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Pilot's
Account Of Battle
LONDON, Jan, 3 (Heuler). It is fearried that three RA.F. bambers left their base on + patrol search for German war- zhips, They were about 80 miles north-west of Heligoland in close formation at "about
10,000 feet when they suddenly attacked by 12 Messer- schmidt-100 long range fightern.
were
The plot of the third machine said. **140 were going outh when suddenly Un lookout man shouted 'ghters, Almost be- fore he bad given the warning I saw streams of while tracer bullets flashleg past the port side. I then realised flds WAS 2 arious battin We had not seen the enemy breaus they CamG straight out of the sun,
"The flist burst of enemy fre penetrated our fuselage but did no material damage. We found ourselves tahting 12 enemy machines. More bullets entered our alreraft and some missed us by only a few inches"
mado
Six Biesserselumiel three dual attacks upon Vie bomber, which esesper after bringing clown IWD. of Its attackern.
MORE ARRESTS
IN REICH
Thursday,
Finnish-Russian War
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 4, 1940.
DEFENDERS TAKE INITIATIVE IN NORTHERN FRONT
The presence of new contingents of the Red Army on the Finnish front is confirmed. They have not figured yet in a
· co-ordinated drive and the position between the two armtes has remained largely unchanged during the past few days except in the north, where the defenders appear to have the initiative.
Helsinki, Jan. 3.
A large body of Soviet troops sur- rounded or the Saltu front are trying their utmost to break through the Finnish lines. A fierce battle pro
ressed throughout yesterday, but the Ruslans were unable to make their way through.
The Finnish forces are working in
small groupe and, although outnum bered, their knowledge of the country has made thr'r attacks successful.
Sweden Threatened
Copenhagen, Jan. 3. Germany in a diplomatic note has warned Sweden that she cannot allow her to tolerate any help to Finland by the Western Powers, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Berlingske Tidende,
The correspondent says the Ger
mana declare they cannot allow Ent- land to help Finland, arguing that British help is actuated by a desire In the non the Finans have im- to establish air and naval bases in the proved their positions and they are northern countries reported to have advanced to within could be made against Germany and 23 miles of Petsamo. Reuter Bul-Russia.
letin.
whence attacks
ALLIED LEADERS EXCHANGE GREETINGS
'LONDON, Jan. 1 (Router)--~His Majesty the King in his New Year telegram to Président Lebran said, "At the begining of the New Year which Ends our nations so closely united in the renewed struggio gainst senseless aggression, address to you my warmest best wishes for your health and happiness and for the success of the French people in the great efforts which they are making together with the British ally for the defence of the Uberties which to them are so dear,
*It is with the greatest confidence that I foresce the accomplish- ment of a joint victory which will allow our respective countries to enjoy the blessings of peace which will be untroubled by violent threats repeated by those who showed so clearly their aversion for any peace with their neighbours giler than that of wiùjection and oppression,"
President Lebrun replied expressing his good willies for the happiness of the King and Queen and his wishes that the British people should share with the French during this year the defialto success which they deserve by so many common naerliers made for the mon! Just of causes,
AMERICAN HONGKONG
FLEET
Washington, Jan. 3. Secretary, is studying means for ar
Mr. Charles Edison, Assistant Navy
construction programme. celeration of the record warship
RESIDENTS RETURN
Willielmatrasse offeinis, the corres pondent continues, are watching the
Mrn, E. E. Arls, widow of the late steps taken by Britain and France,
| Mr. C. F. Arís, formerly Chlef Police and they assert that the Finnish ques-
Inspector of Kowloon, was an un- tien concerns Germany as well as the He sail the Navy's authorized expected arrival by a ship from northern countries and that active building programme was progressing Australia yesterday. Mrs. Aris's re- esult in Germany immediately re-without causing delay in any other spent 33 years, is the outcome of her British asslainnce to Finland would ahead of schedule in some categories turn to the East, where
she had considering her nititude towards category. The authorised programme husband's death in England in March. Norway and Sweden-Reuter, was on the regular planned basis. She had intended to selle in Eng- any acceleration of which must be land, but when her husband died she submitted to Congress which would deelded to return to Hongkong. be called upon to decide on that be- fare very long. At this time it might be more advantageous to lay down more authorked ships,
Mrs. Aris first travelled to Aus- ralla with her daughter-in-law. She
Finn Position Very Good
Helsinki, Jan, 3. Strategically the positions of the Finns all along their frontier are better now than at any time since the commencement of the war,
Five of the twelve separate thrusts between Lake Ladoga and the Arctic Ocean have been decisively smashed
Velled Nazi Insult with Russian losses running into tens
Berlin, Jan. 3. of thousands, besides masses of war
Commenting on an overseas repor material which the Finns fortunately that an authoritative German source can use, because the guns are of the had said that If British troops ap-
a well known in the Colony, where same calibre as those of the Russians; pear in Finland Germany will ng
Three thrusts have been crushed on Russia's side, ar
her two daughters, Mrs. F. A. Olsen authoritative and thrown back across the frontier source here stated to-day that this gress request, is assembling data as She is at present staying with Mrs. Mr. Edison said the Navy, at Con- and Mrs. H. G. Hallam were married. opposite Sisalms, and two converging on absolute mistake and columns in the region of Sujavisalms, nothing of the kind has been said.
that to the feasibility of construction of M, Hinyard, 34 Illwood Road. which penetrated farther.. have been
super-battleships, up to 80,000 tons, "As long as Britain gives to Fin-but it was too early to reach any completely routed.
Another passenger who returned tand the type of help she gave conclusions. He intends to push to the East via Australia was Mr. This thrust was designed at the Poland we are entirely disinterested. seientifle research on the latest wea-C. T. Biggin of the British-American head of the Gulf of Bothnia and has and even if she gave real military pons and ships and to "grab any new Tobacco Company's Shanghai Ontee. now been definitely cheeked.
assistance it is questionable whether foreign ideas, Inasmuch as the United He and Mrs. Biggin, who spent over The Russian column south of Lake Germany will fight on this account," States has to monopoly on brains." year in the Colony after the evacUR- Lloga has crumpled against the this source added-United Press,
and A new wave of aussle bas recent-Finnish resistance,
In the Pet-
The Navy was pushing ahead with America on lease and were on their tion of Honkow, went to England vin Excusing An Ally
the development of fast motor ter- Chungking, Jan, 3.
pedo boats and sub-chasers, of which way to Australia via Suez when the war broke out. This leave has thus The cause of the Soviet-Finish it was eager to have a flotilla Line,
take Mr. Bigga right round which the Russians hoped to make war is more due to fear that Ger- tests. If they are found satisfactory, wor His wife will return to the the arena of the decisive battle of the many will use Finland for an attack the Navy may produce on n mass East in a few months' time. war, they are still blocked by a stone on Russia than any direct Finnish production basis.-United Press. wali.
threat to Leningrad, declared Dr. Sun
Mrs. J. W. Green, whose husband The entire staff of the foreign cor- The Line continues to be firmly Fo in a speceli December 23 here,
Welcomed As Heroes
is a Chief Engineer with Messrs. respondence section of the Skoda anchored in the north at Tapale and the text of which is being published
Jardine, Matheson, and her son re- Works are hild
Montevideo, Jan. 3: custody for in- in the south opposite Koivisie Island, by the Chinese Press in instalments. vestigation and there have been ar- where heavy
The newspaper Eldia with a very turned after about 14 months in The fear that Germany will launch Finnish batteries,
Mr. Dick On Quan also rests also in the newly formed Gov-despite the constant poundings by air attacks on Russin through small wide circulation, appeals to the Uru-Australia.
disembarked. ernment troops. Two journalists bonts and heavy warship artillery Lithuania and Finland, Dr. Sun Foof H.M.S. Alax with flowers,
countries like Estonia, Latvia,uayan women to receive the men were arrested in their offices. The shells, enflade the Soviet lines. Gestapo has raided an illegal news-
Through passengers, with Mr. Big- Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, The great Russian general offensive, continued, prompted Russia's move in paper called I Do (To Arms) and which the Finns expected almost any concluding non-aggression pacts with who commanded the British forces in, are Mrs. H. W. McClelland, wife
of a Shanghal mission during the battle with the Admiral
doctor, and some of the editorial collaborators are day, has not yel materialised, but the small Baltic countries. believed to have been killed,
there is ample evidence that the Dr. Sun Fo expressed the opinios Gruf Spec, visited the President of her children; and Mr. J. A. Crockett, The prisons in Prague are still full Soviet shock battalions of their best that the Soviet-Finnish war was quite Uruguay and the Foreign and Defence is on a round trip from Rabaul
to Kobe.. and the Karlove Names dungeons, young troops have
Ministers. despite the fact been in action necessary, since which used to be shown to tourists as without success,
that Finland is being used by certain
The visit is purely a courtesy one examples of mediaeval barbarism,
Powers, Finland would not attack lasting two days.-Reuter. are now in use.-Reuter Specio!,
busy to attempt any attack on Russin Russia, while Germany now is too
London, Jan. 3,
Also, on the Mannerheim
by swept over the Czech Protectorate, una region the Finns have the tnl- The Times correspondent in Belgrade tillve at the moment. learns from Prague. Four Generals and a large group of former Czecho- Slovakian Army offers ving in Moravia are among those taken into custody.
Report Denied
Berlin, Jan. 3. Authoritative quarters deny the Copenhagen reports that Rai has naked Germany to send specialists
to Russia.
The
As eyewitness reports came in
from north of Lake Lodogs, the magnitude of the Finnish victory in that region has increased.
Neutrals' LoSSCS
for
From England
the
Several Hongkong people returning [from leave were aboard a British ship which arrived from England yesterday. They had an uneventful but tedious trip, which lasted seven weeks and was topped by bad a weck's passage
He believes that the Soviet-Finnish war is different from other recent
Stockholm, Jan. 3, It became evident that Russian
The Swedish Minister of Marine efforts to make a wide turning move confidence that this war will be con- ships, totaling 17,000 tons, since the weather during
wars, and concludes by expressing has announced that Sweden los 11 ment which would have endangered cluded at an early date, with Finland the whole Isthmus front position, were continuing to exist as an independentning of the war. smashed so completely that one whole State.Reuter.
The Norwegian Government has from Singapore to Hongkong. Russian division, between fifteen to Voclkischer Beobachter had righteen thousand men, was put out
declared that their losses were 24
Mr. J. R. Luke, of the S. C. M. Post renewed its attacks on the Belgian of netion, and most of its equipment,
ships-and-the-lives-of-91-avaarven~~ | staff. arrived after the "months"in" Press which is accused of being pro-except rifles captured.
England. He and his wife were un- Ally and not neutral-United Press.
fortunate on their leave being. in- volved in trafc collision, which forced them to spend several weeks In hospital. Both made excellent recovery and Mrs. Luke intends follow her husband shortly.
Newswoman's Prediction
New York, Jan. 3. The prediction that 1940 will bring purges in Germany is madė Dorothy Thompson writing. in the Herald-Tribune.
hy
She also forecasts that the Nazi regime will encounter very strong
The narrow winding roads in the thick forests are strewn with dead and the forests
аге carpeted with frozen bodies of Russians, now mostly United Press. covered by a fresh fall of now.
Russians And Civilians
Stockholrn, Jan, 3.
The Soviet authorities have issued
opposition from the women and for-strict orders never to fire on civilians mers during the year-ReMIT.
Afghan Bordor
London, Jan. 3.
AMERICAN LEADERS CONFER
Washington, Jan, 3.
Reuter Bulictin.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Lo
Mr. G. B. Labrum, Director of Ye Hongkong Stock Exchange official
Olde Printeric Ltd.; also returned, summary issued yesterday says:
Firm conditions prevailed over the and Mrs. E. M. Basto was another market during the morning with passenger from London. Mr. H. W. President Roosevelt, Vice-Presid- Docks again being largely dealt inde arrived from Singapore on a
but only on milltary objectives, ae-ent Garner, Senator Barkeley, leader and at advancing rates. cording to an officer attached to the of the Senate, and Congressman
Soviet Air Force who was among Rayburn, leader of the House of Re- H.K. Bank tour Bussian prisoners taken a presentatives, reviewed plans It is authoritatively stated in Vilpirt and with whom Scandinavian hopes for the new session of Con- don official 'circles that no credence correspondents were allowed to talk. gress at an hour's conference, whatever can bo attached to the The prisoners, who were captured
Senator Barkeley sald President rumours given out in certain foreign recently and are now awaiting trans-Roosevelt outlined the message broadcasts of Russian troop con- ter to a Finnish Internment camp. will deliver to-morrow to the joint centrations on the borders of comprised Soviet Air Force non session of both Hausen. Afghanistan.
commissioned officers' and two ex- He said the Budget message may
not be sent before Friday. the farmers. Afghan Government has
Mr. Garner oficially
One of the officers, who was 20 following the conference. This was was in jovinl mood denied there has been any mobilien-
belonged to his Hon of their armed forces and nothing years old and netually
first meeting with President whatever in known of any mobiles- the Infantry, was the machine gun-Roosevelt since he announced
ner and observer in a bomber which was available for nomination as tion in Iran-Reuter,"
was shot down in flames and was candidate for the Presidency. the only member of the crew who Senator Bankhead sald the succeeded in escaping by parachute. sident's mesange would deal
It is further
leamed that
FIRE PUTS STOP Asked whether he had ever, fired length with Foreign affairs.
TO WEDDING
"
"I read in the great book every day LIVERMORE, Cal-That Uttle, and
said one of apparently useless, warning which and I believe in God,"
the farmers: "I read about that at
the marrying minister always gives school too, but he is not the one to to the effect that if anyone knows
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Address To-day
Washington, Jan. 3. any reason why the wedding should burning airplane," interjected the neaday to hear President Roosevelt's belleve in when you jump out of a Congress meets at noon on Wed- not proceed to state them now ог forever hold their peace," is not al officer,
"state of union" message which is ways as superfluous as it may seem The other farmer from the Ukrainexpected to deal extensively with
foreign affairs. ding of Miss Bertha Carlson and the Finns would cut off his finger first, for extension of the reciprocal been told It is predicted that he will ask, Milton Fisher had just reached that halls and torture him in other ways trade treaty expiring In June; second, point, when a neighbour. poked his if he were taken prisoner, but he now an additional 500 million dollars to head in the door and announced that had hopes of not returning to the be expended on national defence, but there certainly were reasons why the cold, and snow-United Preu. ceremoniy should not proceed.
The omelating minisjer at the wed-said he felt fine. He had
"The house is on.. fre," he de-
clared.
Firemen put out the root bluze and Compulsory Labour
and ceremony was continued.
R.A.F. PLANE'S
FATAL FLIGHT
Announced
LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter)-Both Sweden and Rumania, are to have compulsory labour services. ;
they
not for special taxes: third, remind the legislators of. Congress that are already 550 million dollars above the budget account in farm parity and other agricultural payments; fourth, no recommendations for new taxes; fifth, defend the neutrality programme; sixth, no proposal for revival of the spending and lending meaKUTŲ,
The Democrats hope for a short session. The Republicans, ConservaA-
In Sweden under a Bill passed on lives and Democrats are expected to LONDON, Jan. 8 (Reuter).The Tuesday, Inbour will be compulsory fight for economy. The chief re- and equipping
Air Ministry, announces that the Hel-for
maintaining straining element to further spend- foring in any case will be the fact of
tith aircraft forced down in Belgium Sweden's defences as well
E.
was attacked by three German ngh- such vital services as ogriculture and the steadily mounting national debt, tem while engaged in reconnaissance transport. over Germany.
which is at present 42,000 million
All farm labour, it was announced and within 3,000 inillion of the 45,- One member of the crew was kill-in Rumania to-day, is now compul-000 million statutory limit-United ed and two were alightly injured.
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NEW YEAR TRAGEDIES
Many Die In Hotel Fire
And Train Smash
BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH
An hotel fire in Minneapolis and a train amash near Tokyo yesterday resulted in at least 28 deaths, according to exclusive reports received by the ""Tele- graph."
A "United Press" message from Minneapolis says that at least 18 people lost their lives | yesterday following an outbreak of fire in the furnace room of the Marlborough
Hotel in the city.
Apartment
The stairway won enveloped Lo Games, trapping most of the residents.
200
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Prefectures.
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holiday-makers.
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