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MICKEY ROONEY
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JUDY GARLAND in
"BABES IN ARMS”
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 5, 1940.
FINNS CARVE FOREST QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
Red Pilots Surrender
FINNISH planes have "bombed" Russian nero- dromes with handbills.
These bills promise Rus- sian flyers who land their bombers undamaged on Fin- nish territory a handsome sum of money.
So far 14 Russian flyers have landed behind the Fin- alsh 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 memorials carved up in the *********** | frontier forests to-day, and the number is daily growing.
You see the twisted remnants of a Soviet tank, a low mound in the snow-covered ground alongside, and on the tree the brief words: "Here
LINER THEY SCUTTLED
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Chased by a British warship, the German luxury liner Columbus was scuttled by its crew 100 miles off Norfolk. Columbus is shown above at anchor In the harbour of Vern Cruz, Mexico, where she put in at outbreak of war.
She was known to thousands of tourists.
AND HER SCUTTLER
Captain Dachne, who ordered the German luxury liner Colum- bus set afire at sen, when chased by a British battleship.
LATE NEWS
Hitler Has To Stop Exodus
AMSTERDAM. PROPAGANDA MINISTER GOEBBELS has had to impose new gay on the much- fettered German Press.
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He has ordered it at all costs fo)
hush up the fact that the "home- coming to the Reich of the Ger-3 mans from the Baltic States has been temporarily suspended,
their i
Nearly all German newspapers Ipublish
articles from long -special correspondents about this homecoming, as if it were still con- tinuing merrily.
Some even print a report that be-
[fore March 1,
1940, 100,000 Germans
le three Russian soldiers."
Guns Sont For
It is at the point where the River Vuoksi enters Loke Ladoga that this Isthmus fighting has been fiercest.
Here, and to the Routh, the Rus- sians are bringing up heavy artillery, to batter themselves a way through.
But it is not so easy to bring heavy guns through dense forest jover ground strewn
with boulders ranging in size from that of a fool- ball to that of an elephant.
up
Particularly when the Finnish Air Force is constantly harrying the Soviet supply columns.
Finland's artillery marksmatuhip is not to be sneezed at either, A re cent olleis communique speaks of seven Soviet tanks being destroyed
in the isthmus laing.
The commualque also spoke
of a two-hour naval battle in which direct hits when
on Russian
are believed to have
warships are
been scored.
Strategically, the most interesting Istruggle at the moment is that rang- ing on the "fourth front." where the Tussians are trying to break necross the "waist of Finland" to the Bulle.
tory Claim Victory
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- sians recently. The Finns launched n violent counter-attack and caught a large Russian force in a trap.
Hundreds are sald. to have been taken prisoners. *
*
claim
Red Army communiquer that the Russians continued to ad- Ivance "on' all fronts."
Soviet troops were stated to have fuccupied the town of Pitkarunta, on the mothern bank of Lake Ladoga, which is the rallway terminus lead- Ing to Serdobol..
They Asked Garrison Of 5,000
FINLAND'S Government re- will have emigrated from Russia to cently issued a White Book de Germany.
It is true enough that Hitler had tailing the progress of the Ingreed to admit these 100,000 to Soviet-Finnish acgotiations, and satisfy the Soviets, who regarded outlining Russia's demands and them as a disturbing element, Finland's attitude.
But the Fuchrer must face the The full Soviet demands were thus fact that it is now quite impossible!
published in Finland for the first for him to carry out his promise. Itime.
Missing Booty
They were designed "to make possible the blocking of the Gulf of First, le has no money, to spare Finland by artillery from the Finnish for the costs of the immigration. and Estonian coasts, to prevent Iris loot in Poland was smaller enemy warships or transports enter- thon he expected. The Polishing the Gulf of Finland.” Government gut its gold reserve overi
The Russian demand for a 30-
the frontier, and the booty, anticip-year lease of the Finnish port of nted from the Polish Jews did not fange has already been disclosed.
The White Book revealed
that come up to hopes.
And the homecoming of the Bultle Muscow wanted to keep à garrison Germans was to have been financed for the protection of the Hango base, with this Polish booty,
of one infantry regiment, two anti- Of all the promises the Nazis had aircraft batteries, three air force re- one battalion of ar- made to these emigres, only one can giments, and now be fulfilled.
moured caTS.
They can be given land in con- The total was not to exceed 5,000 quered Poland: there is enough of men."
that.
Finnish counter-proposals included
further.
But Finland would
to discuss
not hear of
But there is not the least hope of willingness to cede all the islands replacing for them the capital they Russia wished for except Hoglund, had to leave behind in their Baltic which Finland desired homes.
Many of them, seeing no future nhend. have already committed sui-leasing Hango, maintaining that this would be inconsistent with her policy eide in despair.
of strict neutrality.
Later the Soviet proposed to buy with Fin- be in accordance would land's neutrality, Finland, however, refused.
B.E.F.-S.O.S. FOR Hango outright, declaring that this
OIL LAMPS
Mr. Burgin, the Minister of Sup-
And Russia asserted that the ecs-
ply, cannot supply the Army with slon of a naval base at Hango was the oil lamps it needs,
"an absolutely indispensable minim-
He has now asked the public to jum for safe-guarding the defences of give him 24,000 lumps which are Leningrad." urgently needed to light Army huls.
You
One newspaper states: "If you have an oll lamp you are asked to hand it to the nearest military station or send it, carriage paid, to the Cen-
tral Ordnance Depot, Dideot, Berks.
Carriage poldi Mr. Burgin, Minister
of Supply, you might at least have
Russia Draws Veil
Over War
MOSCOW.
MOSCOW radio has closed
supplied your benefactors with the town without mentioning the postage stamp. If you run short of war in Finland.
funs, we might be able to supply you, Except for the official war com- carriage paid, with the old blunder-munique, there is little news of the buns that hangs in the hail or the fighting in the Press, primitive pistol grandfather carried It is clear from the communique in the Crimea.
that any gains that may have been An official of one of the infgest oll made are Insignificaat. lamp manufacturers in the country Prominence in given, however, to remarked: "Had we been warned the German denial that the Nazis are last September that something like sending arms to Finland.
nifty times our usuni annual-output Russion military headquarters at would be wanted, we could have Leningrad denied that dum-dum urranged to make the lamps even in bullets or polson gas had been used, n few months."
against the Finns.
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