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STORY OF FIGHTING
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
WITH THE FIELD HEADQUARTERS OF THE CENTRAL FINNISH ARMY, Dec. 26,-Two Fin- nish soldiers, with rifles slung across the backs of their white-cowled snow-capes, ski-ed down the little slope between the pine trees and called out something to an officer crouching at a field- telephone to-day.
at Almost machine-gun started firing in the trees away to the left. Ahead of us, rifle after rifle joined in the battle, Each shot echoed in the forest.
once,
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The olleer was talking quickly into the telephone: "Moving to wards our line, just in behind the road,"
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OBITUARY
DIED IN SLEEP
Late Mr. Ulderup Hore For 40 Years
801
Mr. J. P. Ulderup, member of
a family whose name has been known in the Far East for over a century, died peacefully in his sleep at the Hongkong Club on Tuesday night.
His death was discovered by his time this room boy at breakfast morning, the quiet disposition of his budy suggesting that he had died in the altitude in which friends had left him resting on the previous night.
Mr. Ulderup was principal of the Ice Arm of Ulderup & Company, House Street which dealt mainly in two ship's machinery. For about months he had been complaining of heart trouble and was under treat- ment.
Though 65 years of age, he had persisted in taking a walk to the daily an exercise Peak almost which, his friends wamed him, might place a grave stress on his heart. Arrived Hero In 1897
Mr. Ulderup arrived in Hongkong from Denmark 42 years ago to join the Scottish-Oriental Line as Chief Engineer. He subsequently joined Nordiculacher Lloyd, which he left to take a shore position with Mac- donald & Company at Bowrington'
10 years.
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One of the male nurses who joined in the Jun. He got a big hand for his female impersonations, which were generally voted to be "as good as you sec nt the music-halls.”
CHRISTMAS CRIME
Nazi Torpedo Ends
Ship Xmas Party
NURSES, hospital students, cooks, and somme
of the casualties themselves combined forces to present the first concert for the British casualties from France who are now at a hospital in England. -The event was an unqualified success, and one of the most popular features of the programme was community singing,
Smoking
(above)-and soas allowed audienco didn't-need-selling tulco!
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American Army Budget Record
HITLER
VISITS FRANCE
But He Kept It A Dark Secret
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
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SONS FIGHT FOR ALLIES
SKIPSEA, Dec. 20 (UP)-When Ex-Corporal Frederick Graylin wrote his Christmas latters to his two sons, one had to be written in French the other in English.
For son No. 1 is a poin in the French army and serving in France, and son No. 2 is a Tommy in the British Expeditionary Force. The father himself was a corporal in the Army Medical Corps, during the last war.
Corporal Graylin married an estaminet keeper's daughter in France during the last war. Frederick was born before the armistice, Jean two years later. Then the mother died. One boy stayed in France and was brought up as a Frenchman and the other came to England. Now one is fighting for France and the other for England.
WAR BECOMING A LITTLE LESS GENTLEMANLY
LONDON, Dec. 26 (UP). -After nearly four months of sparring amidst the mud and the blockhouses of the Western Front, combined with "hush hush" diplomatic activity aimed at out. manoeuvring the enemy, the war is second European
23 SOVIET VICTIMS
Finnish Air Force
Claims Victory ·
HELSINGFORS, Dec. 26 communique
BERLIN, Dec. 26 (UP). -For the first time since 1918, when he was 題 cor- poral in the Kaiser's army, Hitler claims to-day to have stood on French soil, ac-getting a little less gentle- (Reuter). A cording to the official D.N.B.manly than it was at the claims that on Christmas Day Finnish naval and air forces beginning.
destroyed at least 23 Soviet The agency states that the The "old school tle" spirit is planes, and possibly 20. German fuehrer
Finnish aircraft suffered no irito getting a little frayed, and as French soil to visit the frontfar as the radio, newspapers and losses. Півен.
official comment go. things are According to the same source, Ger- inclined to get a little rude at
are in possession of times. man troops
mall sector of France on the Snar front. This is Pichern Heights, south-east of the German town of Saarbruecken.
agency.
crossed
The French town of Pichers la Na Man's Land in this sector.
at 5 Hitler terminated his visit pm, when the bells in the village of German Pichera
were rung by a patrol which crawled across No Man's Land and broke into the churches for the purpose,
the front line Hitler's visit to trenches was unheralded.
Etler, says DN.B., made the trip to observe "as a soldier" in order Christmas among his front-line fighters.
Germany's Grim Christmas Spirit
Viipuri Evacuated WITH THE FINNISH FORCES, Dec. 20 (UP)-As a precaution, the Finnish authorities have ordered the Even the stately "Times" whose inmediate evacuation of all people editors used to entertain former wine who can be spared from the town of salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop at Viipuri. week-end parties, is forgetting itself
seems
vin
an
the
A special train to-night is taking to the extent of printing editorials 4,000 evacuees which will virtually denude the town of civilians, due to full of epithets. -
The Intest, headed "A. Bungler's the fact that the previous evacuation Germon brought the civilian population down Apologia," refers to the Foreign Minister as a "Comparative to 7,000.
This order followed two days' ly genial rufflan."
It also describes him as "go dis- almost incessant artillery and aerial astrous a bungler" and says that the bombardments. "author of Germany's disillusion- Soviet planes dropped ten bombs ment" is now "trying by bluster and on Porvoo, 30 miles from Helsingfors, fnise charges to absolve himself from klling nine and wounding twenty
-own people. Only two of the bombs ex... the consequences-of-116 ineptitude.
ploded. When Ribbentrop was appointed Omcial sources states that during Ambassador to the Court of St. the Christmas week-end a total of 42 James, the "Times" sald he would be civilian centres in Finland were "welcomed here both for his own bombed. The intensified Red attack,
to indicate sake as a man whom many of us have they said, come to know and respect and also attempt to speed up the drive on for the policy of co-operation which Viipuri and Helsingfors he is believed to represent."
Now he
to in the same) referred
has been officially announced columns ns "a travelling wine-that the Russians in the Isthmus yes- merchant" who "frankly surprised"terday attempted to cross the Unante Englishmen when appointed Am-River at four points-Hallermas, bassador to the Court of St. James, Akkola, Kuija and Tolosuls-but they and "altogether too light a weight" were repulsed everywhere. Seven for the job,
hundred Russians were killed and a Fiorco Cartoons
total of 23 Russian planes were shot pansion programme to insure the western Hopes For Peace Still
Really ferco cartoons of Hitler, down. Five infantry guns, 10 ma- Cherished
Goering and other Nazi leaders are chine guns and five quick-firing guns hemisphere from attack, authoritative
Several tanks were also put out of STOCKHOLM, Dec. 26 (Reu-being printed, although most, are re-were captured.
productions from continental neww-
commission and 50 prisoners were administration quarters have disclosed.
"Afton ter).-The.
Bladet"
pupers.
Christmas Day Hiller One showed
"the haler, laken during the a quiet The tentative plan, which already has re-states that it
hating." His nose was swollen to operations, when 20 additional tanks ecived approval of high congressional lenders, Christmas throughout Germany.rice its normal size and looked as were destroyed. calls for an initial protective force of 600,000 mën
There was no war news except the if he were a lifelong drunkard. His largest in this nation's peace-reported British Christmas Eve air eyes were the size of saucers, time history-instead of the raid.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UP)--The Black-Out And
army is prepared to ask Congress next
month for U.S.$1,650,000,000 as its share Bad Weather
of a short-term $3,000,000,000, defence ex-
JAPANESE present maximum of 280,000 in
REPULSED
Indo-China Border
Drive Collapses
was
across
Hitler spent Christmus with one of the regular army and 235,000 in the staffs at the front, travelling very the national guard. -
secretly by armoured train Under the plan, which is the a very strongly guarded rallroad.
Ho is expected to return to Berlin companion to the navy's recently after. Christmas, but his plans are projected programme calling fot kept very secret. expansion of Its strength by ad- dition of 95 light fighting_ships,
The Pope's Appoal
The Pope's appeal has attracted
fiscal result.
The other was of "Hermann, Hater II, hating too," If anything. Herman Field Marshal Goering looks the tougher and Adolf the more worried and bewildered,
Oncal comment on Nazi bigshot speeches is now often besprinkled with expressions like "lying" "men- daclous,"
"misleading," and "ridi- culous."
Even the dulcet toned B.B.C., over
CHUNGKING, Dec. 27 (Reu-Congress would be asked for be- much attention, rousing the hopes whose other waves the accents of LONDON, Dec. 26 (Reater). ter) The Japanese attempt to tween $750,000,000 and $850,- met it will produce some sort of Canal. He was with them for about The British sleamer, Stan- reach the French Indo-China 000,000 during the 1941
In partnership, he conducted a holme, 2,473 tons, was sunk border by occupying Lungchow year. machinery business in Canton before without warning by a U-boat and Chengnankwan has ended in 1933, when he went home with his wife, who had to remain there be yesterday
off the west coast cause of illness. Returning to Hong-with the loss of 14 lives. kong, Mr. Ulderup worked
with
Jebsen & Company, but left the firm.
Additional funds would disaster, according to the asked in subsequent years, Chinese reports received here.
These claim that in a big battle in The ship had left port two the vicinity of Yashuiting on the highway to the Indo-China border, 2001 afterwards to open the business hours earlier and the crew were south of Lungshow, Chinese forces, In which he was engaged at the celebrating Christmas time of his death.
were
While Mr. Udarup's travels most intense in the Far East, during
Transfer Of U.S. Ships
DI
The people Germany still be cherish hopes that something will turn up promising peace instead of real military operations.
public schoolboys are disseminated throughout Europe and the Empire, reassuring all and sundry that Britain ja "playing up, and playing the game" has become infected by the deteriorn
on in good manners.
Now the B.B.C. refer to "Hitler's, "Goering," "Ribbentrop" and "Goeb- bel" williout prefix. For a number of weeks it used to be "Herr Hiller "Field Marshal Goering." "Herr vos Ger-Ribbentrop" and "Dr. Goebbels"
The opinion is now seldom heard that a decisive result can be expected rapidly by military operationis.
It is feared that prolongation of the war will cause dimculties for
many.
Depressed Spiritu
needed to mußter
1
below aller 24 hours of desperate fighting, decks when a terrific explosion have driven the Japanese back,
Government Permission Heavy Casualties occurred.
Spirits were depressed in Berlin his life he visited, he claimed, every The ship began to sinic immediately. lost over 1,000 dead and many more The Japanese are reported to have.
Sought By Big Line
during Christmas week-end, mostly country in the Northern Hemisphere.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UP) because of the binck-out combiyed Died Saving Wife
were wounded, In China he was well known and
The same despatches reveal that The United States, Line has anked with the unpleasant weather. ilked, being especially popular in
artillery
Christmas fare was poor, though and permission from the Federal Mari- The death roll includes the Chief Japanese Infantry, his with which shipping circles,
Engineer, who was drowned through cavalry units moved south-westward time Commission to sell eight ships nobody actually work naturally neciated him
He was a member of the Hongkong his efforts to assist his wife who was from Nanning over a week ago along of the Atlantic Transport Corporation shortage.
the highway in the direction of to a Norwegian company, Club where he had resided aineo aboard. She was saved.
The U-boat was sighted by Chengnankwan via the towns of They said it the sale was approved his wife went home, and was Vice-
the ships would operate between Now! China's Adverse Preskent of the Engineers and deck-hand too late for him to raise Sullu, Szeloh and Minkiang.
Afler, reaching, Minklang, the York, Liverpool and London. Shipbuilders Institute. He was also effective alarm.
Japanese column is said to hayo Previously they had sought to Trade Balance member of the Institution of Naval Two Submarinos Sighted
liended straight to the Indo-China transfer the same ships to Panamon-
[ian registry.
CHUNGKING, Dec. 27 (Central), Mr. Ulderup, who is a Finn, was. One survivor declared that he saw border south of Lungchow.
the presentjivo submarines and that they Zind no The opinion is expressed here, that in Helsingfors when
-China's Import from January to the desperate drive of the Japaness hing. Finland war broke out and is now a time to launch the ilfe boats.
|towards Lunschow is aimed partly to In a statement, Chinese military November totalled $1,248,410,350 and refugee in Stockholm. The couple
Tho crew jumped overboard. reach Chengmaniwan, an important authorities say that after a crushing ports were 8005,118,059, resulting have no children.
The late Mr. Ulderup's funeral will fome managed to get on to a amali terminus of the rallway to Hano, and defeat" at Yashutang, the Japanese in an adverse balance of $340,207,000, later also partly to draw the Chiness are retreating eastward with the sccording to statistics compiled by
The Chinese Maritime Customs. pats the Monument to-morrow at sjraft, from which they were
rescued.
forces away from an attack on Nany Chidese in hot pursuit,
Architects.
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JAPAN'S RESOURCES
AT LOW EBB
TOKYO, Dec. 27 (Router).—"The urgent necessity of effecting stabilisation in East Asia by replenishing Japán's national resources In the face of the extremely complex inter- national situation” was stressed by the Emperor in his speech from the Throne to the Diet.
Ilis Majesty expressed satisfaction with the growing friendly) relaise between Japan and the countries with which she had: Ustallen and sided "that ho`was "graffiod at the fighting services'