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Finnish War
RUSSIAN
Joje 1919, Wah Inier Productions
Girl in Car Cross-Examined
OFFENSIVE DENIES SHE BROUGHT
REPULSED
Helsinki, Feb. 2.
After an all-night battle, the argest Russian offensive made in many weeks on the Karelian Isthmus has been repulsed. The battle Wan preceded by a six-hour Sovlet artil- lery bombardment after which the 191247 Russians attacked with tanks armoured, sledges, which is a new surprise weapon. These sledges,! which were pushed in front of the tanks, were occupied by machine gun crews. The object is to pen
trate with this weapo possible into the Finnish Bnes.
45
CASE FOR REVENGE
NORAH BRADLEY, aged 21, of Wigan, who alleges she was forcibly carried off in a car by the two brothers of the man she had lived with, was cross-examined in the King's Bench Division. She denied that she had, brought the case for revenge because of a refusal of mar- riago.
A squadron of 130 planes assisted the offensive and dropped a ball of
She claims damages for alleged bomba on the Finnish lines and the conspiracy und assault against Webster, of fighters swooped down and machine-Norman and Maurice gunned the lines.
| Wigan.
The Russians met with withering Her counsel, Mr. P. E. Sandlands, Are from machine guns and artil- lery, The Russian air raids in cen-R.C., told how she was a shorthand tral Finland continued to-day andypist to a firm in which the Websters!
were dropped, and their brother Fred were partners.
hundreds of lamba
to bomb military objectives,
A neutral correspondent stated that] She formed a boy and girl friend- ! the Soviet airmen made no attempt ship with Norman's son, Kenneth, and later, under promise of marriage, Helsinki was again raided yester-led with his unele Fred at Disck- day and to-day the alarm was sound- ed but no planes appeared-Reuler pool. Bulletin.
Red Cross Protest
Kenneth, who, she said, wanted to
HITLER WAITING FOR INSPIRATION
HITLER, according to a despatch from the Ger- man frontier published in the Paris newspaper Ordre, has been persuaded by his generals not to attempt a mass. attack on the Maginot Line accompanied by an invasion of Belgium..
marry her. Joined the R.A.F. She No More
went to Milenhall. Suffolk, to be
him.
near.
On December 10 last. Norman and ¦ Maurice induced her to enter a car assaulted her by keeping her in it,
Kilts Till
Stockholm, Feb. 2. The Swedish Red Cross has deeld- ed to sk the International Red Cross Committee to investigate the waging of aerial warfare against the
in civil population
Fluland and violations of the Red Cross symbol of the Geneva Convention, of which the Russians are alleged to have claimed she went into the car volun- been guilty and also to assist
Iritarily. connection with the removal of sick โก February Kennelb's und seriously wounded to Sweden-feensed, Reuter,
and drove to Cambridge, where the War Is Over
ear was stopped by the police.
The Websters denied they had de tamed her. denied sault,
Telters
Man Named Tom
Scottish Protests
Mr. J. Henderson Stewart, M.P. for East Fite, champion of the kit, has received a letter from Sir Victor
According to the same report he is "waiting for inspiration" before he makes his next move.
In the early days of the war Hitler declared that piercing the Maginot Line would be worth the loss of 100.000 men, but when the General Sin tok him that it would mean sufelde he ordered Goering to draw up plans for a mass attack On Britain.
The German Air Chief told Hitler
that such an attack could only be successful if Germany possessed air bases in Belgium. Hitler ordered General Holder, chief of the General
on Delgium.
WALT DISNEY
MOTHER OBJECTS
TO TRIBUNAL
A MOTHER and father made protests when the London
FORMER ATHLETE ALMOST A CRIPPLE Now "Right as Rain" After Taking Kruschen
In his youth, this man was a great runner and footballer, but in middię
Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal refused to register their son age the fettering pains of rheumatism
as a conscientious objector.
John C. D. Myer, a clerk at the Ministry of Agriculture; was the applicant.
Judge Hargreaves, announced the tribunal's decision. Myer was re- served for non-combatant duties,
"Excuse me, I am his mother," began a woman standing up in the public gallery, "since he was a baby I have taught him to love and-"
Judge Hargreaves interrupted: "I jmust ask you to sit down or leave the | court,"
SPOTLIGHT
ON
GERMANY
REAL COFFEE UNOBTAINABLE
bound him hund and foot. After such an netive life as his had been, this loss of freedom of movement was
particularly unbearable. Here he tells of his successful cure:-
"My knees were so stiff with a kind of rheumatoid trouble that I could only rise from a chair with pain and
iculty. Tils had been growing worse and worse for about two years. It was all the more galling because in my young days 1 had played for two counties of football and held my college record for the 100 and 220 As she was picking up her coat, a coffee substitutes is expected to yards. Naturally I tried all sorts of be at the rate of about 350,000 embracation, but with absolutely no
"I leave the court," sak Mrk. Myer.
Germany's
consumption of
man got to his feet.
"I am his father," he toki the tri-tons per annum. Coffee itself, perceptible effect. Then I decided to uunal, and served five years in the on which Germans spent £58,try Kruschen Salts, and to cut a long war, and I am Christian. Four 000,000 a year in peace-time, is story short, I am now as right.az years overseas and four years in the
now unobtainable-except from awST Territorials."
Judge HargrERVES: There is no smugglers.
need to beart of it.
it.
gays
Do you realise what causes rhou- The "Frankfurter Zeitung"
matism?.. Nothing but sharp-edged Mr. Myer: No, I am ashamed of that the output of substitutes will urie geld crystals which form as the have to be doubled, About 700 result of sluggish eliminating organs, Judge Hargreaves; And there is equally no reason to be ashamed.
factories, including 60 to 70 large Kruschen Salts can always be counted Mather, father
establishinents, are engaged in this upon to clear those painful crystals
from the system. the booming industry. All are working building together.
and son left
"Bugs" Moran
Faces Gaol
.
Former Beer Czar Of Chicago
CHICAGO
(UP). George
to
capacity, and some operate with three shifts day and night.
German coffee substitutes are com- posed of barley, rye, figs, supar-beel, and hedge-row berries. They sell at about Bd per lb. "Magnanimity" Abused
►
It is announced in Berlin, says
Holland, Belgium, Laxembourg. Den- mark and Switzerland would be closed except for normal rail traffic on and after next Monday, between
Reuter, that Germany's frontiers with
Warrender, Financial Secretary to the Staff, to map out a plan of attack (Bugs) Moran, Czar of North pan. and 7 a.m. Ex-Kaiser's Views
New York, Feb. 2. Mr. A. E. Baucher (defending): | War Office, explaining the official "Belligerents should stop fighting When did you make up your mind attitude, but having taken up the and join forces to help the Finns and that you intended to marry Kenneth? cudgels in defence of the kit. Mr. ofIt was he who suggested it to me. Stewart intends to fight on for its rid the world and elvilimtion
it I didn't want to marry him until restoration as part of the Highland Bolshevism." The ex-Kalser, reported has written this uncensored had had my baby.
[soldier's uniform.
friend, Mr. Poultney Bigerow,
the nimbus of Bolshevism. They
Vizited
the
other
Germany's Iron ore position is
The measure is described as one Side beer and liquor rackets in General Halder declared that he tie 1920's, whose career in intended to exclude the entry into could not recommeil such anbootlegging was cut short by Germany "from the West" of "smut- operation, and offered his resigna-the 1929 St.
glers, espionage agents and Valentine's Day Fiftruir" who had been abusing tion, which was refused. letter to his biographer and close She agreed she did not receive
massacre of seven henchmen, is "German magnanimity." The letter, which replies to pro-
Now the Fuchrer, according to in country jail facing a year's Bigger Iron Output Claimed The ex-Kaiser is stated to have any wages at Blackpool.
Hests of Scottish societies forwarded! Ordre, is waiting for one of those declared that the Finns
You went direct to the fat, didn't by Mr. Stewart to Mr. Hore-Belisha, inspirations which have dictated his imprisonment. were IL magnificent state and had smashed you, with Fred?-No.
late War Secretary, reads:
past coups.
Moran and a pai, Frankie Parker, She denied Fred 'made suggestions
The instructions given do not, as)
There is the sound of continious known in prohibition days as the steadily improving and she is now had set people thinking with die that, in his, absener, she was being
millionaire airplane bootlegger, were less dependent on overseas supplies result that the wish for pence was
by alters
your correspondents stiggest, involve heavy artillery-fire at-Petange and convicted by a Jury May 10 of having than Britain, hee-chief-enemy Mr. Baucher read a felter from the complete withdrawal of the kili, Rodange in
south-west of gaining ground.---Reuter,
conspired to pass $62,000 worth of cording to an article in the periodical North to Kenneth in October, 1938-since all ranks in possession of kilts Luxemburg. A Hemerschen, how forged travellers' checks of the Ameri-
The Four-Year Plan," "He his left me flat, and I am may continue to wear them for walk-ever, which is nearer to the Muselle can Express Company. Parker also The article maintains that the dead- Helsinki Alarm Sounded
the front, nothing is heard. going to have a baby, haveing out. Owing, however, Helsinki, Feb. 2.
received a year's sentence, which he loss The air raid alarm was sounded nowhere to go, and mother and dad difficulties of manufacture, no more
It is though: that fighting was in will, serve when he completes a two-through the torpedoing of ships con- here at midnight last night and say I cannot go home with my dis-kilts will be issued until the war in progress at some more or less distant year Federal prison term for his considerably more than offsets the cost fested for 25 minutes. This was then, think of something I can do, which, I can assure you, was taken French official communiques merely
Our reasons for the decision. part of the front, though the Viction In another counterfeiting case. to Germany of increased, exploitation first time a late night alarm had
Moran was downcast and unt:lk of her low and nedhan grade ore been sounded in the Finnish capital please, Ken. I do love you, you after the very fullest consideration, recorded activity by light recomotte tive when taken to jail. Indications deposits. since December,
are my. Just hope. . No one here were as follows:
ing units from both sides between the were that he is broke. He had been Shortage Of Leather Although there was bright star- can advise me what to do and I need
free on a $35,000 bond pending ar- 1. The impossibility of maintain-Moselle and the Saar. light no planes were sighted and it badly,
Help ine, Ken, for
rangements to take his case to the
Because of difficulty in buying new ing a supply of kilts sufficient to
Firing has been heavier cast of Appellate Court but the time limit for shoes,there has been on unprecedent- none was heard in the centre of the God's sake."
meet the requirements of the mum-Sarreguemines (which is just inside his freedom on the bond expired anded rush to repair shopa "Even shoes, city.
ber of Highland units which now the French frontier), where there is Judge James F. Fardy issued a mit-which are not worth mending are
particular target. Aboul Fifty timus for his commitment, shells have been fired.
A communique' says that Russian planes killed scores of civilians and wounded 40 in the air raids over north Finland 011 Wednesday-United Press.
Russian Communique
Moscow, Feb, 2. The offcial Soviet communique
Was there se occasion when, at eleven o'clock at night, you were found by Mr. Maurice Webster in the office? Whom did he find you with?
Myself.
Wasn't there a man named Tom there?I don't know. I used to be friendly with Tum.
Towards the enl of March, she
over.
exist;
to
2. Agreement that the kilt affords a very
protection poor against s campared with the battle dress.
I can assure you, in conclusion,
Highlanders, but since all the leading
said that Russian planes had carried said, Kenneth broke off with her en-that I have every sympathy with the out reconnaissance flights and bomb-tirely.
ef military objectives. Further, it
Mr. Baucher:
#30
to the
British iron industry
brought to be patched-up," says the Moran was more fortunete than his "National Zeitung."
The advent of “buns”—artificial German patrols and ralders have competitors during the prohibition been active in this area, and a rald cr
rubber-and other substitutes for He had not nerved time since he leather wIR, the paper adds, present- was aftempted east of Forbach.j bat the raiders were driven off by entered the liquor rackets in 1920.ly case the position.
Previously he had served three
the intense fire of the French posts, terms at Joliet Penitentiary for rob- Prison For Radios Listener According to reports in the Italian bery and burglary.
In one of the last Scottish officers on the active list Press, the German objective is to claimed that three Finnish planes had letters you wrote to him did you have loyally accepted the War Office drive the French back sumciently to been brought down.-United Press. eak of having your revenge? On decision and realise its inevitability at the Soar mines out of danger.
-the Webslers, yes.
TREBITSCH LINCOLN
Has Peace Plan To Put Before Roosevelt
Mr. Baucher rend
the protests put forward by the vari. The artillery action may therefore French Let Hitler unpeeled foreign radio station. It
o letter Missus Highland societies lose a great be designed to prepare an advance Bradley wrote to Kenneth, saying: "Ideal of their significance.
hate the whole business. 3 wish I could back out but I can't. I have
Mr. Stewart told a reporter: "I dło
not regard that as a satisfactory reply.
for. this purpose.
į got to go through with it now." at all. In the first place, I un sur- WON'T HUMANISE
Mr. Justice Tucker: Back up of priced to hear that all the leading | what? I think I was referring to Scottish officers on the active list! this ense.
have loyally accepted the War Onteel
sters. but because of Kenneth.
THE WAR
Gift Go By
PARIS.
A Bielefeld man has been sent to prison for a year for listening to an
was alleged that he also disseminated | the he heard.
news The mon pleaded that he had re- peated the broadcast news only to his wife, whom he trusted to keep it.
A German motor-car, described as The court, evidently stunned by the "rift from a high German person- gravity of the offence, told him that ality to a well-known Spaniard," the "enloney" of the sentence' was
due to his binmeless past life." patrol vessel searched the Spanish Best Of The Day steamer Castillo Buclar.
was found when
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Word 'Hooveri'
Now Finnish-
Means Charity
Mr. Baucher: You wanted to back decision; secondly, what really per- out then? Not because of the Web-turbs me is the statement that no GERMANY has refused to con-
more kits will be issued until the sider a proposal, made by, France, to The steamer was en route from Prisoners of war are being made Shanghai, Feb. 2.
The Judge: Why could not you war is over. That means that when humanise the war.
Genon to Barcelona. After the American Consulate had back out? I thought wrong
fo serve the purposes of Nazi pro- refused Treblisch Lincoln a visa on wrong, and they had to pay for it.
was tho
The French omeinls were entitled paganda. The "Weatfoellacher Lan- the present supply of kilts is ex-
The proposal was not to bomb de to seize the car, but in view of the deszeitung" publishes picture of a
NEW YORK. When Herbert the ground that he has no passport,
hausted and further thousands of
signuted Breng in When Mr. Haucher began to read Scotsmen are called to the colours
which refugee fact that it was a private gift thoy French prisoner captured on the Hoover visited Finland last year, the Lincoln sent a letter to the Consulate from a letter Miss Bradley wrote to there will be no fits available for some teren, would be placed left it on board.
Western front, with the caption: memory of his World War relief requesting á laissez passer, saying Kenneth after he had told her the them, nnd you destroy what is per-says United Press).
This Is presumably the powerful why do we have to shoot the work was so strong that a new word flint the question of achieving peace marriage could not take place, she has sentimental but nevertheless a
The offer was first made a year ago six-wheel military type en which Germana? asked til French ser- came into the Finnish vocabulary was of for greater importance and was overcome, and her mother and tremendously strong attraction to the by the French delegate for child wel-Hiller is known to be sending as a
hooveri," meaning "charity accord than the passport regula- pulleewoman went to her. urgency
Army. I think the Scottish nation as fare to Lengue of Nations confer- present to General Franco.. "Your President and Government ·
"A Last StabTM
a whole will be strongly resentful of ence, and was repented shortly after
the outbreak of the present war. the War Office statement. -
quite evidently have no workable
peace plan," he wrote. "All the re- She composed herself, and, Mr. ligious leaders who have, hitherto Baucher quoted:-
reveni
Visit To Britain
Beant
The Germans comment adds that ing to a letter froin Martti Pulalla, he obbeyed orders, but "fought in of Ouln, Finland, to the Finnish Re- ignorance of the objects of this war et. Fund, headed by Mg, Hoover,
By the time Mr. Hoover's' stay in the country was over, the adoptation of his name had become a familiar term throughout the country. To-day the single word is used by Finnish villagers when they Issue calls to meet emergencies
eunte answer a Press Magnates On which is being carried on by Britain."here. "I am proposing to try to get the are unable to sign such an ogrce-
Germany cannot visited the President also quite mani- "You have hurt me more than all War Office to withdraw the decision ment. festly have no plans but trivial the Websters put together. I won't and to persuade them that while we advance what will or will not be her God understand the kilt would hardly do objectives. War to-day is total war- banalities and catchy phrases with spare your feelings now, but
than for the front line, they should con- fare." out substance.
tinue to make them as and when they "The peace effort must be imme-you... dinte; otherwise it will be too late, Mr. Bauchier: You then make a can. I am roing to raise the matter A workable pence is known only rather nasty suggestion, a sort of lust in the House of Commons 3g noon as
It meets." to the Buddhists and I therefore stub-No, sir. offer my services with no intention Mr. Baucher quoted again: ----
known
more hurts me
#
A NEW
ONE
"There's not one of you I
JIN⋅
one of
United Press,
worthwhile to give me a sliance?" ceedings.
with Kenneth was
of sceking a job, honours or any-, thing else.
put my anger en when I like. decided to go on?-I didn't de- "If I fall to live up to my promise I'd rather be hung for murder than liberately inke these proceedings be-te decided to write I will stand unmasked before the let
was yellow." you think
cnuse Kenneth refused to marry me. Mr. Daucher: There was a time The judge: You say you would world as the greatest charlatan; but↑
I succeed would it not have been when you wanted to drop these pro- fhave brought this action even if he
When
your association fhad married you?-Yes,
broken off you The hearing was adjourned.
cannot
LONDON-A party of eminent French newspaper proprietors arrived in England to-day as guests of the British Council, an organisation in- terested In the spreading of British culture.
MAJOR J. F. BENOY
High Military Executive Seriously III
Destitute Flanish children have be Major J. F. Benay, Deputy Assist-gun to substitute the word "hooveri" Boston (Mass) Ives Vernon During their stay, visits will beant Adjutant General, China Com- for the,coats, shoes and blankets they Twitcitall.
made to Portsmouth and Aldershot, mand is seriously ill with pneumonia receive from relief organizations, the paper
Military Hospital, Dowen writer of the letter anid. on and they will see something of Lon- in the
Voleing the appreciation of the Road. alcoholism and became drunk in{don's air defences.' the procesK.
Among social functions inr
Major Benoy was taken 1 when Finnish people for friendly acts, Mr. Compulsory Service Putalla declared that "hooveri" was a When charged he plealed that he honour will be a luncheon by His sitting on the
WAN
"alcoholla
new word "to be kept forever in the January 20 and was theologist." Majesty'n Government on Thursday. Tribunal on
Finnish language.".. The bench is to think it over, The visit will conclude on. Friday, taken to hospital then.
an
their
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