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AMSTERDAM, Jan, 18 (Reuter} -While_arctic conditions prevall on the German frontier, with snow- drifts and frozen rivers, the Ger- mand are busy, hermetically sealing the frontier by erecting tremend

oils barbed-wire barrier.

OF FROST

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OSLO, Jan. 18 (Reuter)-The temperature at Telnesse, en | Norwegian-Swedish frontier, defled the mercury thermometer, which talled to rerister. The alcohol thermometer showed 88 defrees of

frost.

COLDEST SINCE 1924 MOSCOW, Jan. 18 (Reuter)-The inhabitants state that this is the coldest winter since Lenin died in 1924. The thermometer has fallen a further 4 degrees, registering 79 degrees of frost

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HAVE PROBABLY DONE MORE THAN ANTONE ELSE TO BRIGHTEN UP MEN'S CLOTHES COLOUR IS

OF THE KEYNOTE THEIR LATEST PRODUC- TIONS FOR PRESENT WEAR ADDED TO THEIR EXCELLENCE OF STYLE AND FINISH & FAMOUS FOR THEIR COMFORT. IN-ACTION FEATURES. A PARTICULARLY FINE SELECTION O'F NEW COMERS FROM THIS OF STYLE CENTRE SUPERIOR SPORTS WEAR IN-

RESTRICTED POINTS It appears that persons wishing PEKING, Jan. 18 (Reuter)-The to enter and leave Germany will Food situation which has been only be allowed to do so at certain causing acute distress among the restricted points with great dim- Chinese population in Peking, culty. At some places the high especially the poorer classes is ex- barrier is being elecrified.

Hospitals are remaining open pected to be greatly relieved fol- The Germans are following the

night and day to attend to cases lowing an official announcement frontier line with accuracy, "great- of fros:-bite and many lores and that the fixed prices for cereals ly inconveniencing local residents. private cars are frozen up on the have been cancelled temporarily

Thas, at one place, a barrier is roads.

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SPECTION. and that arrangements had been being taken through a hotel gürden made for the importation into and the hairies of Smarenhek, people seeking relief from the bit- North China of 2,000,000 bags of

has been cut from all comterly cold winds. flour, before the Chinese New Year, munications. Wire netting at

FLOUR ON SALE

Dinxperlo has been erected down Large quanties of flour were on the middle of a street, which is sale locally yesterday, and queues halt German and half Dutch. have been waiting outside the shops, The situation has become su

It is believed that the measures bad that the Police were issuing

are directed chiefly against sples food tickets to the poorer families.

Hoarding on the part of local and saboteurs, dealers is one of the most un- With troop concentrations and the lavourable factors aggravating an construction of extension to

are already acute food situation in Siegfried Line, the Germans Peking.

anxious to keep many chings from prying eyes.

SABOTAGE

PLOT

DISCOVERY

Transport Ministry's

Instructions

"

LONDON. Jan. 18 (Reuter)-) Following reports that a document was issued to the railways wains ing them of the discovery of a sabotage plot by Nari agents In Britain, the 'Ministry of Transport announced that "as part of the general precautionary measures, pre-war instructions were issued to various public authorities warn- ing them of the risk of sabotagṛ on the part of evilly disposed persons.

ROUTINE REPETITION "These instructions were repeat- ed at the time of the I. R. A out- Tages. In certain quarters, the routine repetition of these instruc- tions have recently taken place."

MOVE AGAINST SPIES

NONE REFUSED HELP AGAINST AGGRESSION

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LONDON, Jan. 18 (Reater) -Asked in the Hous: of If he Commons yesterday would give the names of any states wh.. 5

30. 1938, has asked Great Britain to guarantee them against aggression and bad heen re- fused the Prime Minister ro- piled: "None."

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BITTER COLD SWEEPS NORTH

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LONDON, Jan. 18 (Reuter) - Scenes not duplicated for many years have followed the descent of Arctic cold upon Northern Europe. It is possible today, for instance, to walk from Denmark to Sweden. as the Sound is frozen over from coast to coast.

Copenhagen Harbour is com- pletely frozen hand the Baltic is one great sheet of ice as far as the eye can see from the Danish coast.

Similar reports come from all points along the shores of the Baltic.

So Intense is the cold in Estnonia- that children have been forbidden to go to school

BLANKET OF SNOW Temperatures in the country' are lower than have ever previously been recorded.

The greater part of Germany is under a heavy blanket of snow and the coal shortage in Berlin is causing acute distress among the poorer classes.

Germany's waterborne transport is completely paralysed and similar conditions prevail throughout the greater part of the length of the Danube and throughout Holland and 'Belgium,

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AMSTERDAM, Jan. 48 (Reuter) The Teleg.aaf, in an extremely sharp editorial, declares: "We '10- gard the whole plan of the 'Ger- man Navy to isolate Britain as doomed to failure in advance."

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LONDON, Jan, 18 (Reuter)--The extent of the German submarine losies wis recently confirmed 1.om an unexpected quarter. A Frankurt broadcast said: "The wish of the "English" is father to the thought.

They say they have sank 20. It They had sald 35, they would be a bit nearer "the truth."

ALLIES CLAIM:

The Allies never claimed 70. The paper describes the sinking The only aggregate claim was of the Arendskerk as "a deed of made last Baturday by the French Renseless violence, bringing no Minister of Marine who estimated thas altogether 30 German sub- glory to the German Navy."

marines had been 'sunk,

The German broadcast, in at- The paper says that Germany tempting to conceal 'from the Ger- nas as little chance of stopping us man people the seriousness of the from sailing the seas as she has of losses, in fact admits that the sweeping Britain off that element losses are more serious than an=" The number of British ships which nounced by the Allies arrive and leave British ports daily shows the uselessness of German sea warfare and asks "Does Beriln leally seriously contemplate star- Vng out South Africa or is it mere ly a question of destroying as much shipping as possible?"

BRITISH LOSSES & CONVOY SYSTEM The loss of the three British suh. marines must be viewed in the light of the predominant fact that The paper continues that every, half the U-Boats with which Ger- land with a seafaring tradition is many bezan the war are now des- disgusted at what the German troyed. Navy has done in the last few months.

SECOND PALERMO QUAKE DENIED

The British 18 is offset by the success of the convoy systern--- safely escorted 6,383; lost 12.

In the last war. the convoy system reduced losses to 0.8 per cent and the present fleure is only 0.2.

ROME, Jan, 18 (Reuter-The Individual triumphs and setbacks report of a second Palermo earth- gzip the popular imagination, but quake and the collapse of the the issue is decided by the ceaseless Monreale Cathedral are dented flow of convoys to and from British. here.

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