HELP FROM SOVIET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 10

HELP FROM SOVIET

CHINESE LEADER AIRCRAFT AND TANKS LARGE CREDIT PROMISED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, pel. '.>3 The Japanese Domei news agency reports that Russians have penetrated into Chinese Turkestan as" far as Lanchow, capital of the Kansu Province. "Lanchow is . now a typical 'lied' town," savs the report, "with an air force six times larger than two years ago. All foreigners, except Russians, are withdrawing to north-western China, while missionaries are concentrating at Lanchow preparatory to evacuation." The Hongkong correspondent of the Associated Press of America says increasing numbers of Russian aeroplanes and guns have appeared in China recently. It is reliably stated that .500 Russian military experts are aiding the Chinese generalissimo, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and that additional tanks alul anti-aircraft guns are on the way. The Chinese state that the Russians have promised 30,000,000 to 100,000,000 dollars for war supplies, in return 'for which foreign observers believe that the Soviet has been granted economic concessions in Chinese Turkestan. A message from Chungking says tlip Chinese have recaptured Ma tang and surrounded Yochow. The latter is a strong Japanese position on the Tungting Lake.

COLD INCREASES GERMANS SUFFERING ONLY ONE HOT MEAL DAILY ACCOUNTS OF PRISONERS LONDON, Oct, 123 The cold is increasing on the Western Front, says a Paris message. German prisoners taken during the last 48 hours appear to bo suffering greatly from the cold. They say they had no blankets, and only one hot meal daily. They also state the food received from the French is much superior to the German. In view of the fact that the Germans were blamed during the last Avar for bombing a British field hospital placed in an angle between two strategic railway lines in France, which the enemy was justified in attacking, interest attaches to an announcement by the British United Press that an important port in France, now being organised as a main hospital base for the British Army, may become a neutral zone. It will be suggested to Germany that no aeroplane of any nationality shall fly over the port, and the Allies will similarly respect a corresponding zone in Germany.