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THE CHINA MÁIL, DECEMBER 1, 1939
SOVIET DID NOT WANT PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT Excuses Would Not Find Acceptance Anywhere
TACTICS MADE ONLY TOO FAMILIAR
London, To-day.
SEMI-OFFICIAL SOURCES in London state that a peaceful settlement could have been reached but that Soviet Russia would have none of it. The Russian excuses had found acceptance no- where outside of Soviet Russia. They were of the kind that the Nazis have made only too fami- liar:
FINLAND'S MAGINOT LINE
There is sympathy for Finland not only in Britain, France the United States and Scandinavia but also in Italy and Spain.--Reuter.
ATTACK FORESEEN
·London, To-day. Although yesterday's leading articles In the British press were written be- fore Soviet Russia's invasion of Fin- land, most of the papers considered. the invasion Inevitable and bitterly
condemn Soviet aggression.
"The Times" says that the Soviet excuses are even more grotesque than
Nazis before Germany
London, To-day. Finland's main bulwark of defence against invasion from the east is a remarkable those of the Maginot Line called the Man-invaded Poland. No more perfunc- nerheim Line, named after the country's famous Field- Marshal.
Here nature has helped the Finnish engineers form a lane of extraordin- ary strength.
The endless evergreen foresta provide protection from the air and barracks and training places are absolutely invisible.
Large stretches of lakes and dan- gerous morasses save fortifying some areas at all and the landscape is liberally strewn with huge granite blocks forming anti-tank barriers.
ELECTRIFIED WIRE Some areas are seamed with cun- ningly arranged systems of barbed wire of which much is electrified.
In addition the Finna have dug a network of broad furrows. Full advantage has been taken of the peculiarities of the landscape and all sorts of emplacements and larger fortifications have been erected. Reuter.
DEATH OF
DR. NORMAN BETHUNE
Chungking, To-day. Further details have been gathered here concerning Dr. Norman Bethune, a Canadian who is reported to have died on November 13,
lory excuse could have been made than to suggest that. the troops of a small country, all of whose interests were based on peace and neutrality, could threaten a nation of 180,000,000 people.
FLIMSY PRETEXT
Photo taken after the wedding on Wednesday at St. John's Cathe- dral of Mr. John Edward Potter and Miss Norah Mary Huson.
MR. CASEY HAS AN AUDIENCE
London, To-day.
The "Dally Telegraph" points out
Mr. Casey, the Australian Minister that the alleged threat to Leningrad
of Supply, who is shortly returning to is no greater to-day than It was in the Commonwealth at the end of con- 1932, when Soviet Russia signed sultations which have been taking the Non-Aggression Pact with Fin-place in London was received by the
CHINA'S BRISTLES
MONOPOLY
Chungking, To-day.
It is officially announced that China's annual export of $28,000,000 worth of bristles is now placed under the control of a central trust. Reuter.
FINNISH MINISTER SEES LORD HALIFAX London, To-day. The Finnish Minister called at the British Wireless.
land which she has now denounced. King at Buckingham Palace yester-Foreign Office yesterday. The Labour paper
"Daily Herald" day-British Wireless.
says that Finland is a highly civilised and democratic country; Russia's only "excuse" is the brutal Imperialist doctrine that might is right. Reu- ter.
WAVE OF INDIGNATION THROUGHOUT WORLD
Rome, To-day. "The tragic development of the Soviet-Finnish tension has aroused a wave of indignation throughout the civilised world," writes the
paper "Osservatore Romano."
After making a strong attack against the Soviet attitude to her northern
neighbour, the paper adds:-
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"The fate of the whole of northern Europe is largely bound up with that of Finland."-Reuter.
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SOVIET PURSUED
A DELIBERATE PATH
London, To-day. that Moscow delayed the
There is good reason to believe sion of the Finnish reply to the Soviet
transmisTM
Note so that the Soviet Government would not be embarrassed in its pur- suance of its pre-arranged aggres-
reveal that he was about 40. years of age and came from Montreal.
Dr. Bethune was last .seen by friends at Hankow late in February last year, when he was completing ar- rangements for a trip to North Shansi.
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It is understood that the Finnish PERFECTION reply suggested an enquiry by a fron- tier commission and offered to nego- SCOTS WHISKY tiate concerning the withdrawing of Finnish troops as demanded by Mos- cow-Reuter.
Shortly afterwards, with medical sons, Associate Surgeon in Benedic equipment and supplies, Dr. Bethune tion Hospital, Kingston, New York, travelled to the north, accompanied he formed the first medical unit or- by Miss Jane. Ewan, a Canadian ganized by a group of people in New nurse.
York.
Dr. Bethune carried with." "him" U.8.82,000 for establishing 80 beds In a field hospital in the north. Together with. Dr. Charles Par-
Dr. Parsons is now working with the "New Fourth Army" somewhere In the vicinity of the Nanking- Shanghai ares.--Reuter.
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