tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74189109721624135392024-03-12T20:17:28.227-07:00ET's HistoryPearl Harbor December 7, 1941E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.comBlogger1550125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-17485811164188859032014-03-16T20:45:00.000-07:002014-03-16T21:07:41.533-07:00March 7,1940; HEAVY LOSSES AT VIIPURI<a href="https://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="file:///C:/Users/Earl/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.png" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" /></a><strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MARCH 7, 1940:</strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">Heavy Losses<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">Are Suffered<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">In Bay Fight</span></b><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Thirty Tanks
Lost <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">In Fierce Battle
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt; line-height: 115%;">At Viipuri <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Welles Talks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">War Situation<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">For Over Hour<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">With Daladier <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Plunges Into
Parleys<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">With High French</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Regime Chiefs<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Paris, March 7—(AP) —<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">President Roosevelt's fact finding
emissary, Sumner Welles, was closeted for an hour and forty minutes today with
forceful Premier Daladier who has vowed to crush the present German regime.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Plunging into a crowded three day
schedule for- his Paris visit, the undersecretary of state called, first on President
Lebrun before meeting the premier at his war office headquarters.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wells already had surveyed the German
and Italian attitudes toward the present war in visits to<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Berlin and Rome. His next stop will
be London after talking with French chieftains as well as the<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Polish government-in-exile in France.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Goes To France<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">President Lebrun received the
American envoy ,at the Elysee Palace soon after he alighted from a trail! which
brought him overnight from Switzerland <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">Liner Queen
Elizabeth Gets<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">To New York
Harbor Safely<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">After Mad Dash
Across Sea<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">N</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ew York, March 7. — <i>(AP)—</i>With
the "red duster" union jack proudly. flying at her mast, Britain's
new $28,750,000 liner Queen Elizabeth — the largest, fastest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ship afloat — arrived within the safety
of New York harbor waters today at the end of her bold dash3000 miles across
the Atlantic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Her giant engines turned up
apparently close to her top speed of more than 32 knots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Only a few figures were seen on
the decks, and from the planes there was no indication that the world's largest
ship even had a name painted on her gray-smudged prows.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">LAST MINUTE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">London, March
7—(AP)—Two German warplancs fought with British. Pursuit <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>planes off the coast of England tonight Onlookers
saw one raider almost collide with a British plane as the fight in the clouds began.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a few minutes a second raider with two
British fighters in pursuit appeared. Then came three more British planes and
the two Germans "were driven out to sca, the onlookers said.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-44781744723789811182014-03-04T07:14:00.003-08:002014-03-04T07:14:44.557-08:00March 4, 1940; VIPURI ENCIRCLED BY REDS<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MARCH 4, 1940:</strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Russians Claim
Six<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Forts. Big Guns<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Captured<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">MOSCOW—(AP)—Red forces closing in
on Viipuri reported new advances to the north and south of the shell-shattered
port city today and Indicated strategy of encircling it and severing all supply
lines before the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">knockout blow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Two newly won positions were Tupuransaari,
a bay of Viipuri island 15 mi.es to the south, and Saarela, a hamlet an
undisclosed number of miles to the north, the Red army announced.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On the island, the Reds reported capturing
six fortifications, five of them iron and concrete forts with heavy coast
defense guns in full working order. At Saarela, the Russians said they took the
fully equipped headquarters of a "large military formation" and four
75-millimeter guns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The communique reporting th gains
did not mention fighting in Viipuri itself, into which the Russians had said they
battled their way Saturday, seizing the railway station and the surrounding
southern end of town.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">First Raid West
of<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Dover; Press
Raps<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">LONDON—<i>(AP)</i>—Rumblings of
dissatisfaction with Britain's war leadership sounded today in the press with
reports of the first German aerial attack in the English channel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A Heinkel bomber swooped on the 8,441-ton
liner Domala with bombs and machine-gun fire, probably killing 108 persons—the
heaviest toll aboard a merchantman since the Athenia went down, with a death
list 113 on the first day of the war last Sept. 3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Never before had a German war plane
raided shipping west of the straits of Dover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Attack
Made at Dawn<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The attack occurred about dawn Saturday.
It and five other weekend blows to British shipping became known amid mixed
foreboding and confidence over the course of the six month- old war.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It was disclosed later that a
German plane bombed and machine gunned the Dutch freighter Jonge Willem before
the steamer went to the aid of the Domala. It was believed to have been the
same plane that attacked the British vessel.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A crewman said the plane dived in
the Jonge Willem and dropped a bomb which fell about 20 feet away and also attacked
the ship with machine guns. There were no casualies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"A little later," the
crewman said, we saw flames several miles away and steamed to the spot. "Although
the Daily Mail found “proof of our supremacy" in the activities of the
British navy and airforce, H warned of the necessity of knowing "we have
the right men" in the government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ask
Younger Officers<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It may become necessary to
inquire whether we- are as well served as we should be by the higher command of
the royal air force," it declared, "and whether these posts should
not be filled with younger officers familiar with up-to-date machines and strategy
and tactics appropriate to their use."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><br />E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-23559467041648578012014-03-04T07:03:00.000-08:002014-03-04T07:03:52.550-08:00March 3, 1940; HITLER DETERMINED TO RULE CENTRAL EUROPE<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MARCH 3, 1940:</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">BRUSSELS, March 2.— (INS)— Abig
German bomber today shot down two Belgian army planes in a dramatic air battle
over Belgium's neutral territory. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The German air force was formally
accused by Belgium of a "serious violation of Belgian neutrality and an
aggressive act." One of the Belgian fliers was killed; the other pilot
parachuted to safety as his plane spun to earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The air battle was precipitated when
three single-seated Belgian military monoplanes gave chase to and surrounded a
German Dornier=17 bomber over the Saint Hubert district in the Belgian province
of Luxembourg, not far from the western front. The third Belgian plane was put out
of action when German bullets </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">cut Its machine gun controls, but
It managed to escape the terrific fire unleashed by the Nazi bomber, and made a
normal landing. The Nazi plane disappeared across the German border, some 45
miles distant from the scene of the battle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10
DIE IN CRASHES</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Simultaneously, three Belgian army
planes crashed in other Belgian- areas today, killing 10 men and injuring one.
These crashes, however. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">were accidental and bore no relation
to the German-Belgian air duel.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Materials, Lives<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Spent Lavishly<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">By Reds<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">HELSINKI, March 2.—(INS) — Annihilation
of the Thirty-fourth Moscow tank brigade, with the killing of at least 2000
Russians, was officially announced tonight, but unofficial reports indicated
Finnish troops already have abandoned Viborg to the Red army.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The Finnish high command revealed
in its communique tonight that the Russian tank force was encircled northeast
of Lake Ladoga and Its destruction -completed."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">105
TANKS SEIZED.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">No less than 105 Soviet tanks,
all virtually undamaged, were seized by the Finnish troops that closed in on
the surrounded Russians. The big haul of booty also included 12 armored cars,
six artillery guns and large quantities of firearms and ammunition.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Most of the isolated and starving
Russian tank officers and men froze to death behind their stalled machines, it
was indicated.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> On the Karelian isthmus, meanwhile,
it was reported the Finnish troops withdrew from most of the southeastern
seaport of Viborg and that the Red army -was scheduled to march into Finland's
haf-ruined second city at noon tomorrow. This report was not officially
confirmed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Tonight's communique, however, admitted
further Finnish retreats from points south and east of Viborg, namely In the
Sainio and Heinjoki sectors</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FURTHER
RETREAT.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Subsequently, It was unofficially
reported Finnish troops withdrew from second-line to third-line fortifications
along the entire western half of the Mannerheim line.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An estimated quarter million
Soviet troops were concentrated in the unceasing push to seize Viborg, while
another quarter million were attacking other sectors of the<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mannerheim line.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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OF DICTATORS, AS IN THE CASE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.5pt;">OF
HITLER, IS FANTASTIC AND YET REAL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Among Americans today there is <i>a
</i>disposition to be cynical about the avowed aims of the British and the
French to crush the menace of Hitlerism. It may very well be that the Allied
statesmen, in their attacks on dictators, are providing the ideals for power politics.
Nevertheless, we cannot properly be cynical about the dangers of d</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ictatorship as manifested in
Italy and Russia, as well as Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">George Catlin makes this point clear in his new book, "The Story of
the Political Philosophers." He shows clearly the development of the idea
of deifying the dictator from the time of the Caesars, through the age of benevolent
despotism, down to the modern leadership principle. Hitler, for example, poses
not only as the successor to Charlemagne's Roman Empire "of the German people,"
but as the .head of a new religion— a political religion of the sword, a new Islam,
with himself as its Mohammed." Mr. Catlin thinks that Hitler has
accomplished this deification more than in the case of either Italy or Russia.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Goering has revealed the dangers
of the "fuhrer-princip" in this passage:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We Nazis believe that, in political affairs, Adolf Hitler is infallible,
just <i>as </i>the Roman Catholic believes that, in religious matters, the Pope
is infallible. .. . His will is my law. .. . The laws of Nature demand that
authority should be exercised from above downward and responsibility from below
upwards. . . the leader at the top is responsible to the people as a whole and
to their future.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The religious aspects of the Nazi secular faith have been stated by Hans
Kerrl:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As Christ in his twelve disciples
raised a stock fortified unto martyrdom, whose belief shattered the great Roman
Empire, even so in Germany we are experiencing the same thing . . . Adolf
Hitler is the true Holy Ghost.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This heroic, patriotic faith has
had a long history, having derived its force from the idolatrous East and the
bureaucrat's feeling that there must be some sentiment to cement the political
structure. The Roman Empire, having conquered Egypt, absorbed Egyptian manners
and began to salute Caesar as the godlike Pharaohs before him:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prince of princes, elect of Ptah
and Nun the father of the gods, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, lord of the two
lands, autocral, son of the sun, lord of diadems, Kaiser, ever living, beloved
of Ptah and Isis.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The same deification has come to
light in Germany, where, however, there is none to remark with the dry
skepticism of Vespasian on accepting his official fate: "Bah! I see I'm
becoming a god."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To many Americans this dictatorial theology seems fantastic, and yet it
is real. It accounts, in no small measure, for the feeling in Europe that
Hitlerism must go before there can be security and orderly life on the Continent.<o:p></o:p></span>E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-31576794825182548902014-02-21T06:06:00.001-08:002014-02-21T06:06:21.765-08:00February 20, 1940; RAID ALARMS IN LONDON<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1940:</strong><br />
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Premier<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">LONDON, Feb. 20.—(AP)Norway
was accused today by Prime Minister Chamberlain of failing in her duties as a neutral
and of displaying "complete indifference" to the usa which the German
fleet might make of her waters. Chamberlain told the House of Commons that
Norwegian authorities three or four times failed to make the proper inspection
of the prison ship Altmark, from which 299 British <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prisoners were rescued by the British
destroyer Cossack last Friday</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Norway's view that the Altmark
was a warship and thus not subject to search, would legalize the German fleet's
use of neutral waters creating a precedent Britain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"could in no circumstances
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chamberlain, described Britain's seizure
of the prisoners from the Altmark in Norwegian waters as "a very gallant
affair" and expressed confidence that the House of Common, would
"want to congratulate the Royal Navy."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He termed the statement of Norwegian<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Foreign Minister Halvdan<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Koht that the Norwegian authorities<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>did not know British prisoners were<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>aboard the Altmark "most
surprising,"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>since reports to
that effect<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>were published 1 weeks
ago.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>It was not until after Norway<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>failed to investigate, Chamberlain<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>said, "that His Majesty's ships
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">COPENHAGEN, Feb. 20.—(UP)—A Berlingske
Tidende dispatch from Stockholm reported today that the Russian 164th Division
was in a difficult position, with its communications cut, as the result of
Finland's claimed annihilation of the 18<sup>th</sup> Division.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said the Finnish commanding general on the Lake Ladoga front after announcing
the destruction of the 18th Division, said the Finns in that area were still
confronted with difficulties, and that the fight would not become easier,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"Our task is to economize
troops, and it will be necessary for us to make miracles," he was quoted
as saying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The dispatch added that a well known
Russian officer, a hero in the Soviet Union, had been made prisoner in recent
fighting on the Lake Ladoga front<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">LONDON, Feb. 20.—(AP)—Antiaircraft
fire was heard and air raid alarms were sounded in the London area today as
reports came in of widespread German warplane attacks on shipping off Britain's
east coasts. The all clear signal was given an hour after the alarm was sounded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fragmentary wireless messages from
ships at sea and battle noises heard along the coast gave the first indication
of the renewed German aerial attacks. Outcome of the attacks was not known.
Radio operators said they heard the S O S of at least one vessel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A lifeboat was put out on receipt
of word that Nazi bombing planes were blasting at steamers about 30 miles out
to sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Army;<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Reject Protest
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">PARIS, Feb. 8 (AP)—France
Thursday night gave soviet Russia a warning glimpse of the French manpower which
stands ready to defend the near east against a red army thrust,' turned down a
soviet protest against seizure of Russian documents during a Paris police raid
and saw a Polish expeditionary force off for the Finnish battlefields.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">1. Authorized persons asserted
France has 275,000 troops concentrated in the near cast as a precaution against
the possibility, among other things, of any Russian military activity there or
against the Balkans.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(After
publication by American<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>newspapers, a London
Dispatch that the total allied concentration in the rear cast numbered about </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">500,000 <b>men
was canceled by the British censor.)<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">2. Reliable
reports said the government rejected a protest by Soviet Ambassador Jakob
Surits against a police raid Monday on the Russian commercial office a raid
some sources said was part of a campaign against communist propaganda In
France.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">3. An
expeditionary force of Polish veterans of the losing fight in Poland against
Germany and Russia, augmented by Polish- American volunteers, was sent to
Finland to aid in the fight against the Russian invaders.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">4. French parliamentary
support for Finland spread to the senate, where the democratic left approved a
motion congratulating the French government on the "important effort it
has accomplished in favor of Finland."<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">5. Phiilippe </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Rogues, <b>Propaganda
chief of the ministry of colonies, wrote in the publication Our Fight that French
colonies by the end of </b>1940 <b>will have sent </b>700,000 <b>native and
black troops to bolster France's war machine, leaving behind an additional </b>2,000,000
<b>reserves. These </b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">figures included
only troops from territories under the ministry of colonies, and exclude North Africa
and Syria.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">British Military
Leader<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Urges Naval
Attack<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">On Russ in
Arctic Area<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">LONDON, Feb. 8 (UP)—Great Britain
and France Thursday night rushed to fortify Finland with armed aid and
manpower, as diplomatic </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">reports from Helsinki said that
the Finnish army is "suffering reverses" in its attempts to beat back
the Russian invaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> The extent of the reported
"reverses" suffered by the Finns was not indicated but British military
experts believed that the Russians </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">would be unable at this time to
force a decision in their eight-day-old offensive against the Mannerheim line
on .the Karelian isthmus.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain told the house of commons Thursday that further British aid is en
route to Finland and asserted that the Finns' valiant defense of their homeland
"has evoked the admiration of the world."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">February
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">Encourages<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">Help by Allies<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt;">Chance to<o:p></o:p></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt;">Merge Wars</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Kirke L. Simpson<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Associated Press Staff Writer<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The belief is apparently growing in
France and Britain that little Finland can withstand the attack of Russia's red
armies long enough </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">to become a vital sector in the French-British-German
war. Whether it is the opinion of Franco-British military leaders or is merely
a popular reaction to the Finnish stand, is not clear. But it is stirring both
the Paris and London governments to action which might result in the merging of
the two wars into a single conflict before spring comes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Raiding of Russian nondiplomatic missions
in Paris by French secret police creates the impression that French policy is
already crystallized. It looks like a possible preliminary to formal military
assistance for Finland, even at the price of a declaration of war against
Russia.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Demands
on Press<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The raids synchronized with
demands by powerful elements of the French press, close to the Daladier
government, for complete French cooperation with Finland.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">That is a distinct change from
the caution with which both the French and British press approached the problem
when the red army attack started in November.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">SHIPPING ATTACKS<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ARE CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">BY INVADING<o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">FLYERS<o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pursuit Ships
Rush to Aid<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Of Freighters
and Send<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Three Crashing
Down<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Nazi Air Forces
Reported<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">To Have Resumed
Raids<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Off British
Coast<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">LONDON, Feb. 3. <i>(AP) — </i>Deathdealing
British pursuit planes today shot down at least two and perhaps three German
bombers which had resumed the Nazi air forces' widespread raiding of shipping
off Britain's coasts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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REPORTED DOWNED<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">One Nazi bomber was downed near a
Yorkshire farmhouse four miles southwest of Whitby after a battle with three
British fighters over a Yorkshire town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> The air ministry announced that another
raider was shot down off the mouth of the River Tyne. It reported that a third
enemy plane intercepted by British fighters off the Northumberland coast
"was very seriously damaged" and later unofficial reports said it had
crashed into the sea.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> It reported that a third enemy plane
intercepted by British fighters theNorthumberland coast "was very
seriously damaged" and later </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">unofficial reports said it had crashed
into the sea.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> Considerable air activity also
was reported In the vicinity of the Firth of Forth between dawn and early afternoon,
and residents heard machine<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">gun fire out at sea. A number of British planes were seen circling above the Firth at various times.<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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in Yorkshire was killed, another died after he and his two surviving comrades,
all wounded, had been taken to a hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">LANDEDED
UNDER CONTROL<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> A Royal Air- Force pilot was quoted
as saying admiringly of this Nazi plane that the "landing was carried out
under control" although the craft had been riddled by bullets.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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SEEKING<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;"><strong>INVOLVMENT
IN WAR<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, Feb. 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(AP)—Fearful of the possibility
that war may reach the Balkans by spring, the four powers of the Balkan Entente
sought today some makeshift storm cellar in which to pass the next few months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DISCUSSIONS<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> The foreign ministers of
Yugoslavia, Rumania and Turkey and the premier-foreign minister of Greece began
the second day of their conference with a two-hour sitting which started at 11
a. m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> They discussed their
conflicting interests which already have led to a conference decision that each </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">country must be left free to fend
for itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> This precluded any definite plan for
cementing the entente into a stronger union and cost Rumania her chance for
automatic support in case the rival demands of Germany and the British-French
Allies for oil become unbearable.</span></div>
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representatives still hoped, however, to agree on some common declaration and friendly
program to improve their chances of escaping any imminent upheaval</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Eyes of Europe
are on Belgrade (1) where representatives of the four "Balkan
Entente" powers—Rumania, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Greece, Turkey
and Yugoslavia—assembled to find a way to keep out of war. Plan for
"economic </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">neutrality"
was first discussed. Caught In the middle of the conflict, Rumania was faced
with the chance </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of Hungary's
striking at Transylvania (2), Russia's marching into Bessarabia (3), and
Bulgaria's cry for </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">part of Dobruja
(4). German pressure on Rumania for oil, industrial and agricultural products
was reported.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">CLAIMS OF FINN<o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">VICTORIES DENIED<o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">BY SOVIETS<o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
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Offensive<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Declared Merely Local<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Skirmishes<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Helsinki Asserts
Invader<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Suffered Heavy
Losses<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">In Latest Attack</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">MOSCOW, Feb. 3 (/P)—The
headquarters of the Leningrad military area asserted today that Finns, although
equipped with "airplanes of the most up-to-date designs from Britain,
France, the United States, Sweden and Italy," not only had not attacked
Russian warships in Kronstadt and other Soviet objectives but were unable to
protect their own headquarters.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">NO BIG OFFENSIVE<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> It also contended that instead of
a big offensive by the Russians on the Karelian Isthmus and north of Lake
Ladoga there were "reality only partial clashes" of several companies
of "purely local nature."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> The headquarters' announcement, circulated
by Tass, official news agency, suggested that only in comparison with "the
microscopic scale </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">of operations on the western
front "could the clashes of several companies be considered a "big
offensive."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> The Finnish army communique of last
Tuesday said Finnish planes had bombed "a certain harbor and vessels lying
there," Informed sources in Helsinki said they assumed the Russian naval
base of Kronstadt near Leningrad was meant.)<o:p></o:p></span>E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-14743217125341837192014-02-02T07:45:00.001-08:002014-02-02T07:45:58.377-08:00February 2, 1940; FINNS HOLD POSITIONS ON MANNERHEIM LINE:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1940:</strong><br />
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HOLD <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">STUBONLY
TO<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Offensive
Is at Surtma^<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">20
Miles Inland From<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Coastal
Fortress Which<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Has
Stood for 9 Weeks</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">HELSINKI, Friday, Feb. 2.— (/P}—The
Russian army struck with surprise force at the Mannerhelm line last night,-employing
a new offensive </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">t e c h n i q u e with armored, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">sledges supported by a swarm of
130 battle planes, even as Finland's white-haired president was issuing an
appeal for an "honorable peace."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Red army, which has beenplaying
dead on the Karelian Isthmus since mid-January while fierce battles were waged
along the Arctic </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">circle and north of Lake Ladoga suddenly
came to life with a violent onslaught aimed straight at Viipuri; Finland's
second largest city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Attack at Summa, :<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The attack was made at Summa; 20
miles inland from the coastal fortress of Kolvlsto, which has withstood nine
weeks of hammering from land and naval artillery and aerial bombardment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Advices from observers with the Finns'
Karelian army said the .attack continued early today, with this entrenched
Finns holding, doggedly to 'their 'positions 20' miles south of Viipuri.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Tha Russians "began digging in
on" the .-Karelian": Isthmus '-front last month, and-.only Wednesday;
night Gen. Hugo Ostenrinnri, Finnish </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">commander-in-chief, declared the
war there had been reduced to a "war of position.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Karalean attack coincided, with
a Finnish army communique which Indicated the Russians are attempting to resume
the offensive all along the line from the Arctic to Lake Ladoga. The communique
told of the re-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LAUNCH<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">FRESH
ATTACK</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">pulsed Russian attacks In the Arctic
Petsamo area, on the Salla front, and on an island off the northwestern shore
of Lake Ladoga in southern Finland, <i>and </i>Rovanlemf in the north.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Helsinki's first midnight air
raid alarm chased the citizens out of bed into their bombproofs at 12:05 a. m. today.
No planes were sighted, however, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">and the alarm was ended after 20
minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Incendiary bombs at Rovanienvi, but early reports Indicated few persons were
killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Appeal
Is Qualified</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">President Kyosli Kalllo's appeal to
end this "barbaric, senseless attack" was firmly qualified by the assertionFinland
would not cringe before </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">"imperialistic alms."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The president used the final, solemn
session of the war diet as a sounding board for his pica, but It really was
addressed to the Soviet government which docs not recognize his government and
which does not even admit It Is "waging a war against Finland." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Russia Invaded Finland two months
ago. Firmly and proudly Kallio Insisted, despite the second peace offer, that
Finland will not crlnge before "imperialistic alms." This he reiterated
in general the previous offer of peaceful negotiations made on December 15 by
Foreign Minister Valno Tnnncr, In a broadcast message,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Japanese
Military<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Leaders
Present<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Big
Arms Program<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Warns That It Is Maintaining<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">a
Close Watch on Borders<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">of
Soviet Russia<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">TOKYO, Feb. 1.—(<em>A</em>P)—A seven-year
arms program costing $671,000,000 was presented by Japan's military leaders
today to a parliament stirred by the warning that the 'army is maintaining a
close watch on Soviet Russia's borders because of "scores of illegal
acts" committed by the Russians<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Losses<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Reported<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Invaders<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Of
Far North<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">President of
Finland<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Declares Nation<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Will Not Bend<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Helsinki, Feb. 1—(AP) — President
Kyosti Kallio in an impassioned speech in a solemn session of the war diet
repeated today Finland's offer to negotiate "an honorable peace" with
Russia but said that Finland would not bend before "imperialistic
aims."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">"We are forced to destroy people
innocent of this war, people we have no reason to hate as a nation," the
president </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">said. "For this reason we
regard this barbarous attack as senseless and are ready to negotiate an
honorable<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>peace."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">BY THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Helsinki, Feb. 1 — Soviet Russia
has attempted to revive her faltering campaigns in the Salla and Petsamo
sectors above the Arctic Circle,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">but her troops were driven back
by the Finns, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>communique said today.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">At the other end of Finland,
north of Lake Ladoga, the defense forces tightened their pincers on a stalled
and disorganized Russian offensive, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the high command announced, and
threw back an attack on an unnamed island in the lake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The communique, covering
yesterday's activities, said Russian losses were heavy in the attempt to take
the island by crossing over the ice of the lake.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">"Lively
Activity."<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Elsewhere on the eastern front the
Finns said there was 'lively patrol activity." The Russians killed
"about a score of civilians" and wounded 40, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the Finns said, in air raids
yesterday on the "market town" of Rovaniemi<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Army,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Navy
Request<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Huge
Program<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Of
Armament<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Total of $671,
000,000<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Is Asked to
Cover<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Next Seven Year<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Tokyo, Feb. 1— (AP)— Japan's army
and navy today asked parliament to approve a new seven-year arms program costing
about $671,000,-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">000, after the war minister had
declared the army "is not relaxing its watch" along Soviet Russia'
borders.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The appropriation asked today,
for the "replenishment and rehabilitation" of arms, would be in
addition to a total of $1,862,017,680 which<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">already has been approved for
this purpose.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The seven year period would begin
'with the 1940-41 fiscal year. The appropriation also would be in addition to
the China "war and domestic military budget" for 1940- 41 which total
$1,583,478,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">"Illegal
Acts"<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The request for the seven-year fund
was made after the war minister, General Shunroku Hata, had declared that
Russia had* committed "scores of illegal acts" after conclusion of
the truce on the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia border.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Eufaula, Oklahoma, Thursday,
February 1, 1940.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">OFFICIAL PAPER FOR McINTOSH
COUNTY<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CITY OF
EUFAULA<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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OF RUSSIAN BEAR<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Congress is confronted with the
touchy question as to whether this country should extend financial aid to Finland,
northern European democracy which is making the whole world take notice of her
gallant battle against overwhelming odds with Soviet Russia. Since the
launching of the aggression two months ago by Soviet Russia, the red armies
have been repulsed with heavy casualties. Most experts believe Russia will win shortly
by sheer numbers unless military and financial<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">aid is given by various
countries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> A large number who oppose U. S. financial assistance claim that It would
be unneutral for this country to make a loan to the Finns expressing fear that
such aid might lead to grave difficulties with Russia.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> It is highly debatable whether this country' should make the loan,
chiefly because we are not in too good a financial condition to shoulder an
additional burden. As. to the fear of offending Russia by such aid, this paper
takes the view there is little argument in this latter contention to
necessitate the refusal of funds to Finland.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Russia, dominated solely by the
communists, is not interested in a thing except increasing the power of its own
government. In fact she hates any institution that is democratic or
capitalistic in nature.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even though this country recognized Russian 1933, Soviet leaders do not
like us a bit better' at the present than they did before 1933, Stalin and his
comrades have wilfully violated the pact signed with this country seven years
ago by carrying on viscous propaganda work and espionage activities. They have
caused enough trouble already in our internal affairs that we should break off diplomatic
relations with that country.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Financial aid to Finland would constitute a far less grievous act on our
part than what Russia has been doing to molest the United States by trying to
set up communism in this country.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">BERLIN, Jan. 30.—(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A</i>P)—Adolf Hitler, his voice shrill with
emotion and knife-sharp with bitter irony, predicted ominously tonight before a
vast sports palace mass meeting that England and France alike will get
"the fight" he said they had asked for, and voiced his utmost
confidence that Germany would win the war. It was the seventh anniversary of his
elevation to chancellor. His speech, the first formal one he had made since Nov.
8, when he barely escaped death in the Munich beer hall explosion, was
announced to the world only a few hours before he went to the platform, and the
place in which he was speaking was known outside Germany only when the radio
broadcast began to come over loudspeakers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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however, was there to hear him pronounce the determination of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the German people and its leadership unshakable; it</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">’s army the greatest in the world;
its position safe "from the rear" because of its alliance</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">with Russia and
bulwarked</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;">
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Airmen Strike<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">HELSINKI, Jan. 30.—/P—Finland's
air force, apparently growing in power, was officially reported today to have
struck back at Russia by bombing "a certain harbor and vessels lying
there, enemy motor lorry columns, troops quarters and certain railway stations."
Informed sources indicated the harbor was Kronstadt, Russia's greatest west
coast naval base, near Leningrad. (Indicating how the Finnish air force is
growing, dispatches from Bergen, Norway, reported that a shipment of
American-made warplanes for the Finns had been landed there from two United
States steamers and started by rail for Finland.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-82493560444208164022014-01-30T06:13:00.002-08:002014-01-30T06:13:25.793-08:00January 30, 1940; ARIEL RAIDS RESUMED ON BRITISH SHIPS:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 30, 1940:</strong><br />
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tonight that Germany, bound to Italy by "close friendship and protected from
the rear by Russia, could not lose a war which he said had been forced upon her
by the "arrogant" British.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The first phase of the war has been
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from the Berlin sports-palace directly to Churchill, Hitler accused him of letting
"middlemen express the hope that the fight soon may not stop short of
women and children."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">"That always has been
England'; way—war against women and children," he said.
"Concentration camps are an English invention into which the British put
women and children."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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of his seventh year in power, was rebroadcast in the United States. It was his
first address to the German nation since his narrow escape from death In the
Munich bombing last Nov. 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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renewed today widespread air attacks on shipping along the east coast of the British
Isles, and Britain reported one of the Nazi raiders had been shot down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">HELSINKI, Jan. 30. <i>(IP) — </i>The
Finnish high command announced today that Finnish planes and antiaircraft
batteries downed 21 Russian planes in yesterday's widespread raids over
southern Finland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had bombed "a certain harbor and vessels lying there"—and informed
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">this meant the Russian naval base
of Kronstndt near Leningrad.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Finnish command said only one
Finnish plane was lost.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(The Russian 'high command insisted,
however, that seven Finnish planes had been downed yesterday.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">200 Red Planes<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">A high command communique, describing
increased sea and land fighting as well as air activity, estimated 200 Russian
planes took part in the raids in which "over 30 civilians were killed and
about 50 wounded.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-35109120444737296142014-01-29T11:49:00.000-08:002014-01-29T11:49:35.290-08:00January 29, 1940; PRIESTS TORTURED<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 29, 1940:</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">VATICAN CITY —(U.P.)— Beating,
torture and murder of priests in Poland and a barbaric program of
extermination, of Poles generally were charged against Germany in a report of
Pope Pius XII released for publication today by Polish sources by authorization
of August Cardinal fflond, primate of Poland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and regions in relating <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>story of
persecution of individuals, groups, and masses of Poles by the Gestapo, the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Allegations of cruelty,
desecration and extermination centered in areas which Germany has annexed
formally and intends to make Purely German-populated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">From these areas, it is charged, Poles
are being deported, destitute, to other areas — called the "general
government of Poland"—which have been stripped of foodstuffs, or are being
sent into Germany, to concentration camps, forced labor gangs, or in the case of
boys as young as 14 years to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Nazi educational centers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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priests have been ordered <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to pray for
Adolph Hitler and had to preach' in German, churches could remain open only for
two hours a week, churches have been desecrated, church funds have been seized,
priests and Poles generally have been deported, nuns were not spared.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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cruelty to Catholic priests in captured Poland are chanced in a report from the
primate of Poland.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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now appears –without hope of success but Finns keep battling-, say nothing yet of
definite victory. Red bombers hit hospital.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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priests. The name of one priest is given who was said to have been beaten to
death- by soldiers with the butts of their- rifles; of another who died under
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">"Dozens of
priests are in prison where they are being humiliated, beaten and
maltreated," continues the report. "A certain number of </span></strong></span><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>them have been
deported to Germany and there is no </strong>news <strong>of them. Others have been,
placed in concentration camps."<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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to do hard labor if they cannot pay for their food and "lodging" in
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</strong>is <strong>not rare to see priests</strong> <strong>among workmen in the country repairing</strong>
<strong>roads and bridges, pulling coal cars . . . some priests have been confined
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><strong>1000
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">HELSINKI, Jan. 27.—(INS)—Russian troops
launched a new and furious offensive north of Lake Ladoga today In a desperate
effort to save a force estimated at between three and four divisions caught in
a Finnish trap at Kitelac. Hoping to divert Finnish troops in an attack from
the north, the Russians faced a triple threat of cold, hunger and the murderous
cross-fire of ghostly Finnish ski patrols in their effort to free their
entrapped comrades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Record low temperatures of nearly
10 degrees below zero combined with the Finnish fire to take a terrible toll of
the trapped divisions, accord</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ing to advices from the front,
and made the task of rescue immeasurably more difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Apparently, the new offensive was
aimed at turning the northern flank of the Finnish army and threatening the
vital Finnish Mannerhelm </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">line from the rear. Helsinki
military circles admitted this new attack, if successful, would free the
majority of the trapped Russians. These troops were suffering heavily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Finnish sources claimed. Some detachments
were wiped out completely. Latest reports Indicated the Finnish lines cutting
off the Russian </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">retreat were holding firmly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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northern Finland today as the weather cleared. A total of 140 bombs were
reported dropped in eight unrevealcd localities with one woman killed and three
wounded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PLANES DOWNED.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Three Russian planes were shot
down, the Finns claim. Helsinki heard that a Russian submarine was destroyed
when she struck a mine near the Aaland islands, separating the Baltic and the Gulf
of Bothnia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Altogether more than 60,000
Russian troops are engaged in the largest offensive of the war</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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furious flanking movement north of Lake Ladoga in effort to extricate three of
four Red divisions trapped by Finnish ski<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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meeting called Sunday to consider Anglo-Japanese crisis and expired U. S. trade
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by Russian soldiers, the little Baltic republic of Lithuania has a future
shrouded with uncertainty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Plight of the Baltic countries
Saturday had been explained by Dr. Kazys Pakstas, professor of geography at the
University of Vytauas The- </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Great in Lithuania.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the country, Dr. Pakstas said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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independence in domestic affairs, the Lithuanian government must approve anything
asked by the Reds prevent its overthrow by Russian troops. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">'Officially our sympathies are with
democracy, but we can't express our sympathy in Europe," Dr. Pakstas
remarked in telling of Russian </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">censorship In Baltic countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">"We can't tell whether
20,000 Russians are stationed in Lithuania or whether 3,000,000 Lithuanians are
living in a Russian country," he </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">said. The country is not located
so that it can be used as a war base for the campaign against Finland, but may
be required to help the Red </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">army if any nation tries to
attack Russia through Lithuania.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Baltic country of Esthonia is
now being used as a base for Russian air raids on Finland, the professor pointed
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Although Estonians and Finns are
of the same- origin, Estonia is now being used as a base for Russian air raids
on Finland, the professor </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">pointed, out. Protesting he was
not a prophet. Dr. Pakstas made three predictions as to Lithuania's fate. If
Russia and Germany win the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">war, small Baltic states will
probably lose their independence, ho said. Another possible result of Russo-German
victory is that Lithuania </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">may be permitted to remain independent
under a Russian protectorate, with Red troops garrisoned in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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probably restore pre-war conditions. Dr Pakstas believes. Memel, taken from Lithuania
last June, would be restored,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Russian troops evacuated and the
republic would maintain its democratic government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Survivors,
19 of Them,<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Rescued<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">AMSTERDAM, Jan. 25 (AP)—Twelve
passenger's and 26 crewmen lost 1heir lives today when the 17;"i2-lon
Norwegian steamer Biarritz struck a mine, and sank in 30 seconds in the North
sea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Rescue
19<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Norwegian steamer Borghohn
rescued 12 passengers and . seven of the crew, bringing the survivors to Ijmuiden.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Biarritz went down at 2 a.
in. 30 miles northwest of Ijmuiden after a tremendous explosion, which the
first officer said was due to a mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">He said the fact that one
lifeboat hung ready in the davits permitted the 19 survivors to get away. The
Borgholm was nearby and rescued them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 29.5pt;">Soviets Open Double-Pronged<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 29.5pt;">Drive Above Lake Ladoga<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Move
Supports Report That Stalin<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Plans
Bitter End of Warfare Regardless of Cost;<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Russian
Bombs Drop on Kuumo</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By PETER PE HEMMER GUDME<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">HELLSINKI, Jan.' 23, (INS)—Reports
from Russia that Dictator Josef Stalin intends.to carry out the war against
Finland to the "bitter end and regardless of the cost seemed p a r t ly
confirmed today by latest reoorls from the front and especially by resumption
of the Soviet drive north of Lake Ladoga.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Double-pronged
Drive<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">In that area ' t h e Russians
unleashed a double-pronged offensive but the Finnish command claimed that it
had been repulsed with heavy<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">losses. On that front and before
the Mannerheim line on the Carelian isthmus, it was claimed, the Russians have
lost thousands of dead. Infantry and large and small tanks, aided by artillery,
were thrown into the campaign above the big lake, where the- terrain is more
favorable to mechanized forces than on the Carelian isthmus.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22pt;">French
Naval-<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sends<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22pt;">Call
for Help<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">GKNOA, ,lan. 25 (AP)-The French auxiliary
naval Vessel Forfait, 622 tons, was reported to have radioed for help today,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">104
Are Given<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">Up
For Lost<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">GENOA, Jan. 25 (AP)—Italian officials-
today gave up for lost 104 persons--44 passengers and 60 crew members—-in the
burning of the liner </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Orazio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 19.5pt;">68 Missing From<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 19.5pt;">Lost British Ship<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">..LONDON, Jan.. 25. (AP)—The British
admiralty announced today that 68 men were missing, instead of the 73 reported
Sunday, in the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">sinking of the destroyer.
Grenville by' a mine or torpedo. Eight others were known to be dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-36261154567702776432014-01-25T07:33:00.001-08:002014-01-25T07:33:18.545-08:00January 25. 1942: ADMIRAL KIMMEL and GENERAL SHORT BLAMED, BUT WERE NOT PROPERLY WARNED:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 25, 1942:</strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Observation Patrols
and Raid Detectors Not Operated,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Says
Report; Officers and Men Were in Full Readiness<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">By Joseph L. Myler<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">WASHINGTON, Jan.
24.—(UP)—Admiral Husband E, Kimmel and Lieut. Gen. Walter C. Short are charged
by the Pearl Harbor Board of Inquiry with "dereliction of duty" and
errors of judgment that "were the effective causes of the success" of
Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The report was made
public by the White House after its submission by Associate Supreme Court
Justice Owen J. Roberts, board chairman. The White House announced that action
to be taken on the basis of the report is "under study." The charges
may lead to courts martial for both officers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Other officers
apparently were exonerated of responsibility for Hawaii's unpreparedness when
Japan struck. But the report revealed that an unnamed and
"inexperienced" Army lieutenant was notified nearly an hour before
the </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">air
attack that unidentified airplanes had been heard on sound<b> </b>detection
devices. He thought they were our own Navy's planes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">In
spite of the 13,000 page report, subsequent thorough investigations and
reports, have convinced<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>E.T. that Admiral
Kimmel and General Short should have their Rank (posthumously) reinstated and
be fully exonerated from any blame for the tragedy on December 7, 1941.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2;">Below, E.T. presents
an excerpt from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“The Two Ocean War”</b>
by Samuel Elliot Morison, (U. S. Naval historian) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>published in 1963.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">(pages 52-53)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Admiral Stark
and Rear Admiral Turner, the Navy War Plans chief, were in Stark’s office at
0915 Sunday, 7 December when Captain Wilkinson chief of Naval Intelligence and
Commander McCollum head of his Far East Section brought in the translation of
Tokyo’s Part 14, the “snapper” which broke off diplomatic relations. But even Part
14 did not declare war or threaten immediate attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About an hour later, Commander<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McCollum brought in the “time of delivery”
message, an order from Tokyo to it’s ambassadors to destroy all coding machines
after presenting the fourteen-part note to Secretary Hull at 01300.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday was an odd day and one P.M. a strange
hour, for presenting a diplomatic note. What could it mean?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">McCollum
and his assistant, Lieutenant Commander A. D. Kramer, and Colonel Rufus S. Bratton
of Army Intelligence, guessed the answer by consulting a time chart on the
wall. One P.M. in Washington was 0730 at Pearl Harbor.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
That might be only a coincidence, but it might also mean an attack there ---
for one P.M. in Washington is nighttime at Manila and Guam. Wilkinson suggested
that Admiral Stark at once call Admiral Kimmel on the telephone. Stark
demurred, feeling that since the Army was responsible for the defense of
Hawaii, General Marshall should do it. Marshall, contacted on returning from his
Sunday morning horseback ride came into Stark’s office at about 1115. In tense
silence he read all fourteen parts, agreed that they meant immediate war, and
that Pearl Harbor and Manila should be alerted at once. Marshall’s communicator
said he would get the word to Pearl in twenty minutes. Rear Admiral Leigh
Noyes, Director of Naval Communications, offered to send it through Navy
channels. Stark declined (again Navy-Army punctilio), and the message---Just
WHAT SIGNICANCE THE HOUR SET MAY HAVE WE DO NOT KNOW, BUT BE ON THE ALERT
ACCORDINGLY ---- WAS FILED AT NOON 0630 in Hawaii. General Marshall called Army
communication center thrice to make sure that the message had been filed and
sent, and was assured that it had --- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">but
by Western Union!</b> There was a foul up that morning and the officer in
charge intrusted the message to commercial channels. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A boy on a bicycle delivered it to General Short some hours after the
attack was over.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-12768164397754011402014-01-22T07:07:00.001-08:002014-01-22T07:07:21.798-08:00January 22,1940; SHIPPING HIT HARD BY NAZIS<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 22, 1940:</strong><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Three
British and Three Neutral Vessels Added to<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Heavy
Toll as Germans Strike Anew in Sea Warfare—<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">118
Officers and Men Saved From Destroyed<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Warship—Disastrous
Week-End is Sad<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sequel
to Churchill's Statement "Things Going Well<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">LONDON, Jan. 22.—(AP)—Four
British ships, one of them a sleek destroyer, were sent to the bottom in a wave
of weekend shipping losses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Three neutral victims also added
to the heavy toll of men and ships, especially in icy waters around the British
Isles, which some sources blamed on a sharp increase in mines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Sinking of the destroyer Grenville,
1,485-ton flotilla leader, "by a mine or torpedo" was announced by
the Admiralty yesterday. She was the fourth British destroyer sunk in nearly five
months of war and Britain's 21st acknowledged loss to her fleet. When she sank
was not disclosed.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Italian
Steamer Bursts Into Flames Following Explosion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Off
Coast Of France—Rescues Effected<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By
Other Ships—Those Reaching Port Tell Of<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Harrowing
Scenes As Flames Raged—All But<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two
of Victim's Life Boats Destroyed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">MARSEILLE, France, Jan. 22.—(AP)—Italian
officials announced late this afternoon that all of the 412 passengers aboard
the burned Italian motorship Orazio had been rescued despite heavy-seas and
speed with which fire ravaged the vessel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Local agents of the Italian Line,
owners: of the vessel, said, that "only a few" members of the crew of
231 still were missing after a new check-up of survivors taken aboard half a
dozen rescue ships.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">GENOA, Italy, Jan. 22.— -(AP)—
Italian officials announced today that 104 persons, including 40 passengers,
were missing in the burning of the 11,669-ton Italian motorship Orazio in the Mediterranean
off the French' coast yesterday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Of the 643 passengers arid crew
members aboard when 'the liner left Genoa Saturday, a total of' 539 were known
to have been rescued by noon (6:00 a. m. eastern standard time) officials
stated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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half a dozen vessels, and authorities said that possibly' some others also had
been saved but not reported :by their rescue vessels.' Seaplanes flew over stormy
seas all day today-looking for survivors</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">—Hundreds of Russians had been
killed, the high command reported today in each of a number <i>of </i>futile
attempts to crack-Finnish resistance on the Karelian Isthmus and the eastern front</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">On the Karelian Isthmus, where the
Finns have reported almost dally attacks, the army said the invaders sought to
give. effect to their drives by loudspeaker exhortations that the Finns
surrender under the threat that the Germans .were coming to help their foe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conflict- yesterday, the high command reported in its regular evening communique.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-17288840900656070662014-01-21T05:40:00.005-08:002014-01-21T10:17:22.032-08:00January 21, 1940; MAJOR BATTLE DEVELOPS IN WINTER WAR:<strong>TIS WAS REPORTEDT TODAY, JANUARY 21, 1940:</strong><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">MAJOR
BATTLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">DEVELOPS
IN<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">WINTER
WAR'<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Finland Army
Moves<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">To Divide Red<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Forces</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">WITH FINNISH ARMIES, on Salla
Front, Jan. 20.—(U.P.)—Russian troops defended a strong outpost line at Lake
Marka today but Finnish troops were steadily increasing pressure on their right
flank in an effort to score a complete victory on the vital Salla sector of the
north central front.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">For the moment, the battle of Salla
appeared to have slackened somewhat after a week of severe fighting during
which the Red army forces fell back 30 miles from Lake Joutsi to Lake Marka and
sought to consolidate their positions in defense of the village of Salla, which
is now the key </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">point of the conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Press on Steadly<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">There still was strong patrol action
and the Finnish troops were pressing steadily against the Russian right flank
both to prevent the Soviet forces from joining Red army units at Kuusamo, to
the south, and to break up any attempts to start a new Russian offensive toward
Kemijaervi.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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WEATHER<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">SPREADS
OVER</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">MOST
OF U.S</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 31pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">72 Deaths
Attributed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">To Severe Drop
in<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Temperature<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt;">By United Press<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Wintery blasts <i>blew </i>the
length and breadth of the nation Saturday night, invading the southernmost
reaches of Dixieland as well as imposing sub-normal temperatures upon frozen
northern regions.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Only the Pacific seaboard escaped
the Arctic influence.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">No relief was in Sight from the
cold wave which swept across the Canadian border a week ago tonight in the wake
of a blizzard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Crops
Endangered<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The cold wave took a heavy toll
of life and property. It was blamed for deaths from fire, fumes and freezing.
In addition<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Temperatures in Reno yesterday
averaged equal with normal, as the cold spell seemed to have broken, according
to weather bureau figures. The high was 43 degrees and the low was 22 degrees.
The mean and normal temperatures was 32 degrees.. .Cloudy weather it expected
to prevail today, with snows scheduled for this vicinity Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">to the property loss in fires, the
freezing temperatures in the extreme south threatened citrus fruits and garden
crops in Florida and the Rio Grande valley</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt;">.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-75699114451790937042014-01-20T05:17:00.002-08:002014-01-20T05:17:14.147-08:00January 20, 1940;DENMARK / NORWAY MAINTAIN NUETRAL AND INDEPENDENT POSITION:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTEDD TODAY, JANUARY 20, 1940:</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Copenhagen, Jan. 19.—<i>(AP)—<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Denmark struck out today with a
firm declaration adopted by a unanimous vote of the lower house of parliament
that her neutrality "must be maintained" and her independence defended.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The declaration was echoed in
Norway, where Prime Minister Johan Hygaardsrold told parliament that any attack
upon the nation would be met </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">with resistance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Hygaardsvold did not expand his statement,
but he asserted that "the question of an all-party government as proposed
by the left and the peazant party might be discussed when Norway has one task
to do."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Observers Interpreted this as meaning
the time for each discussion would be ripe when and if Norway had to defend
herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">In neighboring Sweden, meanwhile,
Stockholm authorities announced a new program or air raid defense, including
trenches in parks and additional </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">shelters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">To
Correct Ideas<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Framed by the six largest
political parties. The Danish declaration was designed partly to correct impressions
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>abroad that Denmark, because of limited
armaments, would not resist an attack.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.5pt;">Retreat
Harassed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Seasoned
Fliers From<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sweden
Cause Reds<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Much
Grief<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Helsinki, Jan. 19.—<i>(AP)</i>—Seasoned
Swedish volunteer pilots inincreasing numbers tonight aided the Finns in harassing
artic retreat of 40,000 Soviet troops, fighting back step by step toward their
border in the sadly cold of the Arctic circle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">These blue-eyed airmen were pitted
against swarms of Soviet lines which, official Finnish sources say, have
reached a total of 450 in one day. Waves of Russian bombs have struck
repeatedly at both northern and southern Finland for several days. Today,
Helsinki's people spent an hour in air-raid shelters while antiaircraft
batteries fought the<i> </i>raiders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Take
Toll<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Finns announced tonight that
Swedish filers were taking a toll of Soviet troops. From Rova-mi, important
west Finland Junction the railroad which the Soviet rules had hoped to reach
from the Salla sector, Thomas F. Hawkins, Associated Press war correspondent.
said the Swedish filers were active engagements both in the Salla and north of
Lake Ladoga.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Swedish volunteer land fighters,
he said. also were pouring into the fighting on the northern fronts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-45368590453099197892014-01-19T07:26:00.000-08:002014-01-19T07:26:27.189-08:00January 19, 1940; RUSSIANS ABANDON DRIVE IN FINLAND:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 19. 1940:</strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 21pt;">Russians, After
Hammering Vainly<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 21pt;">For Weeks,
Suddenly Abandon<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 21pt;">Drive, Retreat
in Haste<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.5pt;">TWO OTHER
DIVISIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 23pt;">ARE REPORTED IN
PERIL<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 21pt;">Invaders, Hungry
and Frost-Bitten,<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 21pt;">Fight Rear-Guard
Action ;<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 21pt;">In 50-Below
Weather <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">HELSINKI, Jan.
18.—(AP) —Russian forces, routed within striking distance of success in an
attempt to cut Finland in two with a highway and rail drive, tonight were
reported fighting a bitter rear-guard battle in a desperate attempt to escape
to their frontier. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Advices from the
Lapland front, just above the Arctic circle, said that the Soviet troops, after
hammering vainly at Finnish defenses for six weeks, suddenly abandoned their
trenches, retreated toward their own border near Salla and were fighting desperately
tonight to get safely:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Away<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two other Soviet
divisions were likewise reported in difficulties some distances north and east
of this activity!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Forge Too Far
Ahead |<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The retreating Red troops had penetrated
farther Into Finland than any other of the invading armies, having reached
JoutsiJarvi, 65 miles from the Russian <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>border on a direct line and much farther than
that along the southwestward route which! they followed. They were only18 miles
east of Kemijarvi, strategic rail head which was their immediate goal. '<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Russians hoped that bj{ driving
over theSa,lla –highway and this railroad in Kemi, they could cut off southern
Finland<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>frbm the north and block the overland
route by which Finland receives important supplies from Sweden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Commerce-Canny
English Clamor For Appointment<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Of Economic
Warfare Overlord to Dam Up<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Last Trickle of
Nazi Foreign Trade<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">LONDON Jan. 18.— (AP)— Commerce-canny
Britons, pushing shillings to the front like soldiers in a vast siege of Nazi
staying power, tonight demanded appointment of an economic warfare overlord to
apply an even more relentless </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">stranglehold to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Germany.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Wasteful Delay
Attacked<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Satisfaction over the report of Economic
Warfare Minister Ronald H. Cross to the effect that Germany already has been
pinched to the needy stage of 1916 was tempered by increased neutral and
British ship losses and the outcry that men and munitions could be spared by freer
use of British gold to dam the trickle of Nazi trade.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Neutral nations lost four ships
today; Britain one and Germany one—to war and weather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Lord Beaverbrook's E v e n i n g Standard,
claiming overlapping between the several ministries dealing with economic and
foreign affairs and "wasteful: delays in our export trade," said L.
S. Amery was the man for the job of economic warfare overseer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Amery. 66, small, sturdy mountain
climber and gymnast, has been called a "pocket Hercules." He long has
been known as a trade expert and an advocate of war debt settlement with the U.
S, He has been first lord of the admiralty, colonial secretary and dominion secretary</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 30.5pt;">Rumania Or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 30.5pt;">Hungary Next?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Reported<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Streaming Over
Border<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Into Russia</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">LONDON, Jan. 19.— (Friday) —(INS)—Large
bodies of German troops are reported crossing the Soviet-German border into
Russia, the Daily Express said today in a dispatch from Budapest.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The German military forces are
said to be streaming across the new frontier running through Poland's former
territory and are heading in two directions— one column eastward and the other
southeastward toward the region where Russia adjoins Rumania and Hungary, the dispatch
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Loaded German troop trains and
lorries, the message said, have been seen going through the former Polish
cities of Lwow (Lemberg), Drohobycz and Stanislawow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Several theories are advanced in Budapest
regarding the reported German troop movements, according to the dispatch to the
Express. One is that the Nazi forces are being concentrated in the Black sea
regions to reinforce Russian troops there.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Budapest message from the
British newspaper's correspondent said German sources for weeks have warned
that an<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.5pt;">Rumania, Hungary<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.5pt;">Next For
Germany?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Continued from
Page 1)<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Anglo - French - Turkish army,
under command of Gen. Maxime "Weygand, is being organized in Turkey,
threatening an offensive against Russia's rich Baku oil fields. The
correspondent pointed out that the British oil fields in Iraq also fit into the
picture since they are located in the same general region.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Another theory, he cabled his paper,
is that the Nazi regime has become alarmed over the unsatisfactory state of
railway communications from Rumania through Russian-Occupied Poland" and
wishes to safeguard these communications against sabotage. It is therefore
believed, the Budapest dispatch said, that the German troops are being lined
along these railways to make sure of a constant flow of Rumanian oil and wheat
to Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-76286712206821607522014-01-18T06:38:00.001-08:002014-01-18T06:38:07.683-08:00January18, 1940; A GENERAL RUSSIAN RETREAT IN FINLAND:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 18, 1940:</strong><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">40,000
Fleeing Russians<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Reportedly
Are Closely<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pursued
by Finns <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Who<o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Are
More Warmly Clothed<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">COPENHAGEN, Thursday, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Jan. 18.—(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A</i>P)—A general Russian retreat from the Salla sector of Finland,
involving 40,000 troops, was reported early today in dispatches to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the Copenhagen newspaper Berlinske
Tidende.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The dispatches, from the newspaper's
correspondent on the northern front, said the Russians apparently had given up
hopes of holding </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the frigid Salla front for the winter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Earlier Scandinavian reports said
the Red army was planning a major offensive from that, sector, which is in the
lower Arctic circle, but last night a dispatch from the Finnish army in Upland
said a small-scale, attack by 400 Russian troops had been repulsed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The. 40,000 retreating Russians
today were reported closely pursued by Finnish units which hoped to Inflict heavy
rear-guard punishment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">COLD </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">STOPS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> <b>REDS.<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">HELSINKI, Jan. 17.—(AP)—Pitiless,
death-dealing cold laid a glacial hand on Russia's war machine tonight but the
Finns reported their </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">troops were driving toward a new victory
near Salla above the Artic <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>circle.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">TRADE PACT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">EXPIRES ON<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">JANUARY 31<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Senate
Committee Likely<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to
Begin Consideration<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of
Proposals to Embargo<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">War
Materials Shipment.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By RUSSELL TURNER.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—(</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">U.P.)—Chairman Key Pittman
(D.-Nev.) of the Senate foreign relations committee said today Secretary of
State Cordell </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Hull and other officials probably
will be asked to review United States – Japanese relations before the committee<i>
</i>at its first meeting after termination of the trade treaty.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Plttman's committee will meet five
days after the treaty's lapse, on January 31, at which time the group also may
begin consideration of two proposals to embargo the shipment to Japan of war
materials, including such basic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>commodities as scrap iron and steel. This nation is Japan's<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">chief supplier of basic materials
for her war in China.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Reaches
Understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">After a meeting of the committee
today, Pittman indicated it had reached a tacit understanding to survey the
entire Afield of Japanese-American relations after the 1911 commerce treaty
expires. Hull and other foreign affairs spokesmen would be the principal witnesses,
he said.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-51001442154949349372014-01-17T06:54:00.000-08:002014-01-17T06:54:20.742-08:00Jan 17, 1940; ITALY MAY DESERT HITLER / SMALL NEUTRALS ASSURED HELP:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 17, 1940:</strong><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24pt;">IN THE
SPRING MAY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">DESERT
HITLER T0<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">STOP
BOSHELVISTS</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Warning
Issued By Gen. Muti<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">That Present
Stand Cannot<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Be
Perpetual</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By JOE ALEX
MORRIS<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(United Press Staff Correspond)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Italy warned today that Fascism,
might "at any moment" take up :arms in Europe's wars. Fighting fronts
in both Western Europe and Finland were immobilized for the time being by
extreme cold, but in every land there was acute attention and speculation as to
what will happen when the winter breaks and in Italy there were words that indicated
almost for the first time a growing question as to Fascist neutrality.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">We must not sleep in the illusion
that Italy's present stand regarding the conflict will be perpetual." Gen
Ettore Muti, secretary general of the Fascist party, declared Fascist Italy
might find .itself at any moment faced with the necessity and duty of taking up
arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Italy's greatest agitation recently
has been against the threat of a spread of Bolshevism into the Balkans, where
she has promised to provide powerful opposition in event of any Russian! threat,
but paramount interest; has centered on whether Fascism could remain neutral in
the. Allied-German war and whether she would desert her German ally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">Small
Neutrals <i>Assured<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">of
British, French Help<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">If Reds or Nazis Attack</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Bly LOUIS <i>F. </i>KEEMLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(United Press Cable Editor)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The most significant item in the
week-end war extension scare which had all Europe jittery came from London and
Paris.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">It consisted of informal
assurance to the smaller neutral nations—Norway. Sweden, Denmark. Belgium, the
Netherlands, and the Balkan countries—that they can count on Allied aid if they
are attacked by Germany or Russia.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">There was no formal pledge, but the
London censor did not interfere with the free circulation of reports that
Britain is ready to aid Sweden and Norway.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-67442737231891084992014-01-16T06:18:00.002-08:002014-01-16T06:18:20.305-08:00January 16, 1940; BELLGUIM & NETHERLAND MILITARY ORDERED TO BORDER POSTS:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 16, 1940:</strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">No Acute Danger
Just at<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Belgium Is<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Ordered by U. S.
to Rush<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Back to His Post</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">AMSTERDAM, Jan. 16 (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A</i>P)—Despite official assurances that
Belgium and The Netherlands are in no immediate danger of invasion, the new
United States ambassador to Belgium hastened today to his post</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">NO
ACUTE DANGER<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The envoy, John Cudahy, former minister
to Ireland, left Dublin last night under urgent instructions from Washington to
take his station </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">at once It was understood in the
Irish capital that the urgency was connected with tension in the low countries
over reports of German troop concentration along the borders.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(Authorized Berlin sources
declared the scare in The Netherlands and her neighboring fellow neutral,
Belgium, was "made in Paris" and designed to provoke Germany into an
aggressive step. They denied Germany planned any such move )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Cudahy was appointed ambassador to
Belgium and minister to Luxembourg on January 4, succeeding Joseph E. Davies,
now assigned as special assistant to the secretary of state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">In The Netherlands where all army,
air force and naval leaves had been canceled over the weekend, authoritative
sources declared there was "no acute danger.”</span></div>
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million Belgian and Netherlands soldiers were reported<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">at or ordered to
positions along the borders of the Lowlands, ready<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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German threat. Observers estimated that Belgium had<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">600,000 men
under arms and the Nctherlanders would soon have 490,000.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Berlin said
reports of German military moves along the Lowland borders<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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much nonsense." In Brussels (1), soldier-laden trucks<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">LONDON, Jan 16 (/P)—Prime
Minister<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Chamberlain and the man he removed
as war minister on January 5, Leslie Hore-Belisha. buried an incipient ministerial
crisis in guarded </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">statements before parliament
today which drew a nod of approval even from the opposition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CHANGE IN POLICY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Chamberlain, declining to give
detailed reasons for the change in the war office, said that he "had
become aware of difficulties arising out of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the very great qualities" of
Hore-Belisha "which in my view made it desirable that a change should
occur." He said no change of army policy was anticipated. Hore-Belisha,
saying he knew of "no conflict of policy with any of my colleagues,"
declared he was reluctant to believe" that high army officers would have
made "representations" that led to Chamberlain's decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said, "I deny that I asked the secretary for war to take another office .
. on account of prejudice </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">aroused by the fact that he was a
Jew."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-40387378513391258842014-01-15T21:23:00.001-08:002014-01-15T21:23:07.465-08:00January 15, 1940; DUTCH, BELGIANS MASS:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 15, 1940:</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">LONDON, Jan. 15.—(U.P)—The Moscow
radio today announced that Russian men aged 19 and 20 had been called to, the
colors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">MOSCOW, Jan. 15.—(U.P)—Russia
announced today that it had protested to Sweden and Norway against their aid to
Finland, and that the replies were regarded as unsatisfactory.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The full exchange was broadcast
to the world over the Moscow radio and disseminated</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">by the official Tass</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">agency. It
disclosed that Sweden had rejected the protest</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">openly, and that Norway had.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">rejected it
tacitly.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Russia's protest was made on
January 5 through the Russian ministers at Stockholm and Oslo. It was a protest
against dispatch of volunteers to Finland, shipment or transshipment of war
materials to Finland, and anti-Russian newspaper articles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">THREAT
IMPLIED<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Seriousness of the
representations was shown by a paragraph from the representations to Norway:
"The Government of the Soviet Union deems it urgent to declare to the
Norwegian Government that the above actions of Norwegian authorities not only
flagrantly contradict the policy of neutrality proclaimed by the Norwegian
Government but may lead to undesirable complications and disturb the normal
relations between the Soviet Union and Norway."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By DeWITT
MacKENZIE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(Associated
Press Staff Writer)<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">If Herr Hitler is indeed
preparing to invade Holland or Belgium or both, it may mean the beginning of the
general European war which the world has been fearing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">However, it shouldn't be
overlooked that this may be a deliberately engineered German-Russian scare. The
purpose of such a thing might be two-fold—(1) to stop the neutral low countries
and Scandinavia from aiding Finland against the Soviet and (2) to warn the
neutrals not to pursue their tendency to sell supplies to the allies for cash instead
of continuing to send them to Germany for barter trade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FOR ACTION<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Should the German offensive
develop it presumably would be intended as the preliminary to a heavy assault
on the Allies a little later.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">There are numerous reasons why the
Nazi high command might undertake an operation against Holland and perhaps
against Belgium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">1—Control of Holland would give the
Germans extremely desirable air bases for operations against England, against
the British blockade and other shipping. It might presage the blood-bath from
the air which the Navys have threatened so often. Such control also would
provide invaluable submarine bases.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">2—The G e r m a n s may feel
impelled to haste in preparing for major operations against the Allies because
of the growing aid from the Anglo-French brotherhood for Finland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">There is a danger to Germany's right
flank if this assistance continues.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">BLOCKADE
PRESSURE<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">German
threat to the Lowlands'<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">neutrality.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Close to 1.000.000 Belgian and
Netherland soldiers are reported<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>already
at or ordered to positions along the border—a 300-mile wall </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">through -which Germany would have
to smash to outflank the British-French Allies on the Western Front. (Germany
in the past has denied planning any such maneuver.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">In. Belgium there were reports of
new concentrations of Nazi attack troops, while in the Netherlands a Government
communique spoke of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">"certain less favorable
symptoms in the International situation."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ALARM
PLAYED DOWN<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The semiofficial Belga News Agency,
however, issued a note in Brussels denying what it called "alarmist
stones" being "spread in Belgium and abroad" and said additional
mobilization was proof only of the vigilance of the Government.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">It was confirmed that Belgian Premier
Hubert Pierlot conferred with Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, Saturday night
and received foreign diplomats for exchanges of information A full cabinet
meeting has been called for today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Brussels Government put into force
"phase D" of her mobilization plan, filling in the ranks of skeleton units
with such specialists as machine </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">gunners, artillerymen and tank drivers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The final step for complete
mobilization would be enforcement of Phase E—likely only in event of a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ctual outbreak of hostilities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ON WAR FOOTING</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Bombs
Rained<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24pt;">On
Viipuri<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Entire Street Razed;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two Dead, Many Hurt<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">In New Air Raid<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">VIIPURI, Finland, Jan 15.—WP)—Twenty-one
Russian bombing planes attacked Viipuri today, killing two persons, injuring
many and leaving a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> whole street of stores
demolished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Newspaper correspondents in a private
home 50 yards from where the first bomb landed had difficulty in reaching air
raid shelters amid f</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">alling debris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The raid lasted two hours. Some
buildings were burning. Office desks, show window dummies and plateglass were
scattered in the streets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Most of the city's inhabitants
had been removed to the country and those who remained have become so hardened
to repeated raids that they </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">joked among themselves as they </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>----E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-50522885393689670802014-01-15T06:46:00.001-08:002014-01-15T06:46:52.840-08:00January 14, 1940;NINETEENTH WEEK OF WAR:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 14, 1939:</strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">Day by Day<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">For 19th Week<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Finns </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Smash<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Russ Drive;<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Sea War Grows</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">By Associated Press</span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;">Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finns rout soviet ski detachment near
Salla, killing 300, as bitterest January in years, with temperatures 40 degrees
below zero, stalls Russian offensive on all fronts; </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">British press demands explanation
of War Secretary Hore-Belisha's dismissal and parliament members propose secret
session to discuss issue; Hungarian and Italian foreign ministers conclude
conference on joint policies in Balkans; U. S. liner Manhattan released by
British contraband control authorities at Gibraltar.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> .</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;">Monday
<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Italian and Hungarian ministers</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">reported to have agreed on defensive</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">alliance assuring Hungary of</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Italian support in event of attack</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">by Russia; Finns destroy 44th Russian</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">division near </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Suomussalmi,</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">capture much- war booty; Finnish</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">premier asks foreign credit to buy</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">war supplies; Winston Churchill,</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">first lord of admiralty, visits British</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">headquarters in France; British</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">government promises Hore-Belisha's army
reforms will endure;</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">England rations
butter, bacon,</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">ham and sugar;
localized patrol</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">skirmishes on
western front.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;">Tuesday<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Premier Chamberlain warns
British-people "grimmer phase" of war lies ahead, foresees peacetime
federation of European nations bsed on French-British collaboration; German
planes attack more </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">than a dozen ships off English
coast, wounding 35 men and sinking one British vessel; French chamber expels
four communist deputies who refuse to stand during tribute to army, fist fights
break out on floor; Finland reports lull on all fronts.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt;">Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">British planes raid Sylt and
important Helgoland anchorage, engage in North sea battle with German aircraft;
Finns report Russians driven back across border at four points; Rumania
Indicates </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">readiness to settle long standing
differences with Hungary, but balks at territorial cession; clearing weather
brings aerial clashes on western front, with patrol skirmishes on northern
flank.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">German planes conduct scouting
flights along English coast; mines sink British tanker El Oso off west coast
and Italian steamer Traviata off east coast of England; localized activity on
Finnish war front; Japanese navy and press attack proposed American naval
expansion and military development of Guam, speculate on American-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Japanese naval race.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Friday<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Russian fliers bomb southern
Finnish cities, disrupt Helsinki's outside telephone communication, silence
Lahti radio station; Russians seek to drive southward from arctic after eastern
front reverses </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">but Finns expect cold to check them;
British airmen report dropping bombs on Sylt, gain "useful information"
on flights into Germany; </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">German scouting planes repelled from
.English coast; King Carol tells ministers of secret conference with Regent
Prince Paul of Jugoslavia.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Saturday<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">British plan fly over Austria</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">nd Bohemia, drop propaganda</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> l</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">eaflets in war's
"greatest survey</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">f</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">light,"
German raiders scout Britain</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">again; Russians and gird</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> f</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">or major battle in Arctic circle;</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Russian planes bomb Helsinki in worst
air raid since early December, bombs fall near United States legation in
Grankulla, Helsinki suburb, • three dead in Helsinki;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Russian army communique attacks foreign
press reports of war, declared "animal fear" of "military bloc
between Germany and U. S. S. R." caused foreign report that Germans were
reorganizing red army, denounces report as "lie."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-28072543544433076002014-01-14T07:08:00.003-08:002014-01-14T07:08:40.273-08:00January 13, 1940: BRITISH RAID EAST GERMANY<strong>THIS WAS REPORTE TODAY, JANUARY 13, 1940:</strong><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Nazi
Planes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Retaliate
on<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Scot
Coast<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">One
German Craft Is Reported<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Shot
Down Off<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Firth
of Forth<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Allied
Survey Flights<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">English
Warplanes Fly<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Over
Czecho-Slovakia<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and
Austria<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">London. Jan. 13 Wj.—British
fliers in "the greatest wartime survey flights" penetrated Bohemia and
Austria during the night, carried </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">on the North Sea warfare by attacking
Nazi destroyers and today destroyed a German air raider over the Firth of
Forth, the Air Ministry announced in a series of communiques.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The exploit of scouting over the southeastern
parts of Greater Germany was the first of the war to be reported in that
region.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">A British war correspondent in France
reported the British operated from French bases and flew over both Vienna and
Prague.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Fliers starting from their home soil
would have had to cover the equivalent of the distance over the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland
for the reconnaissance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">2 Die, 20 Hurt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 19.5pt;">As Bombers<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 19.5pt;">Raid Capital<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt;">.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">One
Russian- Attacker<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Believed
to Have Been<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Shot
Down<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(Engine
Hits Ice)<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Raid
Marks First Attack<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">on
City in Several Weeks<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 6.5pt;">By WEBB MILLER<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Helsinki, Jan.' 13 (UP).—More<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soviet airplanes bombed Helsinki shortly
before 2 P.M. today. ,An official communique said that the raiders dropped
approximately 30 to 40 bombs at various points. First reports indicated that
'two persons were killed and 20 wounded.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">' One of the Soviet planes was
reported to have been shot- down over Helsinki. Coins from the pilot's pockets
fell Into the streets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">• 'Several large holes appeared
In the' ice of the harbor, where, it was believed, an engine from a Soviet plane
fell. 'The raid marked the f</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">irst bombing attack on Helsinki
in several weeks although there have been raids' on territory outlying from the
capital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">- .Reports which reached the
capital indicated that yesterday's Russian bombing raids on Finnish cities were
the most extensive, in several weeks. ';<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Turkey
Hails<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Balkan
Front<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Drive
of Italy<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Security
Against Soviet<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">or
German Attacks<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Seen
in Ankara<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Ankara. Jan. 13 (AP)—Indications that
Italy is taking the lead for a "united front" in Southeastern Europe against
possible aggression .by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> Soviet Russia we're hailed
"widely today as meaning double security for Turkey. - -- •• •<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Italy's position-was regarded by Turkish
political leaders as "unambiguous opposition to Soviet-enterprise in: the Danube
Basin or the Balkans."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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E Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498709824975643519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418910972162413539.post-31308995682984223692014-01-14T06:28:00.002-08:002014-01-14T06:28:42.465-08:00January 12, 1940; FIGHTING RENEWED OFF RITISH COAST:<strong>THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 12, 1940:</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;"><strong>Defenders From
Scotland<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;"><strong>To The Thames
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Planes Attacking
Merchantman<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
<strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Driven Off: No
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<span>L<strong>O N D O N , Jan. 11.—Renewal of
widespread Nazi flights over the British coast, southeast Scotland to Thames
estuary, met determined resistance from British fighters and anti-aircraft batteries
to-day. No bombs were dropped and no alarms sounded. The Air Ministry
communique stated that enemy planes appeared off the Firth of Forth and the
estuaries of the Humberand of the Thames were attacked by fighters and
anti-aircraft guns.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span><strong>The Evening News
declared that the last 24 hours were the </strong>busiest <strong>the Royal Air Force
faced since the war began and "they </strong>had <strong>to fight their fiercest
battles."<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The <strong>Air Ministry stated that
Nazi planes, attempting to </strong>bomb a <strong>merchant vessel off the Norfolk coast </strong>was
<strong>intercepted </strong>and driven <strong>off by fighters.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The <strong>communique reported
"Considerable air activity off the </strong>east coast <strong>of England and Scotland
this morning," listing raids on Newcastle on the </strong>Tyne, <strong>the Firth of
Forth, and the H umber and Thames estuaries.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Anti-aircraft
fighters fought off a lone plane off the northeast coast early this morning. It
was the first enemy air raid of the war over Tynesside, important shipbuilding
and shipping centre.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Anti-aircraft
shrapnel fell over a wide area, endangering spectators. The windows of a 'bus
were shattered. One report said three raiders and six British fighters,were
involved. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Shrapnel fell in
the streets of South Shields during ten minutes of firing,'' The plane
apparently circled back over the town and again was fired on.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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