Germans Thrown Back From The Outskirts Of Smolensk
RUSSIANS STILL IN CONTROL OF SITUATION
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in Russia)
SMOLENSK, KEY CITY ON THE RUSSIAN CENTRAL FRONT, IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN IN RUSSIAN HANDS, I LEARN ON GOOD AUTHORITY IN MOSCOW, DESPITE GERMAN PROPAGANDA CLAIMS, LATER SUPPORTED BY THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND, THAT SMOLENSK WAS CAPTURED LAST WEDNESDAY.
SOVIET'S
It is true that German advance units reached the outskirts of Smolensk some days ago but they were driven away.
Soviet communiques rightly continue to
POISON GAS speak of "fighting in the direction of
CHARGES
Further
Smolensk."
A new impression is gaining ground among competent "obser- vers that the second big German offensive. directed mainly against Smolensk, is exhausting
The advance is evidently directed at Kandalaks with the object of cutting the Russians off from Murmansak. It is believed the
attacking
details con-self owing to the formidable] forces are now within 45 miles of
Soviet resistance, by supply dif-Kandalaks. Reuter. distances to be covered, and fre- ficulties, intensified by the great
quent effective interference by Soviet guerilla units.
cerning the contents of secret documents detail- ing instructions for the use of poison gas which, Soviet Russia claims, were seized from routed German soldiers al Zapadnala - Psychna on July 15, have now been disclosed.
Ja addition the Russians have Bet up many obstacles on the various but not numerous Smolensk to Moscow reads.
Hopeless Task
While such obstacles some- what hamper the Soviet's own present communications with the front, they may be regarded one reason why the Germans are
Greece Too Big
Handful
The fate of Greece is
SMOLENSK
STILL IN
RUSSIAN HANDS
Reuter's special cor- respondent learned reliably in Moscow yesterday that Smolensk has always been and still is in Russian hands.
LATEST NAZI
DR. LANG ON AID TO RUSSIA
"We must wish every success to the valiant Russian armies and
||peo- ple in their struggle and be ready to give **** | them every possible assist- ance," writes the Arch- bishop of Canterbury in the Canterbury Diocesan Gazette.
FANTASY
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL");
It may seem strange to com- bine "an alliance with Bolshevist Russia with the claim that we are contending for Christian civilisation, says the Primate, but such misgivings are really mis- placed for the first essential of the struggle is to overthrow the evil embodied in the rulers of Germany.
A Nazi victory would destroy form of govern-
Exceeding all previous any tolerable
ment and the Soviets are con-
fantastic claims, the Nazi tending for the principles of
news agency yesterday national freedom and
dence.--Reuter.
put out a report that Ger- man troops had "reached Leningrad from the south-west."
indepen-
New Tolerance
The Archbishop writes: "Russia is contending for the principles of national: freedom and indepen- dence for which the British Com- | monwealth' and the U.S.A. are
standing.
Red Army guerillas, it was .al- leged in Berlin, bad been "com- called to surrender a forest near the Leningrad area."
"It may well be that the Rus- Odessa, says
a German com-sian defence of its own land and munique, was blitzed, "with ter- the new unity which this will rific explosions and huge fires." bring may lead to a new 'tolerance Nazi warplanes, it was claimed, of religion by the Soviet Govern- destroyed a transport train and ment and a new resurgence of the interests of religion, always deep- seated in the heart of the Russian people.
According tu the Russian authorities, the capture 1 packets were realed and stamped by the German High Command and ad- begirning to realise that a Tron-forming the chief subject tracks west of Moscow and also dressed to the 2/52 Nebel Mer-tial attack towards Moscow is a of
Italo-Bulgarian. con- bombed Soviet formations on the fer Regiment.
hopeless task and why they are The high series number of one! endeavouring to explain to the versations which are tak-north-west shore of Lake Peipus.
documents in German public that not Moscowing place in Rome,
army" before Moscow, is their cording to the Rome cor- respondent of the "Tri- ob bune de Geneve.”
of the enclosed dicate that similar instructions but the destruction of the Soviet had been issued to a great num-j ber of other regiments.
Detailed explanations bore the date July 11 and were concerned with the use of "withering” irri-| tant gas shells, the purpose of which wa5 to wear down the physique of an opponent, and then the use of blue ring and gizen ring gas shells containing vchicant (blistering) and lethal gases, Reuter.
other
SOVIET SINKS 10 NAZI SHIPS
Ten enemy ships, it is now learned, were sunk when Soviet bombers at-
immediate objective.
The whole situation in the Leningrad sector 1s scure.
more
German Thrust
ac-
to
-International News Service.
MAN DISAPPEARS
The correspondent says; "Italy, which is finding the occupation of Greece a pure burden owing war devastation and economic The Russians do not believe
disorganisation is obliged to hus- that the German thrust across
band her own resourses in view Chu Po-sang, 26, is reported i the highly fortified Karelian of the expectation of a very hard "missing" since Tuesday morn-
winter.
Isthmus or around Lake Ladoga, with is difficult lake and water- way-cut terrain, can succeed.
A resident of the Nathan Hotel,
ing.
"Italy is therefore proposing According to the man's friend, that Bulgaria should share the task who made a report to the police, they arrived in the Colony by 'plane from Chungking on Sun- day and were to leave for Shang- hai this morning.
A DANGER TO LENINGRAD of keeping Greece alive and recon- IS ONLY POSSIBLE FROM THE| structing the monster 11 Peuter. SOUTH-WEST BUT THE MAIN
SOVIET TROOPS IN. THIS SEC-
TOR ARE HOLDING ON GRIM-} }}}
INVITATION
LY AROUND PSKOV AND THE⠀ ⠀) POSITION OF THE GERMANS IS NOT UNLIKE
HERE SMOLENSK.
In any case
the whole region between Pskov and Leningrad, and also between Tallinn andt Leningrad along the coast, is largely composed of forests and marshes with few roads.
Soviet Communique tacked an enemy convoy, A Soviet communique issued states the official Soviet last night by the Soviet. Informa- ^ news agency.
Five ships were sunk by Soviet destroyers.
tion Bureau announced:
"During July 23 stubborn bat- ties against the enemy were wag- ed in the Polotsk Nevel, Smolen- and Zhitomir directions and
TO U.S.
CONGRESSMEN
The friend suggested that Chu, who had recently been disappoint ed in a love affair in Chungking, might be the victim of an act of despondency.
The missing man knew nobody in this Colony.
AN INVITATION HAS BEEN MINISTER FOR THE
SENT. BY TELEGRAM TO US. 'CONGRESSMEN AND SENA- TORS TO SEND A KEPRESEN-
GERMAN EAST"
"It is significant that on the outbreak of war thousands flock- ed to the churches for prayer in Moscow. and elsewhere.
"We must therefore wish every successi.to the valiant Russian armies and people, in the strug- gle and be, ready to give them every possible help. British Wireless.
VENGEANCE SOARS INTO
ACTION
Smashing a glass wand filled with oxygen..across the propellor hub - of a new dive bomber for Bri- tain, Lady Halifax, wife of the British Ambassa- Altred Rosenberg, Nazi special- dor, declared at Los TISH GROUP OF THE INTER- chosen "Minister for the German Angeles yesterday: PARLIAMENTARY. UNION AND East," according to an unconfirm- THE BRITISH COUNCIL TO ed report from the Berlin cornewest "V in Britain's : campaign OBTAIN A FIRST-HAND IM respondentyof the "Zurich news for victory PRESSION OF BRITISH LIFE paper Die Tat." — Reuter IN ALL ITS ASPECTS UNDER
TATIVE BODY TO ENGLAND
AS. THE GUESTS OF THE BRI-ist on Eastern questions, has been
The conyoy Was apparently intercepted in the Baltic when on the Bessarablan sector of the, PRESENT CONDITIONS."
roceeding north.
on
patrol
Soviet fighters flashed back news of the pro- "sence of the enomy ships, ...
Soviet bombers repeatedly attacked the ships while destroy- ́ers shelled the transports. The enemy vessels. exploded and sauk. Reuter,
front.
}.
The telegram, which is signed by Sir Malcolm Robertson, Chair- "At one point of the Bessar man of the British Council, and ablan front our forces routed an Colonel Arthur Evans, Chairman enemy motorised regiment, cap of the British Group, suggests the turing 400 cars, 300 motorcycles, deputation might travel either by 32 armoured cars, 25 guna, eight come of the bombers coming to mine-throwers and other arm-Britain or by sea. -- Reuter. amento.
"Our air force during July 23 delivered concentrated blows upon
enemy mechanised units and air- craft on aerodromes."
Finnish Claim
SOVIET MISSION:
SEES MR. EDEN
The Soviet Ambassador, M. Ivan Malsky, accompanied by
US. NAVAL SHORE
FACILITIES
The $224,000,000 BiT for add tional naval shore facilities; pass ed the House of Representatives yesterday and has been sent to the Settate, says Reuter from Wash ington.
CHINAWAR - BONDS'
"I christen thee Vengeance, the
The divg-bomber, which is a low-wing monoplano, : camou- Iflaged, then roared off, climbed.
to 5,000 foot and went into
foot deafening dive to $1,000 whiley Vuites, aircraft workers
Lord Halifax spoke briefly, feas→ suring the workers that Britain is going to finish the job we start- ed to do."Reuter:
STALIN'S WAR CABINET
RUSSIAN OFFICERS BACK IN LONDON
Subscriptions to the ChungkingStalin has added another Vice- General: Meolilov and Col.
Lt-Gen. Golikov, who has just National "Economy Savings Corti Commissar of Defence to the The German-Finish advance returned from Moscow, as well ficates during the past 12 months, group. he has gathered around Dragun, two members of the Russian military mission, return from Salla is now proceeding as Admiral Kharlamov, had a totalled $407,030,000, according to him, bringing the total up to six. ed to London last night after a rapidly, having passed the boggy talk with the "British Foreign a report by the certificates pro- The new Commissar Is M. formerly visit to Moscow to report to the land, according to the Stockholm Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, motion committee, which was Peresipkin, who was Soviet Government, says Reuter newspaper "Aftonbladet" corres- yesterday afternoon, says a Reu- established on July 23, 1040 - Commissar of Posts and Tole
Live v. Cential Mower - M
graphs. —- Router"" From London,"
pondent at Helsinki yesterday, liter report from London.