MISS MANNERHEIM.
A DEBT CANCELLED. PARIS SHOPKEEPER REFUSES MONEY. «GIVE IT TO nVLAXD." I (Special.—Bj Air Mall.) LONDON, December 23. When Miss Sonia Mannerheim, daughter of the Finnish Marshal, called this week at a shop in Paris, where she is living, to pay a bill, the shopkeeper refused to accept the money. He said: "Plea*e spend the money on the defence of your country instead." Miss Mannerheim, who has lived in Paris since childhood, is helping to organise support and medical supplies in France for her country. Everywhere •he has met with a profound and practical sympathy. Her father most have foreseen the threat to Finland, she declared this week. He came to see her in August intending to stay in Paris for some weeks, but he broke off hia holiday after a few days, saying: "I can't expect other people to be in their place if I'm not in my own first." Other Finns whom Miss Mannerheim knew left Paris when France declared war—they thought they would be safer in Helsinki.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 10
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172MISS MANNERHEIM. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 10
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