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BATTLE JOINED FOR MAIN RUSSIAN DEFENCE LINES
Panzers Penetrate Stalin Line Fortifications HUDSONS' Moscow Claims Red FIGHTING SUCCESSES Army Brings Blitz IN SOUTH To A Standstill
IN NORWAY
Details are given by the Air Ministry news ser- vice of an attack by Coastal Command air- craft on German supply ships.
Two supply ships were creep- ing along the Norwegian coast.
A Hudson off Norway sank a heavily laden 3,000 ton vessel and half an hour later another Hudson only a few miles from the scene of the first attack badly damaged a smaller ship.
Earlier in the day
Blenheim
bombers of the Coastal Command got two direct hits on a 4,000-ton vessel in the Channel,
The first attack off Norway was! made about mid-afternoon.
Clouds of steam and smoke followed a direct hit and debris was flung 50 feet into the air. The ship swung violently to port and was settling by the stern when iast sten.
The pilot of a second Hudson dived nearly 2,000 feet through the ship's A.A. fire before letting go his bombs.
He got two direct hits on the stern of the vessel and a sheet
AMERICA
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It was officially an- ALL INDICATIONS FROM THE MEAGRE AND CONFLICT-nounced in Santiago
yesterday that ING REPORTS OBTAINABLE IN MOSCOW AND BERLIN ON Chile THE RUSSO-GERMAN FIGHTING TEND TO SHOW THAT Peruvian troops on Satur- WHILE THE MAIN GERMAN ASSAULT HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY day attacked Ecudorian BROUGHT TO A STANDSTILL, ADVANCE UNITS OF GERMAN frontier posts, and authorised circles affirm PANZER DIVISIONS, WHOSE STRENGTH IS NOT BELIEVED the Peruvians are concen- TO BE CONSIDERABLE, HAVE AT POINTS SUCCEEDED IN trating troops "at Japan- PENETRATING A SMALL DISTANCE INTO THE STALIN LINE.
ese instigation,”
ABYSSINIA CAMPAIGN
VIRTUALLY OVER
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Nine Italian gener- als and 5,000 troops in the Galla Sidamo
of fame was followed by a mass region of Abyssinia
of drifting yellowish black smoke
which persisted.
This ship also swung violently to port as though her steering gear had been damaged.-British Wireless.
CONVOY ATTACKER DOWNED
have surrendered, vir- tually bringing to an end the last vestige of Italian resistance in East Africa.
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The garrison Gondar is still holding out. International News Service.
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Vichy Finds
The Outlook
AN ADMIRALTY COMMUNQUE STATES THAT A GERMAN. AIRCRAFT WAS DESTROYED WHILE ATTEMPTING, TO-AT- TACK A CONVOY, OUR SHIPS| SUFFERED NO DAMAGE DR 66 CASUALTIEB A MON The enemy was engaged by
nrahips.
"Gloomy"
The Stalin Line, Russia's main defensive positions in depth, is now in action for the first time and Berlin has put forwa.d the usual claim that “we have smashed our way through the Stalin Line and have captured strongpoints.”
Moscow, while admitting the Line is be- ing battered by the Germans, does not con- firm in any way the German claim of suC cesses, saying that only advance units are engaged and these have not penetrated far into the elastic de-. fence system.
Such forces as have
in succeeded breaking through at some points are in an extremely dif- ficult position, it is stated in Moscow, as they are being engaged by Soviet | förces which the Ger- mans left in their rear i their typical blitzkrieg methods.
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That this is the course fighting is now taking is indicat- ed by an official German news agency report which states that "some Russian forts are, still hold
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MILITARY QUARTERS IN able difficulties in our rear. *** After dropping two bombs the VICHY YESTERDAY, COM Beresina Front Intact ircraft was hit and cau fire, MENTING ON THE OPERA- Crashing into the sea, it
The type could not be identi- Red British Wireles
AXIS AIR RAID CLAIMS
TIONS IN SYRIA," "ADMITTED THE OUTLOOK WAS "GLOOMY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICESSE
PRECAUTIONS IN SHANGHAI
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Moscow reiterates that the Germans have failed to force a Corozeing of the Bozoring River and heavy fighting is: raported at Ostrov, 200-miles south of Leningrad.
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The Germans claim they are less than 300 miles from Moscow as the result of their reported TSPECIAL TO "CHINA, MAIL"] The Shanghai police have break through, though this
An Italian communque yester taken special precautions, in co-denied in the Russian capital, day claimed that heavy Axis air operation with the foreign.defence where it is stated the Germans attacks have been carried out forces, on the anniversary of the are being made to pay dearly for HEAVY on Malta and Cyprus, in the Inst outbreak of Sino-Japanese hos every inch of ground." News tilities.International News Ser- ANOTHER VERY 24 hours International
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The Ecuador Defence Minister Ecua- announced in Quito, the dorian capital, that Peruvian attacked Ecuadorian troops frontier posts at Eloro,' Sitio, Aguas Verdes, Chacras, Carcaban and Quebradaseca on Saturday.
Shooting lasted several hours but no detalls have yet been Issued.
USUALLY WELL-INFORMED CIRCLES IN QUITO SAY: THE
PERUVIANS ARE REPORTED
TO BE CONCENTRATING LARGE FORCES OF TROOPS
"AT JAPANESE INSTIGATION.”
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