SOVIET THREATS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1939, Page 5

SOVIET THREATS

NON=AGGRESSION PACT RENOUNCED TALK OF “RETURNING FIRE.” IN EVENT OF “REPEATED PROVOCATION.” (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) LONDON, November 28. The British United Press Moscow correspondent says M. Molotov told . the Finnish Minister that the Soviet intends to renounce the So-viet-Finnish non-aggression pact, because the Finnish foreign policy is inconsistent with the pact. The Moscow radio announces that the pact has already been cancelled. The staff of the Leningrad military district has issued the following order: “In connection with provocative artillery fire upon our troops from Finland, Soviet troops are ordered to return the fire, in the event of repeated Finnish provocations, until those who started .the shooting are annihilated.” FINNISH HEAVY GUNS AT LEAST 31 MILES FROM FRONTIER. HELSINKI, November 28. The president of the Finnish National Defence Council, Field-Marshal Mannerheim, after a tour of the frontier, declared that the Finnish heavy artillery is at least 31 miles from the Soviet frontier. RUSSIAN BATTERIES ' PRACTICE AT ENTRANCE TO FINNISH GULF. (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) LONDON. November 28. The German Press reports that the Russian costal batteries in Estonia controlling the entrance to the Gulf of Finland have carried out their first practice.