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Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
GERMAN DRIVE SLOWING DOWN
Furious Clashes On Five Fronts
ESCAPED
ACROSS
H.K. BORDER
Im-
A Junior Chinese .migration Officer, Cheung Fook-cheung, fled across the border into Japanese occupied territory Thursday afternoon in an attempt, it is alleged, to escape from а Police
on
escort, the "China Mail" learned to-day from Mr. G. S. Wilson, Assistant: Superintendent of Police, New Territories.
Cheung
was arrested by Japanese sentry at Shataukok and later handed over to the British | authorities.
It is alleged that Cheung was arrested by the Police on Thurs- day morning in connection with an allegation that he had accepted a bribe of $5 from an immigrant| who crossed into the New Terri- tories from Shataukok.
NAZI ATTACKS ON ROOSEVELT FOREIGN POLICY
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"
The "Voelkischer Beobachter," organ of the Nazi Party, yes- terday described the Roosevelt foreign "catastro- policy as phic."
An attack on Presi- dent Roosevelt's policy also appeared in the "Diplomatische Kor- respondenz," the Wil- helmstrasse organ. International News Service.
Extremely Heavy German Losses
WITH NEITHER SIDE CLAIMING ANY DECISIVE SUCCESS IN THE MAJOR BATTLE WHICH IS NOW RAGING BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN AND GERMAN ARMIES, THE RUSSIAN HIGH COMMAND YESTERDAY ANNOUNCED THAT THE RED ARMY, "WHICH IS NOW COMMANDED PERSONALLY BY STALIN," IS LOCKED IN BATTLE ON FIVE FRONTS.
Furious clashes between opposing tanks, CAMPAIGN
'planes and infantry are taking place in the directions of Polodsk, Nevel, Novograd-Vol-
insk and Smolensk, and the Germans, accord- OF NERVES
|ing to military circles in Moscow last night, are suffering extremely heavy losses.
Russian aerial activity continues to be a feature of the fighting, extensive raids hav- ing been carried out all along the front oooooo. against Nazi mechanised and motorised noon when he suddently broke Columns and aerodromes and in Finland.
away from the police escort and dashed away across the
border.
It is understood that he has Cheung was being decorted to been released on $5,000 bail, and the Police Station in the after. will be charged later in the week.
RED ARMY CLASH
WITH
CHUNGKING CONTRADICTIONS
It is also announced, in Helsinki, dating from 1212, when armoured that Russian 'planes have been Teuton knights were drowned in dropping parachute mines,
the neighbourhood of Leningrad. Saboteurs' Work Glorified
Meanwhile a threat to Moscow
is considered inopportune at the present moment in official Nazı circles, according to the Berlin correspondent of the "Basler Nachichten."
The correspondent comments that this attitude is regarded as an indication that the German drive is slowing down. Reuter's special correspondent in Moscow says the Russian capi- tal has not yet suffered any air raid but the black-out is stricter than ever.
Moscow Normal
When the alert sounds all traffic is suspended and everyone goes to air raid shelters,
Moscow is still looking normal; and, according to press reports, the same is true in Leningrad. where shops are opening normal- ly and factory workers are stead-
In Moscow's famous shopping
there is a vast display of anti-
thoroughfare. Kuznetsky Street, Hitler cartoons, posters and even
IN CONNECTION with reports of the 18th Group Army's attacks on Central Gov- ernment units, Mr. Chou En-lai, representa-ily stepping up production. tive of the Chinese Communist Party in Chungking, in a statement in the "Sin Hua Jih Pao“ to-day, professed ignorance of the National Military Council's orders to General Chu Teh, Commander-in-Chief of the said Army, in advance.
Shansi Attack
oil paintings, some with comiq verses attached.
One painting recalls an incident ised penetration into Yuwangpao
in Ninghsia by the 8th battalion
of the Llu Mow-kung règiment of the 18th Group Army stationed at
Kwanhsien in eastern Kansu. General Chu was instructed to ré- store the arms to the Ouyang Regiment, release Magistrate Sun Pel-wen, and recall the 18th Group Army units from Yuwan- pao."
The Council's telegram was dated July 18, and it was impossible to expect a reply from General Chu Teh on the following day.
Refuting Mr. Chou's statement. the spokesman, of the Council
The second telegram dated said that Mr. Chou's assertion of ignorance was at variance with The first telegram dated June July 5 informed General Chu facts, and revealed that since the
27 stated that the PoYI-po Teh of the unauthorised, penetra- 18th Group Army's attacks on regiment of the 18th Grouption into areas south of Huntung- Government troops occurred, the Army on the morning of June 8 Tunliu Highway in south-eastern Council on June-27 and July 5, attacked the Ouyang Regiment Shansi by the Lel Regiment and respectively, wired General Chu of the Llu Division at Chang Hu Regiment of the 18th Group Teh, instructing him to check chan In southern Shane and Army and, the resulting, clashes these attacks. At the same time disarmed it. par saved with a guerrilla unit under Wu copies of the telegrams were sent Another portion of Po's troops Shih-ming in the Tayuch Moun- to Mr. Chou. Therefore, the on June 12 carried off Magistrate tain area. General. Chu was or- spokesman asserted, it was in Sun Pel-wen of Changtze in dered to check the clashes and correct for Mr. Chou to say that south-eastern Shansi, and other recall the 10th Group Army units he had not been notified in ad--officials. The telegram also noti-to their original assigned posi
fed General Chu of the unauthor- tions, Central News vance.
SUCCESS
The "v" Campaign yes- terday throughout whole of Europe was a complete
success.
Colonel Britton, broadcasting to mid- the European countries at night, said: "A victory has been The mobilisation of the 'V' army against Nazi Germany was a complete success.
won.
"The results have already sur- The painting shows German passed all expectations and a vast Dubmarine prisoners arriving army now stretches from one end and fishes rémarking “The same of Europe to the other." chaps again."
Other carictaures display Goer- ing and Goebbels as examples of Nordic "superfority.”
Col. Britton added the Ger. mans were standing bewildered and frightened, not knowing which direction to face. "The th
There are many pictures of the oppressed nations suffering under
army stands steady. Hiter and nictures glorifying the confident and patient. There will work of saboteurs. Reuter and be no mistakes. We are in no International News Service.
hurry."-Reuter,
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