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March 6, 1940.

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JOSEPH STALIN still has accomplices, paid and unpaid,

in this country, where the truth is not hidden from them. "Stalin's Men had at once changed their stop and followed For 1940 it has been made larger and wider, and therefore, their Leader. Their old pamphlots, speeches, articles, and mani-

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Wednesday, March 6, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong

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An Orgy Of Lies

This is the offcial voice und warning of the British Labour their members-booklet entitled "Finland. The criminal con- spiracy of Stalin and Hitler."

"A. Far from it. No ordinary political pamphlet, this. spade shall be called a spade," say its authors, and it is probable that nothing so strong in denunciation has over before been issued by any responsible British political party.

"Blackmail And Brutality"

HERE are some examples of the phrases-justifiable phrases

-employed:

The real depth of iniquity of M. Joseph Stalin is still un- known. His 30 pieces of silver are already stained with the blood of his own nameless and countless Russian dead.

M. Joseph Stalin and Herr Adolf Hitler embraced over the prostrate body of Poland.

Whether M. Joseph Stalin devours those whom he loves, whether he was under the hypnotic spell of Adolf the Conqueror or Peter the Great, or whether he was now the victim of new morbid anxieties, the reader is nt liberty to speculate,

The Flons are the victims of a polley of deception, blackmail, tric- kery, cynicism, and brutality not dissimilar to the subtle crucity of Japanese militarism, but exceeding In cunning and dissimulation the diplomacy of Russian Czardom and Nazi Germany,

"A new precedent in international perddy" "The grim joke of the Finnish People's Government"..

The Red Czar is now the executor Czarist Russin'--such phrases drip of the traditional imperialism of

ke vitriol from the pen.

MANY people in this and neutral countries must be puz- zled as well as astonished by the mad excesses of untruth in

And between them, interlacing a which the compounders of the well-told narrative of the events Nazi war bulletins are at pre-which led up to the "rape of Finland” -and to what else yet to come?- sent indulging. Recently they there runs constantly the warning have easily surpassed all their expressed so directly by quotation at | own previous best, or worst, the start of this article. efforts..

The campaign of lies has been conducted with clumsiness and recklessness that are bound to

defeat themselves. Everyone

remembers the notorious case of the Ark Royal. The Nazis'

A

A New Slavery WARNING against "Stalin's Men" the description us a new title of shame is constantly repeated a warning against Staila's Men in

our own land.

Mr. Harry Pullitt is named, that

-the

Swoth inch skij

of lightly válcanSDA

fecret of the whole few thick layer of rubber, which: Swells contact with petrol om a bullet-hole and

STRONGER attack; stronger de- doesn't get away with it for long, fence the race goes on at break Up comes a man with an aeroplane neck speed. In the great battle of in that con fire 300 1b. explosive the air someone invents a bullet hella a minute. Bang goes your proof petrol tank. It is fitted as mechine-gun-bullet-proof petrol the intest development in iritish tank.

and German 'planes. It's a grand These shell guns are the biggest, ten, hve layer thick. and stung newest thing in aircraft armament ilke a man in a hammock on wob They have twice the range at most bing straps inside the 'plane's wings. machine-guns, hut they weigh more If the attack is so lerce thot a not have a heavy recóll, so it's not hulle doen drive its way through, every land that can stand the then the hote automatically acata strain. Germany uses them to her itself (Caption 3), -

Messerschmitts, Dorniers, Heinkels. But the sett-sening tank leventer Britain, of course, has them loo.

bigger the gun

to pierce it

Section through Tank

20mm. shall gun firing 300 1/4 lb. cxplosive shells per minute

Stalin so short a time ago as Marel of last year, when he said:

And so to the blood bath of the from the Labour Publication Depart- Mannerheim Line,

ment, Transport House, London, "We stand for peaceful, close and Certainly a document that every- S.W.1. Price, including postage, 241⁄2d, friendly relations with all the neigh- one should read. Those to whom it bouring countries which have com- is not distributed (as members of the mon frontiers with the U.S.S.R."? Labour Party) can obtain

then

And then

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copy

John Crofton

they'll

again

go

back to sea

You

W

FOU will soon see them on the [could not get to their familles straight enough that way, then the Shipping: news reels, seven or eight away: Australians and New Zealand-Federation and the National Union of

300-and-odd bedroomed Empire Mem-

There is not much need to go Mr. Hurry Pollt who is now Com-young fellows in clothes that er among them. They went to the Seamen are ready to help them. attempts to prove that she hul munist candidate in the Silvertown don't quite fit, and you will hear forint Hall of the British Sailors anooping round docks for a ship just

them say how nice it is to be a Society at Limehouse, E. been sunk were a serious blun-by-election.

This super-hostel for British der. The

Of him this pamphlet notes that sailor home from the sea... among the birthday congratulations Those won't be hackneyed sentl-where Taffy Jenkins and his ship-survived raiders and U-boats and could easily produce the aircrmgent to Stalin and published in the ments, for they come from men who makes found "safe anchor" shures magnetic mines can count themselves carrier; and her recent

Admiralty

Listen, too, to this:

now-not If you are an experienced Ecafarers seafarer. And the men who have.

nlly the 300 who survived the responsibility of caring for all the Allmark.. war-shipwrecked men

who return

Some of them had their pay cut..

Even the first week in October. those whose vessels were most re. cently sunk have not been paid for three months.

ance in South African waters ber 24 last appeared a message from battened down under iron hatches

These rescued men are just about. homeless from scu.

to draw two months pay-for they and in the South Atlantic gave Mr. Harry Pollitt among "a torrent with 300 other British seamen in the

Nazi prison ship Allmark, of congratulations."

Here the men are lodged, fed, and haven't, you realise, had a day's fresh piquancy to this particular

Four days ago, unwashed and un-

curds wages since they were intercepted. A second list, this record adds,

by the Graf Spee in her, sea-going. cinema ́example of German mendacity.

appeared under the heading "Greet-slaven, wearing tattered and torm jentertained-billiards-rooms,

days. Then there was the reporting from the Central Committee of clothes that had survived hours in and domino rooms, and a

Graf Spee, and the Horrible Hundred that a heavy cruiser of the 11 Communist Parties, including the open boats, days or weeks in the show are just incidental to the hos British. "The texts are not printed. Days in the Altmark, they were with-pitality-until they go home or find London class had been sunk by M. Joseph Stalin has a new sense of out hope of wash, shave, new clothes, ju new ship. If they have no money, short by the Nazis as long ago ng

or a square meal--much less their their food, lodging, and clothes are bought by the Shipwrecked Mariners' Commander Prien, the hero of relative values."

freedom.

Society. The Sailors' Society bear Scapa Flow. The Nazis did not

Then the Navy arrived... but you the other expenses. follow up this particular wild-

know all that. goose with the determination they showed in the case of the Ark Royal. Still, these stories serve their fleeting purpose, which is the gulling of the eredulous section of the German public until some other canardi is produced to send them into fresh patriotic raptures.

Already neutral countries have begun to perceive clearly that nothing coming from the

Stalin's apologists defend tyranny either because they do not know, or those who know refuse to tell, that Fascism and Bolshevism have identical political systems. Russian Communist Party is no longer even the semblance of a Party.

The

Even now these emissaries of u foreign despotism refuse to see through the disguise of the Red Czar, who has used a new social and political system to invent a

new kind of slavery for the Russian

poople.

Now you see them transformed, In new clothes, washed, shaved, having had a square meal, and talk ing at their freedom into a British Movietone microphone ut a Sailors Home in the East End.

What The Law Says All For 28. 6d. A Day

THE law says that the shipowners PUT you have only to talk to him are liable for the payment of two to discover that the Britlah sea- months' wages to a merchant seaman dog is a very independent fellow. after his ship has been lost through Alternatively, they When he gets his money he insists enemy action. on paying for himself, whether he can find the man a new berth in lleu "We are made to feel like Holly-has been sunk or not. He can live of indemnity. wood film stars," grins Taffy Jenkins, "like a sea lord" at the Empire Hall of the Doric Star and the Queen's or the Sailors Home for 26. 68. a day-n sleeping cabin and four incals lotel, Carmarthen.

o day inclusive.

Who has earned the tribute? The Altmark's prisoners owe their

The Shipwrecked Mariners' Society

But here is the rub:

"Never before has there been a case of men from vessels' sunk by the enemy returning as fale as three months after the sinking. Hitherto the men from lost Britisht ships have always returned within the two monthg covered by indemnity pay-- ment."

eue to the Navy, but credit for have already spent £13,000 on "war their present newly groomed and relief" for 3,860 survivors from 140 well-fed condition goes to organisa-British and 38 neutral ships. tions whose work for survivors of The British Sailors' Society spenda torpedoed and mined British mer- £110,000 a year in peace time. Its That was how an official of the Nazi news machine can be ha. Party ought to know. For years chantmen has cost them some £50,000 [war-time bili is going to be at least National Union of Seamen put it.

Food And Clothes

Well, the leaders of the Labour they have fought a successful run-since the war began, lieved. Like much else in Ger-ning fight against the insidious in- atruction of Communists into their) many, it is crealz. If, every

official ranks. time the Germans experience the misfortunes of war, there is Less Than A Year Ago at 9.30 p.m. to be an orgy of lying, Munch-ITALIN'S diviston of spoils with

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"But I don't expect there'll be any difficulty," he said. "It's just matter of negotiation."

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| £150,000 a year.

Mr. Herbert Barker, the society's secretary, says the job of catering for

In the meantime they collect the ONE of these organisations is the the men who come chipless to shore

Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. is leading to the creation of new and two months' pay.

others include the British Sailors larger hostels at almost every centre. "And after we've had #bit_of_a Society and the Sailors Home and South Shields now hes & club ex-

Red Ensign Club,

When the men from the Altmark

that," observes Taffy clusively for the use of mined or holiday on

Jenkins, "back to sea we'll go again. torpedoed mariners. « Hiller, the faithful copy of Nazi ausen himself will bo displaced

We can't let the Navy down now." methods of propaganda, the pretence from his hitherto unchallenged of provocation as an excuse for war, were landed at Lelth they were met The funny thing is (or isn't it?)

Daniel Gosling, ó 60-years- old- eminence by that other notori- the presentation of impossible de- by agents of the Shipwrecked Morin-that none of these war-sunk sailors oun Baron, the Great Hee-Haw mands, the pretence of "Ilberation" ore Soclely. These agents provided wants to stay ashore. All are eager lamp-rimmer from the Tolera, con- all of the vile technique is revealed the men, fret of all with clothing, to get to sea again, regardless of armed that sentiment. "I've had 40 years at sea," he said, "You don't of Hamburg, and Dr. Goebbels's by the booklet with the bitter inci-tzen urranged for their hospitality or Nazi tiince and U-boats,

think I'm going to chuck it now, do siveness of completed truth.

Aupplied them with railway warrants other obedient mouthpieces.

and money to get home. Mik "To lo like a Nazi" will pass into a proverb..

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But what, aftor all, could be more mordant now than the quotation, in

Usually their companies. And them you?" another ship, it not with their own

London offered a "home-coming" [line then with some other. But if Arthur Pugh the preface, of a speech made by to those who for one reason or other it is not possible to get a berth soon