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二拜禮 號一月十英港香 TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 31, 1939. 九十月九
Intense Blizzards Bring___Fighting To End
SNOW
SWEEPS THE
WESTERN FRONT
Duke of Windsor Tours
Here
Lines Under Nazi Fire
Is The
Saar
Front
OMERZIG
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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
PARIS, Oct. 30 (UP),—Real wintry weather has settled
in on the Western Front.
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Snow flurries to-day swept up the Saar Valley and deep drifts have begun piling up in the Vosgos Mountains near the Swiss border.
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BATUTE MILES"
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Flying men report sub-zero temperatures aloft.
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Big British Freighter Latest U-Boat Victim
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
The Duke of Windsor has [completed a tour of the snow regions at the front. He emphasised the need of knitted woollens and com- forts for the troops being hurried to the front im- mediately.
Visits French Lines Under Fire
The Duke visited the French lines between the Rhine and Moselle rivers and stopped awhile at Strasbourg while the city was under fire from German heavy artillery.
However, the fighting is re-
have ported to
been at а minimum over the weekend due to the intense blizzards.
Snow has closed the Alpine passes along the Italian frontier.
It is reported that German artillery re hus subsided, leaving the entire front the quietest for, wecks.
Must at the activity for the past 24 hours has been centred north of the Suor and cast of Sarrbruecken, where French artillery repulsed, German advance troops constructing new positions.
Great Aerial Activity LUXEMBOURG, Oct. 30 (Reuter). -Great serial activily on the Western Front between the Moselle and the Saar was reported this morning.
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GLASGOW, Oct. 30 (Router)The response to the announcement that volunteers" between the ages of 22 and 35 will now be accepted for service with the armed forces has - been so great in Glasgow that two recruiting offices have not béon able to copo successfully with them.
In many cases, the men havo just had their names taken and have been told to call back látor,
U.S. NEUTRALITY
Support For The Allies Envisaged
SPECIAL WAR COMMENTARY
HOW REICH IS LOSING
Tremendous Shortage.
Of Materials LONDON, Oct. 30 (Router). The likelihood of a shortage of fish in Germany. may be measured by the fact that the normal. North Sea" catch is 300,000 tons per annum'against the Baltic 30,000 tons, says a special war commentary......
Unemployment in Germany has jumped from a few thousand to mora. than a million, according to a'neutral· observer. This is believed to boʻdue In part to the closing of textile and shoe factories, the former due to the luck of raw material."
An order, issued by the German' Ministry of Transport, Instructs con- version to gaseous fuels for all-com- mercial vehicles still allowed to operate.
Coal-Pits Reopen
Seventeen coal-pits' in England - have been re-opened. The output, has increased by 100,000 tons a weeks,
LONDON, Oct. 30 and it is hoped that it will shortly
total 270,000,000 tons a year. (Reuter).—The British
As the result of the blockade, Ger- Press treats with realign many is unable to supply Yugo- the news that President and textiles,
Slavia with rubber goods, in-plates
· One hundred and
tyres.
Roosevelt's neutrality pro-twenty-eight lorries were delivered. posals have been adopted by the Senate.
As regards rubber, the 1937 ime. |port of which, was 118,000,000 Rolels- marks, the entire supply is now cut
The news is regarded more naloff. Bung, a substitute, covers one-
an indication of American moraiffth of the peace time consumption.
support than an affirmation of the resolve to stay out of war.
Raw Materials Shortage
As regards tin-plate, one-third of The fact that moral support does the Iron-ore Imports is cut off. Sweden supplies two thirds of the exist is well-known in Britain.
The Times" states that watchers remainder, but could not cover even Germany's pence time requirements. on this side of the Atlantic must
As regards textiles, the stoppage of appreciate that this legislation is the export trade should have left a being passed solely in the interests of surplus equal to about one-third of. the American people.
to
the total production. Inability supply textiles, "therefore, is presum—. ably due to a shortage of raw materials and suggests that surplus stocks were limited at the outbreak
Peace In America Issue Right through the long controversy, pence in America has been the issue, und pence in America will be the of war. issue when it goes forward for discus- Supplies of cotton from Russia are sion in the House of Representatives. | relatively inaccessible. Moreover, it is estlinated that Germany's war- The puper recalls that the mood in time requirements of cotton equal which the existing Act was passed two and a half times the expected was that never again should American maximum of the Soviet output for blood be shed on foreign battle-felds. 1042. That mood still dominates.
Tho "Daily Telegraph" says that the Senate's.adoption of thio proposals. 18 at amemation, by д decisive [majority, that the peace of America was threatened by the existing Act.
Baller reports stated that activity MAJOR-GENERAL THE DUKE Gandhi To See
In the preceding 24 hours had been
LONDON, Oct. 30 (UP).—It is officially announced! that a German submarine sank the British steamer almost at vanishing point except for Malabar, 8,100 tons, in the Atlantic Ocean last Sunday.
Five were killed when they were trapped in the engine room.
Seventy survivors have since been landed at a West
HINT TO HITLER Italy Still Very Anti-Bolshevik
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI
England port.
The vessel was enroute from the United States to England with general cargo and was attacked without warning.
The crew had no opportunity to take to the boats, but managed to leave despite the dimculties and were ndrift for 11 hours.
Built in 1938
a few German attacks in the Blys region.
Lack of aerial activity was ascribed to the bad weather prevailing-fog | and snow.
Contact Units Activa PARIS, Oct. 30 (Reuter).-A. communique issued to-day states that there was activity by contact units on the whole front and local artillery activity.
Chaser and reconnuissaneo alr- craft were intensely pelive.
Six French merchantmen, with a
--of Windsor, saluted as he left the War Office wosting his new uniform. He relinquished. Fiöld-Marshal's rank before accepting his now post on the Staff.
White Paper Reveals
Nazi Torture Methods
LONDON, Oct. 30 (Reuter).-The horrors of German total tonnage of 41,000, have been concentration camps are described in 4 White Paper lost since the war began,
Four German ships were captured, dealing with the ill-treatment of Jews and opponents of of which one was sunk by the crew the Nazi regime.
Flights Over Germany BERLIN, Oct. 30 (Reuter),~~~~Ger-
The Malabar is one of the biggest LONDON, Oct. 30 (UP)—of the fleet of two dozen vessels man authorities now admit that the its
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GERMANY'S
Expected To Prove
The Viceroy
WARDHA, Oct. 30 (Reuter) Mahatma Garihi and Rajendra Prasud, President of the National Congress, are leaving for New Delhi to-morrow and will bo received by the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, on the following day.
of
Mr. Jianib, President
the Moslem League, is also meeting the Viceroy on Wednesday,
It is understood that the meeting
Jinnah will take the form of a joint
of the Viceroy, Gandhi, Prasad and discussion.
United Provinces Disapproval The White Paper explains that "before the war and ever since
LUCKNOW, Oct. 30 (Reuter)—- The Congress Ministry of the United outbreak the Germani
Provinces has resigned following the Confirmation that the policy of owned by the Author-Brocklebank R.A.F. have carried out ralds over Government almost daily has put OIL NEEDS
adoption of the resolution by the votes the Fuscist Government remains Line of Liverpool.
Legislative Assembly by 127 neutral jout propaganda accusing Britain anti-Bolshevik was given by the the Machards, constructed in the same
The ship was built in 1938, and with Germany, according to
observer.
of atrocities in South Africa 40
against two, expressing disapproval | One example was a fight over
of the Viceroy's declaration. Italian Ambassador. Signor year, was the newest of the Brockle-Hanover last week,
|years ago, Guiseppo Bastianini, during his bank fleet.
The clouds were so low that Ger- "In view of this shameless pro-
Resignation Accepted first speech in London to-day
Trawlors Torpadood man searchlights could not and them paganda, which was wholly devoid of Biggest Handicap NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. (Reuter).
foundation, and the RAF. machines passed over any
Majesty's
The
resignation of the Congress upon the occasion of the 18th
A report from Hull says the steam unharmed.
Government think it opportune to anniversary of the Fascist march | trawler St. Nidan, one of the largest
AMSTERDAM, In contrast with the activity of the publish some of the reports they had
Oct. 30 Ministry of Madras has been recept-
[ed. to Rome.
and most modern of the Hull feel, RAF says the same observer, the received of the treatment accorded (Reuter).In a long war,
Gormany itself የሰ German Addressing 2,000 members of the has been sunk, apparently by enemy Nazi air force has been kept to the th
Germany's oil supply will be proclamation appointing an Ad- action while she was returning from ground by the low clouds and in-nationals. Italian colony assembled at the local the fishing grounds. Her crew of 15 cessant rain., Fascist headquarters, the Ambassador, men were rescued.
Flogging And Torture lone of her weakest points. visory Board consisting of three Bri- necording to Italians who were pre-
Italian
sent, said: ."Italy and Fascism were not betrayed by
The Grimsby trawler Lynx of 250]' a tons was also sunk in the North Sen programme of revolution. The rovo by enemy action. Her crew of 10 lution was born anti-Bolshevik and men were landed in Scotland. you know it is still anil-Dolshevik.
Antagonism Progressing
PROSTORKing.”
Trawlor Sunk in
North Sós
fre. in the North Bea,
Talking Way To Victory
hns
Nazis Now Technique
LONDON, Oct. 30 (Reuter). The
|
werd
arrested
The Governor of Madras is issuing
Ulah members of the Indian
Civil on the work of This is the opinion of Dutch Service to carry wholesale and consigned to concen ofl experts in commenting on e government.
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German Planes Attack
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"No less than 1,033 members of opposition parties tration camps where they were sub- Jected to the most barbarous treat-report from the New York cor ment.
respondent of the "Telegrant": "Flogging and torture were the that in the view of American order of the day, and it is common Army and Navy experts, Ger National Socialls! movement knowledge in Germany that the
was many has only sufficient high- "At the start antagonistic feelings LONDON, Oct.-30 (Reuter)--An- became eslabihahed between Rome and other. British trawler, Lynx,
faking a terrible vengeance on grade petrol for two months, of Moscow. Tule, antagonism · is · Bill been sunk, believed by enemy gun-Nazi war of nerves was followed by those who had the temerily to big-scale nir attacks.
a "peace offensive" and this has now oppose Italy 2 given way to a "war of doris hinta," The White Paper says that "344
LONDON, Oct. 30 (Router)The Admiralty announ
announces that The “Telegraf” report, suggests two German bombers attacked a destroyer flotilla south of the Dogger This is answered by the "News CSOs of arrests or attacks on Czecho- Chronicle" which says that I talk Slovak citizens were reported during
that after such a period, Germany Bank this morning. could win a war, the Nazis would be this period.
British subjects, including a 'mem- will have to use synthetic spirit which well on the way to victory.
ber of the staff of the Bettish Emis unsuitable for modern war-planes. to when European,
"But neither talk nor anything else bay, were wantorily masanlled in American experts place the 1939) will warzyw eared on the streets by uniformed Black synthetic petrol production at 28,000,-
We are well prepared for all con- Guards on duty. No Peaco Without Italy
dealt with."
(1000 barrels and belleve that Gerinany The Italian people know there can tingeneles. Berides this, it should Strering Italy's military prepared be a war without Italy but they be noted that whatever polley the The White Paper emphasises that will need 62,000,000 barrels in peace
Itime. Italian Government must “be latened without Italy.”:
chalter about their plans beforehand PLEASE Turn To Page 10,
After recalling Fascisin's achieve-
The crew of ten were landed in ments at home and abroad during the Scotland. past 17 years, Signor Bastianin! said: This is the first losa by the Grimsby
While the big nations are at war fahing fleet during the war. to-day, hesitating to throw their peopics towards a big, tragic, ond fatal clash, Italy has no fear."
and especially Mediterranean, problems are to be
Must Use. Synthetic Oil
No casualties in, or damage to, the destroyers, were sustainéd. It is not known whether the enemy suffered any damage, BODY WASHED ASHORE MA
LONDON, Oct. 30 (Rauter)--The body of a German alen
nass, the Ambassador declared the also know there can-ba: no-peaca1 Názis decide" to adopt, they will not/the-documenta”mublished-in‘it- were itime 'nnid 150,000,000 annually in war was washed ashore to-day on the Norfolk coastgua