AT LEAST FORTY GERMAN SUBMARINES DESTROYED SINCE OUTBREAK OF WAR
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London To-day.
ALLIES AND FINLAND'S CAUSE
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”) Paris, To-day.
"We hope that the League
SOVIET HOLD will categorically condemn
IT IS RELIABLY STATED that the total number of KEYS OF
German submarines sunk since the outbreak of
war is at least forty, including units of various LEGATION
types.
The total of German submarines ready for service at the outbreak is generally believed, in naval quarters, to have been about sixty.
It is pointed out by competent ob- servers that Germany's main dif- ficulties for the future will consist not so much in building more sub- marines to replace losses as in find- ing adequate numbers. of trained
crews.
in-
It is believed that Germany's tensified mine warfare is partly due to-the necessity to alleviate this dif- ficulty, but it has been established beyond a doubt that the Allies have found adequate defence measures to cope with the mine danger.—Havas.
GERMAN CAPACITY TO BUILD
LONDON, TO-DAY.
BRITISH
TROOPS
IN ACTION
FROM REUTER'S SPECIAL COR. RESPONDENT WITH THE B. E. F.
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE,
TO-DAY.
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Moscow, To-day.
The Soviet authorities re- fuse to hand over the keys of the Finnish Legation to the Swedish Legation, which was entrusted with looking after Finnish interests in Moscow.
The authorities allege that they no longer recognize the legality of the Finnish Government but merely the "People's Government” set up at Teri- joki, near the Finnish frontier.
Legation staff when FACE
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE WAR BEGAN, BRITISH TROOPS ARE FACE TO WITH GERMAN FORCES. A POR- TION OF THE BRITISH EXPEDI- ŢIONARY FORCE IS NOW UNDER FRENCH COMMAND AND OC-
IT WAS LEARNED IN LONDON | CUPYING A PORTION OF THE YESTERDAY THAT GERMANY IS MAGINOT LINE OUTSIDE THE UNLIKELY TO BE ABLE TO RE- BRITISH ZONE. PLACE SUBMARINES MORE THERE HAS BEEN SOME PATROL RAPIDLY THAN THE PRESENT | ACTIVITY
OCCASIONAL RATE OF LOSING THEM, NAME~ | MUTUAL SHELLING IN THIS PART LY TWO TO FOUR A WEEK.
OF THE FRONT.
AND
The German estimate for future THERE HAVE BEEN NO BRITISH U-boat output is not available but the | CASUALTIES.-REUTER. "Deutsche Allegmeine Zeitung" claims
that the 1917 output, estimated at one a day, can be greatly exceeded.
According to figures available In official circles in London, however the rate of commissioning of Gøri man 'submarines In 1917 averaged seven a month, and the highest monthly number was 13.
Doubt is expressed as to whether it is possible to approach that figure given the shortage of materials, the absence of skilled labour and the diversion of workers and the pro- duction of ersatz materials for the
service of the armed forces-Reuter.
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HERO OF 16 MET ENEMY
A sixteen year-old survivor of H.M.S. Royal Oak, sunk at Scapa Flow by an enemy submarine, shook U-boat man hands with a twenty-three-year-old.
- "They met at-a-large internment camp, where U-boat crews are held as prisoners of war.
Newton, of Lees-road, Oldham, ✨ now The visitor to the camp was Douglas
on fourteen- days": leave after a re- markable escape from death at Scapa Flow He had been given special permission to visit the camp.""
After jumping overboard when the Royal Oak was torpedoed. ·· Douglas was rescued by a picket boat. 11 overturned. Then he swam for two hours in the dark before being picked up by a drifter.~~
Speaking of his visit to the camp, Douglas told the press
"This i
Tis the
On the other hand, local Gér. man circles deny that they advie- ed diplomats of small nations not to bid farewell
Finnish to the
the latter departed from Moscow, although they admit that their advice.had
· been asked, 'since ́ ́the German Ambassador Is doyen of the diplomatic corps.
The same sources added that the German Ambassador, merely said that he himself was not going to see the Finns off.
It will be recalled that, with the exception of those representing the small Baltic states, practically the whole of the diplomatic corps saw the Finns off. Havas.
SOVIET PROTEST TO BRITISH
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Moscow, To-day.
Soviet aggression. The gener- al outery in Finland's favour can only be to France's and- Britain's advantage and will serve the cause for" which these nations are fighting.”
Thus declares the Socialist organ "Le Populaire" in an editorial which is characteristic of comments, in the French press on the League Session which opens to-day.
"Excelsior" declares:--
"Great Britain and France, are Soviet's expulsion, but their delegates ready to join in a demand for the will probably point out that Germany is primarily responsible for the ag- gression policy which has opened Europe's highways to Bolshevism."
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The well-known commentator, Genevieve Tabouls, writes 5rx "L'Oeuvre":-
"If the Allies succeed in uniting behind them the Balkans and several other countries including a very big one- to fight for right and justice, then Russia evidently would not be in a position to resist PO powerful a front." Havac“
AIR-RAID ARMLET FOR CLERGY
An armlet to be worn by minister of religion who have to move about the streets during air raids has now been approved. It is of Royal Air Force blue cloth 4in wide, bearing the letters A.R.P. in red silk and cross in white silk,
In a circular letter to local authorl- ties the Ministry of Home Security states that the armlet is intended to confer liberty of movement for at- tending casualties' and others `in 'need, The Foreign Commissariat has hand- Ministers who are detailed by their ed to the British and French Em-churches for work among the injured bassies a note asserting that the Al-will wear steel helmets
and “have lied control of German exports is respirators, but the armlet will be the contrary to international law. Havas. sole badge of recognition.
DEEP NAZI-SOVIET UNDERSTANDING NOW SEEN
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London, To-day.
first time I have had a sight of the POLITICAL CIRCLES HERE are of the opinion that
enemy.
"Only one man could speak a little EnglanTM Pointing his thumb down- wards the asked me if I was serving in a submarine, o
"I told him I was in the Royal Oak whanelt was thriskbed tia shot seem to know, anything about it, it
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they
both congratulated me on ins
“The prisoner
at the camp, but I shall be happier when I get back on Bervice.”
Douglas has spent nearly -- every night of his leave writing letters of comfort to the mothers,"" sweethearts and wives of men who went down with the Roysk Oak. *.. Scores. hadi written inquiry.
FRONTIER
letters of
recent political developments confirm that the German-Soviet understanding is deeper than was at first bélfèved.
This feeling is substantiated by the Soviet protest against the Allied control of German exports and the Nazi declaration that no German arms have. recently been sent to Finland.
constituting reprisals against
The Soviet protest against measures:
methods of warfare- is: “y surprising coming from” a has just given evidence of its own respect for by action against.
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