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Show U. S. Banks Get Jump on News Information available to European Euro-pean affiliate, of United States banke continues to be anywhere from a. week to a month ahead of the versions permitted over censored cen-sored cables. Where Helsinki releases re-leases report that the Russian advance was halted by new arrivala of Swedish equipment, financial channels have It that all Stockholm Stock-holm help came to an end three weeks ago. Late In December an unpub-llclzed unpub-llclzed agreement was pushed through between London and Stockholm whereby England agreed to replace barrel for barrel all the fuel oil Swsdsn would sell to the Finns. These British replacements re-placements were a sine qua non before Stockholm would risk depleting de-pleting fuel reserves needed for Sweden's mechanized divisions. British deliveries were fulfilled and tankers still thread the Baltic northward. But Swedish deliveries deliv-eries to Finland came to a complete com-plete halt a week before the big Russian push. The aame sources report that several battalions of Swedish volunteers who were about to cross the border were ordered back to barracka pending solution of the neutrality fight which la splitting King Gustav's cabinet. |