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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1949.

THE SILES FAMILY goes to the motor races

ATIONAL

TROPHY

RACE

EXH DAILY

"Reckon they ought to put some pedestrian crossings here, ch, lady ?"

Really, Vero, you shouldn't stand so

close to Mr. Cobb's

exhaust.**

** There, drapido pou siell icănt to

be a racing motorist when you

SOVIET

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REFRESHMENT

This really is a remarkable night the world's most famous spred men racing neck and neck.

RUSSIA

20 MILLION

"W

E employ those old an audience of women at deprived of "Prisons do exist, to re-educate

Lelcester (an March 20, 1948): musʊn liberty." Mr people and ruke them under- Molotov has sahl. Railways stand that they are wrong to are built, mines are worked, o against the people's govern engineering plants erected. the majority we punish,

Those who are against Through the Soviet Union

the roar of development is

ment.

course."

of

The words "of course" give a but clue os to the kind

of people

proudly proclaimed, not load enough to stop the who may be found in the slave

By

PETER PANS

SHOW

WORLD

IN MINIATURE

By ROBERT KINGSLEY

BR RITAIN'S Peter Pans Another enthusiast's wife put .on show in goes one better. Mrs T. E. London recently. They "Butler's husband, of Rams- created a world in minia- gate, goes off to his model ture-"don't call them toys" engheering club in the eve to delight the heart of nings to build things-ho every schoolboy on holiday. contributes the smallest The show was the Model model in the show, a rigged Engineers' Exhibition at sailing boat that can be the New Horticultural Hall, covered by a silver three- Westminster; S.W.

penny bit-and she stays at home.

WIFE IN KITCHEN

I naked a London bus driver, Albert Stannard, of Leyton. E. how long it had taken him to make a small scale model about four

But on the kitchen table inches long of a lightweight she has got to work and motorcycle, a non-working built a 2oz. scale-model of model, but beautifully made. the club where her husband

"Oh, it only took 300 spends his time. hours." Mr Stannard said. airily,

There are over 400 models entered for competition at

I asked Mrs Stannard if the exhibition by amateurs she helped her husband at whose ages range from 14 to all in his hobby.

ns

"Well, I listen," she said,

if she considered that help indeed.

HAS

SLAVES

material of tested reliability; Comps, and the author recently won a 150,000, libel retion in Paris against Communists who attacked his

CHARLES Vernelly.

KILVERT

ABBAKIDAKIK

He considers there must be more than 20,000,000 people in forced labour

in the camps Soviet Union.

The witnesses are unanimous in saying that the system exists and unanimous in condemning and repc- tionary character.

shameful truth being heard campa; they might be anyone, lists" to be kept out of Russia. It for its inhuman

year

a5

"the

engaged

in

87. Of these only three have been made by women

Very often, It scems, the modeller in so much in love with his everyday work that the spends his spare fire making replicas of the tools, so to speak, of hla trade,

So a lifeboat coxswain sends in a model Hebout, a fireman

a perfect miniature fire tender, The professions, alas, seem

1o go in more for escapism,

A clergyman submits, not o modet pulpit, but gay ittle model of a Nile bout of 1450 BC, while a doctor, from whom one might expect minute theatre, operating

enters mining. model of his sailing boat.

There are many

more such camps scattered throughout the sub-Arctic regions of Central Russia.

20 YEARS' WORK ·

Models on show range from jet aeroplanes to antique furni- ture and a spray of roses mude from copper.

In Germany the camps have been re-established al places made familiar by the Nazis Buchenwald (estimated capacity which took over 4,000 hours to There are railway engines fifteen to twenty thousand), build (by my reckoning a year Sachsenhausen (twenty to thirty of days and nights has only thousand), Altenheim, Saxony 8700 hours) and one, in which How is slave labour obtained?

thousand), the work was spread over 20 The Soviet penal code enables venty-five

Schwerin the Russians to condemn -great

<twenty-five thou-years.

How many people

are kept

There are three lines of up- the official Russian

to

The British allegations

about Soviet

but workers themselves were use of forced labour are Few statements have so based on a mass of evidence, ut to be allowed to see the shocked the British public, on

Arst-hand

accounts from conditions in which their fellow and indeed the whole p:ople

who have been

tailers lived. civilised world,

victims of the

the system, únd what -announcement

this they add up to is this: In the in these Labour Camps? made by the American Soviet Union there are between Military 'Government. that and woinen herded into primi- tive and twenty million nien Buchenwald, notorious Nazi ive encampments ind, on the atrocity camp. is now full pretext that they have offended of prisoners, held there by against vaguely warded police Soviet authorities. In three regulations, they are used to dig years 80,000

canals, carry out mining pro- people have jects, build railways and roads, died in nine Soviet zone concentration camps, says a. report prepared by the U.S. administration.

ISSUE EVADED

evidence from

Let Uş inke

proach. sources first.

form of trade union, their page 171 of this

Un

Thero

are ships of overy from working model

mumbers ot people, whole nud). groups of population, to "transfer

Siberi

The conditions under which kind, what-under on other systems of law-would forced labourers work in these liners of the futuro to tiny appear 10 be extraordinary large remote camps have been sailing ships in bottles. filmsy pretexts.

described in vivid detail by

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The Soviet authorities do not

There is plenty of action at the exhibition, with mode! publish the figures. Sometimes, however, their

The prisoners are reported to cars and trains and boats roar. publications inadvertently give a clue. For

work on almos., but nol quite, a ing at fantastic speeds round example. Mr Vyshinski,

OOK at Article 58 of the starvation diel, the incentive of specially bulit tracks, with aero- Russin's Foreign Minister, edited Now

Penal Code of the Russian hunger being used to spur them planes screaming above them a-book-entitled From Prisons-Soviet Federated Socialist Re--on to the greater efforts which on their control lines. to Educational Institutions, pub public of 1936, which in this will corn a little more food. But these facts merely con- THEY are unprotected by any lished in Moscow In 1034. On respect had not been anfended It lald down thi

In most camps they are fed be closely real-life noise has been firm the charge brought by Mr sentences are long and, even its authors, Stel ook, one of in 1947. Christopher Mayhew, British when they are completed, there in 1931 over 305,700 copies of U.S.S.R. were to be punished by ing for work and atter their ret

says that actions to the detriment of the tween 4 and 6 am, before leav-modelled. Under-Secretary of Slate for is little chance of a return to Soviet newspapers were sent to the highest Forcin Affairs, before the

forms of capital

I paid my first visit to the Economic and Social Council, of even the primitive conditions all places

10, between 5 and 7 pm. The of detention" in punishment-shooting wuttis enjoyed by the so-called 'free' Russia in Europe alone. United Nations Organisation.

before it system of establishing "norms" exhibition a On confiscation of the en ire pro- citizens of the Soviet Union. pre- 250

the of

book, A. perty and,

ot work, which each group of officially opened, and was en- in extenuating CIT- Held bluntly that in the Slave labourers in the U.S.S.It, Shestakoya, Jay's

that

azz cumstances, by

ma deprivation workers is urged to attain, has thralled to find a young Soviet Union millions of men it is sali by the Soviet average of five inmates received of Hberly for a period of wee

been adopted. Climatic con- stooped in an attitude of great forget this and women were herded into apologists who,

of course, do one newspaper.

wi h years

clothing concentration over a bench, severe, egaliscation lions concentration comps on a not call them slave labourers,

poor and short-lived, sanitary

I stood fascinated at the sight PREACHERS variety of pretexts and there but describe them merely as

GOOD WITNESS

NTI-COMMUNIST

propa-

wou!

world.

any

the of

scale

len

by him Up to tho

re

Bad medical contuluvus are up-

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little

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of the entire properly." This thows that in European used as a labour force, In condi. "persons deprived of their Russia in 1931 there were over

The article goes

on in sub pailing. scurvy, pellagra and of a model engineer in action,! tions of slavery, to fulfil the liberty"are locked up merely 3,830.000 prisoners: and re section 1 (c) to enact that other malnutritional diseases are noting the nimbleness of his grandiose engineering under in

complete In order to

member that two-thirds of Soviet mumbers of an offender's family, widespread. their

movements and his utter un- takings about which Moscow so "political education". But their territory is in Asia,

who helped him, or knew aboul

awareness of what was going Irequently bounts.

labour builds the Soviet Union's

his activities and did not report canals The Soviet economic system siderably

and rallways at con- FROM PRISONERS deprived of

them to the authorities, are to BAD CONDITIONS on about him. Icsa expense than

their liberty depends, in fact, largely on a would be involved in similar

Ave to ten years, their entire CPECIFIC camps where condi- supply of cheap Inbour, con- work in the non-Communist trolled by the State, and it is

SECONDLY, the completion of property being confiscated.

tions are reported to bo The USSR penal code goes estimated that the number of

Inrge-scale projects are

bud particularly

tro (a) That's the secret of all the The Soviet Union cannot have

a step further, for in the same the Dzhido cluster of Eastern wander, I told myself, concen- this army of slave-labourers is

marked by the

granting sub-section it 1-ys It both ways. Eliher

down that now about twenty millions.

omnestics. These num- "other adult members

Siberia. It hos Д number of Russians who dislike

particu- of the A

niong with Infinite bera give some Iden of the

rate of the regime to such an extent

attempted traitor's family who have lived larly high The rallo of employment.

escapes because have to lock building of the

of insufficient patience and sensitive fingers. that the pollee

sup food and harsh treatment (b) White Sta with him, or who were them up. is enormously greater Baltic Canal lasted

The young man unbent from from 1031 Ported

The mortality in two punitive hic work and I glanced over In proportion to the total popu ili August 2, 1933. The Soviet come that be deprived of their camps in the Far East (one on his shoulder. He had finished

in tion than

crime, shall the Kolyma River and the other other country Co

Government granted amnesties rig ganda? Consider oficial In the

the world, er, great numbers to

to 72,000 prisoners who rights and exiled to the distant on the lower Yenisel), is re-the job he was doing.

had Innocent of Mr Molotov

people are being

Avail for

ported to exceed thirty percent. annually.

A newly painted sign saying thousands in Hong Kong Products himself is a good witness. On incarcerated because the Soviet been working on It After the ions

No correspondence March 8, 1931, when he was Union finds it convenient to have completion of the Moscow-Volga years."

Canal, under construction from

between prisoners and their ro-"Rest Room" lay under his should heart Chairman of tho U.S.S.R, at its disposal a Inrge and 1032 to 1937, 55,000 prisoners

latlygs or friends is permitted. hand. Council of People's Commissars, mobile labour force which can were liberated.

(c) The

camp near Komto- Koro.

He hustled off to tack it up, he told the Sixth Congress of be maintained with no expense

molak in the For East, where Soviets that

beyond that incurred in giving The third source of Informa-

"Mass

them primitive accommodation tion is the published works of clause makes no mention men and women are interned Oh, well . . projects, employing and enough food to

of participation in, or even for "disloyalty to the Soviet prevent those who have every reason to knowledge of, the crime. A Unlon," is notorious... for bad those deprived of liberty, are their dying off in ominously be treated as qualified to ex characteristic of this legisation food, severo punishment and organised for a variety of

is that the sentences laid down high death toll. (6) different objectives; for high- large numbers,

(b) In certain um camps of the Pechora cluster, When those matters were dis- For example,

is the aro minimum and not maximum there way construction, in particular on railways; In the building-cussed at UN.O., representatives book 'Red Forced Labour, sentences in nearly every case, corporal punishment (officially Industry:

stry; in pit exploliation; in of the U.S.S.R

by M. X. Nikonov Article 58, 1 (d) punishes by abolished in 1917-18) has been charcoal burning; for metallur Communist States tried to evade Smorodin, and published in "deprivation of liberty for ten re-introduced. (c) The Krasno

failure to report yarsk camps, with about 10,000 gical plants; in timber works; in the issue by proposing investiga. Soda in 1930. The author, who years

* prisoners, ́ ́are conspicuous for phosphorite mining, stone quar- tion of the position of the escaped from a forced labour treachery."

unemployed throughout. the

Where are the chief Slave their lack of medical facilities six million inmate for the period Labour Crimps? In Russia. the and hospitals.

Soviet

sources

press an opinion.

and of other written

In the same porch he men- to visit various countries and failed list of 35 labour camps, tioned the use of forced labour

to

of

Siberla

SENTENCES

in the construction of the White legato dodged the issue of access Sovletique is La Justice Far East, including

the NEL-

ries, gravel and stono crushing world. But when the Coup, estimates a total of five to on transportatión projects, etel wanted to appoint a Commission 1935-37. He also gives a de- most important groups Bro There are special forced la- (a) the Dalstroy Camps nt the hour campe for women. The Then investigate, the U.S.S.R. de

compiled by Mora morous gold mining campson (Archangel ores) is known for Yngry women's camp Sea-Baltie (Belomor), Canal, to the Soviet Union by saying and

Zwiernak,

collective the Kolyma

River, estimated multitude of number of inmates work based on a

300,000 to its hard living conditions. that visita anywhere would take That was in 1931. Eighteen

rapid decision reports

by former so long that, a

Polish 1,100,000: (b) the groups

at years later, on March 2. 1049, would be impossible.

prisoners. Published Rome

camps around Lake Baikal. "New Times-the official Soviet

in 1945, it gives a list of 30 cupled In the construction of their denials to be taken

seriously they must give op forced labour camps, and the Baikal-Amur rallway, 500,- various languages sold: "There OFFICIAL SOURCES timates a total of fifteen million 900: (e) the Pechara Camps, of free countries to visit Soviet portunity to Trade Unionists officials, too. Work in building the Kolna ierritory:

sco for milway In mining palves

Journal which is published in

his

never been any secret that

tie forcing of publicly

useful.

inmates for

the

Former Soviet

years 1040-42.

and

000,000 Jumbering,

Yagry

If the Russian Government

and

them- Until they do the

10 world must believe the best

\campssrine the

'that Govjet' dùmmunism;

and so available;;; which

le practised in the Soviet CUINCE the proposal had been have had a good deal to say and

to send Investigators who about the campa The most 1,000.000; (d) the

them was× ty, on this point,' we may were members of trade unions, notable of

Vietor adjoining call in evidence Mrs Kuzmenko, the U.S.S.R.'s evasion of the Kravchenko, who held high office: Archangel region, which were which always pleads so loudly Secretary of the Soviet Garment iskuo

remarkable. Wh

Not in the Soviet economie machine, engaged during the war in do- for the rights of the working Workers' Union, who was on on merely were "reactionary, Capl His book, I Chose Freedom, is veloping the White sea ports, man, is content to exploit a official, visit to England, and talists" and "bourgeois Boclawidely accepted... as containing 500,000 (0) the Karaganda slave army numbering millions.

(London Express Service)

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money? i {"

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