HOSTILITIES CONTINUE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1940, Page 7

HOSTILITIES CONTINUE

DURING MOSCOW AND ROME DISCUSSIONS Germany Taking Active Diplomatic Part SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE SENT TO STOCKHOLM (Press Association and British Official Wireless.) LONDON, March 10. Three Finnish delegates M. Ryti (the Premier) Dr Paasikivi (who participated in the Moscow negotiations before the hostilities), and a ■ member of the General Stat!, are reported to have "one to Moscow-for discussions with the Soviet Goternment? The Finnish Foreign Minister, M. Tanner, when interviewed, declared that a. decision will probably be reached tomorrow or the next day. He added that if: the Russian proposals were not acceptable the fighting would continue The spotlight is now concentrated on the Russian capital, though the decision of the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, to visit Rome, and the probable arrival there also of Dr Svinhufrud (former Finnish President), after an interview in Berlin with Herr Hitler, are keeping Germany and Italy to the forefront of the developments. Germany is reported to have sent a special representative to Stockholm, where diplomats continue to be. active despite the apparent shifting of the venue of the peace talks to Moscow. Thus far the tempo of the war has not been affected by the peace moves.