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TURKEY SUSPICIOUS OF THREAT TO DARDANELLES

MUNICIPAL

STRIKE

IN DUBLIN

Dublin, To-day.

Municipal services were at a standstill. Inst night as result of a strike of municipal workers for increased wages owing to the higher prices of commodities. .

number of streets were with- out libre antcon

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London, To-day. INFORMATION REACHING London from Turkey says that the entire Bosphorus zone is being militarised while civilians – have been com- pletely evacuated from certain districts. Fortifications have been built along the border of

viet Armenia.

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TITANIC STRUGGLE FOR VIBORG

Helsinki, To-day.

Three more Red Army di- visions-nearly 60,000 fresh troops were flung yesterday | into titanic attempt to swarm over the shattered ice-fields to Viborg:

Reinforcements rushed

front

by the Leningrad command have | now brought --the number Soviet divisions trying to smash, through or outflank the Mannerheim Line to be- tween 28 and 33, or at least 300,000 men, it is reported.

The attempts to cross the ice

have talled. Before the ice froze over the Finns strewed the water mines and these and the poundin

So-tillery shells tear huge eva

the ice, plunging, tanks, aud their death-Reuter

Turkish sentiment towards the Soviet is definitely sus

picious due to the feeling that the Soviet's imperial- istic policy is a mere continuation of the Tsarist tra-

end, including

and th urkish portion of

eneral situation in| vent speculation.

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the Ne East, bbservers stress that A permanent inter-ministerial com-DEBATE CAL ING FOR Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Aden and Egypt.mittee has been entrusted with constitute the base of a powerful enforcement of the measures. Allied army in the Near East, and Among the first steps is a decree that any Soviet attack on India will be checked easily.

In addition, it is pointed out, Iran and Afghanistan are receiving a loan of about £5,000,000 from Britain.

NEW DECREED

establishing a compulsory labour sys- tem in coal fuel industry districts.

SPECIAL BANK:

A special-bank is to be created with the main object of financing the Gov- ernment's purchases of stocks of coal, Berlin, To-day. The Bill for "the defence of na-coke and other products.

tional economy," just promulgated, Another aim of the Government's Germany's determination aims at the protection and adaptation action is to alleviate the crisis pre- to apply the "Monroe Doc-of Turkish economy to war conditions valling in the coal mining industry

Hayas, trine" to Central Europe in Europe.

Henceforth the Government is "and guarantee the freedom and Independence of the small states" will be stress- ed to Mr. Sumner Welles when he arrives in Berlin to- day.

This is the impression gained from an obviously inspired editorial in the “Borzen – Zeitung," which comparas Germany's present condition with that of the American colonies when they fought for their Independen

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has spoken about a Europe

Doctrine," but the editori

ange at this time is regarde significant-Reute

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BIG FIRE IN

PARIS PATHE STUDIOS

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PARIS, TO-DAY. SIX OUT OF SEVEN BUILDINGS OF THE PATHE MOVIE OOMPANYIB STUDIOS AT JOINVILLE-LE-PONT, NEAR PARJE, "WERE-DESTROYED BY LINE, CAURED BY AÑO Aco)- DENT, YESTERDAY.

Damage is estimated at 20,000,000 there were no victims.

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London; To-

Mr.- Chamberlain yesterday turned down a request in the House of Com→ mons for a Parliamentary discussion of a motion calling for the immediate despatch of a British expeditionary force to Finland.

Saying that. Parliament was busy, Mr. Chamberlain remarked: "I can hold out no hope for the time being for a discussion of this motion."Reuter.

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