COUNTER PLANES TO
ATTACKS
Finns Seck To Break Russian Lines
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" HELSINGFORS, Dec.
13. (UP). Reinforcements have been rushed to the eastern and central fronts. Military officials indiente that preparations are being made för determined slund to stall the, Russian drive towards the Gulf of Bothnin,
The withdrawal of Finish troops from the central Front is designed to draw the Russians out of their position in prepara- tion for counter-attacks.
Despatches from Copenisagen said have avaly the counter-attacks started with some success in the Salla Reelor, in the northern wing of the central front.
There no indication of direant- tion of confidence in the main de- Fence lines on the Karelin 1sthmus or on the eastern front, despite re- ports that Rumia ham moved huge reinforcements,
The Fions claim that they re sub- jeeling the invaders to devastating Bre us they try to advance towards the Gulf of Bothula reines the topen country
through unfamiliar rund! forests.
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Although the Finns eluirned heavy Russian losses so far, !ht Finnish enstulty list has been juble hest. Th Finnish spokemon explained, would be no use: ne vould bilove that the loses have been in. 4. The Finns claimed an ins victory in mid-finl..nd, where they are trying to stall the Rians Tha claim to have kotlet alve 1,300 Russians the Tolvajoezvi sector.)
A Finnish war bulletin ang and that Red planes, Dying above clouds Inst Tuesday, bombed Hanga and the Tammisariand Islands in the Gulf of Pintxod.
The extent of damage is not dia- eloped.
Finns Make Big Gains BELSINGFORS, Dec. 13 (Reuter). It is unofficially reported Bat the Pinnib advance at Tolvajacevi, men- tioned in Pinnali ecumtique, has! hent
very considerably.
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"SPOT" MINES
Security Patrols Over North Sea
LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter). { -A German communique re-
presence of ports the
British planes over Germany as being in connection with the return of the Bremen.
The Nazis have obviously con fused fris: with the security patrols now Belog maintained over Ger-
many in connection with the nerd- plane-minelayers,
Thursday,
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WESTERN FRONT
ARTILLERY
COMMUNAL RIOTS
EXCHANGE One Dead And 115
Sudden Activity In Several Areas
PARIS, Dec. 13 (Reuter) After a spell of comparative calm, the Western Front has suddenly become very active, although the activity has not yet gone beyond the stage technic- ally known as "strong patrols."
Injured
NEW DELHI, Dec. 13 (Reu- ter),One' life has been lost an a result of Monday's communal rioting at Jubbulpore, in central India. One hundred and fifteen persons were injured.
A German news agency put cut the list of dead an "over one hun Breg
Anong ather wild statements eman- -Irom Zeron (the Berlim short- station) are egations regarding working con #tions for women, ele.
Women, said Zeesen last night, conl work Twelve heus a day in
4 broad casting The fermans sent out fumerous patrols along nearly the whole front basen Monday, and the were espcelatly busy east of the Moselle and between the Warndt Forest and the Spor,
The Air Ministry announces that the R.A.F. have been carrying out the security patrols unt only over Heligoland but ako over the from which these planes set out, notably the islands of Sylt Borkutin. 'The
planes have
and
encountered
In the latter region, where German. In actual fagl, women ere not permitted to work unlergramů, Mr. Jinnah's Statement heavy anti-aircraft the beat neverthe patrols were most munterous, there
were no les than three raids accom less the performance of the opera-panied by the usual artery.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 13 (Reuter) - tions s been successful,
Mr. Jinnah, leader of the All-India Mohm Parly, who is involved in an ente Jesus with Gandhi at the nument, to-day issued a long state- ment in which be donended that the Regal Commission should examine the treatment of minorities in India by the Congresa Ministries.
Swedish Ship Sinking
Fire was aimed to demoralize the STOCKHOLM. Dre. 13 dt:uter). I posts attacked and to prevent the The Swedish steamer, Almel, 980rrival of reinforcements. toms, truck a m.ne near the German meld at the routh Swedish court. Swedish worships are rushing to her ald
Anglo-Soviet Parleys
White Paper To Tell The Real Facts
LONDON. Dec. 1 (Reuter). --Britain is preparing a White Paper showing the course of the abortive negotiations with the Soviet Government.
This revelation was made to the į Home of Commona to-day by the | Premier, Mr. Neville Chamberinin.
dueter.
The French artillery replied with fillery Ace, hampering the attackers, One French patrol withdrew but re-occupied the post al dawn yester- day, so the net German result is nit.
Other pts resinted, and there was heavy real fighting with much haid- Areas throwint.
The French motected their posts with artillery barrages and marline fun fire, and the German eventually } more olafhged to retire, leaving many
deed on the e
Nazi Wheat Rotting
New Food Problem Presents Itself
LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter).
The White Paper is being prepared by Janet Hallax. the Minister for Foreto Affairs, under whose initiative the negotiation were con~ | ~The
White Paper Is now in pre-
Chamberlain 1 paraffen." Mr.
snid. This newsarily will take some three the but the Paper will be told before the
Hore as soon as possible.”
It is said that the Finish troops
mister rapidly towards
Huvian frontier.
Other unconfh medi reports are i that the Pins have retaken Pillar- anta on this northern shore of Lake Ladoga, and alro Suomussalmi and : Salin, the key-point of the northern) front.
If the last-named is tene, it ine dicates the great sucres of the
the
· Finnish counter-offensive, for Ruslans had planned to make Salla! their face and headquarters.
Furious Fighting LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter)—Al- though it is obvious that the Savitt! forers in the for North and in the south are being strongly held, the position in the centre is far from char
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iTort
Monetary War In Full Swing
Allics' Advantages Recapitulated
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PARIS, Dec, 13 (Ruter)-1 the militag war is barely outlined, the matary war ih in full seng" sald M. Pat Regnand, the French Fampre Minister, andtrening the Chamber to-
"Daily Telegraph's" Trieste correspondent reports that the effecks of the blockade and the Russian failure to de- liver even one-fiftieth of the. grain supplies promised have compelled Germany to to her grain reserves than expected,
Wants Royal Commission BOMBAY, D. 13 (Router),.-Mr, M. A.
A. Jimah, Prezident of the Allied Molins bearte, in a lengthy rate-
Telerating the charges als Congress Ministries in vonneet.
Til 2 with their tremen!
deinanied the appointment of Begal Cramic-les by the Mittel Government
!!
This, he added, soak tres en matpur mei of a purely noticial per red with High Charel judge under the chale- mm hip me off Law Funds ef the Privy Council
OUR "Secret Weapon"
Moral Power Of Good Intentions
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
December 14, 1939.
THE BREMEN
SUBMARINE APPLAUDED
Nazi Liner's Escapo
Aided By Law LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter). -No official information is yet to whether an available us attempt was made by the British submarine to take the Bremen as a prize.
The German version I flat the submarine attempted to attack.
Lord Strabol, formerly Lieut. Camdy, Kenworthy, who was on the Admiralty Staff in the last war, up- holds the action of
rubmarine commander in not torpedoing, the Bremen.
Che
"We are fighting this war to ensure International law. It there were German aeroplance in the vicinity, the submarine could not come to the surface and the was precluded by international law from torpedoing the Bremen out of hand while submerged. "This shows that as emnerce controllers, sulgurines are unsuitable unless established international law is disregarded.
"The Bremen, however, is of no vire use to Germany in a German harbour than she was at Murmansk.
"She is too large to arm as n cruiser, too expensive in fuct and foo large to get as a transpurt."
the
Lord Strabelzt nder that Bremen had much in her favnte eluding British warships because of the ton nights and the possibility 1 of using Norwegian territorial
waters.
Another Ship Escapes
LONDON, Dec.
13 (Reuter).—
The Norddeutscher Lloyd announces the safe arrival of the liner Bremen at Bremerhaven, nnd it is claimed that another German Hiner. New York. has reached Hamburg Murmansk
from
Nazi Finance
Setback
Capital Reserves Now
Nearly Exhausted LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter).
LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter). striking tribute to the work resort of the Navy and merchant sea-A special commentary issued carlieren was paid by Lord Chatheld, to-day states that the "Econ- Alinister for the Co-Ordination omist" draws attention to the of Defence, speaking in London
vast increase in private capital
Lo-day.
issues in Germany since the out- break of war.
The #touha stored. Churches.. symmņogues and! emergency ware- heures are found to be in a very bad caturition.
Lord Chatfield said that Germany was trusting not to her army to break the Magmot Line or to her sur force Hamburg, The depots at
terry the people er hele Banany Nuremberg are so bad that on, in-she was trusting to blockade us into vestigation has been ordered through-stirrender by the legal und of the out the country.
submarine and mine.
Berlin
10% Of Stocks Affected
I revealed that 10 per cent. of the emergency sterks are affected.
All Go grain has been trend mge
months. Therefore it than eix
being bonded out before it becomes
Soviet troops are making a detec de lled: "The chariots will
With ancetired eolunma to cut intend in two ne bi, but unig t s prives of seri-wolly unfit for cumumption, the Darrowrest
part
driving fiets, of which they perhaps have no Jay through to the Gulf of Bothnia.
Rone and Swedi b
reports say
But compared with Germany, fire that there 15-1rious fighting at merilice ennin'--lerrenza--are fauri ther point 130 Tiles from the Sovet moderate.
frontier, but the ep, are not be-j A Sign For The Future lieved in H.Lingfors where it is said! Dealing witn Geverament Ina- that such a rapiri advance aert s'un Tegating foreign exebunane, trackles wastena "unt of the ques-; 34. Reganud stated that since the Hon."
huginning of the war, 34 m.lindi Pinnich rema breve been very new franes had been repatented and the tive, and 12 mutes of rollway on the Exchange Equalisation Fund, despite amig line from Murmansk to Lemies, huge purelianen abroad, was higner | grad have been destroyed by bomba, this at the bestimming of the war.
Emphasising the huge resources British Planes For Finns
the Alnes, 31, Reynaud asked: “Ought LONDON. Dec. 13 (teuter).Sie | we nut to nake a real partnership Kingsley Wood, the Minister for Air, for this great common adventure of announced in the House of Commons, war and even think of prolonging it to-day that the British Government atter the war. so that it might be has decided to great export licenses the starting point for a reconstruc- to a British Arm to enable it to penal lion cagerly expected by kurope?" aircraft to Fluland.
Angeal For Gas Masks WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (Reuter), The Finnish Government is request- ing permission of the United States to use the U.S. Army's latest gas- Tunska.
The maska are stiff as the secret Tist.
Finnish Claims
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”. HELSINGFORS, Dec. 13.(UP),--A Finnish communique states:
"On
of
Heres the rescision of the Govern ment enter that bread must cuntain
Going To Fail Again Stu was Boing to fail once mare. "For Bils, we have to be grawin to two things-relusal of our mek- chant seamen to be cowed by bruí-
in idy, and the fighting efficiency or
Referring to the "devoted scientists and the technical Navy ufficers, who in combination, have produced the
a minimum thre per cent. of potato-submarme and other weapont the Navy is wilding to-day," Lond Chauled said that a child swimh
is The German pubhe, huvur,, beng told that th extra supplica are due to the fact that the buse are,ovi duwangi,
Ware
Successful Convoying
Achievements Of The
British System LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter), Authoritative circles in Lon-
Breach Action on emphasise the efficiency and
Withdrawn
Plaintiff Does Not Proceed With Case
the sed, in the Kuivisio sector, our When the breach of promise constal batteries again lent aid to the case instituted by Molly Cheung and forces by concentrated bursts of came up before Mr. Justice R. E. artillery fire.
"On Lake Ladoga, our const bat-Lindsell in the Summary Court teries broke up enemy detachments, this morning, the prosecuting solicitor applied for a withdrawal of the ease..
along the const roads.
"In the Saunamicmi section the constal batteries niso drove back an
transport and, ship detach enemy ments."
Plaintiff claimed $1,000 damage,
alleging failure on the part of de- Jaum, to curry out a promise to marry her following the birth of
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wide extent of the British Convoy system, which gives the protection of powerful units of the British Navy to neutral merchant vessels trading with Britain.
The sale arrival of hundreds of convoyed vessels does not constitute news, precisely because it in not sensitional evidence of the strengib of the British Navy, but only the nord process of international trade.
Absurd Assertion
The recent sinkings of British and neutral vessels, on the contrary, are of sensational news value used by German propaganda in an attempt to prove that the convoy system is not safe for neutrals, whereas neutral ships arrive whose ship-owners,
Pussians Toka Island ROME, Dec. 13 (Reuter).—Accord" i chili, ing to a Ifelsingfors telegram, the
Nir. M. A. da Silva noted for plain- Russians have occupied the island off and Mr. F. E. Nash for defendant safely week after weck, know this. Maunari in Lake Ladoga, but their Previously, Mr. de Silva said the action to be absurd. progress in the Karelian front is in-case was founded on three promises British Government to travel in con- Neutrals charter their ships to the significant.
of mardage dating back to May,voy because it is easier for German 'The
Finns bre *till holding "
submarines to torpedo unaccompanied Suomussalmi, about 17 miles from
This morning dir. Silva addressed chart to attack a convoy and the frontler in Finland's "wasp Hs Lordship: 1 have frastructions
riskin depth charges waist," despite reported Rusalan at from my ellent that this matter las escorting vessels.
ben quitled with is apply for a with-
Ineko..
1937.
According to the telegram, the drawal of this case. There will be Rursions are desperately trying to
nu order for costs. cut Finland in two and sever ber communications with Sweden.
Danger Of New War SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Dec. 13, (Reuter).--. Cheers Prested Sir Kingsley Wood's
His Lordship: You merely wish me to record settlement?
Mr. Nogle Withdrawn, my Lord, His Lordship: Very good." With- drawn and no order for costs.
statement that the Government had badly needed supplies from the pur-
poses of the present war."
decided to grant licences to allow the export of aircroft toj Finland.
The Air Minister declared that be) uld not agree with Mr. George Rus- sel Straues, the Labour Member for North Lambeth, who suggested that It would be wrong to divert "these
no
(rom
the
NAZI GOODS FOR BALTIC STATES
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" KAUNAS, Dec. 13 (Reuter)—Ger-} many is making the greatest efforts 10. Increase her exports to the Baltic' states, following the institution of the Atlled stoppage of her oversens Lithuania is. Inundated with offers of German goods.
Bir Kingsley Wood gave answer when Mr. Strauss asked whether there was danger of this exparts. action, involving Uils country in another warı
in shark-mirsled waters wis na no mory unpleasant position than a cub- mine approaching British shores In-clay.
Foundations Of Victory "15 defunting the efforts of the chemy to stop the use the seas by the merchantmen of all countries, are laying the foundations of Victory, and so we shall ensure the safe conduel by the Allies of all other military uptrations.”
we
Land Chatfield woded that if ever there had been the enuse of right against wrong, and of good intention aulabest evil intention, surely that was our empe to-day,
That was "abr steret weapon”... the incalculable advantage we pos- Sessed over our enemy, a weapon that Germany has dented and one which she cannot counter or use against us, "Ministry For The Succour
Of Britain Lord Chatfield, who is the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, also spoke about the work of his de-
partment.
-
He draftted that he was not well- known to the general poble and that the Ministry is almost equally an enigma."
Only a day or so ago, he regelved a letter addressed to the "Ministry for the Succour of Britain."
He passed it on to-well, he passed it on.
cerned with collaboration of strategy The Minkitry, he said, was con- and polities.
Close Collaboration There is now such a collaboration through the Wer Cabinet which sits almost daily.
This collaboration is also just as effective with their Allies.
Before the war they were in close touch with France, so that when war
storted they had a Supremne War! Council ready to operate instead of taking three years needed during the Greni War.
There
Anglo-French staffs working in Whitehall.
arc
He had heard it said "that the war was not started yet." This, he said. was not the view of the sailors.
Germany is trusting in lilegal war at sea but "It will fall,"
Halifax Entertained
SPECIAL TO THE "TELCGNMPH" LONDON, Dae. 13 (Reuter)---The Ambassador entertained Spanish Lord Halifax at luncheon to-day.
The guests Included the Belgian and Turkish Ambassadors.
The total indretrial enpital issues sines the end of August ensiderably excred 600,000,000 marks for railways whereas in the whole of 1038, private Industrial issues only amounted to 107,030,000 marks.
The Economist" comments that these developments are very import- ant. showing
Exhausted Reserves
1.That the existing reserve cap- aclty of German Industry is almost almost exhausted, especially that of the electrielty industry, rallway and rolling stock. Renewals, repláce- ments and' extensions are to long delayed that it now unavoidable to divert extensive resources to the large scale capital works;
2.That the controlled policy of direct State financing of necessary industrial projects has been abandon- cd,
Nazi extremists are thus defeated and the capital of the market is freed for private industrialists.
Government Criticised
Swedes Not Fully Satisfied
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
STOCKHOL. M. Dee, 13 (Reuter)-There is some criti- cism in the Swedish press of the new Coalition Government formed by Premier Hannsson.
The "Tkningen" saya that it is a el ver move to cover up the differ ences of opinion betwüen Premier Hannsson and his Foreign Minliter, M. Sandler (who is longer in the Government),
A
Many Disappointed The "Dagens Nyheter says that many are disappointed that the de- mard
in for direct intervention Finland finds no expression in the polley of the new government. departure tus no connections with German press attacks,
It should be clear that M. Sandler's
The Government statement notew the wishes of Swedes to help Fin- end, hat puts forward the defence
neutrally as one of the
pre- dominant interests of the new cabinet.
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