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P.&O.S. N. Co. Snow Comes To Aid Of Hard-Fighting Finns

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Russian SNOW AIDS FINNS-Severe snowstorms aided Finns in gaining victories over Russian troops in heavy fighting on Karelia Isthmus north of Leningrad. guns such as are shown above were used in attacks on Finns,

Germany's Oil

Tank Is Running Dry

GERMANY'S oil supplies are going to be a crucial fac- tor in the war. Especially if, as Field-Marshal Goering threatens, she starts up a full-dress air offensive in the Spring..

Shortage May

Betray

By W. N. BŴER "Daily Herald" Diplomatic

Correspondent.

Nazis

get in How much van Germany Wat-time?

that still Except for a trickle evades the blockade she is cut off from all seaborne supplies. Thut leaves open to her Poland, Russia,

2,000,000 toris from her own brown Rumania. col by hydrogenation.

Some interesting Agures published Tankow show a remarkable abener typhoidl

on the Helteli uxpeditionary furce. Banking Bushess traruacted. There have been 12 cases suce the FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year

begfonlar of the war and only

deaths.

Jan. 25, 1030.

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10 YEARS AGO

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS sisu opened in Local Currency and Sterling wilks interes Terminating

drawatle circum-allowed at rates obtainshie on application stances, all the defendants withdraw The Bank's load ce amor. ing without warning their plens of not undertakes Executor & Trustee braESA squlity, and substituting plein of guilty, and claims recovery of British Incom the trial at the Old Baliry of Clarencol Tax overpaid, on terms which may b and his three co-defendants, certained at any of its Agencies and Edmund Dalels, John Graham Good-Branches fellow Dixos und Alert Falward Tubor

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A

Mr. Justice Avory punked sentence of fourteen yenrapon servitude Hatry, seven year penal nervitude un Daniels, ive years on Dixon and three

Tabor. years un

5 YEARS AGO

Jan. 20, 1935.

Press," According to the United Chinese troops have retired to punitlan Inside the Great Wall and the Jipanero, who yesterday were at grips with the nelson forces of Kuyuan and Tushi kow, had taken up posts, outaito the are cient bultress against barbarians.

"Central News," the Chinese agency, Chinese Leports further all of positions And hombing by Зирателе planes. These reports are not confirmed by foreign preus servicon.

Commenting on, the Charhar siluntion, the "Times," according to Reuter,snyn NICAL in that while the incident was itself, i Indientes the inability Japanese diplomacy to prevent the aul- whatever dlers of the nation isking action they deem appropriate.

Four Still Alive

Poland might provide a little. Buf "Oil products" Include petrol, para-the output of the Galician felds has Ma, diesel engine oll, el oil and become very small, lubricating oil as well as "crude." Germany can get 500.000 tons 0,500,000 trans as lezja year from that source, it is an out-

side Bure. What is her position? Here! Say, then

Russia at the moment is, because not all this was con- Probably is the best answer I can give toormal pre-war anmat supply.

sumed. Sorne went to build up a of transport dificulties, a practically Germans Take Captives that very important question.

12ah;uarts of bout

oil war reserve. Exactly how hig that re- 4,500,000 serve is is one of the unknown fac- In addition she produced about fors.

In 1933 German products totalled toas.

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In Heligoland

flamburg. Jan. 24. The radio to-day broadcast the names of four survivors from the three British submarines lost in the Heligoland Bight recently.

They are:

New railway tank waggon, new Black Sea tankers, new Danube tags and barges, might in time solve that the Soviel problem. But Union needs all its own supplies: has been able to export something lice 1,000,000 tons a year, but that only at the price of running short at

LL. Condr. A. S. Jackson, Cuptain home.

Rumania would normally be send-uf H.M.S. Undine. ing Germany about 1,400,000 tons a has always been seaborne. A BRAVE boy who is also a fine seaman, walked year. But the bulk of this supply to uc congested rail und forced into the Admiralty the other day, shook hands with the with the sea shut and the trade

startlingly. number of high officials and received their congratula-river transport the figure has dropped

Cut By Half tions.

Stoker Archibakl Savage of H.M.S. Starsh

Telegraphist J. C, S. Beresford of Starfish. H.A.S. Undine-United Press.

Stoker Ronald Hawkins of HM.S.

Trawler Believed Lost

London, Jan. 24. The Lowestoft trawler New Haven In September only about 60,000 has failed to relic from He was 18-year-old Malcolm Morrison, fishor-lad | from the northern island of Lewis: the lad who sailed a tuns got around, Willy ett ure trip. She is a week overdue,

tion and great dificulty the figure boat for six days after his ship had been sunk-by-tor-was-raised to early 05,000 for De It is feared the she

¡cember.

Then came the frost blockade. Fleaving a trace. pedoes in the Atlantic.

is likely to be under 30,000 tons a month. Five men who were with him in the boat owe their lives to The figure for January and February Malcolm's feat of seamanship.

It was to receive official re-, who seemed to know anything nõuat ailing, and 1 kept my hand on the was iller al Dhe time. cognition of this that he enlled to Whitehall,

Never Slept

Total imports then for the first six months of war will probably be under 400.000 tons from Rumania; will probably be well under 1,000,000 tons from all sources.

mal.

That seems an absolutely outside Mr. Churchill was too busy to see

red-1 "I might have dozed off how and him: otherwise, this modest, cherkesi son of the sea might have again, but I never really slept, it figure, and it is less than half nar- Hydrogenation is being developed shaken hands with the First Lord had, I don't know what would have

happened to us,

and may make up the deficiency by himsel

Oceans Called

"They called me skipper and another 200.000 or 300,000 tons

for the half, year

But hydrogenation cannot provide Malcolm went fishing in a herring sometimes calef.

"Miast of the men slept drifter when he left school, but the

where very serious consideration wider aceans called him, so be en-drifted and were pertshed with cold. the higher grade lubricating oils

I was half frost-bitten. tered the Merchant Navy is a son-

"One night we sighted a neutral aviation is concerned. 111111.

she did not answer, iniri ship, but

Hs we

Spring Crisis

How far economies in "normal" Il knowledge of all things nautical nares. Next day a convoy failed to

consumption can make up for the was such that he soon found hihself see our signals.. un A.B., and he had that. rating in "For two more days we sighted, no additional consumption due to war

accurately. the 4.913-ton London steamer Arling ships and I was getting anxious about activities is quite impossible to gauge ton Court when war broke out. the water supply.

too many There are, therefore, In November a U-bout sank the "We struck stormy weather agai vessel, and Morrison and dive ship- and I reckoned we were about 200 doubtful factors for any precise cal-

we were culations. from land when mutes found themselves adrift in an miles

pleked up by a Norweglon tanker open bunt.

and landed in England.

The boy said to a reporter: High seas were running when we started: on our six days' senteli for land.

"I was the only one in the boat

"I think I'll give the sen a rest for a bit. I'll stay on land and do a bit of training na garage mechante."

"We don't mind cold

Then go

to Finland'

STOCKHOLM, Jan, 8.

THE FIRST FOUR American volunteers for Finland have) arrived in Stockholm, and to-day they attended a cocktail party given by Mr. Hallett Johnson, Counsellor to the American Ent- bassy. They were the star turn of the party, with their smart new silver-buttoned uniforms and shiny Sam Brownes.

Twenty-four-year-old Robert Now- week. Two hundred Americans back! mnu said: "We were an ambulance there in France may follow us

on the unit in the French Army

"I am Irish-Amerlenn. When the

still under

the

discipline

But there is quite enough evidence to make it certain that by spring oll shortage will be a serious factor, and that it is a shortage which will in- #real crease month by month, it military and air exertions are made. there. reserves" The "wor But onge they are drown on they will not last very long.

Western Front. Technically, we are

of the war started. I thought What is war. French Army. but there not being without the Irish in it?' and Jolned many lives to save on the Western the French." Front we were given leave,

Tis three companions are blond Louis Bartlett, lender of the party, twenty-five; black-bearded "One day they were asking who aged minded the cold. We four were the William Marks, uged twenty-seven, first to say we didn't, so here we professor at an American University;!. nre, with two light ambulancer, and slight, fals Jack Haney, nged

We are leaving for Finland this twenty-four, n fowel, expert.

The bost

are

information Available would suggest something like three months as an approximate estimale.

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is

John"--which "Owd

what they call John John- son in Romsey, Hants, Wor a hunderd year old yesterday and still digs an' plants

Wanted to 'vacuato me, they did," says Johu, "but 1 never ran From nobody, an' I 'baint a-goin' to run from Hit- lor the allly little man."

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may have

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She carried a crew of nine.-Rey-

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