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First Class Soviet Troops Ready WESTERN For New Offensive On Salla Front: With Stronger Defences

Finns Fortify All Advance

Lines With "Incredible Speed"

HELSINKI, Jan 22 (Renter)—A special correspondent with the Finnish Forces on the Central (Salla) Front reports that the Soviet troops there are first class soldiers, well equipped and more expertly led than those of the two defeated divisions

The present Soviet defeat does not decide the battle of the miles nearer Salla Front, he says, but merely moved it thirty

the Russian frontier. The Russians have, in fact, gained strong defence positions, but have, at the same time weakened their position for a new offensive,

The Finns claim to have destroyed two Soviet tanks in this sector.

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The Finnish Army in this sector |

is fortifying the ground over which

5,000 ITALIAN

& advances. Finnish lines here, says the correspondent, are many VOLUNTEERS

miles deep and if the Russians at-i PARIS, Jan. (Reuter)-AC-tempt to return this way in an- cording to the Parls. Soir, 5,000 other attempt to cut the Finnish Italian volunteers are en route to "walst-line," their task wil be Helsinki. The newspaper states far more difficult one than it was that General Mannerheim, C-in-C. when the Finns had practically no of the Finnish Forces, thanked defences at all.

consignments, The Petit

Paristen

says

France and Britain for their Art The correspondent comments on "the Incredible speed" with which that the Finns are carrying out the French aid to Finland has already work of fortifying the sector as made itself felt and Swedish assisthey advance after the retreating tance is also, becoming apparent. Russians.

3.000 ROMBS

HELSINKI. Jan, 22 (Reuter)--It

SOVIET AIR BAIDS

Some twenty different "places in is unoffie ally estimated that over Finland were bombed by Soviet 3000 tombs were dropped by So-lanes on Saturday, and much viet aircraft in wholesale bombing material damage Was done, one alds yesterday, which were more report saying that 100 buildings rusbless and extensive than the were wrecked. attacks on Saturday.

So far only three people are re: Port Abo, through which wrported to have been killed and the supplies from Sweden have been easualties seem to have been small.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT

LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuter} -German patrol ships bomb- ed by the R.A.F. yesterday in the North Sea are believed to have been caught in the act of sewing a new minefield across the traffic lane be- tween "Denmark and Great

TOO MUCH SHOUTING?

Hitler's Voice

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Gives Out

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AMSTERDAM, Jam: 21 (Havas) - Herr Hitler's health is giving anxiety. His complaint is the old one-an affection of the throat..

OVERSTRAIN

Some pople say it is cancer

than thickening of the vocal cords others that it is nothing more due to ove strain in the days when the Nazi Party could not afford microphones and loud speakers.

Nazi Attack

4.

Repulsed

RECONNAISSANCE

FLIGHTS

PARIS, Jazi 22 (Reuter)-A sharp Nazi attack' on a French outpost west of the Vosges 'was descifbed by the French "official wireless commentator on Saturday. The attack Wis prepared by artillery, but failed, being easily repasid. The Gemang were dis- persed and som- of them seemed to have lost their way.

U-BOATS ATTACKED

French and Britis:"planies, mid the announcer. attacked several

U-Boats but be gave no detalls.

There was a Geman reconnals- sance fright over France and similar fight by French planes over Southern Germany.

R.A.F. ATTACK NAZI SHIPS

Air Ministry announces that while

LONDON, Jan, Reute.-The

engaged

in reconnaissance over

the North Sea on Saturday morni isng. British alterart sighted four enemy patrol vessels, which opened heavy anti-aircraft fires

Whatever it is the secret known to only very few-the corn plaint is now grave enough to merit the appointment of a per- manent medical officer to Hitler's travelling staff

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bombs some of which were seen; to fall within a few yards of the ressels.

The aircraft retallated, dropping Of Petroleum For Germany

or damage. Our aircraft suffered no casual-

The map chosen for the post is Karl Brandt. a brilliant young cap-ties cer specialist attached as assistant to the Berlini clinic which has been treating Hitler

reaching the Finns. La ht! Import- Port Abo sutered most. This! ant centre on the route from port has been raided thirty times 6 Helsinki to the Mannerheim Line. since the hostilities started, but:

Golf and leaborg. In the

of the latest raids are said to be the Bothnia. were chosen for the worst get." severest strar'ng.

FEW DETAI' S

FOUR ALARMS

Helsinki had four alarms, but al Few detalls of the results of the though the rumble of explosions air onslaught are available, as was heard, no bombs were dropped most of the lines of communication on either the town or its suburbs. are destroyed or temporarily out'; In all, seven Soviet planes were of action. Etherto the only news shot down and three more are be received has been in brief wireless Reved to have been destroyed. flash's

FLANK MOVEMENT There is little news of the fight-

AMAZING STATEMENT LONDON, Jan. 22 Reuter-Ifing. the Fons do not stop stealing So-

The Soviet Forces on the Kare- viet weapons. Soviet Russia will

lan" Isthmus have abandoned declare wor on Finland! This

their attempt to smash through amazing statement was made by the Mannerheim Line and are now woman announcer, speaking in

trying to outflank the Finns from Finnish from the Moscow Radio the Taipali River There were Station.

For the first time, the Soviet of Lake Ladoga.

minor engagements north-west of

Radio made mention of the fight- ing in the Suomussalmi area (where the Finns wiped out two whole Soviet divisions).

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The Moscow womar announcer said: "Finnish troops here have been stealing weapons from the

Russians. If these are not return- ed to their rightful owners, war will be declared."

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"Revealing" Article In

China Press

Germany & Her Foreign Trade

SHANGHAI Jan. 22 (Reuter)- Commenting on the statement by

Ronald H. Cross, Mr.

British Minister for Economic Warfare, to the effect that the economic structure of Germany is facing

DRÁMATIC PICTURES

One of the most dramatle photo- graphs taken by RA.F. plants over Germany and issued by the A3 Ministry, shows a Naz cerodrome 10 miles north of Hanover,

The photo shows, 30 German bombers which were taken by sur- prise by the sudden arrival of the R.AF planes.

EVERY DETAIL Some of the enemy planes are taking to the air, others are taxing along the ground, others are on the runways ready to take off

Every detail of the aerodrome is shown even down to 'l patches on the ground where tombers bad stood.

Stolen

LONDON, Jan. 22 (Reuter)—A consignment of petroleum, recently via from Rumania dispatched Cernauti and Lwow to the German military authorities in Cracow bas not been delivered, reports the Times correspondent in the Bal-j

kans.

A Commission of German officers I stated to have come to Lwow fa inquire into the matter and found that the consignment had been stolen by the Russians who had diverted it to the Finnish front.

Sach a suspicious disappearance of Rumanian goods intended for Germany is known to have hap pened once before soon after the re-opening of the railway, from Cernaut to Lwow. to traine.

It is reported that

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WHAT THE BRITISH NAVY IS DOING

DAMAGED FACTORY pense of the trident, the ecur Mysterious Service Whose

BEING REPAIRED

corres-

pondent adds, confirm other re- Dorts of the uncertainty of trans-i LONDON. Jan, 22 (BWS-AC-port along this line and might imminent breakdown, the Chinese-cording to a. Ministry of Supply well account for the persistent owned China Press pubilshes a statement, work will be resumed reports of Germany insisting on "revealin" article by the Exvier this morning ‘in. some of the military supervision to ensure de- jahresplan. official magazine of buildings at the Royal Gunpowder livery of supplies to and from MOSCOW COMMUNIQUE

the Reich Four-Year Plan, which, Factory in Waltham Abbey, where Soviet Galicia. MOSCOW..Jan, 21 Reuter)—Aį

the newspaper dovetails nicely repairs to the damage caused by communique states that in a num- with facts presented by Mr. Cross the explosion have been proceed- ber of areas Russian planes made

The article was written by Herring all the week. bombing ralds. 15

Emil Halfrerich, one-time mari- successful

enemy planes being brought down time adviser so Hitler. in air combats."

FOUR AIR RAIDS

HELSINKI: Jan. 21Reuter)- NAVAL BASE BOMBED Four air raid a.arms were sound HELSINKI, Jan. 22 (Reuter)-ed in Helsinki today. trom 11 am -Finnish planes bombed the Bo-to sunset. No bombs were dropped Viet naval base at Kronstadt and in the city or suturks. Sut other also raided the Estonian port of towns in southern Finland were Baltisk where a Russian air base heavily bombed. was established under the Sovie:- Estonian Non-Aggression Pact,

U.S. Loan To

Finland

WAR WITH RUSSIA

MIGHT FOLLOW, SAY

ISOLATIONISTS

WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 (Reb-

It stated: "We must face the facts. They are the same as in 1914 to 1918, England's German power brought the overseas trade to a complete standstill."

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structure of the factory has been designed to prevent the effect for possible explosion spreading. Thus, while the win- shattered dows in houses were some distance away, the windows in the factory buildings within a

re few yards of the explosion

Herr Heltrerich urged the Ger-ratned intact. man Government to ald German.

Strong U.S. Protest To Japan

SHANGHAI, Jan. 22 Renter)— Under instructions inom Mr. Cor- dell Hull. a strong protest is being lodged with: the Japanese Govern-

After visiting the injured men

a result ment by the American Ambassa- import and export firms by per-detained, in hospital as the mitting them to discharge super- of the explosion.

Parilador, Mr. Joseph Grew, over the Fifty-nine Red planes were reuous employees who are prohibit-mentary Secretary to the Minis-arest of Mr. James R. Young. For ported over a small town to the ed by the Naal Labour Protection try of Supply said that one was Eastern representative of the In- north of Helsinki and in the

returning home immediately. capital a faint rumble of bombs was heard.

STALIN AS

THE LENIN

Law.

A

Work Never Stops

LONDON, Jan. 22 (Reuter)-Except for the loss of three". submarines, there has not been much 11ews from the sea this week, commented the Naval Observer at the B.B.C.. in fis weekly review

WAT of the

on Saturday night.

There has been nothing spectacular and it is therefore, easy to conclude that nothing has been happening. This is what the American papers were saying just before the drap Spec was sunk, They asked: What is the British Navy doing?

The Navy, points out the observer, is only in the public eye on occasions and then we realise there is one. But once the excitement of a particular Incident is over, the Navy again becomes

rather mysterious service and disap- pears behind the consorship and the horizon, but its work nover stops.

which, from September 3 to De cember 31 (119 days) spent 103 days at sea.

During the remalader it had to rofuel and victual, so that it was probably never in port for more than a few hours at a time.

While at sea. the crew were al-.. ways at their action or defence. stations for long periods, keyed up, and this was a great strain on both men and machinery. But this escort vessel is only one of

CONTROL OF SEA The Navy now holds control of

In other words, the many. He also asked the

German second would be discharged fromternational News Servire, accord-the sea.

German Fleet, such as it is, is not

the to tour

oceans and Government to allow these firms hospital within a week and the to the local press

A United States Embassy official free satisfactory making WILA

It is tim- to use "rent-free" warehouses and third

is said to be investigating Mr. threaten trade routes. to provide them with necessary progress.

actual from the Colonel Llewellin sale that the Young's detention to see that he potent and the normal life of the loans "to keep them afloat."

After these measures had been small number of casualties was is not mistreated and also to be people away taken, he said, "we need not fear largely attributed to the safety present at every questioning by scene of conflict goes on for our foreign.trade."

measures enforced in the factory. the Police.

OF TODAY America More Worried By

MOSCOW, Jan. 22 (Hayas)---- ter) The question of a loan by "Stalin is the Lenin of today.” This the United States to Finland is is the slogan "displayed throughout coming before the Senate again the clty yesterday as Moscow cele- on Wednesday, when Mr. Cordell brated the anniversary of Lenin's Hull will made a statement to the death. Committee.

Despite the bitter cold, street The isolationists are arguing demonstrations were organized in that a loan, in the eyes of Ger- all towns and villages in the Soviet many. would be circumventing the Unlen and meetings were held to spirit of neutrality and might in honour the memory of the dead volve the United States in war leaders. with Russia

LITHUANIAN ARMY

CHIEF RESIGNS

H

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BERN. Jan. 22 (Havas)—The

SAME POLICY

Of Getting

GAOL FOR TUNING.

•IN TO FOREIGN

BROADCASTS

Into War In

In Europe

BERLIN, Jan. 22 Reuter)- Penalties for Germans caught listening to foreign radio broad- casts are becoming more and mor

dermar Polish-German

£

The speakers and the press not clear. only recalled Lenin's activities, but The latest is that also tried to demonstrate that M. living near the Stalin follows exactly the polleles fornir has been sentenced to advocated and applied by Lenin.

The Pravda editorial says: "True five years imprisonment and his to Lenin's last will, the Soviet wife gets one month in gusi.

Voelkischer Beobachter publishes people liberated 13,000,000 oppress-

LATEST POLITICAL

VIEWS

Possibility Pacific Than

BRITAIN TO SPEND £250 THOUSAND ON WAR SUPPLIES FROM U.S.A.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (Reuter -Mr." Winston Churchill's speech NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (Reuter)- was too late for editorial comment. The New York Times learns in but the general impression here is official circles in Washington that that he was not speaking to Britain is preparing to spend America so much as to the Medi- about £250,000,000 on planes and terranean and Scandinavian coun- other military supplies in the

tries.

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D'scussing the Senators demand severance of diplomatic

United States.

It is stated that Mr. Henry Secretary to "the

a message from its correspondented White Russians and Ukrainians WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (Reuter) for a in Kaunas revealing that General and are at presently extending a Senator Borah will be given a relations with the Soviets, one Morgenthau, Raskitis, head of the Lithuanian friendly hand to the Finnish state funeral which will be at-political commentator declares that Treasury, has been trying to find Army, has resigned.

people in their fight against the tended by the President, his Cabi- the administration is more worried means to facilitate the expansion The resignation is still under Mannerheim gang. The Red Army net and the members of the dip by the possibility of getting into of factories to enable them to

war 'n the Pacific then in Europe. supply the British orders. consideration

has covered itself with real glory." lomatic corps.

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U-Boats have been so aut- cessfully hunted that they. now prefer to operate further sfield, preferably attacking " ships of small neutral nations, CRUISERS WORK The enemy, however, cannot Meanwhile, the Royal Navy's completely be stopped and try to cruisers are hunting down Ger- become a nuisance by attempting man merchant ships and raiders. to stop goods, etc., from reaching It is dangerous work, but, as Vêư Britain, interfering with it by have ample evidence, the Navy means of U-Boats, raiders, mines knows what to do with them

when they find them. and aeroplanes.

But all this is only part of the COLLOSAL JOB These new inventions mean that Navy's work. It only possible, the the command of the sea cannot be observer concluded, because of the absolute and so the Navy has the preponderance of the main battle Job of escorting merchant vessels fleet, which provides a shield be- and locating and sweeping mines. hind which the peaceful trade of Great areas are swept daily, what-the whole world goes on. ever the weather, for mines. It is

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a collosal job, but the Navy is dealing very successfully with it. Slace the war started, 6.580` merchant ships luve been convoyed by the Navy. with the loss of only 12 A buge army of soldiers has been con- veyed to France. It is being fed and supplied and men A come and go on leave. contingent from Canada has been conveyed across the Al lantic and 35 U-boats - have.

Churchill Arch-Enemy

Of Germans

NEW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuter) Neutrals will not appreciate. the in [vitation to intervene, says the New York Times commenting on, Mr. Winston Churchill's broadcast."

"Still, for all its occasional lapses, been sunk.

the speech was a good one. There TYPICAL CASE

La good reason for the Germans to Typical of the Navy's work is rate Mr. Churchill as their arch- that of just one escort vessel, enemy," said the paper.