PAUSE ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT Soviet Review Of Developments
GERMANS MAKE VIRTUE OUT OF NECESSITY
ASSERTING THAT GERMANY THREW IN FORCES TWO TO THREE TIMES STRONGER NUMERICALLY THAN THE RED ARMY UNITS STATIONED ALONG THE FRONTIER, THE MOSCOW NEWSPAPER "FRAVDA” PUTES THAT THE GERMANS USED THIRTY DIVISIONS, ROUGHLY 500,000 MEN, TEN THOUSAND FIRST LINE AIRCRAFT, AND 15,000 TANKS.
ALL
PRACTICAL
AID PROMISED
A
message
from Washington states that the United States has promised all prac-
to Russia.-Reuter.
RUSSIANS tical economic help HOLD AT
COM-KEY TOWN FINLAND
DECLARED
Thanks to the stubbornness of Soviet re- sistance, says the paper, the first Nazi tales of stunning German victories have been re- placed by the argument that the seizure of territory takes second place to annihilation.
"Pravda” says that the first Ger- the constant arrival of Russians in man miscalculation was their] Hangoe from Estonia suggest failure to destroy the Red Air that the Finnish hope to starve Force and the panzer blows failed out the Russian garrison to achieve their objective.
Hangoe is a vain one.-Reuter.
The tremendous losses suffered by the Germans since the two arm- ies became fully engaged in mass, are sapping German morale and instead of an eastern parade, they are meeting death and destruc- tion.
of
It is too carly, says the paper.
of final results and to speak the fierce struggles ahead, but Russian resistance and counter. blows
аге daily becoming
stronger.
German Claims
of
Kiev Thrust Smashed
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]
The Russians claim that German crack regiments were destroyed in Soviet counter- attacks in the Kiev sector which have stemmed the colossal Nazi double-pronged drive threatening Kiev with encirclement. -- Internation- al News Service.
Tanks Routed
Heavy fighting is con- tinuing round Sortavala. tinuing round Sortavala. AN ENEMY
the northern
on
tip of
CORDELL HULL BACK AT WORK
"WITH UNITY OF PURPOSK AND A MAXIMUM
THE REMAINING PEOPLES OF THE
EFFORT.
FREE
WORLD
WILL WIN AND THE FORCES OF EVIL WILL BE LIBERATED," SAID THE SECRETARY QF STATE, MR. CORDELL HULI. ADDRESSING HIS FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY AFTER AN ABSENCE FROM DUTY OF NEARLY TWO MONTHS.
Mr. Hull called for ever-increas- ing military preparations for de- fenca "whenever and wherever such defence can be most effec- tive.
He added that in full effort and a mountain of Lake Ladoga, which the
production "suc- Finland has been declared an cessful resistance to the present Russians continue to hold enemy country by the New Zea- world movement of invasion and land Government for the purpose destruction can be made and, in
re- with the enemy regulations.
Reuter
of the enemy property and trading my judgment, will be made."-
This brings New Zealand into Vichy line with other Empire countries
against all attacks, ac- cording to Helsinki ports received in last night.
who have already taken such action.
COURTESY CALL
of
Soviet tanks are counter-attack-
Sir Frederick Stewart, Austra- point on the flank of the Finnish
The garrison of this strong has announced that arrangements ing.
lia's Minister of Internal Affairs,
Lord Gort, Governor and Com- Gibraltar, drives on both sides of Lake Ladu-have been made for the departure mander-in-Chief ga, is said to have been strongly of the Finnish Consul-General in yesterday paid a courtesy visit to
Sydney.
General Barron at Algeciras, who Finnish interests in Australia was recently appointed to com- will be protected by the Consul-mand in the area continguous to
Gibraltar. great network of farbifications General for Sweden-Reuter.
Reuter.
reinforced,
Sortavala
bullt by the
is the cantre
of a
Russians In the territory ceded by Finland lasc year.
The broken nature of the ter- rain favours the defence which is
with well-equipped
artillery.
Reuter
SENTENCE PASSED
to
assaulting Road
Pleading guilty Chan Lam-pui in Canton,
Mr.
BRITAIN'S FORMIDABLE
FIGHTER
NEW
FOUR CANNON GUNS AND SIX-MACHINE-
In the addition to the statement Reports reaching Stockholm | aircady given of the general posi- from German sources on the Rus- tion in the Russian fighting with stan war continue to announce the the Germans, the latest Russian destruction of Russian pockets of communique, says: "Large enemy resistance on the two main fronts] tunk formations attempted five of Smolensk and Kiev, while it is times to attack our fortifications claimed that the advance to the in the vicinity of the city of K on July 26, Joseph Gonsalez, 20. GUNS COMPRISE THE ARMAMENT OF ONE
of Batavia, was sentenced to one east is being remorselessly Con- in the south-western sector. tinued at various speeds.
"After the enemy had run short month's hard labour and recom-OF BRITAIN'S LATEST LONG. RANGE. DAY The impression aimed at by of fuel and several tanks had been mended for banishment by
H. C. Macnamara at Kowloon AND NIGHT FIGHTERS — BRISTOL BEAU- German propagandists is that the destroyed, our forces went into Germans are staying where they counter-attacks and a fierce bat- this morning.
| FIGHTERS – DETAILS OF WHICH ARE RE- It was stated that accused was arrive, or are advancing but are tle ensued in which 300 tanks and
his mother armoured cars took part on both given $500 by
inLÉASED. never forced back.
THIS IS THE MOST FORMIDABLE Batavia some six months ago It is now claimed that the neces- | sides. After one of the tank units
to come here to study Chinese, FIRE POWER KNOWN TO › HAVE BEEN®FIT- sity of dealing with the Russian had been put out of action, ous
and had spent all the pockets, while slowing up the ad- tank formations
money.TED TO ANY WAR 'PLANE. penetrated into
He was now stranded in Hong vance, has also given time for the enemy lines. In all the enemy Kong, where he had no relatives slower moving units to catch up. lost 100 tanks and armoured cars,
45 guns, 30 motor vehicles and ator friends. least a thousand Fascist soldiers and officers were killed."-British of Wireless.
Exhausted Troops
The military correspondent the "Demokraten" considers that the Germans have now completed arrangements in the rear
sectors
Finnish Report
SPEEDING IN
CONTROLLED AREA
for the relief of exhausted troops [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] and the reorganisation of harried The "Aftonbladet" of Stock- units. and for the overhaul of holm reports from Finnish sources At the instance of Mr. M. H. mechanical material and the that 900 Russian soldiers were Hourihan, Chief Inspector (Kow- bringing up of fresh units ready killed in an unsuccessful attempt loon), Chau So-kau was fined: $20 to renew the offensive, but admits to force a landing on the north by Mr. H. C. Macnamara at that, "despite attacks on their shore of Lake Ladoga.—Interna- Kowloon this morning, for speed- communications," the Russians tional News Service. have also benefitted by the pause. The same newspaper's Berlin correspondent reports a German claim that, the fresh Russian troops: are of an inferior quality to those
at first engaged.
Finnish Front ›
BURGLARIES AT
REPULSE BAY
German blitz bombers hit by these can- nons fitted in the fuselage and the machine......... guns in the wings have exploded and dis- integrated.
ONIONS PULL IN
comped-£34,000
ing in the Nathan Road controll-
ed area on July. 14.
Chief Inspector Hourihap stat
A small basket of onions ed that at 6 p.m. on July 14 he raised £34,383 for Lon- saw defendant driving car, No.
6600, into the controlled arca don's War Weapons Week at about 30 m.p.h. He followed at the Stock Exchange. him as far as Nanking Street where defendant turned. and
were, au od under the condition that each stopped.
bidder, wou{d}c|
UNSUBTLE PIECE OF PROPAGANDA
noun
by buying an eq valent: amount of defence, sapur|tions|| The bids totalled up to £4388
With a nominal top speed of 350 Beau-fighter carrying a pilot and an observer has a range of 1,500 miles-again-a nominal. figure:
This is achieved by two Bristol Hercules 111 engines, air-cooled sleeve valve radial type; power. units with 14 cyclinders in two rows and fitted with two-speed superchargers for boosting engine power at high altitude, and con- stant speed. airscrews.......
The fuel is carried in four self- scaling tanks with the total capa- city of 55 gallons each.
The appointment of the Bgau-- lighter is, exceptionally complete.
It{{Inpludes oxygen apparatus and carbine heating system, for the rollef of the crew in cold. atmospheres".
At the same time, provisions It was announced in Parliament made for carrying four gallon that at the closing of banking hours water tanks for desert use.
£87,750,000 had been raised in The maximum speed and range London..
of this "exceptionally powerfully
The spirit behind the campaign armed!! long range, fighter is not was exemplified by a woman of 74 given. So for its uses as a day
The military expert expects that fresh large-scale. German. attackgewill shortly be chlofly: AS A SEQUEL TO ROB launched against Leningrad, BERIES, AT NO. 37, REPULSE Moscow, Klev and Odessa.. BAY ROAD, RESIDENCE OF THE HON, MRAL SHIELDS, AND AT NO. 12, SOUTH BAY ROAD; HOME OF ME, R. D. ⠀⠀ On the Finnish front, say Stock- GILLESPIE, LI PING, 30 WAS holm observers, the Finns are still CHARGED, BEFORE MR. H. G. attempting to press through the SHELDON, K.C. THIS MORN- isthmus connecting Lake Ladoga ING, WITH BURGLARY, A and Onega which, . If successful. A 10-year-old, Yeung Man- would threaten to cut the Mur-kwong, and Tam Mui, 32, widow, Asserting that the evacuation who gave to the nation aghter have not been made known mansic Line and also the Stalin were charged with, receiving, of men unfit for work, and of bundle of one hundred. £1. notes-Reuter. Canal,
It was alleged that first accused mothers and children from Mos- it had taken her sixty years to Any Finnish advance here could was responsible for the theft of cow, has begun, the "Frankfurter save. bring pressure on Leningrad from silverware and other articles Zeltung" says that the Russians Mr. Arthur Deakin, "acting, the cast, but the intention of the valued at $1,950, from Mr. Shields have proẞted from, the... experi Russians to hold Sordavalla is residence, and of $1,048 worth of ences of the French campaign shown by the fact that they have silverware and Jewellery from and have strictly forbidden re- not carried out the destruction, of war Gillespie's residence..
fugees from using the railways the town.
At the request of Detective or the main roads in order. not. Activity at Hangoe is still con- Sergeant J. Bentley, the case was to impede mittary movements. fined to artillery fire. Reports of adjourned for 48 hours.
Reuter
Bavings, bonds,
general secretary of the Trana | Tho↑ Pearl Assurance Company, port and: "General" 'Workers' Ltd., has now subscribed £10,704,- Union, announced that the 300: for London's and pravínolul general executiva counpil of the War Weapons Weeks and in 26 union had decided, In connection per cont. War Bands In addi- with London War Weapons tion, 3 per cent, Savings Bonds:pro Wask, to take up. £60,000 of to be taken up,