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Brussels, To-day.

Travelling has lost its appeal for two young Belgians who set off to Columbia carly in Decem. ber and returned yesterday to their small hometown, Louvieres, swearing not to leave it again.

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The Belgians boarded the Dutch steamer "Simon Bolivar," which was torpedoed by a Ger. submarine shortly after leaving Rotterdam. They were rescued and brought to Genoa, where they boarded the Italian liner "Orazio," which caught fire off Toulon!--Havas.

TOKYO MAY TRY NEW TACTICS

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GENERAL OFFENSIVE PREDICTED

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Rome, To-day. Hitler's speech clearly indi- Helsinki, To-day. cates that Germany will WHILE THE OPPOSING forces are engaged in re-launch a general offensive

organisation after the severe fighting of the past week, reports from all fronts indicate that a new and major Soviet offensive is imminent.

soon, politicians here declare. Hitler's words regarding the completion of the Ger- man military machine are considered especially signi-

In spite of losses in the campaign totalling some

200,000 men, the Red General Staff is apparent- ficant. ly determined to renew the offensives against the Finnish fortified lines which have cost thern reference to the future status of Po- so high.

Ominous news comes from the Petsamo front, where the Soviets have concentrated at least 50,000 fresh troops, and Finnish Staff officers declare that they expect a greater onslaught in the next

week or two.

The Russian plan is expected to be to concentrate overwhelming forces in an attempt to break the Finnish lines and smash through in a southerly direction, while large Finnish forces are tied up on the Lake Ladoga front.

New York, To-day. Japan may isolate the United States in the Far East by first attacking the United States' probable associates in that region of the world, writes Walter Lippman in the New York "Herald Tri-ing bune."

LEAFLETS ON LENINGRAD

Heavy Russian reinforcements have

sent to the Mannerheim | also been Line area and to the front north of Lake Ladoga.

Meanwhile, Italian volunteers, pligt- Italian and British bombing planes, last night flew over Leningrad dropping leaflets.

The fight was separate from the Finnish raid on the naval base at where warships were Kronstadt, bombed.

'The Italian airmen report that Leningrad and district was complete- ly blacked out.

He says that the Japanese are not yielding to United States economic pressure, and by attacking America's friends may place us in a situation in which we may be compelled either to accept their supremacy or fight down on Monday, according to a Mos- them in extremely difficult cow comunique. Nothing else `of

Importance occurred at the front- circumstances.

Reuter..

The Democratic powers

--- Reuter.

Mojców¡-To-day. Seven Finnish 'planes were

may be expelled from the Far NAZIS AND

East if defeated in Europe and the United States Will become unable to enforce res. pect for its interests over the Pacific and Atlantic simul- taneously.

He concludes that Senator Vandenberg wa

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(Continued from Next Col.) for suiting these themes was not lack ing in the speech; thus Hitler declared 1938 was the year of anti-German provocations, apparently forgetting it was the year of the annexation of Austria, Memel and Sudetenland.

The only point of Interest in the speech was his public appeal to Italy to join the German cause.—Havas..

On the other hand Italian politicans are surprised at the absence of all

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land and interpret the silence as sign that Germany is determined consider Poland as a conquered coun- try simply annexed to the Reich.

Hitler's explanations regarding the Russian alliance have not dispelled bitter feelings here on that subject,

but Italians greeted with satisfaction | Hitler's distinction between the "have"

and "have-not” countries.

BAME OLD THEMES In Paris, French politicians did not comment much on the speech, which brought out nothing new.

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Hitler developed once themes of all Nazi, speeches concern. Ing the Vorsailles Treaty and "Diktat," of British hypocrisy and oppression Germany by the Western countries.

The usual prearrangement of facts

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