1937-07-19 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 19, 1937.

STALIN'S STORY OF THE PURGE Keep

Has A Budget Crisis Every Saturday

Abbots Ripton (Hunts), June 25.

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

cottage on Saturdays, and hands wife, Mrs. Mayes starts to think.

She has the same problem every Saturday:---

How can 31s. 314d. he made to last week when you have elght! children, the eldest a boy of fourteen and the youngest a de- licato baby of six months who. must have milk?

Here is Mrs. Mayes's budget:--

d.

Grocer

15

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п

Baker

Cont..

Potatoes

Butcher.

A

3

1

MIK. Which leaves 1134d. for clothes.

"And If any one thinks he can do it better," lier husbunkt sold to-day, he

take come can

und the money and try."

Tired-faced. dark-batred Mrs. Moyes sald:

It is the clothes that are so hard. The children must have them, but in a good week there is never more than 28. left.

At that moment the baker arrived. He carried in four large loaves,

"They will be gone by Thursday," caid Mrs. Mayes. "A louf doesn't last long here."

Mr. Mayes has been ill, but ex- pects to go back to work next week. Ile kald:-

over his week's wages to the

WHEN THE VICAR TELLS A STORY

Should a elergyman's language bet 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-

re, framed to protect the credit of the clergy from the effect of negli- tent Incumbents.

"A layman tells a story which is considered to be quite proper," he nald,

"it when a vlear tells the same story it is regarded 打你 im-

proper.

"I object to that distinction, There i is only one standard for all Chris- finns."

Canon J. V. Bullard (Ripon) des- eribed the measure as like a mer muld," The front part of human, and the tall of it was flslıy.

It

was!

children had not been sent to school.

"I ret the cottage rent free. · I Well, une was it, and the other had grow in few greens, but I can'tjno shoes to go in,

grow enough potatoes for the chil- "The magistrates ordered me to dren; they eat a bushel a week. pay 4s., the cost of the summons, "I was summoned yesterday at St. but they puld the money and added Ives Police Court because two of the

an extra 25. to be sent to me."

The preparations for the next Olympiad which will take place in Tokyo in 1940, are already in full swing. Our picture shows Japanese priests blessing; the ground on which the stadium is to be built

Charles Laughton's Stage Plans

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

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 said. "is slil to play King Lear."

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Russia's Value As Ally

Now Increased

HE News Chronicle was able last month to publish THE

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

In order to allay 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.

tho

purge

has

the

Stalin's conclusion is that Only when the capitalists were ex-

a war and increased hausied by such Russia's value na an ally, workers in revolt everywhere, should the Red Army march-to establish strengthened the Soviet rea Communist state of society.

Stalin

gime and left the morale of

"THEREFORE I STRUCK" the Red Army unshaken.

held that such a politlent According to Stalin's memor-conception would merely result in the downfall of Soviet Russia, and andum, Tukhachovsky and the that the men holding it were traitors. others were not charged with "Therefore I struck," he says in his treason in any vulgar sense.

were

memorandum.

Stalin declares that Tukhnchevisky WORLD REVOLUTION They did not betray secrets to the established contracts with the Ger- potential enemy for money nor, ap-man Reichswehr at Rapallo, which, parently, did they betray military notwithstanding Hitler and his re- gime, continued almost to the eve of secrets. properly so-called, at all.

his execution. He Insists, however, that they

Concerning with constant touch

Yogodu, the chief, of German

the G.P.U., he explains he was shot agents and military officers, and were at pains not only to discurs for betrayal of trust, having accepted.

bribes dans in Russia, but to crilici should have arrested.

from speculators whom he ley of the Sovlet Government. policy of They (the Generals) are accused

conditions in

the

The com

comparison made In

some

of having had a desire to wreck the quarters abroad between the Moscow Russian alliances with bourgeois executions and the Nazi "purge" of Governments and of hostility to June 30, 1934, seems to have touched wards a line of action which finds the Russian dictator on the raw. expression in Russia's membership HITLER'S "BLOOD BATH"

of the League.

They wanted Germany to be em- broiled in war with other capitalist Siates and Russin to remain outside the confilet.

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"There is no parallel," he writes. "What took place in Germany was a sheer blood bath. Communists, Socialists, Roman Catholics, dissi- dent Nazis were shot down indis- criminately without trial.

The

know the facts

Nazis never let the world. of the slaughter. They said that only some 200 had been killed, 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 trials in Moscow some time back were held In public, and at the triol 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 thele judgment well aware that should my enemies gain power in Russia they would be among the first to be put against the wall."

CONFESSIONS

the

Stalin mentions the suspicion en- tertained in some quarters of the spontaneity or genuineness of "confessions" of the eight Generals. He declares that this readiness to confess car

be understood cannot

by |people who are ignorant of the work-

ings of the Siny soul.

"The Slav," he says, inkes as 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 mail bags.

Over 2,000,000 bags will be cleaned and repaired an- nually, while 35,000 can be 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 Nazl 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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