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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 69, 14 December 1939, Page 9

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Nazis Aid Blockade Of Finland WAR NEEDS STOPPED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 13, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 13. After Britain granted licences for the export of war material to Finland, Germany has openly come out on the side of the aggressor. Official sources confirm that Germany is making full use of her strategic position to prevent supplies reaching Finland from other countries, and also that Germany is holding up orders that were placed in neutral countries before the war. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, -Mr. Chamberlain, said: “I have not had any official confirmation of reports that Italy and Germany are transporting and selling military equipment to Finland.”

Reports of an augmentation of the Finnish air force by the arrival of a considerable number of Italian aeroplanes should lie discounted (states Official Wireless). Authoritative British circles believe that very few Italian aircraft have reached Finland. It is understood that only a small part of an order given by the Finnish Government before the Russian invasion has been executed. The remainder ,of the order is held up in Italy because of difficulties regarding transit raised by Germany, which is now using its strategic position to prevent the supply reaching that country from a State anxious to prove its sympathy with the latest victim. of aggression.