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OF FINLAND'S CEDED AREAS BY
PROVIDING TRANSPORT
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 18 (Reuter)-Sweden is helping Finland to evacuate the surrendered areas by "sending hundreds of buses and lorries to transport the acuees. In answer to a radio appeal, private citizens and transport companies have presented their cars. lorries and buses for registration by the Swedish Automobile Asso- ctation.
ALLIED AID. FOR TURKEY
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QUESTION ASKED
Only large vehicles are being seat at the moment. Some are
being transferred by special ships from Stockholm, while others are going north to cross the ice at Vasa, Finnish port. half way up the Gulf of Bothnia.
SERVICES SUSPENDED A number of bus services in IN COMMONS Sweden have been suspended and
the vehicles thus released are be LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter-In
ing sent to Finland. They will the House of Commons today a immediately begm the vacuation question was asked if a compre-or the Hangoe Frontler Zones. hensive plani existed between
The Red Army will take Great Britain
up France and
next Friday. residence of the areas surrendered
to
render Immediate military aid to Turkey if her integrity is threat- ened or, if it became expedient for her to go to the aid of a neigh- bouring state.
CHILDREN & MOTHERS IN SWEDEN About 6,000 Finnish children and
in
Seizure Of Mails From N.Y.K. Liner
TOKYO, Mar. 18 (Reuler) seizure of mails from the NY.K. Questioned regarding the reported
liner Fushimi Maru by the British authorities at Singapore on March 16. a Foreign Office spokesman, at the press conference today, said that the attitude of the Japanese Government toward the case was the same as that toward the affair involving the Bangkok Maru (at Hatphang on Mar. 51, namely, "a belligerent Government is entitled to seize mafis which faly under the category of military mails.”.
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1940.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, 19th MARCH, 1940, 9.30 AM
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended..
INWARD MAILS
Straits,
Shanghai and Amoy Shanghai
Japan. Canton
From
Air Mail by "Air France Direct Service"
date, 13th March.... Shanghai... Shanghal and Amoy Formosa, Amoy and Swatow. Manila.
Straits. Bangkok and Saigon.
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"
London date, 13th March. Amby.
Information reaching the head office of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Saigon.
from Bingapore states the Fushimi Japan and Shanghai Maru, which sailed from Yokoha-Australia and Manila..... ma on Feb. 26 for Europe. entered Canton singapore at 11 pm, on March 18. Haiphong, Holbow & Fort Bayard
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Rabaul and Manila. ......
Mr. R. A. Butler. Under-Secre- their mothers have arrived in tary of State for Foreign Affairs. Sweden by train from Northern replied that Britain and France Finland. They will remain
64 BAGS are bound by, a Mutual Assistance Sweden un evacuation of the
Sixty-four bags of malls, destin- Treaty to give Turkey all the ata surrendered areas has been com-ed for Naples, were seized by the and assistance in their power in
pleted.
British authorities who the event of her being involved in
BRITISH VOLUNTEERS
the ship. hostilities by a European Power LONDON. Mar, 18 (Reuter)→→M.
After consultations with the and consequential aggression by Gripenberg. Finnish Minister in that Power against Turkey..
London, left for Helsingfors on Japanese Consul-General, the cap-Japan and Shanghai. The form of such assistance has Saturday. It is not known how tain of the vessel agreed to hand over the 64 bags to the British au- been. and is. the subject o: con- long he will stay away.
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct sultation between the three Gov-
The Finnish Aid Bureau in Lon-thorities on condition that they be ernments.
den is asking the Finnish Govern. returned before the. Fushimi Maru ment for advice as to the future cleared port.
British volunteers, The of the
Fifty-two out of the 84 bags, it Director of the Bureau sald on is added were released but 12 Saturday that about 1.000 nad postal parcels, addressed to Ger- Japan and Shanghai, taken the oath to fight for Fini-many, via Naples, had not been | Manila. land and that 300 have already returned before the liner left Japan. reached the Finnish frontier. Singapore.
The consultation, naturally. had taken into account the contingency referred to in the second part of the question
RUMANIA · ON WATCH
FIGHTING STARTS AGAIN ON KWANGSI FRONT: FRESH BUCHAREST, Mar, 18 (Reuter) - ATTACKS BY JAPANESE
IMPORTANT SPEECH BY PREMIER
"We want peace, but a peace that respects our rights. Therefore. we are on the watch," declared the Rumanian Premier, M Tataresca, in an. Important speech which was broadcast last night.
"Our main concern this year "must be the strengthening of the Army and our defences generally. An extraordinary credit of thirty- millfärd lel, has been allotted to the Army in the budget."
DIFFICULTIES OVER
M. Talarescu declared that the output from mines and oilfields must be increased to the maxi- mum.
KWEILLIN, Mar. 18 (Central) —Fighting on the Kwangsi Front,
which had dwindled to localised engagements, flared up anew dur- ing the week-end when the Japanese concentrated several fierce at- tacks on the east sector of the Yamchow-Nanning line.
Japanese forces thrown into the fresh operations in the vicinity
of Wingshun. cast of Nanning, on the upper, reaches of the Wat-.
Canton
London date, 16th March
Straits and Palembang. Shanghai and Amo Haiphong and Holhow
Shanghai
Java and Manila. Shanghai
Japan and Shanghai,
Shangha
U. S. A., & Manila. (San Francisco date, 28th Feb.) Japan.
U.S.A., Honolulu and Japan (San Francisco date,
5th March).....
V.B. A.. Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (Ban
Francisco date, 20th February),........................ Japan and Shanghai Calcutta, Straits and Saigon Japan, Shanghai and Formosa Japan and Shanghai..............
Japan.
Shanghai
Saigon.
klang, and Slutong, near the Kwangtung border, totalled some 6,000. Japan and Shanghal...............
Encounters raged throughout the week-end near Fellunghu and Sunghu, where, after stiff resis- tance, the defenders beat the Japanese back to Shapinghu. north of Sunghu.
SIUTUNG SECTOR
CHINA FIGHTING FOR SAME IDEALS OF POLITICAL LIBERTY
bassador, In a speech in London
during the week-end..
China is fighting for the same On the Slutung Sector, the Jap- He thought that a great part of anese forces have increased to ideals of political liberty as had and inspired the British to take up the difficul.les facing the country over 3,000 men at Pingchit
the European 'condlet. had come to an end owing to the advanced to Lukwa. on Saturday. arms in Government's efforts to consolidate They are being held back by the said Mr. Quo Tal-chi. Chinese Am- Rumania's position internationally Chinese. and to make her strong internally.
Allading "to the re-instate- ment of the Iron Guards, the Fremler said that the polley of internal pacification was be- ginning to bear fruit in restor- ing peace among all sons of the nation.
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A third force of 2,000 Japanese infantry and cavalry opened an offensive eastward on Lingshan, 60 miles northeast of Yamehow in west Kwangtung near the Kwang- si border. Their advance
was checked at Sungchinghu. north or
Lukwo.
NAZIS PLAYING SIT-DOWN
GAME - BUT ALLIES WILL
NEW RECORD BY FENSKE
Special To E. E. Daily Press
American
WIN IN THE END
NEW YORK, Mat. 18. (Havas)-- LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter)~~ Charles Fenske, of Wisconsin, the Scripps Howard's syndicated noted
summarises an article runner, today column broke the world's indoor record for on foreign affairs of Professor the three-quarter mile run by Brant. formerly of the Berlin covering the distance in 2 mins. University and now of Stanford 59.7 secs.
University,
•Germany, says Prof. Brandt, is blockade-proof for at least two years, if the present, of war con-
It will be of interest to recall that i Fenske won the special mile in vitation race at Princeton, New Jersey, on June 17, 1839, in tinues, “ minutes 11 seconds. Glenn Cun- ningham was second, Archie San Romant third, Blaine Rideout fourth and Sidney Wooderson last Fenske was conceded only an out- side chance to win the race.
The next meeting of the" Hong- kong Y's Men's Club will be held
It was. therefore. of supreme importance to Britain not to lose sight of the bearing of China's struggle in the present attempt on the part of the democracies to re-establish law and order in the new world.
He asked if anything could be of greater promise to British and world welfare than a strong. Chi- nese democracy as an exemplar to a strong Indian democracy.— (BWS),
Manlia, Australia and Manila...... Capan.
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Registered and Parcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below, unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. registered and parcel mails are "closed at 5 pm, on the previous day. When rails are advertized to close after 5 pm. Registered and Parcel malls are closed at 6 p.m.
TUESDAY
For
Tourane. Salzon and Bangkok Fort Bayard, and Holhow, Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa.
Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct
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IN BRIEF
MOSCOW, Mar. 18 (Reuter) Work has now been com- menced on a large scale on the construction of a new de fensive system along the. Russo-German border, to be called the Voroshllov Line.
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LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter An Air Ministry Casualty com- munique Issued yesterday con- taina fifty-nine namés, including Sister A. & Ketley, among eight who have died on active service.
NO SOVIET HELP Russia will not be very much of help as she cannot fill her own LONDON, Mar. 18 (BW3) The needs on both her own and Ger-pamage in President Roosevelt's and would be speech on Saturday which has many's systems unable to fulfil any such large-attracted special attention" here is that in which he defined the scale movement of oil.
Oll may be the Nazis "Achilles elements of lasting peace. Heel," for merely on the score of
perial Airways Direct Service"-due Sydney 25th March, Shanghai
WEDNESDAY Batavia and Sourabaya Canton
Straits and Calcutta, Haiphong...
Africa,
2.00 PM
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Aden, Egypt, Malta and Europe Via Marseilles | Parcels 3.00 PM due Marseilles 20th April and London Parcels Beg. 5.00 PM due London, 28th April,
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Airmail for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris Ord.
and Northern Provinces only) by the Air France Airways Direct Service"-dae Paris 28th Reg.
March.
Shanghai
THURSDAY
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 18 (Renter). The Moscow correspondent of Canton the Aftonbladet 'says that persis-Amoy.
at the residence of Mr. Ho Bhiu- all Germany is incapable of con- que, 14 Koon Ma Terrace, Happy ducting fullscale land operations Valley, at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday. over an extended period. when Mr. George A. Fitch, Asso- The Professor's conclusion is tent rumours in Moscow indicate swatow and Shanghal clated General Secretary of the War Service for Soldiers, will be ture of the war ahead.
tha: much depends on the the speaker.
71 ENTOMBED MINERS
SIT-DOWN GAME
na-that the Soviet Union hopes to Japan. obtain the long-sought outlet in Amoy. the North Atlantie by demanding
If the Allies play Germany's sit- down game the contest may last
a long time." Nevertheless Cer- many will lose in the end.
a free port on Sweden's coast.
The Chinese Chemical Society has decided to hold fis annual meeting this year at Mount-Omel,
ST. CLAIRS VILLE, OHIO, Mar. 18 (Reuter)—It is announced that "In the third or fourth year, in west Szechwan, from August 16 hope of rescuing the 71 entombed the British and French Empires to 20. A preparatory committee. miners has been virtually aban-will be able to crush the Nazis by has been elected with Mr. Chang doned.
auperior military forces.
Hung-yuan as chairman.
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