

Does she command pect?

Do her parents. command respect, and are they pa- triots?

Are you and your girl from of debt?

Can the home bo run on a sound financial basis?

Do you both fulfil the con--i ditions of tho "Marriago Health Law"?

"Two weeks later I contradicted It British Destroyer

I

nobody

Furch, in all except his profession, was a failure. His two. marriages ended in divorce, the second after three months.

Life alone also was a failure, so he tried to win back his second wife and asked his first to help him press his suit.

NO, I TRIES TO HELP

He called on ex-wife number two, Mrs. Norma Furch. She was cold to his pleading. He pole Furch, and number one, Mrs. Myrtle she and their ten-year-old daughter Joined them.

Furch then became excited, erented disturbance. Neighbours colled officers the police, and four burly began to hustle Furch towards the door.

Shaking them sif for a moment.

It is all very luminating, and to

8.55 p.m. London News and An- nouncements.

0.15 p.m.

vored)

Viennese Waltzes (Re-

Three

D23 rally on Matters of

"Food for Thought" Topical Interest.”

Arical Record-

ing).

945 p.m. Leslie Jeffries

do the thing properly flat-dwellers His Orchestra.

are asked to set up a protection com- Le Cygne (The Swan), (Saint- mittee among themselves and to in-Saens); Dance of the Icicles (Ken- sist on a roll-call as soon as the air-nedy Russell); The Frollesome Hare raid warning

is given. The ex- hibition is the first of its kind in the

(Ashworth Hope); Springtime Ser- enade (Jonny Heykens); The Balkan country, and it has the blessing of the Princess (Paul A. Rubens). Home Office. Hanging on the wails

10 p.m. London, Big Ben. "The are coloured

posters from Russia and Table under the Tree." Written by Austria showing the horrors of an Wilfrid Rooks-Ley. Produced by enemy attack with the air rald in- ¦ A. W. Henson. With music played structions translated in English. by Walford Hyden and his Orchestra.

(Electrical Recording).

10.47

Newlaned out a revolver, shot ROGER CASEMENT'S orche Jack Hylton and His

Norma fatally. Another shot, Bred the police knocked his arm down, wounded the mald. and while he struggled on the floor he turned the revolver on himselt. He is in hospital asking to be allowed to die. Doctors say he will live.

Cheap Divorce®

Rush

COLICITORS anticipate a flood of applications for quick and cheap divorce by poor persons, it the new Marriage Bill framed by Mr. A. F. Herbert, is passed through Parliament.

"Less than two weeks after my

Made Like A Camel arrest I was placed in a solitary cell

"The at Butirki Prison.

saw

destroyer taunched

Impulsive was If the Bill is passed as it stands at Cowes this month by the Law Society Committees will be except the warders, but they gave mo books to read. This mental pres-

Countess Jellicoe.

Inundated with poor persons peti sure to make me confess was con-

The vessel belongs to the I class tions, so that the whole organisation inuous, though I was never bodily ordered late in 1930. Storage for will have to be reconsidered. ill-treated.

provisions, ammunition and öfl fucl They anticipate this Inercase ''It's the only way' to get out of will enable her to operate anywhere through the clause of the Bill which prison they told me.. Why, there and be absent from home ports or allows three years' descrilon as a are people here who have been bases for long periods.

good ground for divorce,

DIARY

DAIL MEMBER'S QUESTION

Mr. de Valera' was questioned in the Dail recently regarding the exist- ence of a diary supposed to have been written by Roger Casement, who was executed in Pentonville Prison in 1910 after, having been found guilty of treason.

Mr. Frank MacDermot asked. whether he would ask the British Government to submit the diary to joint examination by representatives of the Governments of the Free State and of Great Britain, and to publish their repórt as to authenticity.

He also asked as to the posalbilly of an honest mistaked having been made by those who made use of it if it were found to be spurious.

Mr. De Valera: Roger Cosòmenl'à. reputation is safe in the affections of the Irish people-the only people whose opinions matter.

Fox-Trots-Unbelievable; Drop in next time you're passing; Did you mean 117; Waltz-Have you forgotten 50 soon?'

11 p.m. Close Down.

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