The Archive · 1939

Soviet Russia Defies League

USSR. Rejects "Kind Invitation"

Argentine Move for Expul Moscow, Dec, 13.

Soviet Union last night rejected the League of Nations' ultimatum demanding Russia's agreement to withdraw her troops from Finland and submit Russo-Finnish problems to peaceful mediation by the League.

The Russian reply was sent to Geneva by the Foreign Commissar, M. Viacheslav Molotov, several hours after the League ultimatum had expired. Although the League ultimatum set a deadline of 8 p.m., Geneva time, it failed By sapajou s. Bremen Reaches German Port London, Dec. 13.

A copart frum Berlin last night says the liner Bremen has safely reached JGerman port "evading French and British surveillance."

Earlier in the day the Admiralty announced that a British submarine reported the Bremen passed her within torpedo range, homeward bound.

The submarine was precluded from torpedoing the Bremen, says the Admiralty statement, by the laws of warfare, which require that a warning given and provision made for the safety of those on board.

The Bremen, in New York at_ the outbreak of war, later made a dash Helsink!, Dec, 13.

The German freighter Borhewn from Hamburg was sunk off the east coast of Finland yesterday unidentified "submarine believed 10 have been Russian, the Finnish radio station announced here last night, More than fifty shells were said to have been fired into the 3,300-ton German ship which went down near The captain of the ship and two members. of the crew were killed in the attack while the other 29 members of the crew reached chore In lifeboats—United Press,

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