1938-02-19 — Page 23

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Leningrad To Become Giant Soviet Naval, Air Base FOREIGNERS WILL

BE TOLD TO

LEAVE CITY

Leningrad, second city of Soviet Russia, is being turned into a gigantic naval dockyard, ar- senal and base.

No foreigners will be allowed to remain in the city, where the "large and powerful navy, corresponding to Russia's might and interests," announced by Premier Molotov in the Soviet Parliament, is to be built

And in the Far East, where the Air Force and Navy aro being maintained on a war-front footing, the constline facing Japan is being strongly fortified; plane and submarine bases and a new military town are being built rapidly.

Man Makes

Family Live

As Animals

New York.

Conversion of Leningrad into a naval centre is the real reason for the decision to have no more foreign consulates there-a decision against which the British Ambassador has been protesting.

Leningrad will be made a closed zone: even the crews of foreign ships will be allowed ashore only in |a strictly limited area.

New ship-buliding yards, equipp ed for building and repair of the Heavily-armot sheriff's deputies biggest capital ships, are already captured to-day in the wild San forward as repidly as possible.

under construction and being pushed Gabriel Canyon, 30 milca from Loa

Angeles, a religious maniac named Mark Silverman.

HOME AGAIN -- II. IL Ekins, famed war correspondent of the United Press, as he arrived aboard an airplane at Beattie, Wash., after six months' tour of duty covering the Bint-Japa-. nese war. "From the stand- point of danger of missiles," ho said, "it was the toughest `na- signment in my 15 years of roaming the world for nows.”

EX-KAISER'S IRONY

me includes three 35,000-ton battle- ships with 16-inch guns.

The Immediate buliding program View of Japan in

According to his mother, he had

Stalin has ordered 40-year-old P. terrorised his young brother and A. Smirnov appointed Commissar sister-in-law into living with him for the Navy on January 1-to push like animals for the last three all work forward at top speed. months,

Simultaneously with the develop The mother, who is 62, limped into ment Leningrad as the great dock- a sheriff's office and said that since yard centre, its "guardian" fortress September she too had been one of of Kronstadt is being overhauled and the maniac's captives.

strengthened.

GRASS DIET

:

They had wandered about naked, THE FESTIVAL OF THE living on nuts and grass and what- ever could be stolen from the dust- bing of a nearby mountain camp.

his

Silverman, according to mother's report, went home одо day, kicked open the door and shouted that he was the Redeemer of the world.

CHILDLESS CHINESE

MOTHER

(Continued from Page 6.)

ternity" will remove from her the He said he had come to save his curse of a barren womb. family, for the world would end on

To the children, Ilkowise, the Christmas Eve and they must pre-event of the 15th of the first moon

pare,

1905

London.

Recent research through the ex- Kaiser's pre-war speeches re- vealed comments which seem most ironical in view of Ger- many's new-found friendship with Japan.

·

Discussing the "yellow peril," the ex-Kaiser said in 1905;—"The Japan- ese are the scourge of God Before the Russo-Japanese War, "Everyone knows what must come to pass between Asia and. the West, the yellow race and the white.... Duz- ing the Russo-Japanese war, After the war, "My God. How I my battalions had a chance at them

We'd make 'short work of

is fighting the white man's b. "Run

Is of importance; for the mothers the Ja HCA....

First he burned the bedclothes and and grandmothers make it a point furniture in the home and smashed of presenting gally-hued paper danger to us is not from Japan but Interviewed In 1008, he said, "The the china. Then, taking a few clothes lanterns to the little toto. Young from Japan heading an Asiatic bloc.. and a bag of walnuts, ho loaded his stern, take special delight in form- mother, his brother and his sister-in-

I know well that one day we'll low into a car and drove to theng nocturnal processions and go have to fight to the death with Japan. Ing from shrine to shrine, jauntily "Japan's control of China would be Canyon,

holding their lantorna aloft and CLOTHES SINFULTM

raising their childlah voices in the worst calamity that could threaten There he told them that clothes rustic songs such as the following: the world. We'll be wise it we divide the East against itself. A particular duty which the white man ewes hin- self at the moment is to

prevent Japan from swallowing China.

*The United Slates must realise gravity of the Asiatic problem.....

"If China needs a big brother, I suppose we, and not Japan, could be that brother. It would be possible for the United States, in agreement

were sinful and made them undress.

--They slept"on"bare"ground in the cave, which was their only protection from the rain. When the world failed to end according to his prediction, Silverman relented to the extent of setting his mother free.

search.

"You tong, you tang, Chap koh ngan-ts'in leung fan-fan; Yau-koh, yau-koh, Chong-to kok lo t'aai-poh, T'eng taal-kwoo, ta taal-loh, Kung-hei toh-hol."

This verso may be freely rend- She led the sheriff's officers in their ered into English somewhat after

this manner; "Whilst we

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Wellington. The Minister In Charge of Avia- tion, Mr. F. Jones, has announced that the Government has approved the appointment of a special com- millee to investigate the sultability of Wellington Harbour na a base for overseas lying-boats,

For some time there has been a controversy whether Wellington or Auckland provides better facilities for a flying-boat terminus-Reuter.

are strolling about with lighted lanterns, whilst we are strolling about with lighted lanterns,

if we should happen to pick up some money, let us share it amongst ourselves; Whilst taking a boat ride on the

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Let us listen to the roll of the big drum, and beat the big gong, (Conveying by their sounds) glad tidings of felicitations for the coming months,"

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"Japan's ambitions must be restrict- ed to the white man's interests. China must be protected and the consolida- tion of the East in Asia must be prevented.

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