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December 11, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
Hongkong Thousand Miles Nearer California
AMERICA FINDS NEW ROUTE TO FAR EAST
ON the west coast of the United States, commercial aviation is about to have n new trade route to the Orlent by way of the Arctic. The new proposed commer- cial air route will travel over the Arctic to Asia and the fertile tradelands of Japan, China and Malaya.
In the immediato future the grant- ing of an air-mall franchise for a 170-mile sky-way from Great Falls, Montana, to Lethbridge, Canods, the last link in an all-land route from Los Angeles to Nome, Alaska, wi have been forged.
Test flights by several natlong have culminated in the formation of air maps for the quick hop over less than 150 miles of Bering Straits to upper Siberia.
Transport Lane
Nations of the world have been working on the plans for a transportį Inne between Asia, Canada and Amel rien with the route just south of the Aretie Circle.
This
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will bring about 1,000 miles near Califor- nla and Canada than the present roule over tke trans-Pacific course.
ing made three successful hops over¡ the Pole.
Last year Howard Hughes, the SPOTLIGHT
Amerlean, Hashed down the Arctle route, and it is reported he is about to make another survey fight on this particular
section.
The Japanese used this route on their "good will. flight" around the world.
According to experts, the
route from the Pole to long- kong would travel down the Kamchatka Peninsula to Japan. Between the long finger of land that extends south from the Arctic and Nippon le tho tiny Kurile Islands, possible inter- mediate bases.
Immenso Revenue
The revenue possibilities from such an air route are immense. No rail- roads or highways serve the upper Arctic or Canada. Lorge aircraft hauling freight through the rich oil and mineral lands of the north in Canada and Alaska would definitely be profitable.
And an all-land route to Asja would touch many a city пое Berved by air to-day. The Pack- fle roule, which will always be valuable, pauses only at far-away. mid-ocean islands Completion of the Great Falls- Lethbridge run will give the United States the longest north-south sky Pioneering and surveying over the way in existence. From Nome to Bering Straits to Asin has been com- Santago, Chile, the two extremities, pleted. Russin being the most out- roll 11.250 miles of fully equipped} standing country in this respect, hav-l airline routes.
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Germany's foreign trade kas re- ceived another jolt through the re- cent Swiss revision of the clearing system, which shows a defcil of
£6,700,000 due to Switzerland.
To wipe this off the Swiss arc forced to accept what they can get from the Nazis. The latter chiefly depended on machinery and coal for their exports to Switzerland, bui owing to their lack of steel and their home consumption of coal, both of
these are now almost unobtainable. To try to increase the production of cont for export the Nazis have taken between 20,000 and 30,000 workers off road and railway work and put them in the minca.
On their side the Swisa have dras- tically reduced their exports to Ger-
many. One measure is that neither food nor clothing may now be sent to Germany from Switzerland.
HRherto the number of small por- cels addressed to private individuals in Germany, sent from Swiss shops and paid for by Swiss, English, American and refugee sympathisers with German relatives or friends, amounted to many thousands of tons a month, particularly tea, coffee and woollen clothes.
Hitler's Choice
"There is not a family in Germany which wants the continuation of this war," declured the announcer of the Free German radio station in its latest.broadcast quoted by. Reuler...
"Hitler must clear the way for peace." the announcer continued. "It Hiller really loved Germany, as he has so often and so solemnly 'as- serted, he would have abdicated long. ago.
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"Should he and his henchmen not resign in me only one possibility re- mains the overthrow of the Hitler regime by the German people rising in revolt against their destroyer." Radio Warfare Preferred
The Nazis have started operating a powerful broadcasting station in the Siegfried Line, near Sanrbruecken.
A broadcast in French, for the benefit of the French troops opposite, chiefly consisted of defamatory re- marks, many of them scurrilous, about Britain and the British.
The announcer stated, among other things, that the British troops are hanging their washing, not on the Siegfried Line, but in French houses far behind the front.
Nazis' Toy Balloons
The first war news reel to be shown In Berlin contains pictures of Ger- man soldiers near the Siegfried Line tying pamphlets to lay balloons, which are to tell the French. the
truth about the war,"
Another incident depicts the night of German bombers from Heligoland to Scapa Flow, dropping bombs on "the country of the capitalistic British."
Jews For Poland
The German Government is report- ed to be working on an extensive plan for the evacuation to Poland of all Jews living in the German Relch. Sour Grapes
The Berlin paper "B.Z. am Miltag" prints the news that British soldiers are to have Christmas leave under the handling, The English Think First of Holidays."
Turks Asked To Cancel Treaty
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Istanbul, Dec. 0.
As the first stop towards its con- templated Balkon drive, the Soviet Government in demanding Turkey to danounce the Montreux Agreement, while the Soviet Binck, Sea Fleet le being strengthened, according to in- formation reaching here.—Domet,
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