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JAPAN MAKES MOVE TOWARDS Red Army Intensifies

PEACE WHICH SHE URGENTLY

WANTS IN

IN CHINA OPERATIONS "Formula" To Be Issued SOUTH-EAST When Wang Government

Is Inaugurated

TOKYO; Mar. 6. (Reuter) -- The Japanese Government will issue a statement in the near future, probably about the end of this month, it is understood, setting forth Japan's tentative peace terms-or what is called, in official circles here, "a formula for the disposal of the China In- cident."

These terms have already been communicated to the House of Peers and House of Representatives at their pre- sent sessions.

The China Affairs Board met at a conference yesterday evening to discuss the formula.”

The date for the issue of the statement may be timed to be simultaneous with the opening of the political con- ference in Nanking, which will proceed with the inaugura- tion of the new Puppet Central Government in China un- der Wang Ching-wei.

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China: Butler's Reply

Endorsed In Editorial

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SHANGHAI, Mar, 6 (Reuter) ~In an editorial today the Shun Pao, heartily commends the negative reply by the British Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, to the recent question in the House of Commons whether Britain's policy to- wards China was as distant as Chungking was from Shanghai.

OF NANKING

SUCCESSFUL ATTACK MADE

BY CHINESE HSUANCHENG. ANHWEI, Mar. 6 (Central)-A thousand Japanese troops were massed at Chulow, south of Liyang. 65 miles south- east of Nanking, on March 1 ready to attack Changchuchen, south- east of Liyang.

Before they

could commence operations, the Chinese attacked them, inflicting heavy losses. They fled toward Lishui and Kuyung, respectively 35 and 22 miles south- east of Nanking.

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COMMANDER KILLED

LOYANG, Mar. 6 (Central)-The Japanese Garrison Commander at Wu-an. in North Konan, was seriously wounded in an engage- ment with the Chinese a few days 200. He later succumbed to his wounds..

Many. Japanese were killed when # Japanese troop train struck a Chinese mine at Shang- mlaotien, on the Pelping-Hankow Railway, north of Anyang, recent- ly. The locomotive was destroyed and the coaches were derailed.

OFFICIAL'S SON CHUNGKING. Mar... 6 (Central)

Kwangs! Front.

This reply "rings true like gold "On the other hand, we can-chu Hao-yer: son of Mr. Chu And there is reason for it." asserts hardly Imagine that Britain will Cheng. President of the Judicial the newspaper, which continues: | not, for the sake of the British yuan, is fighting at the South "The various forms of British as- people and her national destiny. sistance to China since the out- do her atmost to maintain the break of the Sino-Japanese hosti- balance of power in Europe.. lities are incalculable and have been a source

of

NATIONÁL - GLORY gratifica- "But it is to the Far East that tion to both the British and Chi- Britain owes much of her national nese nations and a source of pain glory and historical greatness and It has been felt that if Chinat is not to be expected that she would, for cowardice, sacrifice all these.

to Japan...

should fail to obtain final victory over Japan. Britain's vital Inter- ests in the Far East would also be lost.

FULL, SYMPATHY "However, after the outbreak

of the present European war we have been sympathetic towards such British outlook, not that we hate Germany, but because we sympathise with her for her dim- culties. We are also in full syth- pathy with the war aims an- nounced by the various British

.statesman.

"Neither can, we bring our- selves to imagine that Britain would, in the present European war, betray Chipa and pursue a different polley to that of the United States and thus in- crease the menace and bur- dens to the latter in the Parifle."

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After his graduation from the National Tsing Hua University, Chu entered the Central Cadets Academy to study military science. After completing the course, he was made a platoon commander. and was sent toward the end of last year to South Kwangs!..

"MOPPING-UP" SHIUKWAN. Mar. 6 (Intl)-The Japanese High Command in Can- ton this morning issued a com- munique announcing military operations in Chungshan county and also in Hainan Island. The Japanese Navy is in charge of the "mopping-up” activities in. Hal- nab.

"This would lessen the amount

The communique admitted that of assistance that Britain might receive from the United States in Chinese mobile units are increas- the Atlantic. Our anxiety as re-gly active on the Island, el-

though. It

was announced that

Drive On Viborg

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Following the fall of Kovisto the Finn's are now receiving the full force of Soviet attacks directed against Viborg. Working from the left flank, the Russians are pushing through towards the threa- tened city and the Finns have fallen back to defence positions

beyond the town.

Soviet Troops Attack Islands In Viborg Bay: Renewed Air Activity

HELSINGFORS, Mar. 6 (Heater)-Yesterdays Finnish 'communf- que states that on the Karellan Isthmus the enemy made attack, all day against the islands in the Bay of Viborg and on the north of the western beach.

Fighting continued at most places north of the Bay. At other places, the attacks have been repulsed

Fighting continues in the Kuhmo sectär. Our troops have repulsed Russian attack and have captured several

enemy nests.

SWEDISH IRON

Enemy losses were more than 500 ORE CONVEYED Killed.

AIR ACTIVITY Enemy air, activity was confined some flights on the Isthmus and over the districts north-east of Lake Ladoga.

to

Three enemy planes were shot down

TO GERMANY

LONDON, Mar. 8 (Reutar)—Ask- ed in the House of Commons if any attempt as been made to intercept cargoes of Swedish fron ore conveyed from Narvik tu HOSPITALS BOMBED

German

porcs, Mr. Winston HELSINGFORS, Mar, 6 (Reuter) church replied that the Gov- -Three hospitals 'some distante ernment was aware of this trans- from the front were bombed yes-port and its importance to Ger- terday.. Ten patients were killed many, but the arrest of such in one hospital, four in another trazic would involve many serious and many wounded,

considerations,

The towns of Mikkeli, Kuopio and Lahti, all without military importance. were bombed. Eight were killed and inany wounded. "

Passengers on a train reaching Helsingfors yesterday say it was machine-gunned near low-flying aircraft,

Lahti by

# PLANES FOR FINNS STOCKHOLM. Mar. 6 (Reuter

Mr. Churchill added: "We are always giving prolonged considera tion to the matter. but so far I have not taken any steps."

EXPLOSION IN PARK LANE

LONDON. Mar.

8

(Reuter)-

"But, owing to her increasing gards the British policy towards chinese remnants were mopped up by South Africa for the Finns windows of a bank and a hotel in

dimculties, there is a possibility China is now entirely relieved.

that Britain might compromise "If, however, China does not in February, 1939.

Chinese guerillas are most active" with the aggressor in the Far East, continue with her national re- or submit to her. This would be sistance, the present British policy in Tingan and Chingmai counties the case if Britain should and towards China will be abandoned in the north and north-eastern herself in a disadvantageous post- immediately when resistance parts of the Island. They are re- tion in the European War which would then compel her to abandon her interests and withdraw from the Far East..."

MR. WELLES IS THINKING IT ALL OVER

ceases.

"An example was provided by the British attitude towards the Italo-Abyssinian conflict." e

B.B.C. NEWS

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COMPLAINTS CONTINUE

Home Preas were atinted for E- ptre journalists and efforts by the Union to rectify matters were WASHINGTON, Mar, 8 (Reuter) hampered by a high degree of dis- -It is reported here that Mr.organisation and over-organisation Sumner Welles, who is staying at which extated in the various de- a hotel in Switzerland recording partments of the Ministry of In- his impressions of his visit to formation and which has ended in Germany, has not yet made any decentralisation and a return to detalled report to President Roose-the pre-war system of a separate .velt.

Press bureau for each Government It was stated at a press confer-department.” ence, however, that there is no truth in reports suggesting an at- The report goes on to say that rangement for the early return to complaints still continue of exci- Clermany of a United States. Am-sions from cables of matter freely .bassador, nor has Germany indi-circulated in the Press in Britain. cated any intention of sending an This was infortunate and damag- Ambassador to Washington,

ing and, in the absence of ade- quate

news from London Ohta Tainosoku, 47.. restaurant voluminous messages from neutral keeper, of Toyoma, Japan, appear- and enemy sources were liable to ed before Mr. H. G. Sheldon on be used instead. remand at Central Court yester- The report points out that the day, charged with wounding his B.B.C., with frequent news bulle wite, Ohta Misako, with intent to tins, includes up-to-the-minute murder her; at the Japanese-news. For example, "Australia -owned restaurant at Nos. 62-43, hears 23 emissions daily while 35,- Gloucester Road, on March 2. He 000 words a day have been recley- was remanded a week in custody. ['ed by South Africa..........

Two 10,000-Ton Cruisers For

US. Navy At $18,000,000

WASHINGTON, Már, 6 (Reuter) It is reported that the Navy has placed a contract for the construction of two 10,000-, ton erulsers, costing $18,000,000,000,

The new craisers, which will be named the Cleveland and the Columbia, are the last of the twenty-one combatant ships" authorised under the 1938 Naval Expansion Act, and included. In the appropriation for the current year, ⠀

De It is understood that they will have great speed and crais- ing range and will carry six-inch runs. They will be completed In thirty-six and thirty-nine months, respectively.

Com-

cently reinforced by some munist troops whose headquarters 15 in the Five Finger Mountain in the heart of Hainan.

It is learned from an authorita- Hundreds of people were awaken- tive" source that,

jed this morning by an explosion Gloucester Gauntlet fighting planes released of a bomb which shattered all the

Park Lane. No one was hurt

The bomb is believed to be con- nected with the IRA.

have arrived in Finland. **

There recently has been a great speed-up in the delivery of foreign aircraft and there are now more than 100 planes from America; France, Italy and Sweden in ac tion, including "over: 50 British fighters and bombers.

FAITH_IN"ALLIED VICTORY

ANGERS.

21 COMMUNISTS CREATE SENSATION ki, in a speech to the Fourth

ARRESTED IN PARIS

PARIS, Mar. 6 (Reater)———. « Twenty-one persons have been- arrested following the dis covery by the Police of num- berous bundles of Communist pamphlets and multi-graphed coples of the banned news- paper Humanite, in under- ground railway carriages in Paris...

Those arrested include six- teen employees of the Under- ground, and a former sub- editor of the Humanite, who Is alleged to have acted as the leader.

British War

Mar. 6 Reuter)— Complete faith in an Allied' vic- SOVIET SKI TROOPS tory was affirmed by Gen, Sikor-

Bession of the Polish National HELSINGFORS (Mar, 0 ́(Reuter) | Council. -A sensation has been caused by] = the arrival of a battalion of Fus- has undergone

important sian ski troops in the Gulf of change. Fighting is still con- Finland. They started from their tinuing in the city, with the Finns base at Hogland and reached the revealing themselves as adept at Haipainari Group of islands and street fighting as in held opera- then advanced Forth-east totions,

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SOVIET COMMUNIQUE, ย

Virolahti, attempting to gain, a The Soviet forces attacking foothold on the coast 38 miles to across the Bay of Viborg have the west of Viborg.

secured control of one or two Finnish patrols detected them islands, but all the main strategic and coastal batteries opened fire, paints are held solidly by the while bombers went up and dia- Finns and Russian losses have persed them, forcing them to re- been severe. treat, but the determined Russian efforts are continuing against the - MOSCOW,- Mar. 6 (Reuter)—A islands and fortified capes alons Soviet communique states that in the coast. These attacks are the area of Viborg Bay, Boviet supported by artilley and from the troops occupied the Island of Havansaari, with the town of Ravansaari and the Island of Suonionsaart and the town of Neetels, to the north-east of Viborg, one Hlometre to east of the station, and Karisalmi, on the Tallway line from Viborg to Berdobol,

air.

The distances between the 1s lands and from the islands to the mainland are not great, but the crossing is perilous owing to the great holes and cracks caused by

Purchases In Fanish shells and bombs.

America

WASHINGTON, Mar. 6 (Reuter). -It is reported that Mr. Purvis,

head of the British Purchasing

Commission in the United States.. conferred yesterday with Henry Morgenthau.

They are said to have discussed the various probleme krising' out of the British war purchases in the United States.

Unconfirmed reports state that Sir Henry Self, Deputy Under- Becretary for Air, who has, lust arrived here, will probably take over all purchases of aircraft in the United States on behalf of the British Government,

CHANGED SITUATION # HELSINGFORS, Mar. 6 (Reuter) "Twenty-one enemy planes were The situation in the Viborg Ares | brought down in air combats.

Nazi Air Force Ordered To Wipe Out British Colliers

⠀⠀⠀ AMSTERDAM, Mar. 6 (Havas)-Reliable reports from Germany state that the German Air Force has received instructions to wipe out British colliers from of the seas in order to prevent Britain from "supplanting the Reich-Italian coal market

** It is understood that the German Air Force will pay particular attention to British, colilers loaded with Northumberland coal from Newcastle, since the German Government believes that Welsh and Scotch coal will not be sufficient to compensate the interruption to coal shipments from the Tyne, BuhanginAS MAYTARMA The German General Staff believes that drastic German action can prevent British coal supplies to Italy.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1940. —PAGE 7

NAZI WAR THREAT

TO LOWLANDS Feverish Activity On Frontier As Troops Begin Concentration Moves

LONDON, Mar, 6 (Reuter)-Germany's military pre- parations in the vicinity of Luxembourg and Alsace are.tak- en today much more seriously than before in well-informed quarters in Paris, according a French correspondent of the Dally Telegraph.

He states that feverish activity has been observed in the Luxembourg-German frontier districts crossed by the Rivers Our, Sauer and Moselle.

All day and night detachments of German troops are, engaged in building small forts. The barbed wire which prevented an sp-~ proach to the ferry crossings at Moselle, between Oberbillig anÌ Wasserbillig, are being pulled down

In the neighbourhood of Baste, German reinforcements are ad- vancing towards the Rhine, especially in the direction of Loerrach. Ten divisions have been concentrated in. that area, three of them in Loerrach.

The Swiss military authorities, the correspondent adds, have call→ · ed new classes of Reservists to the colours, The calling up was to take effect on Saturday, but it has been advanced to today.

BRITISH BLOCKADE ON GERMAN COAL EXPORTS

TO ITALY ENFORCED

LONDON, Mar. 6 (Reuter)- Reuter learns that two Italian cargo boats have been diverted Into the Downs Contraband Con- trol Station and it has been as- certained that the vessels, which came from Rotterdam, wеTE CATTY- ing.coal.

An earlier message from Rotter- dam stated that four more Italian colliers, laden with German coal for Italy. left yesterday and that six others are still in the harbour.

EXPORT COUNCIL

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themselves. to Council.

work with the

Export trade is necessary to win by some diversion from the Home the war and could only be achieved

market.

The Council regarded it ar vital that there should be an export committee or group in individual Industries "with which it would co-operate and to whom it would delegate work involved in the national export drive.

COMMONS' STATEMENT

Questions arising might include 'Any ships which now sail as considerations relating to particu- neutral vessels, carrying Germaniar markets, foreign exchange and coal from Rotterdam, are detar political and commercial" relations ed and already two vessels have and questions of economic warfare, been detained," stated Mr. R. H.while the Council would consider Cross, Minister for Economic War- such things as propaganda and fare, when replying to a question joint marketing. "In the House of Commons yester

day..

The White Paper states that there is no shortage of demand in coal was being exported in Italian are being made in connection with Asked further whether German the export field and great efforts vessels from Rotterdam to Italy, the South American market which Mr. Cross stated "That has now is recognised as the most valuable

at the present time.

Ceased."

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