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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" STOCKHOLM, Mar. 25 (UP).-The Premier, in a radio broadcast to-day, revealed that Finland had requested military assistance from Sweden. on October 18 last year.
50 YEARS AGO
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This request was refused, the Premier said, because Sweden feared involvement in the'war, if she sent troopshte hour to-night. to the Aaland Islands.
When the prime ministers of
the northern countries met in New Zealand's
re-
October, he said, they fully dis- cussed the situation with gards to Finland "because we already foresaw the possibilities of war in the East."
Premier
Mr. M. J. Savage Much Weaker He added that Sweden pledged | herself to give only material assist- once to Finland in the event of war, WELLINGTON, Mar. 25 (Reuter)
"These promises we fulfilled to aA bulletin issued here at 9 p.m. Kreater extent than we then belleved states that the Rt. Hon. Mr. M. Ș possible." he declared,
Savage, the Prime Minister, is much
weaker.
Soviot Opposition STOCKHOLM, Mar. 25 (Reuter), The Labour Party Caference to- The Scandinavian press takes a day passed a resolution expressing firm line over the.Soviet attempt to their sympathy and high appreciation stop the formation a Nordic de- of Mr. Savage's work as the leader fence alliance,
of the Party and the first Labour Typical of their attitude is that of Prime Minister of New Zealand
conservative
Was Once Miner Swedish paper "Svenska Dagbladet" which protests A miner's rise to Inroc is recalled that surely the Soviet Government by the announcement of Premier does not think it can interfere with Savage's grave illness.
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mon defence measures even if it does! graduated to the Labour political have the support of certain organs of the New Zealand Labour Party, and movement, Mr. M. J. Savage, leader of the German press.
Sweden's readiness to collaborate Prime Minister. was in his younger In the examination of the project for days in 1872, a native of Victoris,
northern alliance" was re-affirmed
Born by Dr. Albin Hansson, the Prime Australia, he is the son of a small Minister, in a broadcast to-night. farmer near Benella. At the age of Dr. Husson added at the same 14. he obtained the leaving certificate time that it was necessary to draw of the local school and took a post- attention to the
to the danger of giving tion as shop assistant in a general birth to popular ideas which did not
store a
at Benella. correspond with the real situation
After the big bank crash of 1893,
of the was one
many young Dr. Hansson, after revealing that Sweden had told Finland as long Victorians who went to New South
as long ago as mid-October that she could
Wales secking work, and he secured employment on one of the stations of count on direct Swedish military in- tervention in the event of war, de-
Sir Samuel McCnughey.
Returning to Victoria in 1900, he clared that it was necessary to make Un end
once and for all of the worked in a deep alluvial mine ut
North Prentice, near speculations
suggesting that the reHere, he first became interested in Rutherglen Sources the north might be the
of
co-operative movement and mobilized for other ends than de- organised a co-operative store, and ngainst attacks on the north's imkery. Here it was, too, that he first peace and independence.
became interested in polilles.
fence
not
Only the slogan, "Pence At Home and for the Country,” could rally Nordic peoples, and in accordance with it, they would deliberate on how to organise their efforts for com-
mon profection.
Stalintien published in Berils show the military expenditure of the great Powers during the past three years. France spent 5,082,000,000 hrks. Russia 3,204,000,000 marks, Great Bri- Entr 2,176,000,000 Marka, Goemanny 2,430,000,000 Turks, Austels-Ilungary 1,362,000,000 marks, and Italy 1,184,000,- 000 marks.
The "Kreuz-Zeitung," in an article on the the United States, dwells upan grandeur and power of the new Ameri- Can Navy MODE to be created, charac terising it as the second in power in the world. The paper also declares that the new navy will be superior. to that of France, and that with the two allied England's navy could be easily anal- hilated. It prophesies that when the time comes far netion, if it over doen, Congress will enthusiastlenlly abandon the Monroe doctrine.
25 YEARS AGO
March 26, 1915, A Paris communiqun tates:-The enemy bombarded heims and a Ger man aviator dropped bombs on the elty, hitting three ciclitana.
10 YEARS AGO
March 20, 1936. After to-day, the reason for designat- ing Wyndham Street by the alternative naine of Power Street will disappear, for the lower-sellers who have had thoroughfare for at least fifty years their stands at the foot of this will tonight move into On tan Street, lepe, on the left-hand side going up- which is situate a little further up the wards.
The move in necessitated by work Yee San Fat Building, which in to make having commenced on the demolition of way for a fine modern structure in which a new claema will be housed. (The present King's Theatre.-Ed.)
Strong protests were made in Hankow at the annual Ratepayers' Meeting inst the continued illegal occupation of British property by the Chinese authorities.
5 YEARS AGO
March 20, 1936. France and Italy are demanding
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Loft Australia In 1902 He became secretary of the North rentice Political Labour Council. In 1902, he went to New Zealand, where he settled permanently at Auckland.
He soon became a prominent mem-been passed on to the British Foreign HONOLULU, SAN ber of Auckland Labour politics, Hinister, through Mr. Anthony Eden, being elected to several local bodies. Lard grivy Seal, who attered a con: FRANCISCO, He was first elected to the House of ference of the former Allies in Paris Representatives for Auckland West in and they hurried on to the Herlin con- ANGELES 1910.
peace will not be threatened and that via MANILA, & Way Ports
retur tu the League of he will Nations.
SHANGHAI, JAPAN, French and Italian demands have
Supported By People. Sweden could co-operate in the common Nordic task with the full right to make her opinion heard.
Sweden's policy rising out of the war had the
Mr. Savage is not the spectacular support of the whole Swedish people and moreover type of leader. A calm and deliberate should be recalled that the Nordic speaker, he led his party ably in the sintes hnd never engaged in any House. His victory, following the military obligations.
fectoral campaign of 1935, resulted in the formation of his first Cabinet.
He was very popular with the party HELSINGFORS, Mar. 25 (UP) and it is said that no previous Labour -It-is-understood-that-thirty-Russian leader. has been served so Joyally by planes carrying fully equipped he rank and file. He succeeded to
Russians To Hangee
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The ice is still too thick to permit of Mr. H. E. Holland In 1933.
Mr, Savage the entrance of warships;
New represented
ATHENS, Mar. 25 (Reuter).-Na- Zealand at the 1920 conference of the tional Independence Day was cele-1 British Empire Parliamentary Asso-brated in Greece yesterday. ciation held in Australia.
When he became Premier, Mr-review in the company of General King George attended a military Savage shared his ministerial home Metaxus, the Minister of Foreign with a Herne Bay family, with whom Affairs, War, Marine and Air, and he had Ilved continuously since his ather high Government officiula, arrival
Auckland 20 years
NAZI REPORTS REFUTED
LONDON, Mar. 25 (Reuter).—The Air Ministry announces that the previously. clains now made by the official Ger- They were Mr. and Mrs. French man news agency to the effect that ajand their children. Mr. French was considerable number of British air-one of the survivors of the wreck of craft were lost in the attack on Sylt the Union liner Wairarapa on Great are wholly false.
Barrier Island many years ago.
"One cannot live with people for all As already announced, unly one British aircraft engaged the those years without a common bond operation failed to return to its base, being established," said Mr. Savage
It
in
is learned from the air Ministry on the day he was invited to form his
that direct hits were obtained hangars, jetty, light railway other puris of the base.
should feel lost without Cabinet. and the companionship of such friends,"
on
Oil storage tanks and barracks were set on fire.
The reconnaissance flight on March 20 confirmed the success of the opera- ∙tion
Lunding articles in the Greek press cmphasise the country's desire for Independence and her desire to live at peace with all the world within the ambit of the Balkan Entente.
Startling Effect Of Aurora Borealis
LONDON, Mar. 25 (Router).--A
A bachelor, Mr. Savage then an-violent electrical disturbance in- nounced that he was arranging "for||volving a sun spot aurora boreally the good people who have looked resulted in the break down of com- after me" to join him in Wellington.munications with the United States on
Sunday.
The trans-Atlantic shortwave teic- phone was out of action for uver 12
Another Air Ministry bulletin de NEW LIGHTSHIP hours
clares that there is no truth in the reports published abroad that one or more R.A.F. aircraft violated Danish neutrality and fired on. civilians.
Belgian A.A. Fire
EVOLVED
LONDON, Mar. 25 (Reuter).—As a RRUSSELS, Mar. 25 (Reuter).-result of Nazl plane attacks on de- Anti-aircraft batteries opened fire at fenceless lightships round the British an aeroplane of unknown nationality const a new type of vessel has been flying at a great height, about a mile built. They are now on view at Great
Yarmouth harbour. and a half south of the city.
Only half the size of the usual vessel, its lights when it can operate without attention for two months;
The damage to telegraph land-îlncs resulted in about a million Easter messages being held up.
Japanese Taxes Increased
TOKYO, Mar. 28 (Reuter).—The Taxation Reform Dill, by which the Japanese Government aims at in-
Mary Hopes To Get The vessels will be taken over by creasing the revenue from toxation
£5 Reward
LONDON, Mar. 25 (Reuter)-Mary Thompson, of Bridlington, has found a new type of torpedo. It is now be ing examined by the Admiralty.
She hopes to be the first to claim the £5 reward recently announced by the Admiralty for discoveries of this Ind.
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the crew to remain on board.
The fact that the vessel is only half the normal size will make it a difficult mark for the Germans trying to put it out of action,
LL.P. PLANS WAR
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Plans for a war programme
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LONDON, Mar. 25 (Router)
taken up by the Independent Labour Party at its annual conference yester- doy.
LONDON, Mar, 25 (Reuter)-The will of the late Lord Tweedsmuir,
The Party decided that the working Governor-General of Canada, wan published to-day. It makes only one class movement should be maintained. It demanded no political truce with bequest of a public nature,
Lord
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his
It opposed all emergency powers
my library dealing with the Marquia of the Government restricting the of Montrose which the National liberty of working class organisations Library may desire."
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passed into law when the House of Peers adopted the Bill as amended by the Lower House.
The Finance Minister described the reform plan as "unprecedented in the vastness of its scope in the annals of taxation In Japan,"
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