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· Baltic and The night was a test both for crews and aircraft, states the Air Ministry news service, but for many the reward came when they 9000 broke to a clear sky and saw flames rising to a great height from the shipyards at Kiel.

It will be noticed that in Wed-tween the nesday's air attacks the Russians Lake Ladoga, said a specifically sought out military Stockholm despatch to objectives and areas where Ger- mans might be expected to be the Vichy news agency

yesterday.

found.

It was the thin end of the wedge for Finland when she gave the

Germans permission to allow This line is longer than during forces to pass through Finland into the recent Russo-Finnish war and northern Norway, for the Ger- it no longer comprises the fortress mans immediately exploited the of Viipuri, formerly the bastion of original concessions until' the the Finnish defence, which German

assuined ceded to Russia under the peace concentrations proportions of an alarming char-treaty. acter.

was

At Bremen It was more diffi- cult to ste results but a good load of bombs was dropped on the target,

The sustained offensive of the last few weeks, it is stated. has shown that the summer night is The despatch adds that it is be- not too short for effective bomb- lieved in Stockholm that the Arsting.--Reuter, operation of the German troopa from Finland will be directed to- wards Kandalakscha, the White Sea port where the railway from

British Warning

The British Government had full knowledge of what was going on and it is understood Mr. Eden Leningrad to the Arctic port of

· informed M. Maisky of the British Murmansk passes nearest to the information on this subject a week | Finnish frontier.-Reuter. before the Germans launched their

attack on Russia,

The Swedes gave the mana a similar concession

Gar-

re-

garding the passage of troops through to northern, Norway, and the present agreement is a further extension of this, . The original concession

by

the Swedes was greatly deprecat-

ed by the British Government as

a further concession is likely to

be made.

Basic Fact

QUO TAI-CHI

ON JAPAN'S

DILEMMA

MR.QUO. TAI-CHI,

NEW

Worst Ever

An experienced pilot said: it was the worst storm he had ever met.

He said: "It began half way across the North Sea and must have been about 200 miles in depth. Thunderstorms put both the wireless and air-speed indica- tor out of use.

.

"I tried to climb above the clouds but the higher.. we went the more ice there was. Only thing to do was to fly through them.

"Electric fire fit up the lead- Ing edge of the wings and air. Ecrews with the unnatural light. The guns looked as though they were red hot and the trailing. Paërjul, filcked like the lash' of 'a'

Tuminous whip cutting through. "the air with a trail of sparke."

buffeted in every

In well-informed: London cir- MINISTER OF FOREIGN AF¬ cles it is considered that the basic FAIRS, IN AN INTERVIEW fact remains that the Finnish WITH THE "TA KUNG PAO" IN people as a whole are most re- KUNMING, DECLARED THAT luctant to participate in the war WITH THE OUTBREAK OF E We were and are only doing so under pres- WAR BETWEEN GERMANY direction. I had never seen such sure and geographical necessity AND RUSSIA, JAPAN IS FUR-lightning.

The Finnish attitude, coupled THER ISOLATED.

with the Swedish decision to Dr.

“The storm lasted until we were only 20 miles off Bremen and then there was a welcome patch of clear sky

permit a German division through Dr. Qud revealed that during Sweden, shows clearly that the his interview in America, Pre- Ene-up regulting from the Russo-sident Roosevelt told him that The whole force had to battle German war is based on power the United States will increase against an unremitting storm. It politics rather than on ideology—its aid to China and will make was 100 miles, according to the Reuter

"By Every Means"

use of the Burma Road. He fur-navigator's log, before there was ther disclosed that there is a plan any clearing and twenty minutes. to strengthen “ the Chinese air later another storm loomed up. §. [SPECIAL TO “CHINA MÄIL”T

force.

On the way back after, bombing, The Finnish Legation in London, Regarding the Burma highway, the railway near Bremen the without directly confirming Ber- Dr. Quo urged that further im aircraft met another storm with lin reports that Finland has provement in transportation and heavy rain. The wireless was out declared war on Russia, stated: warehousing facilities on the road of action during the whole jour-

Violations of Finn territory by be effected-Central Newsney, British Wireless.

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