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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 1

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High water to-day, 9.04 p.m. Sunset, 7.43; sunrise to-morrow, 5.02. Further J class locomotives arrive in Dominion. More soldiers return to camp after final leave. Imprisoned British diplomat released ■bv Germany. Red 'bombers ineffective in raids on Finnish cities. Daily Moscow-Berlin air service to start January 1. Campers suffer seriously from heavy Wellington floods. War trade pact signed between Sweden and Britain. Gathering at Aratapu celebrates 90th. birthday of early pioneer. Drive against I.R.A. members launched in Belfast; no arrests yet. \outh drowned in attempt to swim across creek near Wellington. Further plans announced for Domain parade of troops from the north. Kntire crops of Gisborne orchards destroyed by disastrous hailstorm. Auckland Plunket Shield cricket team returned home from Wellington to-day. ellington suffers as continual downpour causes slips and extensive flooding. Definitely established that eight, not ten, perished in Queensland hotei fire in week-end. Sixteenth Brigade, 2nd A.1.F., to march through streets of Sydney on January 4. B. T. Lavcock leads qualifying players in North Shore open summer golf championship. British military correspondents pay tributes to skilful tactics of Finns against Russians. • •Chief problem that Finnish Government has to solve is one of supply, say British Press commentators. _ Finals in Auckland Lawn Tennis Association's annual handicap tournament played at Stanley Street to-day. j Chinese claim to have inflicted 100,000 casualties on Japanese in simultaneous attacks on all fronts this month. Further 5000 Swedish reservists called up for "winter warfare training"; operations near Finnish frontier. Captain of Auckland Plunket Shield cricket team said to-day that he was especially pleased with the performances of his bowlers against Wellington. Brilliant series of nine successive wins completed to-day by the three-year-old Beauliyre in taking the King's. Plate at Ellerslie. The horse will go to Australia shortly. 'Blood types" of every member jf 2nd A.I.F. to be recorded on pavbock and also inscribed on back of identity disc to facilitate blood transfusions for badly wounded men. Dublin ringed -with steel as military tightened cordon to ascertain whereabouts of large supply of ammunition stolen by I.R.A. from army magazine; quarter of a ton already recovered.