Hongkong, Nov. 8.
With a shortage of materials, consequent. Upon the outbreak of war in; wWotk in the Yunhanway has core to a standstill, authoritative Chinese reports xot Chungking said today.
The sedéohial prevalence of epidé- mits in Ytnnan in the autumn, pupa With the opposition tp the fallway by inhabitants of the Burma barber @reas, who feat an influx of Chinese imitigrants from Yunnan when the line is completed, were also tited as contributory causes to the virtual stoppage of work on the Project.
mifications, the report said, has not Chungking Ministry of Com-yet, officially anitounced the stispen-Mot of work on the railway, but ex-were said to be pessimistic
frogtess in view of the lack of re 5 the pea ai apm materials. I Vethactilér newspapers in Kun-thing here urging the authorities to push the construction of the. line energetically by devising new means to acquire the necessary materials, reports reaching here said—Domei.
The Communists, the resolution declared, are politically and bntneally dependent on the Soviets and therefore "blindly follow" all ai Moscow's instructions. The Communist Party is accused of "défending thereby Nazism apg. approving the aggression against the violations of the integrity of the Baltic States, the threat against Finnish neutrality, atid the abapb of the newspaper "Pravda" against Sweden," in conclusion, the resolution' affirmed that, like their French fellow-Communists, the Swedish Reds "admit treason as an instrument in their campaign if the Comintern orders it,"—Havas, Go on New Basis Helsinki, Nov. 7.
M. Viano Tanner, Finnish Finance Minister and a member of the delegation in Moscow, had a long telephone conversation with Helsinki this afternoon. He is reported to have informed his Governrtient' that a new basis had been discovered for the reopened talks between the Finnish mission and Soviet iéaders.—Reuter.
Copenhagen, Nov. 8.
Information from Tallinn says Soviet Russia is now demanding new air bases on Estonian territory in addition to those on the Esthonian Islands, granted under the Soviet-Estonian mutual aid pact.—Havas
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