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'February 27, 1940.

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

STALIN'S SECRET AIR

WEAPON IS IN

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 area, 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.

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. Gin. long, 3ft. in diameter, and is packed with a hundred or more! ordinary incendiary bombs.

The Russians in the raid on this village between Aabo and Hangoe succeeded in burning down only 20 houses. Most. Incendiary bombs blosed away uselessly on the ground.

It is calculated that 30 per cent, failed to Irnite, which · gurgenta | Russlan Incendiary bombs are) better than the Italian and Ger- man, which in Spain averred four out of five failures.

Despite the Reds' poor results, the realistic Fluns sce In "Molotova breadbasket one of the greatest menaces of the future,

It is ident in summier for burning! large tracts of forest and wooden houses of forest warkets.

With their amazing power of mak- ing an ally of Nature, the Finns, are afrendy preparing for the dangers of the dry senson Great Arebreaks are being prepaired and a magnificent fire-ighting organisation perfected.

But no

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 sufficient fighters to

event "Molotov's breadbaskets". Being dropped indiscriminately,

No "Deliverers"

1 am, already learning that, con- trary to my expectations befure 1 eume here, workers regard this as more their war than other, classes of the community.

This village the Russians bombed is. purely a factory colony, organised under benevolent and paternal capitalism, which seems chief

the

USE

OFFICERS

OBLIGE

TRADESMEN of Swin-. don, Wiltshire, decided to give a dinner and entertain- ment to troops quartered

locally.

But they could think of no way of including sentrios. unable to leave their posts. Then six officers came to the rescuo. They agreed

to do guard duty for six hours to release the man.

FRENCH WOMEN. AID FINLAND

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

Busy Day For The Economic

4

The King

feature of the present stage of Fin- Prosents Awards, Tours

trand's development. Ten ol its

fifteen councillors are Social Demo-

crats, yet the chairman is the factory director.

Naval Yard

War Front

How Germany Is Affected

LONDON, Feb. 20 (British Wire- Louden assess the value per month less).-Qualified economie observers

LONDON, Feb. 26 (Reuter).. Houses, the hospital, the church,Their Majesties the King and the school the police are all the Queen stood on the quayside at property of the factory company, who DAY familles

an East Coast port to-day and of German exports affected by Allied half-wages wherever a man is at the front and talked with five men who were reprisal measures at between

forty supply rent-free houses.

rescued from Altmark.

und fifty million reichsmarks. The Russians must be very -

This is the value of Gennan exports informed if they Imagine that these: Looking little worse for their ex-which cannot be diverted from sen workers, whose homes they are perience, the men laughed and joked routes. Coal for Italy and engineer- bombing-regard--them-as;~"deli- about their imprisonment."

ing and chemical products for the Far His Majesty the King also visited East, Latin America and the Iberian a dockyard in the cast of Scotland Peninsula are among the items affect

ed in this connection. and decorated eight more naval heroes Including Commander L A. E. Export Losses Likely Boswell who received the D.S.O. and Reduction of German exports Licut. Commander D. L. Sammerez also considered likely to curtail im who was given the Distinguished Ser-rts of lead, nickel, tin and copper vice Cross,

volued at over five million reicha marks per month as well as Imports

petroleum and rubber.

verers."

LATE NEWS

For Gallantry

133

The view is taken that this situation Details of the deeds done by the will force some important branches of recipients of these honours were not the armaments industry to reduce announced but each award was given both the quality and quantity of their for gallantry.

utput.

Wearing the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, His Majesty the King after-

wards boarded a worship and inspect- NAZI CONCESSION

مواد

ed an establishment where 500 ap- prentices are being trained 13 artificers. He

visited an aerodrome which is the training station for the Fleet Air Arm where

TO RED CROSS

BERLIN, Feb. 20 (Netter). It is

he Inspected u parade Air Force announced that the German Govern- oflcers and men, naval officers and ment has given the American Red the Women's Royal Naval Service.

Japan And The Dutch E. I

New Treaty Reported Contemplated

Crosa permission to carry out relief work in the "territory of the Govern- ment General" of Poland.

Representatives of the American organisation will be allowed to enter this territory to distribute supplies from America in conjunction with the.German. Red Cross.

These supplies will be admitted duty free and at reduced transport charges.

The territory Indicated excludes Pomerania. Posen and Upper Silesia, which were annexed to the Reich after the September "Blitzkrieg"

Finns Back-Stage War Effort

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH'' TOKYO, Feb. 20 (Domel)--Con- siderable interest is being displayed in on article in the London "Sunday. Times"

, claiming that Japan is nego- tiating with the Netherlands for a new and comprehensive treaty' which will not only define relations between the two countries but will also em The Swedish Trade Union Congress body a clear-cut Japanese denuncia has appealed to workers to help tion of territorial ambitions in the Finland by civilian work behind the Netherlands East Indies.

STOCKHOLM, Feb, 20 (Reuter).

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Gifts For New World's Fair

Dalai Lama

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Participate

Presentations By British Forty-Six Countries To

Mission

LHASA, Feb. 26 (Rauter)~~GILLS, NEW YORK, Feb, 20 (Reuter).

countries, A spokesman of the Foreign Offee lines, and several thousand workers including a silk scarf, a bar of gold Thirty-two

Including have already stated to-day that negotiations have several hundred thousand people to the Dalai Lama on behalf, of the Finland, have hitherto accepted Pre- while and bags of silver, were presented Great Britain, Czecho-Slovakia and not yet commenced, but admitted that there was a possibility that they have decided to give Finland a day's British Government here to-day by sident's invitation to participate In would open within a few weeks.

wages every month,

The Government has asked. Parlia- ment to vote 1,000,000 kroner to en- able Swedish hospitala to care for some thousand wounded, shortly arriving from Finland,

What Nazis Call Warfare

Wire-

LONDON, Feb. 28 (British less)In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. R. A. Butler stated that since the outbreak of war to Feburary

Mr. Gould.

the World's Fair this year, it is un- nounced by Mr. Grover Whalen, Pres The Dalai Lama received the Missident of the Fair. sion seated on the throne of the It is added that acceptances from Fotala Palace with the Regent and 14 others are on the way. This will other notables attending....

make a total of 40 countries oxhibit- Members of the Mission ascended ing compared with 61 in 1939. the steps of the throne in single mcially accepted despite the Fair Ma Mr. Whalen kald Britpin had

BOMBAY STRIKE and saluted.

AVERTED.

After the presentation of the gifts Corporation's refusal to finance or with the British Government's formal help to finance her exhibit. felicitations," the Dalai Lama bløssed toured the city the Mission members, who later were lighted with blazing faggots and

streets which crowded with merry-makers.

AHMEDABAD, Feb, 25. (Router) 22, there had been 128 cases of un-The strike has been averted by an armed British merchant ships and appeal by the Governor, of Bombay fishing vessels being attacked by to employers and workers who agreed enemy alicraft.

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