1938-04-18 — Page 7

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1983,

Four Million People Held In Prisons

Of Soviet

Russia

HOW THE DREADED OGPU MAKES ITS VICTIMS CONFESS WHILE THE TWENTY-ONE OLD GUARD BOLSHEVIKS CRY, “GUILTY, GUILTY,

ACCUSATIONS GUILTY" TO ALL

WHO

OF

ESPIONAGE, SABOTAGE, TROTSKYISM, TERRORISM, BROUGHT AGAINST THEM IN MOSCOW, A FORMER HIGH SOVIET BEEN TWO HAD COMMISSAR, YEARS IN AN OGPU PRISON, DESCRIBED HOW THE DREADED SECRET POLICE OF RUSSIA EXTRACT EXACTLY WHAT CON- WISH FROM THEIR FESSIONS THEY PRISONERS.

For many years the commissar, whose family is still in the Soviet Union, held one of the highest posts in Russia. He was a personal friend of Rykoff. Rosengoitz, Bukharin and others now standing on trial.

He himself has drunk the famous "talking drug" given by the Ogpu to extract from prisoners what con- fessions they wished. He pledged me not to disclose his name, because he knows if that were done all his relatives would be arrested.

"I was arrested on charges of espionage and anti-Stalin activi- "I was put in a ties," he said. solitary cell in the Lubianka Prison. The ceiling was only seven feet high,

"Bright Nights blazed the whole time, month after month. The little window was covered by steel shut- 1Cr There was no day and night. It was all the same.

"On the wall was a notice written in English, Russian, German and French, which run, Anybody open- the shutters will be shot im- mediately.

ing

very hour or so an Ogpu tuurd open a little shutter in the would door, push the muzzle of a pistol through and follow me round with the hard " tried to sleep on worden bench by covering eyes!

B.

into the forest in waist-deep snow to

faint would

they 15 "Some the trees.

worked at the trees, and freeze to death on the ground. At night the others would return to the bar- racks and fight like mad dogs to obtain a place near the few stoves.

When the uproar became too great the guards rushed in with fixed bayonets to quell the disturbance. COMMISSAR'S JOKE

3

"I became acquainted with

Solovelski commissar. He former was an undersized little fellow with some peculiar enjoyments. One was to make his prisoners rip naked in the freezing cold and force them to sit across the sharp top of a well. Then, protected by guards, he would pick them off with a revolver, laugh- ing heartily as they fell.

The death rate was enormous. I every year. There was just nobody

STATUE TÓ IRELAND'S

PATRON SAINT

PAORAIST

STATUE OF ST. PATRICK, erected on a hill at Sileve Patrick, near Saul, County Down, and dedicated on St. Patrick's Day, as part of the celebration of the 1500th anniversary of the Saint's arrival in Ireland. Designed by French Noyle-James, the statue is 37 feet high, on the site whire the Salat landed.

Manners

Of Modern

Britons Abroad

Do They Do As The Romans Do?

Lord Snell believes that when you, as the typical

RADIO BROADCAST

Soprano Song Recital

From the Studio

LONDON RELAYS

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Frequencies of 845 kc.o. 9.52 m.c.'s. per second.

11.K.T.

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe- dral.

12.30 Saint-Saens Carnival Of The Animals.

Played by

The

Philadelphia

Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

12.50 Songs by Elizabeth Schumaan Flagstad Kirsten and (Soprano)

(Soprano).

Auf Flugein Des Gesanges (Helne Elizabeth -Mendelssohn)......

Schumann; (a) Lachen Und Weinen, Op. 59, No. 4 (Ruckert-Schubert); (b) Meine Liebe 1st Grun, Op. 63 No. 5 (Schumann-Brahms); Die (Schubert). **** Forelle, Op. 32 Kirsten Flagstad.

1:9 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 Barnabas Yon Geezy and is

with

Robertson Stuart Orchestra (Baritone).

Siciliana (Apollonio); Blue Skies (Rixner). .... Orchestra; That Song In My Heart (From "The Show); Dolores (From

Gang 'Millions').

Stuart Robertson: Mexican Serenade (Kaschubec);

Serenade (Midgley).

Cuban Orchestr

Watching The Stars (From 'Splinters Stuart Robertson; In The Air'). Castanet-Waltz (Willy Richartz); Espana Waltz (Waldteufel).

Orchestra.

ond Rugby Press, 1.30 Reuter Weather Forecast and Announce- menis.

1.40 Variety Recorda

Organt Solo Fila Hils.

Sidney Torch (Organ); Vocal-In Deinen Augen Les Ich Ein Marchen Nur Dir Will (Niederberger-Heller);

lich,

Gehoren (Wilczynski

Van

Aaken)....Joseph Schmidt (Tenor);

Plane-In A Little Gipsy Tea

Room

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Lulu's Back In Town (From 'Broad-

wuy

Gondolier')

Solo George

Wood assisted by

Scott

Guitar, Drums; Vocal-Remember Me (From Mr. Dodd takes the Air'); Here (From 'Mr. Comes The Sandman

Air'), takes the Carliste; Piano Solos-Charlie Kunz

Dodd

Elsie

With my cost to shut out the Bent. imate that about 2,000 people died Briton, go abroad you demand of the little inn you patron-Plano Medley No, R. 12. ... Charlie

An Ogpu guard came in, shook me, sak. There is no sleep here.

"The Lublanka Prison is as silent s the grave except when one hearsi the whispers of a man talking to from sudden ery himself, OF nother cell,

it

WILL-POWER SAPPED

"One is forbidden to make a sound, and you feel as though you are in a cemetery.

"Once when I was being taken to a cross-examination 1 saw a boy? being dragged down a passage by

men. The boy cried out.] three They struck him heavily In the face, prised his mouth open, forced an iron clamp on his tongue.

This is a house where no one speaks! they said.

was eight months in the Lu- biarka Prison, and had about forty- live cross-examinations, many lasting

Orchestra Two

The Moonlight.....

to

peal."

whom the prisoners could apise in Pschzkycethdol, that charming little beauty-spot of indoorbarn and His Music wil

Stalin is fanatle. He believes the Remoter Carpathians:

Kunz

(Piano);

vocal

that his will is divine, and allows

no advler to alter his decisions.

Is intense. "Ils

personality Those in close contact with him

the can almost feel

power of authority which seems to eruanale from him.

"As long as he lives the state of

(a) Bacon-and-eggs and marmalade for breakfast;

(b) The Times every morning;

(e) Punch every Wednesday;

That you dress in tweeds with a deer-stalker cap (This Style things in the Soviet Union will not Worn By Sherlock Holmes) and carry a vacuum flask of tea slung alter.

over your shoulder with your camera.

Yesterday the military attache

Speaking to the Polytechnic Touring Association, he drew an of the Soviet Embassy in Warsaw, General Rybalka, who was pappalling picture of the insular Briton flinging up all the windows, pointed four months arrested. Ryhalka received a tele- demanding "splendid isolation" at meal-times, and generally com-

ago, was

Billy

retrain.

2.15 Close Down,

5.0-8.03 European Programme. 8.03-11.0 Chinese Programme.

Relay of the Dance Orchestra, from the Roof Garden of the Houg kong Holel.

(a) The Donkey Serenade; (b) my heart; (d) The Door is open again. Little Old Lady; (c) What will I tell

5.16

Music from Z.B.W.

recorded Dance

Interval of 5.20 (a) You Can't Run away from Love; (b) Chinatown; (c) Darktown Sham Strutters Ball; (d) Shim

phone call from his wife, who is in porting himself-when he did not get what he wanted and what Shi Interval of recorded Darice

Moscow. "Get permiss on to come

back

Get the

Bald. "Our he was used to-with an insufferable scorn, as who should say: at once." le con is very i11.

"What else can you expect from foreigners!" The general took the next train to statlon At the frontier Moscow.

5.35

Musle from Z.D.W.

5.40 (a) Hawailan Hospitality; (b)

Dance But other views indicate that Lord lived abroad must of his life and has Avalon; (c) Where are you; (d) Mid-

6.35 Interval of recorded seen all nationalities en voyage, is night And Musle. convinced that the average travelling

6.0 Delyse;

(a) s long as six or seven hours. The Ogpu guards entered his compart-Snell is 20 or 30 years behind the

(b) All the way to would sit in comfortablement and put him under arrest on times.

and Trot- Mr. W. R. Todd, Superintendent of Englishman to-day gets as much kick Music from Z.D.W.

Song in your Heart. Ireland; (c) Commissurs

Dance charge of espionage

the Thomas Cook and Son, Lid., who has out of Swiss rolls and cherry jam for

treakfast 125 from climbing chairs, with pintes of delicious food a

6.15 Interval of recorded and bottles of wine before them. skylam.

Matterhorn; from goulasch as from Music from Z.B.W. They would say: 'Confess and your

Tzigane music,

6.20 (a) A Blues Serenade; (b) Ring Dem Bells; (e) Ebb Tide.

6.30 For The Children. Teddy Bears Picnic "Variety"

(Kennedy and Bratton). Orchestr Novelty

The B.B.C. Dance

can have what you like.

"Finally they offered me a glass

of water.

I drank it, and then

before my self-realisation went 1

It was the kness what. It wIK. Malking drug.

Laughed till my sides spili for ive minutes. I suddenly felt in marvellous health and good spirits Then I felt the most inexplicable argo to shout out everything I

knew.

"It was impossible to resist. Will power had, of course been capped by months of solitary confinement and dead silence. But Sull, nothing I

had said could incriminate me.

"Finally, when the room was near- ly dark, they brought me a harmless- looking document to sign. Suddenly I realised that the papers were so arranged that they intended me to sign a full 'confession, hidden behind the first sheet.

They always threatened: "If you don't contess your relatives will be arrested.'

SCIENCE LIFTS FOG FROM DEATH VALLEY

Brussels.

Doudly fors which for years have threatened the Meuse Valley-and in three days in 1930 killed 63 people-can now be prevented.

דיי

JUST BAD MANNERS "There are insular people, of course," he said "but they're not all English Americans who clamour for iced water in the desert; Tyroleans who wear feathers in their hats whe.. directed by Henry Hall with vocal they walk down Piccadilly; French-chorus: The Birthday Of The Nur

Wood)....

The Corona Babes with potatoes.

en who turn up their noses at bolled sery Rhymes (M. Carr and Scott

"But they are

rarities. They've Scott Wood and is Orchestra; A Round Weat been

getting rarer ever since I cu Ring, A Ring O'Roses (arr. Chalmers Chalmers Chalmers Wood's Orches After years of experiment scientists of the Belgian Health remember, And to-day they are very Wood): Three Times

Englishman to-dny is a true cosmo- Wood), ....

Gilbert and Department have proved that the fogs which have made "Death few and far between. The travelled The Gallant Ship (arr.

politan: he takes what he is given and tra with vocal refrain. 6.45 Excerpts from Vailey" notorious can be "fired," literally and figuratively.

Sullivan. Two military planes flew over the enjoys it-largely because It's 'differ- Not only that, but they have shown

"Pirates Of Penzance", drawbacks to many

(a) Pour.

O Pour, The Pirate that "firing" is a defence against gasaren. They reported that the fog was ent. There are

being drained upward to 450ft. and used in warfare.

unable to are not those of insularity. Too often Sherry..... Stuart Robertson and Male Chorus; (b) When Fredric Was In charge of the work is Professor that the fumes from the 200 ft tall British travellers to-day-but they

they are due just to bad manners.

A Little Lad..... Dorothy Gill; (a) L. Dautrebande, of Liege University, factory chimneys were

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Oh, Better Far To Live And Dic..... who for two years worked under descend.

Two more tests were carried out.

have seen Englishmen going Professor J. S. Haldane at Oxford.

False One, You Have Deceived Post-mortem examinations on those Soldiers fired gas bullets towards the

overs and tweed jackets, but the vast Me... Dorothy ill and Derek Grifin of death to be sulphurous tunes from who died in 1930 revealed the cause burning piles. The gas was cursed about in Africa in grey flannels, pull- Peter Dawson and Male Choras; (b) A factory discharged towards majority of them dress to suit the Oldham; (a) 'Tis Mabell: (b) Poor

country. Similarly, I have seen Wand'ring Ones nearby factories.

the fires a dense cloud of soxious pericet caricature of a German, with and Chorus of Girls; (a) What Ought fumes. When they reached the shaven head and fat feet, tramping We To Do, Gentle Sisters, Say?.. draught area they were wafted up in South Europe with hiking boots Nelile Bricrcliffe and Nellie Walker; Professor Haldane-wrote to his

and out of the valley.

and saucepan tied on to his heavy (b) How Beautifully Blue The Sky. former pupil telling him that, although

(Continued on Page 5.) London fog was thicker and heavier

Professor Dautrebaride was delight rucksack.

"But these are the exceptions-not- than any in the "Death Valley," yet

ed. "We can now fight any return of "During my time as comminger there had never been a case of fog fog to the valley," he cold. Piles the rule, and if we can improve our learned that there are about 120,000 poisoning. men and women in Ogpu prisons in Ile attributed this to the ground of imber will be kept ready, and at manners where they need it, we shall Moscow alone. In all the prisons, concentration camps, forced labour heat developed in large cities, which the first forecast of fog the Inhabitants do more to create good will towards camps, and forced colonies in the caused a permanent upward draught, are not to stop here. The health Doour, country as a whole than by a

Warking on this suggestion, Pro Partment is to continue them with a great deal of official diplomacy."

low to protecting civilian popula- Soviet Union there must be more

fessor Dautrebande devised a scheme tions against gas warfare. than four million people.

to fire the for. "I visited some Ume

ago the

Meteorological experts having re- Solovetski concentration camps on the White Bea. They are situated cently forecast a dense fog on three islands and on the adjoining rolessor had a number of timber mainland. I estimated there were piles lit in the valley-small ones in the villages, of Engis and Hermailo: about 18,000 prisoners, there.

the factories.

"Then I was taken to Moscow's

arc

about Buttrici Prison. There

I was 25,000 prisoners held in it. put into a room twenty-five feet by twenty feet in which were no fewer than 107 other prisoners.

RED RUSSIA'S PRISONS

HALDANE'S ADVICE

the

up.

Lauder Telepathy

telepathy between members of the families.

"They were bound by strong sym- pathies, and corresponded regularly," Bydney. nhe decinred. "Some of the letters Mrs. Jack Lauder, sister-in-law of proved without a doubt that almilar Sir Harry Lauder, declared to-day at thoughts had passed through their

"They lived in huge barracks sur-] largor ones und all-night. This her home at Stockton, New Southminds simultaneously,"

rounded by barbed wire. They must

The fires

cut Limber for work. I watched morning it was found that while the Wales, that her husband, who died

them in the winter being driven out environe were shrouded in

by Ogpu guards with fixed beyosiets mist "Death Valley's was clear.

Telepathy was mentioned by Sir thick on Sunday, and Bir Harry were con-Harry Lauder in the course of a cable

vinced of the existence of mental of sympathy, Exchange.

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