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Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
NAVAL ACTION IN BALTIC
German And Russian Warships Come To Grips
WHEELER
PEACE PRATTLE
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"! Isolationist and non- interventionist leaders in the United States are back
at the "peace offensive" racket that Germany is embroil- ed with Russia.
now
According to Washington Sources, the isolationists are con- vinced that the Russo-German war affords an opportunity for peace between Britain and Ger-
many.
Senators
They intend to urge President Roosevelt to issue an appeal for the hostilities and an end to negotiation of an armistice.
Wheeler, Taft and Nye, the most vocal of the group. suggest that to-day, July 4, would be appropriate for such a Roose- velt appeal.
of
Sonator Nye has suggested Scotland that Hess landed in with peace proposals, and points out that since the landing Hess there have been no bomb- ings of concequence of Britain. temerity to Wheeler has the
negotiated peace way of would be the "surest 'defeating Hitler," and says that
even if Hitler were to
assert that a
conquer
Russia, the Empire will crack "in
Night Battle FREEDOM Near To
To Helsinki FOR ARMY
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URGED
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A GREAT NAVAL BATTLE HAS BEEN IN PROGRESS DUR- ING THE NIGHT IN THE BALTIC SEA OFF THE COAST OF FIN- LAND, ACCORDING TO FLASH MESSAGES FROM HELSINKI. Residents of the Finnish capital were kept awake by the constant roar of heavy guns, the flashes from which were lighting the sky in a series of unbroken explosionstions, throughout the night.
TENSE ATMOSPHERE IN TOKYO
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the future" and it is unnecessary for Britain to prosecute the war} ►✪ to the end.-International News
Service.
***Senator Wheeler makes no mention of Little Audrey.
Tokyo's atmosphere is one of intense ex- pectancy following Mr. Matsuoka's vagueness on the sub- ject of vigilance. For- eign quarters are free- ly speculating Japan's real decision, but the secret has not leaked from the inner circle of Ministers. International News Service.
LEAVING
EUROPEAN NAZIS
SHOT DEAD
the
[SPECIAL TO “CHINA_MAIL"]
Alleged to be engaged in dope traffic, ex-Inspector Game- den was shot by a gunman Shanghal's Avenue Haig 'yester-
day.
Walking home from, a
.in.
party,
on
GUESSING
Our daylight air sweeps
No indication is forthcoming of the out- come of the battle, but it is suggested that German warships, planning an attack on the great Russian naval base of Kronstadt came into unexpected collision with units of the Soviet Navy.
The battle took place at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, little more than three miles to the east of Helsinki.
On the land front, there is lit le Information since the issue of the last Soviet and German communi- ques, but it is confirmed by the Russians, that the German panzer uni's in the drive round Minsk have reached the western bank of the Beresina River.
the
con- of
our
says: "The enemy suffered siderable losses as the result the stubborn resistance of
It added Soviet troops troops." made bayonet attacks.
the
General Marshall, Chief of the U.S. General Staff, has called for the removal of legal restric-
to permit the Army to serve anywhere in the world. ·
He is also asking for authority for an army of 2,500,000 men and to keep the men of the recent draft and the National Guard re- serves beyond the year stipulat-
ed.
Col. H. L. Stimson has ap- proved the step and points out that
recom- he has already mended Congress on these lines. He made no comment on the possible use of the Army out- de the Western Hemisphore. Senator Wheeler is alleging in- tention to occupy Iceland.
General Marshall points out;
Heavy fighting is reported on
River Beresina, where that the scattering of those called Soviet infantry operating with up to Hawali arid Alaska and else tanka, artillery and 'planes where as "task forces," makes it
defeat "inflicted a heavy the enemy."
on inadvisable to recall them at the end of a year. He does not believe, it to be in the interests of the that United States to overlook during the fighting German tanks, peril of sudden attack.
has made combat with Russian The President
The communique claims
Attempts to establish bridge- | avoided
heads over this formidable heavy tanks and "wherever our comment, but he is studying a down fighter planes appeared we rapid- digest of the proposals at Hyde
obstacle have broken after violent fighting.
In the Luck sector, also, where to- turned Germans have wards Tarnopol in an attempt to find their way round the stubborn Russian resistance, the Germans have been brought to a halt on the new line of attack.-Inter- national News Service.
Dvina Crossed
A MOSCOW COMMUNIQUE FIGHT. ANNOUNCES HEAVY
ING DURING THURSDAY ~ IN THE DVINSK SECTOR ON THE RIVER DVINA.
The communique says the Ger- mans effected the crossing of the
the victim was hit twice in the and night bombing raids River Dvina near Jacobstadt and
head and died almost imme- diately. Motive for the murder "leave
the Germans Dvinsk where heavy fresh fight-
ing occurred.
was aid to be grudge of a rival guessing as to where, dope gang. nternational News
- SOVIET AVIATION HEAVILY when and how the next
THROUGHOUT ATTACKED Service.
pieces of British interven- THE DAY "ENEMY MECHANIS tion will take place," the ED UNITS ON THE PASSAGES
OF THE SOUTHERN DVINA.”
Concerning the fighting in the Minsk sector, the communiqu
Eagle Pilot weekly periodical "Acro-
Shot Down
plane....... said yesterday.
"They are persuaded that no combined offensive by British arms can be undertaken for lands the struggle must be
newed, several months.
TSPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"] The first American pilot of the RAF. Eagle Squadron was shot
"THE RAF HAS BEEN BUSY down on Wednesday 'during the sweep over Northern France, in FOR NEARLY THREE WEEKS! which 18 Messerschmidts were CASTING DOUBTS ON THE destroyed.GARE
ASSUMPTION. “
Three other members of the
re
"British strategy is still tha of renewing the sinews of wa and some of them are now tr be found in France,
"But another.
ther form of strategy Eagles have been killed, but he "Before this month is out there! was the first to be shot down in may be developments which will help to Russia is also in the combat. International News Ser-cause Germany more doubts, and making and France is probably
whose concerned in that too."Reuter vice.
hoarten all people
ly gained the mastery of the air Park. over the battlefield."-Reuter.
Service.
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