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ATTLEE'S WARNING Country Must Be Well Prepared

LONDON, Feb. 14 (British Wire- less) Speaking in London to-day, Mr. Clement Attice wald he found neither the spirit of lighthearted ad- venture nor a false glamour at glory amongst the British people, but rather a mood of endurance and the fixed determination of people who felt themselves to be engaged in struggle for the survival of European elvilisation.

OFFENSIVE

WEAKENING

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gathering of forces for another on- staught.

Nobody believes tut the Battle of Sumina la finished.

But the next few days will tell the tale.

Critical Period In May LONDON, Feb, 15 (Reuter),—Fin- Innd's struggle for independence, and with the Allied cause, will reach the most eritical period in May, states a military authority in London. In his luterview, he says the Russians will make no more than umall gains during the winter. At "If we cannot say what civilisa-the end of April, a thnw will set in tion is, we know well what it is and when May's warm weather drick not, and a country which deuten up the soggineus, the Soviets will All Rights to the individual,

make a great drive, country which murders people for no other reason than that they be- long to a particular race, and a country which hates mercy truth and freedom is no elviled coun- try."

Mr. Altice warned his hearern againat undue optimism, and said that though all hoped that there would be no tremendous laughter from air attack, it was necessary to be amply -prepared. Pence must be followed.

by building a world free from actress- Ion and, constraint.

Lost Without Holp "Without help, the Finns last," be avers.

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Reinforcements in the shape of 10,000 experienced men, he states positively, will enable the Finus to drive the Russians back Into Bovict territory.

All now depends on whether or not this help is sent,

He states that this estimate of 10,- 000 men and prophesying of a May super-offensive has been calculated un-us exactly as military science allows.

Although a difficult time doubtedly would follow the war, Mr. Attlee sald he saw no reason for an era of great distress.

Labour Motion Rejected Railway Profits Guaranteed

LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter). By a majority of 67, the House of Commons on Tuesday night rejected the Labour motion for the nationalisation of inland and coastwise transport.

The debate arose over the Govern- ment scheme whereby railways are guaranteed £40,000,000 profits a year while they are under Government

control.

Mr. Herbert Morrison attacked the agreement on the ground that it

On the western front, the stalemate will not be ended In May but there may be fighting on other fronts.

Where, he could not say.

Victory or defeat of the Finns will have the gravest bearing on the Allled-German position. Russia conquers Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark will be directly menaced by Russia and Germany.

Economile and political concessions will be demanded, bucked up by force or a show of force.

B.B.C. Observer's Talk LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter).- Having just returnert from Rovancimi.

B.B.C. ubserver in Finland yes the Finnish northern headquarters terday broadcast hils impressions.

One of the first things he did on

was to

his return to Helsingfors after three werks of absence, he said, buy English

glish newspapers, which reach the Finnish capital fairly

quickly.

He was interested to learn from one of them that their Stockholm Soviet planea had practically levelled correspondent hnel reported that Hovancimi to the round and that It was uninhabitable.

guaranteed the railways higher pro-and several other journalists had been The B.D.C. observer said that he Ata thun they would have made in living at Rovenchel for the past week peacetime.

Two Merits

"in considerable confort" ond that it seemed to Captain Wallace, Minister of Trans-of the town.

to be the case with the rest port, said that the agreement had two merits. They were paying for rall-lot of damage in two large raids

Of course, the Russians did do a ways as they used them with no post- fortnight age, but life goes on. poned liabilities. The scheme com- bined economy with emciency. The day after the agreentent signed, he went on, the rallway received Da advance of

When he visited the bank he found that it had sustained a direct hit and was business was being carried on in temporary premises near the lank while repairs were being made.

workers wages.

If left to themselves, the railways would have made much more than they will under the agreement.

KING PRESENTS NEW COLOURS

LONDON, Feb. 14 (Router).—His Majesty the King yesterday presented new colours to a battalion of the Irish Guards on the parade" "ground" of Wellington Borrocks.

The King then went to the Tower of London where he presented colours to a battalion of the Welsh Guards.

On both occasions he wore the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the regiments.

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Hitler Rojects Pan-

American Note

Germany replied to-day to the BERLIN, Feb. 14 (Reuter).

note sent to all belligerents as regards the establishment of a 300-mile security zone around the Americas.

con-

The reply welcomes the desire of the republles ta maintain at:lct neutrality and says that the templated regulation would repre- seni an amendient of international bow.

International regulations. They there- German warships have observed

from other belligerents, for Britain fore cannot be considered as different and France have possessions on the. established Important bases there. American continent and have Bay, therefore, suggests that

and France, under guarantee of the United Sintes, should accept an obligation not to use these possessions and islands as starting points or bases for military action.

SENTENCED TO DEATH

Chicken Stoalor Who

Killed A Woman

One of the two men charged with the murder, by strangula- tion, of an old woman named Lam Po at Ap Man Liu village, Saikung, on November 6, was found guilty at the Criminal Sessions this morning,

Busness As Usual Other banks and department stores were carrying on as usual inside al- though the outside was blacked and pitted.

He was sentenced to death by the Journalists stayed in a "real Holly-Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor. wood" hotel built for tourists who, in He was Lau Tin-yeung. Before peace-time, travel through Petsamo sentence of death was passed, he and stop off at Ravanelmi for a first re-erated his defence that while he glimpse of the midnight sun.

did

the place to steal chickens. Half of the hotel is now a hospi-le not commit the murder. The

other guilty and discharged,

tal.

MORE SHIPS TORPEDOED IN U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

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of 8,501 tons, which capsized after

February 15,

1940.

WORLD WAR

SAYS QUO

China Fights On Same Fronts As Allios an explosion in the North Sea,

Twenty-one members of the crew were landed at an East Count port-At the National Liberal Club LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter). and 21 at another port.

The 10

year old wireless operator to-day, 250 were present at n told how twice in two months he lind luncheon in honour of Mr. Quo been rescued from oil tonkers sunk Tai-chi, the British Ambassador by explosions. This had been his second voyage on a British boat and on ench occualor he had been slip- wrecked.

On December 2, 1030, he was an assistant wireless operator on the tanker San Calisto which struck a nilne and sank. He received internal Injuries necessitating on

operation. Ile bad only just recovered when ie joined the Brilish. Triumph.

The Britlah Teluraph was attacked by enemy alreraft at Great Yarmouth rondstead only a fortnight ago.

London.

Speaking on the inter-actions of war in China and Europe, Mr. Quo said: "There is no Euro- pean war. There is no Asiatic war. There is a world war.

"Whether here, where you have hardly started fighting, or in Asia, where we have already drained our blood and our resources, it is the same war, waged by the same op- posing forces.

"So my first desire is to enter a caveat against the thinking which In effect would say 'Get the thing set- led in Europe and everything else shall be added unto it.

"A European settlement, however

Naval Defanco Plans LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter)"We are ceaselessly engaged with plans for putting into execution defensive measures and counter-mesaures. These can only be judged by re-achieved, seifles nothing by itself suits," declared Mr. Winston Chur-even for Europeans. chill, First Lord of the Admiralty, when asked in the House of Con- mans to-day whether he had taken adequate measures for the defence of trawlers and fishing boats.

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"The Chinese coast means much to you as the Baltic and the Balkans in every vital interest that you have."

Referring to Mr. R. A. Butler's Mr. Churchill added that he hoped re-nssertion in Parliament on Janu- that

a very great measure of protec-ary 31 that Great Britain Intends to tion would be afforded to men in the adhere firmly to the Nine-Power Treaty, Mr. Qua Tal-cht said: "Every North Sea in a very short time.

attacks on unarmed and your since 1922 makes that Treaty's Naturally small vessels could not have been ex-provisions more useful and more in- pected, but it now appeared that dispensable to international order and every small vessel must be effective prosperity, especially to

American security and prosperity as ly armed to resist murder..

Angio- well as to Chinese welfare."

Wo Don't Murder Mon LONDON, Feb. 13 (Reuter) Asked whether in view of "the murdering of unarmed seamen by German airmen" he would consider ccasing to send out ships to pick up German alra en when their planes were brought down at sea, Mr. Winston Church, in the House of Commons to-day, declared, amidat cheers, that the ordinary Instincts of lumanlly which, required the rescue from the sea of drowning or castaways should be observed by II's Majesty's ship in the course of their duties,

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U-Boats Destroyed SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Feb. 14 (UP) The Admiralty announces that the British steamers Sultan Star and British Triumph put up great fights before they were sunk, replying vigorously to the U-Bunt fire and dodging their torpedoes.

The delay occasioned by the re- sistance on the part of the mer- chantmen enabled British des- troyers to respond to their appeals for assistance, and both aubmarines were destroyed..........

MUSSOLINI CALLS UP 200,000 MEN AS TENSION CONTINUES IN BALKANS

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they found, states the article, were some harmless Hungarian books.

200,000 MEN CALLED UP SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME, Feb. 14 (Domel)-Mark- ing the first tangible result of meet- ings during the past days of the Supreme National Defence Council, the Italian Government to-day called of the 1910 and 1920 to the colours 200,000 additional men The mobilization is believed to

classes. been made da Jave

a precaution against the increasing tension ported from the Balkans.

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Count Csaky, the Hungarian For- Cign Minister, is shortly visiting Rome to again confer with Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister. In the case of the U-Boat which Informed political circles state that attacked the charges brought her to the surface, not yet taken a turn for the better Sultan Star, depth Hungarian-Rumanian relations have within half-an-hour of the sinking, and the forthcoming conversations She disanneared below again, com-

between the Foreign Ministers of pletely wrecked.

Italy and Hungary will have import- ant effects on the Balkan situation. MORE NAZI SHIPS OUT

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The Admiralty announcement does not mention survivors from the two U-Boats.

Burst Into Flames LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter)- Twenty-eight of the crew

of the Greinfield were pleked up by a Jured and are now in hospital.

The ship burst into tomes before she sank...

During the past week, however man, Lau Tau, was found not trawler. Eighteen of them were in- bility that the cruiser could have

Mr. E. II. Williams, Crown Coun-

journalists have spent little time in the hotel. They go out on their skissel, prosecuted. Lau-Tin-yeung was early in the morning ond return fute

defended by Mr. Inglis Hosang,

in the afternoon, dropping in on a Instructed by Mr. A. el Arcul, while hunt in the forest for coffee and Lau Tau was represented by Mr. sandwiches.

D. J. N. Anderson, Instructed by Mr. They even organised shootlog || J. M. Hall, competitions with miniature rifles The following comprised the Jury: with no less than six different coun- Messrs. D. Buchanan (Foremn). Lo tries represented, but the Finns al-Tal-yau, E. W. Sharp, L. C. Baker. ways won with monotonous reku-A. E. Gutierrez, Ho Shiu-que and larity.

C. P. Grant.

On the day that he left Rovancimi, three of them went back to the hotel early in order to pack and complete |last-minute arrangements. Hardly had they reached the frozen river

GERMANY CLAIMS "THEORETICAL' RIGHT TO SINK U.S. VESSELS

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NEUTRAL PRESS RESTRICTIONS?

ZURICH, Feb. 14 (Reuter)-A big compaign in Germany against the freedom of the neutral Press is ex- pected to follow Dr. Goebbels' speech, #ccording to the "Noue -Zuercher Zeitung's" Berlin correspondent.

The reason for Goebbels' outburst

is believed to be primarily the Indignation aroused fri Scandinavia and Holland by the submarine cam- paign against neutrals.

The correspondent says that the satisfaction felt over neutral shinning losses can be clearly read between the

amounting to a sort of a "blank che-lines in the German Press. que" for destruction.

LONDON, Feb. 14 (British Wire-than the air raid alarm sounded. less)During the first 11 weeks of the National Savings Campaign,

Swastikas On Wings over £80,000,000 has been raised,

Emulating Russion patrols when which is nearly four times the anti-they want to move quickly, they cipated rate.

dofted their skis and ran back up the When the voluntary campaign was hill, arriving at the top completely launched with the creation of a new out of breath. They could not go a savings certificate, and a new defence yard further and so took advantage bond, It was expected to raise, about of the only available cover in bathing 0000.000 in twelve months. huts which, us the drone of the planca war began, 10,000 new say- drew ever nearer, did not seem to be groups have been formed, the best place one would choose. bringing the total to more than Finally unable to bear it any longer, 50,000. About 75 per cent. of these the B.B.C. observer stuck his head are in omflees and factories. New out. He never expected that the .. groups are being formed at a rate sign of the Swastikas on the wings of 260 dally. If the groups do their of planes would bring a sigh of work properly, they should sure/relief, but this was the case here. The enter Britain's sphere of sea control licence has been granted for British that an even larger amount of cur-emblem of the Finnish sir force is rent savings u11 bo passed to the blue swastiken. Government.

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Fleet Expansion Approved

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (Reuter), House of Representatives

The

Naval Committee have unanimously agreed to the two years $055,000,000 feet expansion programme,

French Officer Decorated

were

Incidentally these planes manned by Swedish volunteers who are part of a squadron which daily keeps the Russiana at bay.

Conditions Improve

In Palestine

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The Germans say that the British must hold up ships to search them at sen instead of taking them to a con- troi point in the Downs,

Merciless Revenge

Dutch ships are thus faced with the prospect of being mercilessly torpe- doed without explanation if they

The German public are not allowed to know that ships are being doed without warning.

Wolfsburg which, like the Wakama, | been concerned in the scuttling of the

is" reported "to"have opened her sea- cocks off the north coast of Brazil when a British warship was sighted. It is learned unofficially that H.M.S. Hawkins will remain at Rio for 48 hours Instead of 24 us at first report- ed. The need for slight repairs to her machinery Is given as the reason.

SUPERHUMAN DEFENCE BY FINNS AS REDS DENT LINES

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of the Mannerheim Line have ap- parently met with disaster, The Finns put un shells which threw men and tanks through the ice into the water.

Although the Russians have now installed advanced posts on the Sum- torpe-ma front, they are still faced with about ten miles of continuous block- houses, tank trops and other formid- able defences.

LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter) It was announced in the House of Commons lo-day that # general

subjects to enlist in the Finnish forces

established in London.

JEWS SENT TO POLAND

BERLIN, Feb. 14. (UP)-It is

understood from a reliable source that

all Jews in Stettin, numbering bo-

which, practically speaking, extends and a licence has also been granted over the whole world.

Theoretically, touching at Gibraltar are liable to be

ships for a recruiting organisation to be American torpedoed under the new rule.

Feeling in Holland is particularly Ivan Maisky, Russian Ambassador to carly this morning and transported In anticipation of this statement, M. tween 800 and 000, were rounded up. bitter that Germany persistently London, was seated in the Diplomatic by railway to an unknown destina- picks out small neutrals for attacks

tion, believed to be in a district in Foland.

and leaves the big ones alone.

Bitter Comment

Gallery.

OSLO, Feb. 14 (Reuter) Ger- ESBJERG, Feb. 14 (UP).The mony'a ruthless war on neutral ship- Danish Navy announces that a Danish LONDON, Feb. 14 (British Wire comment from neutral newspapers.

to ping continues

draw bilterInspection boat is bringing four Ger- The Committee have also approved less)In reply to a question: con-

man pilots who were forced to land the President's programme to per- cerning various aspects of the con-ldenstegn," makes a drastic sug be interned at Hald where there is a

In the Faero Islands. The leading Norwegian newspaper,

The men wil mit the navy to construct an additions in Palestine, the Colonial gestion that the powers in Osio must big internment camp. ditional 21 warships and 22 auxillary Secretary said in

the Commons: vessels in the next two years.

Improvement in the inter-top trading with Germany unless the tuation in Palesting Relch guarantee the lives of Scan-

ta dinavian seamen,

The annual dinner and dance of been fully maintained.

am fully

Cymdeithas Dewi Sant (St. David's The latest German excuse that which la being given by Jews they are being taken compulsorily to Hetel on Friday, March 1, aware of the whole-hearted support neutral ships may be sunk even when Scelety), Hongkong, will be held at the Roof Garden of the Hongkong throughout the world

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an Allied contraband control harbour tions ($5 a cover) may

Reserva- cause, one of the purposes of which is rejected by this newspaper, which through the Hon. Secretary, 3, Ven- be booked PARIS. Feb. 14 (Reuter)-A| is the freeing of Jows from French flatson officer has been given cruel persecutors in Central Europe. adopt this attitude the neutrals will There will be dancing from approxi says that If Germany continue to tris Road, or the Hongkong 'Hotel, the Croix de Guerre for his action 11. M. Government's policy allows have to revise their attitude towards mately 10 pm, to 1 am. will a British patrol in No-Man's for a very considerable degree of im- the Reich. Land.

migration of Jews into Palestine over This German claim was repeated Ho attached himself to the patrol the next ten years, and there is no yesterday when it claimed that the

a British omeor was killed question of departing from

Subject to audit, the Directora of that sinking of the Dutch vessel, Ber-The Vibro Filing Co., Ltd. have re- while trying ta ailence German policy,

A legal quota was allowed gerdijk, was legal machine-guns. He took command of

commended a Dividend of 50 cents for somo 10,000 Jews to go to Paleo- Ute party and brought them back tino and be settled in the last six the fact that the U-boat commander respect of the year ended December The Captain of this ship stresses and a bonus of 25 cents per share, in antcly to the British lines,

months."

refused to examine his papers,

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their

THE "ENGLISH JEWS" BERLIN, Feb. 15 (Reuter)-The German Labour Leader, Dr. Robert world to unite against the English- Ley, has called on workers of the

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THE HAGUE, Feb, 14 (Reuter) —

British Subjects May Enlist

London, Feb. 14, The Under Secretary for Home. The Second Chamber of Parliament Affairs (Mr. Peake) announced in has passed a bill authorising the the Commons to-day, that a general ssue shortly of a semi-compulsory licence would be granted; British oon of 300,000,000 guilders."

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