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五拜禮 號二月二英港香 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1940. 日五十月二十

"We Sorely Need Help Against Military Forces of Soviet"

FINLAND

PREPARED TO

NEGOTIATE FOR PEACE

But Tiny Republic Will Not GUATEMALA TWENTY BOMBS

Cease Fighting Unless Red Terms Are Honourable

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH",

WANTS BRITISH

TERRITORY

AT ONE SHIP

FLUSHING, Feb. 1 (Reuter).—It is revealed that 20 bombs were dropped by the big German aircraft which LONDON, Feb. 1 (British bombed and machine-gunned the unarmed British

Highwave on

Wireless).-The South American

HELSINGFORS, FEB. 1 (UP). THE FINNISH PRESIDENT, M.Republic of Guatemala (45,452 steamer, KYOSTI KALLIO TO-DAY TOLD THE FINNISH PARLIAMENT THAT FINLAND IS READY "TO NEGOTIATE AN HONOURABLE PEACE". "BARBAROUS AND SENSELESS"

Russian Drive gotiate an honourable

Still Halted

square miles; pop.: 2,245,593) is January 30. demanding the cession of British territory so that it can have a ready outlet to the sea in order to export chewing-gum.

Information Settlement

According to gathered from members of the crew, the bombs were dropped in groups of five from a height; of 1,000 feet,

Aviation circles here point out that)

A White-paper by the Guatemalan Government appeals to the universala machine capable of dropping 20 conscience of civilised nations and bombs is something new in this Ger demands a strip of British Honduras. furnishing rond to the Atinnile from nan campaign against shipping. the El Pelen district.

The bomber involved was believed to have been n four-engined military! version of a commercial plane,

Ship Fights Back

(Reuter) LONDON, Feb.

Very Soon

Mr. Arita And The Asama Incident

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

TOKYO, Feb. 1 (UP).--Mr. Arita, Foreign Minister, told an

its

Japan Embargo Debate In U.S.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UP). The imposition of an embargo against Japan "might be the first step towards war," declared Senator Arthur Vandenberg during to-day's Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee debate.

At the same time he warned Japan not to ignore the possibility of such an action.

Earlier, Senator Key Pittman, Committee Chairman, charged that Japan was attempting to interfere with Congress.

Senator Vandenberg was the author of the resolution leading to the abrogation of the 1911 Trade Puct. He described the abrogation as " relatively pacific alternative" 10 the proposals for an embargo such as those made by Senator Tillman which, in his opinion, “would be the fangest step towards war since 1915."

Forcing Japan To Retreat

Senator Vandenberg's views were

also contained in a letter to Walter Lippman. the columnist, who

pre-

In his speech before Parliament on the occassion of the adjournment President of the autumn session which had been extended due to the war, Kallio declared that the invasion of Finland was a "barbarous and senseless attack," compelling the Finns to "destroy people who were innocent in this ¡war". For that reason

"we are already to nc-is exported from El Peten.

Chicle, the basis of chewing-gum,

Guatemala claims that its 1859 peace".

treaty with Britain Axed the boundary Details of the attack by a German interpellator in the Lower House described the Vandenberg resolution of tie republic and the British colony bomber on the City of Bath, a 5,000 that the British Governinent ap- as being designed to force Japan to He thanked the League in such a way as, in effect, to ant Tuesday were revealed to-day.

ton liner, off the Scottish const on

parently knows that the Agama retreat from China and 13 of Nations and all nations Honduras 2 considerable strip-of

The bomber was held o by use Maru, incident has stimulated minary to the imposition ot "which helped us in many

territory, says British Unica Preis.- ship's defence gun situated in the Japanese feeling..

embargo, "I think the case will be settled

"Whatever our sympathies may be, It says that in the treaty Ouatema-1stern of the ship. ways." He particularly Han statesmen disquisad the cesalon During the attack, however, which

in the near future." he said.

or whatever our sense of deep outrage HELSINGFORS, Feb. 2 (Reuter).—A communique thanked Sweden and appeal-jin return for what they hoped would lasted for quarter of

The Foreign Office

over the conquest of Chinn, it is our spokesman, official responsibility as a matter of dealing with yesterday's activities records that theled for additional material be a heavy cash payment to aid in anachine dropped six bombs and rak- Mr. Sunia, made a statement that Mr. foreign polley not to. force Japan to the construction of a road to theed the port side of the ship and the Toni had handed Sir Robert Craigic retreat from China; it is simply to

bridge with muchine-gun bullets

the Japanese

to the British reply One heavy bomb fell within 15 of January 27 on the Asamu Maru Senator Vandenberg in fils letter to note: protect American interests," said Guatemala asks, In addition to the feel of the chip's side. The corridor to the sea, for a payment of was shakcen but there

no taneous publication to both nates as £56.000 plus a sunt equal to four per casunities.

soon as the British hud, had time to States "may come to an embargo and cent. annually, since 1859.

consider the Japanese note at a fur-Japan would be ill-advised

if she ther medling on Friday.

Russian attacks north-east of Lake Ladoga were repulsed with heavy losses.

Enemy attacks at Salla and in| SPECIAL LEAVE

the direction of Petsamo Alsó repelled.

were

The enemy bombed Rovaniemi 'and lew over other towns.

Casualties amountert

"Fome to dozens of civilians killed and about 40 wounded."

Two enemy planes were brought down.

Finnish Raid Described -

HELSINGFORS, Feb. 1 (Runter). -Details of the recent bombing of the Russian air base at Baltiski, by the Finns is given in the newspaper "Uusisuom!" which states that the: Finnish bombers destroyed stane Rus- stan machinies and started fires which could be seen for miles.

The newspaper declares that the Russian commander of the airport. who was summoned to Leningrad, his not returned.

The Soviet authorities. it added, have ordered a nightly black-out on the Russian occupied Island of Oesel and Dugee.

The newspaper says that it now seems certain that not only Baltiski but the airports on Oesel and Dagoe and elsewhere have been successfully Tailed by the Finns,

GIVEN TO SEE DYING MOTHER

LONDON, Feb. 1 (Reu. ter). Second Lieutenant Alastair Telfer-Smollett, of the Black Watch, was given special leave from the British Expeditionary Force to see his dying mother.

of

Mrs. Telfer-Smollett, wife Major-General Telfer- Smollett, former British C- in-C in Shanghai, passed away this morning.

4

GRAF SPEE

COULD HAVE FOUGHT

New Revelations

help.

sea.

Sorely Need Help Ho deplored the Russian at- tacks on the civilian population, and praised the Finnish national unity and courage.

As an alternative it suggests that However, he added: "we sore-Britain should return to Guatemala.

of Belize, which contains the capital have against us the military and chief administrative district.of forces of the Soviet Union." British Ifonduras. In return President Kallio said that so far Guatemala would pay £400,000 as in the war. "Russia has lost several compensation and call ofT olher divisions of her best man power,"

Hle pleaded that one of the mast important categories of foreign aid was air defence equipment to protect civilians agakist un "aggressor which used their uie force in a most in- human nanner."

need help, seeing that we he legal heir to Spain, the territory

Disruption Of Normal Values

claims.

French Building A New Fleet

PARIS, Feb. 1 (Reuter).The ex-

an hour, the

were

vessel case. It was agreed to give simul- Lertheless, he added, the Unlied

SHANGHAI GUN DUEL.

Craigie Civen Reply TOKYO, Feb. 2

(Router).Thes

Ignores this hazard."

Senator Vandenberg opposed the suggestions that the United States

text of the Japanese reply to the should undertake to police the Nine

th-Power Treaty, and he contended that- British Note of January 27 in con- the signatories of the Treaty should nection with the Asama Moru in-

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

cident WIS handed to Sir Robertsume equal responsibility." SHANGHAI, Feb. 1 (UP). Crugie, the British Ambassador, to- Military Clique Denounced One of the biggest gun battles day by the Vice-Minister of Foreign Senator Key Pittman, In a state- for months occurred here to-day Affairs.

ment replying to the Tokyo reports It was agreed that the two notes saying that Japan will consider an during which the Municipal be published simultaneously as soon embargo a serious affront, denounc Police captured about ten armed as the British Government has had ed the Japanese military clique us Chinese gunmen and killed two. time to consider the Japanese Note. being "insensitive" to American

Sub-Inspector R. M. Moir was

Treaty rights in, the Far East. wounded slightly in the arm and In an earlier speech, the Speaker lensive French naval building pro- Sergeant C. E. A. Cooke was wounded of the House, M. Hakkils, implied that gramme is analysed by, the "Journal seriously in the neck. the disruption of turmal values,

des Arts" which enumerates the Among the captured gunmen particularly the rights of small States following vessels under construc- severni üre said to be wounded, with the start of the war between

tion: ---

Scores of sharpshooting police, the great Powers, had resulted in the 18.000 ton alreraft carriers: three vests, tear gas bombs

Four 35,000 ton battleships; two formed with tommy-guns, bullet proof, invasion of Finland.

and search- President Kallio, after expressing 0.000 ton cruisers: 20 destroyers: five lights, have cordoned off a wide area his readiness for an honourable peace large submarines; 15 smaller sub-around Shansi and Peking roads,

mariues; Three said: The ruters of the Soviet Union

submarine mine-because it is believed two gunmen know very little about the Finnish layers as well as mine-sweepers, are still at large hiding somewhere people if they think our people will gunboats and other auxiliaries, In the rooftops or alleyway). submit to their decrces, and doc- trines."

Press Praises from a report issued by the to-day.

Control Of Retail Prices in the Grit pet could have deyn lost reveral of their best divisions,

Thirteen Men Frozen To Death in

in Lifeboat

To Organise Export Trade

"If the United States yields to the present Japanese threats there wil be no end to is abandonment of the rights of lis citizens in the Fur, East," Senator Pittman -de-

clared.

He added that Japan's statements "appear to be more like threats thun legitimate complaints."

He said that when Congress, through the 1930 Tariff Act, em- powered the President to raise im- port duties by 50 per cent. against eny

government discriminating: against "American trade and com- meret, "it was not considered: an Export ret

affront by the Japanese Govern-. ment."

the

Premier Announcos A Special Council LONDON, Feb. 1 (Reuter) After announcing that President of the Board of Trade was establishing an Council to organise export trade in detail, Mr. Neville Chamber- "It is strunge indeed that the pro- lain said in the House of Com- posed delegation by Congress to the President discriminatory power mons to-day that the Council enjoyed by the executives of practic- would have at its disposal the ully every government in the world- Department of Overseas Trade should be considered an affront by and the Industrial Supply De- Japan now," Senator Pittman con- partment of the Board of Trade.

tended.

They had to try to meet the demands made upon them from many quarters, particularly from quarters

with which formerly traded

Ger- many.

No Reason To Hate. HELSINGFORS, Feb 1 (Reuler).-) MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 1 (Reu-ready for an honourable peace was The declaration that Finland was ter): A now light on the made by President Kyosti Kallio. Escuttling of the Graf Spee comes speaking to the Finnish Parliament Uruguayan Technical Commis-shamelessly exposed his imperialistic ile said that the aggressor "has

LONDON, Feb. 1 (Router).—Adrift for several days in a life sion which has reached the designs und iras shown that he wantsboat after their ship was torped oed and sunk without warning conclusion that essential repairs to destroy Ug."

by n U-boat in the Atlantic, 13 members of the crew of the Greek He claimed that the Soviet hud steamer, Eleni Statothos, were frozen to death and had to be made within the three days and that Finnish troops had already

thrown overboard. allowed her.

| thrown back part of the enemy forces

The remaining 20 of the crew beyond the eastern frontiers.

landed at Elre in such a weak It was remarkable thai the figures Possible To Navigate

lle added: "The Soviet are forcing]

condition that oven when they for December showed an increase The damage did not make her us to fight men who have no respon- LONDON, Feb. 1 (Reuter): The impossible to navigate and Captain pillity for the war und whom we

sighted the coast they had lost over the corresponding Agures of most important recent development in

(ur)--Admiral interest in life and lacked the conceal the fact that the figures of December 1938, but perhaps it would the fave no reason to hate. That is why TOKYO, Feb. 1 Britain's Internal affairs was thengsdorff himself said that

engines were undamaged.

we conalder is aggression senseless Yonal, answering an interpellator. strength to pull at the oars,

1038 included the exports of trade to Commons by Sir John Simon that the damage sustained was mostly to the oumble peace.

Apart from boles in the hull, the and are ready to negotiate on hien- sak that the Government intends to They were saved by the crew of a Germany which, of course, did not Government is spending £1,000,000 a bakery,

recognize the new. Chinese Central motor-boat who saw the life-boat exist in the figures last year. kitchen and fire-fighting "But the Russing authorities know Government as soon as it is estab-drifting in the bay and towed it in. week to keep down retak prices.

plant.

little of the Finnish people if they shed, thereby inducing ether Powers The British Press unanimously

Despite this, the Graf Spec pre- think that we are capable of sub-to take similar steps.. welcome this comment ranging fromferred to scuttle herself rather than allting to their dictates."

He further said that the Govern- the view taken by the Labour "Dally nght her way out of Montevideo. Herold", to the effect that the idea

Farsighted Policy

announcement inade in the House of

of holding down food prices is

I

Japan's Promise To Wang

· Président (Callio concluded that the ment will drastically oppose any third | Finnish people had shown its great-Power attempts to block Japan's nesa before the whole world by its efforts for establishment' of a new moral force and the spirit of sacrifice | order in East Asia.',

and preventing Bolshevism from ex- tending to the west.

fundamentally right, to the view of More Money For with which it was defending its rights

the Conservative "Daily Telegraph"

that it is a farsighted polley.

SW Sir John Simon explained that the

Defences

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1 (Router).

- ༅ - སྨཱནོ

U.S. Ambassador

Recalled

Objection Overruled Referring to the objection that the President of the Board of Trade was not a member of the War Cabinet, Mr. Chamberlain said that it was not appreciated Chat when questions WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (Reuter),atteeting departments were discussed Mr. Cordell Hull, the US. Secretary at the War Cabinet, it was the prac- Wang Denounced

of State, to lay unounced that Mr. tice to invite the fiulsters at the LONDON, Feb, 1 (Reuter)The William C. Bullitt, the American Am head of those departments to and China Campaign Commitee has bussudor to Paris, has been roconded the meetings, while those items on the Lied long statement "denouncing home for consultation

and agenda were being discussed, Bullitt unconditionally so-called

only the sorchid peace. This visit will be short." He has no tuality of hearing what a full oppor

The Cabinet

Japanese

special mfaston,-. by Wong Ching.

sald on any authorities

Mr. Hull hdded: that Mr. Joseph F.;

Mr. Chan

did not believe lly supports the Kennedy the Ambassador to London, that he the War. Cabinet or other The Committee. fully.

Cablots, when matters. of high The Government polley, he said, STOCKHOLM Fot. 1 (Router).minique issued to-day states that it redan vour to prevent, in any and to obtain the support of both the of the Cabinet would be in small-

PARIS, Feb. 2 (Router) com anouncement of General Chland returning to England this month. Kai-shek, un January 23.and pledges

policy were discussed, that members. was to avoid Inflation through wages, The Swedials Government has grant- was a quiet day on the whole, :: "following the unward trend in - tho | ed nearly £1,500,000 for the construc- There was ring from casemates form whatever, recognition by the British people and the Government minded that they could not rise above.

tion of fortifienllóns.

on either aldo.of the lino:

| British Governinunt of any "puppet" for the Government, of Gmteral departmental considerations and

Government under Wang Ching-wel, | Chiang Kai-shek.

take a more statesmanlike view,

Pocost of living rose by 10 per cent. from the of the War to

enul of November but that since the Fise Government of Denmark have Quiet Day On The beginning of December the Govern decided to usk Parliement for an ment had kept prices down, and the extra £3,750,000 for defonco pur- food Indexes had been steady all poses,

ironth

cost of livhig.

Sweden As Well

Western Front

wel

leaving on February

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