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THE HOUSEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER

Joan BENNETT Adolphe MENJOU

PEGGY WOOD JOHN HUBBARD WILLIAM GARGAN DONALD MEEK

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 27, 1940.

Finns Have A Name For It-"Molotov's Basket"

STALIN'S SECRET AIR

WEAPON IS

By JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES "Evening Standard" Special Correspondent on the

Finnish War Front

HELSINGFORS.

ONE of the latest achievements of the Russian air force has been to spray a small village and rural arca, three miles long and 300 yards wide, with near- ly a thousand incendiary bombs, then aim high ex- plosives on an adjacent steel factory, missing it by a quarter of a mile.

IN

Photographs have recently appeared of Russia's first "secret weapon" to be tried in Finland. It is already christened "Molotov's breadbasket" by the Finns.

It is an iron cylinder, 7ft, 6in. long, 3ft. in diameter, and is packed with a hundred or more ordinary incendiary bomba.

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The Rushuns in the rald on this village between Aabo and Hangoe

houses. Most Incendiary bombs Ginzed away uselessly on the ground.

It calculated that 30 per cent. failed to lie, which suggests Russlan Incendiary bombs are better than the Italian and Ger. man, which In Spain averged four out of five faltures,

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Despite the Reds' poor results, the realistic Finns

In "Molotov's breadbasket one of the greatest. menaces of the future.

is ideal in summer for burning- lange

tracts of forest and wooden houses at forest

workers.

With their amazing power of mak- ing an ally of Nature, the Finns are altendy preparing for the dangers of the dry season Great firebreaks are being prepared and a magnificent Are-fighting organisation perfected.

But no Finn would deny that the major tragedy of the destruction of! the world's finest timber reserves is inevitable unless before the forests dry they have suflelent lighters to prevent "Molotov's brendbaskets" being dropped indiscriminately.

No "Deliverors"

I am already learning that, con-

trary to my expectations before I

USE

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TRADESMEN of Swin- don, Wiltshire, decided to give a dinner and entertain- mant to troops quartored

locally.

But they could think of no way of including sentries unable to leave their posts.

Thon six officers came to tho rescue. Thoy agreed to do guard duty for six hours to release the men.

FRENCH WOMEN AID FINLAND

Many French women have volunteered to aid Finland General Max Weygand, who retired as Commander-in- Chiat of the French army in 1935, is shown prosenting a flag to the head of a feminine Motor Ambulance Corps, about to leave France for Finland,

came here, workers regard this as Secret Weapon For Balloon Barrage

more their war in classes

of the community.

This village the Russians bombed'

is purely a factory colony, organised | under

benevolent and paternal pitalism, which seems the chief feature of the present stage of Fin- land's development. Ten of its fifteen councillors are Social Demo- crats, yet the chairman is the factory director.

Houses, the hospital, the church. the school the police are all the property of the factory company. who pay families half-wages

MORE DANGEROUS

THAN SKY BARRIER

BRITAIN'S balloon barrage has a secret weapon. This makes it far moe dangerous to enemy aircraft

wherever a man is at the front and than a mere barrier in the skies.

supply rent-free houses.

The Russians must be very 11-

But how the barrage has been made lethal in the fullest sense informed if they imagine that these of the word is a "hush-hush" matter. workers, whose homes they are It can, however, be stated that the weapon does not consist bombing-regard them ns "dell-

of machine-gunners concealed in pockets in the balloon or of electrical charges in the wire.

verers.

LATE NEWS

Many people believe that a balloon crew's life is a monoton-

ous one.

Actually it is full of excitement. When a gale springs up the floppy mass which on the ground looks a dejected. elephant becomes a malignant monster with which the crew has to wrestle.)

Frequently the crew has to turn out on rain-swept nights to control their balloon.

The massive winches, which weigh some tons, are lifted bodily off the ground by the force of some gales.

One was lifted by a gale some that when the war alarm came, every 50yds, to the edge of a cliff, over-balloon went up without mishap. looking a senside town.

Methods are being sought to make Accidents to aircraft in the bne-balloons less vulnerable to lightning TEKU

already have

given the and to prevent damage caused by authorities valuable Information on the trailing cables when balloons what is likely to happen to low-break adrift. fying Nazi ratders,

As If By A Razor

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At present it is a red letter day for the pilet of a fighter plane when he is ordered up to shoot down n One civil plane which crashed into balloon which has broken loose. the barrage had a wing cut off as if

Escaping balloons are easily and by a mizor.

speedily repaired,

It has been established that the modern steel propeller cannot sever the balloon's hawser.

Nor is there likely to be a repeti- tion of the disastrous event of 1017, when a big German bomber flew Into the primitive balloon barrage which then existed and, instead of damag- ing itself, brought the whole barrage to the ground in a tangled mass of} wires.

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Presentations By British Forty-Six Countries To

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brought forward from last year and Two escaped German balloons from which sum has to be deducted

$130,191.25 in respect of Interim LHASA, Feb. 28 (Reuter),—Gifts, NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (Router).— have drifted to this country. One dividend paid, leaving $490,845.05 including a silk scarf, a bar of gold Thirty-two countries, Including landed at Edinburgh and the other for appropriation, be dealt with us and bags of silver, were prosented Great Britain, Czecho-Slovakia and

on the Norfolk coast. them Indicates that

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the Germans

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have no secrets in their barrage of pay a final dividend of $1

which we are not aware.

Mobility is one of the features of the barrage. Within

per share on 251,430 'old chores twenty-four Pay a final dividend of 50 cents each on 41,003 new shares

hours of the first German attack on the Firth of Forth a complete balloon

| barrage' had been rushed from an- Pay

other part of Scotland and was in position 'over the Firth.

1 No Mishaps Then

It is disclored that up to the out break of war nonts of the provincial balloon crews had any practicat ex- perlence of flying their `balloons. ¡

But they had learned their lesson so well from lectures 'and text-books

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to the Dalul Lama on behalf of the Finland, have hitherto accepted Fre- British Government, here to-day by sident's invitation to participate in the World's Fair this year, it is an- Mr. Gould.

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The Dalai Lama received the Mis- slon seated on the throne of the Potala Palace with the Regent and 20,052.60 other notabice attending. -

02,867,50

Members of the Mission ascended the steps of the throne in single flo and saluted.

It is added that acceptances from? 14 others are on the way. This will make a total of 48 countries exhibit- ing compared with 01 in 1030.

Mr.Whalen wald: Bellains had officially necepted despite the Fair Corporation's refusal to finance or help to finance her exhibito

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the Mission members, who 50,000.00

the toured

streets city 05 307.02

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