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Stalin's Steam Roller Wrecked On Mannerheim Line The Kaiser tried it in Feb., 1915
SHATTERING RUSSIAN
DEFEATS
CONTINUE
AN ISLAND ON LAKE LABROGA-The 600-year-old Greek Catholic Monastery of Valamo on Lake Ladoga, scene of the heaviest fighting in the Russo-Finnish War. There are thousands of these islands in
Finland's lake system.
Special Police Mobilised
As Execution Time Nears
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Feb. 6 (UP). Thousands of special police detectives have been mobilised to crush the spreading wave of Irish terrorism, which has started on-the-eve-of the execution of
convicted of bomb murders. men,
and
new two
By WEBB MILLER
·UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT
HELSINGFORS, FEB. 6 (UP).—IT IS RE- LIABLY STATED THAT THE FINNISH VIC
TORY-OVER THE RUSSIAN 18TH. DIVISION IS NOT YET COMPLETE, ALTHOUGH IM- PORTANT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE.
Everything now depends on how the Finns follow their immediate success within the next
up few days.
HEAVY-FOOTED THE PEACE OFFER
DIPLOMACY
GERMAN ATTEMPT TO BREAK UP THE
ALLIANCE)
TO FRANCE
TREATED WITH SCORN BY THE GOVERNMENT.
THE PEOPLES ANGER,"
"Fred"The Daly, Chrozicia” SpecTARTE
· Cerrepondent, T. Baylor, na
"A separate peace with France." The Kalsor tried it, as these nowspaper headings, in November 1914, and February 1915, show ...
And Hitler tries it in Feb., 1940
NEW GERMAN PEACE PLAN REPORTED
cor-1
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Preceded by the most intensive artillery preparations
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 7 (UP),-The Stockholm and seen in the war so far, the Russians to-day drove another Oslo Correspondents of the "Ekstra Bladet" simultane- attack in the middle of the Mannerheim Line at Summa.ously report unconfirmed rumours that the meeting of the But they were completely repulsed and broke down League of Nations' committee at The Hague may discuss before the Finnish positions.
new German peace proposals to-morrow.
HEAVIEST ATTACK -
A neutral Power, these respondents report, will bring The man-power and rate of artillery fire was the Marshal Goering is reported to forward proposals, which Field heaviest the Russians have yet hurled against the Man-have suggested, for the conclu nerheim Line în a direct frontal assault-and their lossession of an armistice and, ul.
timately, peace. were proportionately heavy.*******
Judging by the preparations and the desperation of the suc- cessive, attacks, the Russians are doing their utmost to break down the Line and change their previous lack of success on the Karelian Isthmus.
Due to the great depth of the Finnish defences right across the Isthmus this would seem a risky, long) and costly job.
To-day's official communique states that the Russians used over 100 tanks in yesterday's terrile attack on the
Mannerheim Line between Summa
and Hojuniahdinjaervi, where Д battle ail day.
raged Altogether five Russian attacks were made and the Russlap losses
are reported to be heavy. Twenty- two Russian tanks wore captured,
North of Lake Ladoga, the Russians
dead on battlefield before the Pitkaranta islands.
The men, James Richards and Peter Barnes, will be executed at left several hundred Winton Green Prison, Birmingham, to-day.
They were .convicted of the murder of four men and a young woman who were killed in the big bomb explo- sion in Broadgate, centre of
· Coventry, on August 25 last
year....
Several' explosions have al- ready occurred at postal and railway centres as I.R.A. ter- rorists, begin their grim re- prisals of aabotage and murder.
Awaiting Execution
Meanwhile, the two condemned men await execution calmly in their cell, where they will receive Inst rites before they walk to the scaffold at dawn on Weilnesday,
The High Commissioner for Eire, Mr. John Dulanty, conferred fruit-
with Mr. Chamberlain
lessly with twenty minutes to-day, in
for
last-
THIS IS THE SCENE OF THE OUTRAGE for which two mem bera of the IRA, were executed at dawn this morning. Four men
the
Russian Attack Repulsed HELSINGFORS, Feb. 6 (Reuter). —An official conununique issued to- day states that on the Karelian Isthmus on Monday morning åller preparatory artillery fire, the enemy begun a heavy nttuck on several points
between Haljalahdenjaervi
and Summa,
Over 100 armoured cars were used In the battle which continued heavily
day.
VATICAN PLEA FOR FINLAND
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
VATICAN CITY, Feb. G
· (UP). The "Osservatoro Romano," In ori'editorial to- day, uppealed for aid to Fin- land.
The newspaper declared that if Finland was given real sup- port, instead of words of praise, the Soviet Army would be completely routed.
"All anti-Communist nations, In addition to the Baltic and Ballan-states-and-small Asiatle powers, would benefit by the defeat of Russia, which would free them from the Soviet menace.”
Amazing Arctic Conditions
Six Proposals
It is asserted that the proposals are as follows;
1-Neither side to claim war re- parations;
2-Immediate settlement of the colonial question, with the return of several of Germany's pre-war colonfer to the Reich;
3-Sudetenland to remain within the Reich;
4.Tho Falbh Corridor, Danzig and other German-speaking districts to be incorporated within the Reich;
5.—A pitbízelto in Austria er, al- ́ternatively, an anschluss under the auspices of a control composed of representatives of Aus- tris, France, Great Britain and Ger-
awny;
commission
France Is Angered At Bombing
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” PARIS, Feb. 6 (UP)It is authoritatively stated that France is determined to seek a solution for the Yunnan Rail- way bombing by diplomatic methods.
"Le Temps" declares: "Francò possesses rights which must be panceted. One may be assured that she knows how to defend them by diplomatic action in a manner befitting a great Power.' 6A Joint commission of repre- The paper deprecates Japanese Bentatives of Great Britain, France reports that the railway used to and Germany to discuss the future of supply Generalissimo Chlang Kaj- Czecho-Slovakia and Poland as in- shek with weapons or that a secret dependent States, with a full guaran- agreement exists between the French ice that they will never take up arms and the Chungking governments. against Germany.
Apropos the Japanese announce- ment that the bombing was dictated Wishful Thinking Informed quarters in Copenhagen tions, "Le Temps" said: "These de
exclusively by military considera- are of the opinion that the rumours clarations by the Foreign Ministry merely reflect lite sincere desire for spokesman are in nowise to be
con- peace throughout a sizeable portion of jsidered as implying e sailsfactory Scandinavia, and it is obvious, theyplanation of the incident itself. sly, that the proposuls contain much "Mercover, It cannot be accepted that is wishful thinking throughout as the clear and precise answer of Scandinavia,
the Takya government to France, Messages from Berlin, commenting
"At
any rate, the pronouncement on the report, quote authorised quarby the spokesman of the ters as slating that such an offer at Ministry that the Tokyo government Foreign this stage of the war would be practi-is not obliged to assume any. under-
taking as to the future because "Peace can no longer be won by bombardments were ordered fat mill- deliberation," these quarters assert.
tary reasons, cannot be accepted or that Hitler himself has repentedly from the air a train on an Interna- LONDON, Feb. 6 (Reuter).- disavowed that Germany has any in-tional line and
causing numerous The great snowfall which tention of tolding the initiative in any casualties to passengers
ond em- occurred on January 27 left pence moves,
ployees who fre French citizens****
than anything in all this cen- lury's weather records.
From the north of Scotland to the southern countries; there came stories of troubles and disasters which, because of the censorship on the weather newa, (UP)-In
could not be revealed. addition to Commander J. R. N. Now a strange chaotic pleture cant Taylor, it is now revealed that be drawn. Here are some of its another former China Station details.
nil
By midnight the attacks were re- pulsed everywhere with heavy enemy Llosses.
cally impossible.
the
Censor Releases "Big Freeze" Details It in pointed out in this correction justifying actions, such as bombing
We destroyed 22 armoured cars. On the north-east side of Lake 66] Ladoga we repulsed continuous PLEASE Tum To Pago Z.
and a young woman died as a result of the explosion depicted above 2 HONGKONG toss and damage worse ofkelat denial will be issued in Berib,
MORE GERMANS SEIZED
CAPE TOWN, Feb. 6 (Router).—Six German subjects, suspected
minute effort to get the British of hostile activities, were removed from the Portuguese liner Nyassa Government to reprieve the two men, by a British warship which intercepted the liner off the Cape coast..
The Eire Trade Union Congress will declare a one-hour stoppage of
all manufacturing and industrial. plants throughout Elre if men are executed.
the two
The bomb that caused the Coventry: explosion, klling five and injuring fifty people, was placed in a trades- man's box-cycle.
Fivo Victims Twenty shop
frontages were wrecked; a small ear and at least three bleycles were blown sky-high; froms and buses were damaged.
Two men, loter identified as
Richard and Barnes, were scen wheeling the bicycle. They propped it on the kerbstone besides a baby
car and hurried away. The explo- alon occurred a minute or two later.
The five victims of the outrage| were Mr. James
ames Clay, 82, of Claren- don Road, Kenilworth; Mr. Gwylm Rowlands, 50, of Beake Avenue, Coventry
Miss Laura Answell, of Clarendon Street, Earlsdon; Mr. Rex Genke, 81, a relief clerk; and John Arnott, 19.
Miss Answell' was to have been murried a fortnight after the ex-
plosion. Her body was identified at the mortuary by her fances
PLEASE Turo To Pago 2.
The Germans were landed here under guard,
Another Japanese Note
To Be Sent
To Britain
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH".
OFFICERS
LOST
LONDON, Feb. 7
officer lost his life when H.M.S. Those long-distance trains which Sphinx capsized in the North ran so late were held up in snow drifta, that nometimes buried the snow Sea on Saturday, after being plougis sent to clear them away.
In some railway cuttings, drifts damaged by Nazi bombers.
were 30 feet deep.
Over some country read, the traffle was virtually at a standstill. mountain-sides. A hundred villages
Cows and sheep were burled on the
were cut off from supplies of food and fuel. An aeroplane dropped rations Lieut. Nicholla transferred to the by parachute to isolated troops in
It is unlikely, however, that any
"unless the report becomes wide- spread enough to warrant one.”
*Rumours of the peace negotiations are also cabled by "Reuter" and "Dome!", and are identical with the above.
"Domel" adds that the plan makes no reference to that part of Poland annexed by Soviet Russia.
Gorman Denial
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ BERLIN, Feb. 6 (UP)—It has been officially stated that the visit of the German ambassadors from liclsingfors and Moscow, Bleucher and Von Schulenberg, to Berlin are not connected in any way with any mediation or peace offers in the Russo-Finnish conflict.
CHANGES MADE IN| I.L.O. COUNCIL
The second officer is Lieut. TOKYO, Feb. 6 (Domel)-The Japanese Government Anthony Nicholls who, until last year, was in the H.M.S. Suffolk, will send a reply to the British note of February 5, id former flagship of the China which they will communicate their desire to continue Squadron. negotiations for the return of the remaining Germans mine-sweeper Sphinx with Comman- Scotland.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” and a complete settlement of the Asuma Maru incident, ler Taylor, who was formerly of While householders could not get GENEVA, Feb, 6 (Domel)—Tho |
H.M.S. Delight on China Station, their regular milk supplies, the farm- formal withdrawal of Italy and the "Domci" learned from authoritative sources.
The late Ligut. Nicholls, who was ers could not get their milk away expulsion of Boviet Russia from the The Japanese Government has decided to take over nine of not killently lost his life when the The rallways werk the greatest suf- confirmed by a meeting of the Coun-
the farms,
International Labour Office has been the 21 Germans in accordance with the British communication Sphinx foundered, fained the Navy ferers and Scotland was the area incil ofglum and
cubsequently of February 5,
as a Midshipman 1930, when he which they suffered most.
Belgium and the Netherlands are About 2,000 travellers were to be recommended no successors to negotiations.
1931 and, marooned in trains somewhere near membership of the Governing Body. -Press Bitterness
ment of the Asama Maru incident on December 15, 1034, was appointed the Border. lo. I.M.S. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” has been greeted with a mixed 're-Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean). drills to clear some of the ice-bound Trent, reaching from the lumber 10 Bulldog, of the 4th Workmen had to use pneumatic famous tidal, stretch of the River TOKYO, Feb. 7 (Domel),The seption by the Tokyo Press, Foreign Minister's announcement in
He was transferred to the China roads," Nicht Nichi Shimbun":
above. Gainsborough. The river wis "Now Station flagship, M., Suffolk, on For the first time in 80 years, jammed with lec-packs some 8 to 10
October 15, 1930,
people were able to walk across the feet high.
They will insist on the return of the remainder in futurelle gained his seniority in
to HMS. Rodney,
the Dict regarding the partial settle- PLEASE Turn To Pago 2,
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