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ALLIED WARSHIPS
1
OFF
CTIC
OCEAN
BALTIC SEA
MURMANSK
RUSSIANS POUND AT FINN CITY
BY RALPH FORTE
UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT HELSINGFORS, Feb. 23 (UP)-The Red Army smashed through snow, and sleet in their climatic offensive against the Mannerheim Line in yesterday's attacks after losing more than 3,000 dead, according to a Finnish communique.
Russian tanks and artillery are participating in huge scale lighting before Viborg where. Finnish reports claim, a most furious war is in progress. the Red Army's attack being directed chiefly against Viborg.
The Finnish communique states that during Thursday's į lighting Rusalan attacks were. repulsed at Yla-Somme--about seven miles south of Viborg. It added that the Red Army'a.} attacks were also directed to warda Naykkijaervi and Kamara, railroad stations on the main line from Leningrad to Viborg.
Further claimed that
sixteen
Russian tanks were destroyed during į lo-day's fighting.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, FEB. 23 (UP).-OFFICIAL SI- LENCE IS BEING MAINTAINED IN NAVAL CIRCLES REGARDING COPENHAGEN REPORTS THAT A BRITISH FLEET · IS LYING OFF MURMANSK.
However, informed quarters point out that a blockade of Murmansk would imply a warlike act against the port of a noutral Power with whom Britain is outwardly on good terms.
If the British fleet off Murmansk is watching for German shipping, or other shipping en route to Germany, it would be carrying out ContrabandTM Control in that area similar to the control they have been exercising along all the major shipping lanes converging on Europe.
The British Fleet in that vicinity would have a two-fold purpose; firstly to prevent cargoes moving from Murmansk to Germany and secondly, to prevent German ships from returning from the Atlantic via the Arctic and reaching safely in Norwegian territorial
waters.
Another possible explanation Hore-Belisha Speaks for the British fleet's presence
near Murmansk would be the.
interruption of
possible ship
ments of German war materials. to Russia, which would be in line with the British seizures of German exports as authorised by Order in Council last Novem- ber.
Must Not Let Europe
Run Amok Again
Commander Stephen King-Hall's Suggestions For Real Peace
PARIS, Feb. 23 (Reuter),-"When the war is over we must Newspaper reports from Stockholmi sinted that there are unconfirmed re-see that for a long period at least for two generations—that ports that Stalin has arrived in no state in Europe has a possibility of running amok," said Com- Leningrad to participate in the Red munder Stephen King-Hall when lecturing to-day to a fashion- Army's celebrations.
Newspapers Warned
Censorship Privilege Must Not Be Abused
ahle French audience.
The responsibility therefore rests with England and France, he continued.
URGES ALLIED AID FOR FINNS
LONDON, Feb. 23. (Reuter). That France and Britain should. throw all their weight" by "sea, air and land into the task of helping Finland was urged by Mr. Lestle Hore-Belisha, the former Minister of War, address- ing his constituents at Devon- |port to-day.
This was his first public speech since resigning the War Ministry.
No Easy Task
The Allies have no easy task before them, he said. To assure a triumph they must rely not on an Internal eneiny collapse, but defeat by an external force: The continued re- reason was that there were two sorts sistance of Finland gives reason to
be
The
risk of helping Finland may
may greater.
of nations at different stages of believe that Russia's might rests on political evolution. One group In-Insecure foundations. cluded England, France, Holland, and Sweden, for example, who our two peoples fidelity, loyalty, century. The other group, he said,
reva pe create in the minds of that we were living in the therstood her eat but the risk of not helping Does any body imagine that f respect and real affection for the comprised the Russians and Germana Russia wins she will be satisfied with country which is neither French who were still in the 10th or 18th Finland or that Germany will not nor Bellish but Franco-British, he century.
receive from Russia equivalent ad- vantages in Scandinavia?
Bald.
The sacrifice would not end with
LONDON, Feb. 29 (Reuter). the war, he said, and the danger was Sir Walter Monckton Direc-that once peace was obtained the tor-General of the Press Bureau, people would exclaim "Let's get back had a frank talk with journalists to our normal life."
at a Press Club luncheon to-day. That, he said, would sow the sends
for a third wor,
Consultative Council
Sir Walter gave a warning - that ; certain newspapers, "who prefer to do their own censorship," would not be
We must not attempt to solve pro- allowed Indefinitely to escape regula-blems within the national framework. tions which the Press generally accepted.
Appeals For Fair Play
voluntary,
necessary.
Holland Makes A Discovery
Illuminated Signals Used By Spies
*Steps should be taken to establish AMSTERDAM, Feb. 23 (Reuter).
ndwr when he continued.
The purpose of the balls is evident
ly to guide forely alreraft.
It is already reported, though it is
The Alternativa Control of Finland, Norway and Sweden by Germany and · Rusala would mean that our considerablo purchases there could be stopped and that Germany would be able to or- ganise additional markets for her-
clsive action now could curtall the
Below we publish
graphs of a new serics, specially taken by Norman Soong, of Hongkong's defence preparations. These photographs will appear daily in the "Telegraph".
THE BOOM across the main channel into Hongkong harbour. A submarine going oul for patrol duty.
Nazi Plane Shot Down In Essex R.A.F. Attack On German Warships
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Feb. 23 (UP).—— Anti-aircraft guns fired on and unconfirmedly 'shot down, a German raider off the Essex const.
People in Essex suid they saw in the far distance, a big puff of smoke directly under the raider after which a black object, believed to have been the plane, hurtled to the ground.
There were no air-raid alarms Mind no bombs were dropped.
The ralder was first sighted coming'. in from the sea at 11 am.
It is also reported that a German raider dying at high altitude was sighted off the Norfolk coast. R.A.F., fighter planes darted to the scene and shortly afterwards bomb explosions and machine-gun
Arc
were heard. Inhabitants in the Roker dis. trict of Sunderland reported they sighted a bomber flying so low that the swastika was plainly visible. To all the foregoing, however, the
activity
MOTOR TORPEDO* BOATS in action In Hongkong harbour." They operate against surface craft with torpedoes and against fe Ministry officially denied know- undersen craft with depth charges.
TRIBUTES TO RIVER
PLATE FIGHT HEROES
Mr. Churchill Finds New Slogan
ledge of any German alr during the morning.
Attack On Warships Air circles so far have no informa-
extent tion regarding the
of the damage the R.A.F, indicted on Ger- - man warships yesterday, pointing out that it was most difficult to ascerta.u, since
since the netion occurred in the darkness.
The number of R.AF., planes was not mentioned; however, a German communique, mentioned three Wel-
have been shot down.
LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter).—The men of the Ajaxlingtons of which one was alleged to A well-planned adequate and de- and Exeter Gled diffidently and quietly into the famous duration of the war while any half-banqueting hall of the Guildhall to-day, but soon hearted intervention would be abor- regained their self-possession and a hum of conversation
tive from the start.
Weather Cause
Of Of Explosion
filled the hall.
were
LATEST
Britain Replies
To U.S. Protest
new departments in Britain and-Following the discovery of a spy France, he said, and foreign ministers ring In Holland, arrests are expecte
counter with the Graf Spee early in should be devoted to the task of shortly in connection with luminous
the morning on a nice fine day with He had not had to institute pro- working out ways and means of balls which have recently been fired
Captain Bell and Captain plenty of room had made them the ceedings against any newspaper but Anglo-French co-operation in peace into the air at night in various paris
Woodhouse, the commanders of envy of the rest of the Navy, Mr. in two cases had submitted the papers jume.
of the country. to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
the two cruisers, sat on either Winston Churchill, the First Lord of "I would establish a consultative
the Admiralty rose to speak. Sir Walter Monckton recalled that Council, 50 cent. French and 50
side of the Lord Mayor. Mr. He said that the ties uniting the submission of news for censorship was per cent. British. This would do for
Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel navy and the nation, or the navy and appealed to the Anglo-French co-operation what the not confirmed, that some people being No Sabotage Evidence Hoare, Sir Kingsley Wood, Lord and the
mercantile marine defaulters not to take an unfair ad Dominions Once docs for relations held in connection with the spy plot, vantage of the rest of the Press by between the Dominions and Britain," are suspected of having sent them up.
Says Coroner
Chatfield and Lord Hankoy sat never so strong. The brunt of the wor had fallen to the sailormen and
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Reuter). failing to submit
nearby,
reply to the United The military authorities mean-
their comrades of the R.A.F. Constal Britain's LONDON. Feb. 23 (Reuter)—A Asking why Europe was afflicted while are investigating reports that verüfet
Proposing the of accidental death was Mayor referred to the courage, daring. 3,000. lives in
toast, the Lord Command, and they had lost barely Staten note of December 8 protext "If not, though I should hate it, I each generation with a major war, further coloured balls were shot in recorded at the inquest of the victims skill, geamanship and tenacity shown struggle.
hard unrelenting ing against the British blockade of cannot let it rest there," be concluded, Commander King-Hall said that the the sky near Amersfoort and Loenen of the Waltham Abbey explosion last in the battle of the River Plate.
German exports was received by the n few nights ago.
month.
The brilliant fight which they State Department to-day.
It is understood that the Note de-, The existence of the spy ring was
which merited an honoured place in were celebrating had warmed The Coroner said that there
the fends the British position and recalls disclosed with the orrest of six per- evidence of sabotage, 1.
the annals of the Navy.
cockles of the British heart in
that some concessions have been sons, including a German, at Gron- Evidence was given by Colonel What Nazis Can't. Build
dock, old winteri It would be com- made for German exports already ingen in norili Holland. Police In-Ferrereau, military amistant to the
fort vestigation followed the attempted Chief Superintendent of Ordnance They had heard stories of the now flotillas of the Grand Fleet, mine- paid for by Americans. escape of two foreign soldiers who Factories, that a Court of Enquiry had engines of destruction which the sweepers and sti warships' nuxiliaries, had been interned.
concluded that the most likely causo enemy was about to produce, he said, whose number was now about 1,700 of the explosion was the abnormal but there was one thing he could and which was rapidly rising, that |not bulld-boys of the buil-dod breed, London should show its approval of Messrs. Fung Kong-un and Kan Tong-po have been nominated as that it was due to the nitro-glycerine to-day,
The Court had considered it possible some of whom they were honouring the way the Nayy was carrying on, and was going to carry on. tintil members of the Court of the Univer- becoming frozen and had been in-applauded speech by Captela lived but the high purposes we had
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BRITISH WARSHIPS STOP SOVIET, ITALIAN SHIPS
ISTANBUL, Feb. 23 (Domel),—Beltish warships stopped and asarched on Soviet and two Hallan steamers near the Dardannelles allegedly in Turkish waters on Thursday, it was reported here
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