Nobody Wants Gen. Merejkov's Job In Finland GRIM STORIES OF RED ARMY PLIGHT
KING'S MESSAGE BEGINS A QUEST
·
"I SAID TO THE MAN WHO STOOD AT THE GATE OF THE
YEAR, GIVE ME LIGHT THAT I
MAY TREAD
THE
SAFELY INTO
HE
UNKNOWN AND REPLIED, GO OUT INTO THE DARKNESS AND
PUT YOUR
HAND IN THE HAND OF GOD. THAT SHALL BE BETTER THAN LIGHT."
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Berne, To-day.
THE STOCKHOLM correspondent of the "Basler,
STALIN'S Nachrichten" reports that the situation of the POWER
Red Army in Finland, as described by Soviet pri- soners, is extremely bad.
Prisoners, he says, are mournful, indifferent, tired
out and completely unenthusiastic.
OVER They declare the Red Army suffers more dead HITLER
through disease than through the enemy's wea-
pons.
The correspondent says, however, that rumours of internal strife be- tween the Soviet leaders, or trouble among the masses, are at least premature.
of
Soviet propaganda has been inten- sifled and tries to persuade the popu- lation that they are facing not only whole of Western
Everything points
This quotation, with which Finland but the His Majesty the King con- | Europe. cluded his Christmas broad- cast has aroused much inter- est and curiosity as
to its origin and authorship.
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Reuter says that a number of liter- ary authorities, including Mr. John Masefield, the Poet Laureate, declar- ed that they had no knowledge the author,
of
The mystery seems to have
been solved partly by Mrs. J. C. M. Allen, of Bristol, who states:
"The quotation was found on # postcard among a dead man's effects. I do not know who wrote the original. I sent the quotation In a letter to the "Times" In the dark days of September message of encouragement and presume that the King must have soon it."
MANCHUKUO
FRONTIER
PEACE NEAR
A
to the fact that Russia is preparing for a long campaign.
General
MEREJKOV NOT ENVIED
Meanwhile, reports that Merejkov, commander of the Lenin- grad military region, has been re- moved from office, are unconfirmed.
It is rumoured that the move was contemplated but по officer Wis found ready to take General Merej- kov's duties and assume the respon- sibilities of the Finnish campaign. Havas.
SOVIET AIR LOSSES
Helsinki, To-day.
A Finnish communique claims that during Christmas Day Finnish naval and air forces destroyed at least 23 Soviet planes, and possibly 26. The Finnish aircraft suffered loss. Reuter.
GERMAN REIGN OF
Moscow, To-day. TERROR
After eight meetings at
Chita, the joint Soviet-Japan IN POLAND
ese - Mongolian - Manchurian frontier commission has con-
cluded its discussions.
The commission laid the founda- tion for a settlement on January 7,
ed in Harbin,
charted on the map.
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no
Bucharest, To-day. An absolutely reliable
when the same body will be conven-source reports that the Ger- It is stated the commission agreed mans have instituted a reign that frontier points will then be of terror throughout Poland, to which the Poles are reply- coincide with the arrival of a Jaing by a passive resistance panese trade mission in Moscow for campaign. conferences...with Foreign Commissar Mikoyan-Reuter.
The opening session in Harbin will
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CHINA'S TRADE BALANCE
Crimes punishable by death without trial are rebellion, incitement to re- bellion, possession of arms, insult to the swastika, distribution of subver- sive pamphlets and defacing official posters.
Meanwhile, all German attempts to foster a pseudo-Polish regime have failed, as even those known as pro- Germans before the war are refusing
Chungking, To-day. Chiria's imports from January to November totalled $1,245,416,339 and exports, $905,118,659, resulting in an to co-operate.
adverse balance of $340,297,000, ac- The population's attitude is appar- cording to statistics compiled by the ent in Warsaw, where all customers Chinese Maritime Customs.
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JAPAN'S PROBLEMS
Emperor's Speech
FADING
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Paris, To-day.
"The Finnish war has brought about a certain re- versal in the relations be- tween Hitler and Stalin," the "THE URGENT NECESSITY OF well-known political com-
From Throne to Diet
EFFECTING
TOKYO, TO-DAY.
STABILISATION. IN
BY REPLENISHING mentator "Pertinax" writes NATIONAL RESOURCES in "l'Ordre."
EAST ASIA JAPAN'S
IN THE FACE OF THE EXTREME- LY COMPLEX INTERNATIONAL SITUATION," WAS STRESSED BY needed Stalin more than Stalin need- He adds: "Up to now Hitler has THE EMPEROR IN THE SPEECH❘ed him. FROM THE THRONE ΤΟ THE
DIET YESTERDAY,
His Majesty expressed satisfaction with the growing friendly relations between Japan and the countries with which she had treaties.
He added he was progress Ching.
gratified at the of the fighting services in
Reuter.
CONTACT – UNITS ACTIVE
Paris, To-day. The communique issued by French HQ., last night states that there had been activity of contact units-Reu- ter.
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