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VOL. 42. No. 32. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday March 13, 1940 Price Per 15*
Finland Yields Huge Concessions
British Administrator Bombay, India, Assassinated
Russo-Finnish Peace Treaty Grants
Russia Big Territorial Concessions
From Arctic Ocean to Gulf Finland
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UNDATED, March 12 (/P) — A!
fog of unofficial secrecy blanket
ing Moscow obscurred the an
swer, to Europe’s most urgent
question: peace or continued war.
The Finnish delegates are ap
parently still closeted in the (
Kremlin hearing the Russian
terms. Helsinki newspapers dis-:
agreed on whether the delegates!
were about to come home. The j
Scandinavian neighbors were di- J
vided fifty-fifty between optim- j
ism and pessimism. The Finnish ;
news bureau at Copenhagen said
the Moscow negotiations were ;
still on apparently meaning the'
Russian demands had stiffened, j
The British foreign office said
several communications were
sent to Finland offering military
assistance.
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German foreign minster Von
Ribbentrop returned home to re
port to Hitler on his talks with
Mussolini. Rome sources said he
had been told Italy wmuld stay
out of the war as long as it was
advantageous to her.
Pope Pius observed the first
anniversary of his coronation
with a special mass expressing
the hope that the war end soon.
Heavy gunfire was heard in
Paris but several hours later the
firing was still unexplained.
Peace Rumors Unfounded
LONDON, March 12 (/P)— Reu
ters news agency reported that
the Finnish radio stated at 5:45
pm that the rumors of a peace
agreement had been reached
were unfounded.
50,000 French and British
PARTS, March 12 U-P)—-Premier
Daladier told a cheering Cham
ber of Deputies that 50.000
French and British troops were
fully) equipped with transports
I
[ ready are at embarkation points
j ready to go immediately to Fin
land if that country publicly de
mands it, but no such appeal has
been received.
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I Communications Censored
HELSINKI, March 12 </P) — Of
j ficial Finnish sources denied
! early today that Finland had
| sent any answer to the Russian
, proposals to end the war. Delib
j erations of the Finnish Diet held
: during the night were amidst the
j closest secrecy.
At this point communications
j between Helsinka and Copenhag
en were cut off apparently by
censor.
Nazis Announce Peace
BERLIN, March 12 (JP) — The
Berlin DNB German newrs agen
cy announced from Moscow that
, the Russian-Finnish negotiations
| had ended in a peace treaty and
said the most important points
! were: an immediate armistice;
I cession of the Karelian Isthmus
1 including Viipuri to the Soviet
-Union and granting of a military
base to Russia on Finland's Han
ka Peninsula at the mouth of the
Gulf of Finland.
Treaty Signed 3:30 PST
j MOSCOW, March 12 UP) — An
I official communique announced
that the Russo-Finnish peace
treaty was signed at 3:30 Pacific
time granting Russia huge terri
torial concession from the Arctic
Ocean to the mouth of the Gulf
of Finland.
Finland cedes to Moscow the
1 entire Karelian Isthmus with
the Mannerheim Line, the uncon
quered city of Viipuri, all shores
of Lake Ladoga, a thirty-year
! MARCHING TO FINLAND’S AID
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Volunteer ski troops from Sweden and Canada are shown marchi ng with skis over their shoulders
and rifles slung across their backs as they went to Finland’s aid o n the northern front, according
to the Finnish-approved caption. The question of helping Finlan d with military aid has provoked
a crisis in Sweden.
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j
i lease of the southwestern Finnish
Gibraltar of Hanko for use as a '
military and naval base, leases on j
.far northern Sredni and Ryibachi j
i Peninsulas, also cedes parts of 1
Eastern Finland.
Russia will withdraw her
[troops from the Petsamo district J
I south of the ceded areas and al ]
,so pay a single payment of $750,
; 000 for the Hanko lease.
Finland Yields
More Demanded
Than Before War
—
HELSINKI. March 13 (/P) — A
weary Finland, lacking weapons i
[ and skeptical of foreign offers to
help ended the bitter three and |
one-half months struggle with
I Russia, yielding more soil and ec
;onomic and military independ
! ence than demanded before the i
| war.
At one am Pacific Time the dog
ged courageous army stopped
fighting a.id peace settled over
! corpse-piled Karelian Isthmus
and other fronts. Beginning Fri
;day the troops will retreat at a
rate of about four and one-half
, miles a day to the narrowed
i frontiers fixed by the treaty sign .
ed in Moscow last night. The
treaty is still subject to normal
ratification by the Finnish Diet |
within three days.
Foreign minister Vaino Tanner
broadcast the terms to the peo
| pie said Sweden’s refusal to let
i 50,000 French and British troops
pass through that country to aid:
'Finland against a foe fifty times!
! her size proved an unconquer-1
able obstacle.
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Sy "[jests U. S.
Break Relations
^ith Russia
WASHINGTON, March 13 i/P) ■
— Senator Gillette, member of,
the foreign relations committee|
! asserted that the United States1
! would be justified in protesting |
; against the peace terms dictated j
| by Russian and suggested that
j we might break off diplomatic re
1 lations as a means of indicating
;“our antipathy to such unjusti
i tied aggression.”
PAA Announce
Plans Daily Ser
vice to Honolulu
CHICAGO, March 13 (/Pi —
Juan Trippe Pan American head,
announced plans for daily air
plane service from the West
Coast to Honolulu in land planes
equipped to fly in the sub-strat
j osphere. The planes would make
I the trip in 9 to 9 and one-half
! hours.
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Pres. Roosevelt
Suffers Head Cold
WASHINGTON, March 12 </P>
President Roosevelt suffering a
head cold remained in the White
House for the second consecutive
| day on the advice of his physic
ian.
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GERMAN ATROCITIES
ARE LISTED
ANGERS. France, March—Gen
ral Sikorski, Premier of Poland
vhich government is in exile list
d before the Polish National
I
Council the atrocities and masssc
es which he accused Germans of
i committing in occupied Poland.
Among these he included firing
1 quad deaths of 13G Polish school
oys 12 to 13 years old; the mas
acre of 6,000 Polish men and wo
nen since the first of December;
ieportation of 350 Polish host
ges from Gdynia and their ex
cution after being forced to dig
heir own graves.
At Berlin authorized quarter
'commented ab Sikorski’s “po >r
land pitiful effort” to distract at
mtion from the “German au
hentic list” of such atrocitie:
ammitted by Poles against Ger
mans before the start of the war
nd during the first month.
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To Investigate
Wire-Tapping
Practices FBI
WASHINGTON, March 12 Oh
The Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee recommended an in
quiry into wire tapping practic
es and accusing law enforcement
agencies of having “invesigation
and catalogued persons who com
mitted no crime but whose econ
omic and political views were ob
noxious to the present” office
holders.
Well informed congressional
sources said J Edgar Hoover may
be questioned about the activities'
of his agents.
Italy Agrees To
Supply Coal To
Reich By Rail
ROME. March 13 \JP) — Italy
and Germany signed an agree
ment whereby the Reich agrees
to supply Italy’s coal, as needed,
by rail, in view of the Allied
bit rkage against shipment* b3'
sea.
Nazis Satisfied
With Finnish
Russian Peace
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BERLIN. March 13 UP) — Au-'
thorized German sources beamed
' with satisfaction over the Rus
;ian -Finn ah p ac n ) said the
■ terms ar. “in just proportion to
the needs and necessities which
certain states have the right to
claim.”
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Birt. Administrat
or to Bombay, Ind.
Is Assassinated
By late radio report today it
was learned that Sir Michael
Dwyer, a British official, in Bom
bay, India was shot and killed
at a session of the India congress.
The assailant believed to be a
Hindu fired six shots. Sir Dwyer
was killed and four other were
wounded and taken to a hospital.
The Hindu was caught as he
rushed out of the chamber and
will be held for trial tomorrow.
FORTIFY ALASKA PROPOSED
BALTIMORE, March 10—Rep.
Amborse Kennedy, Democrat
from Maryland proposed in an ad
dress the fortification of Alaska
as protection against “any force
striking at the United States
from across the Pacific.”
Relating his summer’s visit to
Alaska he said that “at the pres
ent time Alaska is practically
without any defensive works
whatever and it is obvious that
; in any war on the Pacific the
enemy will seize and take pos
session of the coast of Alaska in
force and bringing hostile forces
within 750 miles of the United
States.
“It seems highly probable that
we will soon be confronted on
the Pacific with Japan and Rus
sia bound by friendly understand
ing but bent on conquest and
armed to rule of ruin the world.”
ATTENTION
Catholic Ladies will give an
entertainment and dance on St.
Patrick's Day Saturday March 16
at 9 pm for the benefit of the
Pilgrim Springs Mission at the
School Gym.
FINNS SURRENDER KOIVISTO ISLANDS ^
-Gull of
-Fin land
Finnish high command has acknowledged surrender lo the Soviet
invaders of the strategic islands of Kiovisto (1), important because
they are armed with coastal batteries anchoring the western end of
the Mannerheim Line. Further inland, the Russians have already
driven to Kaislahti (2) only 7 and one-half miles from Viipuri.