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THE

HONGKONG

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

Why Doctors Fly To Stalin He Is Perfectly Fit: They Go To Treat His Worn-Out Officials In Guarded Sanatorium

Paid By Gifts Of

Furs And Jewels

CONVALESCENT CAST-OFFS

SOMETIMES

SHOT

Vienna.

Viennese doctors, specialists in nerve strain, have for some time been flying to Moscow on a series of urgent calls. One will visit the Kremlin next month.

Every time they fly tongues wag in rumour-ridden Russia, "Stalin is dying.”

Professor Eppinger and Professor Noorden are the two to the doctors who most frequently receive the summons Kremlin. I was told the real reason for their visita, says a corres- pondent of the Sunday Express. This is the story:-

Stalin himself is the healthiest man in the Soviet Union. But the responsible officials around him are exhausted, sick men.

People's Commissars, members of the Politbureau or Central Executive Committee work from sixteen to eighteen hours a day. For them no Sunday off, no hoilday.

Foilure to keep up with their work racons да accusation of sabotage. That means execution.

Whenever Stalin,

and happy Оле healthy in his

forest reircat, hears that his collaborators are ap- proaching the end of their physical resources he rings up Vienna.

REST IMPOSSIBLE The doctors arrive. They are sent to a heavily guarded sanatorium for sick Soviet officials twenty miles from Moscow.

The doctors prescribe a rest cure. That, the harassed officials retort, is Impossible.

Now it becomes the doctors' turn

to overwork. Sometimes they spend

a month, working a sixteen-hour day, trying to pull the patients

Then comcs the most ironical aspect of the invalida' fate.

FREQUENTLY THE SUFFER- ERS ARE SHOT.

Worn out in mind and body, un- able, even after expert treatment, to renew the struggle for efficiency, they become useless clogs on the

machine. Stalin signs their death warrant

The Man Who Must Not

26, 1938.

ANNOUNCING

The First Issue

of

Move His Head THE FAR EASTERN MIRROR

SECOND-LIEUT. R. M. Lloyd, of the 4th/8th Punjabis-the man who must not move his head-arrived at Southampton' recently from Karachi.

He was wounded in the back of his head six months ago on the North-West Frontier, and the slightest head movement would be dangerous.

He now lies in the Military Hospital, Mill- bank, where an operation may be performed.

Teachers Would Ban

"Story" Pictures

PICTURES which "everybody knows," like "The Boy- hood of Raleigh" and "Dante's Dream," may soon disappear from our schools,

Feeling is growing among teachers that "atory" paintings of this type are educationally out of date and artistically un-

Stalin's precautions to safeguard his own health are elaborate. Come sound.

what may, he is in bed by 11 p.m. He insists on eight hours' sleep,

is meals are light. He smokes litie, takes long walks.

Teachers from 13 counties met in London inst month to discuss a scheme by which the best in painting during the paid. past 1,000 years, or the cream of the world's great galleries, can Costly presents of furs, gold, dia- be brought into the classroom. monds reach them from Stalin.

The doctors

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well

Behind

St.

But the dictator never sees

the plan is the Newi saved from corruption.

The scheme has been in experi- them. He sends a kindly rutasage Society of Art Teachers, founded re- thanking them for their services. cently by teachers at five important mental operation for two years, and This is the usual_formula:-

schools-Haileybury,

Paul's, has spread from five to 100 schools. "Comrade Stalin bids you farewell.whitgift, Charterhouse and Langford it provides that over a period of live He regrets he was not able to receive Grove. Their alms are supported by years children will have had before them 150 great works of art, a set of you. He does not want to give rea- the Courtauld Institute of Art.

fen being changed each mid-term. CAR-LOADS or SICK SOVIET on for any rumours which would

ARRIVE ALL DAY, unavoidably LEADERS

originate were BEGINNING IN THE EARLY foreign correspondent informed about MORNING.

the visit."

round.

CITY

A complete change in the teach-

The reproductions were chosen by ing of art is essential, it is felt, If Mr. Anthony Bertram, art lecturer, the taste of boys and girls is to be'and bought chiefly abroad.

A Fortnightly

OBJECT

To approach Far Eastern problems from the human angle, and to present the views of well-known writers thereon.

Some Interesting Articles in the Present Number

China Takes Her Stand, by Madame Chiang Kai shek Man On The Spot, by Robert Lynd

The Mind Of The Militarist, by Pearl Buck

Japanese Wartime Economy Kwangsi Student Army Now Poiping Puppot Rogimo

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