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RESENTMENT IN HOUSE OF LORDS OVER UNITY MITFORD, HORE - BELISHA NEWSREEL & COMMENT

LONDON, Jan. 25 (Reuter)-A recent film depleting and com- menting on the return of

(A) Miss Unity Mitford, described as Herr Altler's English. "Giri Friend" to Folkestone and

(B) the resignation of Mr. Hore Bellsha

led to an interesting debate in the House of Lords, where Lord Denman asked the House to approve of a motion that careful cen- sorship of news films in wartime was a necessity.

Allies Will Assist Belgium

Lord Denman said that to mag- ntly the return of Miss Unity Mit- ford into a matter of national Im- portance was absurd and to pour ridicule on her return as was done in the film commentary, was un- fair and ungenerous,

ERROR OF JUDGMENT

Lord Denman added that the LONDON, Jan. 25 (Reuter)-In newsreel made an error of judg- the House of Commons yesterday, ment in saying that the public resented Mr. Hore. Beltaha's re- Mir. Chamberlain LINKS asked whether the

br signation. While fully recognising announcement General Viscount Gort to the effect Mr. Hore Bellsha's abilities, he re- that, if Belgium was attacked the minded the House that there was French

a British Army before Mr. Hore and British guarantee

Belisha became War Minister and would come into play with light-"

Its officers where not a set of re- ning speed, represented the "view

actionary "Colonel Blimps."" of His Majesty's Government and whether military plans for Im- plementing it had already been prepared,

DEPLORABLE

The Marquess of Dufferin, in LOCARNO FREATY

reply, agreed that, as an example The Prime Minster said that of sadistic brutality, the Unity under the Locarno Treaty His Mitford film would be hard to beat. Majesty's Government undertookIt was deplorable. to go to the immediate assistance

Lord Dufferin said that there of Belgium in the event of un- was nothing in the fim about Mr provoked aggression by Germany Horé Belisha which could be taken and the undertaking was rearas against public policy and asked firmed subsequently, the occasion if there was anything more blatant

CABLE

Big Soviet Big Soviet FURTHER

|FURTHER HARROWING Offensive DETAILS OF GERMAN Continues

TREATMENT OF POLES

HELSINKI, Jan. 25 (Reuter- Struggling through the forests across frozen marslies north of Lake Ladoga, the Russians are continuing the biggest offensive in many weeks with the object of out-flanking the Mannerheim Line:

LONDON, JAN. 25 (REUTER)—THE VATICAN RADIO BROAD- CAST FURTHER HARROWING DETAILS OF THE GERMAN TREAT- MENT OF POLES, especially priests, and alleges that systematic transportation of Poles from Posen, Pomerania and Silesia to the so- called Central Government Protectorate, began in November when the people were given ten minutes to leave their homes.

They were locked in trains and conveyed to a small station near Warsaw where they were left to their fate. Some of the Journeys were, made in open waggons in a temperature below zero. The ground they have chosen for the advance is easier than

Other reports, reaching the Va- He describes an incident follow- that in the Karelian Isthmus buttican, according to The Times. ing an encounter between two so far it is by no means certain allege that at Blomberg 5,000 German non-commissioned officers that they are meeting with any people, many. of whom were and Polish criminals who had es- success and the losses have been priests, were confined in a stable caped from prison. very heavy.

so small that they were unable to sit down.

Or some points of the front. the Russians are using tanks as a cover for their advancing in- fantry who cluster behind them, i 'n small groups, for protection

A Finnish surgeon just retum-

from the front reported that: along with the Russian casualties

treated were two women wearing fleutenant's uniforms. They were wounded while working with the ambulance corps.

"HURLED BACK HELSINKI, Jan. 25 (Reuter)- Soviet attacks north of Lake La- dogs have been hurled back with great Red Army losses. Terrific grille y activity continues in the Suoma Region of the Mannerheim Line.

"U, S. VOLUNTEER PILOTS HELSINKI, Jan. 25 (Reuter)--- Six American volunteer pilots have arrived here to join the Finnish Air Force. Their ages range from a 19 year old pilot to a veteran of the last war.

It is reported that a Swedish

being in a statement to the King or more propaganda in the film pilot crashed and was killed in of the Belgians by the British than anything which appeared in Finnish territory whilst engaged Ambassador in Brussels in August the popular press during that time, with a Soviet squadron.

last

In reply to the last part of the' question, the House could rest as sured that the questions of how guarantees of all kinds could be implemented had received the Government's full attention,

APPEAL MUST COME FROM "BELGIUM

TWO METHODS

EX-PREMIER'S PROPHECY NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (Reuter) "We must be logical in these I am convinced the "invasion of -"Because M. Stalin chose war, matters and we cannot differen-

Finland will mark the beginning tiate between these two methods of diffusing news." he declared.

of the end of the Bolshevik Lord Strabolgi said that the the ex-Russian Premier, M. Keren- dictatorship in Russia," writes

Government. through the Minis- sky. In a letter to the New York try of Information was keeping Post, adding that in the present the newspapers so short news that conflict with Finland there is no 25 (Reuter) Journalists were glad of any story doubt that a

revision of the Apropos Mr. Chamberlain's state-they could write up and make in- Russe-Finnish frontiers could be

LONDON, Jan.

teresting demands.

JI

achieved by The motion was withdrawn.. standing..

amicable under-

ment in the House of Commons in regard to the guarantee to Bel- glum, especially his remark that the British Government must re- tain the right to decide what is threat of aggression it is pointed out in Belgian quarters in Lon- don, says Reuter's diplomatic cor- "respondent, that the main factor which would bring the guarantee

LONDON, Jan, 25 (Renter)-Details of the seizures from the inte operation must be an appeal United States mails by the British authorities and the methods whereby citizens of German origin in the Americas attempt to use the United States mail to transport valuables and food to Germany were revealed by the Ministry of Economic Warfare yesterday:

DIAMONDS & PEARLS WORTH MILLIONS

invoking the provisions of the guarantee.

It is stated that since the beginning of the war and apto Jan. 12, 6,000 letters and 50,000 parcels were seized as contraband most of the letters contained items such as cheques, drafts, letters of credit and a new form of the mark. the "gift mark."

BEST EASTER GIFT TO ALLIES! BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (Reuter) The best Easter present Herr

The marks so far confiscated Hitler could give Britain and

were valued at 5,279,000 Reichs- France would be to attack Bel-marks, cheques and drafts to the gum

value of U.S.$526,000, United States

This is the view expressed by currency to the value of $9,900 and | a noted Belgian military expert sterling to the wahue of £17,800. In the Belgian paper,

The spokesman of the Ministry

1r Beikium opens her frontiers mentioned that one of the parcels to the Allies and gives them the seized contained pearls valued at help of her fortifications and her £8,000 sent from Japan and more 600.000 men and withdraws her than £2,000,000 worth of industrial exports, this would be a heavy diamonds were found in a letter blow to Germany he says.

post, but the bulk were addressed

to recipients in neutral countries and allowed to proceed..

BELGIUM'S APPEAL

- PARCELS OF FOOD THE CHIEF FACTOR

Many señders addressed a large A Havas message adds that the envelope to a recipiert neutral Belgium and Allled "Governments country containing a number of are carefully examining the situa- smaller envelopes addressed, to re- tion arising from the fact that clpients in Germany. the determining factor for the The sending of parcels of food' cxecution of the guarantee is the to Germany from the United States appeal of the Belgian Government reached tremendous proportions requesting the guarantor's inter- and all these were regarded as con-

traband and confiscated.

verition.

U.S. - JAPAN: NO NEW TRADE TREATY LIKELY

The victims were forbidden to go out and there was only make-shift latrine in IL

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corner which Canon Stedzcyn- ski, aided by a Jew. were com- pelled to clean up daily with their hands.

Adam Minithal

When Vicar tried to help him he was beaten by the police with their rifle butts. At Gdynia, the population was forcibly deported and the town was re-peopled by Baltic Ger-

marts,

The criminals killed the non-. commissioned officers. Imme- 'diately 300 Poles were taken from their homes in the neighbourhood and the next morning a hundred were forced to kneel in the court- yard and machine-gunned.

The other 200 were kept under arrest for eight days and were practically foodless in the bitter

cold.

DIFFERENT METHODS: This authority also draws at- tention to the difference between the German and the Russian In Russian Poland conditions methods and says that while "the were described as less bad as the Germans apparently wish to des- Russians have been more concerni-troy the Polish nation by assas→ ed with, organising farms on sination and removal of all cul- Bolshevist" lines.

tural and religious associations, PROFESSOR'S ALLEGATIONS Russia usės deportation, rather Allegations of a similar charac-than murder, in order to destroy ter were made by a professor of the Polish State. Cracow University, named Fol- Thus, 2,000 Polish ex-officers kierski, who escaped Into Hungary were sent to Russia on the night and has just reached, Paris. lof Dec. 11.

OLD AGE PENSIONS:

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INCREASED - CONCESSIONS FOR THOSE HIT BY RISE

IN LIVING COSTS

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day Sir John Simon. Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that LONDON, Jan. 25 (Reuter)-In the House of Commons yester- the Government would give concessions for old are pensions amounting to just over £8,000,000 a year. This will be partly met by another two pence a week for men and three pence a week for

women.

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There will be no limit to the amount of extra pensions, but the stale would be based according to the needs of the pensioners.

Spinsters and some wives will

be able to draw. their pensions at the age of 60 instead of 65.

There will be an increase of five;

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Increased Floating Debt For War Expenditure Would Be Unsound

"EF WOULD BE UNSOUND TO CON-

BY INCREASING

LONDON. JAN. 25 (REUTER) FOR THE GOVERNMENT'S WAR EXPENDITURE TINUE TO BE INDEFINITELY FINANCED THE FLOATING DEBT THROUGH THE ISSUE OF TREASURY BILLS," said Mr. Edwin Fisher, chairman, at the annual meet- ing of Barclays Bank today.

"Ultimately, maney borrowed for the war must be obtained mainly from the people's savings if Inflation is to be avoided.

CRITICISM OF WANG PACT

Continued from Page 1

to have an independent

China culture.

"Government demand for borrowed money, however, is Hlable to be so large that rais- ing the necessary fands would be assisted it some increased Government evpenditure is first allowed tu permeate the economic system and thus in- fluence the volume of savings prior to the actual issue of the loans to the public.

On the so-called principles of reciprocity and economic soli- darity Japan seeks to control

UTOPIAN BOPE China's whole economic system: "It is Utopian to hope in war- Including her Anancial and eco-time that prices will not rise and nomic policy and "customs admin- wages will remain stable and the "istration

knowledge that such changes have already occurred lends emphasis to the need to prevent dislocation of the economic structure.

"Therefore, to the extent, that an individual saves Government expenditure will be facilitated and competitive bidding up of prices avoided.

SWALLOW UP CHINA Japan's purpose of the establish- ment of the bogus Central, Nan- king, North China and Mongolia governments is apparently to par- tition" and swallow up China.

Her demand for a "paramount position" in Hainan Island, Amoy and other designated islanda

CONTROL ESSENTIAL along the south China coast be-

"Control of imports and exports trays her ambition of starting ajis essential in wartime in order to storm -f the Pacifc. utising meet the external purchasing China's manpower and resources.

Generalissimo Chiang says that should endeavour to deny ourselves power to the best. advantage. We If this agreement is ever enforced. the importation of non-essential

GERMAN ACCESS China will be doomed and the goods in favour of overseas re-

shillings a week for old people TO RUMANIAN

with no other resources and those hardest hit by the rise in the cost of living.

Most of the British press wel- come the new pensions. In the words of the Dally Telegraph, "they will go a long way in relieving the hardest hit cases.

HIS TROOPS ·

FRONTIER

world will be thrown Into a greater perii.

quirements vital to our needs.

"Economic strength will play Wang Ching-wel's motive in

such an impressive part in the signing the agreement in the Gen-war that no opportunities must be eralissimo's opinion is to get lost to sell more good abroad and money as testified by his demand essential as this is today, it will for a loan of $40,000,000 from the be of transcendant value when' customs revenues, and the hand-called upon to face post-war pro- - ing over by the Japanese the en-blems," "concluded Mr. Fisher. tire customs deposite in the Yoko- hama Specie. Bank and the con- solidated and salt taxes.

10 PERSONAL SAFETY

5.

FLYING-ACE®

KILLED

ALARMING VIEW OF DEVELOPMENT PARIS, JAN. 25 (REUTER) HITLER ADDRESSES PERSISTENT REPORTS OF A NEW AGREEMENT BETWEEN | GERMANY.

AND THE SOVIET

His demand for the opening of LONDON, Jan. 29 (Reuter) receive confirmation from sources the Yangtse River, between Nan-

LONDON, Jan. 25. (Reuter}~.. According to the German wire- avaliable to Turkish newspapers, king and Shanghai, and policing Among the 58 officers and other less, Hear Hitler today addressed which yesterday carried cream-rights in Nanking on the ground ranks reported dead or missing in an audience of the German Army stantial reports of the recent nego of inducing Great Britain. the the last Air Force casualties list and Air Force, cadets in the tiations.

United States, and France to ac- ls the name of Flight-Bergeant Berlin Sport Palace.

cord de facto recognition to the TD. Dixon "killed on active ser-

fact aimed at his personal safety bogus Central Government is in Vire."

It will be recalled "that". Diron as he be can escape more easily was a number of the crew of une from Nanking in case of danger. or the Vickers-Wellesley long- The Generalissimo urged the range aircraft which won the new Chinese not to be further deceived long-distance record for Britain in by the "peace" talks of Wang Ching-wei after the full disclosure. Dixon's machine was forced of his secret agreement with the down through lack of petrol at Keopang, Timor, after covering, The Supreme Leader expressed 6,700 miles, 300 miles above the confidence that Wang will never record.

TERMS OF PACT Speaking for the first time since the Munich "bomb attempt.many is to be given control of that According to these reports, Ger-

Herr Hitler advised them to "al- part of Russo-occupied Poland ways follow "the example ot which borders Rumania and will Frederick the Great, who set a exploit the Polish ollfelds. high standard of soldierly virtue." on

Today is the anniversary of Frederick the Great's birthday."

LONDON, Jan, 25 (Reuter) -According to Washington dispatches, it is learned from the State Department that further commercial relations between America and Japan would depend entirely Japan's actions in the Far East.

Only one day before the expiry of the old treaty, there Is still not the slightest in- dication of any new treaty and it is considered likely that the present situation will drag on for some time.

FINNISH STEAMER.

SUNK

The final agreement is said to have been signed in Berlin this week between Herr von Ribbentrop, Naz! Foreign Minister, and the Russian Ambassador.

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REASON FOR MORE COPENHAGEN, Jan. 25 (Reu-

The reason for the agreement, ter)-A Finnish steamer was sunk according to the Turkish news- yesterday as the result of a con- papers, is the inability of the Bo- centrated "attack by SIX Soviet viet to carry out her contracts for WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (Reuter)

bombers near the Aaland Islands, delivery of oil to Germany, It No fewer than Afteen bombs were gives Germany the Galician oil- Official circles are surprised by the British contention that lack of although no direc, hit was secured,

dropped all round the vessel and fields and access to the Rumanian co-operation has

been partially the hull was so batered by the "A serious view is taken of the

concussions that it sank.

situation.

Lieutenant's Wife Gets responsible for the long delays in Army Damages From Husband's Parents: Domestic Quarrel

LONDON. Jan. 25 (Beuter)---A Special Fury of five men and two women awarded. £3,500 damages, in the King's Bench Division to Mrs. Valerie Porter, the twenty-six-year-old wife of an Army Lieut- enant, who alleged that her husband's parents enticed him away from her.

and

The award was made folatly against her father-in-law mother-in-law, of Grosvenor Square, Mayfair.

The Jury was nearly two-hours considering their verdict which was given on the action's eighth day of hearing.

The Judge entered Judgment law and was flung out of the dat with costs' and granted stay of Summing up, the judge said the execution for twenty-one days, son was, forced to choose between regarding £3,000 of the damages his wife and his parents and a pending notice of appeal. He word of love, on that fatal evening ordered the balance of £500 to be might well have prevented, "this paid to the wife within seven days tragic happening. No one, had and the remaining £3,000 to be suggested that there was an act paid into court.

of love, an act of kindness or kind word spoken. It was a great pity that there was not.”

SPANKED HER

Mrs. Valerie Porter alleged, that

her husband Bertie spanked her

Mra. Valerie Porter, was radient

in her mother-in-law's fat: with smiles when the jury. Ban- "Thereafter she hit her mother-in-nounced the verdict.

the release of American ships from Mediterranean control bases. It is rumoured that the U. 8. Government is prepared to de- mand substantial indemnities for. the delays.

Punters snapped at Kwanti,

frontier.

4,

enemy.

succeed in his intrigues. He said that the Chinese need not worry

over what Wang and the Japan- ese will do after signing the agreement but continue their staunch resistance until the faal victory is won.

WAR INSIDE

Only Government Recognised WANG CAMP

By Britain In China Is

National Government

LONDON, Jan. 25 (Heuter)-In | Council

the House of Commons yesterday, | Executive the Prime Minister, replying to Cheers). Mr. M. P. Price" (Lab.) „said that

and President

Council.

of the (Ministerial

- WANG AND PUPPETS

1938

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SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Havas) -Kao Tsung-woo's" and Tao Hsi-sheng's break with the puppets resulted from a long struggle in Wang Ching-wel's comp, states the China Press. The paper says Tao attempted to obtain the maximum conces- sions from Japan and was oppos- ed by Lin Peh-sheng, Wang's pub Helty chief, who was satisfied with "preserving Wang's political life.” INTERNECINE STRIFE

sors in Chungking have jointly, issued a circular telegram urging The China Fress further as the elimination of Wang Ching-

A group at the Kwanti race meeting on Sunday.

on Jan. 9, the Japanese' Govern Mr. Price, while thanking Mr. ment had issued a statement that Chamberlain, for his interesting the movement for a new Central and important statement, asked Government in China was gather-whether he was aware, that two Ing strength and that Japan former collaborators of Wang had would accordingly assist in the recently left him and were now inserts that this internecine strifewel formation of the new Government, Hongkong and whether that did Mr. Chamberlain added: "The not indicate a still further reason only Government in China rs-why Britain should have no and head of the "Second Route cognised by His Majesty'a Govern- 'lations with any puppet Govern- ment and with which they are in ment? N diplomatic relations is the Nation-

al Government of China, of which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chairman of the Supreme Defence

The Prime Minister replied:

As we are not having any re- lations with them, I don't think it matters.?

resulted in the execution of Gen. A cleaning up of all "black Wang Yao-mu, a member of the sheep in the educational and Central Supervisory Committee cultural circles is also urged t

Firm determination and rétent- Army of the new Chinese Central less efforts are the baste require Government.”.../.

ments for consummating the pro-3 PROFESSORS DENOUNCE WANG gramme of national revolution: CHUNGKING, Jan 25 (Central) and reconstruction, the telegram. -Two hundred-and-fifty profes emphasizes.