1939-11-24 — Page 19

NANCY

MY MIND'S MADE UP-THAT LITTLE

IMP HAS

TO LEAVE MY HOUSE

TONIGHT!

OH BOY-- HE

LOOKS AWFUL MAD THIS EVENING!

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

1 GOOD

EVENIN

MR. SPUTTER

A

By Ernie

?

November 24, 1939.

Bushmiller

TEE HEE--- I BET HE WON'T SLEEP TONIGHT TRYIN'

TO FIGURE THAT

ONE OUT!--

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NORWA

SWEDEN

GERMANY

RUMANIAN CRISIS

Brought To Head By

German Demands

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

RIAN

U.S.S.R

U.S.S.R

FINLAND A NATION

IN ARMS

NOW

From E. ENUKSEN, "Daily Herald" Correspondent

OSLO, NORWAY,

BEHIND HER BARRIER of a thousand lakes, her marshes

and her great forests Finland is arming to-day to repel a possible attack. Officially, there has been no mobilisation yet.

THE Scandina-

In effect, with class after class important Islands In the Gulf of Fin- of conscripts called out and the

vian countries are entire Civil Guard standing to. anclously

watch-Finland is now a nation in arms.

lug the talka nuw going

Moscone

in

between

the Finnish, envoy and Stalin audi

Mololof. To-day's map illustrates the Prusou for their auriety.

BORAH'S NEW CRITICISM

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP).- Senator Borah has taken

the up asuc of the State Department's apparent decision to defer trade talks BUCHAREST, Nov. 23 (UP).|with Japan until there is an improve- The immediate cause of the ment in the Japanese treatment of Rumanian Cabinet crisis is at-Americans and United States business tributed to the German demands in Chinn.

"Our trade with Japan is decidedly for more raw

materials, parti- Increasing, and it should not be cularly petroleum and cereals. thrown aside without a very sound

when

a

accept the demands to an

umetent to satisfy Berlin.

extent

It is revealed that the Ministers of reason," he said. Arrnoments and Finance resigned simultaneously last night majority of the Cabinet rejected the Gerinari demands. The Prime Minis ter presented the King with the resignations of the entire Cabinet. The former Premler of Rumania, M. It is not unlikely that a new Tanerescu, has formed a new Govern- Cabinet will be formed which will ment

New Cabinet Formed BUCHAREST, Nov. 23 (Reuter).

EXCHANGE OFFER?

In return, it is suggested, Russlu

may offer the eastern part of the Her pevale are determined to make Rybatschi Peninsula. on the Arctic any invasion so custly, even to a greal | Ocean, Power, that the aggressor will hesitate before attacking.

SPOTLIGHT

ON

GERMANY

$1 TIFFINS

at-

Jimmy's

Also A la Carte China Bldg., Hongkong.

PIGS CAN'T EAT PIGS

ERMANS who own pigs or cattle are now forbidden to kill them

The western part already belongs for private consumption as a supple- to Finland.

the border.

ment to their rations.

this "crime" has just been sentenced A Frankfurt mun found guilty of to 18 months' imprisonment and a

£600 fine.

•

"NO DICTATION"

Rumours represent the Russian de "If Russin attempls to dictate her mands as being: far wider, and ex- claims to us, we shall die with our tending to a Soviet-Finnish military boots on," a Finnish Labour journalistį pact, with political and economic co- suit to me.

operation.

Up to now only one division of DARIS reports that Hitler is about Seventy thousand people were

to go to the Weslem Front evacuated from Helsinki yesterday. Russian troops has been reported at

originate in the fact that Hitler's Another 70,000 are leaving to-day. A number of Soviet planes have moving hendquarters, the so-called

With evacuation and mobilisation been

carrying seen

out recon- "Fuchrer-train," is being overhauled going on side by side, ali trains are naissances, however, leaving hours late.

And

squadron of Ruslan New coaches are being added On the roads, buses and privnic destroyers has arrived at Estonia's the train, which will consist of ten ears ure pouring out of the capital capital of Tallinn, on the southern departments. Each department will

be housed in a separate couch, in long caravans,

shore of the Gulf of Finland.

THE Nazi "land girl" has not been received with enthusiasm as a

There are queues butside the banks as evacuees draw money for their immediato expenses.

REFUGES READY

ป

CZECH-SLOVAKIA

NOT CRUSHED

in Berlin.

helper on the farms.

to

employ the

Pensants refuse young women, and

a propaganda drive has been ordered by Gochbels

LONDON, Nov. 23 (Router)-Dr. to induce them to change their at- Eduard Benes, the former Czech titude. President, declared to-day that hid country was not crushed.

DAILY radio

But there has been no panic run, and the bank rate has remained the sume.

Strips of sticky paper are beginning to appear on windows, as in London,

reports about the A.R.P. and

refuges are being

"It continuci, it lives and it exists,' efficiency of these girin-chlofly established.

Most of the schools are closed. he said. "The present Nazi dictator- clerks, telephonists, hair-dressers anci work-are Even to-day, however, high official ship is lucomparably worse than the others ignorant of land quarters in Helsinki are optimistic, absolutism and militarism of the being broadcast.

the of the shoals Kaker. This wor

Yesterday's Is the

new feature in though quite aware

struggle, as in 1914, for principios, propagande drive was a radio dran ahead.

a land girl who saved # They forecast that Russia will claim and must end in the crushing of about

peasant's firm and existence. Hogland and two other strategically Hitlerism,"

Other similar pleys are to follow. THE Gestapo has been given a new

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Since it has become impossible to prosecute every German who sprends and bellevo umours, "anti-rumour squads are being formed of trusted Gestapo agents.

Their task is to contradict rumours in public places, cinemas and res-

taurants, and even to visit people in

their homes to enlighten them about

the offelul Nazi view.

DEPORTS

renching!

遍

Amsterdam

speak of perious difficulties within the Nazi organisations..

Hundreds of local lenders have fuited accept the Nazi Govern- ment's new polley of friendship with the Soviet.

•

TRA TRAINED # be violent anti-Dol- shevists, they have found it in- possible to adapt themselves to the

new course.

It is impossible without a radical nurge, to remove all these people whose prestige is big enough in allow them open criticism.

LOST CHANCES IN CHINA

(Continued from, Page 4.)

liners to wait for high tide before catering or departing.

Put Up Barricades

At Amoy and Swatow the plors of British shipping companies are sur. rounded by barbed Wire barricades guarded by Jupancao marinca. No cargo can be loaded or unloaded by |British ships.

Eritish Hongkong is sill carrying on some of the trans-shipping which made it one of the world's busiest ports, but its importance has decreas- cap- ed greatly since the Japanese ture of Canton in the fall of 1938, China's war materials now enter through

French Indo-China

cr

their

Burn, while only Japanese chips can carry cargo to and from Canton. Taking advantage of their freedom, of operation, Japanese shipping com- ponies have recently merged China branches in a single company Chian which operates ships constal traffic, on the Yangize and Pearl rivers, local terry lines und shuttle services between Shanghai ond Japan

At Dairen, in the north, the Japan- nese have constructed a huge part Aixth in which last year ranked

the volume of business among all harbour cites of the world. Strate- glently located at the tip of the gate- North for Manchukuo and way China, Into the Japanese aro pouring vast quantities of military. supplies and machinery, and funnel out the products of those regions for export bil over the world:

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