1939-12-12 — Page 33

NANCY

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU, YOUNG

LADY ?

I'VE GOT AN AWFUL GROUCH ON TODAY!

GRR-R--

العداء

FORCED LABOUR—Foles who have been impressed Into "work servico" In the part of Peland occupied by Germans repair this bridge near Thorn, which was dynamited by the retreating Polish army to Ira 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.

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

"When I retired from concert work last year," he said, “I 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, Padereworki and Kosciusko

they were all Poter."

WAR HIDDEN FROM KIDDIES

New York. Twelve hundred child refu- zees of the conflict in Spain have been kept in tgnorance of the outbreak of the European war. The Spanish children, are billeled in eight colonies in France.

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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

Erlo G. Muggerdge, Executive Secretary of the foster parents “plan” for "Spanish" ehlidren, anldTM Aliss 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 ali raide. Mr. Maggerdge said the chil- dren had endured for 24 years "tho Incessant bombing Spain."

artist.

In

December 12, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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

GOT TO DO THAT WHEN I'M MAD/

LEFT TO SINKING

DISOBEDIENCE SAVED LIVES

London.

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IN

DIE NAZI SHIP

BRITISH SEAMAN WAS LOCKED UP

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.

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

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. Barnard to be locked in a cabin as a prisoner. mand.

The lance - corporal cave be

before the Olinda was sunk. {noticed.

rescued five

The next day they met a British. "The British warship came quite warship, which ordered the crew to close to me once, but I was not

Abandoned ship." Mr. uncon-Barnard sald "but left me still lock-though there was no hope.

"It turned away and it looked as

Two Hours In Sea

and with it battered down the door-

The Lucky Turn

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

Mr. Barnard was landed in South

"I was trapped. I wrenched off u bass atting from the electric light panel until there was a hole large America and was sent home by a enough for me to squeeze through.

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

"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

CANNES.

British Consul.

BRIBE FOR DANES

£100,000 Fund To Buy The Press

Copenhagen.

i period of Allied intervention in

A Nazi scheme to bribe or black- Russia and told me with a smile that mali neutral newspapers and perio It is not very often that Stalin is he learned English in Brixton Prison leals into printing pro-German and criticised by a Sovlet citizen. In when I met him in Moscow. He was anti-Allied material

tonk and

deed one might accurately say that subsequently exchanged the privilege of criticising a dictator command of naval operations of a light in Copenhagen. may only be purchased by ceasing to Soviet gunboat flotilla on the Volga be a citizen of the country over which River and the Caspian Sea. He hc.rules...An indictment of Stalin possessed some literary talent and has just been drawn up by Fyodor published a play of the French Raskolnikoff, former Soviet Am-Revolution entitled "Robespierre." bassador to Bulgaria, who was re-

Open Letter cently declared an outlaw because of

his refusal to return to the Soviet From his place of refuge in Cannes,

has come to

An office has been taken in the Dagmar Hus, Deumark's most up-to- date_office_buliding, by a rebege- sellschaft," or advertising and pro- paganda company, to place advertis- ing of German goods in Danish publi- cations.

The office is under. the direction

Union, where he doubtless anticipated in souther France, Raskolnikoff of a Mr. A. Jensen, and more than the fate of many other diplomats who published an "open letter to Stalin," £100,000 in cash has been placed at have been victims of Stalin's pro- from which the following excerpts its disposal as a first instalment for longed and comprehensive purge. are characteristic:

Soviet Union during

from

the

"buying advertising space."

German agents have made it clear

their

without Like many other individuals who "You practice politics have fallen into disfavour in the ethics, power without honour, social- that no Danish publications will re-

last few ism without regard for the human the years, Raskolnikoff was G pictur belag. This socialism is as far from ceive any orders for advertising

space unless they

reviso him on the tour, as an accompanying erque and glamorous figure in the true socialism as your arbitrary per cultorial policies in All the profits of his tour will go Lancashire mill-girl.

Miss Sarah Buckley, a former early days of the Revolution. Alzonul dictatorship

a pro-German The direction, the leader of the turbulent Kronstadt diclatorship of

moro pro-German to the Red Cross. All the largest

proleurlat.

they show themselves the more ad- halls have been booked, and ho He thinks her contralto volee com- of bolshevism, Raskolnikof

sailors, who were strong supporters "You have calumniated and shot vertising they will be allotted. hopes that thousands will hear him. parable to Clara Butt's, and that she captured by the British during the Zinovielt,

wasthe companions of Lenin, Kameneff. Count McCormack will take with will soon he famous.

Bukharin, Rykoll and others, of whose innocence you were 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,

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"On the eve of a war you are in advertising passed destroying the Red Army, the pride urging members not to accept the of the country, the bulwark of its account of the "werbegesellschaft". Dower. You have decapitated the Though the war. has badly hit Red Army and the Red Navy. You nearly all Danish periodicals, the two have killed the most gifted of cur tena.ng weekly magazines, "Hjem- affeers, headed by the brilliant met" and "Danske Familie Journal," Marshal Tukhochevsky. Where Is have indicated that their. editorial Marchal Blucher? (ke former policies are not for sale and that they commander of the Soviet Far Eastern do not propose to accept advertising Army). Where is Marshni Egoro? from the "werbegesellschaft." You have arrested then, Stolini"

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Mr. Jansen has a staff of about 15 who talk persuasively to Influential members of the Danish Prets. Ruskolnikoff described his Own The "werbegesellschaft," la n' link experiences as Ambassador in Sofia, in a chain which Germany hopes to where

agent-provocateur had construct in all neutra States of caused the arrest of almost the whole Europe and America. Similar or personnel of the embassy, from the ganisations are working or being military attache to the chauffeur, planned

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Follow the example

He called the roll of a number of Switzerland, Chile and other coun- well known Soylet' writers, Pilniak, trics. Tretinkoff, Arosieff, Taranov-Rodio- noff, who had been arrested. He also mentioned the aviation constructor, Tupoks, and the modernistic then- trical producer Meyerhold as among those who had been arrested and two well known 'natural scientists, Pra- fessors Ipallest and Chichibanine, as having been forced to flee from the Stalin

country. Apostrophising.

he writes: Liko Hitler you have rekindled the auto-da-fes of books of the Middle

Ages

I have seen with my own eyes. huve lists of books, to bal

without delay, zent destroyed

to Soviat libraries, On these lists, in regard to numerous anmes of nuthors, one finds the Instructions: Suppress all books, pemohlets and pletures.“

Further reproaching Stalin with re- fusing to admit political refureca from Spain and other countries, Raskolnikoff ends, his felfer with a prediction that the Soviet dietater will be overthrown and that his crimos will be punished.

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