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British Sign New Pact
Strengthening Trade
Ties With Turkey
Agreement Guarantees
Favorable Balance
For Near East Ally
LONDON, Feb. 12 Of).—Britain
today announced a new Britlsh
Turkish trade treaty would go into
effect February 19, to remain in
force for one year and successive
annual periods unless abrogated.
A white paper said the agreement
was reached in London February 3.
The trade pact further cemented
relations between the two powers,
which already have a mutual as
sistance pact and agreements en
abling Turkey to purchase extensive
armaments in Britain.
Either nation must give not less
than three months’ notice to term
inate the new treaty.
The pact, modifying and consoli
dating one concluded in 1936, was
signed by Foreign Secretary Lord
Halifax and the Turkish Ambassa
dor, Tevflk Rustu Aras.
It provides that British exports to
Turkey shall not exceed 80 per cent
of Turkish exports to Britain, giving
the Turks a favorable balance in
their commerce with Britain.
Turkey’s trade has been a prize
of keen competition between Berlin
and London.
As a stimulant Britain has di
verted her huge tobacco buying from
the United States to Turkey.
In 1938 Turkey’s imports from
Britain totaled about $80,000,000,
approximately one-tenth of all
Turkish imports.
During the same year, she sold
I Britain goods valued at about
I $12,000,000.
Mrs. Lasica to Speak
At 'Y Club' Dinner
For the benefit of women guests,
Mrs. Simon Lasica, lawyer, will
speak on “How to Handle Hus
bands’’ at a ladies’ night dinner
meeting of the “Y’s Men’s Club” at
6 p.m. today at the Smorgasbord,
Seventeenth and K streets N.W.
Mrs. Lasica is librarian of South
eastern University Law Library. Mr.
and Mrs. George Keitel of Harris
burg, Pa., will be guests of honor.
Mr. Keitel is regional director of
“Y’s Men’s Clubs.”
Finns
(Continued From First Page.)
Russian planes were shot down dur
ing the day.
Vigorous attacks were carried out
against other isthmus positions and
northeast of Lake Ladoga, army
advices said. , ,■
The high command's communique
said the Russians lost 380 men
killed in a two-day battle in the
Aittajoki (river) sector and 700 in
the Kuhmo sector.
In the Summa region infantry
fighting had diminished Saturday.
The comparative lack of activity
continued into the early morning
hours of Sunday.
At dawn Sunday, however, ar
tillery fire increased sharply .and
again this morning, marking a new
upsurge in the fighting there, ad
vices from the front said.
Isthmus Line Unbroken,
Writer at Front Says
By THOMAS F. HAWKINS,
Associated Pres* Foreign Correspondent.
ON THE MANNERHEIM LINE,
Summa Sector, Feb. 12.—Confident
Finnish officers declared today the
powe1 of the Red army’s infantry
attacks was waning and predicted
an end soon to the battle on this
front, now 11 days old.
Although Soviet Russia has
thrown her greatest offensive might
into her effort to crack the Man
nerheim Line here, it still is intact
as far as I could observe.
The kettle-drum rumble of Rus
sian and Finnish artillery swelled to
a great crescendo at dawn today, sig
nalling the start of the eleventh day
of battle after a night of muted,
slow tempo shelling.
But Finnish officers said the
Soviet infantry and tanks lacked
the drive of previous days, and
clouded skies kept aerial warfare
to a minimum.
Battles also were reported in
progress in the Lake Ladoga and
Aittojoki sectors, but there, too,
the Finns said the Russians had
not advanced.
No Sign of Break.
Within a mile and a half of
Summa, pivotal point of the Soviet
offensive, where I visited Finnish
positions in a tour of the front afoot
and by sled, I found no indication
that the Finns’ steel-and-concrete
line had been pierced.
(In Moscow, however, a Russian
communique reported 10 Finnish
fortifications captured. This, ap
parently, was in addition to IS
"artillery forts” which the Rus
sians previously had reported
captured and which the Finns
denied had been taken.)
The Russian onslaughts continued
with infantry attacking under the
protection of artillery barrages which
rained shells at a rate of almost
two a second.
But, said a Finnish commander,
"tiredness on the Russian side is
apparent.” Despite such novel equip
ment as steel shields and tanks
which spit flaming naphtha, he said
Soviet troops were protected in
adequately from Finnish fire and
easier to stop than earlier in the
battle.
Counted on Surprise.
“The Soviet high command,” he
said, describing the lighting, “seems
definitely to have counted on a
surprise attack in the Summa sector.
“The enemy is using the best of
all the means at its disposal, not
only heavy artillery, but also a great
amount of bombing planes in con
junction with tanks, armored sledges
and armor-sheltered infantry.
“Infantrymen even atop tanks are
dropping off at intervals to fight.
“There has been no chance to
count enemy losses, but last Friday
on a 300-foot stretch 150 Russians
were killed by our first line. The
total killed has been many thousands
of Russians.
“The Russians have been given
huge amounts of vodka to drink
before fighting. We have found
kegs of it on the battlefields. My
men saw for sure one day Soviets
shot from behind, we believe by
political troops forcing the fight.”
Need for Planes Stressed.
Officers on the Finnish front lines
declare Soviet military planes have
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Customer Leaves
After Felling Grocer
With Blackjack
Thief Drags Heavy Safe
Into Refrigerator, Takes
$750 at Restaurant
William Weigman, 68, was felled
today by a blackjack wielded by a
colored man who entered his grocery
store at 400 New York avenue N.W.
Mr. Weigman told police the man
came Into the store about 7 am. and
ordered some meat. As h» was fill
ing the order. Mr. Weigman said,
the customer drew a blackjack and
without further ado* slugged him on
the head. Then the man left the
store, making no attempt to steal
anything. The grocer was treated
at Sibley Hospital.
Police were Investigating a num
ber of assaults and robberies re
ported over the week end.
Safe Dragged Into Refrigerator.
Among those sought was a “cold
storage yegg” who stole $750 from
a restaurant at 516 North Capitol
street. Stephen Chaconas, proprie
tor of the place, reported the theft,
which occurred early yesterday.
The money was stolen from a safe.
The thief, after breaking into the
restaurant, dragged the heavy
strongbox about 30 feet across the
floor and Into a large electric re
frigerator.
In this chilly atmosphere, he be
gan the work of prying the safe
open with a crowbar. Detectives
said It was a clumsy job and esti
mated it took at least two hours.
Apparently it did not occur to the
burglar that the refrigerator could
be turned off. Police believed he
had gone into the refrigerator to
avoid attracting attention.
Thief Chokes Woman.
Cordelia M. Levy of 15 E street
N.W. was thrown- to the ground
and choked by a thief, who accosted
her at North Capitol and E streets
yesterday. The thug seized her
when she refused to give him her
purse, and fled after he had obtained
it. The purse contained $1.75.
John F. Granger of 137 Tenth
street N.W. was assaulted by three
men who approached him in the
600 block of F street N.W. They
robbed him of $5.
had little influence on the tide of
battle, although they stress their
own lack of planes for combat.
“We hope we get planes, and then
we’ll eliminate that nuisance,” one
officer said.
Russian troops, charging in wave
after wave, have sustained some
attacks 6 and 10 hours, the Finns
said, but other onslaughts have
been brief. They said there had
been some hand-to-hand fighting,
bdt that was between patrols,
chiefly, because the RusSian infantry
could not approach close enough to
the main Finnish lines.
A slackening of Soviet activity to
the east and west of Summa yes
terday was regarded by Finnish
officers as a sign the Russian offen
sive cannot be kept up much longer
unless reinforcements arrive. Red
Army tactics, it was believed, con
template a shift from costly frontal
attacks to another attempt to skirt
the Finnish line across Karelia.
Within Mile of Summa.
I went Saturday night to within
about a mile of Summa to see as
nearly as possible at first hand how
the Finnish lines are withstanding
the pressure of Red Army infantry,
artillery and mechanized attack.
For 30 minutes en route our party
took refuge in a dugout while fl
inch shells, falling within 50 yards,
rattled the snug shelter. Audible
also were the boom and whine of
occasional howitzer and trench mor
tar fire.
The officer with me said the shell
ing often was at the rate of two a
second in an area of about 880 square
yards. I heard and counted 106
bursts in one minute yesterday.
To proceed would have taken us
into the thick of the fighting in the
hilly area through which the Man
nerheim Line runs amid forests and
clearings. The officer deemed it
best not to go further.
While we waited in the warm,
rug-lined shelter our guide an
swered the French-type field tele
phone four times and said he was
told of four frontal attacks by Soviet
tank units, all of which, he said,
were repulsed.
Portable Shield Captured.
We saw one of the portable steel
shields, many of which we were
told had been captured and now are
used for protective lids on the Finn
ish trenches.
The one we saw was not more
than 2 feet high and shaped like
a snowplow, with a hole at the top
for a rifle. Others were" described
as larger, used for machine guns
and—fastened on skis—as a mobile
barrier behind which the Russians
rode into battle.
Foot troops, we were told, crawled
on the ground behind the shields,
but they made ineffective armor.
"It was like the slaughter of cattle,”
the officer declared. "Our men killed
thousands.”
He did not speak of Finnish
losses, saying only that morale was
nigh and that if Finnish wounded
complain, "it’s not because they suf
fer, but because they cannot- keep
fighting.”
The Finnish officer paid tribute
to crews of the Red Army’s tanks,
but disparaged its artillerymen. He
said the Russian artillery, emplaced
far behind the lines, was not very
accurate or effective, but that the
tankmen were trained highly, diffi
cult to combat and “very brave.”
Through Dark Forest.
Reaching the front from the re
serve line meant crawling into a
dark forest in which the blackness
was pierced only by the lightning
like flare of bursting shells.
Groping along crouched over to
avoid a chicken-wire camouflage
covered with snow and evergreens
and feeling among the trees for
sticks which biased our narrow
train, we came to a hill which we
climbed with the aid of ropes to
reach a sled.
The driver and our white-caped
guide sat in front with me, and my
newspaperman companion perched
on straw behind with our legs tucked
in to keep from dangling over the
narrow sides. A fifth man sat on
the rear. We had to clasp our
ankles to hold our balance as we
twisted along the narrow way.
There was a little more room on
the way back because the horse had
eaten part oi the straw.
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