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TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1940.
日二十月二十
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No. 10034
GERMAN PLANES OVER
CLEARANCE
NOW PROCEEDING
WHITEAWAY'S STOCKTAKING
SALE
SCOTLAND AND EAST COAST OF ENGLAND
NAZIS INTENSIFY RAIDS
R.A.F. Planes Repel Invaders: Ten Merchantmen Attacked: Warnings Last 3 Hours
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Jan. 29 (UP).—-To-day brought intensified Nazi air raids along the entire cast coast of England and Scotland.
The Shetland Islands wore bombed without, apparently, any result.
R.A.F. coastal patrols had their busiest day of the wari repelling the invaders,
British merchantmen were attacked in force, no less than ten ships being bombed.
The raids on England and Scotland were responsible for a series of air raid alarms which spread far in- land, sending people in several counties to their shelters and dugouts.
The attacks on British ships were general along 400 miles of ccast, extending from the River Tay in the north to the Kentish roast in the south.
AIM ERRATIC
But the Nazi aim was erratic. Seven bombs were aimed at the 1966-ton-steamer-Idanwern-with-
ut one hit being scored. The
Duce
WAR IN SNOW
BITTER weather conditions are reported all over the world, and the war has ceased in many parts of China owing to heavy snow falls and blizzards. This photograph was taken on (11 Hangchow front.-Domei.
Sees
His War Chiefs
ร
ROME, Jan. 29 (Reuter).-Sigor Mussolini to-day received-General-Soddu,
bombs landed all around the Secretary for War, and vessel, sending great eruplions of water into the air as they explod-
rd.
other generals.
For over an hour they discuss-
The Monarch Steamship Company'sed the defensive precautions 5.831-ton liner Imperial Monarch was saved when R.A.F. planes came taken and to be taken."
to its rescue as it was being bombed
One of the
reports from
the
by Heinkels off the Scottish coast.generals concerned the development
Another of the reports concerned anti-aircraft defence,
The Nazi bombers fled as soon as the the defences, which are carried out? speedy R.A.F. Spitfires appeared on aleng Italy's land frontiers the scene.
Anti-aircraft guns went into netion nlong a wide siretch of the English and Scottish courts.
Guns barked for 40 minutes in the Shetland Islands, where the raiders were finally dispersed with the arrival of R.A.F. pursuit planes.
Several planes made individuai alghts past the casst in the north-east aren, where they were finally repell- ed by A.A. Are and RAF. counter- attacks.
Air raid alarms In England and | Scotland Lasted from am, to noon.
Attacks on shipping were parti- onlarly rioticeable off the Yorkshire coast, and A.A. runs were active over a wide area, including the Tynealde.
-the-Under-
RUSSIA AND JA PAN
Inspired
Wang
MOSCOW,
Attack On Ching-wei
Jan, 29 (Reuter). "the denounces Il Duce guve Instructions that ali"Pravda" precautions should be increased and traitor, Wan Ching-wei," stat-; that the forces new under arms shoulding that the Object of the agree be strengthened by the recall of
place certain spectatist officers and other ment with Japan was to
China in a position of complete ranks for a period of instruction.
subservience to Japan.
The fact that the question formation of a government by Wang
rected indicates
dimculties Japon
18,000 Poles
has been rest ever-increasin
encountering i China. Put To Death
Gestapo Terrorism Disclosed
Japonese graaltural
+
Wounded May Go Here
HOLLAND
•Rotterdam
Brussels Liese BELGIUM
Essen
Cologne
GERMANY
WESTERN FRONT
Saartrecken
Strasbourg
FRANCE
Mandy
Mythouse
Basle
LUXEMBOURG, Fum DUGHT WITH 300,000 HRABIDANTS, SUGGESTED * INTERNAZIONAL WAR HOSATA BASI
Deliberate Raid On Red Cross
By WEBB MILLER
WITH THE FINNISH ARMY ON THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS; Jan. 29 (UP).-Russian bombing planes to-day scored a direct hit on a Red Cross military hospital where 19 wounded soldiers and four women were killed.
Scotland Shivers
Fifty-Year Record Cold Spell
Of the thirty people in the hospital only seven were saved. The dead were
LONDON, Jan. 29 (Reuter). ZEALAND incinerated in the hospital, which was-The west of Scotland has
NEGOTIATIONS to transform
the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Into
international milliary hospital centre are proceeding.
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enveloped in flames as soon as the bombs experienced the most
struck.
STALIN'S INVADERS SMASHED
GERMANS PAY £940,000,000 A Year FOR THE NAZIS
PARIS, Jan. 29 (Reuter).— the upkeep of the Nazi Party organisation has cost the Ger man people about £940,000,000 a-year, according to the “Petit Parisien."
The paper states that the figures are taken from the Party's annual financial state- ment signed by the Treasurer, Herr Schwartz, and the Labour Leader, Robert Ley.
NEUTRALS MINED
Nazi Murder War Catches Innocents LONDON, Jan. 29 (Reuter).- the A small Dutch vessel, Nora, wad mined off the south-east coast
of
long
severe
weather for half a century.
To-day Glasgow had no south- Although the hospital pro-ward connection with London. minently displayed the Red In the meantime, tráins from the Cross the raiders swooped low south have been temporarily and dropped a bomb through the lost. centre of the building.
Three which left England yeater-. I reached the scene shortly day were traced in the early hours of after the bombing. The build- the morning. One of them, carrying ing, which was about 200 feet all Scotland's Sunday papers, was long, was burning like a blazing stranded between Carlisle and Beat-
tock. furnace, lighting up the whole One brain, which left Glasgow countryside. Splotches of blood yesterday at 10 n.m., is still at Beat-. Hiccked the snów.
tock, and the railway made arrange- ments to feed the passengers. All efforts to retrieve the HELSINGFORS, Jan. 29. bodies of those entrapped failed. North-east of Lake Ladoga, The hospital stood on the out- the Russian offensive is skirts of a small village near the fizzling out after eight days front. of fighting.
"Izvesils," studying the economie carly in the morning.
Although the stern was blown away Japan, gives position of
and she was sinking rapidly, a salvage account of the strain of war on the tug was able to tow her to shore!
system and where she was benched. emphoshies Japan's lack of foreign All the crew are believed to be safe | exchange, raw material and shrinking aboard another salvage vessel. 18 Planes In Raid
foreign trade.
The explosion was so great that If people were shaken in their beds. Observers Indicate that 18 German
Observers here are wondering ANGERS (France), Jan. 29 (Reu-
the A rising tide carried vessel bombers participated in the raids on
ter)--No less than 18,000 Polish there is any connection between the
articles and the present further inshore and drove her clean this area.
The Heinkels flew through the leaders of all classes are estimated to anti-Japanese
trade
through a pier, leaving a huge gap tolkn. clouds straight into A swarm of have been put to death by the Ger-
It is generally believed that the at the shore end of the pier between angry British fighter machines when mans in Nazi-occupied Poland,
of Soviet ald to General Chiang Kal- they attempted to bomb the Tyneside cording to a White Paper issued by Japanese are holding out for cessation 70 and 100 yards. area, and were forced to turn tail in the Polish Government to-day.
The White Paper Anys that the shek and recognition of some puppel while commercially a crazy zerobotle attempt to excope
ta be offering the spitting multiple guns of the Nazis' aim is to wipe out the Polish government,
population in western Poland and Japan is reported RAF. machines.
A boatman who witnessed. nn
that the German plan is being carried Russia piece oda and wonts in ex.
and by change oil, tiber and iron ore.
Negotiation.r attack from the seafront of an east out by the German army
are not for advanced, coast resort said: "saw a black agents of the Gestapo.
bomber awoop within Afty feet of
the top of the lighthouse.
"Then he passed over the masts of three ships, which he attacked with bombs and 'machine-guns.
Adverse Weather
"He dropped about six bombs. Not one of them found their mark."
The German attacks were madai under severe weather conditions and poor visibility.
LIQUIDATION
OF ASSETS
AC-
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (UP)-- The Treasury announces that the Stabilisation Fund during the quarter ending September 30 earned $1,248,-
WESTERN FRONT RAIN. CHURNS UP THE MUD PARIS, Jan. 29 (Reuter).-A
a
000, chuletly on gold butilon probis drizzle is falling on the western and gold shipment handling charges, front, reducing visibility to although the Chinese yuan earned minimum $72,335, while sterling unusually lost 50,247 and the frone $508.5
activity.
1.
It is hoped to rescue them some time to-day.
Many sailors and soldiers on leave
stranded in Glasgow when! south-bound trains were suspended.
were
There were no milltary objectives Skating On Serpentine anywhere near and the village was
LONDON, Jun, 29 (Reuter)-Alt The Finnish communique on nothing but a tiny hamiel,
the Sunday night stated that
The force of the explosion blew Britlab newspapers pubished pictures taken during the cold spall of a fort- attacks were growing weaker debris for hundreds of yards.
This in the sixth hospital the night ogo, the details of which were and that the offensive was ex-Russian bombers have struck und the released for publication abroad yes-
Finns say there is no doubt but that terday by the censor.
Among other things the pictures The Sovicts, it is. thought, had to the attacks_have_been deliberate.
show skating on-the-Serpentine-ice-- continue their attacks for so many
Capital Warnod
foes in Morecambe Bay and days because if this offensive fails,
HELSINGFORS, Jun. 29 (UP).---| breaking up the ies in the River the Russians may have to postpone The air raid alarm was sounded at Thames. any further altemple until early 555 am. and the n clear at 10.30 March at least..
pected to fail soon.
.131,
observer c11 the the
B.B.C. The northern front reports that
Sovicle art Alissatisfied with the EGYPT'S BUDGET
results obtained by their troops there and that they are sending a
fresh division. to the area.
the
DIFFICULTIES
When this arrives, there will be
CAIRO, Jan. 29 (Reuter),-Owing 50,000 Soviet troops in this area alone. to the budget deficit the Egyntion!
Swedish volunteers are now giving active support on the northern front, Government has decided to increase tea duty by £1-10-0 (Egyptian! enabling the Fins to get a few days' currency) to £8-10 (Egyptian cur-
rency) per hundred kilogrammes.
Excise duties are also to be raised, as follows: benzino by 12 per cent.;;
20
per coffee by 50 per cent.; sugar cent; bottled beer 300 per cent.
much needed rest.
Finnish and Swedish ski patrols are still hampering the Russian supply lines. Soviet attempts at ski patrols so far have not been very successful. Many patrols were taken by sur- prise. One Finnish patrol found a Soviet patrol huddled round a camp are which was made of the patrol's own skis.
Stalin Changes Plans STOCKHOLM, Jan. 28 (Reuter) Reports reaching Stockholm from Tallinn state that M. Stalin and his shiels have now changed their plans about what they are going to do with Finland when they have conquered it. (they hope.).
Originally the idea loudly trum- peted from 'Moscow at the time was
LATEST
CHASE IN HARBOUR
tugs
Indian Reservist Swims After Runaway
According 10 the newspaper! Mokattam, the Government requires seven million Egyptian pounds to
AN Indian police reservist and a balance the budget, two millions of which will be taken from reserve, runaway prisoner were the central and the remainder is to be produced figures in a novel chaso shortly after by increased taxation, including the 7 o'clock last night. reimposition of the cotton lux and ar increase in income tax.
REPUBLICANS
FEAR WAR · ·
on
The Incident occurred in the waters of Hongkong farbour, Into which the runaway jumped after making his escape from No. 2 Folier Station.
The Reservist, Han Dla,' was enter- - ing the Police Station to report for duty when the escapee dashed past Dan Immediately set off in pursuil. He followed, the runaway into the water without a moment's hesitation and swimming vizorously after him, trade | finally caught up with the man about".
200 yards from the praya.
to
· A struggle ensued, between the two men, and continued until the run-
way, half-drowned, became conscious.
to make a vassal state out of the WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UP)----- puppat government which was carry- The Republicans have renewed their President Roosevelt's Half Crow Missing'
ing on in dim obscurity In Terijoki. attack
Now, according to the Tallinn re- foreign policy on reciprocal '(Reuter) LONDON, Jan. 29
colonise and export and import loans
the belligerents, vienmer Faro, of 844 tons, which went Finland and to move most of
Representative Woodruff charged Seven of the crew of the Norwegian port, the Russians plan to
that Mr. Cordell Hull has reversed Finns Refuge For ashore on the North-east coast owing, population to other parts of Russia. it la bellevéd, to enemy action, were
The Indian, then brought his man brought nahore to-day by breeches
COPENHAGEN, Jan, 20 (Router), his own position of the trade pro- budy..
Three are reported to be dead..Denmark has offered Finland 6,000 granna. He said that when Mr. is the praya
Hull was a member of the House
in So savere was the "Dght the homes for the use of Finnish people Ways and Means Committee he ntwater, that the Reservist had to be while four are missing..
who may have to leave.
Ming Washed Ashore
LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuter),
For the time being, however, Fin-tacked the flexible tarif policy as admitted to hospital for treatment
"bureaucracy gone mad."
for minor injuries. He was later land does not consider it necessary to
Representatives Tinkham charged discharged.
mine was washed ashore at a south-accept the kind offer. east coast resort to-day, blew up a new sen-wall and smashed hundreds of windows.
that President Roosevelt was leading the road to war both in Europe and Asia. He criticised the propoan to HELSINGFORS, Jun, 20 (Neuler).lend money to Finland.)
Intenso Fighting
The mine struck a promenade ofA communique reports that fighting which work was still in progress. north-custo
Lake - Ladoga
啡
One area was blown away and January 28 was very intense at vari- N.Z. Sympathy For
of the
and stopping all three others were damaged.
aus points. The concrete work is over threo The Flons repelled, all the Soviet
18 reinforced with attacks and captured some feet thick and
enemy's supporting positions. On top of a cliff, windows with The Russian
Roads are being churned into mud. steel-work. Patrol activity on the front Reelf,
continuing.
Among the British ships attacked were, in addition to the two already mentioned, the 6,990-ton tanker Bri- tish Officer the 4,007-ton Olter Pool,
The Treasury has revealed that] the 2,881-ton Stanbury the 4,648-ton Well-park, the 2,272-ton Knitaley and Britain and France In October Haul- the small coastal vessels Atholl dated over $120,000,000 of their however, is
assels here in purchasing wartime Monarch, Danny: Bryn and Miram
The Stanbum was well-known as a supplies and materials.
inner during the Spanish „blockade stunner
The only German hit registered irs the aer al oprobats with the Heinkels
HOT LEASE THEen To Page 5.
In quarter-mile radius were smashest. 100 prisoners 800 killed and
'Quake Victims
SYLT BECOMES WAR ZONE
BERLIN, Jan. 29 (Reuter)The island of Sylt and six other Islands running in line of north-west Ger- many from the Netherlanda fron LONDON, Jan. 29. (Router)—The tier to Heligoland Bight are to be
the war.
to earthquake relief in Turkey.have
four tank contributions of Britain and France milltary zones, for the duration Certain Activity
The Finns destroyed MONTREAL, Jan. 29 (Reuter) and captured four cannon, and 15 been supplemented by a gift from one
All movement on the Islands PARIS, Jan. Aeroplane orders and other pur-
of the muat for-Bung scellons of the which include mine-laying and sen 29 (Reuter) To chases in November were estimated night's Frerich communique states The first wireless school in Canada machine guns.
The also destroyed a Soviet trans-Empire.
will be severely that aviatiorz and artillery have shown under the Empire Ale, Training
New Zealand hau ant £5,000 to plane brines;
restricted. at $100,000,000.
the Turkish National Fund... The total holding were between a certain axount of sciivity on the Scheme will have 000 puplis, It was port column consisting of 100 horses.
PLEASE Turn To Page 5. announced in Montreal to-day, $6,000,000,000 and $7,000,000,000, Westem Frost.