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FINLAND MAY
MAY NOT PROVE A WILLING VICTIM IN THE SOVIET'S EXPANSION PLANS TO BOLSHEVISE BALTIC STATES
No Agreement With Any Proposal In Conflict, With
Northern Neutrality Bloc
HELSINKI, Oct. 10 (Reuter) -While the Finnish delegate, M. Paasikivi, is en route to Moscow, Finland con- tinues to call her reservists to the colours. Many schools in the Viborg area, nearest the Soviet frontier, have been taken over by troops, though it is emphasised in political circles that this is purely a precautionary measure, as it is hoped that the Moscow talks will result in a friendly agree- ment.
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A message from Stockholm states the implication that M. Paasikivi, the Finnish Envoy to Russia, has not proved so tractable in Moscow as the recent Baltic States' repre- sentatives is contained in despatches by Finnish correspon- dents to newspapers in Helsinki.
The correspondent of the "Svenska Bladet” decläres that Finland cannot agree with any proposal conflicting with her participation in the northern neutrality bloc,
In an interview with M. Erkko, the Finnish. Foreign Minister, he is reported to have declared that "M. Paasi- kivi only goes to take note of Russia's desires and, what- ever these may be, our position is clear. We stand by northern neutrailty; we threaten nane and seek no ad- vantage and will not adhere to any great power or group."
· HELSINKI, Oct. 10 (Reu- Sept. 29 provided for joint efforts ter) The Finnish Foreign to be made by the two govern- "Minister, in a statement yes- ments to end the state of war,
terday on the Russian de-writes Reuter's diplomatic mand for "negotiations," de- respondent. clared: I know nothing of any territorial demands. and the recent developments in Russia has not raised any the Baltle are dificult to under- specified questions, but it is stand.
cor-
The situation as between Russia and Germany is somewhat obscure,
quite normal for one country! The mrprising haste with to make such a request of an- other.
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"We stand by our northern neutrality and we will not ad- here to any great power or group of powers."
REPLY TO STALIN The statement is regarded as a Apply to M. Stalin's reported de- mand for four Finnish Islanda.
A Norwegian newspaper yester- day stated that any effort to ex- tract concessions from Finland by force would be regarded with the deepest Indignation all, over Scandinavia.'
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DEPARTURE DELAYED
which all Germans, whether by nationality or origin, are being evacuated from three Baltic States is arousing much speculation. Most of these Germans are
wealthy mer- chants and traders who have been settled In their present #countries for centuries; yet, they have been given only forty-eight hours to transfer themselves and their property to Germany.
In Slav circles in London, this extraordinary development is be Heved to portend the rapid Bol- shevisation of the Baltic States. The Finnish Delegation, which voy to Moscow is another in- The summoning of the Finnish was to have left for Moscow yes portant development, which may terday to conduct "negotiations," has postponed its departure until ported as they are by the Swedes, have an interesting sequel. Sup- to-day. The reason is that all the Finns are not likely to submit questions of a political nature must be approved by the Finnish to the humiliating conditions ac Parliament before any. pact
cepted by the Baltic States. signed.
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Another message from Stock- holm says that a Swedish news- paper stated yesterday that Fin- land will not submit to Russian dictation and cannot surrender & foot of Finnish soil,
(Reuter)-
SOVIET AIMS MOSCOW. Oct. 10 The negotiations due to open on Wednesday between the Soviet
Successful experiment in refuelling a flyingboat in the air.
Chinese Advance On Yoyang
CHANGSHA: Oct 10 (Central)— Chinese forces which recaptured Yungklawan on the north bank, of the Sintslang River and Yangtai- chieh and Sintsiangshih on the south bank on Sunday are rapidly! advancing on Poyang, Japanese stronghold on the mouth of the Tungting Lake.
Chinese troops, in large numbers, continued the crossing of the Sintsiang River throughout yester- day and have established a strong foothold on many points north of the stream.
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Daylight Reconnaissance R.A.F. Over Whole German
Frontier
IMPORTANT RESULTS
ACHIEVED
LONDON, "Oct. 10 (Reuter) -For the first time four Bri- tish planes carried out day. Hight reconnaissance flights the whole way along the Ger- mian frontier, from France to the North Sea, says "Eye- Witness," who is with the Royal Air Force.
They went
ITALIAN ATTACK
ON RUSSIAN LEADERS
(Reuter)
ROME, Oct 10 Bitter attacks on M. Voroshiin. Soviet Defence Minister, appears. in the "Corriere Padano," "which""" says: Voroshiloff and his com panions, like all carrion in Bolshe- vik Russia, does not interest us in the least.
The Registrar-General reports that national registration is pro- ceeding smoothly. Enumerators have nearly completed the work and are returning schedules' con- taining the necessary particulars at a rabidly increasing rate. From most of the large towns between 70 and 95 per cent. of the sche-
"We refuse to have a gram of dules been received by the local
esteem for Bolsheviks, who are national registration once. On ports received at headquarters in models of gross bestiality: ani return details are checked and regard to the evacuation
luating monsters who are serving schedules sent to the Food Execu- portant German cities, big troop the most infamous undertaking of tive Officer for use when food movements near
human deceit and degradation rationing is decided upon.-(BWS). | significant concentrations of air- ever, recorded “
HITLER'S "COME HOME"
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ORDER
TO GERMANS IN BALTIC STATES BEGINS TO OPERATE
48 Hours Notice Given
་ལ་
For Transference To
Reich: Evacuees To Be Settled In The Corridor
BABY KILLED BY
"DOCTOR'S CAR
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FAILS
Dr.
Thomas Alexander Alfred
to investigate
re
of
im.
Aix-la-Chapelle,
craft, intensive building of forti- fications near the
frontier, etcetera.
Luxembourg
UTMOST VALUE
Experts are now studying the results of these fights and it is
Anticipation Of Repeal Of
understood that the photograph Arms Embargo
taken by the planes are expected; to be of the utmost value.
The machines went in pairs from jone secret aerodrome behind the
Maginot Line
AIR BATTLE RESULT ESBJERG, Oct. 10 (Reuter) One! of the members of the crew of the German military plane that
U.S. AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS COMPLETE ORDERS LONDON, Oct. 10 (Renter) American aircraft -manufacturers
landed on Fanoe Island was found are now working at high premITO to be wounded and it is suggested England and France, which are on the completion of orders from. that this was due to an air battle.estimated to total about £20,000,- He has been taken to hospital
The plane and the three
100, according to the "Daily Tele-
mem-
Hunter, 34, of the Crescent, Ply-ibers of the crew will be interned. Araph's" Chicago, correspondent.
mouth, was acquitted when charg- ed, at Newport, LOW, recently,
LONDON, OCT. 10 (REUTER)-GERMAN CITIZENS FROM THE with the manslaughter of Pearl BALTIC STATES HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO ARRIVE IN GEE-Ella Rolf, aged 21 months, but was MANY IN OBEDIENCE TO THE HITLER'S COME HOME ORDER aned £10, with £10 easta, on a A message from Stockholm Bys that one ship left a Latvian port charge of dangerous driving and with Germans on board and that other ships are standing hy in his licence was endorsed Latvian and Esthonian ports.
German citizens only are compelled to return to the Reich and the first to go are men of military are. Others of German. origin have been given 48 hours in which to decide if they will return to the Reich and become German citizens, with all the drawbacks of such a change, including the loss of their neutral citizenship.
cald that the case arose out of an Mr. C. F. Biscock, piosecuting,
accident on Aug. 6 b the Yar- mouth-Newport road, when Dr, Hunter was on service with the RAMO. at Freshwater.
was
Industrial Dislocation
Is Overcome
LONDON, Oct. 10 (Benter)-——— Although the outbreak of war must bring some industrial dislocation, evidence is now daily forthcoming to show that any
much... dislocation suffered by Britain's leading industries is
belag
overcome.
rapidly
Pending the anticipated remioval of the arms embargo, engines si planes, many of which are ready for night, are being placed to warehouses at ports whence they can be shipped immediately the law is changed.
R.A.F. STATEMENT
Continged From Page 1 military aireraft, particularly Bghters. The plain frets seem to be that the latest British fighters are definitely better than the Germans."
Happily, specimen of. the. latest Messerschmidt #ghter had fallen intact into French, hands so
It it is only a question of the small lands in the Gulf of Finland some arrangement, like a long lease, might con- ceivably be agreed, bat it there is any question of naval bases and aerodromes in Fin- land of the Aaland Isles, ft is".
The German expected, according to well-in-
Government is agreed, in principle, to the Ger- The doctor's car knocked down sending a commission to Latvia man formed "Scandinavian opinion,
scheme, provided all taxes Mrs. Rolf, the child's mother, and that Finland will resist.
and Esthonia to arrange for the are paid.
huried a perambulator" she evacuation of Germans of whom and Finland are expected to
LITHUANIA'S POSITION
It is estimated that 90 per cent, pushing into the ditch. Another there are 60,000 in Latvia and of the Germans have decided to child, aged five months, who was KAUNAS, Oct. round off the expansion of Soviet
10 (Reuter)-18,000 in Esthonis. No forma} Interests in relation to her Baltic The Lithuanian delegates have re-steps are being taken in regard to to buy sultenses, as the evacuees tously injured.
go and there has been a great rush in the perambulator, was not ser- neighbours. By pacts with Eston turned here from Moscow to re-the 30,000 Germans in Lithuania, have been instructed to take only
This is especially true of the that in regard to this aircraft, at and Latvia and the forthcoming port to the President on the pro- though it is reported that they wil light luggage.
The mother, Mis. Joyce Ella Rolt, on and steel industry on whose least, we should be free to text aur agreements with Lithuania and greas of the talks. After receiving be dealt with this week.
gave evidence that she heard war weight must be carried and
so much of Britain's convexons at our convenience" Finland the Great Soviet aim of fresh instructions, they are
Referring to accounts already All businesses must be liquidat-bang and found herself on freeing Leningrad ̋as a naval and pected to return to Moscow imme-
ed and transferred to Latvians or road, and the pram and the child-which has settled down to its ven of RAF work, Sir Kingsley air base from the bottleneck of diately, possibly to-day, .
Important task with commendable said that they showed that the The families of many of these sealed for disposal by a Special ren were gone. She received in- the Gulf of Finland, which gave
It is reported
determination of the earlier gen that the Soviet people have been established in
juries to her back and Hg and was
energy and efficiency. any enemy an easy means of pre- proposals include the establish- Lithuania for centuries and, judg
eration of British flying men had It is understood that
in hospital until Aug. 25. - venting the exit of the Baltic ment of heavy fortifications on ing by their anxiety, only a pro- evacuees will be settled in the
been preserved unimpaired. Men Fleet, will have been achieved,
the Lithuanian-German frontier, portion will agree to return to the Polish. Corridor. which has been prolonged through Reich. the partition of Poland, Other proposals include the Russians may seek the neuvina district the transit of goods the status of tralisation of any threat from the southern coast or Finland fronting through Lithuania to Libäu
THREAT TO SWEDEN To completé the programme;;
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the Gulf. It is logical to believe. The question of the rt- that Moscow would also like to, control the Aaland Islands as a' base from which ultimately control Swedish exports to Ger-i
many.
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Observers are wondering if the Soviet-Lithuanian Dact will conform to the Estonian and Latvian Pacts, which mentioned the
name of the
land frontiers whence attacks might come.
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In the case of Lithuania, It is necessary explicitly to men- tion the name of the German territory In; Memel 'and East Prussia.
The nucial polat in this pact is whether Moscow · ́is prepared to offend. Beriln by Insisting on the fortification. of the "Lithuanian-German frontier.
OBSCURE SITUATION
to
patriation of 30,000 Germans, who have for centuries been resident in Lithuania may arise this week: Loyal Ger- man leaders have been inë formed of the Reich's wishes in this connexion, but it is believed that only a propor tion will willingly agree to the repatriation plan.
IDEA OF TRANSFER
Foreign observer suggest that the idea of the transfer is to remore Germans from com- tact with their new mastery in the Balile."
The Berlin correspondent of * Danish newspaper saya that it is believed that the "move was facilitated by the fear of Russian invasion
German Committee."
the
HITLER'S PLAN BERLIN, Oct. 10 "(Reuter)-It is officially confirmed that
the Reich has opened conversations with Esthenia and Latvia for the repatriation of Germans there. In accordance to the plan mentioned by Herr Hitler in the Reichsta g.
The announcement adds that all property will be duly sate guarded.
the
shoulders
MEASURES OPERATING"
"Not all have returned and I know the House will join me in paying tribute to the high example set by gallant pilots........ and their crews who havn Bout their Itves in the performance of their duty.
"There is a revealing motto at one our air squadrons I spread my promiss-and that undoubted-- ly was the spirit and purpose of those brave men,
In reply to Mr. F. C. Williams, Certain measures carefully for-who had already been in actiun defending, Mrs. Rolf said she was mulated in peace time are now had indeed shown to the full their lying in the road after she was operating, and while actual statis- courage and efficiency knocked down, but she denied shetics are no longer available there was walking it from the kerb. is every indication that produc- tion of both iron and steel is now 50 MPH, ADMITTED surpassing all previous records.
Meanwhile, the announcement Arthur Henry Mewbery, grand-that all forms of pig iron can father of the dead child, said he be imported into the United King- was walking in front of his daugh-dom duty free indicates the Gov- ter, Mrs. Rolf, and the perambula-ernment's desire to assure the to. Se heard a crash and saw the smooth working of this very im- perambulator rolling into the ditch portant section of the "home An unconfirmed report from
Hir daughter and her brother, who front," The official "Tiplomatische Kör- Budapest says, that secret negotia- tions have been going on "between respondens," in an explanation of was walking near her, were on the ground. "He found the two child-
GREAT STILAIN? |the transference of Germans from Germany and the Balkan Govern- the Baltic States. says that the the perambulator, lying among the ren, who had been thrown from
"Recognition, too, should ments for the repatriation of Ger-
move is in accordance with "Herr
(given to those who have had to MOSCOW, Oct 10 (Reuter) mans from the south of Europe.
andergrowth in the ditch.
CHENGCROW, Oct. 10 (Central) stand by at their war stations -fa Russia has ratified the pact with These Germans it is reported would the transference of the population Mr Williams said that the doc of Taming in Bouthern Hopel, was demanded, and the strain in-
Hitler's programme to undertake
For the third time, Nanlo, south a state of instant readiness, which Latvia, which stres her further be made to settle in Western Poin the East in the Interest of ator admitted driving at 50 mp...recaptured by Chinese forces last posed has been as great if not naval and air bases..
far-sighted regulation of Euro- but it was on a perfectly straight Wednesday, according to a belat greater than I active operations The Soviet-Turkish negotiations, Meanwhile, it is also reported pean Hie.
road 201t wide: His story was that report just to hand,*** are still held up.
that cermany will shortly. takë Bey Barajoglu, the Turkish For- steps to repatriate all Germans to bring back 10,000 Germans who preaching car, and why he wfurious offensive on the town last
Steps have already been taken he dipped his lights for an ap eign Minister, has been doing from Soviet Russia nothing in the seven days since: he was last received by M. Molo tov, the Soviet Premier and For eign Minister.
LATVIAN PAOT
ESTHONIA ENTERED
LONDON, Oct. 10 (Reuter-It TALLINN, Oct 19 (Renter)
and and Czechoslovakia:
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PACKING BEGINS
RIGA, Oct. 10 (Reuter)-Nearly all of the 60,000 Germans in Latvia, of whom 40,000 live in Riga, have begun to pack in readiness to noted in well-informed quarters Soviet troops began moving across leave for Germany forthwith. The In London that the Soviet has the Esthenian frontier on Friday Commission of Experts, who help hitherto not supported Herr under the new pact
ed in the evacuation of Bouth Hitler's peace proposals, notwith- It is reported that the last ship Tyrol, have come to supervise the standing that the Soviet evacuating Germang from Estho- move, German Treaty of friendship of nia is leaving to-day
The Latvian Government has
NANIO RETAKEN
The Chinese commenced
were in progTON."
be
these officers, and men are of the
order”
"The keenness and, alertness of
arst
Referring to the work of the Coastal Command, Bir Kings. ley mid that He activities have been unreasitting and strenn- ons in the extreme from the
The vastly aren first day of the waz
can do useful work in the pro-ed them on again he saw the peo vinces regained by Germany and ple. He swerved to avoid them, Monday, pounding it heavily with to restore German order there.
Japanese rein- and would have, succeeded it their artillery. had been able to swerve a few forcements from Binhsten Were more inches,
beaten back, leaving more than 100 bodies behind, The magistrates dismissed the By lasting Wednesday morning. charge of manslaughter, but in the Japanese were dislodged from Weted the fine on the alternative their positions and abandoned the charge of, driving dangerously,
town,
w and reliability of our air Dr. Hunter's licence was not sus Wangchwangying, near Nazio, is ing fully pended on account of his special reforted to have also been retaken with the military responsibilities - the by the Chinese after an envelop warities and gilding ships to
ing attack, d
w he confided
The paper adds that the movement - prøves that Gez- many does not intend to base, for Imperialistic ends, German groups, who for ages have been Hving in Baatern Farope or to use their help for purposes of intervention and "lays the bogey of German aims of European hegemony!
Criele