THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1941.
THE BATTLEFRONT
Nazi Claim To Smolensk Discredited In Moscow Counter-Attack In S. BLACKLISTS NAZI
Bobruisk Sector Continuing
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)
THE D.N.B. ANNOUNCEMENT THAT SMOLENSK HAS BEEN CAPTURED IS DISCREDITED BY THE SOVIET HIGH COMMAND, WHICH HOWEVER ADMITS THAT THE GERMANS ARE THRÉA- TENING THE FORTIFIED JUNCTION CITY, WHICH IS THE MAIN GATEWAY TO MOSCOW.
occurred in the Kiev sector and that the front has undergone not
Pskov Sector
In the northern sector, the Ger
be mans claim to
threatening Porkhov, east of Pskov, and there seems to be some reason to be- lieved that armoured units have penetrated the Soviet line at some Russian hands.
points, though Pskov is still
in
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The United States has blacklisted 1,800 persons and firms in Latin-America in effort to bolster national defence and close export channels to Germany and Italy, says Reuter from Washington to-day.
BLOW TO AXIS
GENERAL
KILLED
News that the Nazi Major-General Otto Lan- celle has been killed in Russia will be a blow for Hitler, with whom he has always been a favourite.
He was one of the men, it is pointed out In London, who planned the Munich putsch in 1923 and had worked with Hitler ever since.
Lancelle was 56 and came of
which a family
em'grated to Germany during the French Re- volution.
1.
Always opposed to the Com- munia-8, he helped to quell the Communist movement In Munich after the collapse of the German armica.
The Russians state that a heavy battle was in progress all day Wednesday and Important change. through Thursday morning to the west of Smolensk, but claim to be holding the Ger- man attack, while only ninety miles to the south in the Bobruisk sector, the Soviet counter-offensive, which threw the Germans back over the Dnieper, is continuing "in full force with great ardour and success.
list of 1,800 Latin of allegiance to the Weimar Re- The Germans officially were silent yester-tinue to push through the broken American individuals and the army.
public, preferring to retire from Later he became one day on the claim to Smolensk, and Berlin re- ports concerned themselves almost exclu- sively with operations near Murmansk, the drive against Leningrad and the Kiev thrust.
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that
He refused to take the oath
firms is regarded in of the founders of the Stalheimi and when Hitler dissolved the Washington as an econo-organisat on he mic blow to the Axis.
was given a command in the Storm Troopers, No American concern can now with Poland he
On the outbreak of the war export goods to those black-listed,
was promoted who are suspected of "fronting"
major-general.-Reuter. for the totalitarians.
The Germans naturally insist (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] that the Germans have "hurled the The American black- Russian forces into a general re- treat." that the Nazi armies "con-
Line" and, of course, "Important development are rip- ening."
Stockholm despatches received In London
raport a combined Rusalan naval and air bombard- ment of the Latvia port and capital, Riga, which is In Ger- man hands. Russian warships shelling the port were attacked
The executive order announcing In the Kiev sector, the Ger
by German aircraft unsuccess-
the black-list also subjects the fully.
purchases of suspects to seizure. man communique speaks of Nazi panzora
THE LONDON
The firms banned include Ger- "DAILY MIR- "crushing fierce) Russlan counter-attacks” and ROR" QUOTES MOSCOW RADIO man and Italian banks, chemical "aweeping east
FOR beyond Klov
THE ANNOUNCEMENT companies, armis agencies, photo- which is now facing
THAT PLOESTI HAS AGAIN graphic concerns, public utilities, encircle-
BEEN ment."
HEAVILY BOMBED, and the Lufthansa and Condor LEAVING THE PETROLEUM air lines. International News
"A HUGE SEA OF Service.
It is interesting in view of the of the White Sea on the Mur- German claim to have capturedmansk railway. Murmansk in their first onslaught from north Finland, that the Ger- man communique stated: "Mur- mansk is facing fresh danger of capture after combined German- Finnish forces, in a heavy battle, seized the fortified town of Salla. only 65 miles west of Kanda'ak- sha, situated on the northwest tip that no major engagements have FIELDS
The Russians are content to say
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The "Daily Telegraph's" Stock- holm correspondent says that Tal- linn has been set on fire by the Russian garrison. Russian troops are defending a ring of forts round Tallinn while carrying out M. Stalin's scorched earth programme -International News Service.
Still A D.N.B. Scoop Up to 6.30 last evening the Ger- man radio had still made no men- tion of the claim earlier by the official German news agency that the important town of Smolensk, 220 miles west of Moscow, had, been captured by the Nazis,
Five Battles
The following is the text of a Red Army communique issued by the Soviet Information Bur- eau early this morning:—
"During July
on a sector front.
17 our troops
OFFENSIVE PETERING OUT ?
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9,000,000 men are locked in death struggle on the
front.
eastern
STOP PRESS
Thailand has been closely scanning the political horizon in the Far East ever since the outbreak of the Russo- German hostilities.
Recent foreign press and radio hints anent Japan's possible moves, and also Japanese press allusions to Indo-China, have not passed unnoticed in Bangkok. admitted
Hitler's headquarters do- clared that the battle "surpasses all historic precedent." Finnish airmen, it is announc- ed in Helsinki, bombed mansk, though it is that Russian forces "retreating"; east of Orsha are putting violent resistance.
Mur-
are 225 miles from Moscow. The Germans now say
International News Service.
Nazi Friction
up
they
waged battles In the directions If Hitler hoped of Pskov - Porkhov, Polotsk,
for disagree- Smolensk, Novograd-Volinsk and to help a German victory, Rus- ment among the Russian leaders of the Bessarabian sia may now equally hope that "As a result of the fighting, no leaders will help her to win the the discord between the Nazi important change took place in war. says the
Bangkok, news- the disposition of our troops on Brown,
paper "Sheng Thai (Voice of "During July 17, our air force Thai). Reuter. operated against enemy motor and mechanised troops and destroyed aircraft on aerodromes. "During July 15 and 10, 98 German aircraft were destroyed. We lost 23."
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The official German news agency stated early this morning that the Soviet troops are now trying to delay the German ad- vance by attacks. on. German infantry, who are following the armoured advance guards in the Kjev area. Reuter!:
KILLED IN ACTION
IT:18AWITH DEEP REGRET THAT WE HAVE TO RECORD, THE DEATH ON ACTIVE RED. VICE OF IAN BIM FORBED, THE 'BON SOF MA, DID." "FORBES; HONG KONG MANAGER OF ANDERSEN, MEYER AND CO. Ian was in the Royal Air Force, but no details of the circumstances of his death have been received, beyond the fact that he was killed in action on July 7.SOMA ZA
* He lived for some,
Hong Kong and was with Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Matthews for about two years.
DEATH
The dramatic announce- ment of the Konoye Cabinet's resignation caused great sensation.
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Neutral observers in Bang- kok point out that the out-;- come of the Japanese Cab inet crisis must be anxiously awaited in Thailand .in view, of its vital importance to Thailand and other regions of East Asia. Reuter.
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