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#EA-✯ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1939. B+A+
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The Baltic Crisis Reaches Its Breaking Point As-
RUSSIA WITH
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Lamped
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Leningrad
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WHITEAWAY'S
RELATIONS GOVT.
THE FINNISH
Eyewitness Describes North Soa Battle
REPLY TO
TO SOVIET
NOTE IGNORED
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (UP).—The Soviet Union has broken off relations with Finland.
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Relations were broken before the Finnish Minister had an opportunity to reply to the Soviet demand that the Finnish troops should retire from the frontier north of Leningrad.
FINNISH REPLY IGNORED
The break in relations coincided with instructions to the people to wait for an important radio broadcast by M. Molotov the Soviet Foreign Minister.
SEAPLANE FIGHTS TWO ARMED SHIPS
a sea
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERGEN, Nov. 29 (UP).-By telephone an eye- witness in the Krokenes lighthouse near Stad said encounter occurred to-day outside Norwegian waters between two ships on one side and a scaplane on the other. He expressed the opinion that the ships were await- ing a convoy and that they were attacked by a German plane, although identification was impossible.
Rawalpindi Had No Chance
Geysers of Water
The eyewitness saw geysers of water alongside the ships as the seaplane attacked again and again.
One of the ships appeared to be of
The Soviet Vice-Foreign Minister, M. Potemkin, handed a note to the Finnish Minister explaining the reasons for the severance of relations, and gave the Minister no opportunity to deliver the Finnish reply to the Soviet demands.
FINNISH POST ATTACKED HELSINGFORS, Nov. 29 (Reuter).-No details of the Finnish reply to the Soviet note will be made public' until it has been delivered to M. Molotoff, the Soviet Foreign Commissar-
Unofficial reports state that a Finnish frontier post well within Finnish territory has been attacked.
The telephone was cut and the post itself was marked with
bullets.
U.S. SHOWS INTEREST
the combat class and the other an Roosevelt May Try
armed merchantman.
Both fired continumwly and often
at point blank range, but the sea- plane appeared to escape being hit and flew off in a southerly direction after a sharp encounter lasting about an hour.
Preserve Peace
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BRITAIN'S HUGE WAR EXPENSES
£2,400,000,000 A Year
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Nov. 29 (Renter). -Our expenditure on the `war
and other services is now at a rate equivalent to £2,100,000,000.. a year, an increase of about two- thirds of the rate at which we were previously spending, stated Sir John Simon in the House' of Commons to-day in the sourse of a debate,
Several guards are missing.
Sir John emphasised that the taxa- "Unbearable Situation"
tion of nearly £1,000,000,000 in o single year still left us to raise an- LONDON, Nov. 29.(UP)-M. Bther £1,000,000,000 by borrowing in Molotov, the Russian Foreign Minis- ter in a broadcast through Moscow radio at midnight said that the Soviets were no longer able to To stand the "unbearable" situation.
the
He said that the Ambassador to Finland was being recalled from Helsingfors Immediately, and he called for a liquidation of the Finnish 29 Government.
order to meet the expenditure this year, and in a full year, if the struggle developed in expenditure, shells and lives, our requirements would be considerably greater,
of
The Scottish "Kilties", who to-day
will be remembering thé anniversary
THE SCOTTIES" IN FRANCE GORT WATCHES FATIGUE WORK
of their patron saint, are now Firth Of Forth Raid France, and these interesting pictures show some of "Kiltics" digging in a forward sector of the British Linés, watched By Commander-in-Chicj Viscount Gort, and his staff colleagues.
MINE SINKS BRITISH SHIP
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Nov, 29 (UP). -The British steamer Rubislaw, loaded with cement, struck a mine and sank two miles off the southeast coast.
Thirteen members of the crew were killed by the ex- plosion.
Four survivors were pick. ed up by a minesweeper.
This Strange War
Not Going To The Book
But Allies Gaining Advantages
HEINKEL
PLANE CRASHES
-Dramatic Episode In The Clouds
· LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter). -There was an air-raid over the Firth of Forth, but although machine-gun fire was heard, no air-raid alarm was given and no planes were sighted.
It is believed, however, that two R.A.T. machines intercepted Heinkel bomber and drove it off.
Bomber Braught Down LONDON, Nov, 29 (Reuter),--Tho plane brought down by an RAF. machine is belleved to have been a Heinkel bomber,
It crashed into the sea but a life- boal which searched the scene of the |crash for three hours found no trace
of the bomber or ita occupants.
The plane was first seen flying cast from behind the clouds of the Northumberland coast,
An R.A.F. fighter went up and when It was 400 yards away the bomber dived for the clouds 1,500 feet below. It dived vertically through the clouds into the sea.
Half Total Income
rate of ex- The present annual Penditure is about half the total in- come of the community, though WASHINGTON, Nov.
course it is spread In very different of State Survivor's Story
(UP).-Secretary
"With a different Government at proportions. Cordell Hull to-day said he and the head of Finland, Russia is willing
There are about
10,000 people in LONDON, Nov. 29 (Reuter). Florco Battle Reported President Roosevelt are main- to make concessions," he concluded. the country with income of £10,000 year or more, whose nggregate in- A graphic story of the fight OSLO, Nov. 29 (Reuter),A fiercetaining a close interest in the
Soviet Forces Ready
come is about £100,000,000, a sum which would keep the country going | put up by the Rawalpindi was battle between warships and alreratt Husso-Finnish situation.
off the South-west coast of Norway is
MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (Reuter).—The only a week or ten days.
LONDON, Nov. 20 (British Wire- reported.
This announcement has Soviot Government has broken off Taxation of estate duties took less) The Chancellor of the Ex-in time and swerved suddenly to PLEASE Tum To Pago 5. aroused speculation ля to diplomatic relations with Finland and £100,000,000 out of this total.
chequer, speaking at a luncheon in avoid striking the water. whether the President is about has ordered the High Command of
Not Enough Rich
London to-day, said that the war has So the answer to those who had not developed in the way orginally to make some new movement in the Red Army, Navy and Air Force
thought thot the problems of war oxpected, with a great battle on the an effort to preserve peace in to hold themselves in readiness for
any eventuality.
finance could be solved by booking Western Front and aerial attacks on the Baltic. Mr. Hull anid he is
rich werej London. Nonetheless, three months This further sensational develop the rich" was that the
and have provided material from which keeping in close touch with ment in the Soviet-Finnish relations very severely soaked already,
not enough of them to find to make deductions and form judg- developments and that he is in before Finland has had an opportun- there are
ment as to ultimate prospects. - telephonic contact with the ity of presenting a reply to the last money.
Announced by M. Molotof in a nation-wide broadcast Warm Springs to Washington.
last night.
related to-day by one of the survivors, an old R.N.R. man who saw service on H.M.S. Malaya at the Battle of Jutland. He was called up at the outbreak of war and joined the Rawalpindi as
a scaman gunner.
This man stated that when a warn- ing was given that an enemy ship had been sighted, action stations were sounded, and those below deck rush- ed up and munned guns.
"Tha
began Deutschland bombard us, and with our six-inch guns we could see that we would be outranged.
to
"We got nearer, however, and shells began to bit w
ESCAPING INTERNEE
SHOT DEAD. President who is en route from Soviet apte was
Attempting to escape from the Mataucheung Internment camp, a Chinese Internce yesterday morning
Finnish Minister Rescued Emphasising the United
U.S. Ambassador Returns
It could not be doubted that the German strategy has been beset with divided counsels.
Herr Hitler had relied on Herr von Ribbentrop for expert advice about the British people the German shattering
Chancellor must have had
awakening.
Therefore it followed that the only way domocracy could meet the terri- bic burdens of a great war was by willing sacrifices throughout the M Molotoit declared that not- whole population.
·withstanding all Bovies concessions, States
which he called ip enumerate, the become was shot dead by Sergeant Rothwell Interest, Mr. Sumner Welles, Asslot-
Finnish Government has of the Hongkong Tollee.
ant Secretary of State, lo-day re-
Increasingly provocative. Fired Off Threo Rounds
Sergeant Rothwell red three shots ceived the Finnish Minister, M. J
The Soviet, he claimed, were com- "We were given orders to fire and at the fleeing man, the last of which Procope, for a quarter of an hour.
Position Improving take this step for the got three rounds of.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" plerced his head. The other iwo Mr. Hull also said he had exchanged polled to
Meantime, Sir John Simon claimed "Other guns around me were also shots hit a 21 year-old employee of information with M, Procope, but he external security of the state.
Moscow had asked Finland for LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter)The firing.
the safety United States Ambassador to London, that the position of the Allies We might have hit the enemy the camp, Lui Ion, who was wounded declined to comment on the-like!!-
hood of any new move by the Unitat certain guarantees for
especially of Leningrad, but Finland Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, to-day left Improving week by week, but shell after sheli hit us and be-in the left thigh and right band.
The attempt to
Lam States, escape by fore long the Itawalpindi caught Kwong-luk was made at 11.50. a.m He is also speculating regarding the had adopted an irresponsible and Landon for Paris
PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. Washington for consultation. yesterday, when he tried to crawl Stockholm report that the American PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. through the barbed wire at the out Ambassador to Moscow has suddenly er perimeter of the fence near No. 6 cancelled his plans for a hunting trip rentry post, which was not at the and left for Riga by airplane from time manned.
whence he will proceed to Moscow
fire.
Finance Talks
In H.K. Denied
He was seen endeavourlor to es- by train. cape by an Indian constable on duty
ста route
to
ST. ANDREW'S DAY
IN HONGKONG
was
The numbers of the Expeditionary Force In France were growing and would rapidly grow. The Britian Navy had resumed its immemorial role of holding the seas and protect- ing British commerce.
As to the air there was a conviction, stendily growing, that British pilots and machines were more than a match for those opposed to them,
Sir John concluded by reference to
[resolve which had marked British men
any women.
There is no boasting. There is no
An official German short wave at the No. 5 post, and the constable wireless dispatch from Helsingfors shouted to him a warning. The In-Suggested that Mr. Steinhardt might fernee ignored him and the constable offer to serve na mediator but that it without la doubtful an to whether Russia will
To-day being St. Andrew's Day, the St. Andrew's Society of the quiet sense of determination and SHANGHAI. Nov, 30 (Reyter).--The then red two shots; but
Iaccept mediation. reports that the Finance Ministry of effoot.
Hongkong placed a wreath on the Cenotaph at 11 a.m. the Chinese Nationaf Government has At the sound of the first shot, Ber-
Ready To Mediate
The wreath was carried by the A. L. Shields and A. S. Mackichan summoned the third National Finan-geant Rothwell rushed up and saw
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Reuter). Chieftain, Dr. G. D. R. Black, and (past Chieftains) and tho committee, frantic demonstration. But there is cial Conference In Hongkong on De-the man trying to escape. Ilo there- cember 2 have been denied by local upon ared threo, shots with his re-r. Cordell Hall, the Secretary of the Vice-Chieftain, Mr. J. F. Mac Messrs. J. Finnic, 3. W. Gilmore, K, a deep pervading sonso that victory Young, Dr. J. W. Anderson and: Mr, has got to be secured, else lite-would Chinese Anancial circles, according volver, killing the man and wounding State, announced that the Govern- gregor.
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not be worth living.” Lui Hon who was standing nearby.
They were accompanied by Mears, J. Moodle, Hoa. Beemtary.
to Chiness Press reports here.
The EA.F. machine saw the danger
To date at least 29 machines have
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