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BY ANNA GINSBEURG FINLAND-a modest country of some four million cultured, industrious and democratic- ally-minded people, finds herself in the headlines of world news to-day due to the sudden challenge to her independence.

That this challenge should come from Rus- sia, Finland's sovereign in the past and her! friendly neighbour since the Revolution, is a matter of import in more than one respect, as it signifies a change in Russia's treatment of "weak nations" with its inevitable consequences upon

The family of the late Hajce Kachungworld politics at large.

Wahab thank all relatives

friends for their kind expressions

of sympathy in their

recent

floral tributes sent to the funeral.

The relationship between. bereavement and for the many the two countries is de- the Dorpat termined by Treaty, which gave Finland independence, and the Non-

The

Hongkong Telegraph. Aggression Pact of 1932,

Tuesday, November 28, 1939. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615

THE prex "Special to the Telegraph"

under whieh Russia agrees to respect the Russo-Finnish border and settle the difficulties that may arise in

is used by the longkong Telegraph to an amicable way,

THE present Russian de- THE

mands, supported by

indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni. cations Ordinance, 1835 Buch new 23 bears the indicatión "US"" in received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who the threat to use force, are servo all rights and forbid republication, Arrangement

either wholly or in part without previous

for strategic naval bases in the Gulf of Finland, with a view of strengthening Len- Bad News, Good Propaganda ingrad's security, and a mutual assistance pact along the lines of those negotiated with other Baltic states.

The "Telegraph”

Picked This' Out

"THE VOLGA BOATMEN”

From the Paris magazine, Aux Ecoutes.

A Russian child's guide to a very awkward situation

Look now on that Adventurer who háth paid He vows to Fortune; who, in cruel slight Of virtuous hope, of liberty, and right, Hath followed whereso'er a way was made By the blind Goddess; ruthless, undismayed; And so hath gained at length a prosperous

height,

Round which the elements of worldly might Beneath his haughty feet, like clouds, are laid! O joyless power that stands by lawless force! Curses are his dire portion, scorn, and hate, Internal darkness and unquiet breath;.

And, if old judgments keep their sacred course, Him from that height shall Heaven precipitate

By violent and ignominious death.

-Willum Wordsworth.

THAT'S thot funny hat father's putting

WHAT

Hush, Ivan. That's Papa Stalin's new yachting cap, and he's very proud of it. Papя Stalin's going for a holiday in the Baltic,

How lovely! Shall we go too?

Yes, dear, but don't tell any one. Papa Stalin's going first to find a nice place for us. He's been werk- ing so hard at his nasty old medleni exams.

Is that why that beastly von somebody came to stay with us? Is he father's tular?

You mustn't talk of Reichminister Ribbentrop like that. He's a very clever gentleman Judex.

Then why did Papa Stalin tell Mr. Molotoff that he was poing to teach Herr von a thing or two?

Ivan! You

conversations. must not repeat such (Quickly.) What else did father say?

He said von R. had yet to learn what enstrelement really incant, but he would pretty soon. Then he said lebensraum was Russian word really, but von R. could have six feet of it at any time, and he would take the rest...Father and Mr. Molotof laughed like anything. Why does father laugh so much these days? Did he pass

in his exams?

Yes, dear. He was top of the class in the. Anatomy of Non-aggression and first in Poll- Hical Surgery. They practised on Poland. Mr. Ribbentrop used the knife and your father administered the anaesthetic.

LINE

FRONT

LETTER

Hero Who Did Not Return

What happened to the patient? Oh, the patient died, but the Operation was

SUCCESS. Your father and Mr. Ribbentrop have Ingreed that there is no need for an inquest, whatever any one may say.

"The people of this country are resolute enough to hear bad news." Here Prime Minister Chamberlain gives a key to much in the war news

In exchange Russia is prepared and in the war. The British con take their bad news straight. There to cede a part of Carelia, a vast, but strategically valueless ter- have been no soft words in London's reporting of war losses; sometimes, ritory, with considerable Finnish

population. indeed, it has almost seemed that officialdem intentionally sharpened bad news with blunt statement. But Mr. Chamberlain knows his people, best and also that honesty la propuganda.

Referring to German claims of

Apparently, Finland has de- damaging or sinking the Hood, the cided to defend her integrity Repulse, and the Ark Royal, he says and independence by all possible! such reports "may serve for ume means and, knowing the charac- to raise their spirits but in the endter of the Finns, there is littleHAT letter from "the boy Tommy letter home in the last war. nice man. I asked him how long he

the

Although not expressly BO stated, the whole tone of Soviet proposals bears evidence of an uncompromising stand, which meets with the no less irrecon- cilable attitude of the Finnish Government.

A HERO of the Kiel raid and a bombing raid' over Germany is First Close Airerafiman Alan Wilson,"

He wrote to his mother before the last raid telling her ho was just going on a raid over Germany.

"I have left instructions for it to get posted if I do not come back

You know, darling, I have died for the country, I love, for the country I hope will be made safe for people like yourself

He was only 18.

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He did not return.

There were two reasons for this.

thinks

their falsity will be demonstrated and doubt that she will pursue this he did not come home (1) The feld cessorshly. An father. For ever, by the looks of

the consequent disappointment win policy to the end.

Thus the English soldier could

Impression that his country had

thing which

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opce.

And who will they practise on next, do you think?

Ah, that's what every one would like

̈know." Mr-Ribbentrop they should operato on Rumanía, but Papa Stalin says "Wait." Your father thinks he con jook

and after Rumanla himself Bulgaria too. His friend Mr. Sara- jogh from Turkey, told him that there should be no more need for operations Papa Stalin has great respect for Mr. Saralogiu's opinion. Oh, pea, Mr. Sarafoglu's such a

was staying and, he said, "Ask your

in yesterday's "Telegraph was. Englishman Axis it a job to write things." Unless Russia modifies her dc-I think, the noblest letter from to any one when he knows that an Now, dear, you know how busy be only the more depressing." Hemands, a conflict will arise,

or "outsider" is going to read his letter Papn Stalin Is. All these queer soldier to wife, mother 11 might have quoted

certain high where both parties may resolve sweetheart I have ever read--and every Other Bank's letter people from Latvia and on flying authority on

immediate over every day and taking up. all. German and English to take to arms.

and I have read many soldiers' had to be read by his

superior officer.

his time. Still, it will be lovely propaganda in the World War.

letters home.

(2.) The fact that there are not when we've fixed up all our accom "Dear mother, I am in the pink, not even for a moment have the THE Russian action, which is hoping you and all at home are the many writers of noble letters in modotion at the seaside.

Ooh, wonderful, when shalt or officially explained as "the same..." Was the traditional England. Your Englishman-espect-:

ally if he comes from the Shires? necessity to Heeure reliable

just does not possess the art of Well, dear, your Uncle Voroshilov taught him the wrong facts, some-defence in order to have a free pire.

is having a look round already. During the 18th century there was letter-writing.

He's booked the Gulf of Finland- unfortunately hand in international affairs, .was

continuous growth of Finnish

such safe paddling for us all--and the case to such an extent with the continue the policy of neutrality national consciousness, which re-

The nearest thing I can remember you'll be able to fly your airplanes German soldier that he finally re- and cease the war," is in fact sulted in a big strike in 1906 that! jected everything that came from motivated by two main reasons, gave Finland her first democratic to the letter from the boy who did everywhere in Latvia. And there

The first of them is the reverrenity democratic Parliament.

constitution and the world its first not come home" was this, from a are two grand islands called Dagoe

farm-worker:

and Oesel near by, and you con sall this side as "swindle."

sal of Soviet's foreign policy In 1917, immediately after the Dear wife: I am writing these few all your little ships round, them at Adolf Hitler wrote those words in toward the minorities and smalli Russian Revolution, there was a Red Ines to you just before we go up

But don't those islands belong, to and the to the ne. I thought I should feel "Mein Kampf," and in this war he states following the conclusion Coup d'Etat in Finland,

Yes, of course, but they've ten! has tried to avold repeating World of the Russo-German pact, and Socialist Workers' Republic was de-afraid, dear wife, but now I don't the Estonians?

clared. It was opposed by the or- think I shall, because all the time i

them to us. And then there are in-the second one the long-lived anised White forces which, helped shall be thinking of you, and the two nice candy harbours-Windau dications that Berin is being more enmity between Russia and her by Germany, won the war and ex-flowers in the garden, and coming and Lindau, especially Lindau,

Communists from

the home at night and seeing you

saw that letter because the throw flowers at us-you know, like And will the Estonians and so on honest with other peoples than with former vasaal, to whom she gave pelled the

independence in 1917, and which country. the Germans themselves. For some has since steadily moved to the new Diel was elected and slightly d

After the end of the civil war a fellow who wrote it asked me to pana Stalin said they did in Poland? It to see if there were any Er, no. I don't suppose so. But of the material allowed to come out Right, developing into a progres, modified the Constitution of 1000, spelling mistakes, "as you were s

but the fear of Russia and of Com-clurk or something like that in civil remember, the Poles begged us to

come in to save them. THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. could not, be circulated in Germany, sive and tolerant democracy.

Even before this war started many

Well, why didn't they let our Viewing the recent political munism led to the formation of a life." *********** | Germans would have rejected with developments in Europe one can Guards. In 1030 there was an out-come

kind of Finnish "Gestapo"-Civic |

The only other letters that could soldiers march in to help them be Herr Hitler's own strong words the but andly state that the problem break of Fascist uctivity, which re-

near the "noble" standard fore the Nazis started fighting?

Ivan, you know perfectly well "newa" his Propaganda Ministry fur- of co-existence of strong and sulted in the complete disbanding of were letters a man wrote not to his

own people, but to the wife or that's why father's talks with Eng- wenk nations is becoming over the Communist Party, and was in-

strumental In passing on net of mother of a friend who got killed or land and France broke down. The

Poles have low. Berlin may have counteracted some so sharp,

suspicious minds. Parliament, by which no member of Than n of this distrust by reporting certain The rivalry for subordination any party working for the overthrow less restraint than when writing Army

man might write with They actually said that once the Red crossed into Poland they Gennan losses, but it has been for of those who are not strong of the state was to be elected.

out again. about himself. Easier to tell "old would never get them less blunt about bad news than Lon- enough to resist now involves As the review of a span of Finnish Jim's wife, or mother of the valour They wouldn't trust us, I'm sorry to

reveals, the don. Morcover the German Govern- champlons of opposite political history

relationship that dwelt in old Jim's soul than to say. between Finland and Russia has

of the bet they're sorry, too, now. So ment has 40 "protected" its people) creeds, and the sport-like game never been cordial, but always lente tell one's own wite or mother's to prove how wrong they were Papa

one hoped dwelt in tries that listening to foreign radio to-day is remindful of the strug- As commercially the two countries own soul, but had inisgivings about Stalin will take our soldiers out of Other letters with a streak of Poland as soon as the Germans are reports is a capital offence. Indeed, gle for colonial possessions in also little depend upon each other, nobility all their own were the ones beaten?

and there are no racial ties between

Certainly not. I mean.

don't It appears that the whole structure of the last century.

the two peoples, there is really many a man sent after he had read

al of an air raid on England: "Why you see that half of Foland is part nothing which would prevent Russla

So if the Poles had, let the Red from abusing her weaker neighbour can't Jerry do what he wants to do of Russia now,

Blane?" I have seen letters like bound to repeat the "mistakes de- of struggle for indepen- In the conflict which has

Arleen, nounced in "Mein Kampf." And donce. For six centuries she might is decidedly on the Russian that written. by a man who had been we'd have the whole of Poland in

in a dozen or more air raids instead of only half. What a pity, they

didn't trust us after all! K when unpleasant facts finally break was united with Sweden, then alde, but sympathy and understanding Vores the night before.

|will rest with the proud and in-

Perhaps the most noble lle that. Yes, and they are not the only through how devastating must be taken by Russia in 1808 and in-dependent people, citizens

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