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TWEEDSMUIR NAZI-SOVIET

BURIAL IN

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Montreal, To-day.

MILITARY PROGRAMME

· (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") London, To-day.

"Flags were flown at half "The Times" reports that mast throughout Canada an extensive programme of yesterday as the Dominion German-Soviet military and entered into seven days economic co-operation is at public mourning for the present being undertaken in death of the Governor- the Ukraine, the Caucasus General, Lord Tweedsmuir. and the Black Sea coast.

Political warfare has subsided for Fortifications are being the time being and most social events built around Odessa, Mario-

have been cancelled.

Officers of the Canadian Grenadier pol, Novorossisk and along | Guards are keeping watch over the the Dniester River, near the

body, which lies in a private chapel.

Russo-Rumanian border. Units of the Militia, Navy and Air

to Force will line the route to-day when

Purpose of the fortifications is

and the remains are conveyed to the sta-defend the Baku, Kiev, Odessa tion for removal by train to Ottawa. Lwow railway lines which carry vi- The Union Government has asked tal supplies, mainly oil, manganese, the accredited representative of South copper and wheat to Germany. Africa in Canada to convey to the Several instances have been re- Canadian Government on behalf of ported recently of the wrecking General Smuts an expression of most | Soviet freight-trains by saboteurs. In sincere sympathy in the grievous loss some instances holes were drilled into they have sustained by the death of tank cars so that they were empty

when they arrived in the Reich.- Havas.

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ASHES SENT TO BRITAIN

Ottawa, To-day.

It is understood that Lord Tweeds- muir's body will be cremated and the ashes sent to the United Kingdom.

In response to a message from the Canadian Premier, informing him of Lord Tweedsmuir's death, the King has sent the following telegrams: "I thank you for your kind telegram on the very sad occasion of the death of Lord Tweedsmuir while holding the office of my representative in Canada. I share the grief which I know will be

the Dominion, felt throughout whose welfare he had so much at heart and to whose service he devot

ed himself in the face of ill-health with unfailing energy and courage.'

Reuter.

ROOSEVELT'S TRIBUTE

New York, To-day. The American press pays warm tribute to the Inte Lord Tweedsmuir. President Roosevelt in a message stated "Mrs. Roosevelt and I recall with the greatest pleasure our meet- ing with Lord Tweedsmuir and ex- press our deepest regret at his death,"

Reuter.

REACTION TO ATTACK ON SOVIET

London, To-day.

While Finland welcomes President

Roosevelt's

announcement in his

NAZIS TO ERECT RED

FACTORIES

new

of

Amsterdam, To-day. A

German-Soviet trade agreement, providing for a total turnover of 1,000,-

000,000 marks, was signed in Moscow during the week-end, according to the Berlin cor- the "Tele- respondent of graaf."

The correspondent learns that Ger man industry will erect a whole ser- les of factories in Russia in exchange for deliveries of raw materials and foodstuffs. The factories will include works for the large-scale production of artificial rubber.

It is believed the goods Russia will send to Germany Include large quanti- ties of grain, ore and petroleum.

Neutral observers are of opinion that transport difficulties may form a great obstacle to fulfillment of the agreement.-Reuter.

STOP THE

speech to the American Youth Citizen- WAR

the

ship. Institute that 98 per cent of United States' sympathy is with Finns, the only mention of the speech in Russia consists of a short New York despatch

Soviet to Tass, the official

news agency.

This despatch merely quotes cer- tain American

effect papers to the that the speech was "colly received." -Reuter.

CANDIDATE DEFEATED

London, To-day.

In view of the political truce the Labour candidate In the Central Southwark by election was unoppoɛ-

***It is reported that many mem- bers of the American Youth Citizen-ed by the Government, and although two unofficial candidates were put for. ship Institute are, or have been, mem-

ward the result was so little in doubt bers of the Communist Party.

that only 24 per cent, of the electorate polled.

PALACE AUDIENCE

London, To-day. Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secre- tary, had an audience of the King at Buckingham Palace last evening. British Wireless.

MISS HO TUNG ROBBED Miss Ho Tung, of No. 254, The Peak, had her overcoat stolen from her car which was parked outside the Alliambra Theatre between 5.30p.m. and 7 p.m. yesterday. The thief ex- tracted the coat after breaking one of the windows.

The result was:-

J. Martin (Labour) 5,283.

C. Searson (described as a “stop the war" candidate 1,500.

Mrs. Van Der Elst (National Inde- pendent) 1,382-British Wireless,

SECOND KILLING

Shanghai, To-day. The killers of Huang Tze-teh, for- mer chief of the licensing department of the Bureau of Public Safety, who was murdered yesterday, are thought to be the same men, or to be con- nected with the Wang Ching-wei men, who killed Miss Mao Li-ying, the girl patriot, a few weeks ago. Reuters

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BOATHOOK

V. NAZI BOMBERS

London, To-day.

In his recent speech the Prime Minister declared that the Nazi raids on British fish- ing vessels are not war but murder.

The justice of this accusa- tion, says the "Yorkshire Post," "is sharply revealed by news to-day of a contemp- tible attack by German planes on a tiny fishing coble off the Yorkshire coast.

"Two fishermen and a boy were out in this boat when two Nazi planes swooped down and tried both to bomb and machinegun them. All they could do was to crouch and make for shore. Once their boat was blown clean out of the water by the explo- sion of a bomb.

"Attacks such as these can have no object but sheer frightfulness.

SADISTIC PLEASURE

"Nazi airmen must get same sadis-

tic pleasure in preying upon helpless fishermen as their Gestapo colleagues in torturing Poles, Czechs and Jews:

BALTIC STATES WILL DEFEND INDEPENDENCE

Stockholm, To-day.

interest has been aroused here by the visit of the Latvian Chief of Staff, General Berkia, to the Esthonian Chief of Staff, General Laidoner.

The Tallinn correspondent of the Stockholm "Tidningen" states the visit is a sign of the deter mination of the Baltic States to defend themselves and their in- dependence. Reuter,

TRYING TO JUSTIFY THEMSELVES

London, To-day. Indications are growing that the need is being in- creasingly felt in Germany to justify to the German peo- ple the indiscriminate sink- ing of neutral shipping, of which 342,357 tons have now fallen victim to enemy mines and submarines.

"Such a story, brought home by our own Yorkshire ilshermen, is a crushing reply to excuses offered by German newspapers that British fish- ing boats are armed to fight Nazi raiders and that attacks on them are

While Dr. Goebbels' organisation therefore honourable and legitimate.claims that Germany is master of the What arms had these two men and a

whole of the North Sea, the British schoolboy? A boathook?"

sche Allgemeine Zeitung" yesterday Wireless.

sought to justify Nazi methods of war-

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GERMAN PRESSURE ON ITALY?

Rome, To-day.

"Deut-

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NAZI PROPAGANDA

BOMBARDMENT ON WESTERN FRONT

Paris, To-day.

A NEW COLD WAVE has reduced activity on the western front; in the air two or three photo- graphic missions were all that either side under- took.

On land there was some patrol activity but fighting occurred at only one spot, east of the Moselle, where the Germans attempted to surround a French outpost.

The Germans were repulsed by machinegun fire before the intended attack could be launched.

REPORTS NOT SUBSTANTIATED

In the absence of other developmenta the Germans are particularly active and on the propaganda front, Parla other centres having been overwhelm- ed with reports of big German troop movements.

Most of these stories mention ten divisions.

Information at the disposal of the French High Command does not in- any significant dicate that there is change in the German dispositions. Reuter.

NOTHING TO REPORT

Paris, To-day.

Last night's French war communi- que says there is nothing of import- ance to report.-Reuter.!

fare against neutral ships by a frank JAPS. LAND

confession that it is Britain's control of the seas that justifles the deflance of all accepted tenets of international law.

The newspaper says: "As 'means of modern war enables a state to be mas- ter of her territorial waters in nearly the same sense as she can be master of her land territories, it is impossible for Germany to accomplish the block- ade or trade war near to the English coast in accordance with prize laws."

The activities of various foreign purchasing commit-

Neutral shipping is compared by the tees in Italy, including the

newspaper to a bus running between British, have been suspend-the Maginot and Siegfried Lines. ed and may not be resumed Finding that "this thought introduces a quite new conception of internation- for months, it is learned in al law," it pleads for the evolution of reliable quarters.

to

a new code to replace all existing in- These committees have|ternational law and designed, it would

appear, to give legal authority been in almost constant ses ruthlessness.--British Wireless. sion since the outbreak of

war.

The staffs of the commercial sec-

tions of the Embassies of countries HEAVY TOLL

involved have been doubled and even trebled in connection with their work.

The question has been asked whe- ther the visit of Dr. Clodius, the Nazi economic expert, is connected in any way with the suspension. Dr. Clodius expects to remain in Rome another week. Reuter.

STAFFORD CRIPPS VISIT

STAFFORD CRIPPS,

THE

OF SWEDISH

SHIPPING

STOCKHOLM, TO-DAY. DEEP CONCERN IN SWEDEN AT THE HEAVY TOLL OF 8WEDISH SHIPPING AS A RESULT OF the NAZI - CAMPAIGN 18 BECOMING INCREASINGLY EVIDENT,

The Swedish news agency reports that 34 ships, one-twentieth of Swe- den's total tonnage, have been lost by German action since the beginning of the war.

some

SIR

Swedish shipping leaders are insist- PROMINENT ENGLISH LEFT-WING LEADER, 18 EXPECTED TO ARRIVE ing that the Government find

means of halting this rapid destruc- IN HONG KONG ON JANUARY 24,

tion of Sweden's merchant fleet.- BY AIR FROM CHUNGKING.

Reuter,

It is understood he will stay in the

Colony for about a week.

Sir Stafford arrived in Chungking Last last month from Rangoon and week flew to Hami in Sinklang Pro- vince.

He has not yet returned to China's wartime capital, contrary to informa- tion reaching Hong Kong this morn- ing stating that Sir Stafford will board a plane to-night for the Colony,

POLITICAL TRUCE

London, To-day. According to an Ottawa message all Canadian political parties have agreed to the suspension of broadcast election speeches until after the funeral of Lord Tweedsmuir-British Wireless.

ON FUKIEN ISLAND

Fooshow, To-day. Four Japanese warships arriv-

Island off ad of Tungshan

the southern Fukien coast yesterday. Under a naval barrage Japanese bluejackets landed at Kangkow, "southwest" of "Tungshan City, The--m

resistance. Chinese put up stiff Fighting le still in progressus

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