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MR. CHAMBERLAIN (IN HIS MOST FORCEFUL SPEECH TO DATE) SAYS 1940 IS-SHIPS

STRAFED

WORLD'S MOST FATEFUL YEAR AT SEA

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PREMIER DECLARES ALLIES' AIMS ARE:

To Aid Finns Against The

Soviet

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To End The Constant Menace Of Naziism

THE PREMIER, MR.

LONDON, JAN. 9 (UP).—THE FORTIETH YEAR OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MAY PROVE THE MOST FATEFUL IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, SAID NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, IN A SPEECH AT MANSION HOUSE TO-DAY.

"The new year has opened quietly," he

ROOSEVELT CONTINUES HIS HOPE FOR PEACE

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WASHINGTON, Jan. (Reuter).-President Roose- velt indicated to a group of Protestant Churchmen (0- day that he hoped that his efforts for peace would find some practical encourage- ment by the Spring.

to

The spokesmen for the groups of Churchmen who President have criticised Roosevelt's decision to send Mr. Myron Taylor as his the envoy personal Vatican, reported after the conference with the Presi- dent, that the latter in- dicated that the appointment of such an envoy was based on the distinct aim and direction of peace.

FINLAND APPEALS TO WORLD

2,394 Civilians Die In Air Terror

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH'

said.

"But it is the quiet and calm before the

||storm.

"We are supported by the peoples of the Empire, by the power and resolution of France, and by the moral approval of all who realise that the fate of civi- |

with lisation is bound up our success.

"Collaboration between Britain and France has, in- deed, been so valuable that neither of us will want to give it up when victory is achieved and the war is

over.

"Our sole purpose," Mr. Cham- berlain concluded, "is to win the war."

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To Halt The War-Not To Spread It

CHINA BUILDS A 3,000-MILE "WALL"

AGAINST JAPAN

CHUNGKING, Jan. 10 (Central), China has built a 3,000-mile "cconomic-wall" against Japan.

It extends from Kwangsi to the deserts in Inner Mongolia via Fuklen, Chelsiang, Anhiwei, Hupeh, Shan- aptung, Honan, Hopei, Shansi and Suiyuan, according to

financial circles.

The Premier was loudly plauded when he referred to the unanimous support of the Allies towards Finland.

"Finland," he declared, "is fighting the same forces of un- scrupulous violence as we our- selves.

be "The Finnish people can

Reds' Worst Reverse

assured that the League resolu: 7,000 Men lost In

One Battle

tion will be no mere formality."

this war," he declared.

were

SUPER

SHIPS FOR U.S. NAVY

America To Build 50,000 Tonners

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGNAPH"

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (Domei).-Testifying before the House Naval Affairs Committee, Admiral Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, revealed for the first time to-day that the American Navy is planning to build super battleships exceeding 45,000 tons.

Admiral Stark said that, according to the results of in- quiries which have been carried out so far, the United States will probably lay down 50,000-ton or $1,000-ton battleships.

Fortification Of Guam SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (Un)- Admiret Harold Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, fold

the Naval "Com- mittee that the Navy proposes to

spend $4,000,000 during the next fiscal year on improving the facilities at Guam-dredging seaplane runways and erecting breakwaters.

Funds for that purpose are includ ed in the budget of the Fourteenth The Chinese Government has Naval District, which has its head- divided the provinces in the war quarters at Hawail.

Immediately raises Inst Izone into five areas, namely, the

This

FIRST BRITISH MAGINOT LINE CASUALTY LONDON, Jan. 9 (Reu- ter). A young officer of an' English County regiment in a sector of the Maginot front is now reported miss. ing, says "Reuter's" special correspondent with the B.E.F.

This is the first British officer casualty suffered by the British Maginot Line force.

Detalls are not available. but, it is believed that the officer was wounded und taken prisoner. ·

Dios From Wounds BERLIN, Jan. 9 (Reu- ter). The official news the agency claims that Germans captured their

first British officer.

He fell into their hands on the Western Front and died from later in hospital wounds.

The statement adds that he was left-behind after an enemy reconnaissance.

WESTERN FRONT

Nazi-Air Force Launches Attacks

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LONDON, Jan. |(Reuter),—German planes

to-day

British shipping off the English coast.

attacked

Five ships were attacked; two off the east coast of Scotland and two further south.

The planes came up under cover of a mist and dropped bombs after machine-gunning the vessels.

Reports so far indicate no serious damage and only one mon was slightly injured.

The Nith ship was attacked by two |Heinkcia of the east.coust and was

damaged.

B.A.F. fighters went up but made no contact owing to bad visibility.

Four Explosions Hoard Unidentified planes few high over The Firth of Tay area. Thoy then made out to sea and four large ex- plosions were heard,

R.A.F. machines went up and re- turned Inter.

High-flying planes also appeared aver the Firth of Ferth.

Three Ships Sunk LONDON, Jan. 10 (Reuter).-An at Admiralty announcement issued midnight says that attacks by enemy aircraft on small unescorted merchant vessels are reported in the North Seo. The reports received indicate that three ships were sunk

The

first was the Brilish ship, Gowrie, 689 ions. The crew were ali saved by a Danish ship,

The second was a Danish ship, Ivan

CANADIAN Kondrup, 2,309 tons, from

C.-IN-C.

was the group of Shansi-Shensi area; the Kiang Euthorised naval bases. su-Chekiang Anhwei Kiangs area; the Hunan-Hupch

Hopei-Shantung-Honan aren; the session's controversy, in which Gure IN FRANCE

area

and the Kwangtung-Kwangsi

area.

to

Women

Guam's Value

Churchill's Tribute To

which 11 survivors were landed by a British vessel... There are still ten men"miszing.

The third was another Danish ship, Feddy, 955 tons. No news of her crew is yet available,

Renewed Air Activity

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"" LONDON, Jan. 1 (UP),—There was renewed German air activity over British waters to-day.

Under the protection of a heavy mist, the Nazis launched five attacks

on British ships.

At least 32 men aboard a lightship

In addition to the attacks on ship-

Allied Armies LONDON, Jan, 9 (Reuter).---- Andrew Mc Major-General Naughton, leader of the Cana Us." lic

dian Overseas Force, accom-were wounded. panied by his staff, has arrived ping, the raiders flew over the Firth in France, says “Renter's” of Tay and the Firth of Forth.

The greatest damage was done in special correspondent with the

the attack on the hiship and it is B.E.T.

feared that one, man was fatally in- There was no official ceremony-jured, the others being seriously They are proceeding to meet General wounded.

der-in-Chief.

Admiral Stark told the press that Guam might be immensely valuable Mr. Chamberlain indirectly de-

In-cach-area-an-inspection-office to the United States, not only for a fended the "dismissal" of Mr.

and many sub-offices have been naval base but for commercial air Hore-Belisha. "I will do what I HELSINGFORS, Jan. 9 (Reu established to prevent the infiltration lines. "Guam, fortiled, might be feel to be right, no matter how ter).In the successful battle of Japanese gods either from Japan worth three battleships to

Soumussalmi, reports or from Japanese "occupied" areas, Enid. difficult or disagreeable, to win around

Admiral Stark placed the cost of indicate, about 6,000 Soviets and the cutflow of legal tender notes

equipping Guam as a base for sen- taken and Chinese products, killed and 1,000

Inspection is applied very strictly plones, submarines and small war- Quiet Before The Storm

prisoners.

all forms of transport by land, ships at $80,000,000 and declared that

PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. LONDON, Jan. D (Reuter).- HELSINGFORS, Jan. 9 (UP). Speaking at Mansion House to-day. The remnants are still being water and air,

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the British harassed. -Finland's venerable President. Premier, said that the new year.

The 44th Division of the Soviet Army was being sent in maintain Dr. Kallio, appealed to world which probably would be a fateful opinion against the "ruthless use one in the history of the world, had pressure on Finland's "waist line," opened quietly, but it was the quiet and to relieve the 153rd Division, by Russia of aircraft against calm before the storm.

which was shuttered by the Finna defenceless civilians," in a per-

"It is only on the sea that the war some days ago.

The new Finnish success was due the may be sail to be in full operation. sonal verbal statement to

and it is on the sea that we can once more lo skilful patrol work and world's press to-day.

discern most clearly the trend of the to the superior mobility of the Finns. He revealed that during the hostililles in the first four months of first month of the war nearly the war," he said.

Dealing with this period, Mr. 4,000 bombs were dropped in ap proximately 100 Finnish locall-Chamberlain said that the results

tles.

were not unsatisfactory. The Ger- mans had lost, by capture and sink-

The Finnish air force also operated. hombing the troops supply convoyз.

Co-

and!

Briefest Communique SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" HELSINGFORS, Jan, 0 (UP)—To- |

They killed 2,304 elvillons, serious-ing, and above all by scuttling. 228,-day's was the shortest Finnish official ly injured 269 othern and less ser-000 tons and the rest of their shipping communique since the outbreak of iously injured 210.

The President claimed that about 170 Russian raiders have been shot down since the outbreak of war. Finland, he indicated, will make any further appeal to League of Nations.

Finnish Relief Fund BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH""

not

the

was either bottled up in foreign ports War,

or confined to the Baltic.

It described a general full on the

Attacks upon our fleets at present Soviet-Finnish war fronts. had produced but meagre résults.

Slight British Losses

"If we subtract from our losses by marine enemy action or ordinary casualties our gains by capture from the enemy, by new ships or transfers from foreign lings, we have lost up to date 122,000 tons-less than ono per cent, of the merchant feet that we possess.

of

WAR MINISTER

IS ILL

And Children Among Victims Viscount Gort, the British Comman BIG PASSENGER SHIP SUNK BY NAZI MINE

THE DUNBAR CASTLE

noon.

LONDON, Jan. 10 (Reuter).—Hitler's "minenkricg" murder warfare has claimed another big passenger liner -the Union Castle Line's 10,000-ton twin-screw diesel

Jinjured. Some of the crew are be |liner Dunbar Castle.

lieved to be killed. The vessel, which normally The linor left London in the morn- LONDON, Jan. 9 (Reuter).—Mr oliver Stanley, the new War carries 440 passengers, foting and struck a mine in the after- Minister, is ill with influenza and a tunately had only 48 aboard.

laht temperature. He is not likely But many of these, including a The passengers, numbering 48, took sea to take up his duties for two or three number of women and children, are to the life-boats and were picked up

reported missing and aro feared dead. by a coastal motor barge..

Up to now, 78 have been brought A number of the crew of 150-the days.

The Minister of Supply has ap-

The commander, Captain Causton, to be Controller of Iron and Steel in are niso miasing.

The Danbar Castle was employed jls believed to be killed, pointed Colonel Sir Charles Wright exact casualties are not yet known ashore, including nine children. place of Sir Andrew Duncan, who' has been appointed President of the on the Southampton-South Africa Board of Trade.

NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (UP) ----Mr. 'Herbert Hoover announces that the

"The inexorable pressure Finnish Relief Fund had cabled the Seth $100,000 contribution to Finland. power acting on the enemy is pro- He said that providing adequate ducing ever increasing difficulties for civilians in her. Its resulls are not yet visible. clothing and food for Finland is becoming a very serious You have only the Christmas orations

PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. problem."

COLONIAL UNIT HAS ARRIVED IN FRANCE

LONDON, Jan. 9 (Reuter).-The first Colonial troops have arrived in France.

It is announced in despatches from France that a Cypriot transport unit has joined the BEF.5 VM DowQ9

GOVT. LOANS TO

PEASANTS

route and was mined off the south- CSAKY RETURNS

enst coast of England..

Sho sank within an hour.

It was possible to launch only two

lifeboats and these picked up the

survivors.

...

The Dunbar Castle, which In 'pro-

TO BUDAPEST

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"'' BUDAPEST, Jan. 9 (Dome!).

war days was well-known because Count Czaky, the Hungarian Foreign of her distinctivo laver.der appear Minister, returned here from Italy CHUNGKING, Jan. 9 (Reuter)ance, was built in 1920 at the Herland this morning. The Agricultural Credit Administra-and Wolf yards. She was one of the Despite oficial denials by the The announcement adds "Cyprus tion of the Chineso Government has most popular liners on the South Iatlian Government, it is widely re-

pri decided to offer $22,000,000 in loans African route. will be proud to have. had the

lege of providing the first Colonial to needy peasants. Junit to join the British troops on 20- This is officially revealed here to

tive service in the theatro of war."

Mr. Churchill's Reactions Mr. Winston Churchill, before leaving France, sald in a statement about the Maginot Line that anyone at home would benefit very much by spending a few days with the French Jand British armies.. They would find

It at once a tonle and a Redative.

"I will take back with me the same sense of organisation, discipline, zeal and steady confidence that I feel when I have visited the Fleet in the great naval ports," the First Lord of the Admirally stated.

Franch Communique

·SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PARIS, Jan. 9 (UP)The 250th

"There was marked activity of our patrois during

communique states:

the day." "Marked Activity"

PARIS, Jan; 9 (Router)-To-day'a cummunique states that there was marked activity of our patrols during the day.

Balkan Entente To

Hold Meeting

BELGRADE, Jan. 0 (Reuter)-The Balkan Entente-Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Yugo-Slavis-is to hold another of its regular meetings next month.

The meeting will be held in Belgrade on February 2, 3 and 4.

The ralders bombed and strafed the ships and sprayed the decks of the lightship, which was broute to the relief of the other lightship, for half an hour.

Sixteen of the lightship's wounded were landed at an east coast port PLEASE Turn To Pago 5.

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THE WAR IS COSTING £6,000,000 A DAY

OTTAWA, Jan. 9 (Reuter).The financial burden of the war, amounting to some $6,000,000 a day, is now being shared

other help, satch de har part in the by the Dominions,

Conata has undertaken a pro-Empire Air Training Scheme and.

And gramme costing £70,000,000, which is supply of foodstuffs, motals half as much again as that spont dus munitions -

Trade will be paid by credila to avold shipping “gij

ported that the recent conversations En Route To Africs at Venice have been connected with the proposed milliary alliance be The Dunbar Castle carried 200 pas-tween Italy and Hungary.

Upon return here, Count Csaky sengorá and-crew, 1995) BAN

Most of the passengers were res- told the Press that he reports that The Cypriot contingent was enlist

The number of rural co-operative ed in tho ently days of the war and

MERRESH Visit Rome again in the near future War. left the colony amid scenes of great the British zene, where Indian mules banks in "Free China" is expected to cued. Some are sull unaccounted either Premier Teleki or he woulding the first 20. months of the last

This does not Include Canada's Atlantic. The Second Officer was among the were not true. enthusiasm. It spent the last two arrived last week, says "Reuter" be increased to 300 by the end of the for. special correspondent with the B.EF year. months in intensive training,

Mules and their Cypriot drivers day.

will be sent to the forward area in

tho