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“Eight Hundred Bombers Will Raze Your City," Pamphlets Tell Finns SOVIET ULTIMATUM THREATENS
DESTRUCTION
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
STOCKHOLM, DEC. 4. (UP).—RUSSIA HAS ISSUED A PAMPHLET ULTIMATUM TO FINLAND, WARNING THAT HELSINGFORS WILL BE RAZED TO THE GROUND UNLESS FINLAND UNCONDITIONALLY - AND IMMEDIATELY CAPITULATES.
Reports to this effect were flashed to the Stockholm "Dagens Nyheter" this morning by its Helsingfors correspondent.
The newspaper states that the ultimatum was conveyed by pamphlets which were dropped over the city last night by Soviet bombers.
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NORWAY
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1.-Kiel Canal, Germany's U-Boat gateway between the
North Sea and the Baltic.
2.-Exit to the North Sea flanked by Denmark and Norway. 3.-Germany's push castward,
The pamphlet, which is signed by M. Moloto, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, threatens that the city will be destroyed by eight hundred Soviet planes. The evacuation of the city is still proceeding. The streets are cramined with trafile and crowds of women mid children making their way to the railway station.
Tramcars are filled with people and luggage. Everything Is well organised and the weather is inc although it has been snowing at intervals.
The Russian Legation and the Gerinun colony #re expected 10 evacunte by boat this afternoon, after which the new Red air raids are ex→ pected.
250.000 Evacuate
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" COPENHAGEN, Dec. 3 (UP),~~ Telephone calls to United Press client newspapers in Western Finland have revealed that nearly quarter of a
million people have left the Finnish capital during the last three days. The population in now well below 100,000.
4.-Danzig and Cdynia, Polish ports seized by Germany-Ject to evacuation bas left.
5. Memel, German-occupied port that was only exit to sca
from Lithuania.
6-Strategic Aaland Islands, which Russia covets.
7. Stalin Canal, linking Russian navícs in White Sea and Baltic
8. Short Soviet coastline, which Russia has extended by acquisition from Estonia and Latvia and which she will try to extend by war with Finland.
Italy Sells Warplanes To Finland: 50 Arrive
SOVIET TO
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Inemerhaven
MAMSUR
BREMEN MIT. 20
The scene of the reported ultnek ky RA.F. aircraft la shown above.
HELSINGFORS
Tour of Finland Shows 42 Die Reds have no Walk-over In Big
(UP STAFF CORRESPONNDENT).
HELSINGFORS, Dec. 3.(UP).—I have just finished
Blackouts are rigorous, and every window ių sealed with cardboard.
a two-day trip to the Russian frontier area, and the industrial cities there are is a rarity. modern ghost towns.
The industries, particularly paper and cellulose, are function- ing 24 hours a day. But a child
Another Attack On Heligoland
R. A.F. PLANES HIT
NAZI WARSHIPS
LONDON, Dec. 3 (Reuter)-A strong formation of R.A.F. bombers attacked German warships in the vicinity of Heligoland, obtaining direct hits with heavy bombs, the Air Ministry an-
nounces to-day.
DARTMOOR ESCAPE
Daring Coup By
Two Convicts
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Dec. 3
The announcement adds that all British machines returned safely.
At Virasoln, one of the world's biggest paper mills ceaselessly grinds out cellulose for export. At this
silk factory, imitation stockings and cloth fer
ground out of the wood from Fin- innd's forests,
Kowloon
Blaze
for Indies IT IS now established that. men's suits at least 42 people lost their lives in the disastrous
A score of mills around the lakes Shanghai Street blaze last
and rivers bring an unceasing sup-
ply of raw materials. Copper mines night.
provide sulphur for paper monu- During this morning facture, and the copper ore is then charred bodies were still
refined with the same electric power
which refines iron from other mines. being recovered from the
Long Arctic Nighs
debris of the two burnt-out tenements. There is very little daylight In winter in Finland. Motor cars turn on their lights in the middle of the afternoon. The roads are narrow be tween the lakes, and any mechanical transport is
on except Impossible them and they are well guarded.
All the frontler Finns are happy over the coming of snow, which they
Ono Messerschmidt was the only expect to be an important aid in the enemy machine encountered.
It was. shut down.
The announcement further adds that a coastal reconnaissance plane, in ja surprise attack, destroyed a German
submarine,
Sunk By Plane
campaign against. Russin.
"There is not enough snow yet,” |
they say, although several inches i have tallen in the past three days.
The snow-covered forests Flo- land hide many secrets of defence against the Russians.
The majority of those injured wero, people trapped in their houses or who chose hastily to Icap over the verandahs into the street below.
Fatal leaps from the blazing houses were made by at least four people,
Death Toll Mounts
Latest official reports reveal that the casualties in the fire total 64, of whom 42 are dead and 22 are in Kowloon Hospital. Many of the latter are not expected to live.
A tragio feature is that nearly half the victims are children under the ages of 12 years.
Included in the dead are four female infants under four years of age and seven female girls between 1 and
Many of the bodies recovered this
recognition.
Although it has been rumoured all day to-day that the Finnish Govern- ment is moving to Vasa in the middle of Finland, they are understood to have decided on a day-long session in the vaults of the National Bank, of which Premler Ryli is Governor, and not,
The phonton Agures of soldiers LONDON, to leave until the last citizen sub-
The pilot flying a Coastal Command glide about, clad in white to blend (Reuter)-Two-prisoners was 150 miles from land with the landscape. White tents are 12 years of age.
when he sighted a minute object on pitched amung. the irees. The Ready For Molotoff Threat
made a daring escape from the horizon elight miles distant. Frontier forces are well armed with morning were charred beyond Those who are tied to their jobs in
With his binoculars, he was able light machine-guns. Helsingfors are now steeling their Dartmoor Prison early to-
to satisfy himself that it was an 1 saw airplanes fly overhead at The fire was responsible for the nerves, following the dropping of day.
chemy submarine, apparently of the intervals of 10 minutes, They looked highest death roll in many years. ocean-going type.
Most of the bodies recovered this as though they were about to land at So that he might approach some hidden airdrome. I judged morning were buried deep in the observed, the pilot chimbed into a thefr air speed about nearly 300 miles debris of the gutted tenements at cloudbank and tolked his quarry per hour. They appeared to be an 482 Shanghai Street. from there,
unrecognized factor in the Finnish
Severul people were saved by The U-boat's crew heard the air-defence programmie,
magnificent work on the part of the craft's engines too late.
Stalin did not even shake the tree Fire Brigade, which used jumping The pilot swooped towords his tar to get the Polish and Bultle plums; sheets to some effect. Firemen used get and released a bomb.
they fell into his lap during ʼn high | ladders to carry other survivors down submerge, a direct hilt was scored.
Before the submarine could fully wind stirred up by Germany. But from the first and second foors,
with Finland it is different.
Most of the survivors admitted to The bomb exploded at the base of the conning tower.
leaflets containing the threat from M. Molotoft, the Soviet Foreign Minister, that 100 Red planes wit
They sawed window bars and launch a mass attack on the Finnish climbed a wall in making their capital unless the Government capt-j escape. tulates.
A hundred Police and soldbr However, Finnish hopes have been renewed by the performance of their scoured the noors. small but efficient air force agains! the Soviet raiders during the last few days.
Schools Closed
SPECIAL TO the "TelɛGRAPHI
Captured 7 Hours Later
The prisoners were captured seven hours after the escape.
The men called at a form eight HELSINGFORS, Dec. 3 (UP).-Allies from the prison and asked for schools throughout Finland have locd.
been dismissed and the evacuated schools are being converted into first) aid stations.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 3 (UP). The "Dagen Nyheter's" Helsingfors cor- Investments TAKE 2,400 respondent reports that 50
SQ. MILES “Agreement” With
airplanes purchased from Italy arrived in the Finnish capital.
Puppet Regimetered Tallin harbour yesterday
In Canada
Relaxation Of Exchange Control
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Then they gave themselves up.
1
SHOCK FOR NAZIS
No Survivors
With Germany pledged to non-hospital gained their injuries by aggression and busy, anyway, Gght-Jumping from the second floor to the ing a war with France and Britain-pavement below. after Stalin extended his western be defences halfway across Poland The aircraft remained over
the immediately turned his attention to position for Ave minutes to look for strengthening his Baltic position. survivors, but none was seen,
When the aircraft left, a long oval! patch of bubbling, foaming water covered the spot where the sub- marine had been.
A Russian Som
What was German sea was to be made Russlan, and the ohl hob- Two members of the British goblin of German naval and air bases Cabinet, Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord within striking distance of Leningrad Hankey, were visiting the R.A.F. to be eliminated, and narrsions set
May Lose Out Over Conatal Command Headquarters when up to forestall any possibility of land
a wireless message announcing the attack through the weak Baltic destruction of the submarine was re-states. ceived from the aircraft.
With a quick series of conferences the Kremlin, reminiscent PI Hitler's at Berchtesgaden before the Austrian, and Czechoslovakc coups, Stalin followed Hitlerian tactics to oust Germany from the Baltic-a coup robbed of no whit of sign!- Alcance by the fact that it was execut- ed with German consent.
It is also reported here that
New Soviet Move the Russian cruiser Kirov en-
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reu- with the help of three tugboats. OTTAWA, Dec. 2 (UP)-ter) The prevailing view in Liko Little Audrey SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH' The extent of the damage is un- Non-residents' may now invest official circles is that an under- MOSCOW, Dec. 3 (Domei).-known.
funda in Canada for capital standing exists between Hitler "Pravda," organ of the Soviet High official quarters here to-day development without being sub-and Stalin
their regarding Communist Party, and "Izves- declined to express any emit njected to the Foreign Exchange apheres of influence in Northern
the report that Sweden will submit a Ha," organ of the Soviet Govern-demarche to Moscow on behalf of Control Board's stringent war-Europe.
The
Stalin
The Czechs Laughed And Laughed
Germans Hoaxed
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Ethnographically, temperamentally and historically the Baltic states- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania-were amenable to Russian domination, Once part of the Russian empire, tho people maintain a cultural sympathy with Russians and the Russian langu- age is in wide ure,
ment, report that as the result of Finland. They stated that Sweden time export regulations, accord- the new treaty of amity and is not likely to take such sharp actioning to an official announcement. be chagrined at the clumsy manner It is fell, however, that Berlin may mutual aid between
The Board said that new regula-in which Soviet at the present juncture.
Crowds of people to-day
is extending the demon-tions would permit non-residents, in Soviet sphere of influence. Russia and the Finnish People's strated outside the Russian Legation certain circumstances, to liquidate Republic," a new boundary has here, shouting pre-Finnish slogans.
capital investments made in Canada Germany is likely to suffer from been demarcated between Soviet Swedish Demonstrations
after application of the foreign ex- the following effects:
Although virtually losing their Russia and Finland.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
|change_regulations, and to export the
1-Owing to the Soviet using up
independence in foreign affales, the 3 STOCKHOLM, Dec. (UP) procreds under special licence.
Ito war supplies which Germany ex- The new boundary starts from the Crowds demonstrated before
Baltic countries take comfort from Effect of Rogulations ¡pected would available for her; shore of Lake Ladoga southwest of Russian Legation to-day, shouting
BUCHAREST, Dec. 3 (Reu-Ule lack of indication that the Soviet Olanetz in the south and runs north, Finnish
The new regulations are effective
The Finnials war is alleged to ter)-The story of a hoax on
PLEASE Turn To Page 5. slogans,
where the following circumstances be revealing serious weaknesser parallel to the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway about 15 to 42 miles apart. Finland Asks For League Action apply:
the Red Army which have cast doubt the German military reception SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Reaching Kondalaksha in White Seo,
Where non-residents sold on the value of Soviet military ald to committee in Prague is amusing. it connects direct with the
GENEVA, Dec. 3 (Domel) The foreign exchange
the Czechs. through an au-Germany; Russian-Finnish border.
resident representative of the Finnish thorised dealer subsequent to Sept. S--The Saviet onslaught has It is stated that a number of per- With the northweatern frontier Government at Geneva, has asked 15, 1930, for the purpose of making aroused violent indignation against sons in German uniforma posing region of Finland ceded to Russia, M. Joseph Avenel, Secretary-General Investments in Canada.
the Totalitarian Bistes among neu- the committee arrived at the Joneeck Council Kola Peninsula and Murmansk are cut of the League, convene a
2. Where resultant Canadian doj-trals, including the United States.
arms factory at · Pankraz, In the Jars were invested in Canada in an off from the mainland of Soviet scasion, immediately.
suburb of Prague, to receive a large Russia.
entirely new undertaking, such
|consignment of rifics, **
old
4
in
building manufacturing Plant Same Old Methods
The new Finnish territory Includes New Appointment velopment of mineral resources or
3.Where
non-residenta · subse... |
Petrozavodsk, capital of the Karelia Soviet Republic, and the entire area LONDON, Dec. 3 (British Wire-extension of an existing plant.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Jnhabited by Karelians and Its aren less),Viscount Halifax, the Foreign
KAUNAS, Dec. 3 (Reuter) extends over 42,000 square miles. Secretary, has appointed Mr. Ralph quently liquidate the investmont,
Fifty-three- Jowish Inhabitants in The sector of the Karelian area Skrine Stovenson to be his Principal 4-Where foreign exchange re-Warsaw have been executed on which has been coded to Russia under Private Secretary in succession to quired for the proceeds of such sole charge of resisting German soldiers, the new agreement is given as 2,400 Mr. Oliver Harvey, who will be ap-lor liquidation up to an amount net according to a Berlin telegram ro-
pointed British Minister in Paris. exceeding the original investment.
leefved here.
square miles.
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The Gestapo Wars Annoyed They presented their authorisation and removed the rifles in lorries.
Half an hour later, the real com- amities appeared, ht, the factory,:"
The German milliary, authorities and the Gestapo are said to be in- vestigating
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DEATH RAINED ON KWANGSI TOWNS
KWEILIN, Doc. 4 (Central)---For the third maccesalvo day Kwellin was attacked from the air by alx Japanese bombers yesterday morning. The ralding planes made Hungmiso, a suburb centro on the aduthwestern Darts of the city, their main target and dropped, more han 40 bombs in several relays.
A checkup afterwards showed that planés bombed Pingyang, Liuchow, one civilian was killed and four Ifobalang and several other towpe in wounded, while more: than: a dozen Kwangal Ingthësiñdening/nila: Kwok- thatched hute were destroyed. helan In the afterncon."Damage sigu
"In addition to Kwailin, Japanesel tained at there piacha was aUNTRUS