Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Out of the Night

'Prayda lies. no one loves
Staiin,' that was his answer"
well, what are YOU going
Ia do: ExpeI him from the
Party"
"No. We're going TO send
him away"
To the Soviet UniOn:"
1T depends on what we can
arrange. IL Ii for Berlin Ia
decide. The comrades at the
bottom must know nothing.
To them IL must be explained
that Bandura has been sent
on a mission to Poland"
Hugo Marx departed. A day
later ! saw Bandura.
"Comrade Bandura," / told
him. 81 know you can keep a
secret"
Bandura was half drunk.
He had just returned from
tour of the French ships in
the harbor. He pointed to his
heart.
"Many great secrets are
locked here" he said. "They
are safe with Bandura."
ADVISED TO VANISH
1.-THE GPU- has reports on
your talks with men on
Russian steamers" said
"They do not like II. You
had better disappear. Go TO
Rotterdam or Marseilles or
anywhere"
Bandura laughed.
"YOu want TO get rid OF
me:"
II speak in earnest. 1 am
giving you warning"
"The GPU has the same
odOr as the killers of Karl
Liebknecht." Bandura grum-
bled. "They are the traitors.
not l."
"All the same. they have
power"
"And I have faith, comrade.
had faith before you were
born. Where Is your wife,"
"Firelei: ?"
81 want to see her."
"You cannot"
81 understand" the Ukrain-
ian said with cutting derision.
IL am a man who spreads the
pest. believe in liberty.
You believe In bowling with
the pack. Good-by. Tell your
wife that 1 thank her much
for her Kindness"
Take care no one sees you
when you leave -
Bandura did not leave Ham,
burg. He was seized by GPU
men, and kept for nine days
in a secret detention place. at
19 Kohlhofen. In the first
days of June, 1882, in the
middle of a mild Summer
night, he was escorted aboard
the Dnepr. Bandufa offered
no resistance.
The Dnepr sailed for Lenin-
grad. Bandura was one OF the
first in the legion of foreign
Communists exiled TO the
Solovietzky Islands in the
White Sea, the isles of tears
that turn TO ice"
QUICKLY FORGOTTEN
"What has happened to
COmrade Bandura ?" the "ac-
twists" of Hamburg asked
more than once after his dis
appearance.
"He has been sent to
Gdynia," was the answer.
And three weeks later an
other legend was let loose.
1t ran:
"Comrade Bandura has been
arrested by Polish police In
Gdynia." ~
In the torrent of events.
the fighting Ukrainian was
quickly forgotten.
Three other men were alb
Quoted and put on the road
10 Leningrad during the first
half of 1882. They were
spirited out of Hamburg
aboard the Soviet steamers
AleXey Rykov and Rosa
Luxembourg.
All these kidnapings were
carried out under the eyes of
the German authorities, with
out arousing the slightest
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
underground GPU network
had grown so widespread and
efficient abroad that it func-
toned like a veritable empire
within empire on several con-
tinentS.
One of the three victims had
been a member of the Soviet
Trade Mission in Berlin. He
had stolen a substantial sum
of money and decamped TO
Cologne, where he attempted
to establish himself as an ex-
porter of toys.
He was seized in Cologne
by Michel Avatin and his
= aides, and brought back to
Berlin. There a 'proletarian
court" composed of two GPU
officials and two members of
the Communist unit of the
Soviet Trade Mission staff.
ruled that he be returned to
Russia.
ALWAYS IN IRONS