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HOLLAND SPY RING ARRESTS

Amsterdam, To-day.

THOSE WHO RUN RISKS WARNED

London, To-day.

Sir Walter Monckton,

Following the discovery Director-General of the of a big spy ring in Hol-

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land arrests are expected Press Bureau, had a frank STOP PRESS

shortly in connection with the luminous balls which have recently been fired into the air at night in various parts of the country

Purpose of the balls is evidently to guide foreign aircraft.

It has already been reported, though not confirmed, that some people being held in connexion with the spy plot are suspected of having sent them up.

talk with journalists at the Press Club luncheon yesterday.

Sir Walter gave a warning certain newspapers "who prefer

that

to

do their own censorship" would not

be allowed indefinitely to escape the

regulations which the press generally had accepted.

He had not to institute pro- ceedings against any newspaper but in two cases had submitted

papers to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Sir Walter recalled that the sub- mission of news for censorship was voluntary, and appealed to defaulters not to take an unfair advantage the rest of the press by failing submit news when necessary.

The military authorities, mean- while, are Investigating reports that further coloured balls were shot into the sky near Amersfoort and Loenen a few nights ago, The existence of the spy ring was disclosed with the arrest of six per- sons, including a German, at Gronin- cluded.-Reuter. gen, in north Holland.

Police Investigations followed

the

of

to

"If not, though I should hate it, I cannot let it rest there," he con-

attempted escape of two foreign sold- | Finland, or that Germany won't re- iers who had been interned.--Reuter.

ALLIES MUST AID FINLAND

dations.

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Finland

"The risk of helping may be great but the risk of not helping her may be greater.

Washington, To-day. The House of Representatives, by 181 votes to 144, yesterday re- jected a proposal that the appro- val of Congress should be requir- ed for all future reciprocal trade pacts entered into by the United States.

The House also rejected a pro- posal that the Senate alone should ratify the pacts.-Reuter.

Paris, To-day.

It is learned in authoritative quarters that the Government has now received a reply from Japan to its protest at the bomb- ing of the French-owned Yunnan Railway. The reply is said to be framed in a conciliatory spirit, expressing the Japanese Govern- ment's desire to settle the inci- dent amicably. Reuter.

Game

Washington, To-day. The banking committee of the House of Representatives yester- day approved the Bill to increase the capital of the Export and Im- ceive from Russia

port Bank but in slightly differ- equivalent ad-

ent form to that approved by the vantages in Scandinavia?

Senate. The new form and "Control of Finland, Norway

would

Sweden by

allow a $20,000,000 credit Germany

Russia

for

would mean that

Finland, to be used for the pur- our considerable

chase of aircraft.-Reuter, purchases there could be stopped, and Germany would be able to organise additional markets for herself.

and

"A well-planned adequate and decisive action now could curtail the DECISIVE ACTION NOW!

duration of the war, while any half- "Does anybody imagine that if hearted intervention would be abor- Russia wins she will be satisfled with ❘tive from the start."--Reuter.

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The New York wireless states that Mr. Sumner Welles is ex- pected to confer with Hitler when he visits Berlin. It that the American Ambassador called on the Foreign Ofce in Berlin to arrange the meeting. Mr. Welles is expected to reach Berlin on Tuesday, when he will interview Foreign Minister Ribbentrop,-Reuter.

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Washington, To-day. A proposal that the United States should co-operate with Britain in order to minimise the effects of the censorship of Unit- ed States air mail at Bermuda has been made by Senator Key Pitt- man.

He suggested an agreement by which mail destined for Germany and Italy and other countries bordering on Germany should be kept separate for the censor's in- spection, if the British would per- mit other mail to go through un- molested.

Meanwhile the State Depart- ment has issued a statement re- garding reports that armed Bri- tish Marines boarded the, Clipper at Bermuda.

The statement says that a tele- gram from Mr. Juan Trippe, Pre- sident of Pan-American Airways, next day, made no mention of any such incident.

"No mention was made by Mr. Trippe or in the report of the U.S. consul that force was used or threatened in connexion with the removal of mails from the plane. Both the captain of the plane and the Pan-American representative were in communication with the consul and had every opportun- ity to mention any use of force or threat of force by the British au- thorities."-Reuter.

glare.

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Gibraltar, To-day.

Mr. Sumner Welles, U.S. Under-Secretary of State, arrived here yesterday in the liner Rex on his way to Italy.

Reuter.

London, To-day.

The official German wireless states that the German trawler · Herr Lichkeit has been captured by a British warship off the Nor- wegian coast. Reuter.

Paris, To-day.

The hope is expressed in au- thoritative French circles that the Scandinavian States will form a solid bloc against external threats, on the lines of the Balkan Entente. Reuter.

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London, To-day. The Swedish Parliament yester- day voted 94,500,000 kroner for the purchase of war material to strengthen the air forces, accord-

radio. ing to the Stockholm Reuter.

Oslo, To-day.

It is learned that the Norwe- gian, Government intend to pro- pose to the British Government that the Altmark affair be sub- .mitted to arbitration if the Anglo- Norwegian negotiations now pro- ceeding do not lead to an agree- ment. Reuter.

Washington, To-day. Britain's reply to the United States Note of December 8, pro- testing against the British block- ade of German exports, was re- ceived by the State Department yesterday.

It is understood the Note de- fends the British position and recalls that some concessions have been made for German exports already paid for by Americans.

Reuter.

Tho

London, To-day. Gothenburg newspaper "Nytid” says that Mr. Anthony Eden's demonstrative vlalt Egypt means that something doing.

to

Germany cannot prevent mo-.. bilisation there. Hopes that the Arab world would finish the hated British have vanished.

The paper continues: Russia's Betback in Finland has given the Allies trumps in the diplo. matic game. If the Allies cut oll dellverles from Baku the war is won and Berlin and Moscow have lost. Reuter,

Washington, To-day. Senator Gerald Nye, speaking at the annual banquet of Grand Master Masons, declared that "arrogant Britain" would come to terms quickly over the cen- sorship of U.S. mails if American air liners in future avoided Ber- muda. "If the German, Russian or Japanese authorities were to rifle our malls, as the Britons are doing at Bermuda, how easy 'It⋅ might be to enrage the people to an anger that was boundless,' he declared. Senator Nye added that Britain had good reason to disregard United States protests utterly as they had meant nothing in the part-Reuter.

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