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五拜禮 號六十月二英港香 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1940.

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SUMMA OFFENSIVE

Greatest Defeat For Russian Arms MEASLE WOGS

Since 1915 Tannenberg Disaster

By EDWARD BEATTIE

UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT

HELSINGFORS, FEB. 16 (UP)—“FINIS" SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN TO THE BATTLE OF SUMMA.

IT WILL RANK IN HISTORY AS THE GREATEST BATTLE EAST- ERN EUROPE HAS WITNESSED IN A CENTURY.

RUSSIAN ARMS HAVE NOT SUSTAINED SUCH A DEFEAT SINCE TANNENBERG IN THE great war.

To-day, a thousand Finnish outposts in the dirty slush before the Mannerheim Lines are enjoying their first respite in over a fortnight of intense bombardment that has been paralleled in world history only by the major battles of the Western Front in the last war. BROKE AGAINST SOLID WALL

Like every other attack, the Russian offensive has broken itself against a solid wall of compact, determined men, fighting with super-

LIBELLED!

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Feb. 15 (UP).---- London, just recovering from an epidemic of “Ulitzflu,” is now suffering from German mens- Test.

But London newspapers are referring to the latest epidemic by its Latin name of "rubelln." After all, doctors say, It's hardly fair on the measle wogs to lng them with the name "Ger man"

Goering Boasts: 'We Cannot

human effort to save their country from invasion Be Beaten

Roosevelt and destruction.

May Meet European Leaders

Secret Cruise In

U.S. Destroyer

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (Reu ter).-Considerable speculation

No Man's Land to-day is quiet. It is almost cerie after the constant surges of man-power that covered it in Russia's wave upon wave of infantry attacks upon the Finnish lines.

Except for sporadic artillery fire and an occasional burst of machine-gunning, nothing remains to remind the men in the trenches of the ordeal through which they passed.

Nothing, that is, except the slush-filled craters, the frozen bodies of the Russian dead and the wreckage of Russian tanks.

To-night's official communique confirms that the Russians have abandoned the frontal attack along the has been aroused here by a "bloodiest ten miles on earth" that comprised the Summa cryptic remark made by Presid-front. eni Roosevelt lo newspaper representatives prior to

his BATTLE SHIFTS NORTH leaving for a holiday cruise in the cruiser Tuscaloosa.

They have now switched back to this original plan, President Roosevelt said it which also proved so disastrous to them, of attempting to might be fair to assume that his flank the Mannerheim Line. sca trip would combine business with his holiday.

Speculation arose because President Roosevelt did not choose to deny a question put to him as to whether. there was a possibility that he would make contact with British, French and Italian authorities during his cruisc.

The weight of the battle has shifted northwards to Muollaanjaervi and Taipale.

The Finnish communique de OPERATOR'S

votes only one short paragraph to this new fighting. It saya: "All attacks were repulsed."

It was thought in Washington yesterday that the President might that it is a matter of great im- Military observers told me extend his cruise to region where portance that the Finnish flanks the neutrality patrol vessela are keeping watch along the fringa of the have been able to repel all Gulf of Mexico.

Russian efforts to turn them.

BRAVERY

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

BERLIN, Feb 15 (UP),÷ "The Greater Reich cannot be beaten militarily, economically morally," declared Field Marshal Goering in a broadcast to-day to the farm men women of Germany.

or

and

"The English should recognise this," he declared.

He summoned the farm workers to redouble their efforts

during the coming year

to

offset the extreme cold of this winter and the Allied blockade...

a battle of production," he contended.

"Germany is on the threshold of

Goering emphasised the German preparedness for war and claimed that the Relch Government has seven million tons of wheat and grain stored in reserve.

"We Are Not Starving" "We are not starving," he declared, "We have not got too much, but we certainly shall not starve,"

Oficials refused to disclose from whence the broadcast was made. Goering began his speech at 0.15 p.m. "German form men and women, before every great batile our watch- word has been given.

"We think of Frederick the Great's watchwords before his great battles.

men and women stand on the thres- hold

battle of production. I am now giving you the watchword for battle," he said.

"Sparks" Sent Out S.O.S. Although the ground is frozen you

Until Ship Sank LONDON, Feb. 16 (Reuter), -The skipper of the 12,000 ton

He asserted that England fecis insecure,

Maybe, they say, Russia may steamer Sultan Star, aunk by a "It is ironic that Englund's fat and DRIFTING MINE abandon all attempts to crash through U-boat (itself immediately after bacon cards give smaller ration

SIGHTED

Not since the fierce battles of last described the Wireless Operator, Police

Another mine was seen this morn- ing by tho Cheung Chau Station.

A fisherman made a report when he saw the mine drifting towards the shore 'at Cheung Rock.

The naval authorities have been

Below wo publish

the first of a now serica of photo-

graphs, specially taken by Norman Soong, of Hongkong's defonco preparations.

photographs will appear daily in the "Telegraph".

Those

ONE OF THE BIG coast defence guns that will defend Hongkong in event of an enemy attack. Cleaning is a job for more than a dozen kuskies,

HEADQUARTERS of the China Command, nerve centre of Britain's defences in the Far East,

FIFTH U-BOAT BELIEVED SUNK

of

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” LONDON, Feb. 15 (UP).-The destruction at least four U-Boats-the best bag of the

December have the Russian at-P. G. Windsor, as the bravest has been

ng been built up on Injustice and war-is Britain's reply to Nazi threats.

tacked Taipale with such force they used yesterday, but Finnish artillery and machine-gun 'nests took heavy tall as they repulsed the In- vaders.

man he had ever seen.

violence.

News of the Navy's excellent work has been received enthusiastically in London.

Blitzkrieg: All The Latest

German Offensive In

Mid-March?

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Feb. 16 (Domei).- Germany's much heralded "Blitzkrieg" is to start in mid- March.

At least, that is the latest date set by the man-in-the-street in Berlin, who is somewhat be- wildered at the constant promises that such-and-such-a- date will be "Der Tag".

There Arc indications, however, that Hitler may.Indeed.be.preparing to launch his spring offensive within the next three or four weeks.

Reservists are being called Lip throughout the country and Germany has now extended mobilisation to. Austria.

Omeiat cireles claim that the rear- ganisation of the German air force is now completed. They assert that German factorles are now producing 2,000 warplanes a month, as com- pared with the Allied monthly pro-. duction of 1,500 planes,

Soldiers' Leave Cancelled

All leave for soldierw has been cancelled as from to-day, and

PLEASE Turn To Pago 2.

LATEST

INSPECTOR

IN BOX

Evidence Against European Closed

#

Further evidenco was given this afternoon in the case in which LL Parkinson, of the Hongkong `Volun- teer Defence Corps, is charged be- fore Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy with the manslaughter of Wong

a 9 year old Chinese boy, while driving his car, No. 550, along Bonham Road on December 23. The Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada Jr., instructed by Mr. D. L. Strellct, is appearing for the prosecution while Mr. E. H. Williams, Crown Counsel in prosecuting pasisied by Traffic

the Mannerheim Line and will con-wards destroyed) in the Atlantic than the Germans," he declared and centrale their overwhelming forces) on Wednesday, on the arrival of added that millions of tons of British for flank attncits.

food

reserves "lie on the sea bottom survivors in England yesterday around England."

that the British Empire

They fooled us in 1918 "but never "As adon as we were hil in a vulnerable spol," he said, "I ordered again," he said. Sparks to send out an S.Ó.S; call and

Morning newspapers publish pictures of U-Boat in the face of imminent peril he con- Although the Russians abandoned tinued to send out message after mes-

BERLIN, Feb. 15 (Reuter)—In a survivors arriving under military escort, leading to the the Summa | sago. LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter)-Mr. their frontal attack In Augustus John, who resigned from sector, they made some important The ship was gradually slipping broadcast to agricultural workers to-

down backwards into the water as doy, Marshal Goering said that the belief that a fifth U-Boat has been destroyed nearer home,

extreme cold winter has caused since no mention was made of survivors in the Admiralty inspector Saunders. she was rapidly Ming up astern. un a protest against the Academy's' offensive.

"When the stern was completely Germany great trouble but spring will under water with the bows high in demand great labour from all Ger-announcement of the carlier

sinkings. the air, I warned Sparks that he must man farmers. take his chance by abandoning with

Informed.

the Royal Academy in April, 1938, gains during the last stages of their

rejection of a portrait by Wyndhamn! It is confirmed that the Finne were Lewis, was to-day re-elected a Royal PLEASE Turn To Pago 2.

Academician.

BRITAIN TO CALL UP ANOTHER 200,000 MEN

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH". LONDON, Feb, 15' (UP),—It is officially learned that all the saged 23 will be called up next Saturday.

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Tho total is approximately 250,000 but this number is expected to be reduced to 200,000 by the exemption of those in reserved occupa tiona.

Men of 23 years of age will be the first of five classes which aro lable to be called up this year. It is expected that those aged 27 will be called up about November.

It is officially stated that the army has risen from 600,000 to -over 1,200,000 during the year ending January 31.

Record Crops

"Although frost still binds," he said,

įduce

"He thinks himself entitled ta

which we cannot pro-issue decrees backed by threats, not

We cannot be de-

New Details Of Epic Encounter Disclosed

FOUGHT GRAF SPEE

IN THEIR PYJAMAS

LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter) —Commander Robert R. Gra- ham, of H.M.S. Exeter, who still carries 16 pieces of shrapnel impression of the battle was the way the men behaved, parti- cularly the wounded who were "really magnificent.”...

the rest of the crew, but he insisted "you are in the midst of preparations The "Daily Herald" interprets on staying at the transmitter until for a new battle of production."

Goering said that the last two Germany's announcement of un- he was certain that the messages had

on years had brought record crops, restricted warfare neutral been picked up. And he did.

When he left the wireless cabin, Germany had increased her produc- shipping as evidence of the ex- the funnel was already under water ton of fats and the consumption of tension of Hitler's megalomanin, with Just the 'edgo lying on the meat had risen. surface. The ship was half-rb- "We have Inld in amplo stocks of merged.

raw materials "We had given up hope of seeing him again when sho appeared about fented

he to plunge, but after contacting a

tary

to the peoples of the whole world." Britishs warship he appeared on the port side and jumped for it. muny had

Retribution For Murderers. a reserve, of 7,000,000

"We had expected grout things the Commander had a shrapnel. "In less than a minute, the Sultan metric tons of wheat,

OSLO, Feb. 15. (Reutor)-Accord of them, but their behaviour wound in his face and other injuriem Star hind foundered.”

Speaking about the scarcity of coal, Gooring and

Both Legs that Germany had ing to the Bergen "Aftenblad", a U was far more wonderful than to his leg NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (Reuter) ample coal but the German railways boat blew up and sank, apparently on oven we could conceive," he said, ad The Diamond Shouls 1ghtship of wore

struggling with enormous the result of action by a Bridal Commander Gratiam added that Lieut. Commander Smith, the Tor

PLEASE Turn To Page 2, Capo Hatteras went adrift at 0.55 p.m. dimeuitler. Many tanks were frozen, destroyer, before it could fire a tor during the action Liey came within pedo Officer, speaking of the bravery

* PLEASE Tum To Raja 2.8,000 yurtia of the Ciraf Spee.250 5.S.T. on Wednesday. It la still loote, PLEASE Turin To Para 2

Ally or in the mill only to apply to German people, but in his body from the River Plate action, said that his lasting

end. then claimed that Ger-