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SOVIET-RUMANIA PEACE PACT
NOW OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED
MORE WARSHIPS Statement by the
FOR SWEDEN
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 6 (Router)The Government to-day announced that it is asking Parliament to vote 63,000,000 kronor this fiscal year for the construction of destroyers, mine-sweepers, submarines and motor-boats.
Next year a further 54,- 000,000 kronor will be sought for the construction of more warships to replace obsolete vessels.
Hongkong Ship's Crew Lost
LONDON, Mar. 6 (Reuter),——
It is now feared that the entire crew of the Hongkong-registered steamer Charles F. Meyer-has
been lost.
The vessel, a 10,000-ton tanker owned by the Oriental Transpor-
SWEDEN CAN Russian Legation
MUSTER-
Eight Night battleships (Ger-
many has five);
Four cruisers (Germany has ten): Sixteen destroyers (Germany has
thirty-une):
Fourteen submarines (Germany
has about fifty);
One aircraft carrier (Germany has two-under construction); One seaplane carrier (Germany
has none);
Twenty-four patrol boats (Ger-
many has fourteen).
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BUCHAREST, MAR. 7 (DOMEI)-AL- THOUGH EARLIER RUMOURS TO THE EFFECT THAT SOVIET RUSSIA AND RUMANTA WERE ABOUT TO CONCLUDE A NON-AGGRESSION PACT WERE DENIED, THE SOVIET LEGATION IN BUCHAREST HAS NOW CONFIRMED THE REPORTS.
The Legation announces that the Soviet
AMAZING TRIP
A STRIKING VIEW of the giant new Cunard White Star iiner Queen Elizabeth in Meara, John Brown's
where and was moved on February 20. This photograph, the last that will be per
permlited until after the war, WON taken before the Queen Elian- beth's masts and funnels were fited. Unilke ile smaller Queen Mary, sho will have two funnels, pected to capture the Blue Riband of the Atlantic when she is placed in service.
Bho is **-
Foreign Commissar, M. Molotoff, will shortly 85,000-Ton Liner Queen Elizabeth Approaches No mention is made in New York After An Amazing Maiden Voyage
visit Bucharest to sign the pact.
War May Be Extended At Any Moment NEUTRALS FACING GRAVE DANGER
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LAUSANNE, March 6 (UP)-The danger to neutrals in- volving the possible extension of the war to countries such as Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and the Balkan States remains as acute as ever. but there is no real information
available.
There is considerable specula.
tation Co. Ltd., of Union House. tion among those following the CHUNGKING
Hongkong, was attacked and progress of Mr. Sumner Welles torpedoed by a U-Boat in the jas to whether President Roose- English Channel on Monday.
velt may issue a last pence up-
fate
announcement of
the
of Bessarabia, which,
ruled by Russia for 106
became years,
part of Rumania when the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1920. Į The treaty was signed by Rumania and the principal: Allies, but not by Russia. As the Soviet, never
re-
SECRETLY
CROSSES
THE ATLANTIC
LONDON, Mar. 6 (Reuter).-It is understood that
cognised the "annexation", Bes- the Queen Elizabeth has crossed the Atlantic and will Opposes New
which separates it from Russia,
dock at New York soon.
sarabia has been in a state of military occupation more or less ever since with Soviet pickets! The crossing of the Atlantic in secret and without passen- on the left bank of the Dniester, gers is described as the most amazing maiden voyage ever.
Ever since she was launched and Rumanian pickets on the by the Queen in 1938, workmen have been making her ready to Broken Treatics
take her place beside other Rumania will probably not place Cunard White Star liners, but too much rellance In any treaty Non-Aggression which she may sign no-one had thought that the with Soviet Russia.
maiden voyage would be a"ghost
right. GOVT.
The crew abandoned the ship be-peal to the belligerents perhaps DEFRAUDED
Tore-she-sank.
"for the sake of record-after "Mr. Welles' return and after he reports privately to the Pre- sident,
Two Hlebunts put out from coastal port in an effort to rescue the crew, but without success.
vessels and other ships answered the 5.0.S.
Naval
"It is not believed that any mem- bers of the crew of the lost tanker
na can be
May Suggest Continued Stalemato
This appeal, considering the In-
Lose G$285,000 Over Arms Deal
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
of
Russia has a trouty of Non-Aggres-trip." ston with Poland. She abrogated it 24 hours before her troops marched
was
To Join Sistar Ship
FINNISH WAR
Defenders Dig Into
New Positions
Czech State
Dismemberment Must Stand, Says Hungry
SPECIAL TO THÈ “TELEGRAPH"
BUDAPEST, Mar. 6 (UP),— Hungary, which gained her slice "of territory at the expense of ̈ Cdecho-Slovakia when Germany marched into the stricken Re- public, will oppose any reconsti- tution of the dismembered State.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" STOCKHOLM, Mar. 7 (UP).
This declaration WIS made in famous-The Helsingfors Correspon- Parliament to-day by Count Czaky.
liner, dent of the "Afton Bladet" re- the Foreign Minister.
the
new
In New York, the Queen Elizabeth in, although the treaty provided that will join her famous sister ship, NEW YORK, Mar. 6 (UP) until six months had elapsed.
abrogation could not become effective
Queen Mary, which has been there were recruited in Hongkong. As for formation which Mr. Welles obtained An amazing story of an alleged She had a treaty of Non-Aggression since the outbreak of war.
Beside her will be her ascertained. the only Hongkong person serving on ships of from Hitler and Mussolini as well as fraud in which the Chinese with Finland. There was no need, in Atlantic rival,the French The Oriental Transportation Co., Ltd. from the statement he is certain to Government was the victim was Russian eyes, to abrogate this treaty, Normandie.
since n "puppet government" meet while in contain no concrete unfurled in the New York set up in Finland and the Soviet is Mr. Dalziel, who is, believed to meet while in Paris and London, Is be aboard, the W. B. Walker, sister-alm
when proposals for prace, unless there is Supreme Court to-day,
thenceforth fought the Finnish "re- ship of the lost Charles F. Meyer.
for Chungking were bets." a sudden change in the attitude of agents No H.K. People Aboard
the belligerents.
Russia has signed multilateral Non- Poland, with Enquiry at the Head Omee of the
President Housevelt, might how-granted the first lien on machine-
guns valued at US$3,361, held Aggression
pacts forelbly point out the con- Oriental Transportation Company in
Hong-sequences of a real war" and sug- by Messrs. A. I. Pederson & Co., Afghanistan, Estonia, Latvia, Persia, Hongkong confirms that ne
Turkey, Czecho-Slovakia, Finland, kong people, are aboard the Charles gest, as Mr. Welles is believed to of Brooklyn.
Yugo-Slavja and Lithuania. Of these, have suggested in his talks, that the During the ease, it was revealed Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland The last crew, which was signed on present stalemule be allowed to con- that a person named Emanuel Diaz, have become victims of Soviet ng- February 28 lust year for 24 months, tinue until some promising basis is head of the Imperial Export Trade gression. come almost entirely from Scotland seen for negotiations.
Corporation, allegedly received a cash and England.
payment of US$71,000 and US$214.- 000 in notes from the Chinese Government for the purchase of Celt machine-guns.
F. Meyer.
The Master of the ship when she was torpedoed was Captain Alfred Cook, of Eastbourne. It is presumed that he is among those missing.
"Oyster" Wollos LAUSANNE, Mar. 6 (UP).If the Allied lenders hope to learn from Mr. Sumner Welles any detalls of
Charles F. Mayor In Port his conversations with Hitler, Mus- LONDON. Mar. 6 (Router). The tanker, Charles F. Meyer, has been brought to port.
A reporter was told that the tanker was damaged by an explosion but
Second-Hand Guns
Instead, it is alleged, Diaz purchas- soilni or others they are doomed to ed old Vickers machine-guns worth
Mr. Welles made disappointment. that very clear in a statement to the only $3 aplece. press here this afternoon.
Some of these second-hand
Domala Was Armed
on
"It is in the Interests of Europe
The Queen Elizabeth is expected to ports hard fighting dock at New Fork to-night (Wednes- northern front before the
In Interests Of Europe Finnish positions at Nautai, that the State of Czecho-Slovakia day).
Costing £5,000. A Month
where the defenders have dug should never be re-established," he LONDON, Mar. 6 (Reuter).-The
in, Queen Mary is costing her owners
Eye-witnesses claim that the] Russians suffered heavily during! their advance up the Pasvik valley.
£6,000 a month while in New York.
Secret Sailing LONDON, Mar, G (Reuter).The world's biggest liner, the 85,000-ion Queen Elizabeth, left her atting-out basin at Clydebank on February 20, it has just been revealed.
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Bodies of dead Russians are frequently seen floating down the Pasvik River to the sen.
Red Attacks Repulsed HELSINGFORS, Mar. 8 (Reuter).] A Finnish communique states that Russian attacks over Viborg, Eny and
In striking contrest with the scenes of enthusiasm which marked the de- purture of the Queen Mary, fewer than 100 people watched the delicate, monecuvring at the Rothesay Dock entrance.
the For nearly an hour,
Queen
Rashfloc Light, practically at the
loaing were repulsed, the Russians same spot at which the Queen Mary large numbers of men and many narrowly missed fouling the bank.
The Haer, however, successfully tanker. completed her 15-mile journey in
He said the Information received!machine-guns were sent to Messrs.Queries Raised In House Elizabeth was in difleuities near the between Viborg Bay and Vouksen
there is no information how the ex-in his confidential talks is "schied is Pederson & Co.'s workshops for re-
pairs. plosion occurred.
was
Of Commons
airtight compartments and there is
Subsequently,
stated, in LONDON, Mar. 6 (Reuter)- no question of his revealing to M. "Torpedoed" Ship Safe
to sell Court. Dlax attempted
ic Interrogated about the attack on Government BERLIN, Mar. 6 (Reuter)-Ac-Daladier ar Mr. Chamberlain what Ches cording to an Amsterdam telegram he has learnt from the German and battleship formerly owned by one of the B. I. liner Domala, Mr. Win-four hours.
ston Churchill stated in the
to the official German news agency. Italian leaders. the London tanker, San Florentino, 12,842 tons, sent out an S.U.S. to-day stating that she was torpedoed off Land's End."
However, a later message from the same source reported that the tanker had arrived safely in port.
Tankor Attacked
an obsolete
the South American republics.
Speaking to the press la the sit- The Chinese authorities refused to House of Commons to-day that R. A.F. SAVE tingroom of his suite in the Hotel negotiate for the purchase of the the ship was adequately armed Beaurivage looking out across Lake battleship and pressed for delivery with low and high-angled guns Geneva, Mr. Welles said whatever he of the machine-guns." has learnt will be embodied in con- Dlaz then disappeared.
denial reports to the President
alone.
for protection against aircraft and submarines.
SHIP
She was attacked suddenly by air- Dutch Vessel Warned Of NO. US. ENVOY craft assumed to be friendly, and the guns were not brought into action FOR BERLIN before the bombs fell.
Russian attacks northeast of Lake Ladoga, it is claimed, were alsa repulsed, while fighting is proceeding in the Kuhmo region.
It is alleged that some 40 persons were killed in Russian air, rolds and that ten Russian machines were shot down.
Nazis Berato Noutrals
Ming In Time
NEW PURGE LONDON, Mar. 9 (Reuter)—A
LONDON, Mar. 6 (Reuter)~~A Swansea tanker of 2,605 tons was violent attack on neutral countries
A destroyer close at hand was LONDON, Mar. 6 (Reuter).-- bombed and machine-gunned by two in connection with the war at sea
NEW YORK, Mar. 6 (Reuter)similarly misled.
The. 8,000-ton Dutch merchant- IN RUSSIA German planes off the north-east was the main feature of the political iconst of Scotland.
review of the week in the German The United States has been without Wore Gun Crews At Stations ? ship, Stadtshledam, was saved
Ambassador fri
in Berlin since One of the crew was injured. broadenst this evening
The Admiralty could not give a from destruction by minca yes-
MOSCOW, Mar. 6 (UP) - Vossel In Trouble
"Neu- Novermber 1030. President Roose-
terday in the North Sea as the Sabotage on the Cultural Front The spokesman declared:
A report was being carefully pre- LONDON, Mar. U (Reuter)-Wire-trals will be made to realise tha: velt told his press conference on guarantee against occasional loss. less listeners heard an SOS. from a Germany is not willing to put up Tuesday that the return of an Amerl- Norfolk Coast light vessel, stating with the insolent criticism of the can Ambassador to Germany was not pared and examined by the authoreault of the vigilance of an
in Russia. rities, and he would certainly looic Air Force Coastal Command is the latest excuse for a purge contemplated at present." that she was being bombed and measures taken by our.navy.
He said he had no information to into the point raised whether the gun plano.
Warning By Lamp
The Ukrainian. Supreme Court has machine-gunned by an enemy plane,
require these neutrals to keep
allow the effect that the Germans meant to crews were at their action stations The message stated
not in mind that we will
The highest state" of
The plane sighted mines and resentenced four executives of the Klov preparedness bombs were dropped but that the anymo to besmirch the honour of end their Ambassador back to the when the attack took place.
United States. vessel was not hit.
our Fuchrer and our forces,
Mr. Joseph F. Kennedy, American we possess must be maintained, deported their position by wireless, and Theatrical Organisation to imprison- "Neutrals should at least make themselves familiar with the plain Ambassador to London, who has been clared Mr. Churchill, adding that dying ever the ship flashed a warning ment ranging from four to fifteen
lights in the sea immediately ahead cultural front. LONDON, Mar. 4 (Reuter)Peo- fact that they have no business boon leave in America, has arrived in some parts of the deck were more by lamp. It also dropped coloured years for alleged "wrecking" on the
of the ship, which however continued. The trial lasted a month. Europe on his way back to the Bri- dangerous than others.
on its courso. ple at the seafront in a town on the tween the fronts.
It revealed that the datendants had north-east coast of England saw what "It is not in Germany's interest to tish capital.
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 6 (Router): The position was so desperate that is belloved to be an
plone allow neutral shipping to continue
their much too profitable trade with keep out of this war zone. If they The two chambers of the Riksdag to the pilot of the plane was compelled been engaged in systematic libel and the blackmail of over 100 artists, edu. attack on ships a few miles out.
cators, disregard the advice, they must day approved the Government Bill to Dre his machinegun acrDES
students and Communist and our'enemics. were heard Loud reports
"We have declared the sea router shoulder the responsibility, but not granting credit of £500,000, for cer ship's bows, flashes were seen.
[bership in "nationallet organisations." Shortly afterwards, British planes to England a war zone. The best to indulge in imprudent crilicem oftain defence works, notably aero-The ship then swung hard aport officials, whom they sccused of mem-
dromes,
away from dangers; new out to sea.
advice we can give to neutrals is to Germany.
that three
She is not damaged.
Plano Attacks Ships?
enemy
declared.
"It is important that me make the
Western Powers understand that they would be sliping into an execedingly dangerous situation if they give any premature promists."
answer to a question regarding the Count Czaky made this statement in activities of Czech refugee committees and organisations In Hungary..
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