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ANOTHER VESSEL
SOVIET SEEKING TO SATISFY TURKEY?
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Budapest, To-day. According to press reports Stalin has personally Instruct- ed the Foreign Commissarlat not to spare efforts to achieve an un- derstanding with Turkey."
Consequently efforts are being made to resume the conversations broken off with the departure of M. Barajoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, from Mosdow In October. Havas.
REFUGEE MONKS IN STOCKHOLM
Stockholm, To-day.
Fifteen refugee monks
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
BUTTER
́Australia's Choicest
TO FRANCE
NAZI WAR COST RUN TO GROUND
London, To-day.
ANOTHER NAZI SHIP has been run to ground, this time a large oil-tanker, fully laden, which was endeavouring to steal out of the Gulf of Mexico hugging the coast of the United States.
The tanker was challenged by H.M.S. Orion, which fired a shot across her bows and ordered her to steam east. The German skipper took a chance and steamed west and managed to get American territorial waters before the cruiser could cut her off.
The vessels then steamed on # parallel course, the tanker Just inalde and the cruiser just out. side territorital waters.
Finally, the tanker anchored out- side an American port and H.M.S. Orion dropped anchor, within sight of her about 11⁄2 miles outside territorial waters.
The American authorities are ex- amining the Nazi ship and if she is armed she will be ordered to leave in 24 hours. Reuter. ---
from Arctic Finland arrived ALLIED WAR
safely in Stockholm yester-
day. One of them said that COUNCIL
he had rarely seen a woman
for the past 24 years of his DISCUSSION
monastic retirement.
They fled before the approach of the Red Army, and all said that but for their age they would now be fighting against Soviet Russia.
When the Sovlets arrived at their monastery, the monks sald, they destroyed a number of valúa- ble Ikons and paintings.
"We fled in sub-freezing weather, with no time to save our clothes," they sald.-Reuter.
BOMBING OF TOWNS DENIED BY AIR MINISTRY
London, To-day. The Air Ministry announces that the Germán news agency, report that Bri- tish aircraft yesterday morning bomb- ed towns in the island of Sylt is en- tirely false-Reuter.
GRAF SPEE CREW'S
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Buenos Aires, To-day. The Argentinian Government is to pay 100,000 pesos a month for the salaries of the Graf Spee's officers and "crew.
The men are to be interned in a military area,-Havas,
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Paris, To-day.
Informed quarters under- stand that the meeting of the | Allied War Council yesterday served to examine the changes brought about in the international situation by the fact that Russia is no longer a neutral power and no more a member of the League of Nations.
The Council also examined ways and means of granting effective material aid to Finland, and also what attitude France and Britain would adopt if Sweden was involved in the conflict.
It is understood that the last French Cabinet meeting was `devoted to the Finnish problem, -**--
It la bellaved the Allied Counali de- aided not only on questions of princi ple but also methods of enforcement of apncrete measures, although tha authorities refrain from specifying how Anglo-French 06-6paration is be- Ing enforced in this field.--Havas.
WEATHER FORECAST—East winda moderate, fine at first, cloudy lat- Cory-warmer,
inside British
VIOLATION
OF NORWAY
BY SOVIET
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Stockholm, To-day. Despite Soviet denials it is confirm- ed in well-informed circles that Soviet troops violated the Norwegian fron-
tier.
It is also stated that the Soviet manoeuvre in northern Finland failed as the Finns are falling back in an orderly manner. --- Havas.
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Paris, To-day.
The Finance Minister, M. Paul Reynaud, yesterday sub- mitted to the finance commit- tee of the Chamber of Depu- ties estimates for military ex- penditure in the first quar- ter of 1940.
M. Reynaud said the constantly
changing military situation does not allow for definite estimates for the full
year.
First quarter credits amount to .55,000,000,000 francs, whils total credite for 1940 will probably reach the figure of 250,000,000,000 francs.
M. Heynaud pointed out that ex-
covered by loans as authorised by law, and asked
penses will be
for
quick passage of the bill "which marks
the nation's determination to carry the war to a victorious conclusion."— Havas.
SET AFIRE ON SIGHTING WARSHIP
London, To-day.
An Admiralty announcement on the | Columbus scuttling incident states that the German liner, on sighting a Brl- tish warship some 400 miles to the north of Bermuda set herself on fire and her crew abandoned her.-Reuter.
GERMANS MASSING - ON WESTERN FRONT
London, To-day. A correspondent of the "Daily Tele- graph" reports that between 19 and 20 German army corps are now conceri- trated along the German frontiers of Belglum, Luxemburg and the Nether- lands. Reuter.
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