ITALY'S QUIET
SEAT ON THE FENCE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Rome, To-day.
PRESS COMMENTS ON THE recent speech by Count Ciano, the Foreign Minister, give interest- ing indications of Italy's international position.
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ed two points the untimeliness of Germany's action from the viewpoint of the mutual Italo- German undertakings, and the intervention of the Soviet, a factor which was brought to Italy's knowledge only on the eve of signature of the Soviet-German pact."
KARELIAN BATTLE
Helsinki, To-day.
An official communique states that In the Karelian Isthmus, the enemy launched attacks of great force during yesterday. By evening, all attacks enemy resulted in the which had gaining foothold in the Finnish posl- tions had been repulsed.
"We
"Corriere Padano" declares: consider that Russia's intervention Count concerns Germany alone, as Clano was not informed up to August 21 of the Russo-German pact.
"Italy, on the other hand, has not deviated from the spirit and letter of the German-Italian pact, providing for consultations."-Havas.
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WEATHER REPORT
The Royal Observatory that a moderate anticyclone China and Japan. It is decreasing in intensity and is moving eastwards.
The depression is situated to
east-north- Front, enemy at-east of Luzon, moving tacks between Koirnoja and Sysky-east or north-east. jaervi were repulsed
The enemy suffered losses of men und tanks.
On the Eastern
and successful
the
Finnish offensives near Lake Agla a considerable amount of war material jaervi continued. Many prisoners and were captured.-Reuter.
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Kwong Chow Wan, To-day. Skirmishes have occurred adeas west of Nanning where the Japanese are apparently at- tempting to drive to Lungchow, near the French Indo-China bor- der.
This morning Japanese planes Lungchow but no
were over
bombs were dropped.
It is also reported, that Gen- eral Chen Chien and General Li Chal-sum arrived yesterday at Kweilin. Both generals plan to visit the front, to-day-Our Own Correspondent.
London, To-day. A Reuter despatch from the Norwegian-Finnish frontier states that Soviet troops yesterday com- pleted the occupation of the strip of Arctic territory separating the extreme north-west of Norway from Soviet Russia.
They are reported to have esta- blished their headquarters at Sal- mijaervi. Big numbers of troops and material are being tranported south from Petsamo. Observers say the Russians have ten thou- sand men, not including motoris- ed detachments, operating on this front, while the Finns have more than one thousand. But the Soviet losses are reported to be heavy.--Reuter.
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Washington, To-day. The U.S.S. Tuscaloosa is report- ed to have rescued about 400 sur- vivors of the Nazi liner Columbus and is bringing them to New York.
Immigration officials in New York declare that if the special board of inquiry finds the sur- vivors "bona fide merchant sea- men" they will be permitted to re- main in the United States 60 days and will receive "the same court- eous treatment as seamen of any country."
If the board finds any members of the crew to be naval men or spies they will be held for "special disposal."
The Columbus is still floating but is on fire.
The U.S. Navy has broadcast a warning to all shipping that the Columbus and 22 of her lifeboats which are reported to be adrift constitute a menace to navigation:
The liner's position is given as some 500 miles west-south-west of New York.-Reuter. -
London, To-day.
The death has occurred of the George Eumorfopoulos, famous connoisseur of Chinese art.-Reuter.
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Paris, To-day..... Well-informed quarters, menting on yesterday's meeting of the Allied War Council, stress the strong foreign office re- presentation.
It is known that the Council began with an examination of the general situation in which the new factor is the Soviet aggres- sion in Finland.
Semi-officially, it is indicated that the meeting enabled Britain and France to define their atti- tude in regard to the internation- al equilibrium as altered by the Soviet action.-Reuter.
Hankow, To-day.
The French Concession here re- opened - to-day-at-10.30 a.m. - fol- lowing its closure yesterday as part of the drive against alleged Chinese terrorists. Pistols and bombs were found in houses searched and thirteen Chinese were arrested. The Japanese are demanding that these prisoners be handed over to them. Bombs and petrol were later discovered in a house in the ex-Russian Con- cession in the centre of an area occupied by high Japanese naval authorities.-Reuter.
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DEATH
HỤNG-At the Cannossa Hospital at 7.30 p.m. on 19th December, 1839, from. pneumonia, Walter Hùng, aged 30, husband of Phoebe Hung (nee Kotewall), Funeral will leave the Cannossa Hospital" at 4 p.m. to-day direct for the Chin- esa Christian Cemetery, Pokfulum.
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