1940-03-16 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 16, 1940

GREAT TREK IN PROGRESS THROUGHOUT FINLAND Army Of 100,000 Leaving Homes In Ceded Area

Finnish Army Withdrawing From Karelia

HELSINKI, TO-DAY.

SINCE EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING THE FIN- NISH ARMY HAS BEEN WITHDRAWING FROM A 200-MILE FRONTIER IN SOUTH-EASTERN

INCREASE IN BUTTER RATION

London, To-day.

The Ministry of Food- an. nounces that the butter ration will be increased from four to eight ounces a week per person from March 25.-Reuter.

GERMAN TREACHERY TO NORTH

Oslo, To-day..

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The "Aftenposten says: "Germany, apart from the Soviet, has the greatest responsibility for the Soviet's aggression

FINLAND, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS TASMAN SEA and its consequences.

OF THE RUSSIAN PEACE TREATY.

At the same time, another army is marching into Finland, an army of 100,000 men, women and children who have chosen to leave their homes and remain free Finns in what is left of Finland rather than come under Moscow's rule.

Striking west along snow-covered roads this army is slowly marching, some on foot, some drawing sledges piled high with belongings and some in cars and lorries commandeered by the Government for this purpose.

Originally, the 19,000 square miles of territory formed the home of 500,000 Finns. As the war pro gressed, 400,000 were removed to places of safety and the remainder are now following them.

There is as yet no indication as -to when the Finnish Parliament will ratify the peace treaty with Russia.

The Soviet parliament is expected to ratify the treaty at an extraordin- ary session on March 29.

Reuter.

PRESIDENT'S RECOMMENDATION

London, To-day. According to a broadcast from the Finnish radio station at Lahti late yesterday afternoon, the Finnish Diet was still debating the ratification of the Russian peace treaty.

President Kallio has recommended it be ratified. Reuter.

It has since been announced that the Finnish Parliament ratified the Treaty by 145 votes to 3.

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN M. DALADIER

Paris, To-day.

A vote of confidence in the Daladier Government was passed yesterday by the French Senate after a 2-day se- cret session.

The resolution expressed admiration for the Finns and said that the Allies would continue the war with increas- ing energy until complete victory as- 'sured the liberty of all nations.-Reu- ter.

JERSEY TO CONSCRIPT

FOR ARMY

} ST. HELIER, TO-DAY. JERSEY, LARGEST OF THE INTRO- CHANNEL ISLANDS, HAS DUCED COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE AND MEN OF. FROM 20 TO 24 WILL BE CALLED UP NEXT MONTH.

Most of the men in the volunteer militia (now disbanded) have already A volunteered for overseas service. home defence force, costing £22,000 a year, will be formed, and will be supported by local taxation.

Jersey has issued its first War Loan of £100,000 at 3 per cent.-Reuter.

*** Jersey, some 45 square miles in area, is the most southerly of the Channel Islands, and is only about 12 miles from France. Its population is around 50,000. It is governed by at

appointed Lieutenant-Governor

by: the Crown and a Bailiff, who is ap- pointed for life and who presides over the "Royal Court," the judicial body, "and over "The States," the legislative body; both consist of official and elect- ed members.

RELEASE OF MEN FOR INDUSTRY

London, To-day. Technicians essential for war indus- tries are being released from the

NEW DUTCH AIR LINE Army, the Parliamentary Secretary to

SERVICE

London, To-day. A new air service between London and Oslo was opened yesterday by the Royal Dutch Air Lines.

the Ministry of Supply said yesterday. The Army, he said, were co-oper- ating very willingly in releasing all men needed for war industry and the equivalent of about two Divisions had already been released.

This announcement was made in the

It is a 7-hour service, with stops en route at Amsterdam and Christian-course of a debate on the Ministry of sand.

There are now four daily services each way between Holland and Eng- land-Reuter.

BUDAPEST AND THE SOVIET SUCCESS

Budapest; To-day.

Supply. A total of £700,000,000 was voted for war supplies; the Ministry' has already placed £500,000,000 worth of orders.—Reuter. .

NORWEGIAN VOTE FOR

DEFENCES WER

Oslo, To-day.

The "Magyar Nemezet" stresses: It is announced that an extraordin- that the "Svenska Dagbladet". of ary: additional credit of ten million" Stockholm errs Badly when speaking crowns (£571,000) is being included. for of the peace of northern solidarity in the Norwegian army budget and is a blow to that Europe which | 1940/41 "owing to developments in the whole world separates from the the international situation since the Bolsheviksystem.-Reuter.

budget was drawn up."-Reuter.

AIR MAIL

London, To-day.

New

A giant flying-boat left for Zealand yesterday to inaugurate an air mail service between that country and Australia.

"Without the pact of friendship be- tween Germany and Russia, between Nazism and Bolshevism, the Soviet's action would not have taken place.

"And without Germany's warn- ing that she would with all her means fight any helping action by the Western Powers over Scandinavia, such help would have been realised." - The Stockholm correspondents of the "Arbieder the "Dagbladet" and Bladet" both speak of secret German and the latter journal pressure,

When the service is in full opera- tion and the north Atlantic service has been resumed, the associated Empire organisations will have a con- tinuous air service of nearly 18,000 writes: "Bitterness against what is as German treachery is miles the longest commercial air described

Reuter. line in the world.

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Reuter.

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