RUSSIA FORTIFYING
MANCHURIA FRONTIER
Rome, To-day.
Rusala has hurriedly resumed work on the fortifications all Manchukua frontler along the following the breakdown in the boundary negotiations with "Red to the Japan, according Star," organ of the Red Army, quoted in a Moscow despatch to the Stefani news agency.
It is added that at the same time work is being rapidly push- ed forward to transform Vladi. vostok into a fortified naval base. -Reuter.
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STOCKHOLM, TO-DAY.
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London, To-day.
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vessel The last man to leave the after she was torpedoed in broad day- light off the south coast of England was the engineer, Harry Teale Southampton, who remained in engine-room to switch off the gines.
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He reached the deck just HOLM PAPER HAS HAD HIS TELE. ship went under and jumped into the sea to cling to a floating piece of wood until he was picked up.
PHONE CUT OFF BY THE NAZIS.
This, according to the Berlin cor- "National Tidon- respondent of the gen," was because he sent messages "had which, according to the Nazis, offended against objectivity."
His telephone will be restored after some weeks, but until then he cannot serve his newspapers-Reuter.
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The survivors were picked up a British tanker after being for only one and a half hours. members of the crew were taken to when they were landed. hospital They were suffering from scalds. Reuter.
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On the return of the British La- bour mission from Finland, Mr. Philip Noel-Baker in an interview described the Finns as a race of supermen.
"I have seen four armies in the field but have never seen anything to beat the Finns as soldiers, but they need help," he said emphasis- Ing the special need for weapons to combat air raids.
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"We saw enough air raids 10 convince us that open towns being bombed for no reason ex- cept that they are open towns. Bombs fell in Turku and other places within two miles of the port or anywhere else of military im- portance. It wasn't just had marksmanship.”
Sir Walter Citrine told Reuter one could not help being Impress- ed by the sublime confidence of the Finns, which was not in the least based upon Ignorance. "They have measured the risks against them and although the odds are very considerable thev bellave that if they receive the help they confidantly exnect from countries like Britain they can successfully resist the invnsion.”—Reuter.
Paris. To-day.
"The methods which made us lose the peace are not suitable for winning the war." said the Finance Minister In the Chamber defending the proposal to revise the manner of taxing businesses. "It was our inability to exercise willpower and to act that is res- ponsible for the fact that 20 years after a complete victory we have to go through the present trial." Certain deputies, he anld, had objected to the old habits being changed and compulsion applied. "You will see many more such changes. I also have been a partisan of liberalism but now only one thing counts the war. Nobody and nothing can hold up the efforts of the State."-Reuter.
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Bucharest, To-day. -News of the new Rumanian-de---- fence line, the so-called Carol's Dyke, were released to the news- papers here for the first time yesterday. Whole pages are de- voted to descriptions and illustra- tions. The "Universal” declares that any attempt at a surprise at- tack will certainly fail. No tank could pass those gigantic trans and canals whose waters would be in- stantly covered with Inflammable Ilquid. The fortifications were executed in record time and materialised the slogan "Not An Inch." Reuter.
Paris, To-day. Hundreds of important docu- ments, alleged to relate to affairs going beyond the scope of the functions of a trade mission, were seized during the police raids on the Soviet trade bureau. Several members of the mission were held for questioning and subsequently released.-Reuter.
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Istanbul, To-day.
The naval authorities have dis- charged 20 German engineers and technicians engaged in fitting en- gines to two submarines built for the Turkish Navy. A detachment of Turkish marines is reported to and have occupied the shipyard denied the Germans permission to enter and continue the work. Reuter.
Paris, To-day. The French colonial army can, in a short time if the need arises, reach the two million mark with- the out seriously disorganising colonial economy,
according to figures given by the head of the Ministry of Colonies propaganda bureau. He states that vessels have been transporting coloured troops to French soil "with magni- ficent regularity."-Reuter.
London, To-day.
The Home Secretary announced In the House of Commons yester- day that the fullest arrangements had been made to enable British insurance companies to carry on their overseas business without impediment and to meet claims by Allied, neutral or British clai-
with mants in accordance
the terms of the polley whether it is expressed in Sterling or in foreign currency.-Reuter.
Paris, To-day.
A mass trial of 64 Ukrainian leaders is to be staged at Kiev, states
the Polish telegraphic agency. They are charged with accepting financial help from Germany to the national Ukrainian movement in Soviet Ukraine. --- Reuter.
New York, To-day. According to San Francisco re- ports to the "New York Times," Russian gold bars to the value of $5,600,000 were taken from the Soviet freighter Rim to the Chase Bank-in New-York. - The Kim, which is at San Francisco under a strong guard, is sailing to-day to load copper ore at Manzanillo, Mexico, for Vladivostok. — Reu-
ter.
Ottawa, To-day,
Lord Tweedsmuir's condition is giving rise to grave anxiety, ́ac- cording to a bulletin. He spent a restless night and his condition gives rise to grave anxiety owing to his increasing weakness—Reu- ter.
Stockholm, To-day.
Sweden will probably not make an official protest to Russia about the bombing of the Virgo. It now appears that the bombing did not occur, as originally reported, in the neutral Aaland Islanda mone but in the Turku archipsisso, which is part of 'the'zonë
Russia has declared. a blockade. ----Reuter.
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