THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 10, 1940
Red Army's New Weapon In Finland 100 M-P-H. SNOW SLEDGES ADMIRALTY THROWN INTO ATTACK: HEAVY DRAWN FIGHTING IN PROGRESS
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Stockholm, To-day.
THE RED ARMY ARE now using speedy, armed and strongly-engined snow sledges in the Finnish campaign, the "Nya Dagligt Allehanda” re- ports.
The newspaper declares that hundreds of these sledges, which develop a speed of 100 miles an hour, are being thrown into the attack with the hope of producing a surprise effect.
The sledges are driven by air pro- (salmi sectors of the eastern pellers and armed with machine-guns.
fronts, where the Red Army has launched violent offen- sives, in an effort to wipe out recent severe defents.
The first massive attack took place near Lake Ladoga but was stopped by Finnish machine-guns, and a number
of the sledgea were captured. Havas.
HEAVY BATTLES IN PROGRESS
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Several divisions are reported have been thrown into the action on the Salla front, and the Finns are giving ground, slowly.
An unconfirmed report states that Salla has been taken by the Russians. Except for putrol activity, all other
Reuter.
Helsinki, To-day. Heavy battles are now rag- ing in the Salla and Suomus- fronts are quiet.
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MOLLERS IN BIG PROPERTY DEAL
Shanghai, To-day. Completing one of the biggest real estate deals in recent years, Mollers Ltd, have purchas- ed the block of property at the corner of Avenue Edward VII and the French Bund from the International Savings Society
for £75,000, according to the local press-Reuter.
WEATHER REPORT
The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone over China maintains its intensity, pressure being highest over Shantung.
The depression is situated in the Pacific to the east of Hokkaido.
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London, To-day. The reasons for the Admiralty's ' reticence about certain items of news was disclosed yesterday.
The German radio broadcasts claims of sinkings in the hope of provoking a reply which might give them information of value, writes Reuter's naval correspondent.
For instance, a few days ago the German announcer asked "Where is H.M.S. Exeter?” and implied that the cruiser, one of the three which fought the Admiral Graf Spee, had herself been sunk.
This claim was undoubtedly made as a "feeler," for the Germans do not know whether Exeter is refitting in the Falkland Islands or in Britain.
The Admiralty do not propose to be irritated into making the reply the Germans are seeking, and that is the reason the public has not been told anything of the whereabouts of Exeter.
The Admiralty is not reluctant to give news which it is desirable should be published, but they will not res pond to the ingenuity of Nazi Propa- ganda Minister Goebbels.
Listeners to German broadcasts must therefore not necessarily believe any item they bear merely because no oficial denial is forthcoming. Reuter.
FIRE IN ENGINEERS' INSTITUTE
ONLY RECENTLY RE-DECORAT- ED, THE ENGINEERS AND SHIP- BUILDERS INSTITUTE IN KING'S BUILDING NEAR THE STAR FER- RY, WAS THE SCENE OF A FIRE [.EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING.
Shortly before 4 a.m. yesterday, smoke was seen coming from the rooms of the Institute. On entering, the place the watchman found the Ladies* Room on fire. The Brigade was quick- ly summoned and the outbreak extinguished within half an hour.
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Most of the furniture in the Ladies” |Room › was destroyed by the fire and part of the floor was burnt. Other rooms in the Institute suffered slight damage from smoke and water.
CURE FOR
how
they grew in 40 years to become the fifth greatest U.S. PESSIMISM
industry and the most powerful medium of expression in the world to-day.
London, To-day. Mr. Winston Churchill, the
there are more than 30 of them Mary Pickford and First Lord of the Admiralty, Lionel Barrymore (The New York Hat); William S. Hart who has been visiting the (The Fugitive); Charlie Chaplin and Ben Turpin (A Night western front, returned to Out); Theda Bara (A Fool There Was); Rudolph Valentino England yesterday. (Four Horsemen); Garbo & Gilbert (Flesh and the Devil); Renee Adoree, John Gilbert, Karl Dane (The Big Parade); Al Jolson (Jazz Singer); Will Rogers (David Harum); Panl Muni (Zola)
and others.
so swift-moving that the 20 minutes seem like all the laughs of the old-time "flickers”.
Mr. Churchill bi a statement about at the Maginot Line, said anyone
home would benent very much by spending a few days with the French
and British "armies.
They would find it at once a tonic and sedativeSSAS
-“I take-hack with me the sense of organisation, discipline, ze and “steady-confidence” thất felt
naval ́ports."---Reuter,"
the most memorable and dramatic moments of the screen's when I visited the Fleet in the great history recaptured.
scenes like the Garbo-Gilbert Kiss in "Flesh & the Devil”. that of 24 features all packed into one,
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