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NAZI SENSE OF HUMOUR?

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Paris, To-day.

Invoking, surprisingly enough, the Versailles Treaty, Germany has forwarded through neutral channels a protest to the British, French, Australian, New Zealand and South African Governments. denying them rights of sovereign- ty over territories they hold un- der the mandates system!-Havas.

MOSCOW MOVE IN ANKARA

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Bern, To-day. The "Basler Nazional Zei- tung" reports that the Soviet Ambassador to Turkey, M. Alexis Terentieff, has made fresh approaches in Ankara requesting Turkey to resume the diplomatic parleys with Moscow.

that

Well-informed quarters state the Turkish Foreign Minister, M. Sara- joglu, did not give a positive answer but seized the occasion to protest against the broadcasting by a Russian station of propaganda aimed to create trouble among the Moslems and excite the Arabs against the Turks.—Havas.

SCORES DIE IN SOVIET RAIL CRASH

LONDON, TO-DAY.

A SERIOUS CRASH ON THE MURMANSK » LENINGRAD RAIL- WAY, IN WHICH, SCORES OF TROOPS WERE KILLED AND IN. JURED, 18 REPORTED BY THE STOCKHOLM CORRESPONDENT OF THE “DAILY TELEGRAPH,"

The crash is believed to have been due to the activities along certain sections of the line by Finnish peril-

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Helsinki, To-day.

AFTER THE BREAKDOWN of a series of violent at-

SOVIET

tacks, in which losses in the Red Army have been PRESSURE IN severe, a period of comparative calm settled on the Mannerheim Line front yesterday.

The respite is believed to be the lull before the most desperate Soviet effort of the war, for reliable reports indicate that the Red Army, now com- manded by General Stern, is being brought up to a strength of half a million men in the Karelian Isthmus.

Reserves are reported to be pouring SOVIET DENY

into the area for an attack on the Mannerheim Line and are being moved into position for attack as rapidly as they” arrive.

According to reporte from Leningrad, the order is for a smash through the main defences of the Mannerheim Line regard. less of cost.

The brunt of the attack is expected to be borne by the Finnish defenders on the southern end of the Manner- heim Line, which has been pounded for days by Soviet heavy guns.

ATTACKS REPULSED

There were several attacks at various points along the line in the morning, all of which were repulsed with great loss.

Abo, Hango and Viborg were heavily bombed from the air during the day.

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London, To-day.

ESTONIA

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Helsinki, To-day.

Soviet - Estonian relations

are worsening, the “Svenska Pressen," organ of the Swe- dish minority in Finland, re- ports.

Despite

Stalin's

assurances that Moscow does not want to draw Estonia Into the Finnish conflict, and is not contemplating the sovietisation of the Baltic State, Tallinn is more than ap- prehensive-regarding-the-Soviet's-at-

titude.

Estonians fear the Bovlet may create incidents which would be used as a

Bovlet circles here deny rumours | pretext for urging Estonia to intervene that the Russian Ambassador, M. Ivan 'Maisky, is leaving London In the near future as a sequal to the departure from Moscow of the British Ambassa- dor, Bir William Beeds-Havas.

against Finland, thus giving Russla an axcuse to overstep the bounds of the In military bases they now occupy Estonia and sovistise and whole country.—Havas.

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