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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.” MONDAY, JULY 19, 1937.

STALIN'S STORY OF THE PURGE Keep

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Has A Budget Crisis Every Saturday

Abbots Ripton (Hunts), June 25.

THEN Herbert Mayes, farm labourer on Lord de Ramsey's

estate at Abbots Ripton, reaches his four-roomed thatched] coltage on Saturdays, and hands over his week's wages to the wife, Mrs. Mayes starts to think.

She has the same problem i

every Saturday:---

How can 31s. 314d. he made to WHEN THE VICAR

inst a week when you have eight| children, 10 eldent

boy of

fourteen and the youngest a de- Ileate baby of six months who must have milk?

Here is Mrs. Mayes's budget:~~

R.

d.

Grocer

15

0

得

3

2

Baker

Butcher

Cont..

Potatoes

Milk

and

TELLS A STORY

Should a clergyman's language be judged by the same standards of propriety as those applied to the Jayman?

This point was raised by the Rev. H. G. Crabtree, of St. Albans, at the summer session of Church Assembly, which opened in London recently.

He was opposing the Incumbents' Misbehaviour and Negligence Mea- sure, framed to protect the credit of the clergy from the effect of negli take Bent incumbents.

Which leaves 11jd, for clothes.

"And if any

one thinks he can do better," her husband sold to-day, "he can come the money and try,“

Tired-faced, dark-hpired Mrs. Mayes said:

"A layman tells a story which is considered to be quite proper," he same story it is regarded said, "but when vicar tells the Us im-

"It is the clothes that are so hard. The children must have them, but

proper. in a good week there is never more

"I object to that distinction. There than 25, left.

At that moment the baker arrived one standard for all Chris-

He carried in four large loaves.

They will be gone by Thursday," nald Mrs. Moyes. "A lont doesn't last long here."

Mr. Moyes has been 11, but ex- pects to go back to work next week. He said:

"I get the cottage rent free. grow a few greens, but 1 can't grow enough potatoes for the chil- dren; they eat a bushel a week. "I was summoned yesterday at St. Ives Police Court because two of the

Canon J. V. Bullard (Ripon) des- cribed the measure as "like a mer- maid." The front part of t fman, and the tall of it was shy.

was

children had not been sent to school. Well, one was ill, and the other had no shoes to go in,

"The magistrates ordered me to pay 4, the cost of the summons. but they paid the money and added an extra 28. to be sent to me."

The preparations for the next Olympind which will take place in Tokyo in 1040, are already in full swing. Our picture shows Japanese priests blessing the ground on which! the stadium is to be built.

Russia's Value As Ally Now Increased

THE News Chronicle was able last month to publish

Stalin's own account of the execution of Tukhachev. sky and the seven other Generals at Moscow on June 12.

In order to alloy the fears now entertained in France and elsewhere regarding the value of Russia as an ally, and to remove doubts concerning the striking force of the Red Army, the Russian dictator himself drew up this memorandum.

He deals with the circumstances, remote and immediate, which resulted in the "treason" of the eight Generals and explains his own action in bringing them to trial.

Stalin's conclusion is that

Only when the capitalists were ex- thic

has

a war and the purge

increased hausted by such

workers in revolt everywhere, should Russia's value as 2231 ally,

the Red Army march-to establish strengthened the Soviet re- a Communist state of society. gime and left the morale of "THEREFORE I STRUCK" the Red Army unshaken, Stalin held that such a political According to Stalin's memor-conception would merely result in andum, Tukhachevsky and the the downfall of Soviet Russia, and others were not charged with "Therefore I struck," he says in his the men holding it were traitors. treason in any vulgar sense.

Charles Laughton's He insists, however, that

Stage Plans

Charles Laughton denies the sug- gestion that he will not return to the stage.

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He stated recently that his film plans will not permit his return to the stage for a long time, but that he may do so at some future date.

"One of my ambitions," he sald, "is still to play King Lear.”

We recommend

in

that the

memorandum. WORLD REVOLUTION

Stalin declares that Tukhachevisky They did not betray secrets to the established contracts with the Ger- potential enemy for money nor, np-man Reichswehr at Rapallo, which, parently, did they betray military notwithstanding Hiler and his re-

gime,

continued almost to the eve of secrets, properly so-called, at all.

they were fils

execution. constant touch with German Concerning Yngods, the chief of agents and military officers, and the G.P.U.. he explains he was shot were ut pains not only to discuss for betrayal of trust, having accepted

from conditions in Russia, but to criticise bribes speculators whom he

should have arrested. the policy of the Soviet Government.

The comparison made in quarters abroad between the Moscow executions and the Nazi "purge" of June 30, 1934, seems to have touched the Russian dictator on the raw.

They (the Generals) are accused of having had a desire to wreck the Itussian alliances with hourgeals Governments and of hostility to wards Hne of action which finds expression in Russia's membership of the League.

-They wanted Germany to be em- brolled in war with other capitalist States and Russia to remain outside the conflict.

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HITLER'S "BLOOD BATH”

"There la no parallel," he writes. "What took place in Germany was a sheer

blood ball. Communists, Socialists, Roman Catholics, dissi- dent Nazis were shot down Indis- camiately without trial.

Nazis never Jet the world know the facts of the slaughter. They said that only some 200 had been killed, whe

whereas my information from Germany at the time was that more than 2,000 were done to death. "We did not tolerate any such in discriminate executions. The trinla In Moscow some time back were held in public, and at the trial of the Generals, although it was necessary to hold it behind closed doors, Soviet legal procedure was rigorously fol- lowed.

"The judges were perfectly free, and they gave their judgment well aware that should my enemies gain

power

in Russia they would be among the first to be put against the wall,"

CONFESSIONS

Stalin mentions the suspicion en- tertained in some quarters of the spontaneity or genuineness of the "confessions" of the eight Generals.

He declares that this rendiness to confess cannot be understood by people who are ignorant of the work- ings of the Slav soul.

ns

"The Slay," he says, "takes much. satisfaction in being a martyr for an ideal as in helping it to tri- umph."

Post Office

Opens Laundry

Cologne, June 25. Cologne Post Office has opened a laundry for mall bags,

Over 2,000,000 bags will be cleaned and repaired an- nually, while 35.000 can ba cleaned and 2,000 washed every day.

The dust from the mail. bags is said to possess valu- able fertilising properties, and in pursuance of the Nazi four-year self-sufficiency plan, it will be given away to local gardeners and allotment holders to mix with heavy soils.--Reuter,

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