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Rations Dropped By Parachute In Britain! VIVID PICTURE OF WEATHER
BRITISH VOLUNTEERS FOR FINLAND
London, To-day.
Amidst cheers from all parts of the House, Sir Victor Warrender, Financial Secretary to the War Office, announced in the Commone In answer to a question from Mr. W. Gallagher, the
Communist
M.P., that he understood the Fin- nlah Legation in London was su- pervising an organisation for the purpose of enabling volunteers to offer their services to Finland.
Router.
IT LOOKS A PHONEY
PEACE PLAN REPORT
London, To-day.
A six-point peace plan, alleged to have been drafted by Field-Marshal Goering and approved by Hitler, is announced by the New York radio, quot- ing a Stockholm report.
The points were: Firstly, no country to claim indemnities.
Secondly, economic pro- blems to be solved by confer
ence.
Thirdly, the Sudeten région to become Germán.
Fourthly, Poland to cede to Germany all territory held by the Reich before the Treaty of Versailles.
CHAOS
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE GREAT SNOWFALL OF JAN. 27 LEFT BEHIND ITALIAN
IT NATIONWIDE LOSS AND DAMAGE WORSE
THAN ANYTHING IN ALL THIS CENTURY'S ARMS FOR
WEATHER RECORDS.
From the north of Scotland to the southern counties there FINLAND
came stories of troubles and disasters which, because of the censorship on weather news, could not then be revealed.
Now a strange and chaotic picture can be drawn.
are some of its details:
Paris, To-day. War equipment from Here Italy for Finland which was recently stopped in transit by Germany, has been returned to Italy and re-shipped to Finland via France, it is stat- ed here.
Those long-distance trains which ran so late were held up in snowdrifts that sometimes buried the snowploughs sent to clear them away.
!
In some railway cuttings the drifts were 30 feet deep. Over some country roads traffic was virtually at a stand-
still.
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Cows and sheep were buried on mountainsides. A hun
dred villages were cut off from supplies of food and fuel.
:
Aeroplanes dropped rations by parachute to isolated
troops in Scotland.
While householders could not get! their regular milk supplies, farmers could not get their milk away from the farms.
The railways were the greatest suf- ferers, and Scotland was the area in which they suffered most.
About 2,000
marooned in
near the border.
were
travellers
trains
somewhere
use
pneumatic
Workmen had to
drills to clear some of the icebound
roads.
"LOCAL
ACTIVITY"
Paris, To-day.
Last night's French war communi- que said there was local activity by
French patrols in the region west of the Saar-Reuter.
tria under Austro-German- Franco-British supervision.
Sixthly, a German-Franco- British commission to decide on the disposal of Czecho- Slovakia and the Polish lands in order to obtain a peaceful agreement. Reuter.
How Does It Compare With This?
Warsaw, To-day. A Nazi newspaper published in Warsaw advises Germans not to learn
Polish.
Apparently, duency in Polish is to
Fifthly, a plebiscite in Aus- be regarded as unpatriotic.
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ICE-PACKS IN TRENT
For the first time in 50 years ́ pro-
across the ple were able to walk famous tidal stretch of the River Trent, stretching from the Humber to above Gainsborough.
It is understood that consignments are now passing through France en route to Finland.
Oficial circles claim to have re- information that Germany, liable while withholding assistance from the
Finns, is sending material assistance
Reuter. to the Russians.
LORD TWEEDSMUIR HURT IN FALL
Ottawa, To-day. The Governor-General, Lord Tweedsmuir, is suffering from concus. alon as result of a fall inside Govern- ice-ment House.
The river was jammed with packs some eight to 10 feet high-
Reuter.
At present he is resting comfort- ably. Reuter.
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