1939-11-15 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 15, 1939

FINLAND ADAMANT ABOUT HANGOE: NEGOTIATIONS ADJOURNED "SINE DIE"

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

Moscow, To-day.

IT IS AUTHORITATIVELY stated that the Soviet-

GERMAN CLAIMS,

AND THE

Finnish negotiations have not been broken off FACTS

but merely adjourned sine die.

It is now disclosed that the main cause for the dead- ABOUT

lock was Finland's firm refusal to grant the Rus-

sians the right to construct a naval base at Han- AIR RAID

goe while the other questions apparently have been settled without difficulty.

Helsinki is believed to have ac- Nevertheless, the Governor of cepted ratification of the frontier Helsingfors Province urges women along the Carelian. Isthmus. although and children who evacuated not to it did not entirely comply with Mos- come back unnecessarily. Reuter. cow's claims. Helsinki also agreed to give up Hoglund and other small islands off Kronstadt..

The Russians are no longer insist- ing on a military alliance.

Meanwhile, military activities have been greatly increased In the Leningrad district leading to the belief of impending Sovlet prossure.

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Leningrad is practically in a state of slege with all civilian doctors and nurses mobilised for the few days.

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Seven Finnish divisions have been concentrated behind the fortified line along the Carelian Isthmus.—Havas.

FINLAND REFUSES TO BE PESSIMISTIC

Helsingfors, To-day The Finnish press reiterates Fin- land's firmness and refuses to, be

pessimistic because Finland is pre- pared to do her utmost to reach an

acceptable solution.

OUT OF THE JAWS OF THE HURRICANE

They salvaged one tempestuous night

to cram with a lifetime of love!

TRENE CHARLES

DUNNE BOYER

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JOHN M STAHL

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FIRST REAL TEST

New York, To-day. The "New York Times" Says that

Finland's attitude to Soviet Russia is really the first real test for modern Russia.

The spirit of, Finland is so formid- able that this David among nations may well scare off Goliath.-Reuter.

WISHFUL THINKING AGAIN

London, To-day.

London, To-day.

JALAM

BLACK-OUT IN SWITZERLAND

Zurich, To-day.

The greater part of Bwitzer- land-including the towns. of Zu- rich, Berne and Basle were "blacked-out" till dawn to-day..

The Swiss Federal Council has authorised the Government to se- questrate or expropriate any pro- perty which they need and, whore they cannot roach an agreement with the owners.-Reuter.

MEMORIAL TO KING GEORGE V.

The German propaganda

New Delhi, To-day. agency makes the usual Unveiling a new memorial' exaggerated claims regard to King George V, the ing Monday's raid on the Viceroy of India yesterday Shetlands, claiming that two said that King George was flying-boats were destroyed more than a constitutional and a cruiser hit.

symbol and an abstract im- This, of course, is not the case. The pression of the unity of the

Empire.

bombs made several 6-foot holes and

crofters' windows were smashed, but otherwise no damage was caused.

The tour German 'planes, which were driven off by anti-aircraft fire on the two attempted raids, dropped 12 500-lb. bombs. Four of these fell In the sea, four landed close to a school which was occupied at the time and the other four landed on a hill three miles away. One 7-lb. frag- ment-hit a small house.

He was everybody's friend. In the task of rebuilding from the last war, the part he played was not a small one. The memorial represented tribute, paid to a beloved sovereign by his people in India.

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With the exception of the head and crown, which were made in England, the whole of the marble memorial was made in India. It stands beside An eye-witness says that the four the Viceroy's house and the Secretar- bombs which dropped into the seaiat.-Reuter. were aerial torpedoes.-Reuter.

The German wireless broadcast

sunk

claimed that the raiders had Almost daily assertions in H.M.S. Kent, flagship of the China

Arabic broadcasts from the Squadron. German short-wave station at Zeesen that the Moslem

GENERAL SIKORSKI IN LONDON

peoples are ready to rise in INSTRUCTING IN

The THE

arms against the Allies are described in a letter to "The Times" from the Secretary of the Colonial League as yet

London, To-day. The new Polish Prime

another example of wishful INSTRUCTOR Minister and the new For

thinking by the Nazis.

He says that despite vast sums spent

LONDON, TO-DAY.

by the Reich Ministry of Propaganda THE WAR OFFICE PLANS FOR over the past few years in attempting | TRAINING N.C.O. INSTRUCTORS

DOUBLED

eign Minister, General Sikor. ski and M. Zalevski, arrived from Paris by air shortly after noon yesterday.

to alienate the affections of the Mos- | HAVE MADE SUCH RAPID PRO- General Sikorski said that he had lem world, followers of Islam in the GRESS THAT THEIR NUMBER IS every confidence in the final victory TO BE British and French Empires, and also EXPECTED

of the Allies and that he was sure in neighbouring countries, remain SHORTLY AFTER CHRISTMAS. that that victory will bring Poland steadfast in their loyalty to the De-

A high standard is being set, and back to life as she was before the war. mocratic Powers.

the modern infantryman's job is such The Polish ministers visited. Lord the a scientific one that instructors, of Halifax yesterday afternoon at

saw. go through | Foreign Office and later

Mr. the last war have to special training before they, in turn, Chamberlain at 10, Downing Street. can start training the recruits. They are also to meet Mr. Winston Reuter.

Churchill and Lord Chatfield.—Reuter."-

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Out of a total of 210 million Mos- lems scattered over the globe, he adds, there is not a single community but is apposed to the Nazi creed of racial hatred and domination, alike on re- ligious and political grounds.

ARAB COMMENT

: in this connexion he cites the Arab newspaper Alesba, of Damascus.

It writes: "We do not know to what _Arab_peoples the Nazis refer.

"In no case do the Arabs need de- fending. They are above all, agninst Germany, nguinst Nazism and against the aggressor...

"Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Arabia, Bah- reln, the Persian Gulf, Zanzibar," "Ko- welt, Yemen and the protectorates of

FINNISH "MENACE" TO SOVIET RIDICULED

London, To-day.

Yemen are by the word of their kings BRITISH PRESS COMMENT yesterday was mainly con-

and chiefs manifesting their hostility towards Germany,

"Where are the Arab countries that remain for the German radio to in- cito?"--British Wireless,

LAUNCH COLLISION

Chungking. To-day

cerned with Finland and the Low Countries, the econo- mic front at Home and in France; and the recent speeches of King George, M. Lebrun and Mr. Winston Churchill.

"The Times" ridicules the idea that Finland could be a menace to Soviet More than thirty, bodies of Chinese Russia. Since Russia, professes to passengers drowned as a result of a abjurg imperialism, her determina collision between, p. speeding dating- tion to make the east Baltle secure ego military launch and, à Chinge was, directed against one single Larry boat in the Whanghon River on athle

Monday have been recovered,« RO= ***The "Newz, Chronicle" ways, a tri- cording to 0 Shanghat dispatch.bule 20- Finland. "It' points out that

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was also showing the same interest in the other small neutral countries like Holland as well.

The "Daily Telegraph" welcomes the Dutch Preplan's bropärast. Hol- land's guarantee of her neutrality by mobilizing says the paper, is a gue anjegatart, huspain: honours atkalle whole world. What wou, ber

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