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NAZIS ATTACK SOVIET FLANKS Thrusts At Ostrov And Mogilev
EUROPEAN Moscow Claims
BADLY INJURED
Permanent Staff In- structor Wood, R.A., was the victim of a serious motor-cycle accident in the New Territories last night.
P.S.I. Wood, who was driving an Army B.S.A. motor-cycle, was! returning from Lowu at about 9 o'clock when he misjudged bend in the road near the Equine Sports Club at Shatin,
off P.S.I.
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The motor cycle plunged the road into the sea, Wopd being rescued by villagers and taken to the Equine Sports Club, suffering from injurica to the spine.
WDS
P.S.I. Wood was later remov- ed to Kowloon Hospital in an ambulance. His condition stated this morning to be grave.
is P.S.I. Wood
attached to Corps Artillery, H.K.V.D.C., and had been at Lowu in connection; with Battery training.
U-BOAT SUNK OFF GIB.
A German submarine was sunk off Gibraltar yesterday morning by the Fleet Air Arm, according| to Spanish reports from La Linea.
Two members of the crew were rescued and taken to Gibraltar.
It is believed the subniarine a large was lying in wait for British convoy of 27 vessels which passed through the Straits yes- terday morning-Reuter,
NORWAY'S FIGHT
THE "NEW YORK TIMES." PRAISING. NORWAY, -STILL FIGHTING AND TRAINING MEN IN CANADA, SAYS:
Here is a new order different la practice from the abomination, Hitlerism would force upon unwilling world..
an...
In Norway brute force has hi ready suffered an idealogical de- icht Never In, their history have. the Norwegian people been worth of honour than -to-day "-
BOMBS ON MALTA
SOVIET
Victory In Swift PARLEY
Counter-Stroke WITH THE
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CONCENTRATION OF THE HEAVIEST WEIGHT OF THE GER- MAN OFFENSIVE POWER AGAINST THE TWO WINGS OF THE LONG BATTLEFRONT FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE BALTIC IS INDICATED IN LATEST MOSCOW COMMUNIQUES.
ARMISTICE OFFER REFUSED
BY GEN. DENTZ
All through the night of Monday-Tues- ◊◊ day and yesterday morning, great battles ebbed and flowed in the Ostrov and Mogilev- Podolsk sectors, the former on the Russo- Latvian frontier, and Mogilev on the Russo- Bessarabian border.
an-
Radio Paris, quot- ing a message from Beirut yesterday, said the British High Com- mand in the Near East, has made other armistice pro- posal to Dentz, in command of the Vichy forces in Syria, which was again rejected.-Reuter.
POLISH
A further meeting was held between Russian and Polish representatives last
Saturday to discuss rela-
tions
between the
countries.
two
WERE
THE DISCUSSIONS DESCRIBED IN LONDON LAST NIGHT AS "A VERY IMPORT- ANT AND ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENT.”
however, that It was added, much remained to be done.
An important phase of the on Polish centres negotiations
hands, soldiers now in Russian
Strong Soviet counter-attacks have stop- ped the Nazi assaults in their tracks, accord- ing to official reports on the operations, in which the Nazis are battering against strong ways a diplomatic correspondent. points in the Stalin Line.
The Germans have also reached The enemy fled so hurriedly
the fringes of the Stalin Line in that he threw down his arms and the Polotsk sector, east of Minsk, equipment. but all attempts to make headway The communique also speaks of successful Soviet air activity- have been shattered. General
Japan Tightens Belt
Japan is tightening her financial belt.
Following a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday it wasan- nounced that owing to the "grow ing tense international situa- tion," the budget for the next financial year 1942/3 will be com piled with the greatest · stress laid on the tightening of Japan's war footing."
Advance Stemmed
The most recent of Moscow Reuter. communiqués announces the complete defeat of the Ruman- lan-German divisione in Beɛsa- rabla, as the result.of a lightning counter-stroke which, it is claimed, threw them back acrosR the River Pruth-internation- al News Service.
Fierce Fighting
The Soviet night communique yesterday announced that through- out Tuesday flerce fighting con- tinued In the Ostrov, Polotskt, Novograd-Volynsk and Beltsi sec-
tors.
Soviet troops. supported by tanks and aircraft, made a number of powerful counter-drives ho`d- ing up the enemy advance.-Reu- ter.
Point-Blank Range [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] Point-blank fire from Russian artillery in the Stalin Line forti- Mogilev destroyed fications near an entire Nazi battalion, it was claimed in Moscow: yesterday;
The Nazis have been halted dead at all points on the front, it New demands are to be limited was added, the severity of the fighting on the Mogilev-Podolsk thu to items ind'spensable to
sector being stressed, expectation of national policy and estimates already approved. It is here that the Rumunians will be reviewed and drastically and Germans are striving to pierce curtailed. Reuter
the Stalin Line and advance on Kiev, capital and key railway cen tre of the Ukraine. International
BIG REINFORCEMENT
OF SPRINGBOKS
News Service.
Smashing Defeat
The Jargest contingent of A Soviet communique broadcast, South African troops since the over Moscow radio announces that An enemy aircraft on Monday embarkation of the original East on the. Bessarabian, front, German night dropped bombs in south African force has safely reached and Rumanian troops were driven Malta without causing damage or North Africa, according to a back in disorder beyond the River casualties, it was officially stated Reuter message from Pretoria Pruth as the result of Soviet coun-
ter-attacks. esterday, says Reuter.
this morni
Main points of the Russian communique issued at 12.30 are:
"In the directions of Ostrov, Polotsk, Lepel, Bobruisk, Novo- grad-Volynsk and Mogilev- Podolsk (Ukraine) fighting con-
An interesting suggestion has been made that they should bo re-formed and re-equipped
and, acting under the command of the Polish Government, re- sume their fight against common enemy. Mr. Anthony Zaleski,
tha
M.
Foreign
saw Eden
Office
the Polish Minister, at the Foreign Last night when Russo-Polish matters relations were among discussed.-Reuter.:
tinues with unabated ferocity.
Ostrov- the enemy advance. is being stemmed:
Polotska stubborn struggle
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