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SUICIDE SQUADS MADE FINNISH VICTORY POSSIBLE

Helsinki, To-day.

The Soviet defeat is said to be largely due to the use of great quantities of material taken from the Russian 163rd Division, which was cut to pieces on the same front a week ago.. The victory was made possible by "suicide squads" which destroyed the railway between Suomus- salmi and Uhtua, virtually starving the Rus- sians.

The latter became stuck in marshy ground near Parsamonselk and made a vain attempt to dig themselves in, surrounded by masses of me- chanised.material.

ALLIED AGREEMENTS WITH TURKEY

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Paris, To-day. Various economic and financial Anglo-Franco-Turko agreements were signed yesterday afternoon" at the Qual d'Orsay.

The exact contents were not published but It lạ known that the agreements aim at developing trade relations and to ensure easy means of payment.—Havas.

THREE DEAD IN N. T. GUN BATTLE

The Finns brought aircraft into play and dispersed Soviet concentrations,

Many Soviet tanks were sunk or wedged in the ice when the frozen surface of Lake Vuokkijaervi bombed and hundreds of soldiers were drowned.

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The Russians were slaughtered with Soviet machine-guns and artillery and bombed with Soviet bombs dropped from Soviet 'planes-all captured by the Finns a few days previously.- Reuter.

VOLUNTEERS FROM

SWEDEN

Stockholm, To-day. Groups of volunteers, including undergraduates, are leaving Sweden almost daily for Finland.

The volunteer recruiting bureau is' considering training dog sleigh teams, for the Arctic front.-Reuter.

BRITON

ON MURDER CHARGE

Shanghai, To-day. David Eckford, a Private in the Seaforth Highlanders, pleaded "not guilty" at the A gun-battle between a British Supreme Court this party of police officers, under morning when he appeared Mr. G. S. Wilson, Assistant on a charge of murdering an- Superintendent of Police, other soldier, Lance-Corporal New Territories, and a James Davis, also of the Sea- heavily armed gang of rob- forths.

bers occurred near the bar- | Eckford is alleged to have shot Davis der in the marshes at Lokma-dead with his service rifle while on chau shortly after mid-Hional Settlement. night to-day.

| duty on the border of the Interna-

The Crown Advocate, Mr. John The police, it is understood, received opened this morning that the trial was McNeill, explained when the case advance information of the gang's plan being held in the British Supreme to cross into British territory on Court following the granting to full raid, and as a result of an ambush the gang were intercepted in the marshes at Lokmachau

legal powers over the accused to the Court by Major-General Grasett, GO.C. British troops in China,

An exchange of revolver shots last-Reuter, ed almost an hour before the gang took to their heels and died, inta Chinese territory.

Later the police found the hadles of three members of

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Amsterdam, To-day. It is understood that Mitsul and Hitler has returned to Berlin after Mitsubishi have each ordered 500,000 | the Christmas holidays, says a Berlin........... tons of Blamese rice for delivery in 1940. The orders represent over half of Slam's annual exports.-Havas.

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WEATHER. FORECAST:-North-east winds, moderate to fresh; fine to cloudy.

despatch, and has begun conversations with political and military chiefs.

According to the "Telegraaf,”- the most urgent business is:, Germany's attitude to Sweden and the Finnish war, and concrete developments are expected in this connection shortly.— Reuter.

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