“AWAKENING FROM NIGHTMARE.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18636, 4 August 1930, Page 9

“AWAKENING FROM NIGHTMARE.”

Impressions Of Red Russia. RECENT VISITOR’S ARRESTING STORY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 3, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 2. “ Coming from Russia, is like awakening from a nightmare,” said Mr Hessell Tiltman, Mr Ramsay Macdonald’s biographer, in an interview after his return from a month’s travelling with Mrs Tiltman, through Russia. He said: “ There are only two kinds of people— Communists, who are fanatics, and all others, who are as apathetic and as hopeless as they have always been. We were greatly honoured to witness the production of the first tractor in the world's greatest factory at Stalingrad. which was erected, on what was virgin country two years ago. Great Soviet aeroplanes swooped overhead, innumerable speeches were made, and songs sung, but there was nothing to eat. “The crowd failed to understand when we demanded something to eat, the Communists being perfectly satisfied to see the tractor. It was most difficult to get a square meal in Russia. Although telegrams asking to grant us every facility preceded us everywhere, we invariably discovered that there were no facilities to give us any.” Stalingrad factory is run by Americans, who are highly paid. They say that Russia is a good country if one is satisfied with one wash monthly, and five meatless days weekly. The teaching of English is Moscow’s best paid profession. Young Communists are eager to learn the language to go to spread the light in the outer world. We saw many classes of Communists youths learing English, in order to go to Australia, Africa, America and England. PROCESS OF DISSOLUTION. t STATE OF LENIN’S BODY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh t (Received August 3. 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, August 2. Experts now admit that the embalming of Lenin’s body, which was supposedly to preserve it for all eternity was inferior in character, with the result that nothing can now stay the process of dissolution, which is proceeding rapidly. The remains will therefore be cremated, and the ashes be kept in the Mausoleum at the Kremlin, where the display of the body, in a glass coffin did much to intensify the spread of Leninism. Tfie news of the body decomposing will have an enormous effect upon the peasants throughout the country, and may presage the end of his work VENGEANCE OF THE TCHEKA. DEATH FOLLOWS TORTURE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 3, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. August 2. The Riga correspondent of “ The Times.” says the Latvian papers declare that the Tcheka, after atrociously j torturing the prisoners, shot fourteen Lettish colonists, in the province of Smolensk, on a charge of harbouring a priest and attending a service in contravention of the rules restricting the movements and activities of ministers of religion. Despite the appeals of the relatives to bury the dead privately, the ■ bodies were thrown into common graves Property, and even clothing was confiscated, leaving the families destitute. The Tcheka also sent 130 colonists attending the services to the notorious Solovetsky prison camp, where conditions are described as “hell.” RED DAY IN EUROPE. GENERALLY PROVES A FIASCO. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (T. jceived August 3, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, August 2. The Red Day, ordered by Moscow, for Communist riots, was a general fiasco. The Parisian police arrested a number of Communist leaders, including the editor of “ Humanite.” At Budapest the Communist commemoration of Red Day passed off quietly.