THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 13, 1939
RUSSIA
FLATLY
REJECTS LEAGUE MEDIATION
Geneva, To-day.
MOSCOW IS BEING GIVEN until 10 a.m. to-day (Wednesday) to reply to the League of Nations telegram suggesting an immediate cessation of hostilities in Finland and peace negotiations under League auspices.
Reason for the extension of the original 24-hour time limit is uncertainty about the time of receipt of the League's telegram in Moscow.
While waiting for Moscow's reply the committee of fourteen has completed its report on the Finnish- Soviet dispute.
The report falls in three parts. The first is a historical review, the second cites the laws and treaties in- volved and the third discusses the juridical conclusion to be drawn.
recom-
The committee will meet this afternoon to decide what mendations to add to the report. Reuter.
FINLAND'S ACCEPTANCE
London, To-day.
البد
Although only a few hours remain before the appeal to Russia for a peaceful settlement expires, no reply is reported from Geneva.
A telegram was sent to Moscow
cuss the League's appeal and neither the Soviet press or wireless give the slightest hint of the proceedings at Geneva. Reuter.
FLAT RUSSIAN
REJECTION:
London, To-day. According to the Paris radio the Russian reply has been received at Geneva, soon after the expiry of the original time limit.
BALLOON BARRAGE ACCIDENT
London, To-day.
It is officially an- nounced that a Fleet Air Arm aircraft collided with a balloon barrage cable near Southampton yesterday.
The crew of four were killed. Reuter.
CHINESE INTERNEE ESCAPES
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Another Chinese soldier got safely from the Matauchung Intern- parties were out at 3.50 a.m. but could ment Camp early this morning. Search find no trace of the missing man, Chen Chi-cho, aged 23.
A homemade ladder of bamboo poles, some 16 feet long, was found
north side of the camp, and this is be-
and Helsinki at 7 p.m. G.M.T. on 'It flatly rejects the placed against the barbed wire on the Wednesday Hong League's appeal for a cessa-lieved to have been the means where-
Tuesday (3 a.m.
Kong time) requesting a reply within
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24 hours. The note to Moscow added tion of hostilities against by Chen made his escape. REMOVAL OF
that Finland had accepted. Reuter. Finland and the offer of!
MOSCOW SILENT
Moscow, To-day. Soviet officials here refuse to dis-
ADMIRALTY "BREMEN” DISCLOSURE
London, To-day. The Admiralty announced yesterday afternoon that Bri- tish respect for international law had saved the giant Ger- man liner Bremen, which has stolen through the British blockade.
The Bremen, it will be recalled, left New York three days before war was declared and managed to get safely through to the Soviet Arctic port of Murmansk, since when noth- ing has been heard of her.
Yesterday, however, the Admiralty announced that a British submarine had sighted her, homeward bound. The Bremen passed within torpedo" range, but the submarine was pre- vented by International law from torpedoing her without warning.
The Bremen, it is learned, `-was sighted yestertiay morning,
International law forbids the sink- ing of merchantships unless all peo- ple on board can first be placed in & place of safety, and-open boats in an open sea are not places of safety. The submarine, obviously, could not take all those in the Bremen on board.
The submarine also could not cap- ture the Bremen, which, haswa far higher turn af speed. --- Reuter.
BERLIN ANNOUNCEMENT
val Berlin-To-day.
It is announced that the giant Nar); } liner, Bremen, hasssafely reached.. German port
The Bremen, which fied from New York just before the outbreak of war, reached the north Russian port of Murmansk where she had been ever sineses:Beuter,
|League mediation.
SANCTIONS NOT EXPECTED
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
London, To-day. Political circles do not expect the League of Nations to vote Sanctions against the Soviet, but merely to thove a resolution condemning Soviet
aggression,-Havas.
OFF THE RECORD
Here's Luck
Near the spot is an empty hut, and in it a blanket was found; it was still warm. It is thought that Chen hid in the hut until the early hours of the morning, when he made his escape.
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