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四拜禮 辦二十月二英港香 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1940. BE
Reds Advance On Viborg In Two Columns
DECISIVE
BATTLE
SAID IMMINENT
Farr Unfit Battle Of The Somme' May Decide
For Military
Service!
LONDON, Feb, 21 (Reu- ter)Laughter greeted a statement made by Sir Kingsley Wood in the House of Commons to-day to the effect that the famous boxer, Tommy Farr, had been released from military duty because he was found on medical examination to be below the required .standard.
When it
was suggested
that Tommy Farr must be fit because he was already staging a £20,000 purse fight for the heavyweight championship of the world, Sir Kingley Wood reiterat- ed that Farr was not up to the required standards for service.
Fate Of Finland's Second City
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
"UNITED PRESS" STAFF CORRESPONDENT
MOSCOW, FEB. 21 (UP).—THE MOST IMPORTANT BATTLE OF THE RUSSO-FINNISH War is belieVED TO BE IMMINENT IN THE VIBORG SECTOR.
The Russians are reported to be mopping up the Finnish left flank and advancing in two columns on a steadily narrowing salient.
The latest reports state they have taken up positions at Somme and Sanjie-six and four miles respectively south of Viborg.
SUCCESS BY FRIDAY
Russian war correspondents to-day hinted at the Soviet's confidence of success on or before the Red Army anniversary on Friday.
"Tass," the official Soviet news agency, states. that the Red Army. has made itself familiar with the terrain and fighting conditions.
The Soviet press to-day gave great prominence to a "Tass" dispatch saying that the Red Army "has now decided to break the Mannerheim Line-a drive that
Allied Navies Tighten presages the end of the Finnish war." Grip Off Scandinavia
The dispatch is date-lined Kovno and states: "Mili- tary experts are saying that the Mannerheim is as strong
a
as the Siegfried or Maginot lines and its destruction is a SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ·
military point of view." BERGEN, Feb. 21 (UP).-Coastal observers here most difficult task from report that ships of British and German nationality are *************
|standing offshore.
The German steamer Wiegand-
DETAINED (9,000 tons) is attempting to re-
BRITONS
Japanese Action Is Queried In House
. LONDON, Feb. 21 (Reuter).
In the House of Commons to- day, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under
i
float the grounded Altmark in toessing Fjord.
The Allied naval control around Scandinavian neutral waters has been tightened with a closer surveillance naval and merchant German
the
Dif Waters
the shipping in Norwegian coast.
Reliable sources stote that the Allied fleets are watching not only German maritime movements off the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, re- Norwegian coast but
alsa ported the recent arrests of operating around the northern tip of; Norway and Arelle, waters as far as Britons in Japan.
The Rev. F. E. Watts, an Australian,
Petsamo.
are
In charge of the Kobe branch of the This tightened control, they state, Mission to Seamen; 11. J. Griffiths, of is the direct result of the Altmarke the Arm of J. L. Thompson and Co.; Incident.
and V. O. Peters had been detainedj The operations of the Allied fleets) by the Japanese Police since January are to multe certain that no further; 17, he disclosed.
violations of neutral waters will occur; for Germany's bencft.
No Precise Charges The precise nature of the charges against them was not yet ometally specified.
His Majesty's Consul-General at Kobe had twice visited the Rev. Watts and Mr. Griffiths and reported that they were in reasonably good health,
It had not yet been possilale for him to visit Mr. Peters.
Viscount Halifax was in consiani communication with Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador to Tokyo, on developments in these
cases.
The French Premier is expected to inform his Council of Ministers that the Allies have agreed not to tolerate my weakening of the neutrals en-
for of respect
their torcement neutrality by all belligerent powers.
Slight Activity On West Front
PARIS, Feb. 21 (Reuter).-A few small exchangeu of artillery fire be- tween easemates on the Rhine are
Vote Of Confidence reported by the French military
faulliorfiles to-day.
front, French
STOCKHOLM, Feb, 21 (Router) — On the Vosges The Parliament here to-day gave the batteries opened fire on some German Prime Minister an expression of con-working parties. fidence in his foreign polley.
Fog prevented nir netivity.
NAZI BATTLESHIP IN
BEGINNING
ON SATURDAY
Finnish Claims To-day's officil Finnish com- munique states that there was heavy fighting in the Summa and Taipale sectors on Tuesday when the Finns repulsed. all Russian attacks.
The Telegraph Taipale where two Russian divisions
announces a new series of articles on
It said the fighting was heaviest at
made a joint attack.
were
The communique confirmed that 17 Russian planes
shot down yesterday, while two others are re- ported to have been destroyed but the
THE WAR ports cannot be confirend.
written by Somerset Maugham, the famous British novelist and playwright whoso works havo bcen translated into almost every language.
MR. SOMERSET MAUGH- AM'S ARTICLES WILL DEAL WITH HIS IMPRES- SIONS OF THE WAR
Six Others Crash
Further reports siate that an ad- ditional six Russian raiders crashed, making a possible total of 25 Russian planes lost
to-day In the course of widespread raids bombed Hango and the Russions several other towns. It is alleged that they raided the towns repeatedly, strafing a children's home and a pas- senger plane.
The communique added that at Kuhmo the Finns repulsed # Rua sian attempt to send reinforcements to surround the Finnish detachment. Fall At Koivisto Doniad SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” HELSINGFORS, Feb. 21 (UP),— The distinguish-
The Finns officially deny the Soviet ed hovelist has just claim to the capture of Koivisto, completed an extended) which guards the southern end of tour of France, in the the Mannerhelm Line. The guns course of which ho has this fortress town played an impor- tant part in resisting the Soviet ad- soon overy aspect of vanco, the French war offort;|| "North-cast of Kolviato the Reds His articles will appear have extended the attack right across exclusively in
this the Isthmus,
East of the Isthmus the Finns pre newspaper.
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ONE Of the many pill-boxes that do the rocky coast of the Island. machine-gunners is going to its post..
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A section of
156 Lost Aboard Hongkong Destroyer
Complete Casualty List Of H.M.S. Daring
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON. Feb. 21 (UP).— The Admiralty has announced that the total casualties aboard the destroyer Daring amounted to 156.
The list under Missing, Be- lieved to be Drowned, includes the nameg of nine officers, among whom is Commander S. A. Cooper, 145 personnel and two members of the staff of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institute,
The names of Officers listed in ad- dition to Commander Cooper ore
Midshipman J. L. Coleman, Guo- nor Omeer W. IL Easton, Surgeon Lleut, G. Kearney, Sub-Licut. L. G. M. Potts, Midshipman A. V
L. Pumfrey, and Lieutentants P. Rober
P. C. Gordon and W. J. K.
of Ratinge who The casualty list
Includes:-
PLACARD FOUND in all posts in the Colony reads: "Re-re missing, believed to be drowned member that the enemy is always trying to find out what hap- pens at this posi."
Scores of Incendiary
in Bombs on Swedish Town
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 21 (UP),.-The Swedish Foreign | Office has instructed Its Minister to Moscow to protest claimed to have been thrown back on against the hombing of the Swedish town of Pajala, a town' of roughly 2,000 inhabitants located in the Tornea River valley about five miles from the Finnish border.
the ice of Lake Suvanto,
Karelian Offensivo
HELSINGFORS, Feb. 21 (Reuter)
གཟི་སྐོར
F. W. Amor, G. W. Armstrong, F. B. AshBol
J. Burry, D. P. Ben A. E. Bellis, A, H. Penson, Reginald Beery, A ̈G. Devon, Duran Blair, F. Á Boggeln, L. W. Brown, R. N. Byng, J. C. Cameron, J. H, Cameron, P. H. W. Campbell, F. G. Card; Kenneth PLEASE Turn To Pago 7.
LATEST
European Child Falls To Death
THE SIX-YEAR-OLD'son of Mr.
The Mayor of Palala, Mr. George Taubs, told the "United- Press" by telephone to-day that 30 explosive bombs and "Hun- dreds of Incendiarles" were dropped on the town from a height and Mrs. Lent, of 5 Cap Rond, jextremely clear and visibility was Happy Valley, crashed eighty feet to his death yesterday when he over- jexcollent.
Mayor's Broadcast
balanced from the roof of his home. The Mayor has since made a radio]
According to a report to the
A Finnish communique reporte more Soviet attacks in the Karelian Isthmus. 11 claims that the attacks were repulsed with heavy Soviet Round-Up Made By losses and that numerous tanks were of 2,000 feet.
destroyed. Stockholm Polica
The Finnish air force several times SOUTH ATLANTIC
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 21 (Router).-effected reconnaissance fights behind MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 21 (Itcuter).—A Nazi pocket battle. A British subject, Donald William troops and concentration Chemy
Beach, was one of five men who ap- ship, either tre Deutschland or the Admiral Scheer, Is now in peared in a Stockholm court to-day enemy planes were shot down.
In the course of air battles, 17 the South Atlantle waiting to attack merchant ships and avenge on a charge of espionage. the Fraf Spee, according to the newspaper, "El Pueblo," which quotes an "authoritative source."
The other four accused are of
The newspaper assumes that the German cargo-boat, Lalın, Swellsh nationality.
DUTCH FIRE ON
which recently louded coal and left ostensibly for Buenos Airea trained as wireless telegraphist FOREIGN PLANES
will act as supply ship for the pocket battleship.
To Run British. Blockade
L
Bench told the court that he was
[during the last wor, after which he was for some time working as a ship's
THE HAGUE, Feb. 21 (Reuter) from Bahin, Brazil, with a $1,000,000 wireless operator.
Dutch anti-aircraft batteries opened targo, according to a "New York NEW YORK, Ecb. 21 (Reuter)-Times" despatch from Rio de Janeiro. After preliminary proceedings, the Are on foreign plines of an unknown The German 14,000-ton freighter. The ship's captain declares that he public were excluded from the court-nationality near Den Helden during Antonio Delilno, do ready to sailwill not permit her capture,
the night, it is officially announced."
room.
DC.
NO CIVILIANS KILLED "A bomb badly damaged the church, completely destroyed broadest over the Swedish network. police, the child, Thomas Lent, was three houses and set fire to He said Afteen explosive and more playing on the roof of the building,
than one hundred Incendiary bombs, the ground floor of which la others which are still burning," were dropped, the latter dropping in cupled by his parents. he anid. "The explosions shat- the most populated part of the town. By some means ho clambered up
The broadenst hold there were tered the windows in all housed, dead and no wounded and that the ently climbing down again when he
no on to the parapet, and was appar The Town Sherlft sold no etvilians church was not hit
overbalanced and fell," The planes apparently few over This chilil was dend when he was were killed, although it is believed
the city once only and then dis- many are wounded,
*** picked up. TA appeared.
ond Reporta He said that seven Russian planes
from Haparanda apparently lost their bearings and Torrens state that dir raid alarms bombed Pajala Instead of a similar were sounded at noon, what is! lown on the Finnish side of the believed to have been the same rald-
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