THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 24, 1940.
SOVIET AMBITIONS FOR ANNIVERSARY TRIUMPH DISAPPOINTED:VIBORG HOLDS
Helsinki, To-day. REDS DENY
NO COMMENT ON THE fighting in Finland was
made by either side yesterday. It is clear, how- BOMBING ever, that while the Soviets gained some suc-
cesses in the early part of the week, at an enor- OF PAJALA
mous cost, the Finns still have their tails well up. The Finnish radio announcer at Lahti, commenting yesterday on the Soviet celebrations of the 22nd anniversary of the Red Army and Fleet, said that a great victory was put on the programme in honour of the day.
Immense concentrations of troops and war material were sent to the Karelian Isthmus, and Soviet Russia's best officers and crack troops were sent to the Front. decisive defeat of the Finnish Army was expected.
IN THE "GAZETTE"
London, To-day.
A denial by the official So- viet news agency, Tass, that
MORE QUAKE SHOCKS IN TURKEY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"),
Istanbul, To-day.
A violent earthquake destroy. ed two villages in the vicinity of the town of Kalsarla killing over A hundred people.
Landslides are threatening many. houses In the town of Gordes which has been evacuat- ed.
Beismic shocks were also felt in Bivas district.Havas.
Soviet aircraft bombed the VICTORY FOR Swedish village of Pajala, was broadcast on the Moscow NATIONAL
radio last night.
de-
It was declared that not a single Soviet plane had flown over Pajala, nor generally over Swedish territory.
Rumours that the Soviet had manded from Estonia, Latvia and The following official appointments, Lithuania the cession of new naval A etc. are gazetted:-
bases and increases in the Russian garrisons in the ceded bases likewise described as buscless and completely false.-Reuter.
Approval of the appointment of the Hon. Mr. A. B. Purves to be an On February 1, continued the Fin-Official Member of the Legislative nish announcer, the offensive started | Council. -but successes were far below ex-
pectations.
Miss M. A. M. Mackay Nursing Sister.
to bo a
Dr. T. K. Abbott to be a
To keep up the morale of the po- pulation, successes therefore had to be invented, and it so happened that sometimes the reports were contradic-Offeer. tory.
Health
"We can only hope," chuckled the Mr. L. L. Mills to be Acting Cable Finnish announcer, "that the Soviet Censor and Mr. E. Humphreys to be leaders will invent more and bigger Acting Assistant Cable Censor. lies to spare the public disappoint-
ment on the anniversary of the Red Army!"
re-
Lieut.-Comdr. R. J. D. C. Grieve relinquished his
the Commission In H.K.N.V.F.
Despite reports of victories, the an- nouncer concluded, the population of Leningrad is sceptical about "suc- cesses"; the strings of wounded turning to the front tell another tale --for the hospitals are full and many die owing to the lack of trained hos-o. F. Reynaud to act pital staffs and medicines.-Reuter.
Messrs. Fung Kong-un and Kan Tong-po nominated as Members of the Court of the University of H.K.
Finnish Communique
A Finnish
were
JEWS AND ARABS WORK TOGETHER
LONDON, TO-DAY.
CAUSE
London, To-day.
Voters at the by-election at Silvertown, the dockers and industrial area on the East End outskirts of London, yesterday registered a strik- ing victory for the national.
cause.
The vacancy caused by the re- sigration of Mr. Jack Jones, Labour member for over 20 years, resulted in Alderman J. H. Hollins (Labour) obtalning 14,343 votes.
Mr. Harry Pollitt, the prominent Communist, was second with 960, and Mr. Thomas Moran (British Union of Fascists) third with 151.
AN AMERICAN NEWS AGENCY
Mr. Pollitt and Mr. Moran forfeit MESSAGE IN THE NEW YORK their election deposits of £150, owing NEWSPAPERS FROM JERUSALEM: | to the paucity of the votes they "ARAB BOYS AND JEWISH GIRLS polled. DANCING TOGETHER IN JERUSA- LEM CABARETS IS SYMPTOMA- TIC OF THE GREATLY IMPROVED JEWISH-MOSLEM RELATIONS RE-
Exequatur empowering Monsieur L. SULTING FROM PALESTINE'S WAR
0s French
PREPARATIONS.
"A tour of the Holy Land provides evidence that Jews and Arabs have forgotten their differences in the new economic life which
injected in Palestine. K.stantly arriving British troops
Consul-General at H.K.
Exequatur empowering Mr. H. A. Keller to act as Honorary Consul for Helsinki, To-day.
Switzerland at H.K. communique claims to
Exequatur have repulsed two enemy attacks be- Okazaki to act as Consul-General of
empowering Mr. tween Muolajaervi and Ayrapaan-Japan at H.K...... jaervi after each of which Russians left approximately a whole battalion dend.
the
An enemy detachment which at tacked at Syskleml across the Ayrapaan Lake was driven back losing 800 killed and 100 prisoners. In the course of cleaning up the stronghold captured on Wednesday, north of Lake Ladoga, an abundance of war material was captured, includ- ing 12 guns and over 50 machineguns and tractors. Reuter.
ALLIED PRESSURE ON NEUTRALS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Berre, To-day.
Swiss correspondents in Germany declare that the German authorities
Jurisdiction of Don G. S. de Erice y O'Shea, Spanish Consul at Bombay, extended so as to include H.K.
the
Alderman Hollins told Reutar after the declaration of the poll that the result was an oxpression of opinion by the workers of this country that they are standing solidly in their determination to wipe out evil things from the face of Europe.
"Silvertown has again sent a mes- con-sage to the Labour movement and to have the nation that it is prepared to see that the men who are manning the "In many places Jews and Arabs ships. trenches and aerodromes_get are seen working peacefully side by all the support the working class side, digging trenches, filling sand- movement of this country is able to bags and building barracks."—Reuter. | give.” Reuter.
GERMANY'S INJURED
"INNOCENCE”
H.K. GIFT TO ST.
DUNSTAN'S
Arising out of an urgent appeal from
Stockholm, To-day. St. Dunstan's Home, the President and Committee of the British War Organ.
THE LIBERAL NEWSPAPER "Dagens Nyheter" comments
ironically on the indignation in Germany at the alleg-isation Fund, Hong Kong Branch, ed pro-British sympathy in Norway in the Altmark
are worried over the alleged Allied At
pressure upon neutrals possibly re- sulting in the interruption of Swedish exports of iron ore to Germany.- Havas.
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the same time, says the paper, the inventive mind of Dr. Goebbels has hit on the idea of making a move which will leave neutral public opinion with no vestige of a right to make itself heard.
WALT DISNEY'S
The
DONALD DUCK HOCKEY CHAMP
TECHNICOLOR
Distributed by 12003 RADIOS Pictures for,
TO-MORROW AT QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
have decided to allocate a sum of
of the funds in £1,000/- out
their hands for remittance to that Institu-
tion.
It is understood that donations to st. Dunstan's are also being utilised the for assisting men and women of Army, Navy and Air Force and mem- |bers of the Regular Fire Brigades and Police Forces, who may be blinded in the present war.
BULLS-EYE
MR.
The German press has been in- structed to develop the theme that it is inconsistent with true neutrality for public opinion in a neutral coun- try to express itself! German propa- gandists could not more unblushingly
LONDON, TO-DAY. admit that they are seeking to under-
OLIVER STANLEY, WAR mine the free existence of the neu- MINISTER, TRIED OUT A BREN tral states. Hitherto, they have not | MACHINE-GUN AT ALDERSHOT had much success in their campaign. YESTERDAY. WITH HIS SECOND BURST, HE SCORED A BULLSEYE. The "Social-Demokraten" comments
He was visiting the Canadian that the unrestrained propaganda in troops, and Major-General McNaugh- Germany in connection with the ton, the Canadian Commander-in- Altmark is an attempt to exploit | Chief, was present.
Scandinavian reaction.
On Thursday, Her Majesty the But, comments the paper, Scandina- Queen sent gifts to the officers and vian opinion will not forget that it is men of the Toronto Scottish Regi- Germany which has deliberately and ment, of which she is Colonel-in- frequently violated the Scandinavian Chief. They are in training at Al-
ight to free shipping. -- Reuter. dershot-Reuter.
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