Show 5 Friday Mornlng- y - Doubt Cast on Reliability Of Nazi War Reports By Kirke L Simpson Associated Press Staff Writer Conflicting clajms from Berlin and London as to the progress of the German British French war on its only active front the sea share world attention with Russia’s moves as Europe’s strife drags Into its fourth month the allied blockade has had on Against a picture of developments of the war at sea drawn for Germany to (fate This magazine is sponsnrerfHlV the No 2 nazi parliament by Winston Churchill Field Marshal Goering and bolstered by specific figures Berlin advices that nazi operations Added Confusion hv submarine mine airplane and At least a hint of qdded confu surface warships are weaving an “impenetrable" counter blockade sion in nazi high councils may be about the British Isles sound fan- - drawn from the fdet that such an tastir Unless London is concealing article was permitted publication sea losses in’ direct violation of in Berlin at the very time other the nazi spokesmen were whistling up announced British policy Churchill report makes the Berlin German spirits with reports that version sound a bit like nazi Ihe British navy had abandoned the North Sea because of German Whistling in the dark It may have been issued for attack Nor can there be any home consumption rather than in longer much doubt that some nazi any hope of its acceptance by the leaders are watching the ripening neutral world as an authentic ac- fruit of the sovict-naz- i partnership count of the war at sea- There with troubled eyes Moscow's report of a Russian has been little in the war news of on the Karelian late to cheer German public opinion and much to discourage it inpeninsula north of Leningrad as cluding the Russian sweep Into yet unconfirmed brings closer the hour when the actual Russian purFinland pose in Finland must be made Seeping Into Germany clear not only to the world but Some hint of the plight in which to Berlin At no time since the h Germany now finds herself in her crisis developed have nazi doubtful partnership with Moscow must be seeping through to the spokesmen endorsed any other German public despite every pre- Russian purpose on that German caution to prevent it Some word flank than territorial and other of the Churchill statement on three adjustments to secure Leningrad months of the war at sea must from military attack and protect also sooner or later raise doubts in Russian outlets to the Baltic via the Gulf of Finland many German minds as to dependconten-tion- s d ability of Enlisted Soviet Aid that the British navy has alTo avoid a scene of to war nazi the battle ready fled seek refuge in remote harbors diplomacy enlisted soviet cooperaTruth will out sooner or later tion in the deletion of Poland from even In war times and against the map of Europe as an independent nation With Moscow hamevery expedient of any govern mant to withhold it And by the mering its way toward colhplete criterion of neutral hookkeeping subjugation of Finland toward on sea losses to date the Churchill domination if not actual invasion report comes far nearer the truth of Scandinavia and glowering than does the account attributed threateningly at Rumania in the to German military experts It Balkan tinder box a menacing also jibes with a gloomy picture— form of encirclement of Germany from the east and by her soviet drawn in the official nazi magazine Four-Yea- r Plan— of effect “friend'1 is taking shape Russo-Finnis- two-fro- ' m K P and you it’s mi Yours 5 EVE JllSt OH these p g Verms on I tWEEKLYI V Yo&hionohle Winter -- -- nfiph j£ f oun Aiv I-- fC? ft t 1 4 && fifS t $ r 91 U W 4 F ri -- tfcw-- mtiA a - IN V I navy trawler mined Ai Sk NEW ' National t - liliiMt! ftiiiiii iff UD Antagor ‘‘Natic sea — eight lost In addition the British Hender4607 tons son liner Chancellor -was reported sunk in a collision with another vessel while travelWRSPHOfS ing in convoy across the Atlantic with a cargo of American cotton The Chancellor's crew was resthe Danes reportedly found cued Another convoyed vessel on the Zealand coast with which the Chancellor collided was reported damaged seDynipo wt r verely 6 Feather Meantime coastal lifeboats from Speaker Dartmouth and Plymouth were touch Tuning Keys 7 racing to avert another tragedy as Tubes 2 Bands the Belgian steamer Louis Scheid Equipped for Television which rescued most of the 14 pasSound sengers and 47 surviving crew members of the Tajandoen reTHE portedly grounded near Star Point on the south coast of England and RECORD PLAYER LONDON Dee 7 (Ah— Great sent an S O S Britain reported a successful defense of the air above her northeast coast Thursday with British Converts the radio at will into a battle planes forcing twm German combination instrument playing recoc electrically raiding groups to retreat ords thru the speaker of the radio But she had to acknowledge the Crystal pick-uPARIS Dec 7 tP) — The French tenth naval loss of the war In the Maginot line of steel brown plastic cabinet and concrete sinking by a mine of the now has a second line backing it navy trawler Washington Eight up the French newspaper Ie Matin announced Thursday night mfn aboard her died in its early editions British airmen reported they "The Maginot line has been scored hits on two of Thursday's doubled and the work Is complet10 raiders none of which dropped ed” the newspaper said adding any bombs All were driven off the new fortifications contain all eight of them as they approached the features its famous forerunner the vital Firth of Forth area in has forts both THERE ARE GENERAL ELECTRIC DEALERS IN big and small caseScotland where lie the city of ments and armored tank dugouts EVERY TRADING CENTER Edinburgh and the' Rosyth naval car traps base In addition authoritative sources said two German Dornier flying boats were badly damaged Wednesday when beset by defense craft as they approached the British east roast The air ministry announced Thursday night however that one British plane failed to return from patrol duty Wednesday Thursday’s sea war toll Included Netherlands motor-shithp 8159-to- n and Tajandoen torpedoed burned in the English channel after calling at a British contraband control port on route to the West Indies Six of the crew were missing It was the eighth ship lost in the war by neutral Netherlands Norwegian shipping also was hit PRE-XMA- S with the loss of the 6214-to- n tanker Britta sunk off England's w'est coast Wednesday night by an explosion— whether from mine or torpedo the survivors could not say Six crewmen were killed British accounts of the mining IF SHE DARED TELL YOU of the trawler Washington sunk Wednesday said she was Ihe first victim of “mines dropped from BEFORE CHRISTMAS the air by German planes” which flew over the Thames estuary SHE’D SURELY SAY Wednesday Mrs May Grimmer resident nf a roastal village gave the following word picture of the Washington mining: "I saw the trawler come from the south There was a great explosion which shook my house One minute the trawler was there and the next it was gone It was pn Jim 'NwmmumzW' Danish naval experts are shown unscrewing the “horns” or detonating mechanism from a mine which washed ashore — Nations Vie to Rush Aid British Plants Sport I Up Production U S May Extend Credits LONDON Dec 7 (UP)— British armament plants are giving priority to Finnish orders it was learned Thursday and the Finnish minister revealed that Finnish orders for arms and munitions had been placed here since the outbreak of war with Russia Diplomatic sources indicated that foreign support of Finland both brigade saying that they were outwar supplies and men would be raged by the Russian invasion Scandinavian foreign ministers forthcoming quickly from several conferring at Oslo announced they countries Aid either was on the would make every effort through way or appeared likely soon from the lengue of nations to halt the Russian aggression by negotiation many quarters Although even before outbreak Italian Assistance Diplomatic quarters said they '& of the European war foreign nations had difficulty in securing would not be surprised if Italian arms deliveries from Britain Brit- sympathy for Finland involved the ish factories now are doing their departure of Italian “volunteers” utmost to get out Finnish orders for Finland on a scale comparable at once It was understood the to Italian assistance given General Finns were likely to obtain more Francisco Franco in Spain The United States was considerthan the 30 reportedly & warplanes already shipped and that British ing a plan to extend credits to aid for Finland would be offered Finland to be applied for the purat the league of nations meeting chase of surplus American foodin Geneva stuffs and other commodities The Finnish minister revealed & Welcomes Volunteers that Finland had been receiving The Finnish minister said his war material from Great Britain country welcomed foreign volun- Germany 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