Behind the Scenes in Russia Purge Report Reveals Stalin's Terror
A sensational account from General Krivitsky, via Was Stalin's Agent, portrays a 1937 purge as a personal safety act for Stalin. It alleges execution, deportation, and famine victims, with mass arrests touching officials, staff, and many youths. The piece notes widespread abuses and child mistreatment amid the regime’s reach.
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V. G. Krivitsky
Stalin
Hamish Hamilton
Russia
Germany
Krivitsky
Measures to Combat Crime Among Minors
A decree extended the death penalty to children over twelve for offenses from petty larceny to mayhem. The Ogpu rounded up hundreds of thousands of young men, with many executed or sent to concentration camps and labor gangs. The canal projects and brutal interrogation methods exposed, while General Krivitsky recounts cruelty within Lubyanka and the risks of Soviet agents pursuing defectors.
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Stalin
Yeshov
Ogpi
Staul
Iumnes F
Trall Jtte
Feligius
Ogpu
Little Childdren
White
Uhy Canal
Mos- Volga
Tigator
Lubianka
Moscow
Durem
Krivitsky Elistes
Lublanka
Lenin
Communist International
Leningrad
Gregory Zinoviev
Kyivitsky
France
America
Krivitsky
Eurcecder
Is it a Fair Thing To Find Your Printing Work Out of Town
Is it a fair thing to send printing work outside the town We pay taxes and employ labor for the community while outside printers contribute nothing toward upkeep Local business people and institutions should consider that every shilling sent out of town weakens the community Every shilling spent locally circulates and helps keep the town going We can do your printing satisfactorily at a reasonable price Have you tried us
Golf in War Time Championship Plan Abandoned
The New Zealand Golf Association will suspend all championship meetings for the war duration except the North and South Island championships this month. No further championships will be held until peace is declared.
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New Zealand Golf Association
Mystery Man Behind Gestapo Indictment Revealed as Anonymous Mephistopheles
The article discusses Philip St. C. Walton Kerr's book Gestapo and argues a hidden English-speaking brain guided Nazi external policy. It portrays a Czech-based professor figure in Prague coordinating with Goebbels and Himmler to undermine Czecho-Slovakia, with ties to Bohemia and Dresden. The unnamed mastermind is central to Kerr's claims of sabotage and war-time plots.
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Rhine
Baltic
Ier
8Oe
Philip St. C. Walton Kerr
Gestapo
Robert Hale
Kerr
Hitler
England
Smith
Mauat
Mutica
Firteen
Hollan
Weidelberg
Umderwent
Rolf Zimmerman
Herbert Kuebner
Dresden-controlled
Bohemia
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
Tils
Prague
Theniversity
Military Academy
Dresden
Munich
Berlin
Germany
Goebbels
Himmler
Czech Republic
Reichs Challenge to Briain and British Unemployment
Lord Strabolgi in the House of Lords condemned Germanys use of slave labour from Czechoslovakia and warned the idle British workforce of about 1.3 million could fuel enemy propaganda. He cited 500000 unemployment rise last year and 600000 workers ready for immediate reemployment.
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Germany
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
Lori Straborg
House of Lords
Lord Strabolgi
Bart Rtanhope
Earl Stanhope
Goering's Influence in Germany Dwindles in Widening Rationing
A political correspondent notes Goering's waning sway as severe rationing bites. A man charged with stealing over a ton of metal from a munitions factory pleads weakness but is denied. A Nazi official says Goering cannot be blamed by enemy propagandists. A local wife jokes about a robbed purse amid court remarks.
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Goering
Germany
Adolf
Marshal ‘Goering
Sou'wester Doctor Called To Aid Injured Seaman At Sea
A down coast Kent ship arrives with a badly injured seaman in urgent need of medical help. Dr. James S. Hall of Deal answers the call during a gale, after covering hundreds of sea miles on missions since the war began. He has treated sailors, fishermen, emigrants, and wealthy passengers, often under dangerous conditions, sometimes without charge. He recalls dangerous transfers and safe returns, earning gratitude letters from patients worldwide.
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Downa
Kent
James S. Hall
Deal
Hall
Dr. Hall
News Chronicle
Navy Twins Missed as Three British Submarines Lost
Sub Lieutenants Geoffrey and Gilbert Wardle are among missing sailors from three British submarines. The Starfish unit member Geoffrey, 22, and his twin Gilbert, both trained nine months ago, kept parallel careers and were known as irrepressibles. They studied at Lee prep and Dartmouth Royal Naval College, served aboard the Rodney and Barham, and shared Christmas on leave before Geoffrey’s sub submerged. Their father G C Wardle hopes for positive news as he follows broadcasts for a prisoner of war confirmation.
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Geoffrey Wardle
Starfish
Gilbert Wardle
Dally Mail
London
Lee
Staffordshire
Royal Naval College
Dartmouth
Rodney
Barham
Geoffrey
WAA
G. C. Wardle
Germany
Marie Curie and radium a tale of genius and tragedy
The article recounts Marie Curie born in Warsaw, studies in Paris, and partnership with Pierre Curie leading to radium’s discovery. It notes Pierre’s death in 1906, Marie’s succession at the Sorbonne, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, return to Warsaw in 1919 as Professor of Radiology, and her death on July 4, 1984.
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Madanne Curie
Poland
Marie Ekoldowska
Warsaw
Paris
Sorbonne
Pierre Curie
Madame Curie
Curie
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Berlei
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