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December 12, 1939.
One-Third of City Destroyed By Bombings
STARVATION
CLAIMS
MANY POLISH LIVES
RIGA.
According to the investi- LATE NEWS
gations of Dr. Otto, the German Mayor of Warsaw, more than one-third of the houses there have been com- pletely destroyed and one- fifth very badly damaged, though not beyond repair.
There are besides a number of| less badly damaged buildings. Destruction was caused chiefly by artillery, not by bombs.
The number of inhabitants killed) Is not yet, if it ever can be, næcer-
tained.
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Germany's Economic
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AMSTERDAM, Dec. 11 (Reuter).— "Reuter" learn from
neutral source that Dr. Walther Funk, the German Finance Minister, and his experts have been working on a number of drastic schemes for
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$1,000 Ane was Inflicted this after-financing the war, including a com- | “WHEN TO-MORROW COMES” | "OUR FIGHTING NAVY" noon on Koo Pak-men, Edllor of pllentid form of capital levy, ordin- "Wah Kiu Yạt l'o" newspaper, for, ary lonn, voluntary collection of illegal possession of code or cypher, gold, and forcible transfer to the Code was ordered to be detained by state of a proportion of Savings authorities for duration of war. Banks bakinces,
It is estimated at some $0,000; but humtreds of corpses are beliey- ed to be still burled under the debris, People are still in great distress; On summona of contravening re- Hitler is hesitating to give his ap- Lousands are without a permanent gulations under which his broadcast proval as Rudolf Hess says that the dwelling; and many are destitute and, receiving licence was Issued. Kon people must
without the means living
of earning a was fined $260 and net was ordered, big sacrift not be asked for more
The supply system is not yet able to meet the difficulties of feeding and clothing the people.
Warrow's plight is that of the realer part of the area of Poland occupied by
by Germany
The towns and villages abound in aimless paupers, uproated from their
to be confiscated.
Schoolboys Give
Just yet,
In desperation, Ifiller is gud to be turning to Dr. Schucht, the former Relch Finance Minister, but it is understood that the latter still re-
Lives To Finland sent being abruptly sucked in Janti-
HELSINGFORS. Dec. 12. (Reuter).)
nry from the Presidency of the Reichsbank.
Dr. Schacht says that he is unable | Six thousand Finnish school-boys to do anything with Germany's In- homes, wandering, hungry, and hunt-who are too young to serve in the fances in their present state. ed creatures. The provisioning: SYS-| Finnish Army have been enrolled as tem scarcely anywhere approaches volunteers in the battle against
adequacy,
Sovict aggression, Finnish Minister JAPANESE TEST
Trustworthy travellers and refugees) to Sweden revealed yesterday. ay that the number of deaths from Many of these school-boys have)
2DAYS TO-DAY O TO MORROW underiveting and exposure is appull-already given lives for their country.
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Celebrations in Posen
OF BLOCKADE
Fears For 185 Peoplepanese steamer, Sanyo Maru,
ROTTERDAM, Dec. 11 (Reuter).
will leave Rotterdam to-morrow.
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 12 (Reuter). The Captain states that the Girave fears held here for safety of 185 passengers, many of them Polish him to stay here until
Japanese shipping authorities 'told to-morrow
Dr. Frick, the Minister of the captured by Nazis or Reds,
From Tokyo comes news that the
The Germans have patched up the Polish broadcasting stations and givej nightly programmes, most of which! pre cheering relays in the German) language from Reichs stations.
The German authorities have an-refurces, who sailed from Tallina when the Allied seizure of Nazi ex-
Saturday In . 1,105-ion steamer nounced that a ve-day festival 13
The Ship has not been porta cones into effect. being organised in the province of Estonia. Porn with eplendid new entertainheard of since. ments to celebrate the reconquest off She was due at Stockholm at noon Japanese Foreign Office spokesman this cradle of ancient Germon cul-of Sunday and it is now feared, she said that it was hoped there would on account of the may have struck a mine or been no difficulty
ship's cargo.
O.S.K. Warns Ships КОВЕ Dee. 12 (Dumel)-The 10,207-ton O.S.K. freighter Hokkai (Reuter).Bnd Maru, which left Kobe on October 18 weather and extreme cold have and which is now making port at on the Liverpool, his been ordered to cancel The festival is to culmninute with practically paralysed action arune "tremendous political announce Western Front during the past day or its visits to London and Rotterdam in mments by some of the Reich's best, particularly of heavy artillery view of the heavy risks In the British Channel and to return home im- drators in all towns of the Fosen;"
mediately via New York, it was district."
announced by 0.5.K. headquarters today.
Interior, has promired to attend the relebrations, of which one important) item will be a speech by Herr Greiser, former President of the Senate uf Danzig, and now head of the civi administration of Posen,
There is less apparent destitution in this province than in the others, chiefly because the Pollsh Inhabitants have been simply expelled from the region to make room for new Ger- mau colonists, part of them from the Baltic States.
At Lodz German thestrien com- Brestnu
panies have arrived from
and elsewhere to entertain the de-
pressed town, and, according to the
German announcement, "to breathe on it with the breath of historic Prussia."
| BERLIN TELLS OF N. Z. "LOSS”
WELLINGTON, (N.Z.)
THE sinking of the fishing-boat Dolphin by battery fire in Lyttelton Harbour has not escaped the notice of the German Government, which has broadcast an account of the in- cident from the Berlin station.
After explaining that New Zealand was a group of smail islands in the South Pacific," the announcer said that New Zealand had recently sunk "one of his own warships" while it was in horbour.
The name of the ship, he sald, waz "H.M.S. Dolphin."
Cold Stops War
PARIS, Des. 12
and aircraft.
Soviet Steamer
In Distress
HAKODATE, Dec. 12 (Domel).
The Company's 10,002-ton Kyushu Maru, which is to reach London un January G, is also likely to be re- sulled.
It is understood that the schedule for the O.S.K. finers bound for Europe future will be determined In accordance with the negotiations between the Japanese and the British Governments.
Big Lumber Order From Canada
OTTAWA, Dec. 11 (UP)-It has been learned from reliable sources that the situation in the Scandina- vian countries has forced the United Kingdom to seek additional supplies of lumber from Canada,
that
It is further understood huge prospective orders are being contemplated.
An Order in Council to-day placed
The wireless slation at Hakodate has complete control of all civilian avla- picked up SOS. signals
Soviet steamer in distress Soya Strail.
from
tion in the hands of the Government the in order to facilitate defence men-
sures.
The station Immediately trans- mitted the messages to the wireless stations at Wakanal, Ochiishi and LONDON, Dec. 11 (Router) -The Odomarl. The distressed vessel pus- The Exhibition of Monotypes at St. King hur signed an Order-in-Council pended its communication at 11.44 John's Cathedral Hall has been ex- empowering Wednesday's session of a.m. The original message said that tended until to-morrow, through the Parliament to be a secrat one.
the ship was carrying 1,500 persons., kindness of Dean Wilson.
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Ralph Richardson In Real Air Drama
SUB-LIEUTENANT RALPH RICHARDSON, of
the Fleet Air Arm, hero of the films "Q-Planes" and "The Lion Has Wings," has come unhurt through a real-life air drama more thrilling than any he has ever acted.
His "co-star" in the adventure was
"Are you hurt?" they asked the
a gunner wireless operator, Scaman two men, Alan Todd.
The engine of their plane cutout while they were flying at several thousand feet over İlampshire.
Lieutenant Richardson fought with the controls, but the plane cut a crazy, topsy-turvy path, skimming tree-tops and houses for more than a mile before he was able to make a "pancake" landing in a garden.
And all that time Seaman Todd, in the 'plane's second seat, calmly sent out a report of what was happening and their position to the air base on the south coust.
On his return to the base Lleuten ant Richardson told fellow officers how he had glanced back at Seaman Todd,
"Just a few scratches," Bald Lieu tenant Richardson, "but I might quite easily have got them in a game of Rugby."
Scaman Todd had a sprained arm.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER WAITS HITLER'S NOD
STOCKHOLM-Dr. Gothart Do- magk of Wupperthal, Germany. awarded Ulie Nobel Prize for physiolo gical medicine for 1930, has withhold- aceptance pending possible authoriss- tion by the German Government. "He was banging that key as German low, since Kari. Osiletzky. though we were on a normal ill"ht, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prízu. and not within a few feet of dis- forbids Gorman citizens from accepi- aster." he told them. t
Ing any. Nobel prizes. Oslatzky: Awun Villagers who ran to the plano a noted liberal and opponent, of the
see Lieutenant Nazi regime.
De Richardson and Seaman Todd scram- Dr. Domagic is a Director, ofthe- ble out.
1. G. Farben research laboratories.
were in time to
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