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PROSPECTS

OF PEACE

Finnish Loaders May Oppose Unjust Terms

STOCKHOLM, Mar. 4 (Reu- ter).The possibility of peace proposals being advanced for the Finnish war as soon as the Rus sians have entered Viborg und speculation about the political situation in Finland are occupy- ing the close attention of foreign diplomatic circles here to-day.

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The internal political situation in Finland is now considered to be least as important As the military situation.

The position appears to be that not only German but many Scandinavian circles would like to see peure made in Finland.

Bat it is believed that Field Mar- Army shal Mannerheim and the leaders would resolutely oppose any proposal to make peace on terms 17- which they have regarded as satisfactory.

OBITUARY

Dr. Karl Muck Passes Away

Conductor Who Was

Intorned In 1917

STUTTGART, Mar. 4 (Reu- ter). The death is announced here of Dr. Karl Muck, the famous German conductor.

Born at Wurzburg nearly 61 years ago, Dr. Muck took an early interest In muske. When 11 years of age, ho took part as a planist in chamber music concerts and as a violinist in symphony concerts.

He attended Heidelberg University from which he Inter went to Leipzig to study philosophy and the classics, at the same fine taking lessons at the Conservatoire.

At the age of 20, he made his debut as a solo planist at the famous Leipzig

Gewandhaus concerts.

ile then become a chorus director at Zurich Town Theatre from which he

SHANKHORE

A BOMBING SQUADRON SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE

sistent

FRENCH airmen ready to take off on a bombing flight over Germany from a base "Somewhere

In France."--Domei.

Dramatic Stories of B.I. Liner Outrage. Told By Survivors: Two Women Among 100 Missing From The Domala

RESCUE LINER STRAFED

AND BOMBED BY

Neutrals Attacked

went to Salzburg as conductor at the Dutch Ships-Are-

theatre,

In 1880 he was appointed first con- ductor at the German Theatre in' Prague, He frequently visited. Berlin: and in 1801 was made first conductor at the Royal Opern there and later was appointed director-general of the Court Opera at Munich.

Chief Victims

1

NAZIS

LONDON, Mar. 4 (Reuter).-It is officially stated that of the 295 aboard the B.I. steamer Domala, which was bombed in the English Channel on Saturday, 100 are missing.

Those missing are made up

19 European officers, 36 native Terew and 45 native passengers. There were 143 native passengers altogellier..

Among the missing are only two women, both stewardesses, who are belleved Lo have been killed instantly by the explosion.

Attacked Dutch Ship

The Dutch ship, Jonger Wilhelm,

His great success there was cut with a cargo of cani from England presumably by the same one.

BLANKETED BY FOG

CARVE UP

OF POLAND

Russo-Nazi Commission Completos Work

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPk"

MOSCOW, Mar. 4 (UP)-It is announced that the Soviet- German Border Commission has Fcompleted the demarcation of the

boundary in Poland.

The Commisalon was set up 012 October & last year pursuant with the Soviet German Treaty. It operated from six cities with Sub-Commissions The men each. consisting of 100 boundary is formed by 820 posts one kilometre apart.

The Cominission is now drawing up maps and drafting a special frontier pact and a convention re- river. Rulating border traße and navigation.

3,000 Border Posts MOSCOW, Mar, 4 (Reuter).—The mixed Soviet-German Durder Com- mission set up on October 5 last year to demarcate Soviet-German frontler has now finished Ita survey.

Nearly 3,000 border posts have been driven in.

The new frontier now has to be ratified by both governments.

German Coal For Italy

Blockade Already In Operation

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEORAPH" - LONDON, March 4 (UP), Italy's protest against the coal blockade appears to be approach- ing a "show down."*

Dispatches from Rotterdam state about 30,000 tons of German cool sulled for Italy to-day.

that Ave Halfan cargo ships carrying

The Ministry of Economie Warfare announces that German coal ships leaving port after midnight on March I would be detained.

British authorities have The promised careful and quick consi- derntion of the Italian protest but they have emphasised that Britain's rights under International-Law..can- not be waived.

Nature Anticipates

The connection between the coal To-night's Blackout controversy and the suspension of the SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Anglo-Italian trade negotiations has AMSTERDAM, Mar. 4 (UP).—Re-

To-night's air raid black-out not been clarified but British sourcer parts from

Iwo Ostend state that

agreement being reached in connection with the Dutch coastal vessels, the De Ruyter which pleked up the survivors of the was anticipated by nature by are hopeful of an

from Scheveningen and B., steamer, was herself attacked by about twelve hours to-day when British desires for Italian war sup- In 1012, he went to America to (310 tons)

the Limburg (345 tons) from a Nazl plane half an hour earlier, the harbour and surrounding piles. direct the Boston Symphony Orch Terneuzen, have arrived at Ostend

Rapid Consideration As in the case of the Domula, the neighbourhood were blanketed

LONDON, Mar, 4 (Reuter)--It was plane

in the half-darkness by heavy fog.

For several hours up to 8 o'clock stated in London to-day In connee- The report said warplane of un-flying low overhead with navigation

this morning the fog was so dense in lion with Italy's protest over the In 1919 he returned to Germany known nationality machine gunned lights fall on.

The Dutch ship similarly took the the harbour that ferry services were stoppage of German coal exports that where he continued his work. Three both shipa sizortly after their de- years later he was appointed director parture from England but neither Heinkel bomber for a British plane delayed and other craft were forced the Note received a most rapid and of the Philharmonie

in suffered much damage and there were but discovered its mistake when a to feel their way cautiously, guided careful consideration ond the British

bomb dropped only 20 feet away. by streng. no casualties. Hamburg.

The plane then dived repeatedly, Wreckage Found

sweeping the decks with its machine- guns.

tra. short by the outbreak of the war and Inter, when America declared war, he was interned.

concerts

Our Guide To The Cinema

destined for Belgium.

AMSTERDAM, Mar. 4 (Reuter) The Dutch steamer, Rijnstrom, of 095 tons, which left the Downs yesterday for Amsterdam, has failed to arrive. and it is regarded as certain that she

been sunk. has

"Huckleberry Finn" (Blajestic). Mickey Rooney, as the hero of Mark Twain's story, in his adventures with A fe-boat, life-belts and a quan- the runaway slave, the two confdenco tity of merchandise, believed to be- men, the riverboat captain, and the long to her, were found foating. Kentle meldens, whom he rescued from

It is hoped that the crew of 12

the awindlers. The lynching that be prevented by reappearing in time to have escaped in the ship's other boat.

prove that he had not been murdered in

the climax of the picture. With Walter

Connolly, Willam Frawley, Rex Ingram and Lynn Carver.

36 Hours On Raft

Three survivors of the crew of five

of the small Dutch coastal vessel,

seep

Road Traffic Affected

Government will be as accommodat-

ing as possible in view of the friend- relations existing between the two countries.

ly

At the same time, In view of Ger-

must not be assumed that Britain must waive the rights and Interests ishe mabitains under International

Law.

Road trafle was also affected and Fortunately there were no casual-go slow" become automatic with! drivers, A slight drizzle did not add ties.

Four other Dutch ships have to the general comfort, the road sur-many's indiscriminate sea warfare it

made extremely slippery faces being been attacked in the North Sea. and difficult to negotiate, addition to the 2,249-ton Schieland

It is believed that shipping will be and two smaller boats, they in-held up outside of the harbour. cluded a Dutch coastal vessel, The fog, not very prevalent which was bombed. The Captain phenomenon in Hongkong, followed and engineer were killed. The yesterday's freak hullstorm in Kok

three survivors have landed at a British port after being afloat on a raft for 36 hours.

loon.

According to the weather forecast Hongkong during the next 24 hours will experience light east and south- Graphie stories of the rescue of the cast winds. It will be cloudy with

Graphic Storics

SHOTS AT CUBAN DICTATOR

"Made for Each Other" (Oriental)Elziena, which was the vletim of an victims of the Domala outrage were;fog, and probably there will be, some were fred from a car to-day at the

A glimpse, comie an well at wistful, of

the trials of a young married couple, attack by n Starring James Blawart Lombard.

German bomber, were and Carole landed at a north-east coast port in England to-day after 36 hours at sea on a raft.

EVADED POSTAL

CENSORSHIP

The master and the engineer were killed as the result of bomb- Ing and two of the aurvivars were injured

Survivors In Now York The Dulch liner, Maasdam, has

The Elziena indicated her nation- BOMBAY, Mar. 4 (Reuter)-Twojality by large flags painted on the

side. German women, a Dutch woman and four Italian women have been sen- tenced to one day's Imprisonment ench for evading postal censorship.

One of the German women wrote move- letters mentioning troopship ments.

arrived in New York, with 27 anilora picked up after the Finnish steamer, Wijn, 3,300 tons, was torpedoed in the North Sca,

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An aeroplane, which helped the

to

HAVANA, Mar. 4 (Reuter),-Shota

country house of Colonel Bailsta,, the Chiet-of-Staff of the Cuban Army and virtual ruler, of

Cuba. A Police Lieutenant was killed and seven people were wounded.

to an official account, According the Secret Police posted in front of Colonel Batista's house fired on a suspicious looking car, which contain- and the sailors made a living chain As the bomber finally departed, theed Carlos Marti, à Police Lieutenant over the warship to rescue him. tail gunner fired at the ship's anti- under the former Machado regime, Six other Europeans were over-aircraft gun crew, but did not hit and Silvio Salazar, wanted by the come and washed off the raft.

Police in connection with the wound- them

The Indian passengers, who were ing of Senor Ferrara, the deputy as Junior Engineer Dun, of Kelty,

Constituent when the first bomb exploded, re-German eclved a broken leg and severe burns frightened, but crawled along the terrace, then throughout was good and there was along the length of the ship and no panic. clambered up 40 ft, ladder to the poop.

warship in a search for survivors, the Captain then gave... orders spotted a raft on which was cling- abandon 'ship.."

They managed to net all boats off, ing Cadet Duval, aged 17, who had been in the ses for two hours. but one was damaged by a bomb ex-

Cadet Duval was badly frozen plosion.

Fife, who was in the engine room all seamen who had been employed in he was entering the

ships, were naturally Assembly à few days ago.

He lowered himself overboard on the chance of being pleked up but died after being rescued.

Terrible Fire

Vessel.

The Chief Officer of the Mr. Brawn, described the scenes after the liner had been bombed and set on fire.

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their behaviour

Lashad Togother

Both were shot dead."

Bank Lends N.Z. £1,000,000

WELLINGTON, Mar. 4 (Reuter).

It is officially announced that the Bank of New Zealand has lent the Government £1,000,000 free of in- terest for the duration of the war and six months afterwards.

Mr. Brown said that the last to leave the shilp were the butcher and himself. ile lashed the hulcher lo the same rope as himself and fo- gether they jumped for ft. They were in, the water five or ten mia- utes before being pulled across a warship. The Third Omeer. Mr. J. A. Taylor, Ho said that it was a terrible are said that after being blown out of his and the fumes, added to the heavy bunk he dashed to his action station scas, made rescue work very difficult.at the anti-aircraft gun, but they The last he saw of Captain W. Litt fired only one round before the hearing of the Roosevelt divorce case was as he stood on the bridge. He Heinkel had finished her bombing and her been postponed until Thursday went to report to the Captain that flown away after a final burst of owing to the illness of the chief wit-

ness, Mr. Cushing, Mal "the vessel was on fire amidships and 'machine-gun fire.

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