THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1987.
THE FIRST UNCENSORED MESSAGE
FROM RUSSIA IN TEN YEARS
The first completely uncensored message from Soviet Russia in the llast ten years was made available to the Sunday Chronicle recently.
It tells the truth, the whole truth about Stalin's amazing ten-year reign of terror, hitherto hidden from the world.
It reveals how millions of people were driven to exile, slave labour, :starvation and death in the wilderness of Siberia.
5,000,000 Victims of Stalin Terror
Here is the message:
The Soviet Government's record of consistent persecution of the Russian people during these 10 years has been un- broken.
Executions Without Trial
Even in the periods of comparative quiet, such as between the end of the famine in the autumn of 1933- and the murder of Kirov in December, 1934, routine and undramatic executions without trial continued throughout the country; the forced labour battalions continued to dig canals and lay railroad tracks; fear and sudden punishment continued as the most important cle- ments in the nation's political life..
One simple teat should suffice to prove the essentially ter- roristic character of the Stalin era; namely, the use of the death penalty for "crimes" which in civilised countries are misdemean-
ours.
Offences which at one time or another during the 1927-37 decade were made punishable by death include:-
Killing a cow without official permission; Hoarding copper and silver coins;
Stealing State property (in the U.S.S.R. this really means theft of any kind);
Attempting to leave the country without permission; Refusing to return to the U.S.S.R. from foreign countries when ordered to do so;
agninst the Soviet system of
Agitating in any manner government and economy.
The balance sheet of 10 years of Stalin's reign is mean- ingless if it does not include the following items on the debit side:
Dispersal of the Opposition-This, the opening scene of Stalin's overlordship, involved the exile to harsh climates and distant areas not merely of the leaders (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Ka- manev, Radek, Pintakov. Rakovsk, Preobrazhensky, etc., etc.), but tens of thousands of their followers.
Ordeal of Political Exiles
Many of them were allowed to return, but even more were constantly being sent out to Siberia, Central Asia, and the Far North,
MAY LOSE TITLE-Princess Baba, daughter of the English Rajah of Sarawak (northern Borneo), shown with her flance. Bob Gregory, 25, European wrestling champion claimant, at Ards airport near Belfast, Ireland. Her father, Bir Charles Brooke, objects to the engagement. Princesa Baba, otherwise known as Valeria Brooke, is afraid slie may be disinherited.
Woman Finds Mountains Under
Arctic Ocean
By Louise Morgan
A woman has discovered a hitherto uncharted range of submarine mountains between Jan Mayen and Bear Islands, in the Arctic Ocean.
She is Miss Louise A. Boyd, American Arctic ex-
SPECIAL EMPIRE
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|RADIO PROGRESS IN INDIA
Calcutta.
Proof that India is becoming more rudio-minded is furnished by
the Intest gures of the import duty un receiving apparatus, and of revenuv from wireless Hceners,
In the past year the import duty figures have risen 20 per cent, and the licence figures 30 per cent.
The dintistics are particularly significant because Indian broadcast- [ing is still poorly financed, undevelop-
xd_and_tacking in trained men.
Football in Calcutta-Islington Corinthians, the London amateur association football team, received n. most enthusiastle welcome on arriving in Calcutta. The members were decked with garlands and cheered by an churmous crowd. The first match against a. Arst-class Indian teami ended In goalless draw. The visitors, who were rather puzzled by their bare-footed opponents, show signs of being a dificult team to beat,
Canada
SOCIAL CREDIT TRIAL
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Montreal, The trial of Mr. G. F. Powell, the London Social Credit expert, on charge of defamatory libel, has been postponed unli to-morrow. His counsel anked for an adjournment to introduce new evidence.
Mr. Powell, denied having any part in the preparation of the leaflet known as "Bankers' Trades," which cited the names of nine Edmonton eltizens.
Trips to the Arctic Ellesmere Land, in the Arctic, hag the
"Hentalles climate in the world,"
to Mr. Edward Shackleton, who is making a lecture tour in the hope of raising £1,800 to cover the defelt incurred by the Oxford Ex- pedition to the Arctic in 1934 and 1035. He thinks that Canadians will soon be making holiday trips by air to the Arcllc.
South Africa.
RISING PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS
Johannesburg.
in
The Dairy Board's decision cancel further imports of butter is gamble against the weather. There is as yet no sign of a break in the drought In the ureas which supply the Rand with dairy produce."
The violent liquidation of those in the slightest measure plorer, now in London on her way home from her fifth considered here to be a disagreeing with Stalin has gone on without a day's interruption, Arctic expedition.
There are at this moment, more political exiles in Siberia then ever under the Czars-most of them being punished, it happens, for harbouring the same sort of revolutionary ideas,
Engineer-baiting. The famous Shakhty trial in May, 1928, was the signal for a nation-wide persecution of engineers and technicians which lasted for fully three years. Hundreds were shot on the thinnest evidence and on mere suspicion of sabotage, thousands were herded into concentration camps.
-Liquidation-of-the-Kulaks.-This-has-been-described-even by friends of the Kremlin as "the most spectacular act of ruth- lessness in those years."
CLIMATE'S EFFECT ON CANCER
By a Medical Correspondent A man living in London is only half as likely to die of cancer of the But the chance of his gotting cancer of the lung is nearly half as great
Sidney and Beatrice Webb, likewise beyond suspicion of exaggerating in the Kremlin's disfavour, estimate that 1,000,000 skin as another living in Lancashire. peasant families were liquidated.
Five people being the accepted average for a Russian pea-again. sant household, their estimate means 5,000,000 men, women and children.
Children Left to Dic
These facts are revealed In the annual report of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, issued to-day,
RAINFALL A CAUSE
different
parts
"How important this finding is it is too early as yet to say," she told me at her Mayfair hotel, "but in this area previously no soundings under 1,000 fathoms have been made.
"We were nble to
Only 60 per cent. of local require- ments is being produced at present, and it is believed that rationing is inevitable this weeks.
rising
The position in regard to map out prices of foodstuffs is daily becom thoroughly a considerable area ning worse, To-morrow deputations which the depth was only 350 representing the House wives' Lea- fathoms. When-our-pounding-chartsquer the National Council-of-Women, are worked out we shall find the the Trades und Labour Council, and arca is probably even shallower," the Miners' Union will Interview the
HER GOLE, CAMERAS
Minister of Agriculture, Col. Reftz, and a further deputation of rallway- matter men will discuss the same with the Minister of Raliways, Mr. Pirow.
Miss Boyd was leader and photo- rapher of the expedition, which was financed by her under the auspices of the American Geographical Socle- ty of New York. Her specialty is camera mapping, a highly technical scientifle process, and her cameras welgh 001b, cach,
Elephants' Park-The Addo Bush, near Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, famous for its clephants, has been proclaimed national park. A scheme has been devised for feeding the animals by placing piles of She left Aalesund, Norway, In the!
oranges in $ Hundreds of thousands were
the death rates.
In a clearing. Experts studied loaded into cattle cars and
from dancer in the counties and sealer Veslekurl on June 1 to study
Natives Sentenced-Two natives unloaded in northern, Siberian, and Central Asiatic wildernesses towns. They found that it attacks the formation of flords and glaciers who tried to burn hele grandchild to to shift for themselves.
in North-East Greenland. Meteoro- the body of different localities.
logical observations were also made death because she killed one of their for the Norwegian Weather Bureau Ave years' imprisonment with hard fowls have each been sentenced to There is some factor in the ex-and soundings taken on the way lubour
in the Circuli Court at ernal conditions that decides where north through the ice.
Kroonstad, Orange Free State, the tumour will appear.
With her went Dr. Richard Flint, N. Rhodesia's Prosperity-The con- of Northern prosperity But this has no effect the geologist and glaciologist, of Yale tinued
on amount of career as a whole in Universily, and his assistant, Mr. Rhodesia is reflected in the speech of Lincoln Washburn; Dr. Henry Aus- the Governor, Sir Hubert Young, the Legislative tin, head of the department of at the opening of Botany, Duke University; Mr. Fred Council session at Lusaka. Native taxation will probably be lowered. hydrographer.
Hordes of others were denuded of their belongings, often including overcoats and boots, and driven into barren districts in their own vicinities.
Disease and exposure killed off a vast number, the mortality being especially high among children and the aged; others died in the gruesome struggle to adjust themselves to the harsh con- ditions of the places where they were dumped.
Droves of children were left behind by desperato parents
In
in
the district.
The rainfall may be one cause. to roam the land as bezprizmrny or homeless waifs. Probably the skin, cancer is commonest in wet Buhler, surveyor; Nr. James Le Roy, and other tax reliefs include &d off
climates, while in the bladder it the whole history of mankind will reveal few tragedies of commonest in dry, probably because
the petrol duty and remission of the Governmental terror to match the liquidation of the Kulaks. there more moisture is excreted by
They were gone four months, with entertainments tax. The most moderate estimate of deaths would be 10 per cent., the skin.
five weeks on land between the open- or half a million. The total of suffering is beyond computation.ng, and cancer of the gullet is more were 300 miles north of the nearest
A dry climate calls for more drinking and closing of the ice.. "We | Australia Mass Executions of Scientists. Two especially startling acts frequent.
settlement and thousands of miles BATHERS KILLED BY of official ruthlessness deserve a place to themselves in the
away from the nearest ships," she sald.
SHARK 'balance-sheet of the decade.
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Field observations and camero
Sydney.
watering-
RADIO MAY CURE In 1930 the Government shot 48 professors at one time, less showed that it is
Experiments with short-wave wire- similar to without trial for alleged sabotage of the food industries. In 1938 radium in its effects
upon cancer mapping, combined with detailed Two bathers have been killed by a
mathematical calculations, will enshark at Coolangatta, a growths. it shot similarly 35 experts in the agricultural commissariats.
In both cases the "evidence," in the form of supposed con-
able the contours of uncharted flords place on the border of Queensland It acis by healing tho tissues and glaciers to be accurately plotted and New South Wales. fossions published posthumously, bore plenty of internal evidence The waves were able to cur
30 jout.
The victims were Norman Girvan, tumours in mice.
of of police tinkering and contained many childish and impossible
10, and Jack Brinkley, 25, both
shark statements.
Coolangatta.
attacked them while they were surf-bathing, Girvan was killed instantly and Brinkley badly injured. Brinkley had to have his left arm amputated in hospital, and died the next day.- Router,
Police As Taskmastors
Development of Forced Labour-As a sort of by-product of mass exiles, an extensive system of what was virtually slave labour came into being with the.G.P.U. Pollco as taskmasters.
Most foreigners here estimate the population of concentra- -tion camps, G.P.U. barracks on the construction sites, and similar
places at 2,000,000,
The building of the Baltic-White Sea canal alone involved 250,000 prisoners, tens of thousands of whom dled in laying new railroad lines in Siberia and the East.
To protect radium workers from the dangera of exposure, further resarch has been made.
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The exact amount
Young animals were exposed to the rays. This slowed down their very low growth and produced birth rate. among them."
of exposure during treatment can now be occur- ately measured. Very strict precau- tlona are necessary to prevent contact with stray rays.
FILMS OF GROWING CELLS A method has been discovered for measuring by slow-motion einernato- "Valuta" Tortures,-Beginning about 1930 and continuing|graphy the growth of the minute for several years, the Government on an organised basis rounded body cells. up people suspected of possessing valuta.
They are placed in fluid in an incu- bator and the action of different sub- That is, foreign money, gold, or silver, and precious stones.stances can be examined. Extracts "They were put through weeks and months of third-degree from glands and from bone marrow torture until they disgorged, if they had anything to disgorge, promote growth.
from Murale extracts
young In Moscow and Leningrad alone the victims totalled tens of
animals are also: effective, but the thousands, and the scourge was conducted on a nation-wide activity coon disappears when they
grow older,
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Solicitor James Yalcs, Formby (Lancs), sued for dam- ages at Liverpool Aaxixem after his car collided with twenty-two- year-old cyclist John Mark Davies, who was klifed, pleaded' that the cycllat seemed to wobble In front of his car.
Mr. JUSTICE WROTTESLEY: "Every cyclist is entitled to his wobble."
The judge added that. Yales had, "out it too fine,” awarded
£431 damages against him.
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