PRACTICAL HELP FOR FINLAND
AN EXTREMELY DELICATE
SITUATION
STOCKHOLM, TO-DAY.
THE POSITION IN REGARD TO THE WHOLE QUES- TION OF PRACTICAL HELP FOR FINLAND IS EXTREMELY DELICATE. Suggestions that Finland has declared herself to be in a desperate plight are obviously not near the truth. The dogged resistance of the defenders of Summa and the small successes of the Finnish troops elsewhere show that Finland's powers are not yet exhausted, grave though her present position seems to be.
of
Both Finnish and Swedish official hand the overwhelming weight
is whole-heartedly sources deprecate exaggerated reports public sentiment
on Finland's side. Reuter. either of Finland's dangers or successes.
her
an
Reports of the possibility of open appeal by Finland to the Wes- tern Powers for intervention are also regarded as unhelpful at the sent moment.
pre-
that
Suggestions at this juncture foreign troops might ask for passage increase through Sweden can only
au-
the difficulties of the Swedish thorities.
Should such an eventuality ever would ariae the actual position doubtless be that under the terms the League of Article XVI of Covenant, Sweden would be en- give titled (but not bound) to such permission.
INCREASED
TAXI FARES
Increases in taxi fares are authorised under a new regulation gazetted.
The increases apply only to the first mile.
In Hong Kong the first mile is 50 cents, with 10 cents each quarter of a mile thereafter.
the first mile is 50 In Kowloon, Sweden's position in this crisis is cents for large taxis and 35 cents for the small, with five cents for each quarter delicate but not ambiguous. On
for both large one hand she is firmly determined to [of a mile thereafter,
the other and small. maintain neutrality. On
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1940
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London, To-day. The pilot of the R.A.F. aircraft observed the U-boat on the sur- face and approached it out of the
sun.
The submarine first saw the acroplane when it was a half mile at away and began to submerge frantic speed.
The aeroplane reached the sub- marine just as the periscope dis- appeared.
dropped directly
A bomb was ahead of the periscope and another In front of the same spot. Patches of oil and a quantity of oil bub- bles appeared.
The aircraft kept the area un- but no further der observation trace of the submarine was seen. --Reuter.
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The "Gazette" makes regula- tions under a new Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Or- der-in-Council which define as a protected area the whole of Hong Kong except-
(1) in the island of Hong Kong, the area bounded by Tung Lo Wan Road, Tai Hang Road, Bowen Road, Garden Road to Robinson Bonham Park Road, Road to Road, Western Street, and Con- naught Road;
(2) in Kowloon, the area bound- Rond, Ma Tau ed by Chatham Wai Road, Tam Kung Road and Prince Edward Road to the sea- front and its western extremity.
Nothing in this order shall pre- the vent a person travelling by Star Ferry or the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry on direct routes between Hong Kong and Kow- loon.
being an
No person allen is permitted to enter
protected area.
enemy
the
That is to stay
res-
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