1939-12-12 — Page 21

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

NANCY

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU, YOUNG

LADY?

I'VE GOT AN AWFUL GROUCH ON TODAY!

GRR-R--

NOW DON'T YOU START SLAMMING DOORS OR I'LL SPANK YOU!

I CAN'T HELP IT --- I'VE

GOT TO DO THAT WHEN I'M MAD!

FORCED LABOUR~~Poles who have been impressed into "work service!! In the part of Poland occupled by Germans repair this bridge near Thoru, which was dynamited by the retreating Polish army to im- * pedo the Nazi advance.

Singing For Red Cross

COUNT JOHN MCCORMACK, who sang his farewell in London last year, while hundreds of women wept, has come out of his retirement to help Britain in

the war.

tenor

Tho Afty-five-years-old whose voice has been heard all over the world for: & quarter of a century, sang at Manchester in aid of the Red Cross. And his voice will be heard again soon in London. All through the winter he will go from une place to another.

"I

"When I retired from concert work last year," Pe said,, never dreamed i should so soon be making such a strenuous tour. But

I want to show in a practical way my sympathy for the country of Chopin, Paderewski and Kosciusko -they were all Poles."

All the profits of his tour will go to the Red Cross. All the largest balls have been booked, and he hopes that thousands will hear him.

Count McCormack will take with

WAR HIDDEN FROM KIDDIES

New York.

Twelve hundred child refu- rees of the conflict in Spain have been kept in Ignorance of the outbreak of the European war. The Spanish children are billeted in eight colonies in France.

Erlo G. Muggerdge, Executive Secretary of the foster parents plan for Spanish children..said. Miss Esme Odgers, American administrator of the group's headquarters here the children might become "unmanageable," If they knew about the war, be- cause of their fear of air raids. Mr. Muzzerdge said the chil- dren had endured for 2 years "the Incessant

bombing in Spain."

میسج شام

LEFT TO

December 12, 1939.

Bushmiller

DIE

NOV 9

IN

SINKING NAZI SHIP

DISOBEDIENCE SAVED LIVES

London.

Official appreciation of a lance - corporal's disobedience at Black-to pool was expressed by General Sir Henry jack- General Officer Commanding in Chief

son -

+

SEAMAN UP

BRITISH WAS LOCKED

MR. JOSEPH WILLIAM BARNARD, who was left die, locked in a cabin in the doomed German steamer Olinda, is back at his home in Dimond-road, Southampton. He had served on German ships for some time and was a quartermaster in the Olinda when the war started.

The ship was bound for South America,

When the declaration of war was known'on board, the captain

of the Western Com-ordered Mr. Burnard to be locked in a cabin as a prisoner.

mand.

The lance - corporal rescued five uncon- scious

men from ង blaze at the Indian Theatre at Blackpool, and in spite of his severe burns, applied artificial respiration to them.

The next day they met a British "The British warship came quite warship, which ordered the crew to close to me ence, but I was not leave before the Olinda was sunk. noticed.

They nbandoned ship," Mr. Barnard said "but left me still lock- Jed in the cabin.

Two Hours in Sca

"I was trapped. I wrenched off a

bras fitting from the electric light

and with It battered dawn the door- panel until there was a hole large enough for me to squeeze through.

But even then I was not out of danger. I had to jump overboard from the sinking ship.

"I was swimming about in the sea! for over two hours.

STALIN'S DOWNFALL FORECAST BY RED

By William Henry Chamberlin

"It turned away and it looked as though there was no hope.

The Lucky Turn

turn.

"But then it made another spotted me, and sent a boat."

Mr. Barnard was landed in South America and was sent home by British Consul.

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Copenhagen.

n

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period of Allied intervention in

A Nazi scheme to bribe or black- Russia and told me with a smile that CANNES.

he learned English in Brixton Priodicals into printing pro-German and mail neutral newspapers and peric- when I met him in Moscow. He was unti-Allied material has come subsequently exchanged and tools command of naval operations of a "ght in Copenhagen. Soviet, unuant flotilla on the Volga An office has been taken in the River and the Caspian Sea. He Dagmar Hus, Denmark's most up-to- possessed come literary talent and date office building, by a "wrebege- published play of the French sellschaft," or advertising unil pro Revolution entitled "Robespierre." Am-

paganda company, to place advertis- ing of German goods in Danish publi- callons.

Open Letter

*

It is not very often that Stalin is criticised by Soviet citizen. In- deed one might accurately say that the privilege of criticising a dictator may only be purchased by ceasing to te a citizen of the country over which he rules. An indictment of Stalin has just been drawn-up-by-Fyodor Raskolnikoff, forner Soviet bassador to Bulgaria, who was re- cently declared an outlaw because of his refusal to return to the Soviet Union, where he doubtless anticipated the fate of many other diplomats who Stalin's pro- have been victims of longed and comprehensive purge.

Like many other Individuals who ***You practice polities have fallen into disfavour in the ethles, power without honour, soclad- German agents have made it clear Soviet Union during the last few lam without regard for the human that no Danish publications will re- years, Raskolnikoff was a

pictur-being. This socialism is as far from ceive any orders for advertising han on the tour, as an accompanying! esque and glamorous figure in the true socialism as your arbitrary per space,

unless they revise their artist. Miss Sarah Buckley, a former carly days of the Revolution. Α. ΣΟΠΗ dictatorship from the editorial policies in a pro-German Lancashire mill-girl.

direction. leader of the turbulent Kronstadt dictatorship of the proletarint.

The more pro-German sallors, who were strong supporters "You have calumniated and shot they show themselves the more ad- of bolshevism, Raskolnikot was the companions of Lenin, Kamenoff, vertising they will be allotted. parable to Clara Butt's, and that she captured by the British during the Zinovie, Bukharin, Rykoff and

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"buying advertising space."

without

very well aware. Before their death As soon as the full implication of you forced them to express re-this impudent scheme came to light, pentence for crimes which they have a special meeting of the council of never committed,

Denmark's Incorporated practitioners "On the eve of a war you are in advertising passed n resolution destroying the Red Army, the pride urging members not to accept the of the country, the bulwark of its account of the "werbegesellschaft". power. You have decapitated the

Though the war Red Army and the Red Navy. You nearly all Danish periodicals, the two has badly hit have killed the most gifted of our leading weekly magazines, "Hjem- officers, headed by the brilliant met" and "Dansk Familie Journal," Marshal Tukhachevsky, Where is have indicated that their editorial Marshal Bluecher? (the

former policies are not for sale and that they commander of the Soviet For Eastern do not propose to accept advertising Army). Where is Marshal Exproff? from the "werbegesellschaft," You have arrested them, Stalin!"

Experiences Told

or-

Nr. Jansen has a staff of about 15 who talk persuasively to influential members of the Danish Press. „Raskolnikoff described his own The "werbegesellschaft," is a link experiences as Ambassador in Sofia, in a chain which Germany hopes to where an agent-provocateur had construct in all neutral States of caused the arrest of almost the whole Europe and America. Similar personnel of the embassy, from the Banisations are working or being nilitary attache to the chauffeur, planned for Norway, Sweden, He called the roll of a number of Switzerland, Chile and other coun- well known Soviet writers, Pilnink, tries. Tretiakoff, Arosleft, Tarasov-Rodlo- noff, who had been arrested. He also mentioned tile aviation constructor, Tupoteft, and the modernistle then- trical producer Meyerhold as among those who had been arrested and two well known natural relentists, Pro- fessors Ipatieff and Chichibanine, as having been forced to filce from the

country. Apostrophising Stalin

again, he writes:

"Like Hiter you have rekindled the auto-da-fes of books of the Middle Ages. I have seen with my own eyes huge lists of boolts, to be destroyed without delny, sent to Soviet libraries. On these lists, in regard to numerous nanies of authors. one Ands the instructions: Suppress all books, pamphlets and pictures."

Further reproaching Stalin with re- Tuning

to admit political refugees from Spain, rind other countries, Raskolnikoff ends his letter with a predletion. that the Soviet dictator, will be overthrown and that his crimes will be punished.

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