1950-03-23 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1950. '

SOVIETS PRIME MOSLEMS FOR EXPANSIONIST

POCKET CARTOON bý OSBERT LANCASTER

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Parliamentary e

AIMS

The Moslem republics of Soviet Central Asia are being developed into centres for potential imperialism, writes New York Times corres- pondent C. L. Sulzberger. As Moscow's dynamism concentrates increa- singly upon the Orient, its little known satrap states of the Kirghiz, Tadzhik, Kazakh, Turkmen and Uzbek peoples are being groomed to aid future expansion.

Ever since the Bolshevist These lands border on the]

Fruit and gratn have been great belt of Ania, extending revolution Moscow has developed grown for centuries in the oases from Iran across Afghanis idea that the Soviet te dotting its windy plateaus, Since rublle of the Ukraine had World War II Moscow has been fan and India to Chinese "claims" upon the Ukrainians seeking to develop a vast cotton- there to Turkestan (Slukinng) and living beyond the frontier, In-growing programme

of Mongolia. Mixed by

Fastern make the Soviet Union indepen- thecluding inhabitants melting pot of old Islam, the Poland, Ruthenia In Czecho dent of imports from the United slovakia, and Dessaiabla, States and Egypt. This project raees inhabiting these re-Northern Bukovina, plus a tiny has met with limited success, gions of the Soviet Union strip of Moldavin in Ruinania. ure bound by religion and All those once-coveted regions Soviet language to their cousins Union. across the borders from China to the Persian Gulf.

The Tadzhiks, who speak _Per- sian and are Sunni Moslems, have traditional ties with Iran and Afghanistan. The Turk

men, Uzbek and Kirghiz have. during the course of history, swept back and forth heruss the steppen between China and Turkey.

Ghostly Reminder Of War Horror

now part are

of the

CONTROL OF SINKIANG

the

HATCHET MAN

When Kaganovitch,

who seems to be the Folitburo's hat- chet man (he cleaned up the Ukraine two years ago), went observers thought flere, some it was merely to spank Orman Uzbek Premier, for Osipov,

cotton produce unsatisfactory

It is now deemed more tion, likely that his visit was neeled with the effort to tighten Balson and propaganda to the

peoples outside the- Asiatic U.S.S.I.

With

con-

are all

No claims have yet been voiced to expand the Central Asian Republics. However, Mus- cow is working through them to take over the Moslemn tribes of Sinklang and through latter to Main control of that Chinese province,

Shortly after World War 11 the Tulen of Soviet Socialist Republics voiced "claims" for

the exception of the large sections of Turkey, in Tadzhiks, who speak Iranian, cluding the eastern provinces of the belt of races fnhabiting Kars and Anlaban, Such pro-Soviet Central Asia paganda recently

been Turkish or Turkl. It is possible quiescent,

that Moscow plans to develop pan-Turanian movement Now, however, new hints are beginning to emerite concerning similar to the traditional pan-

Slavism in Europe. plans. expansionist

One thing Is certain: Within the past eight weeks two the Uzbekistan capital, Tash-create A strong Communist 'olitburo members have visited U.S.S.R. has never sought to kent. Lavrenti Deria, chier of Parly in Turkey itself and has if it should always planned, Soviet secret police and also boss of the atoinie energy pever attempt to take over that shores of the three-square-mile ramme, was there in December, stubborn land, to govern it with

sak and I, M. Kaganovitch

dictatorship military ♫

than Anatolian, land. Up-ended brown

Soviet, rather bottles headstone the graves of the otherwise unmarked J-Jammry,

Turks. anese dead,

By ROBERT C. MILLER

If ghosts bother you, stay away from Wake, for it is an island of dead men and dead ships, of shat tered hopes and futile ambitions. Japan's dream of an empire died on its coral shores.

At least 200 Americans were killed defending this lonely Pacific toil, 98 of them machine-gunned by a Japanese execution squad.

More than 3,900 Japanese died here, 1,242 of starvation.

Somewhere on Wake, still un- found, is the mass grave of 42 Americans

Whit

were buried during the night of December 11, 1911, casualties of the find four days of war.

Dry skulls and bleached bones ate scattered under the scrubby along the green bushes and

Noise Device

Invented To

Induce Sleep

A Chicago radio engineer has a device which he says is guaranteed to put you to sleep if you are in the right frame of mind.

Soviet

in

1)

The

of

OBDURATE TURKS Communisin is outlawed in the underground

Beria followed his visit - with Luxurious trans-Pacifle planes newspaper article stating that settle on runways bordered with the Uzbek Republic and Soviet the wreckage of Japanese and Asia should serve as models for American fighters who fought Iran and Turkey. Kanovitch. for possession of these une- who fought in that region Turkey and

DOW unpro during the civil war following party there is very weak. The important acres, tected by cingle America the revolution, spoke in Tash-Kremlin has clearly been con- Rent on January 16 and said the same thing.

w

rileman.

of many Bored pinschgers, the Japanere, sleeply disen- bark where screaming Japanese charged ashors that fateful night; of December 23, eight years ago, and overran the handful of de- fenders in a bitter seven-hour battle.

POLICY POINTERS

Pre- tent with that situation. sumably, it has always feared the threat of "exceptionalism" or "Titel:m" among obdurate Turisk Marxista. Furthermore, them by It

bas discouraged letting it be known to Kurds and if Turkey 19 Armenions that ever conquered by the U.S.S.R. will be per- Thus those minoritles

Words of this sort do not come lightly in the U.S.S.B. They may be taken as deliberately uttered DIARY TELLS STORY clues to policy decisions. Massive concrete blockhouses clearly Central Asia and, above mitted to have a vengeful field

Tashkent arc becoming day. mushroom out

of the corall,

From

J039 the 1910 until everywhere, Dome American internationally significant, Uzbe

being made luto a Western World was always on built, others Japanese. In them kistan is

the "enlighten-ite guard against the advance of Rived some

4,000 Japanese for "model" for

Soviet imperialism Into Europe. two hellish years, ronsting rata ment" of the East.

From Karelia to the Ukraine, the nl drinking leaf soup while

provinces of the western awaiting starvation and the daily

were U.S.S.R.

for watched

The American bombings.

symptoms of this mennee. path of empire has now turned

castward. One must look to the mysterious cities of Ashkabad, Samarkand, Bokhara, Tashkent

The broken hulls of two dell- bely encadas

་་

The Uzbek Republic, named for Fourteenth Century ruler of the Tatar Golden Harde, is famous for its own rivers, the Jaxaries (Syr Darya) and Oxus and the torpedoed Suwa Maru Amu Darya), where Sohrab still rest on the shore, rusting Charles Beazley invented it videner of Japan's determina- and Rustum fought their roman- for his wife but it worked so tion to capture this then vitat is-tie battle. well he has made several mound, and later her futile attempt moriels and sold them to to break the American blockade. In the surf fies a barnacle. business men who had trouble, sleeping,

entrusted plane engine which It makes a nole a little like carried some youngster to a sud- a foghorn, only softer and more den, hideous death. It is impos-

to 28y whether he monotone, and looks like an able office inter-communication box. Agricon or Japanese. It stands about 10 inches high, Close by is the burned-out re- hag six-inch speaker and can mains of a D-26.

know be plugged into any wall socket. where it came from and who along Beazley's died in its long fall to earth. A It operates theory that "when the brain Japanese private's diary tella

point how the bomber was "disinte dows down to a certain poist It automatically

strated JACU

our by AA fire and then be

the wakeful stage into den enemy

"Most

people can't

because they get

certain train

on a

started thought and

You

Was

sirmen burned

The private

starved to death a

yond recognition, ”?

a year later.

But Wake houses its dead well,

the blow perpetually over the clea

and Alma Ata for hints,

District Nurses On Broomsticks

Dr Margaret Murray, In the middle seventies and every bit

of four-fect-nino, looked up sternly, and said: "Young man, witches did ride on broomsticks, but they never actually took off.

"Mind you, they were pre-Christian

limes, religious who healed with herbs, legend arose witches "rode" broom

accused of trying to, with women

The broomstick can't stop. But the lumber The brisk northeast trade winds a flying ointment. But they beenuse bug' keeps interrupting thoughts and jumbling them white coral, quickly washing the never quite became air plants, in hobby-horse fashion, up until all you can do is goir of decaying flesh odours. And borne."

001

10

Chas

not

the hot sun

soon reduces men

he said.

Dr the Plumberbug" and machines to their skeletons. been

tested widely yet, Beazley said it has worked on everyone who has tried it so far.

as a religious ritual,

The "Oying ointment" was Murray. D Lit.. FSA

made of aconite, bats' blood and FRAL (Scot.),

Fellow of ONLY BROWN STAINS University College,

on spot, but apparently nothing London came of it. academic Oxidation is so

Attainments fast that - Whose

publications All 3ins of ready there are only brown and

Modern Pilgrim

robe.

Museum

iron

The cauldron legend arose be. stains on the coral where iron Who's Who," had been in the cause witches used an

of the British cooking and steel have rusted into dust Reading Room

pot to brow their and been blown away by the

Dinking notes for herbs, trades The less durable flesh and lecture on witches.

So bones. blended with the coral

the witch was a kind of This litle lady with the big district

a broom. nurse, with long

mind knows all about witches. | slick instead At the top of the Museum steps whose religious views upset the of a blcycle, she talked to reporters of broom- monks. sticks and cauldrons, of pottans and spells.

and bure

There was one in every vil lage of any size. They met in

Wearing the long

Side by side on the beaches are sandals, wide-brimmed hat and carrying the staff of a pilgrim brown sall and American beet of the Middle Ages, a 50-year- bollies left by conquered and old Barcelona businessman has conquerors alike; there's the old completed a three-year walking

Japanese bathtub, the jour through Spain. He has green Japanese tanks and the Witches weren't necessarily what was called a coven withị visited 5,000 churches

coastal runs brought from old and ugly and erolehely, Dr 12 members and a grand man- shrines.

Singapore with their barrels Margaret snid. One - French, { ter. ould gladly go on walking pointing crazily skywittily use her inquisitor

skyward.

of course was only 28, Even significance. for the rest of my life, if God Today

suld be Wis would thereby hear me and less. An atomic bomb could li- very beautiful.

Dr Margaret Murray, with "make my only daughter henithy¦quidate its defenders in a mat-

They had nice names, Uke fuzzy Krey hair and apple again" he said. The man's 10 ter af seconds and make it unin- Agnes and Barbara and Eleanor. | cheeks, walked back to her year-old daughter has been an habitable for years afterward Eleanor, in fact, was a duchess. Bloomsbury lodging to polish up Invalid since birth.

United Press.

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·SEE YOU.....

And so Thirteen got its

Really they were survivals of her lecture on witches."

The Riddle of the Red Domino

LISTEN CAREFULLY,DEAR, I DID NOTHING - ONLY WHAT PROFILE TOLD ME, HE'S AT A THE BACK OF ALL THIS, THE SCOUVOVRELI HE'S GOT YOUR DAD DOWN ON THE COAST- \PLACE · CALLED MARSH FOLLY!

NEWS IN PICTURES

HELPING OUT-During the first rehearsal in Tel. Aviv of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Dr Serge Koussevitzky, left, American screen star Edward G. Robinson offered to play the violin. Here Dr Koussevitzky explains that his first violinist can act, too.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER —– Wendy, the three- month-old cub of Pauline, Malayan tigress at the Whipsnade Zoo, appears to be giving her mother an affectionate hug. The tiger den there is probably as good a place not to be in as any when visitors try to lure little Wendy to the edge of the cage for a gentle pat.

READY FOR RED TARGETS -Chine se Nationalist ground crewmen load a a Chusan Islands airfield. P51 Mustang fghter with 250-pound bombs at From both Formosa 2nd Hainan, planes are carrying on raids against Com-

*rations and mainland communications. munist invasion concen..

ATOMIC EXPLOSION

GAY STRIPES - This! three-piece, red - and - white striped cotton en semblo combines halter-necked bra and briét shorts with 孔 middy button front 'blouse.

The patch

pockets, cuffs and collar are also striped.

ATOMIC SAFETY LESSON-Chief Petty Officer William Walker gives WREN Shella Withington, right, a lesson on the use of the Geiger counter in Portsmouth. The WREN is in a^class of trainees at

Uschool for atomic roštáre safety.

IS IT YES OR NO7-Hollywood rumours are roman- tically linking actress Shelley Winters and Gene Bearden, ace twirler for the Cleveland Indians. They are shown together in Tucson, Arizona, where Shelley is on location for' a new film and Bearden is going (5 info spring training. As usual, the rumours are--|-

- being “dented" by, both. ›