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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

February 5, 1940,

FINNS CARVE FOREST QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

Red Pilots Surrender

FINNISH planes have "bombed" Russian dromes with handbills.

лего-

These bills promiso Rus- sign flyers, who land their bombers undamaged on Fin- nish territory a handsome sum of money.

So far 14 Russian Ayers have landed behind the Fin- nish lines and given up their planes.

MEMORIALS FOR DEAD FOES

HELSINGFORS.

IF you went up to the Finnish front line in the Kare- lian Isthmus, you would be quite likely to find the troops engaged in a most unwarlike occupation: carving on trees.

But it would not be their initials, that they would be cutting on the bark.

They would be carving a memorial to their fallen enemies,

There are scores of such simple memorinis carved up in the *** | frontier forests to-day, and the number is daily growing.

You see the twisted rennunts of a Soviet tank, a low mound in the snow-covered ground alongside, and un the tree the brief words: "Here lie three Russian soldiers."

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Chased by a British warship, the German luxury liner Columbus was scuttled by its crew 400 miles off Norfolk, Columbus is shown above nt archor in the harbour of Vera Cruz, Mexico, where she put in at outbreak of wor. She was known to thousands of tourists,

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LATE NEWS

Hitler Has

To Stop Exodus

It is at the point where the River Vuoksi enters Lake Ladoga that this jisthmus fighting has been fiercest.

Here, and the south, the Rug- slats are bringing up heavy artillery to batter themselves a way through.

But it is not, so easy to bring up Theavy guns through dense forest jover ground strewn with boulders ranging in size from that of n foot- ball to that of an elephant.

Particularly when the Finnish Alt † Force is constantly harrying the Soviet supply columns,

A re-

Finland's rullery marksmanship in not to be sneezed at either. [vent offleial communique speaks of seven Soviet tanks being destroyed in the Isthmus Oghting.

The commuelque alan spoke of a two-hour naval battle in RINSIT which direct hits on warships are believed to have been scored.

Strategically, the most interesting struggle at the moment is that rang- ing on the fourth front." where the Russians are trying to break neross the waist of Finland" to the Baltic.

Victory Claim

So far unconfirmed reports from this sector declare that the Finns have gained a big victory near the village of Suomussalmi.

The village was taken by the Rus- Islans recently. The Flans launched a violent counter-attack and caught a large Russian force in n-trap,

Hundreds are said to have been taken prisoners.

claim

Red Army communiques that the Russions continued to ad- ivance "on nlt fronts."

Soviet troops were stated to have Joccupied the town of Pitkarunia, on the nothern bank of Lake Ladoga,

AMSTERDAM, which is the 'railway terminus lead- PROPAGANDA MINISTER ing to Serdobol. GOEBBELS has had to impose)

new gag on the much- feltered German Press.

He has ordered it at all costs to hush up the fact that the home- ccming" to the Reich of the Ger- mans from the Baltic States has been temporarily suspended.

Nearly all German newspapers publish long articles from their special currespondents about this homecoming, ns-it-it-were-still-con-j

отегон tinuing merrily.

They Asked Garrison Of 5.000

Some even print a report that be- fore March 1, 1940, 100,000 Germans

FINLAND'S Government re- will have emigrated from Russin to cently issued a White Book de Germany.

It is true enough that Hitler had tailing the progress of the agreed to admit these 100,000 to Soviet-Finnish negotiations, and satisfy the Soviets, who regarded outlining Russia's demands and them as a disturbing element. Finland's attitude.

But the Fuehrer must face the fact that it is now quite impossible for him to carry out his promise. time.

Missing Booty

The full Soviet demands were thus published in Finland for the first They were designed "to make possible the blocking of the Gulf of First, he has to money to spare Finland by artillery from the Finnish for the costs of the immigration. land Estonian consts, to

prevent His loot in Poland was smaller enemy warships or transports enter- thon

expected. The Polishing the Gulf of Finland." Government got its gold reserve over The Russian demand for a 30- the frontier, and the booty anticip-year tease of the Finnish port of aled from the Polish Jews did not Hango has already been disclosed. come up to hopes.

The White Book revealed that And the homecoming of the Baltic Moscow wanted to keep a garrison Germans was to have been nunced for the protection of the Hungo base,

with this Polish booty,

jot one Infantry regiment, two anti-

Of all the promises the Nazis had aircraft batteries, three air force re- made to these emigres, only one can giments, and one battalion of ar- now be fulalled.

impured cars. They can be given land in

The total was not to exceed 5.000 quered Poland: there is enough of món. that.

con-

"Flanish counter-proposals included But there is not the least hope of willingness to cede all the islands replacing for them the capital they Russia wished for except Hogland, had to leave behind in their Baltic which Finland desired to discuss homes.

Many of them, seeing no future ahead, have already committed sul- elde in despair.

B.E.F.-S.O.S. FOR OIL LAMPS

Mr. Burgin, the Minister of Sup-

Finland would

not hear of

further. But leasing Hango, maintaining that this would be inconsistent with her policy of strict neutrality.

Later the Soviet proposed to buy Mango outright, declaring that this be in accordance with Fin- Hand's neutrality. Finland, however,

refused.

And Russia asserted. that the ces-

ply, cannot supply the Army with ion of a naval base ut Hango was

the oll lamps it needs.

"an absolutely indispensable minim-

He has now asked the public to jum for sale-guarding the defences of give him 24,000 lamps which are Leningrad.". urgently needed to light Army

One newspaper states:

huls. "If you

have an oil lamp you are asked to Russia Draws Veil

hand it to the nearest milliory station

[or send it, carriage paid, to the Cen-

tral Ordnance Depot, Didcot, Berlus.

Carringe paid! Mr. Burgin, Minister

of Supply, you might at least have

Over War

MOSCOW.

MOSCOW: radio has closed

supplied your benefactors with the down without mentioning the postage stamp. If you run short of war. in Finland. guns, we might be able to supply you, ment for the official war com- carriage. pald, with the old blunder- burg that hangs in the hall or the primitive platol grandfather carried

In the Crimea,"

unique, there is little news of the fighting in the Press.

at is clear from the communique that any gains that may have been An official of one of the largent oil made are insignificant. lump manufacturers in the country UNDE 1 given, however; to remarked: "Had we been warned the German denial that the Nazis' ore last September that something like sending arms to Finland. afty times, our usual annual output would be wanted, we could have Leningrad denied that dum-dum arranged to make the lamps even in bullets or polson gas had been used

few months."

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