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WHITEAWAY'S
18th Red Division Wiped Out: Soviet Offensive Fails PRES. No Sharp
OVERWHELMED American
RUSSIA
BY ANOTHER DISASTER
THE NEW. RUSSIAN ATTEMPT TO SMASH THE FINNISH DE- FENCES ALONG THE MANNERHEIM LINE, WHICH RUNS ACROSS THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS FROM THE GULF OF FINLAND TO LAKE LADOGA, AND AGAINST WHICH THE REDS HAVE HURLED ALL THEIR MIGHT IN TEN WEEKS OF ABOrtive efförT, HAS FAILED.
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The big offensive, which was launched last week, is fading away.
New disaster has overwhelmed the Russian forces which wore at- tempting to flank the famous Finnish "Maginot Line" by driving behind it| north of Lake Ladoga.
According to reports reaching Helsingfors (quoted by "Reuter"), the entire 18th Division of the Red Army has been virtually wiped out. A division numbers approximate- ly 15,000 men.
The Russians have been com- pletely dispersed, leaving between and 1,600 casualties-either 1,500 killed, captured or died of cold and hunger.
The 18th Red Division has been a week at Kitlca, a city marooned for north-cast
Lake Ladoga which
NAVAL
OFFICER LOST
of
the Russians captured carly in the war. and where they were recently cut off when the Finns broke their lines of communications.
If the report of the defeat of this "Russian spearhead
53 Missing As Minesweeper Founders is confirmed, the Finnish
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH
LONDON, Feb. 5 (UP)-Among the five officers and 19 ratings lost aboard the 875-ton mine-sweeper H.M.S. Sphinx, which foundered in heavy weather after being damaged in the big Nazi air raids on shipping on Saturday, was Commander J. R. N. Taylor, formerly of Hongkong.
Commander Taylor and four ratings are officially reported
dend.
Four other Officers and 45 ratings are reported missing.
Six Officers and 44 rotingu have been landed at an English port.
H.M.S. Sphinx was one of several vessels attacked by the Nazi planes during Saturday's raids.
She was damaged by a German bomb, but not sumciently to sink her, and arrangements were im- mediately made to tow her Info| port. pork
During the tow, however, the weather become increasingly bad and the ship suddenly foundered.
Only 50 of the crew were up from the ley water and it is fear ed that all hope for the rest must be
abandoned.
GERMAN PLANS SHELVED
No Now Taxation For Time Being
ZURICH, Feb. 5 (Reuter) - A Berlin telegram to the "Neue picked Deutsche Zeitung" says that all new taxation and war economy plans, which were ventilated in Germany last month, have been shelved for the time being.
Commander Taylor was in com- mand of H.MLS. Delight on China Blation.
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Rosided in Kowloon, He resided at the Arlington Hotel in Mody Road, Kowloon, with his wife, They lefi Hongkong England in April last year,
for
It is considered psychologically unwise to place fresh burdens on the public while they are suffering from the present shortage of coal, notatoes, vegetables and fruit.
The dispatch adds that the dimeult problem of financing the war thus Commander Taylor, who was pro- remains unsolved, with the result that
victory marks the culmina- tion of the failure of the Russian attempt to outflank the Mannerheim Line, says
"Reuter."
An official Finnish com- MAROONED munique states that additional 500 Russians ON ISLAND
an
were killed in a battle north of Lake Ladoga.
Russia is also meeting with disastrous reverses in the air, according to another "Reuter" message.
of
Passengers Of Lost Plane Are Found
TÁIHOKU, Formosa, Feb, & (Do- mel). The nine passengers and Confirmation has reached London four members of the crew of the reports of the astonishing missing Douglas alr-liner. "Ase," success of the Finnish Air Force which disappeared on Monday after since the addition of new speedy noon whilst en route across the British and Hallan pursuit planes China Sea from Fukuoka to Talhoku, has permitted them to meet the
Russians on more equal terms. luave been found.
It is estimated that the Russians The air-liner made a forced land- have lost at least 240 plones against ing on an uninhabited island in the only 15 Finnish planes brought down. Uwolnuri group, midway between
This fantastic ratio is striking Taikoku and the Loochoon. evidence that the much vaunted Red PLEASE Turn To Pago 5.
Cost Of Seat Slumps
Lowest Level In 32 Years
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRIPH"
The wreckage was sighted by an- other Douglas air-liner which set out from Fukuoka to search for the "ABO."
The "Aso" is wrecked on the northern end of the island, which rises only a few feet out of the water and is composed only of coral
COLUMBUS PROTEST
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5 (Router). A protest against the confinement of 512 sailors from the, scut- tled German liner, Colum- bus, on an island in San Francisco Bay has been. voiced by the German Con- sulate.
The German Vice-Consul denounced the action of the United States emigra tion department in cancel- ling shore leave for the crow of the Columbus and has forwarded an official report to the German Embassy.
This may develop into an international incident if the German Embassy sends a formal protest to the De- partment of State.
waving portions of their clothing POLES IN
All thirteen people are safe. | *** They indicated their presence by
to the rescue plane.
Foodstuff and; wator NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UP),~{dropped by the rescue plane. moted on June 30, 1933, was op- signs of inflation are becoming more The cost of becoming a member Subsequently the Japanese pointed to HMS. Delight on April 0, and more evident. 1837 and brought the destroyer to Despite control, prices and wages of the greatly-coveted New York freighter Kelon Maru, which was Hongkong In 1930 shortly after the are going up and the shortage of Stock Exchange has slumped to directed to the rescue by the goods ins given gise to a flourishing its lowest level in 32 years. TESCHE plane, arrived off the was re-commissioned,'
black market in
jyland. He was previously in command of change hands at prices for above as US$00.000 in 1918, slumped yester- which objecta The price, which reached as high ILM. mingasweeper Abingdon,
Despite rough monsoonal the 2nd Minesweeping Flotilla in the normal.
day to $40,000,
weather, the ship is now attempt Mediterranean. Earlier, he took
To-day's market price for member-ing to land a rescue party by course nt the Staff College att Andover,
withi
HMS, Sphinx, is the 23rd mayai vessel lost in the war. She was comparatively new ship, being com- missioned In December 1038 under
Espionage Scare Inship is $45,000 td and $54,000 asked. lifeboat.
Switzerland
Feb.
1910
REVOLT
Now Nazi Repressive Steps Foreshadowed
QUEZON
WRECK
DRAMA Protests
NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (Reuter) PHOTOS. A decision to refrain, as far as is
DRAMATIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WRECK OF THE PRE- SIDENT QUEZON-A water logged lifeboat, (above) londed with survivors, coming alongside Japanese rescue ship. LEFT.—The President Quezon, stern low down in the water, photographed shortly up.--Domci
before Photos.
sho
broke
U.S. Fleet To Hold
possible, from sending any more sharp notes to Britain over noutrality questions has been reached by the Adminis- tration, according to an "Associated Press Washington dispatch.
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The dispatch says that questions arising between the two countries are pected to be threshed out · ¡almest entirely through personal conferences be tween officials at Washing- ton and Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador, or between officials and the American Ambassador in London.
"The series of waspish notes which have been sent to Britain in the past two months have stirred up American public opinion to an alarming extent, according to some officials who [could
no advantage in acrimonious debate between the two countries which they envisaged as a direct encouragement to Hitler.
sce
an
"Naturally this reported new polley would be contingent upon the oc- violation of American neutral rights,"
currence of no further serious British
says the dispatch,
LATEST
Manoeuvre GERMANS
Will Test European
Naval Methods
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
TO BE RELEASED
Arita States Nine H.K. Internees To Be Freed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UP) -Methods of warfare developedį in the war in Europe are to be
NINE OF THE twenty-one Ger- fested by the U.S. Grand Fleet{mans who were taken off the during the forthcoming manocu- Asama Maru by a British naval
interned vres, which will be held in the unit, and are now
in | Pacific Ocean in March,
Hongkong, are to be returned to Japan, according to a "DomeiTM The mimic war will last for mesange received from Tokyo just
two months.
Command
as this edition went to press. The U.S. Naval High
Authority for this allegation is plans to deploy 130 worships and Mr. H. Arita, the Japanese Foreign 350 warplanes in the excrelses, which} Binister. are designed to test the effectiveness Mr. Ariin told the Japanese
of American defences in the light of Diet this morning that Britain, in the latest developments in the Euro-laddition to releasing nine of the pean War.
121, Germans, has expressed regret
Tactles employed by the British for the fact that, the Asama Maru and German Navy will be studied incident had aroused the feelings and employed in the U.S. manoeuvres, of the Japanese nation.
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Attack On Warships
"Although a
complete settle» ment of the lucident has not yet
The exercises will pay particular been reached, negotiations have attention to the dangers of attack on reached an Important stage." Mr. warships by aircraft and submarine. Arita said.
these two Important factors, the Nazi U-Boal campaign and aerial at-
He expressed the bellef that the
tacks on British shipping will pro-Asman Maru incident would not be vide precedents upon which the U.S.paralleled in the future, High Command will hasn ita tapiles. Japan, he said, intended to con. The manoeuvres-officially de- tinue negotiations for the return of signated as Fleet Problem No. 21 the remaining 12 Germans. will be conducted in the greatest secrecy.
Aros Not Revealed
The nine Germans who are to be released are not closely connected with the Nazi military service, Mr. All data, even to the exact extent Arlla sald. of the aren over which the feet will
The British and Japanese Notes manoeuvre, is being kept strictly on the incident are to be made publie confidential.
simulianeously in London and Tokyu the fat & p.m. fo-day, ̧ It is known, however, that operations contemplate the division
· ZURICH, Feb. 5 (Router) of the U.S. Fleet into two opposing Disturbances in the southern forces. part of German occupied Poland Admiral Snyder, Commander-in- Chief of the U.S. Battle Fleet, will were reported by the Berlin cor-end one force and will be opposed respondent of the "Basler by Vice Admiral Andrews. Nachrichten" to-day.
The
price range was between $00.000, which was an all-time high, and $40,000.
O.S.K. START A
·BERNÈ.
(Reuter)~~A If this low level is broken, the woman of foreign nationality living price for membership will be the NEW SERVICE
This correspondent adds that papers give prominence to lacidents the 1937 Estimates, She cost £100,- nl a hotel at Lausanne was arrested lowest since 1918, one year after the
similar disturbances, whichin Vilna with the object, it is believed: 600 to build and was named after in connection with a Swiss espionage Great War started, when a seat TOKYO, Feb. 1. (Demo)The occurred among Polish refugees Derlin, of justifying a new series well-known mins-sweeper which case, according to the Lausanne changed hands for $30,000.
0.8.K. Uner, Montevideo Maru, sailed in Vilna territory, wore ascribed of opprelve measures in l'eland. served throughout the 1914-18 war. "Gozelle".
The severity of these measures ir The prices of membership on the from Yokohama în Monday - na : the The normal complement was 10 men,Į Another woman, believed to be a Stock Exchange reflect the volume of first ship to run on the newly-opened in Germany to "accrot. Allled defended on the ground that Germany and Sphinx was armed with one German, living in Basle, and a man business done more than they re-castward Stull American Line via influence.” 4-in. gun and a 4-in.... anti-aircraft were orkested at a hotel in Olten flect the character of production or Panainn. The now service provides
yesterday on suspicion of spying distribution of industry.
for alx voyeros ini & year.
gun.
requiren to ensure her security in the The newspaper. "Voelklacher Boo- rear while she is at war with the bachler and other German now-Alites in the west.
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