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FINNISH
SKI
DETACHMENTS
SET OUT TO CUT IMPORTANT
RUSSIAN RAILWAY
HELSINKI, Dec. 20 (Reuter)
-Two detachments of Finnish ski troops are now in Soviet Russia and are head- "Ing for the Murmansk-Leningrad » Railway with the object of cutting it. In view of their small numbers, they are avolding heavy engagements.
They are headed for Kandalaksha, which is situated at the spot where the railway skirts the White Sea at its northern end. If they can cut the rallway and hang on" in that area, the Soviets will be unable to get reinforcements and supplies through to the Petsamo front.
SOVIET - JAPANESE
PARLEYS
I
MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (Reuter)- The Foreign Commissar. M. Molotov, and Mr. Togo, Jap- anese Ambassador a1 Large, held a meeting on Wednesday night, discussing for four hours the trade and fishery conven- tion which expires on Sunday.
It is not known what progress was made.
Recognition Of Services
HEROES OF GRAF
Meanwhile, on the Petsamo front the Russians have com- pletely lost the initiative and are parctically in a state of! siege.
OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION HELSINKI, Dec. 29. (Reuter)--It, is officially conarmed that Finnish forces have invaded Soviet territory in pursuit of the Red Army con tingents at two points, but there are as yet no confirmation of the re- ports that the Murmansk-Lenin- grad railway has been reached and cut.
No bombs were dropped when Soviet planes soared Over the capital in large numbers yester- day, but it is feared that this may have been a preliminary recon- naissance or a mass air raid,
IL DUCE TO PAY
VISIT OF HOMAGE
TO THE POPE
ROME, Dec. 29 (Reuter)—It was officially announced that Signor Mussolini will pay a yist of homage to the Pope оп Jan. 4.
This is seen 13 * further Indication that the Italian State and Holy See are drawing closer together against Com- munism and in the cause of pca.co.
7,000-Ton Nazi Ship Scuttled
DUISBURG FINDS BLOCKADE TOO
COMPACT
LONDON, Dec. 29 (Renter)—The In the fighting on the Karelian Paris Radio announced last night that the 7,000-ton Hamburg motor. Front, an official communique states that two Soviet companies, con- ship Duisburg, which left a Spanish sisting of 800 men were annihilat port in a desperate attempt to ed yesterday, whille Soviet attacks steal through the blockade, has LONDON, Dec. 29 (BWS)-immediately to the north of Lake been scuttled by her crew. In recognition of services in Ladoga were repulsed with heavy! action against the Admiral' loss.
SPEE PROMOTED
TRIED TO ESCAPE The vessel, belonging
to the
Graf Spee, the Admiralty an- Nine Soviet aircraft were shot Hamburg-Amerika Line, was yes- nounced yesterday evening down during the day, the following promotions, all to date from Dec. 13, 1939.
Commander D. H. Everett, H.M.S. Ajax to be promoted to Captain.
Lieutenant-Commander R.) B. Jennings and Lieutenant- Commander C. J. Smith, H.M.S. Exeter, and Lieuten- ant-Commander P. T. A. Love, H.M.S. Achilles, to be promot- ' ed to Commander.
Engineer-Commander L. C.!
MOSCOW COMMUNIQUE MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (Reater)--An official War Communique states: "There was no event of importance to report from the front."
terday ordered to heave to by a British patrolship, according to the Paris report.
She endeavoured to escape, but finding the British vessel over- taking her, she abandoned the attempt. Her seacocks were open- RED OFFICER'S DIARY ed and she was in a sinking con COPENHAGEN, Dec. 29 (Reuter) dition when her crew were taken
OK, Extracts from the diary of a Russian officer killed in Finland were published in the Berlingske Tidende.
The first entry, dated Nov. 10, says that officers and a company
stationed were
от the Finnish
S. Noake, H.M.S. "Ajax to be, frontier for a fortnight, Having promoted to Engineer-Cap-participated in the invasion of tain.
CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON, Dec. 29 (Havas) Au- thoritative quarters are of opinion that the first days of the New Year Will witness the beginning of effective help on a large scale for Finland.
齣
BERN, Dec.
L
20
(Havas)--The
Berlin correspondent of the "Netic.
Poland.
On Dec. 3 the officer expresses surprise that the Finns should burn their houses and fight the Red Army since Russian officers' and men have been told that they will be received as liberators.
A few days later, the officer writes, his men had not courage,
disease was spreading, the cold was too great and that most of the men would not fight.
Later, he states, it was a bad sign that Red officers were not bet- ter trained and had courage than a man.
not
more
NIGHT AIR RAID HELSINKI. Dec. 29 (Reuter)
Zuercher Zeltung" reports, that the The clty awoke none the worst for
SOVIET IMPOSES
CENSORSHIP
BERLIN, Dec. 29 (Reuters— The Soviet, Government has re-introduced censorship ΟΙ foreign corresponden 5' mex- sages from today, according to the German News Agener
CABLE
What Has Happened
TO Goering?
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 29 (Router) -What has happened to Field- Marshal Goering is the question people are asking In Germany, ao- cording to reports reaching here.
The Field-Marshal has been almost ostentatiously absent from all Christmas festivals.
STAYED AWAY
It is recalled that when Herr Hit- ler and Gen. Von Brauchitsch visit- ed the front, Herr Hess and Dr. Goebbels made speeches all other Nazi leaders made public appear- ances, but Field-Marshal Goering stayed quietly in Schorfhelde, bis country home, and did not even appear at the Christmas Party for poor children in Berlin, but gifts were distributed on his behalf by an district's obscure mayor one Capital
QUARREL "WITH HITLER? Rival theorists declare that the Feld-Marshal has already quarrelled with Herr Hitler and is temporari- ly in disgrace and that he is ac- cordingly remaining behind the scenes until the trouble has blown over.
Whatever the reason, the failure of the Field-Marshal to participate
sidered very strange in Germany.
the wartime Christmas is con-
WESTERN FRONT
i!
Two Raids By
Nazis
PARIS, Dec. 29 (Reuter)-There has been considerable patrol acti- vity on the Western Front by both sides.
TWO RAIDS
One Nazi raid against a small wood near the Vosges resulted in some sharp hand-to-hand fighting, while another in the Saar region was easily repulsed."
French patrols were active enst of Moselle.
WAR COMMUNIQUE
A War Communique adds that there was reduced activity of con-
which sent the population hurry-tact units:
ing to shelters late last night,
PARIS, Dec. 29 (Reuter)-A War Although two heavy explosions communique states there was noth- were heard on the outskirts of the ing of importance to report. city it has not yet been announc- ed where it occurred and what the damage if any.
It is believed that Soviet planes took advantage of the clear moon- light to fly along the coast from, Leningrad, then they appear to have flown singly round Helsinki ard Anally made off "unloading bombs on Kotka, 70 miles away. which reported it had a severe
special war super tax on, incomes the first night air raid alarm raid. and near Porvoo.
has been doubled in Germany, and
income from taxation is HOW TO per cent higher than at the be- ginning of the war. Many shops will not reopen on January 1 after the holidays.
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SHANGHAI, Dec. 29 (Havas) -
The shortage of rice is still ser- iously felt here, although a remedy appears to be in sight. Twenty thousand bags of Saigon rice are expected today, and a further 60,- 000 bags at the beginning of next week.
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Prediction Of
Continuance
Of War Throughout 1940
LONDON, Dec. 29 (Reuter)-The Washington corres-. pondent of The Times says that at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Mr. Clifton Utley, of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, declar: ed that Allied Powers would take "a major step towards imperial-suicide," 11 European peace was made now.
He predicted that the conflict could continue through 1940 with losses for all, including neutrals, and peace for
none.
.
WASHINGTON, Dẹc. 29 (Havas)— The United States is still the prin "cipal
market
Mr. Utley put bluntly what to come should not be determined for planes and war material,
others are now saying as to by the conquerers alone and that Agures released
that any unless the rest of the world "par- by the Trade Department reveal, the unlikelihood In November, France bought $32.-early peace initiative from telpates in founding a post-war 149,000 worth of arms, chieny aero- neutral source could succeed order, there will be no enduring settlement in the world, which planes, Japan's purchases were and that the general effect is will need a programme of relief. $170622, for spare aeroplane parts. lend force to the reminder reconstruction and spiritual suc from President Roosevelt that cour beyond anything ever un- WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (Havas) "a specific plan" unquote is dertaken in history. -The Attorney-General, Mr. Frank not in sight and from the!
that a Pope that "the opporttine Murphy. has announced Grand. Jury's meeting on January moment" must be awaited. 2 to investigate espionage and sa- botage activities,
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HITLER AND STALIN
CRACK GERMAN PILOTS JOIN S.A. AIR FORCE UNIT *CAPETOWN, Dec. 29 (Reuter) -Three airmen, crack German pilots of the last war, have joined the active citizens' unit of South African Air Force. Their names are not being made public, because they still have relatives in Germany, but one of them is one of the most famous war pilots Germany ever had
18-Year-Old Boy's Pluck
saved
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ATTACK ON NAZI VESSELS
LONDON, Dec. 29 (Reuter)-The Air Ministry announces that the R. A. F. carried out a successful reconnaissance fight over North- West Germany. One plane did not return.
VESSEL. HIT
Other air activity included sttack on German ships when. despite fierce anti-aircraft fire, one bomb at least was seen to hit, the! stern of one vessel.
in two cases elsewhere, three Dornier flying-boats were put to rout
ENTIRELY UNTRUE LONDON, Dec. 29 (BWS)---The Air Minister, in a statement, says: German "It was announced by a broadcasting station yesterday that an officer of the RAF, who was Interned-in Luxemburg and given his word of honour not to try to escape, eluded his guard and got AWAY.
"The statement that this officer escaped ls correct, but the state- ment that he was on parole at the time of his escape is entirely untrue."
TWENTY ARRESTS
MADE
DUBLIN, Dec, 29 (Reuter)-An armed military cardon still ringed the city last night as police and troops continued to search for am- munition stolen from Phoenix Park on Saturday.
Twenty arrests have already been made and the search goes on. not only In the capital, but
lanes in the woods and
of the counties of Kudare and Wicklow, where fields, hedges and] LONDON, Dec. 29 (Heuter)-ir estates are being thorougly combed, survivors of the torpedoed British
DUBLIN, Dec. 29 (Reuter)-The ship Arlington Court were
Government is offering a reward through the skill of an eighteen- of £1,000 for information leading of the stolen ammunition. year-old boy, It was learned to to the recovery
Substantial rewards will be paid London yesterday.
He and six others got into water-logzed lifeboat and be was in respect of any portion of the the only one who knew how to na- ammunition. The number of arrests vigate her. He kept at the boat's is now estimated at thirty, tler for six days, steering her by means of a small compass until
be brought them into a busy ship- WIN FOR ASHEVILLE
ping lane where they were picked up by a passing ship."
In a friendly 5-game Ten Pin PRESIDENT'S EFFORTS
match played last evening at the PRESUMED LOST President Roosevelt Is sending
LONDON, Dec. 29 (Reuter)-His Hongkong Bowling Alleys U, S, B. Mr. Myron Taylor to Rome to pre- pare the ground and he is enlist Majesty's trawler Lochdoon is over-Ashevilla, defeated V. 8. 8. Min- What is Implicit in the Presi- ing the influence of American due and must be presumed lost. danas by 126 pointa
V. B. 8. Asheville: J. A. Harvey dent's letter of Dec. 23 and the churches to the same end. He according to an Admiralty an- OSLO, Dec. 29 (Reuter)~Tarec
Pope's address to the Collège of will also have to see to it that nouncement. Her crew numbered 823. C. G. Cunning 804, W. J. Bal- aski 764, M. 0. Gray 708, Total of the crew of a German planc Cardinals, says Mr. Walter Lipp-Congress, which will meet next
3099, shot down by a Royal Air Force mann, is that the war will continue month, can rise above party poll. plane over the North Sea on Wed-since Herr Hitler and M. Stalin ties to nesday were landed at Kipervik, are as yet unprepared to meet the ultimate purpose. on the Norwegian coast by indispensable condition of peace---! Bwedish steamer today, The
zeparation for the wrongs done to
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the same
high
titteen.
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DANISH SEBI
U. &. 8. Mindanao; J. T. Sheehan Another message from London and
states that the Danish steamer 837. 8. Golden 776, F. P. Hollis 725 Haune (1,080 tons) was sunk by a J. C. Thomas 835, Total 2875. mine off the north-east coast yea- terday.
SHIP AGROUND NEW YORK Dec. 29 (Reuter) The Liverpool freighter. City of singapore, sent out a radio message. yesterday stating that she was aground inside Sandyhook.
A later message stated that the vessel was refloated and apparent ly is not seriously damaged.
fourth occupant of the German Poland, Finland and Czechoslo- machine was killed.
Judgment was given in the Bum- President Roosevelt spoke of the mary Court yesterday by Mr. Jus- LONDON, Dec. 20 (Reuter) beration of those countries as a tice R. E. Lindsell for Chan Suen, Major-General Fraser, who is in day that would loose the cap of Nga Tein Wai Road, broker, who command of the New Zealand tives and consume their conquer. was plaintiff in an action claiming their own $100 from Cheng Pokee, brick troops overseas, said he was great-ers in the fire of ly struck by the co-operation he kindling," but Mr. Lippmann is at Manufacturer of Tung Chol Street, had seen between the French, and one with the Pope in the belief Mr. D. McCallum was for plaintiff,
that the extent of the reparation, defendant being unrepresented, British troops in France.
Cho Ping, 47, of Fuk Wing Street, Kowloon, was removed to the Kow- loon Hospital last night suffering from serious head Injuries. It is stated that Cho, grieved over the recent death of his son, struck himself on the head with a ham mer. His condition late last night!
was critical.
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