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No. 32,996
THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941
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GERMANS RENEW OFFENSIVE
Violent Attacks At
NAZIS SHAKEN
BY R.A.F.
NEW PRICE FOR TRAM AND BUS "SEASONS"
The new rates for season tickets for the bus and tramway com- panies were announ- ced to-day.
Ordinary monthly of the bus
companies will cost $10 and a monthly ticket for the troms is raised to $8.
The fear
tickets that Britain may have scme "unplea- sant surprises" in store for the Nazis in the West, has led the High Com- mand of the German for- ces to maintain consider- able troops in the West, according to the German radio yesterday.
COMMENTING ON THE HIGH| COMMAND COMMUNIQUE THE ANNOUNCER DECLARED: "THE ENEMY IS NOT IDLE ON THIS SECTOR OF THE FRONT, AS IS PROVED BY HIS ALMOST DAILY ATTEMPTS TO RAID THE CHANNEL COAST.
This is further proved by his nightly attacks on north-west Germany.
"THE CENTRAL TARGET IS THE UNHAPPY TOWN OF MUNSTER AND TARGETS OF MILITARY AND INDUSTRIAL IMPORTANCE."
The commentator, after com- m'serating with the citizens who "night after night have lost not their be- only sleep but often longings and their lives," added:
"It is just as impossible to eliminate these attacks as it is Impossible to eliminate artillery fire on the front."-Router.
WILLKIE DEMANDS ACTION
Mr Wendell Willkie told the press after Pre-
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00000 000000000000 S. M. WOODS SLIGHTLY BETTER
'The condition of Sgt-Major Woods, Permanent Staff Instruc- tor, Royal Artillery, who was injured in a motor-cycle accident at Shatin on Tuesday night, was stated this morning to be slightly better.
Nazi
Three Points Defeat In Front Of Lepel
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ADMISSION OF INTENSIFIED GERMAN PRESSURE AT THREE KEY POINTS ON THE LONG RUSSO-GERMAN BATTLE- - FRONT WAS MADE IN AN OFFICIAL MOSCOW ANNOUNCE- VIOLENT FIGHTING IS RAGING IN MENT LAST NIGHT. FRONT OF OSTROV, VOLOTSK AND NOVOGRAD - VOLINSK, AND THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND CLAIMS THE CAPTURE OF OSTROV.
Moscow's version of the day's fighting
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suggests that some further ground has been DESTROYERS
conceded, though there is confirmation of a serious German defeat on the fourth prong of the offensive, in front of Lepel. Elsewhere, the Soviet lines are holding.
German reports speak of "savage resistance" and the casualty toll is mounting. It is also admit- ted in Berlin that large pockets of Russian resist- ance are causing difficulty well behind the present German lines, International News Service.
by | through in the Ostrov, Polotsk
A war communique issued
A YEAR
The United States will be producing 100 des troyers a year by 1943, disclosed Admiral S. M. the Robinson, Chief of Naval Bureau of Ships, in Washington yesterday. The U.S. shipbuilding pro- "In the Ostrov sector our gramme, declared "Admiral Robin- forces are engaged in a stubborn son, was proceeding much faster battle and are holding back the than the most optimistic in the advance of superior onomy Navy Department had expected forces.
and it was "absolutely essential" "IN THE DIRECTION OF to speed 'the production of materi- POLOTSK THE ENEMY RENEW als to keep up with the pace.. ED HIS OFFENSIVE THIS Testitying before the Senate. MORNING. OUR TROOPS MET defence investigating committee, HIS OFFENSIVE WITH DEADLY | Admiral Robinson said the, pro-" ARTILLERY AND MACHINE-gramme was "four or five months" GUN FIRE AND WITH DECI- ahead of the rest of the national
(Continued on Page 16) defence. effort:-Reuter
the Soviet Information Board and and Novograd-Volinsk directions. P.S.I Woods suffered injurie; to broadcast by Moscow radio last the spine when the Army night, declared that throughout, motor-cycle he was riding plunged the day fierce fighting continued
embankment into the against farge over the
sea.
and enemy tank mechanised units trying to break
CHEUNG CHAU
MINE DISASTER; 30 JUNKS BLOWN UP
SOME 30 JUNKS and sampans were destroyed on Monday morning when two of the craft were struck by drifting mines off Cheung Chau Island, according to a belated report received by the headquarters of the Hong Kong Chinese Fishermen's Union last night.
sident Roosevelt's daily Over 100 were killed and injured. Many corpses floating off the Island have since been picked up.
conference yesterday: "There is no use in just giving lip-service to Bri-
tain:
We can either give her effective
Wounded are
in
amithereens. Other Junks and sampaṛs near-
Cheung Chau Hospital by heard the explosion and hur- ald or it would be better hot to try while the more serious ried to carry out rescue work. to give any old at all."
Mr. Willkie said he favoured the cases have been trans- U.S. establishing military bases in ferred to the Queen Mary Northern Ireland and Scotland. ✨
Second Blast
While these boats were search-
Hospital.ing for survivors, another drifting The American occupation. o Ibaland, he dec ared, is in my According to the report receiv- mine struck one of them, ale Judgment, but the first of almilar ed, a large petrol junk loft Cheung The entire fleet of come 30 stops that should be taken." Chau for Ku Lung Bay to take re- boats was destroyed; some being Replying to questions, he said. fuge from the weather at about 0 thrown, with their occupants, It in vital to keep the sen lanes.a.m. on Monday.
© high Ints the airbag BLACK open," and added that British
Police launches and naval patrol shipping losses were running for malling off the north coast of the boats, nesisted-in rescue works but ahead of now constructions
and, the Junk struck a drift-many of the Junk, people, were Rcutor,
mine and was blown. to killed or drowned,
Bome 15 minutes later, whilat
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