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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 22, 1940
First-Class Soviet Troops On Salla Front NOW DEFENDING NEW LINES THIRTY MILES NEARER THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER
WALTHAM EXPLOSION
FACTORY WORKING AGAIN TO-DAY
Helsinki, To-day.
A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT with the Finnish Forces on the Central (Salla) ̧ Front reports that the Soviet troops there are first-class soldiers, well-equipped and more expertly led than those of the two defeated divisions.
The present Soviet defeat does not decide the battle of the Salla Front, he says, but has merely moved it 30 miles nearer the Russian frontier.
The Russians have, in fact, gained but at the strong defence positions same time have weakened their posl- tion for a new offensive.
London, To-day. JAPANESE
According to the Ministry
of Supply statement, work BLOCKADE
will be resumed this morn-
ing in some of the buildings
The Finns claim to have destroyed two Soviet tanks in this sector.
The Finnish Army in this sector is fortifying the ground over which it advances. The Finnish Unes here, the correspondent, are many Two Japanese warships, Destroyer says at the Royal Gunpowder Fac- No. 10 and cruiser No. 9, stopped four miles deep and
the tempt to return this way in another tory, Waltham Abbey, where cargo junks in the vicinity of
San Mun Customs Station, Chinese attempt to repairs to the damage caus-territory, on Friday, according ed by the explosion have been proceeding all the week.
The structure of the factory has been designed to prevent the effect of possible explosion spreading, thus while the windows in houses were shattered some distance away. the windows in the factory bulldings within a few yards of the explosion remained intact.
After visiting the injured men de- tained in hospital as a result of the Secre- explosion, the Parliamentary
tary to the Minister of Supply sald that one was returning home imme- diately, a second would be discharged from hospital within a week and a third was making satisfactory pro- gress,
Colonel Llewellin sald the small number of casualties was largely at- tributed to the safety measures en- forced in the factory-British Wire- less.
INTENSE COLD IN SHANGHAI
Shanghal, To-day. The snow which began on 8a- turday ceased yesterday shortly before noon.
Some 250 bodies of persons who succumbed to the Intense cold have been plcked, up in the streets during the last two days.
The majority were children.—. Our Own Correspondent.
NAZI ATTACK ON FRENCH OUTPOST
Paris, Tc-day.
A sharp Nazi attack on a If the Russians at French outpost west of the cut the Finnish "waist-Vosges was described by the to line," their task will be a far more French official wireless com-
than it was when the mentator yesterday.
reports made to the Police yesterday difficult one
the
Finns had practically no defences at
on the arrival of the victims.
The junks were ordered alongside | all. the Japanese warships, where cargoes were transferred.
The masts, rudders, and sails of the junks were destroyed
they were set free.
INCREDIBLE SPEED The correspondent comments on the "Incredible speed" with which the Finns are carrying out the work of fortifying the sector as they advance Reu- In one case, the junk was set on after the retreating Russians. are.
before
SELENGA TRAGEDY
crew
A Russian fireman, S. I. Trominoff, 25, member of the
of the
vessel. Soviet "Selanga," was killed yesterday when he fell from the mast into one of the holds.
The body was removed to the Kowloon Public Mortuary.
GERMANY'S WAR ON NEUTRAL NERVES
London, To-day. COMMENTING EDITORIALLY on the German threat to Belgium and Holland, the "Sunday Times” un- der the heading of “War of Nerves,” says, “If at the present season Hitler cannot unleash his monster armies, at least by moving them about he can try to terrorise the public of first this and then that neutral State.
"At one moment, it is Holland and Belgium. At another Hungary and Rumania. At yet another it may be Den- mark and Scandinavia or Jugoslavia or Switzerland.
now practiced "The advantage of such manoeuvres | undisguised atrocities
on that country are another. is that his possible victims cannot ignore them. They must watch and "Germany wants neutrals to be
not only that it is” wait
persuaded in full force and expensive effort and nerve-1acking. tension.. hopeless to resist her but that in "On the other hand, the cost to any country that does resist the most - ruthless cruelties will be Germany is little or nothing. She
"suffered by the population. Like has to keep her reserve armies some-
a woman where and frontiers like those of
tyrant she does not Belgium and Holland where they are mind being hated, provided she is immune from bombing or shellfire, sufficiently feared.⠀
MY RUTHLESS SINKINGS and handy for reinforcing if required an thewar stront, : are very well The same ruthlessness partly from adapted for
The same may same, motive-is-being developed tral shipping. the Dutch
be said ofte
ter.
EMPHATIC NAZI DENIAL
The attack was prepared by artil- lery, but failed, being easily repulsed. The Germans were dispersed and some French and British aeroplanes, sald of them seemed to have lost their way.
U- attacked several the announcer, boats; he gave no details.
There was a German reconnais- sance flight over France and a similar flight by French 'planes over south- ern Germany.-Reufer.
|GALICIAN OILFIELDS.
Germany obtains her oil from there through
agreement Soviet.
an
with
the
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
The same quarters deny that the BRUSSELS, TO-DAY. GERMAN POLITICAL QUARTERS demarcation line in Poland has been INSISTENTLY STRESS THAT THE modified with the view to give Ger- REICH IS NOT PARTICIPATING IN many some share in these oilfields. ---
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