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RUSSIANS DRAW NAZIS DEEPER INTO MARSHES SLASHING Key Battles Within JAPANESE The Next Two Weeks TAKEN BY
AIR VICTORY
Fighter 'planes of the Royal Air Force were again over the Channel and Northern France in strength yesterday after- noon, states an Air Minis- try communique.
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GERMANY'S ARMY OF THE EAST, WHICH HITLER CALLS "THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE EVER ASSEMBLED," IS PLUNGING DEEPER INTO THE MARSHES AND STEPPES OF RUSSIA ON A 2,500-MILE FRONT WHILE HUNDREDS OF NAZI 'PLANES ARE LASHING SOVIET AIRPORTS FROM THE
ANGLO-SOVIET STAFF TALKS
MR. CHURCHILL'S
FINNISH BORDER TO THE BLACK SEA.
Flanked by Finnish and Rumanian often-
sives, the German army, after less than 24 pushes, indicated it was meeting with "ludi-
SURPRISE
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The Russo-German war burst like a bombshell in Japan, both the man-in- the street and high Goy- ernment officials being taken by surprise.
"Blenheim aircraft of the Bum- ber Command which accompani- ed them, bombed the marshall- ing yard at Hazebrouck which
This is undoubted- handles the traffic to the Chan-[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL" Crously weak resistance.”
PLEDGE ly owing to the Russian strategy of allowing were TO RUSSIA FOLLOWED A encountered and heavy losses LONG CONFERENCE BETWEEN the enemy to penetrate to a considerabe M. IVAN MAISKY, AND depth before meeting him with the main
Soviet forces.
hours of one of history's greatest military highest army and navy chiefs,
nel ports.
"Many German fighters
were inflicted on them.
"QUR FIGHTERS
DESTROY.
THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR.
ANTHONY EDEN.
MR
ED 27 OF THE ENEMY AND A NUMBER OF OTHERS WERE SEVERELY DAMAGED BY A Russian Embassy spokesman OUR FIGHTERS AND BOM asserted that the talk was "highly BERS.
satisfactory," but unofficial Soviet
"One of our fighters is missing." sources declared that actual joint It was later disclosed that the Anglo-Russian battle plans against R.A.F. invasion' of Northern Hitler must await conferences
Genera France yesterday for the second; between the respective day cost Germany 30 fighters. Shatff-International News Ser- Reuter.
vice.
SHANGHAI RUSSIAN EMIGRES RALLY
TO SOVIET BANNER
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NEWS OF THE Russo-German war ex- ploded like a volcano in Shanghai's White and Red Russian community-some 30,000 people.p
Two thousand young Reds, sons of form- er White emigres as well as 3,000 young Whites are trying to volunteer to fight for "Holy Russia" with all old political clevage forgotten.
Military authorities predict that great key battles will be fought within the next two weeks, after which a series of typical blitz. pincer movements will be attempted.
are
the
Mr. Matsuoka. the Foreign Minister, accompanied by the
Immediately conferred with
Emperor.
Semi-official Tokyo quarters described Japan's diplomatic posi-
in view difficult
of. Japan's membership of the Axis. BY ANY KIND OF 'ACTION JAPAN IS DEEMED UNLIKELY 1.
A FORT- FOR MORE THAN NIGHT.
tion
as
to
Newspaper extras flooded Tokyo
gathered anu huge throngs watch newspaper bulletin boards. --International News Service.
SERVICES FOR
0-9 DEAD
The Germans, not yet in con-, ED A CABLE FROM THE FOR- tact with the Russian forces, which' EIGN OFFICE IN HELSINKI [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] total 2.400,000,
creeping REPORTING THAT RUSSIAN
A message from Portsmouth steadily forward with the support 'PLANES BOMBED ALSKAR. A states that the men aboard U.S. of Finnish and Rumanian troops. PORT 20 KILOMETRES EAST submarine, 0-0, have been offici- The drive in the north. aimed OF KOKAR ON THE ARLAND ally given up as dead. The Navy at Moscow, is following the ARCHIPELAGO.
Department in Washington same route taken by Napoleon in! The Russians also bombed two announced that salvage operations bis disastrous effort to conquer Finnish
and warships,
the will be discontinued though Russia in 1812.
Finns claim no hits were register funeral services will be held
disaster this ed. "Everything iş otherwise the scene of the Russians Bomb Alskar quiet." the cable added. Interna- afternoon.-International
News
Finnish troops are advancing In the direction of Leningrad while the Rumanlans have penetrated deep into Bessara. bla, where the Russian de- fences were only slight, Nei. ther force has yet met any Opposition.
The German air force has bombed Soviet air bases in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia,
IN WASHINGTON. THE FIN-
NISH LEGATION HAS RECEIV-
HITLER
TAKES ON TOUGH JOB
Last night, young Red Russians Many Nazis, and particularly paraded the streets in the French German officers who attended, [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] Concession's "Moscow Boulevard" came away snickering at the LONDON OBSERVERS POINT singing Red and old White Rus-paperlike, Russian tanks which | OUT. IT IS CURIOUS THAT sian war songs.The Red ones were blotted out by the plucky. HITLER'S PROCLAMATION DID were recently learned by new re- Finns International News Ser-NOT REFER ANY WHERE TO cruits to the Red PartyWNs 'vice.
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ITALY AND JAPAN, APPAR- ENTLY CONFINING THE RUS- Whites born In Shanghai are being gradually weaned, from
SIAN CONFLICT TO «GER- MANY, FINLAND AND RU- their fathero' bitterness against- the Communist Regimo, and
LATTER OF MANIA, "THE WHICH HAVE BOTH reol that after all Russia 10 their only country no matter [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] TERRITORY TO RUSSIA political complexion. 5.
According to a Berlin message, Omolals take a very interested The Declaration of War shortly the Italian Ambassador to Ber- view of the Russo-German war. that Hiller hus followed last night's special lin Signor D'no Alflere, has an- pointing out showing by the local Soviet nounced Italy's formal entry into undertaken a task which pre- authorities of a picture record of the war against Russia in nc viously he had made every effort the Red Russian attack on the cordance with Italy's Axis oblito avoid, namely, fighting major Mannerheim Line during the in- gations International News Ser powers in both East and West,
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