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THE FINNS WILL BE OVERWHELMED BY MAY UNLESS THEY RECEIVE AID ON A BIGGER SCALE THAN
AT PRESENT
The Times' Military Correspondent Reviews The War In Finland
LONDON, Feb. 26 (Reuter) A review of the war in Finland was broadcast on Sunday night by the military correspondent of The Times.
In Finnish circles, he said, one "does not hear that contempt for the Russian Army which certain people have expressed somewhat too hastily.
The Finns say that some of the first Soviet troops were ill-equipped and not used to the cold, but this was not true of the majority."
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Otherwise it appears that! The military correspondent said that .the Russian Army stands he had never been pessimist, but the where it did in 1914, perhaps, out outside sid and, even if they can Finns cannot hold out for long with- rather higher-the men are for the next few months, they will still clumsy, but armaments be overwhelmed in May, unless sid is are better even, as there has set on a far bigger scale than at been a general improvement
present.
The need now is great for more in all armies, while their mil-arma and more men, valuable though itary leaders, never brilliant, the Scandinavian volunteers have are rather worse.
been,
THE FINNS
The Finns, on the other hand, the mutary correspondent con- tinued, proved themselves a first- class army, equally good in two! methods of war:
By spring, if the offensive con- tinues, men will be wanted, not by the thousand, but by the ten thousand and, with them, arms in proportion.
LOSSES INEVITABLE
"They accordingly piled up great stocks on the Karelian Isthmus and First of all, they were extremely heavy losses that was inevitable. began an offensive. They suffered good at mobile and semi-guerilla But they applied pressure which muat aghting on the Eastern Front, tak-eventually smash the Finnish forces ing full advantage of the aid in the Summa Area. proved by the winter climate and Finland abandoned her outer by the nature of the countryside. lofences and fell back to the reserva Secondly, they were good at line the importance of this must be modern large-scale warfare on the estimated. It is serious for the Finns neither exaggerated.bor ander- Karellan Isthmus, with, all the cause it decreases the depth of their paraphernalia of tanks, defences, defences and brings the Soviet medium mines and so on.
artillery within range of Viborg.
NO MISTAKE MADE
Upper picture shows Lee Wal-tong (extreme right)-in action in the Kotewall Cup final on Sunday when South China A.A. de- feated the "Army by four goals to one. In the group below may be seen the Hon. Sir Robert Kotewall, doner of the trophy, with the Hon. Mr. N. L. Sraith, who presented the cup at the con clusion of the game, on his left. Second from extreme right is "Mr. Walter H. Chen, Hon."General Secretary of the S. China A.A.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1940. ~~PAGE" }
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EXPORT TRADE IN WAR Published VITAL NECESSITY, SAYS
MR. R. S. HUDSON
Bat the defences were designed to
LONDON, Feb. 26 (Reuter)-"Export trade in wartime carry on with the battle and while the is a vital necessity," said Mr. R. S. Hudson, Secretary for
Overseas Trade, speaking at Glasgow."
If they had failed in either one or Finns have thus gained a breathing the other, if they had applied one
space the Russians must now advance
where the other was called for, they would have gone under long ago. Bat they made no mistake in training or tactica.
Until the end of January they were on top.
all their artillery and it is devastated country which is in front of them.
FINLAND NEEDS REINFORCEMENTS
help
heroic scale, which are necessary," Mr. Hudson added, "If we are to obtain efforts on a grand, scale or a every man and woman must be willing to incur sacri- fices. The necessitles of these arise out of the very con- ditions of our national life."
devising
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Death," the Song of the Great Wall, the Sword Blade March, NEUTRAL OPINIONS:
HOW RIBBENTROP & HIS NAZI ASSOCIATES HAVE MISCALCULATED
Meanwhile, the Red" Army. com-
"Soldiers' Departure," "For Our manders must have reconsidered the
Nation cannot Die," and the Song Mr. Hudson then proceeded leading businessmen. Trade Union of Resistance position and they must have come to STOCKHOLM, Feb. 26 (Reuter)to say that in war all sorts of leaders and officials, had been set known is the March of the Volun- Of these the best the conclusion they could not afford-The Dagens Nyheter declares things cropped up to interfere. It was investigating urgently eers the to underestimate their adversary.
They must also have decided that, manitarian
that without material and bu-with the smooth working of Tarious problems and
popular "Chi-la!" if victory was to be gained before the Sweder both the war and home,
(Arise)... extended by international trade and to methods to overcome the difficul-
Mr. Lee Pao-chen has written a thaw, the Mannerheim Line must, at all coats, be broken by a frontal attack fronts in Finland would have given make it less easy for Britain ties.
preface recording the outbrust of -a frontal attack, because communica way long 3gp.
to pay for the goods she dustry what markets could most indignation finding its natural We had to discuss with such in-patriotic songs in China-grief and tions with North of Lake Ladoga were not good enough for an outflanking economy in soldiers ensured by The newspaper adds that despite i
wanted.
easily and quickly
He acknowledges the en- be developed outlet. Caution must imposs a limit to and many, who never exported be-thusiastic co-operation of Mr. and Mannerheim tactics Finland is in the sale of gold and foreign fore. would, be called on to do Mrs. W. A. McCurdy, Miss Esther WHAT NEXT?
great need of reinforcements in securities-Britain's Maginot Line their shäre... Meantime, British arms and stocks
E. Tappert, Mr. Ma Pin-ho, Liu are on their way in large quantities men and expresses the hope that was to be jealously guarded and
NO LACK OF MARKETS : and volunteering for Finland has now new methods for enrolling volun- only to finally to be spent in the
Hsueh-an, Mr. Chu Yung-kuel It would not been permitted and is going on. What teers in Sweden will, give the last resort.
be prudent to and many others, which made the is going to happen now!
assume that the war would neces-production of the work possible. sarily be over this year and there
There are explanatory notes for Ulsag, in an article on "British ROLE OF PEACE was no lack of markets f Britain each of the songs. That for the Imperial Constructive Work in
to quickly "March of the Volunteers" states Arabia shows that the system FOUND HARDER
ค
movement.
necessary result,
FINNISH POSITIONS
IN
INTACT:
LINE REPORTED TO BE
- STILL ALMOST HELSINGFORS EVACUATION
HELSINGFOES, Feb. 26 (Reuter)-The Finnish positions in the eastern part of the Mannerheim Line are practically intact. In the west, Soviet troops made no further progress towards Viborg and bave not got into touch with the main Finnish defences.
The Soviet Unes here form a salient and Koivisto, which is still held by the Finns.
are
"disturbed" at
An Export Council, consisting of
MANNERHEIM
Record Wheat Harvest For Australia
LONDON, Feb. 26 (Reuter)-Aus- tralia will have a record wheat harvest this year, according to aj broadcast statement.
It is true that, the Finns say, hagen for Helsingfors on Satur been delivered by the farmers and Already 193,000,000 bushels have they have captured it their an-day. This is part of a big plan to the total is expected to reach 250,- nouncement making it the second, help Finland whereby the Trade 000,000 bushels. time in the last few days that Unions of Norway, Sweden and they have "captured" Koivisto. Denmark are sending .skilled
FINNISH COMMUNIQUE
workers to keep the Finnish in-
SOVIET PRISONERS
dustries going, while Finnish A Finnish communique states workers are fighting at the front. that Saturday was marked by local Russian attacks, in which they suffered heavy losses.
Finnish artillery showed creased activity and dispersed several detachments and destroy ed over seventeen tanks.
in-
RUBBER EXPORTS OF INDO - CHINA
could deliver the and at the right price.
"The war today is no longer зд affair only between the armies. In the last resort. It is a struggle between manu- facturer and manufacturer and shopkeeper and keeper
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LONDON, Feb. 26 (Reuter) -The Swiss paper Tribune states: "The arrival of the Arz aes Is a striking reply to the activities of German agents, who bave vainly sought to raise the peoples of the near and Middle East against Perfidious Al- 'blon,' another example of miscalculation by Herr von Ribbentrop and his associates concerning the disintegration of the British Commonwealth of Nations,"
The Budapest: paper Nemseti
that it was written originally as a tic work of the last twenty years
theme song for a talkle, spread in building a network of bases on
over, the country like fire and is the fringes of Arabia is facilita THAN IN 1914
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It takes more courage to be a
* peacemaker in Europe today than
still the most popular war song inting the work of Gen. Weygand's China. The words are. by Tien Army. Har and the music by Nieb - Erh,
ALREADY DONE who was drowned in Japan a few shop
years ago.
The American paper Memphis in the midst of the World War. Nieh was famous for Commercial Appeal states: "Don't
That is the observation of Miss his fine melodies-(CIC).
"If, in ətime of peace, we had to sell abroad to safeguard British standards of living, in time of war We have to do so even more so to safeguard our very lives."...
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NO CONTACT BERLIN Feb 26 (Reuter)-A
worry about Germany winging Dorothy Detzer, executive secre- from Nazlism to Communism. Itary of the Women's International has already occurred, says the League for Peace and Freedom, head of the Foreign Policy As-recently returned to Washington sociation
from a League executive meeting The St. Louis Post Dispatch. at Genera
A meeting like the peace con-
The exports were on the eve of i a fourth line of defence and Mr. communique states that German writes "The report "is current In them as a new British expedition-Heligoland Bight failed to make Russian of Germany has obtained Addams at The Hague in 1915 Hudson preferred to think of chaser planes which went up over economic circles that the only reas of 3,000 women led by Jane
Zorce.
contact with the enemy.
Norway & The Altmark: Reply To Request Made By Britain
not called at Bergen or any other Norwegian port, as Lord Halifax apparently believed. and, therefore, no question of
since the war began is in reality would be impossible anywhere in not from the wells of pre-war Rus Europe today, due to strict travel sla, but from Russian-occupied and censorship regulations, Miss Poland, the annual production of
Detzer saya, which has been only 450,000 tons,” STRONG FEELING
and
League delegates from Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Finland, The New York Times, in an ar- to Geneva to join British and and Belgium were unable to get ticle by Anne Clare McCormick, French Tepresentatives because, of writes: "A Hungarian statesman passport made the remark that a pilgrim Miss Detzer herself obtained "a visa restrictions. in South-Eastern Europe heard Swiss visa on 'condition that she ACTIONS MÚST
repeated in every capital he visit would make no public statements a twenty-four hour malt arose,ed that "in the east of Germany in that country, BE BASED ON
NEUTRAL'S POSITION the feeling is stronger than in Long an advocate of federated When it was stressed from the the West TREATIES
that Germany had world government as an instru- British side that the prisoners already lost the war. It is strange mentality to permanent peace, the OSLO, Feb. 28 (Reuter) — A have been badly treated and that that the nation most terrified, by League, through its executive com- statement has been presented to Norway ought, from humani- the powers of the Reich are the mithee, came to the conclusion at Lord Halifax by the Norwegian tarian considerations, to have least to be impressed by the idea Cheneva: that nations banding to- Legation in London in reply to the taken note of this, the Norwegian of Germany's Invincibility"
Specla to HK Daily Press HELSINGFORS, Feb. 26 (Reuter) HANOI, Feb 26 (Havas)-Since: -The Finns claim to have taken the outbreak of war, Indo-Chinese two Russian airmen prisoner who rubber exports have markedly in- were involved in the Soviet bomb creased although world ribber.. Ing of the Swedish town of Pajala statistics remained stationary. In The plane was forced down in Fin December exports amounted to North-East of Lake Ladoga, thenish territory on the way home. 110,118 tons, ag aganst 8,540 In Finns repulsed the Russians and captured twenty-seven machine- The captive airmen state that 1938.
November, and 9,888 in December, gúns and twenty-one Lewis-guns their squadron set out from and destroyed, two tanks.
Murmansk to bomb Finnish head- The total in 1939 was 65,140, as quarters at Rovaneimi, but did not against 59.198 in 1938, and 18,559 reach their objective. Pajala is in 1934. Some way off the direct route from Murmansk to Roveneim!.
In the direction of Petsamo, a Finnish patrol of ten men repulsed a detachment of 180 Russians on skis..
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EVACUATIONS
HELSINGFORS, Feb. 26 (Reuter) -One-hundred Finnish children and Some mothers will Joa.ve
British request for full informa-Government understood the Bri tion regarding the way in which tish feelings, but a neutral state the Norwegian authorities had must base Its actions in a dispute carried out the search on the Alt- among belligerents only on post-1 VIBORG DESTROYED RUSSIANS CLAIM
zmark.
tive stipulations in treaties of HELSINGFORS, Feb. 26 (Reuter)
CAPTAIN'S REPLY
international law. BREAK THROUGH. -An eye-witness, who has just re- The statement says that when the burned from Viborg, says that the Altmark was stopped by a second MOSCOW, Feb. 26 (Reuter).A town is Soviet war communique state that
completely destroyed. Norwegian torboat, the Com Helsingfors for Copenhagen on Soviet troops yesterday broke through Buildings and churches are 1 mander of wh.. asked whether Mar. 5. They are the first batch the Finnish, Fortified og ruing and heavy columns of smoke she had on board persons belong of evacuees which Denmark, like occupied twenty-eight defensive forti rise continually. other Scandinavian countries, is fcations.
Bomba have caused most dam to receive
Repeated Finnish counter-sttacks age but the Russians also shell the At the same ti
a second are repulsed with heavy losses to town every night.
the Finns,* contingentot, th three-hundred
Only a few defence patrols are Danish metal workers left Copen-down.
left in Viborg..
zones
Ten Finnish aeroplanes were brought
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GERMAN NAVAL
gether, would have to accept a basic definition of the rights of man before federated action could succeed.
UNITS OFF
"We were pleased to see that Mr. PETSAMO
H. G. Wells came forch with the SWEDEN SATISFIED British warships off Petsamo is due resolution urging the President of
PARIS, Feb 26 (Router)-It is did," said Miss Delzer,
satile idea about a week after we stated here that the presence of
The Geneva group passed at The Swedish Forelan, Minister, German naval units, including ference of all neutral countries STOCKHOLM, Feb. 26 (Reater) to the fact that there are some the United States "to call a con ing to another belligerent navy or M. Guenther, expressed satisfac submarines, at Petsamo and Mur- having as its aim the putting seamen who were subjects of an tion with the result of the Copen- other belligerent, the Captain re-hagen conference. plied in the negative,
The Norwegian Government stresses that the Altmark had
No further meeting of the Scandinavian Ministers has been arranged
manak,
forward of recommendations to the belligerent countries for the Mr. Pun, Kong Lyn and Miss "ending of' confiict an "guch terms Hee Chu Chen were recently as will secure a just and durable married at Kuala Lumpur.
peace,"