ANGLO - CANADIAN MINES IN THE MIDDLE OF FINNISH BATTLE AREA
London, To-day.
A TALK ON THE Petsamo region was broadcast from Daventry yesterday by Mr. Owen Evans, Labour M.P. for Cardiganshire, who is connect-
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ed with the Anglo-Canadian nickel mines in STOP PRESS TEL. 20022 or 33993 that northern region of Finland.
Petsamo, he said, lies on the Arctic Circle and is a
strip of land from 20 to 25 miles wide separating Soviet Russia and Norway. Its harbour is ice- free all the year round, thanks to the Gulf Stream.
In recent years, much employment | their wivan and children, are now in has been given by the Anglo-Cann- | Norway, Just noross the border.
ALMOST ETERNAL DARKNESS dian plant, which is stunted some 40
At this time of the year, Mr. Owen miles south of the Coast. The mines have not yet reached the production | Evans went on, the sun is never above
there is stage, but if it had not been for the the horizon, although present trouble nickel and copper ore | twilight of a few hours in the middle would have been smelted in a year's of the day. The country is sparsely populated and the vegetation consluta time.
of stunted birches, fire troos and roln- deer moss.
The ore deposit is a promising one, although It does not compare with the depositions at Sudbury, in Canada.
Here and there, a few small farme A large electric power station is Į grow potatoes and one or two other under construction, but "work on this vegetables during the short summer. and at the mines has now been stop-but they meet with considerable dim-
culties. ped- for the time being."
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'The development of the nickel de- posits has resulted in the building of modern town, containing blocks of modern workmen's flats fitted out with central hea'ng, electric light, laundries, stack house and recreation hall. There is also a cinema, a sports ground, and, of course, the steam bath for which Finland is famous.
A small number of skilled en- gineers from Canada have been work- ing at the mines, superintending the work, but these men, together with
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ON ARTIC CIRCLE There is no railway, but there is a very good motor road which runs to the head of the railway from Helsinki. The railhead is practically on the Artic Circle itself, Petsamo lying about 350 miles to the north.
In spite of this, the weather in the summer is very hot, while for two months the sun never sets.
In the winter, however, the weather is very cold and there is usually a lot of snow after December. The fighting in this region is now going on under the most severe conditions.-Reuter.
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The Soviet attack on Finland will have consequences at least as great as those which followed the Nazi invasion of Czecho- Slovakia in March, predlets Ver- non Bartlett, In
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Mr. Bartlett declares Stalin # likely
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other mousures against General Chiang Kai-shek in China, as well ngalrist the Democracies
has Europe, to prove that he reached the Napoleonic phose in his revolution, in which he is inspired much less by Communism than by imperialism,
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No greater reinforcement has all been given to reactionaries
than over the world since 1917 that which Stalin gave last week. the It is true that after Finland most severe sufferer is likely to be Germany herself.
Not only in Britain and France will the invasion have a profound effect, for American interest in Europe will be revived and, more interesting still, Italy is becoming so hostile that the Italian peasant is talking about war in the Spring against Russia with the same fa- talism as he showed last year when he talked about war with France.
This is important because it must deepen the rift inside Ger- many between the Nazis who hate and fear the association with the Bolshevista and those
who see therein their strongest argument against the solid conservatism of the British Empire.
Mr. Bartlett slates those people in London and Paris who, he as- serts, are capable of arguing that we must condone Germany's ag- gressions in order to have her sup- port in condemning Russia's ag- gression, but if we are to learn from this latest aggression we must make it clear that our cru- sade is directed not against the Soviets or the Nazis but against those who still use war as an in- strument of national policy,--Reu- ter,
Stockholm, To-day.
It is estimated in some quar. ters that 70 per cent of the Swedish population are in favour of active intervention on the side ' of ' Finland,flouter,
Helsinki, To-day. Total casualties in Soviet air raids so far are officially given as 74 killed and 248 injured.
Aeroplanes using their machine- guns killed 38 and wounded 240. The official communique adds that not a single military objec- tive had been attacked, but the raids were directed against the civilian population.
The Russian troops at Petsamo have been reinforced and fighting is very heavy-but the Finns are holding their positions despite the superior numbers of the Russians. -Reuter.
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