BRITISH LEGION

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 68, 13 December 1939, Page 9

BRITISH LEGION

Being Formed To Aid Finland VICE-CONSUL ACTS (Received December 12, 7.5 p.m.) HELSINKI, December 11. The British vice-consul in Helsinki, Mr. Nigel Allan, has resigned in order to organize a British Foreign Legion to assist Finland. It is stated in • Washington that stocks of American trucks, medical supplies and oil are held at strategic European points and can be moved to Finland rapidly. It is revealed in London that some .Swedes are already fighting in the Finnish army, for which thousands have volunteered. More than 600 Danish nurses have volunteered to join a Danish Red Cross unit in Finland. A Stockholm message states that the Polish Ambassador in Helsinki and the whole of the Embassy staff'have volunteered to serve with the Finnish forces, —By radio. MASKS FOR HORSES Finnish War Purchases In United States (Received December 12, 9.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 11. As an experiment Finland has bought 1000 American gas masks for war horses. Finnish representatives are also negotiating the purchase of large quantities of civilian masks, which will be delivered swiftly, together with 155 field guns, aircraft and rifle ammunition.

THREE STEAMERS SUNK

Submarines In Baltic LONDON, December 11. Helsinki reports that an unknown submarine sank the Estonian steamer Kassa, which is. not listed at Lloyd’s. Two of the crew were injured and one is missing. A Stockholm message reports that the Estonian steamer Kassari (390 tons) was also sunk by a submarine. It is believed that the attacker was a Russian craft. All the members of the crew of the Kassari were saved. An unknown submarine torpedoed the Greek steamer Garoufalia off the Norwegian coast. Four of the crew were drowned and 25 saved. NEW SOVIET STEAMER Journeying To Russia AMSTERDAM, December 11. On the eve of the League Assembly meeting, the new 22,000-ton steamer Stalin, built in Holland for the Soviet, quietly slipped out of Amsterdam for Russia.

RUSSIAN POLICY IN FAR EAST New Attitude Toward China And Japan ( Received December 12, 9.-10 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 12. The Shanghai correspondent of the “New York Tinies,” in connexion with China’s reluctance to offend the Soviet with an adverse vote at. Geneva, reports that Power politics in the Far East are assuming a new phase. Chungking sources, he states, report, that Moscow is coupling dilatory tactics in the parleys with Tokio with intimations that the time has arrived for China formally to recognize the independence of the Outer Mongolian Soviet Republic and formally to relinquish the Chinese claims Io its sovereignty, hinting that, if China does not the Soviet’s supplies of arms and aircraft will diminish.