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BRITISH AND FRENCH

HOLDINGS

IN U.S.A.

FEDERAL BOARD ESTIMATES

WASHINGTON," »Jan. 30 (Reu- ter)-The U.S. Treasury disclosed that Britain, during the first two months of the war, disposed of nearly ten percent, or $73,000,000

Propaganda Acrobatics By Nazis

LATEST VERSION

OF WAR AIMS

BERLIN, Jan. 30 (Reuter}---å

of her readily marketable Amieri-revised version of Germany's war can Securities

HUGE TOTAL

The total of such securities at the beginning of the war, accord- ing to a recent Federal Reserve Board estimate amounted to $753,000.000, while British invest ments in the United States actually total over $3,000,000,000

Canada' also sold United States securities. but to a much less cx- tent.

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ains was given by a German army officer in a brondeas; to the Ger- man people from the soldiers in the Siegfried Line.

He admitted that the war

Was

ITALY PREPARES: FOR WHAT?

Forces Under Arms Being Strengthened

ALL PRECAUTIONS. INCREASED FOR DEFENCE

GENERAL

U.S. INTERESTS IN CHINA

MIGHT BRING AMERICA

INTO WAR IN EUROPE

LONDON, Tan, 30, (Renter)....... The possibility that United States Interests In China might lead her to participation in the European

War

ETAL"

suggested by Sir.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1940.

POWELLS

WINTER

Tommies Lose SALE

Their Way &

Are Interned

BRUSSELS, Jan. 30 (Reuter)— Frederick Whyte, Director of the The Belgian authorities have American, Division of the Minis- interned. two British soldiers

COMMENCES TOMORROW

_FEB. 1st

try of Information, in a lecture who crossed The frontier A

at Oxforit.

U.S. POLICY

By mistake. It is reported from Rolleghem. The men were found

He said that American polley by a shopkeeper asleep in his shop. They were numbed with Impiled frustration of any at-

cold and it took a considerable

ROME, Jan. 30. (Reater) - not, as the Narly claimed, forced Signor Mussolini yesterday re-tempt by other powers to secure time to revive them. on Germany. He said Germany ceived Gen. Soddu, Under-Secre- was trying to win the war shetary for War, and other Generals lost in 1918 and to wipe out

the For over one hour they discussed disgrace of Versailles."

the defensive precautions taken and to be taken,

BLUNT STATEMENT Last week, Dr. Ley, the Nazi On the other hand, France Labour Leader; bluntly announced added about $1,000,000 worth of that Germany W33 arying dell- inarketable securities to her pre-berately to revise the conditions war total of $185,000,00

|laid down in the Treaty of West- NEGLIGIBLE

phalla of 1648, which gave Alsace at the to France and to recognise the independence of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

German

holdings beginning of the war were believed to be negligible, but she sold about $600,000 worth.. in September and October.

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A German paper warns readers not to look for quick re sults in the war,

Political strug- gles, says the paper, need nerves, coolness and ability to wait.

SOME ACROBATICS All this has involved Dr. Goëb- bels' Ministry of "Misinformacion” and Propaganda and enlightment in not a few acrobatics. The latest circus feat has been the order to the Anti-Comintern Department o switch its attention from the so- viet and to apply its technique to Britain.

Rain & Mud On Western Front

PARIS, Jan. 30 (Reuter)-A drizzle is falling on the western front, reducing visibility to minimum

stopping and activity.

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The roads are being churned Into mud, but patrol activity on the front itself, however, is con- tinaing.

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WAR COMMUNIQUE · PARIS. Jan. 30 (Renter) --- Last night's French War communique stated that avlation and artillery units

shown certain amount of activity.

LEAVE CANCELLED LONDON, Jan. 30 (EWS)-The War Office announces that" all home leave for the B. E. F. is temporarily postponed owing to intensely severe weather. con- ditions A further announcement will be made as soon as weather condition make it possible to re- open leave.

Nazis Allege Violation Of Frontier By Swiss Plane

BERLIN, Jan. 30 (Reuter)- -Swiss violation of the German frontier was alleged in a com- mentary issued by the German News Agency, which states that on Jan 26 an aeroplane, definitely re- Cognised as Swiss, flew over the German frontier, to the west of Lienheim, about seven miles from Walleshut, and returned at Re collagen south-east of Walleshut. Into Swiss territory.

A Berne military communique states that a Swiss military plané inadvertently crossed the frontier Into Germany on Friday last: Owing to bad weather, the pilot flew over the frontier for two minutes and then returned Im- médiately to Swiss territory,

Mr. Chow Chia-ling, newly ap pointed Chinese Consul for Ottawa, assume his post today. Canada, wiil sail for Canada to

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control in Chim. These motives They declared that they had today engaged the United States more closely in the Sino-Japanese lost their way and did not know

they had crossed the frontier. with the possible exception of the conflict than any other power.

Soviet Union and might well be one of the causes which would involve the "United States in the present conflict.

DUCE'S ORDERS One of the reports from the Generals concerned the develop- ment of defences which were being carried out along Italy's

The Sino-Japanese, confilet had land frontiers. Another of the no direct connection with the war reports was concerned with anti-in Europe, but, in the last resort, aircraft defence.

It was not really apart from It.

Il Duce gave instructions that i

"If this is true, America will

all precautions should be increa- probably discover that her special

sed and that the forces now interests in the Far East will under arms should be strengthen- profoundly affect her duty to

by the recall of certain Europe" specialist officers and other ranks for a period of instruction.

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a mysterious case of abduction which occurred on Jan, 25.

The victim was Mr. Ho Sih-tang, RIGHT AND JUSTICE

proprietor of the Yuan Feng Hard- NEW YORK, Jan 30 (Reater) ware Store, in North Shansi Road, --That there could be no neutral-Seven men broke into the store ity of mind in the United States and forced him into a walting as far as the European war is motor ear at the end of a pistol. concerned, was the theme, of a The car was later found behind broadcast by M. Paderewski the New Asla Hotel, in Hongkew. President of Poland, to America yesterday.

The war, he said was one between

ROME, Jan. 29 Reuter)-Com-entirely, different worlds-those of menting on the dental Issued by barbarism and those of liberty and

love of law, Berun of the repor; broadcast from the Vatican on German atrocities in' Poland," a‘paper writes:

KNOWN TOO WELL

"We should like to belleve that

Who could doubt that the result will be a victory or right and justice.

Meat Rations For Britain

LONDON, Jan. 30 (Reuter- Mr Lennox Boyd, Under-Secre- tary to the Ministry of Food, "We Poles take a solemn oath stated that meat rationing will be

the German denial corresponds before God that we will never announced at a comparatively with truth, but where the Nazis abandon the struggle for freedom," fight against Catholics we know he concluded,

what an official declaration means only too well to give the words their ordinary significance.

"Catholics will prefer, in the mater of religious life in Poland, the direct evidence of Polish Ca- tholics."

900 PUPILS FOR WIRELESS SCHOOL MONTREAL, Jan. 29 (Reuter)

The

DEATH IN NAZI CONCENTRATION

CAMP

COPENHAGEN, Jan 30 (Reu- ter)—According to a message res ceived here by his Drnish friends. Professor Michal Siedlecki Sled- Birat wireless school in leck, the well-known Polish Canada under the Empire Air zoologist, died at a Concentration

Thaming Scheme will have 900 Camp Duplik, it Montreal yesterday,

Was

announced

in

Sachsenhausen, age

in sixty-six. He was Professor of Zoology at the Cracow University.

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