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WAR IN FINLAND

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER §5, 1939

REDS MAKE LITTLE HEADWAY: MINES TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF

INVADING TROOPS

ITALIAN MILITARY SYMPATHY

Rome, To-day.

The Italian General Staff is expressing the deepest sympathy with the Finns, and points out that the Finnish successes against the superior numbers of the Russians follows the experience recently obtained by the Italian Legionnaires against the Russians In Spain. Reuter.

WOULD NOT ACCEPT CAPTURE

London, To-day.

London, To-day.

A NORWEGIAN correspondent in the Petsamo re- gion says that the Russians are making very little headway. Some 3,000 Soviet troops have

$750,000

MORE FOR A.R.P.

London, To-day.

Nearly three-quarters of a mil- Ilon men and women will be add- ed to the list of A.R.P. workers by an agreement made by the Government with the employera of large staffs-Reuter.

been landed from ships on the coast and re- SCURVY fugees are now streaming over the Norwegian border.

The Anglo-Canadian nickel mines in the Petsamo

AMONG

area are now ablaze, the same correspondent re- RED TROOPS ports, and huge columns of smoke are pouring up into the sky.

The Canadian manager of the works has arrived in Norway and he reports that when he left the nickel production plant itself had not been dam- aged. The civilian population is leaving only Finnish troops remain.

The Finns have established their military headquarters in one of the officer buildings.

or

Terijoki, seat of the bogus government.

and

Rome, To-day. The Helsinki correspondent of "Popolo di Roma" says that although the Soviet troops are well-armed, many of them are poorly clad and

ill-fed.

puppet

The Finns found scurvy among quite a few of their prisoners.

at The Russian army is not

all the anxious to fight the Finns, says

and same correspondent,

political commissars have to goad the into action, Reuter.

men

In the area north of Lake Ladoga, 300 On the Karelian Isthmus, the Rus- the Finns report having killed

no Russians and taken 700 prisoners, sians are also making little

the-Reuter, This is admitted by headway.

"Pravda," scuttled Communst organ

which

which the Finns have laid their land- complains of the thorough manner in mines.

A report on how the Ger- man s.s. Watussi herself rather than be cap- tured was given yesterday by her commander, who is now a prisoner in South Africa.

When Į South African military 'plane demanded the name of his ship, he said, he played for time. All life- boat were equipped with two weeks' provisions and the passengers were mustered.

on

He then had their quarters set fire and ran up the German flag before the crew and passengers got away.

They were all given food and coffee and every attention by the British warship which picked them up.-Reu- ter.

OFF THE RECORD

1500 'The Regular

EDREED 8.7 Tribune yamese

found

Mines, says the paper, are anywhere, in roads, shops and houses. Telephone poles have been cut, and danger lurks in every corner. Mines, almost invisible in the snow, explode every minute, They are even found under the front doors of houses!

HEAVY TOLL

The official organ "Isvestia" makes a similar complaint. One dare not touch a belt or ring a bell, for if one does, everything goes sky-high.

REUNION IN

SAFE AREAS

London,

CIVILIANS LEAVING

"Reunion day" passed off happily TOWNS

and successfully when some 5,000 parents and friends visited children in the safe areas.

Many special trains left London taking visitors to towns in the re- ception areas, and queues for trains formed as early as seven.

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Snow is helping this activity, and

At all stations within the areas several hundred Russian casualties

groups of happy children expectant- have been caused in this way nearly awaited the train. For many it

MATERNITY

WARD EXPECTANT FATHERS,

PLEASE WHT HERE.

By Ed Reed

"What? Wait an hour or so?--Young lady, do you know who I am?"

Here's Luck

EWO BEER

Tel. 30311

'was the first meeting with their par-

ents since the war outbreak.

and

For those situate at 2 distance from the railway, motorbuls private car fleets were organised and parties reminiscent of Christmas were held. British Wireless.

CHINESE

Helsinki, To-day. Helsinki and other towns are now being cleared of their civilian populations in bitter- ly cold weather.

The heavy snow-storms have pre- vented any Soviet air activity since Saturday.

Intensive raids on Helsinki are ex- pected as soon as the weather clears, especially as the German steamer Donau has now left with · Germans, Italians and the staff of the Soviet Legation on board.-Reuter:

TRAFFIC MOONLIGHT OFFENCES RAID

Loyang, To-day. Chinese warplanes staged a moon- light raid on Yungcheng in south Shansi on the night of Nov. 27, ac- cording to reports just received.

Disregarding intense Japanese anti- aircraft gunfire, they released a num- ber of missiles on the Japanese for- tifications. Several big fres were started.

All the Chinese raiders returned to their base safely.-Central News.

NAZI SHIPS CAPTURED

London, To-day,

Among German ships' recently cap- tured and brought to English ports was the Hamburg steamer "Eilbek" (2,188 tons), built in 1988.

The ship sailed from a Canadian port. just before the war and arrived. at the Azores. She was reported to have left St. Michaels at the begin- ning of November.

The 215 tons trawler Sophie Busse, of Wesermund, has also been brought in as a prize.--British Wireless.

Mr. R. R. W. Ashby, of Dodwell's, was summoned before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy this morning for keeping his car longer than necessary in Des Voeux Road Central on November 13. A fine of $5 was imposed.

Mr. P. Voronkin, of the Dairy Farm, Pokfulam Road, was fined a similar sum when summoned for driving in road closed to traffic on November 14. Traffic Inspector F. J. Clarke told the. Court that defendant drove his motor cycle in Wyndham Street.

ST. JOHN – AMBULANCE SECRETARY

Mrs. E. M. Sando has been ap-* pointed Honorary Secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association ́and' Brigade with effect from the 1st December, 1939.

Jewellery valued at $211 was stolen from the residence of Ying Chi-fong, married woman, residing at No. 674, Nathan Road. The theft occurred between 11 pm. on Sunday and 10 a.m. yesterday. The police are in-. vestigating.