THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 5, 1941
STRONGPOINT CAPTURED
Allied Position In Eastern Syria Strengthened
6,000 Yanks
In Army
OVER 6,000 AMERICANS ARE SERVING IN THE CANADIAN
CANADIAN DEFENCE MINIS.
Fresh Success
For Indian Troops
THE CAPTURE OF Deir ex
Zor
ARMY, SAID COL. RALSTON, (announced in Jerusalem yesterday) almost TER, ADDRESSING A JOINT Simultaneously with Palmyra enormously LEGION AND THE CANADIAN strengthens the Allies' positions in eastern AT Syria, since these towns represented Vichy
LUNCHEON OF THE AMERICAN
CORPS
ASSOCIATION
TORONTO YESTERDAY.
Col. Ralston added the fortress strongpoints in this area.
of freedom was held by the fight- ing spirit of
Britain's
Services
and of the men and women, boys and girls of the British Isles. "Reuter.
SHANGHAI RUMOURS
E
Deir ez Zor lies on the Euphrates, 120 miles north-eastward of Palmyra, where the occupation of the famous oasis provided a base for future operations against the main north Syrian cities of Homs, Ham and Aleppo.
respon- reported. Deir ez
French aircraft, the communi- Indian que added, are still active bomb- entered ing and machine-gunning Allied a frontier columns.-Reuter.
The force which was sible for the capture of Zor consisted largely of troops, who presumably Syria from Iraq at point about Kemal,
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] Vigorously denying rumours that the Nanking regime will soon act to take over Chinese courts in,
This further exploit by Indian the Shanghai Settlement, a court troops follows their brilliant work officer declared the international in the Damascus region, where character of the Settlement makes such a step impossible at present
The court premises are heavily guarded by the police for fear of terrorism. International News Service.
SPANISH G.D.C.
APPOINTED
General Munoz Grande, Gover- nor of Algeciras, has been ap- pointed to command the Spanish expeditionary force against Russia and is leaving immediately, says a Madrid despatch to the Vichy news agency quoted by Reuter.
(© JANTZEN
by a series of daring sorties, they helped the entry of the Allies into the Syrian capital.
General Dentz's official com- munique from Syrla yesterday sald nothing of the loss of Dier ez Zor but admitted that large enemy tank column made contact with French troops."
Coast Activity
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The communique also claimed to have repulsed Allied troops in southern Syria, taking number of prisoners.
larze
Beirut.
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Saboteurs Active
is
Large scale sabotage behind indicated the Vichy lines was by a reliable report that a train from Beirut to Rayak struck a land mine placed on the track.) Two wagon-louds of ammuni-
were blown up, and it tion reported that the Beirut radio, which had been silent for about a week, was wrecked by sabolage.
have
lately Vichy authorities been compelled to resort to the
transmitter use of a mobile
.in order to broadcast their news bul- jetins.-Reuter.
BATTLE FOR STALIN LINE
(Continued from Page 1}
Soviet "Pockets"
Resisting
"Soviet forces piled up along the frontier have been scattered and penetrated," says the German news agency.
"Soviet troops, equipment and 'planes have suffered so severely that their losses cannot be made up."
At the same time, the Germans admit large-scale fighting-an im- portant mopping up operation is still going on behind the German front as "pockets" of Soviet troops continue stubbornly to resist.
"The whole terrage is being combed for scattered units of the Soviet Army."
Meanwhile, a threat to Klev, the Ukrainlan capital, Is de. veloping from the south where the Germans claim that Hun- garian troops advancing across the Carpathians have reached the pains beyond and have joined up with the right wing of the German army in Eastern Poland.
Battle In The Passes
"The Hungarians overcame tough resistance by Soviet troops in the narrow. Carpathian passes The LTD. during Thursday's fighting.
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Hungarian air force is supporting the land forces by violent attacks on the Soviet columns."
Reports Indicating the deter- mination with which the Soviet froops are counter-attacking, con- tinue to appear in the German press.
One says: "In the Dubno sec- tor a German unit has for three days held up a violent attack by hundreds of Soviet 52-ton: tanks:
"German anti-tank guns have been in constant action, causing great damage to the tanks, peno- trating, their armament and des- troying their steel turrets.
Twenty-three of the heaviest Soviet tanks have been destroyed." Hungarian troops are already pursuing the retreating enemy in the Plain of Galicia, says, 'an. official Hungarian..communique, qual It also states that the Hungar lan air force successfully bombed military targets. In Soviet Russla.
STOP PRESS
Italian resistance through- out the whole of Mussolini's East African Empire is vir- tually at an end, with the-sur- render of the Italian forces in Gallasidamo.
Except for the Italian gar- rison at Gondar, now hemmed in by Empire and Patriot forces. and a small column which is dispersed In wild country, there are no Italians left to fight.
a
General Gazerra, who sur- renders with the Italian forces in Gallasidamo, is former Italian War Minister, aged 62.-Reuter.
ENQUIRIES FROM THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 10.45 A.M. ELICITED THE
INFORMATION
THERE HAD
THAT BEEN
NO
RE-
FURTHER REPORTS GARDING THE POSITION OF THE TYPHOON AND THAT HOISTED AT 2.05 YESTERDAY. WAS
UP.
NO
1 SIGNAL,
P.M. STILL
re-
Position was, as last
* ported, 20 deg. Lat N.. - 119
deg. Long. E., moving N.W.
be-
Enemy aircraft were lieved to be in the vicinity of the Merseyside area last night, says Reuter from London,
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