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...eleventh of its elaboration in Finland, a gigantic slushy stalemate persisted on the Western Front; a third contingent of Canadian troops arrived in England and the first Australian and New Zealand divisions landed at Suez; desultory sea sniping was continued by Germany on Allied and neutral shipping (see col. 3); and in Paris, the Allied Supreme War Council held its fifth full-dress meeting...
...fresh from checking over Turkey's armed forces, which number another 200,000 regulars, 700,000 reserves. If there was any doubt about what Turkey's Foreign Minister Saracoglu meant when, on his way to last fortnight's Balkan Entente meeting, he said: "Turkey is not neutral but only nonbelligerent for the moment," it was dispelled last week by a sudden Turkish gesture. Under the emergency powers voted to the Government by Parliament last month, Turkey seized the Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn and dismissed 20 German technicians employed there outfitting two new Turkish submarines, together...
...Again last week Berlin and London engaged in a claiming argument about total merchant tonnage sunk since September. Berlin claimed 409 victims, Allied and neutral, totaling 1,493,431 tons. London reported that the real figures were 274 ships, 925,044 tons. Lloyd's Shipping Gazette appeared to umpire the debate by listing as lost, from its authoritative sources, 281 Allied and neutral ships of 977,790 tons...
...employment via Japan and Siberia to Germany (TIME, Jan. 29). These the British interned at Hong Kong. Japan fumed. Great Britain cited her rights under a convention of 1909 (never ratified) which says that persons liable to military service for an enemy may be removed by a belligerent from neutral ships. But last week Britain backed down to the extent of offering to hand back to Japan nine of the 21 Nazis. Her basic reasons for this were: 1) to save Japanese "face"; 2) "One war at a time." This gesture was met by Japan (which also...
LONDON--Great Britian tonight assumed the diplomatic offensive against Norway in the Altmark incident, demanding that Norway intern the German "hell ship" and charging Norway with falling in its duty as a neutral...