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Foreign and JU 26, 1938 Adéress and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 2 t., New York, N. ¥, ot Pr BSA Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 3 months, $3, ‘ — z vats a THE COMMUNIST PARTY LEADS By Limbach gem Anti-Fascist Week in New York Begins Monday Drive for Defense and Relief Funds Opens Day Before Aug. 1 Demonstration Against WORKERS OF NEW YORK MOBILIZE MASSES FOR AUG. 1, ANTI-WAR DAY _Pteparatory Meetings Will Combine Struggles Ps Against Fascism and Cuban Terror With Anti-War Action The midtown, Manhattan section of the Communist Party, New York @istrict, is speeding up the final preparations for the international day of | struggle against fascism and war, August Ist. Party units in 20 shops in the section have issued leaflets, shop papers and bulletins bringing the vations and plans of American imperialism be- question of the war pre War and Fascism NEW YORK.—Workers’ organizations’ throughout New York are | hastening their preparations for the and Relief of Victims of German F: July 31, and lasts until August 7. New York Week of Protest, Defense ‘ascism, which begins next Monday, The great August Ist demonstration against war, which falls on the fore the wor s. a se = _—___ =“ second day. of the anti-Fascist week, have been arranged with groups of | : | will be a day of struggle against fas workers in shops on tt Roosevelt Admits W. LR. APPEALS cism as much as against war. danger and 5 os While the New York anti-fascis ers in the Debt to Mussolini }/ | | veek is July 31 to Angust 7, the date of a new wo Tn. “New: Deal”. Plan IM tor other centers throughout the Party units throughout tt JAILED LEADERS country is August 7 to 14. In Chi- cago the anti-fascist week began local leaflets 25.—How President Monday and lasts until August 31. of meeti Ro ‘New Deal” ideas fol- eee ¥ : meanin; OW n of F Ttaly is * * |The Jewish Workers Clubs of N. intense ; ina dispatch from | |Anti- Fascist Wee le had a meeting of all Executive deal gov lo Balbo to Mussolini, ill Be | Committees on Saturday, June 22 at the unemploy on his conversatfOns | Will Response 0 Irving Plaza Hall, where the De- ers. | ASB Oe Workers fense and Relief Week for the de- leaflets w e to put 25,- | ey ee fense of Thaelmann, Torgler, and section. Th Aaomh ina BERLIN, July 25—The Executive | the other political prisoners as well the section far pack | Committee of the International, °s to aid Victims of German fas- the 3rd Ave oo | ‘Workers Reliéf, meeting secretly | cism, called by the N. Y. Committee Friday afte: ane under the conditions of Nazi terror; to Aid Victims of German fascism at the C! message \in Berlin, have issued a stirring call | for the week of July 31st to August Friday a sident developed the | to the toilers of all countries to come | 7th, was fully discussed. All the ex- onstration necessity of de-urban- to the defense of the German and | ecutives took materials and pledged sections 1 and 2 a 12th street at day at the dock: leaflets are being rican cities and fn- people to return to the , and he recalled the work enSe carried out by your. Excellency. It is now finding ap- Pra Ls | | | Bulgarian Communists charged with setting fire to the Reichstag. “German Fascism 1s beginning to carry out the second part of the vile provocation commenced by setting the themselves to mobilize hundreds of yolunteers: to go out on the streets during the campaign week and col- lect funds. waterfront. Two open air me plication — the Mts modern | 55 best - ge reais acre BENE (ms de acts Reichstag on fire,” the manifesto de- | The eee eau ae also have been held already 2 country in the world.” | *, ry T 4 ” clares, | mobilizing their forces for this cam- Pee rary alt te ooce her iae 500) ARRESTED BY “K, F htin ae eme SOCIALI T T “At the Supreme Court in Leipzig; paign week. They have taken 250 night every wnit is concen | | €e 1g) g | the curtain will be raised amidst the | boxes and have promised that every arranging a series of meet every neighborhood Anti-Machado Struggles. HENDERSON TRIES SHAKING SPANISH of M emorial Meeting ae ais x = RETURN FUGITIVE savage howls of fascist, propaganda. | Fascist reaction is creating a pogrom | atmosphere against the revolutionary | box will reach the hands of a volun- teer who will be instructed to go out during the weck of July 31-August | | the ott | fighters. | th and make a very special effort oY peal = ae gcctee TO SCREEN ARMS | fF ABOR” REGIME <i ee REDS T 0 HITLER | “Meanwhile the Storm Troops con- | to collect as much as possible for the pepe res: Poy. eeeuele 9 ae | 4. 0821 Se! 4 | | tinue to torture Torgler, to keep Di-| defense of the political prisoners and Bee Ove ne Lewae RACE BY CONFAB — ee 2 ye | : UT ow? | mitrov, Popoff, and Tanev in chains. |tc aid victims and refugees of the fe crnan serotiiionary. ase ; M R tment) = aay wip * ‘ Danish “Labor” Re- |prigntfut tortures have been applied | Hitler fascist regime. the Cuban revolutionary movement. —— ass esen 7 t Danost take effort to exter’ “oonfestions | Cie Cubles to Machado, and strong tele-| Returns from Visit to| Leads to New Terror gime to p from them, In connection with the Defense grams demanding the immediate ces- sation of the Machado Yankee im- | perialist terror, the release of the Fascist Hitler, and Others Measures Terror Victims COPENHAGEN, July 25.—The Soc- “By means of torturing their vic-| tims, the fascist incendiaries and pro- | vocateurs are attempting to bring and Relief Week, July 51-August 7th the New York Committee is calling a final mobilization meeting Friday, al prisoners and complete in- meh hess) MADRID, July 25.—On the ‘same | jal-Democratic government of Den-| forward again the fairy story, already | July 28th at 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza (pendence of Cuba have already! ronnon, july 2—Arthur Hen-| day that Minister of Labor Largo| | mark has decided to refuse the right| exposed in the eyes of the whole Hall, 15th and Irving Place. All been sent, w on the 20th there gerson fi socialist leader who | Cabellero, announced at a mass meet- | of asylum to Communists forced out | world, that not they, but the Com-| mass organizations, trade unions, will be a st cial section rally bring- has been visiting Hitler and other ing here that the Spanish socialists of Germany by the Nazi terror. It! munisis, set the Reichstag on fire. united fronts, party. units, are re- ing forward the Cuban situation. laters of Europe on behalf of the | Were preparing to establish a dicta- | will deport them back to torture and) “They must not and they will not | quested to attend this very impor- A special call has been prepared by the section committee addressed to the members and followers of the Socialist Party calling for a joint August First anti-war demonstration, especially since the national commit- tee of the Socialist Party has en- dorsed and decided to participate in the national anti-war September 2, 3, and 4th. The cam- Paign has already begun by the sec- tion to secure delegates to the con- gress from the shops, mass organi- zations and from among the unem- ployed. The mass organizations in the sec- tion territory are working to mobi- lize the workers of their nationality or group independently in the name of their respective organi: They have issued leaflets, Tamging mectings and placards, etc. Section two of the Communi Party is also mobilizing the Pa and mass organizations for the mass sale and distribution of the specia edition of the Daily Worker and ant war literature. “The membership of section two is participating in the trade union sec- tion of the anti-war d congress on} British bo: has returned to Lon- don to revive faith in the disarma- {ment conference. With armaments increasing at a/| furious pace, Henderson declared to- day that he hoped to obtain a con- ference that would actually reduce armaments. The complete flop of the London Economic Conference and the result- ing sharp conflicts of the imperialists which intensified armaments has brought the question of war so clearly to the forefront, that Hen- derson has been straining himself to alize the maneuvres of disar- mament conferences to cover up the Tush to war. The hypo effectivel armament ed Stat ig | | | | | icy of his new promises smashed by the acute ace of Japan and the as well as the rapid of Hitler, Mussolini, France ain. armi and B torship for the purpose of “fighting) fascism,” the government revealed its | true plans for the fascization.of the) country by closing all Syndicalist and Anarchist centers, forbidding all Com-} munist meetings, and arresting many | working class leaders. More than: 500 prisoners were"taken in @ Sériés Of taids ‘throughout Spain. ‘The government said they were. in- tended to prevent a coup d'etat -by reactionaries, but along with a few priests and professional men, all the syndicalist leaders were arrested...In Madrid 125 persons were arrested yes- terday. The raids followed an immense demonstration of workers in Madrid on Saturday, when thousands march- ed through the streets singing the “Internationale” and demanding the resignation of Premier Azana. The} demonstration was broken up by po-| lice reserves. FRANCE SEIZES CHINESE ISLANDS Warships Grab Terri- Civil guards killed one man, Ra- mon Urrea, when they fired on a demonstration of workers demanding the release of prisoners at Ballobar. Cabinet Crisis Seen At Jerez de la Frontera a bomb exploded in the hall of Property Reg- istry. This appears to be an expres- sion of resentment against the gov- Workers salute beside the urn coni i Stokes at the memorial meeting for her, Clara Zetkin and S. Gussev. Urn Bearing Ashes of NEW YORK.—A guard of honor, consisting of members of the Work-| ers Ex-Servicemen’s League and the | Council of Workingclass Women, es- | corted the urn containing the ashes| of Rose Pastor Stokes into the hall at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., where memorial services were held Monday night by the Com- tmunist’ Party for Sergei Gussev, can- | | didate of the presidium of the Ex- | ecutive Committee of the Communist International; Clara Zetkin, member of the Central Committee of the Com- Into Hall as Dead Bolsheviks Are Honored | ing the aches of Roce Rose Stokes, Escorted in her ways,” said Louis Hyman, pres- | lident of the Needle Trades Workers | Industrial Union, the first speaker, | who described from personal experi- ences the work of Rose Pastor Stokes | on behalf of the needle trades work- ers, The waistmakers of New York! learned very quickly that Rose Pastor | Stokes was not one of the “welfare | workers” coming to “uplift” them, but come to join in their struggles, it was} pointed out by Rose Wortis, Trade} Union Unity League organizer. Com-} | who had escaped across the border. | ed, If they’can ‘arrange to°go°to the | Soviet Union, they will be allowed to | do so. t | them back into the hands of Hitler's death in Germany. This was the answer of the Social- Democratic minister of Justice to the Danish Communist Deputy Munch- Peterson, who asked for the right of asylum for two German Communists The Communists were otdered jail- If not, Denmark will deport murderers, ters, etc., left by Rose Pastor Stokes, to Alexander Trachtenberg, care of International Publishers, so that the book which he is preparing as a mon- ument to the struggles of Comrade Stokes will be a complete memorial of her achievements. A REST HOME FOR LEADERS ‘The last act of Rose Pastor Stokes in America was to draw up a will leaving everything she owned, in- cluding all royalties still due her from her writings, to be used as a fund for a rest home for leaders in the struggles of the working class, it was announced by Joseph Brodsky, of the International La- bor Defense. Robert Minor, member of the Cen- tral Committee of the Communist | fascists conduct the “defense” of succeed in this! “German fascism cannot possibly | clear itself of the crime of February | 27th. Nor is it able to wash its hands | of the blood of the thousands of| workers tortured to death, of the| thousands beaten and maltreated, or to wipe off the guilt of the provocatory death sentences against the prole- tarians in Altona, and Chemnitz. “Incendiaries the Judges” “The rulers of the ‘Third Realm’ are preventing the defense of the de- fendants, they are threatening the German lawyers with reprisals if they undertake the defense of the tortured prisonets, they will not permit the defense to be undertaken by the for- eign barristers ready to defend Torg- ler and the Bulgarian political emig- res. They tremble at the idea that the real facts may come to light. The incendiary Goering considers that he may feel safe only if fast-dyed the the the are prisoners. Incendiaries are to be judges, incendiaries are to be ‘defending counsel,’ incendiaries to pronounce sentence! “But they will deceive nobody! Al- seady workers’ and intellectuals’ de- legations are coming forward in many countries, elected by the masses, ready tant meeting to discuss the mobili- zation of thousands of volunteers for August Ist’collections on the streets, i ae On Friday tvening, July 28th, at 8:30 p. m., there will be a mass meet- ing arranged by Branch 11, Inter- national Workers Order at the Boro Park Workers Center, 1373 43rd _St., Brooklyn, ‘on the situation in Ger- many. A. J. Muste, Chairman of the Con- ference for Progressive Labor Action and Chairman of the National Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German fascism, and Dr. Harry Warwick, sec- retary of the Brooklyn Allied Pro- fessions Committee will speak. . 8 8 About 50 units of the C. P. in Dis- trict 2 have sent committees to the New York Commitice to Aid Victims of German fascism, 75-5th Avenue, Room 5, for materials in connection with defense and relief week, July 31st to August 7th. Mobilization of the International Workers Order. was reported to be lagging. However the City Commit- tee of the I. W..O. is making every effgrt to sce to it that the member ship of the I.W.O. in New York City is mobilized fully for this week. All that is mobilizin 1 ernment’s failure to carry through its| munist Party of Germany, and| rade Wortis also described her ex-| party, related how Sergei Gussev| to undertake the active defense of the | *_ i as streets, east of nd tory in China Sea | proposed agrarian reforms. Stokes, one of the founders of the! perience abroad with Clara Zetkin, at helped to found the Bolshevik Party.| victims of Hitler Terror. : Reiter aoe hoe this march through 7th § 7 | Meantime taternal conflicts were | Communist Party of the U.S.A. the time when Comrade Zetkin car-| Gussev, he sair, as one of Lenin’s| “Whilst the juridical comedy is ho- ‘ials and who mee! is Ment section, down 14th street and into nion Square EUROPE’S COPS TO MEET IN U.S. Will Discuss Ways to Attack Workers NEW YORK, July 25—Eight Eu- rope police chiefs arrived in New York yesterday on their way to an international conference of police chiefs in Chicago, July 27, 28, 29, The purpose of the conference, which isan annual affair, is to develop co-operation between police depart- ments throughout the world. An indication of what will be one of the chief problems the policemen will discuss was given by Chief Rod- erick Ross of Glasgow, and Com-| * , car. I was escorted there by several Nazis} Then the little man rose quickly | Bisioger Tio" "iouram, Students Wire Protest) mize Seva ‘ms oe a wit nun oust maces, Thee hen | Soh in ap ane (anand a itn panes |Ger™mamy Protects ibeeis. | . : > A 2 “You'll ess OF Saale Both said most of their problems | Against Orloff Arrest) open up! ‘This is the potice!” | too!” they said,” Se oes lint: ile & tack Smee es e ror! Long live international prole- FA fee Sue to the crisis. “The dole | “Come back in the morning,| ‘The automobile stopped in front of | moustache and only one leg, wore the | ee tarian solidarity! VIENNA, July 25.—The Aus: has’ staved off revolution,” said Ross, but he regretted that the un-;| employed were given money. “It would have been better to give them food,” he said, “The unemployed should have been made to work for their dole. Most of the roads in Britain need widening. We should put the unemployed to work on them. Of course the white collar workers would not be as efficient as the laborers, but at least they would earn something instead of haying money given to them.” Workers Attacked as Canada Deports Red HALIFAX, July 25.—Royal Can- Bdian Mounted Police attacked and Bmashed a dock demonstration of PARIS, July 25.—One more step in the dismemberment of China by the imperialist powers was ‘taken by ce today when French warships seized six groups of islands in the South China Sea, midway between Indo-China and the Philippine Is- lands. The French Foreign Office an- nounced that a French naval force had occupied the islands, which are| inhabited by Chinese turtle fishers, and that hereafter they will belong] under French sovereignty. The islands include Sprally Island,| Caye D’Amboine Islet, Itu-Aba Islet, | the Twin Islands group, Loaito Islet! and Thitu Island. While Japan 1§ extending its con-}| quest of China in the north, France has been extending its control: over portions of Southern China, and this seizure of Chinese island territory is the most recent advance of French imperialism. _ NEW_YORK, July 25—The Na- tional Student League sent tele- grams yesterday to the Prussian Minister of Justice and to the Sec- | retary of State at Washington, pro- |testing against the arrest in Ger- {many of Walter Orloff, New York |medical student, on a charge of high treason, and demanding his im- | mediate release. ‘Finnish Reds Forced \to Quit Hunger Strike ; HELSINGFORS, July 25——After j13 days, the 876 men and 118 wo- }men Communist prisoners in the |Ekenas and Hameenlina prisons were forced to give up their hunger | strike for improvement of the pri- son conditions. Forcible feeding threatening a new cabinet crisis in the tottering Socialist regime. The scramble now going on among. dif- ferent cliques for the privilege of ap- pointing a new minister of juStice is seen in some circles as leading to a conflict which will remove the. So- cialist Party from control of the cab- “Honor the memory of our revolu- tionary fighters, Gussev, Zetkin and | Stokes—join the Communist Party,” was the slogan written large on a red banner that stretched high above the platform. This was the slogan emphasized by all the speakers at the exercises. inet and of parliament. “Not by mourning, but to follow ried on a sharp struggle against op- | portunist tendencies in the Commu- nist Party of Germany. Clara Zetkin, she emphasized, was foremost in the struggle for the rights of working women, and initiated International ‘Women's Day. Samuel Ornitz, writer, asked all workers to send in any writings, let-: military science, Minor pointed out. In the Tor (By a Physician, Victim of Nazi Terror) (Editor's Note: This is the first of 3 installments of a recital of tortures undergone in Nazi barracks by a Bulgarian physician, arrester in Ber- lin. He was finally set free and is now an exile in France.) * 8 6 At. four o'clock in the morning of March 6, the doorbell of my apart- please,” my wife answered. “I won't open the door at this time of night.” Then they battered against the door and smashed it. Five men in Storm Troop uniforms, without police badges, entered with automa- ties and revolvers in their hands, “What do you want?” I asked. For answer they struck me with a rubber blackjack, and with their fists. “Shut up! No one asked you any- thing!” one said. “Stick them up!” manded. Some of them took me by the col- Jar and backed me up against a wall, “Now we've got you where we want you, you Jews, you bolshevik scum!” When I tried to speak, they another com-+ His Wife closest associates, helped in the struz- gle against Trotsky, just as later he worked closely with Comrade Stalin in the struggle against the same op- portunist tendencies. Not only was} Gussev a thedtetician of a high order but he was an organizer of strikes, and in 1905 was a close student of First-Hand Account of the Experiences of a Bulgarian Physician Arrested with in Berlin put me into a car. When my wife protested against this ill-treatment of an invalid, they insulted her and threw her into the a house, before which stood large numbers of Storm Troopers. They made us climb four flights of steps, beating us with blackjacks and clubs all the way. My heart was in bad shape following an attack of ‘grippe, and beat very violently, so that I could not climb up fast. We were thrust into a corridor. . All along one side of the passage these bestial gangsters were lined up, and as we passed down its eight or ten yards, they threw themselves upon us, yelling and screaming, kick- ing us and striking us with sticks, until we reached another room. There, our trunk was looked through once more, and again we had to pass through the same corridor, subjected to the same blows as before, augment- taken away into another room, An hour later, I was ordered to another place, for an “interrogation.” storm troop uniform. .I learned later his name was Bergmann, and that he was the newly-appointed commis- sioner of political police. The second, whose name was Heinrich, was thin, ‘and dressed in civilian clothes. The third, a short man in Nazi uniform, kept waving his blackjack before my eyes, saying: “If you don’t confess, we'll help you!” No direct accusation was made against me, I was merely asked to describe my occupation. - “T-am a physician,” I said. “I have lived in Germany since 1920. For the past seven years I have been an as- sistant in the Berlin municipal hos- pitals, and before I fell ill recently, I was head physician of the Neukoln municipal -hospital. For the past three weeks I have been ill and on ture Barracks of the German Nazis because I am interested in hygiene in Russia. I accompanied a group of physicians’ of all political tendencies to the Soviet Union, to study the ae of public hygiene as applied | on!” ; “With what? Ask me questions!” “We don’t ask questions. You're going to tell us everything.” “I have nothing to tell.” I was into another room. ‘There I saw five or six men, very vale, one of them, a blond, with his head wrapved. ‘in bloody bandages. All_wers silent. “Here js your chief, you dirty dogs!” the Na‘s said, as they pushed me in. “A Bulgarian, a physician, and the director of Communist propaganda.” This was the first time that I heard the Nazis formulate any accusation against me. Director of propaganda! —the position occupied by Goebbels for the National-£ >cialist Party! ‘The Nazis went through my pockets again and stole all my change and my pocketbook. which had fifty marks in it. Then they began to strike me savarely with blackjacks, clubs, and iron bars. They aimed especially at my head, climbing up on and tables to strike me more effectively. ginning in Leipzig, the toilers of the whole world will place Germ2n fas- cism in the prisoners’ dock. In mil- | lions they will gather round the Loe | oA cally struggling German proletariat the victims of the unheard of fas- cist Terror. In meetings and demon. strations they will pronounce thei verdict on Hitler and Goering, who | hands of their mercenary van der | Lubbe. “Toilers! Unmask, stigmatise, and prevent the criminal juridical mur- der being planned! “Force the exposure of the bloody methods employed in the examination of the prisoners. Demand that all the details of the examinations be made public, demand the names of the brutal fascist warders who tor- ture the prisoners. “Demand energetically that defend- ing counsel chosen by the defendants themselves be permitted to undertake the defense! “Demand the release of the defend- | Langston Hughes Is| Grilled by Police,| Ordered from Japan p TOKIO, July 25..~ Langston Hughes, famous revolutionary Ne-_ gro writer and poct of New York, | was grilled by Japanese police here yesterday for six hours, and | ordered to leave the country at! once, t Eleven Jatanese who visited | him at his hotel were also taken | by the police and questioned, but Friday, were requested to come up to the office of the New York Com- mittee, 75-5th Avenue, Room 5 be- fore Friday, July 28th, the date of their meeting. . Materials can also be gotten at-Sre office of the I.W.O., 80 Fifth «Ave. * ‘The International Labor Defense placed the incendiary torch in the | as sent out final instructions to all Section Committees of the I. L. D. to mobilize their branches for the Defense and Relief Week July 31st- August 7th and to equip them with all necessary materials. In the docu ment the I.L.D. district stressed the importance of this Defense and Re- lief Week to the branches—stating that this is a campaign of the I.L.D. called by the International Red Aid. All Branches of the I. L. D. that have not yet received their collection material are asked to report at the office of the New York Committee, 76 Fifth Avenue, Room 5, ‘Germany Protects trian government charged today that the German government is giv- ing systematic assistance to Nazi terrorists. working in Austria. It charges that Baron Werner von Alvewsleben, who took part in the shooting of Dr. Richard Steidle, Security’ Director of Tyrol, and plotted to-murder Major Emil Fey, Austrian. Security Minister, was protectedby: the police of Munich, | who gave hima forged passport in \the’ name of Fritz Steiger, so he could return to Austria to carry on his work, Dr. Tranter, a leading lawyer of Innsbruck, has been given a month later were released. The police were afrcid that; Hughes would get in contact with | Japanese revolutionary workers , | in jail for naming dog Dollfuss, |the name. of the Austrian chancel- ‘lor.- Emil Kurzman, of Kufstein, | will spend two weeks in jail for put- & a picture of Hitier in his win- >» Halifax workers when John Sembley, | was started on Saturday. struck me again. ed by those of two young Nazis who leave until the end of March to re-| My face ran with blood, and I soon | | and be eared The Japanese 2ov. jdow. Johann List 07 innsozuck has revolutionary worker, was deported to gp cS a sa ‘They searched the whole apart-| escorted us into another room. | cover.” stopped crying for help. "A few blows | | emment Fer urs Mecha \beon three weeks for . the Soviet Union with his wife and’ MEXICO SEIZES JAPANESE SHIP| ment, broke open the drawers of| ‘There we found several young men| “Do you speak Russian?” with the iron bars, a whistling noise ihe covcitignare prspralledan ag a Ay evoss shaved on child : MEXICO CITY, July 25.—The cap-| my desk, filled a trunk with books;; who, with cynical grimaces began to| “Yes.” in my left ear, and I crumpled up Hughes arrived “here Cunday | tis head. i ve Sembley was arrested in Edmonton, tain and erew of 8 of a Japanese| documents, and correspondence; ° | make violent threats against me. “How is that?” 9 and. fell to the floor in a faint. +! | ooo ‘Shanghai, after a long stay | .-200524d5" of hooked crosses, nearly 15 months ago, kidnapped and | fishing vessel loaded with tuna fish “Come along,” they said. —. secretly rushed to Halifax, where he! were arrested and their boat seized was kept in the notorious immigra-| at Puerto Marquez, on the West Coast tion sheds until arrangements were | of Mexico, ‘They were taken to Aca- made for him to go to the Soviet) pulco to stand charges of illegally Union. itd in Mexican waters. 6. i} | Then they beat me again as they My wife, not wishing to leave me alone in the hands of this gang, ac- companied us voluntarily. ‘They kicked me all the way down the stairs, I said there was no doubt some mistake, and tried to make myself heard. ‘When my wife began to protest again against such violent treatment, she was also put under arrest and 4 “T am a Bulgarian, and in Bulgarian schools the study of Russian is com- pulsory.”” “Have you any connections with the Russians?” “Yes, as a physician, and especially It was not until later that I learn- ed they had told: my wife, worried by the screams she heard in a room next to the one where she was held: in the Soviet Union, which he! visited from end to end. He is, sailing today from Yokohama for | “Listen! That’s your husband!” (TO BE OONTINUED) San Francisco, on the ee Maru.” | rohan eli SEA enem | painted with indelible paint, can be |seen on milescones, walls, and in | every sort of place throughout Aus- tria. One. immense hooked cross was painted on a mountainside at Innsbrucks © \ \

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