1939-11-27 — Page 20

SOVIET EXPECTED TO SHOW ITS HAND

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London, To-day.

THE NEW BRITISH measures to control Germany's trade may bring in evidence at last the Soviet

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Government's real stand in the conflict in STOP PRESS

Europe.

Political circles state that she must take a definite side and point out that Russia apparently wishes to take advantage of the war to obtain certain has always political concessions which she claimed.

BRUTALITY

IN POLAND

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Paris, To-day.

A Polish source states that the Nazis have sent to concentration camps the Polish professors of Cracow Univer- sity

the in- who protested against sults against Polish science uttered by German speakers. Many of the professors, including renowned scientists, were maltreated when arrested.-Havas.

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Paris, To-day...

Russia has not yet protest- ed against the new control

measures.

There is no indication available that Moscow wishes to terminate the

in trade negotiations which opened London over a month ago, and which are still in progress.

ac-

On the contrary, Moscow is ap- parently trying to complicate the situation by mixing commercial and political problems and cusing Britain of leading an anti-

the Soviet campaign in Turkey, Balkans and Finland. Soviet reaction to the decision exercise control of the German

to

ex-

port trade should give a clearer indi- cation of the Russian position.-- Havas.

tish Co-Ordination Committee, visited the Far East from 1933 to 1935, co- operating with the Chinese Govern- ment for the elaboration of a pro- gramme of economic reconstruction.

He spent many years in the United

M. Jean Monnet, who has been ap- pointed President of the Franco-Bri- | States.--Havas.

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Helsinki, To-day. The Foreign Office states that thorough enquiries in connection with

broadcast the accusations from Russia have resulted in the finding that the shots were not fired from the Finnish frontier but that Soviet troops had been the exercising with mortars on Russian side of the border.--Reu- ter.

Shanghai, To-day. Several score of the city's' de- stitutes perished from exposure and scores of others have been taken to hospital as a result of the bitter cold which gripped the city over the week-end,

The present cold spell is be- lieved to be likely to continue for another day at least.

All day long yesterday, the local benevolent societies were removing dead extremely busy bodies from the streets and min- istering first aid and relieving shelter seekers.

The Shanghai Benevolent So- ciety alone reported at noon yes- terday that some 30 bodies had been picked up in the Central District. Reuter.

Shanghai, To-day. Death has come hand and hand with Winter again in Shanghai, striking at the hundreds of ill- clothed and poorly fed Chinese who huddle in the doorways and odd corners of the less busy streets of the city at night.

That there would be many deaths as a result of the present cold spell is not entirely unex- pected, for over 300 bodies a day were picked up last winter dur- ing the extreme cold spells. Both the police and the various bene- volent bodies send out their vans each morning to pick up the dead; in many cases, they are able to get at the sufferers and remove them to hospital before life is entirely extinct.

A large proportion of these street-sleepers are victims of the Sino-Japanese War. With the in- domitable spirit and determina- tion of China's lower classes, they refuse to go into the refugee camps and prefer to try and eke out a living for themselves ped- dling or stealing food in the day time and trying to ward off: the cold at night with piles of Old newspapers and a few tattered rags.

Some of the hardler ones, now entering on their third winter, manage to rig up little one-room houses each night in empty door- ways with the aid of bits of string and matting. Others, and these are the ones that are picked up dead in their hundreds after.each

cold-spell, wrap a newspaper or two around them and shiver the night through.-Our Own Corres- pondent.

Lazarus

JOPTICIANIYA

by

Sha-ng-chung was bombed two Japanese planes yesterday morning. Two civilians were kill- ed.

Kwong Chow Wan, To-day. Japanese aircraft, since dawn, have been bombing Nanning and its suburbs. No progress by the Japanese is reported. Chinese scor- ed successes in.counter-attacks on the south-west outskirts. Street- fighting continues. in north-cast part of the city.--Our Own Cor- respondent.

London, To-day,

crew

So far, 171 survivors of the Pil- It is sudski have been landed. believed that seven- of the are missing. Three are dead and there are many injured among the survivors.

-The survivors said that two ex- plosions completely crippled the vessel.

The captain, though wounded, refused to leave until the others had got way. He then dived into the sea and clung to a raft, but he died a few minutes after his rescue by a destroyer.-Reuter.

Paris, To-day. Another unsuccessful German attempt to raid French positions east of the Moselle was made on Saturday night at the same point as the raid of the previous night. Fierce French machine-gun and artillery flre repulsed the Ger-

Reuter.

mans.

London, To-day. The Fleetwood trawler William Humphries was shelled by a U- boat. Thirteen men who are be- lieved to have taken to an open boat, have been missing since Tuesday.-Reuter.

***Owned by Ritchie and Day- ies, of London, the William Hum- phries was a steam trawler of 276 tons. Just over 125 feet long, she

in was built at Aberdeen 1918.

Paris, To-day. P.A.T., the official Polish agency, states that the 14,000-ton Polish liner Pilsudski, which has been under charter to the British Navy ever since war broke out,

has been sunk off the north-west coast of Britain.-Reuter.

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