NAZIS AGAIN JAMMING DAVENTRY
SHORT-WAVE LISTENERS IN- FORM THE "CHINA 'MAIL" THAT LAST NIGHT THE "JAMMING" WHICH EFFECTIVELY BLOCKED OUT PARTS OF MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S... · RECENT SPEECH PUT IN ITS APPEARANCE AGAIN THIS TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDNIGHT NEWSCAST, WHEN THE OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE ON THE TALKS BETWEEN THE VICEROY OF INDIA AND MR. GANDHI WAS BROADCAST.
The "Jamming"
continued during the broadcast of news on the Yunnan railway, and then faded away,
Fortunately, listeners told the "China Mall," Daventry was coming through so extraordinarily powerfully that the "Jamming" did not interfere with reception, and was merely a mina inconvenience.
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Plans for a Netherlands trans- Atlantic service are so advanced that the Netherlands Minister to Washington has been instructed to apply for permission to make the necessary arrangements in the United
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The service will be established on a weekly basis at first, but the ultimate aim is to have daily morning and evening connections with New York.Reuter.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 6, 1940
GERMANS PLANNED THE
MANNERHEIM LINE
THE MANNERHEIM LINE, where the Finns are hold- ing up the Russian ́ invaders, was planned by a German colonel and his staff. There is a man in London who can vouch for this, because the plans for the fortification were prepared in his house in Finland.
He is Mr. P. Boeckel, who was one of the foremost business men in Rus- sia before the Bolshevik revolution. To-day he is a naturalised Englishman in business in the City.
from Bolshevik Russia by crossing the Finnish border,” Mr. Boeckel said. "I narrowly escaped being sentenced to death as a Red by a White court-mar- tlal at Terijoki, but fortunately I was identified by someone who had known me in Petrograd.
Mr. Boeckel had an estate in Finland on the shores of Muolajarvi Lake, which he used as a summer residence. It was here that the Mannerhelm Line | Finland. was planned.
ESCAPE FROM RUSSIA "In the beginning of 1918 I escaped
Sgt. D. Davis, of the R.E., residing MA
at Kennedy Road, has reported that on Sunday his house was entered $180 through an open window and worth of clothing stolen.
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1st XI v Nomads ("Y" ground, 4.15 p.m.):-Benwell, (Capt.); Jordan and Yourieff; Kempton, Pennington and Waldron; Smith, Gemmell, Taylor, Corser and Bates.
2nd XI v H.K.S.R.A. ("Y" ground, 3.00 p.m.):-Cleggett; Killeen and Grant; Smits, Tomlinson and Broch; Mackenzie, Dormer, Wakefield, Green- berg and Coombe.
There will be no match on Thurs- day as the ground has been loaned to Recreio for a match against Macao.
"I was allowed to go to my estate in
"By this time General Mannerheim had annihilated the Reds in Finland, | but only with the help of a divialon of German troops that had been land- ed at Helsinki.
"Some time during May a German colonel, with his staff, despatch riders, chauf- soldiers, servants, cooks and feurs arrived at my estate. They established their quarters there and allowed me to stay on as a guest in my own house.
"The colonel told me he had been asked by the Finnish Government to work out a defence line in case of a war with 8ovlet Russia.
"I knew the district well, and took the colonel and his staff all over the countryside so that they could study the lay-out.
"The German officers spent months drawing up detalled plans for forti. fications, and before they went away In the late autumn, work was actually started on some of the defences. This
the was the origin of Line.
Mannerhelm
"The German officers who planned the fortifications had nothing but hat- red for the Reds, and an alliance be- tween their country and Soviet Russia would have been unthinkable to them in those days."
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