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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH January 29, 1940. Outposts Along The Western Front STEADY NERVES NECESSARY IN FRANCE
DOUBTS ABOUT RUSSIAN
TROOPS
Fallen Officer's Diary
STOCKHOLM.
THOSE SHELLS WERE LIVE
This incidont some- where in Kent," was told at a Luton meeting by Colonal Mary Patch, of the Salvation Army.
A small boy evacucc. unused to fields or gardens, returned to his billet with a handkerchief full of, mys- terious treasure. In answer to his hostess, he explained that he had found some shells, and proceeded to un- tic his bundle.
Inside it were a number of snails, which he regarded with utter amazement.
"Lumme!" he said. "They've hatched."
It has been established that Russians in the Salla seelar fired on each other, and also that aeroplanes fired on troops who seoses+055+00064-6666006ss
had strayed and who were evid- ently mistaken for Finns.
A message to the official Pin-
SPEED HAS
nish News. Agency maintain SPOILED
ed that these were signs of
muting as argumentative SBOMBERS'
ing was heard amid the shots.
The following are extracts from a fallen min ofiter's diary inspected | by Foreign Conerparlerts at the
AIM
Headquarters of fines Wallenius on SPEED has killed the North Front-
"The political cimosphere is oppres sive. The soldiers are at this war, and we don't understand why we light other countries. tell my men that it in nerespy to srengthen ex frontiera, but they uncover. "Fin- fand can't attack us"
Our troops are healen because our Higher Command is unfamiliar with the terrain. The troops prefer to return home to fighting.
The march into Poland was po lor, but not so now when we go)
Kalyan
Rovince
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HUSSIAN ADVANĚJ TO CUT RAILWAY WHICH CARRIES ISUPPLIES FRUM
SWEDEN
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RUSSIAN ATTACKS METTING STRONG
against Finland. The only things to cheer is are Molotoff's speeches.
To-day we all awoke sick. I have Com- slept in a barn several days. rades are restless.
About Finland we knew nothing. The soldiers have started lnterpreting dreams and soothsaying Irem cards. All we have is infested by vermin. Headache, no sleep, coughs, smoke. The Finns don't yield. Thave been without sleep or food the last two days.
The enemy harasses us all the time. We have had large losscu. Many are afraid.
The campaign is more difficult than
bombing.
•
precision
ARE
THE TROOPS on the Western Front are far from having an casy time of it. declared the military corrES- pondent of The Times. Lon- don, in a weekly review of the war broadcast by the B.B.C.
In the first place, he said, they have been engaged in constant work on the defences which enn ¡never be made too strong.
When war broke out, he explained, the French riefences on the Belgian frontier were nel nearly so powerfulj as the Maginot Line proper. In last four minutes, the Allies have been strengthening these fortifications and |building many hutstreda of fresh con-
crete blockbounou.
Trying Winter
The winter, with its heavy rath, snow. ft and bitter cold, ins been trying beyond the average for the trips in the field.
Dal with the work of the out- posts and pairs, the correspondent declared that in this war it is varier} for each side to surprise each other becaure the troops are far more mobile therefore enn be kept much further back out of sight until]
last posible move.
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"So far as we know." he went on "Germany has the means to launch an attack with practically name of Lipse preparations which Kly things away, ai almost any moment they choose.
"This, everybody has to be on the To bomb with accuracy you must alert and quick to pick up the small- ily on even keel. You cannot est indications of the enemy's inten- tions. The responsibilities curled noi regulate your bombing instru-only by those who bring in the infor ment if you brink, But if you nation but also by those who rift turn your machine without are very heavy. banking you fall into a side- slip, which is an air skid. In either event your aimed lumb goes astray.
If you could get down close on top of your objective, it would help, of course.
But anti- aircraft guns and the balloon barrage are designed to keep you high,
Even in the Spanish war, where the Nationalists held decisive air superiority for most of the time, their precision bombing was far from precise.
General Franco's flyers never hit the sky-scraper telephone building in Madrid or the cler- tric power plant in Barcelona, though they tried continually Yet the telephone building was Madrid's biggest landmark and the Barcelona power plant oe- cupied an entire city block.
"Eyo That Never Shuts" "Every observation past is the eye which never shuts though sometimes It is blinded by fog, and thus demands on other sources of information be coine ever more Jnsistent.
"Trains, for example, are carefully watched, and every movement which is visible 1 might also
y, every sound which is ardalis noticed.i anda
reason has to be found for every serap of information if possible.
In the last resort, however, it is the patrol which is relied upon, continuel the correspondent, to spot the enemy's intentions and his habits and the nature of the work he is carrying out.
It is also their duty to see that the enemy does not get the same diind eľ information from us.
In the Vorges--tangled, wooded blind country feal for ambushes and traps-there has been tile but con- stant patrol activity, especially during the night.
French patrols, generally consisting picked groups of volunteers num bering 59 or do men, are consianly out in the wooded area between the Maginot and Siegfried Lines.
Steady Nerves Necessary Als diffeült Work and dangerous enough," said the speaker, "but even more trying than dangerous for the work calls for stendy nerves and initiative.
Most massive target of all was the munition plant in Sagunta, north of Valencia. It had close "The Germans show no lack of on 40 brick chimney stacks; ability, but the superior training of it employed thousands of peo- the French troops gives them a cor- ple; it was just one hour'stain advantage in their encounters.
"The British troops have only just night from Franco's bombing| begun, but the recent decorations hase at Majorca.
bestowed on an officer and an N.CO. show that the Betish are also ranginati Altogether 5,551 bombs were deep in their patrol work for it was mentioned that the objectives of the launched against the Sagunta patrols in which these two partle munition works. There were pated were 1,200 yards from their only 21 recorded hits, The ines, so that when we sit in our con- plant never stopped workingfortable chairs at home reading in our until the Republican resistance that nothing of Importance has occur
newspapers or bearing on the radio, completely folded up.
red on the Western Front during ei past 24 hours, let us remember that there is much that is happening.”.
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the but see no population.
Not even the officers are joyful about the war. We are told that on Decem" ber 21, Stalin's birthday, the war will
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Hongkong Stock Exchange Omdal
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Nothing of any particular Import-
The last entry in the diary on Europe concluded to-day. The con unce occlirred during the morning. December 13 was "Ali terribly tired."
The officer then fell.
There are
ference was calculated to exchange Information and discuss recent de- velopments in Europe, especially in the Balkans. Nino Army Divisions
Conferees Includėl Mr. Eiji Amau, Russian pressure on the Isthmus the Japaneso Ambassador to Italy, at least nine Mr. Teruo helilya, Japanese Minis- persists. divisions of the Red Army on this ter to Bulgaria, Mr. Kojiro Inouye. narrow strip. When the Russians Japanese Minister to Hungary, and succeeded in crossing frozen Lake Mr. Zubike Usami, Japanese Minister Suvanto they were only thrown back to Switzerland. after severe hand-to-hard Aghting, In which not only the Russlins, but also tho Finns suffered serious losses. There is no doubt that tho Finnish positions, here are stronger than any- where else along the front, but thanks to their shorter lines of communica- ton and to the fact that their reur is better protected, the Ruscions are more easily able to send up fresh troops to relieve the fighting line.
It is reported that the Finns are inking the Red Cross marks oft their feld hasplints, as they have found that Russian airmen consistently choose them as targets.
CRASHED CAR INTO PILLAR
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The car sustained extensive damage, but the pedestrian esenped.) Some famous athletes are among L. Sgt Brown was uninjured. the Finnish casunities. The Marathon runner Tamilo has been killed, and the second best Javelin thrower in the world Autonen, had been that through the left arm in a akumish, In which the Firins- took 10: nub- machine-guns after destroying an enemy unit to the last man." He is now. In hospital,
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LONDON, Jani, 28 (Reuter).—Soldiers, with my forehead. in Polish when she 1 greet you," said Sir Kingsley Wood visited on Saturday several hundred Polish airmen who are now connected with the R.A.F. somewhere in England.
**With our forehead. Mr.
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The Polish national flag fles from the same mast as the R.A.F. flag over 'ther aerodrome.
British Help For Stricken Turks
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ISTANBUL, Jan. 28 (Reuter)
Survivors
112 Landed At Köbe From Japanese Ship
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH KOBE, Jan. 28.(Domel) Thirtem passengers and 10 memberekpr crow of the liner President QUEEN, which was wrecked off Tanegashima Istand on Saturday morning-err here this afternoon board the QE Hiner Ukinilizid: Maru.
The Ukishima Meru pios The British dolegate to help in the them at the scene of the changes distribution of clothing, malicines. It was understood that one food and other relief to earthquake ja missing. Most of the, craw victima reached Istanbul today bars are Filipino
He was given an official welcome:Staying, bere overnichtu He da proceeding to the stricken area teava for home to-mor
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