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Admiral Museller, the French Admiral, recently paid a visit
to a Naval establishment, "somewhere in Britain" where he in- spected French contingents, Photo shows Admiral Musclitr (centre) taking the salute.
DRAMATIC SOVIET ACCOUNT OF GERMAN DEBACLE
THE FOLLOWING DETAILS are given in a Soviet communique issued in Moscow last night of the annihilation by the Red Army of a German infantry division.
"One of the Fascist divisions newly ar- rived on the front launched an offensive against our troops. The commander of our formation decided to hold this division and to encircle it in order to wipe it out complete-
ly.
"At the end of the first day the Germans no longer cffered resis-
at point blank range the Fascist soldiers.
tance to the energetic attack of "According to preliminary re- our troops, they were compelled | ports 4,000 German officers and I
to adopt defensive tactics
dig themselves in.
and soldiers found their graves on the
and
"At that mement tanks mechanised infantry completed the encirclement of the enemy.
"Early in the morning squad. rone of Soviet bombeta fiew over the Gorman divisions. Hundreds of bombs were drop ped on the Fascists.
Inevitable Fate
"The enemy brought their artillery into action, employing anti-tank and other guns, and
field of battle. Our stretcher bearers picked up about 3,000 and some hundreds wounded.
"A large number of prisoners was taken. and several dozen tanks, a large number of lorries 40 anti-tank and motor cycles,
guns and eight guns, 12 heavy light guns, and 20 mine-throwers were destroyed.
"The
rest of the
annihilated
division fled in panic." - Reuter.
made a desperate attempt to 80 'PLANES
break through the encirclement, but everywhere they encountered
artillery and machine-gun fire. BATTER
"Our anti-tank guns destroyed
20 German tanks and light arm- oured cars.
attacks were
CHENGTU
"Several frontal launched by the Germans, in an attempt to save the division from
CHENGTU YESTERDAY WAS its inevitable fate, but all were "repulsed with enormous losses to SUBJECTED TO A DEVASTAT- the enemy and the fire and resis- ING RAID BY OVER 80 JAPAN- tance of the encircled division ESE 'PLANES WHICH RAINED SEVERAL HUNDRED. BOMBS weakened every hour.
"At the end of the second day's ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN fighting our troops, assumed the AND NORTH-WESTERN PARTS offensive. Our tanks unlis anni-, OF THE CITY.. hilated remnants of enemy bat- Santal, north-east of Cheng- feries and machine-guns, and our tu, and nearby points were also tanks and brave infantrymen severely attacked. The extent of hurled themselves against units, damage done is being investigat- of the German Infantry division.ed.
Flying from their base in wes- Crushed Under Tanks |tern Hupch, the raiders penetrat- ed Chengtu about 11.40a.m. and "Tanks, going at full speed, bombed the city for a consider- crushed and machine-gunned "able time--Central News.
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