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BRITAIN'S POWERFUL DEFENSIVE POSITION IN THE NEAR EAST
LONDON, TO-DAY.
“MY VISIT TO TRANS-JORDAN HAS CONVINCED
EGYPTIAN DONATIONS
ME THAT IF THE WAR MOVES TO THE NEAR FOR FINLAND
EAST, BRITAIN WILL BE IN A FAR STRONGER DEFENSIVE POSITION THAN THE TURKS WERE IN THE LAST WAR," CABLES REUTER'S SPE- CIAL CORRESPONDENT AT AMMAN, TRANS- JORDAN.
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Cairo, To-day.
No less than £5,000 hás He continues: “Britain is in the happy position of enjoy-| been collected for relief ing the complete confidence of the Arabs of Trans-organisations in Finland by Jordan and the Arabs will play an important part in a high group of Egyptian defending the Allied lines of communication.
PEIPING'S
FLOWER
STREET GUTTED
Peiping, To-day. Flower Street, the famous mec- ca of foreign tourists and well- known for its Chinese jewellery ánd curios, was burned down yes- terday morning.
Over 70 shops were gutted, in- volving a loss of over $500,000. — Reuter.
RUSSIAN ATTACKS ON VIBORG
Helsinki, To-day. Russian attempts to attack Viborg over the ice have met with little suc- cess. Soviet troops have landed on islands at the mouth of the bay, and one report says that others have also landed in three places on the western shore, but that their numbers are not large and they are now practically surrounded.
The Finnish Army yesterday called up the 1920 class-boys of from 19 to 20-many of whom are already serving as volunteers.--Reuter.
Finnish Communique
Helsinki, To-day.
made
"The enemy's main objective would be the pipe line from Kirkur to Tri- poli and Haifa, which supplies oil for the Mediterranean Fleet and the Al- lied armies.
"Ho
would also ·àlm at the newly-bullt road alongside the pipe line from Halfa to Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, which forms an alternative to the Suez Canal route to. India.
"The Arabs would co-operate in the struggle not by attacking the enemy's lines of communication, as in the last war, but by defending the Allies' life
line."-Reuter.
FINLAND CONTRASTS
Helsinki, To-day,
The Finnish newspapers welcome the recent broadcast speech by Co- lonel Kermit Roosevelt, who is to head the British volunteers for Fine land, and, who took the Volunteer's Oath in London yesterday in the pre- sence of the Finnish Minister,
officials.
Commenting on the moving appeal: made by the Finns, "whose victories have won the admiration of the whole world," the editor of the "Bourse Egyptienne" paid tribute, to the Fin- nish army and its leader, Field-Mar- shal Mannerheim.
invader
"Their victories over the are also our victories," the writer 'stated. "It is the triumph of law over disorder, of civilisation over savagery, or order and humanity over the powers of destruction,
"We should not forget that if the aggressor succeeded in breaking down the Finnish resistance we would all be threatened directly and the Rus sians would not hesitate to bring the plague of war to the east."-Havas.
NOTHING IN
H. K. BORDER.
RUMOURS
Rumours of "trouble on the border were again current this morning in Hong Kong, but responsible police circles deny that anything is
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