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Calm View On Far East Crisis
NON-STOP ASSAULT
Contingent On Russian War
BY R.A.F. Raid On
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Royal Air Force fighter and bomber squadrons are keeping up a new non-stop offensive of spreading magnitude, hammering at Nazi aero- dromes, communications and Nazi-controlled fac- tories in Northern France.
Been
Crete
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The R.A.F. in Cairo an- nounces the heaviest air
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") WASHINGTON OFFICIALS
ARE
STILL
OPTIMISTIC REGARDING THE PROBABILI- TIES IN THE FAR EAST, CONTINGENT UPON EVENTS ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
FALSE LULL IN
FAR EAST
The absence from Tokyo yesterday of Sir Robert Craigie, the British Am-
The view is expressed that the world may witness Japan initiating moves for rapproche-bassador, and of Sir John Latham, the Australian · Minister, together with
assault on Crete since the ment with the United States if, in September,
island was captured.
fires
Shattering explosions and in towering
were caused raids on the aerodromes at Candia
and Maleme.
The violence of this attack and the intensified activity of the air
no decisive Nazi advantage in the Russian the return of Mr. Joseph Grew, the American Am- war is apparent.
a cheerful the Russo-Ger-bassador, in finite signs that man conflict is developing into a two static war of attrition. Interna" mood; possibly indicates that nothing serious is: tional News Service,
coming in the Far East.
Two convictions inspire this be lief. One, that Japan is not "pre- pared to risk war with the greatest Democracles by attempt-
East
ing to ensure an oil supply by a all force in the Middle East in
the Netherlands thrust at sectors seems to indicate prepara-
in, Indies. tions for offensive operations the
order to complement the British air campaign against Germany in Western Europe and to increase the degree of diversion of Ger- mans from the war in Russia. International News Service.
Heavy bombers, escorted by droves of fighters, attacked across the. Channel for nearly 24 hours starting at midnight yesterday.
Hugo flashes of explosions
during were to be
coast night from the English and the bombardment gradually spread towards Boulogne in a blitz which did methodical enormous damage.
flew Other British formations
inland, continuing deeply their disruption of the Nazi war machine organisation in Northern France and keeping them on the jump.
more
Officially, the daylight attacks alone
described
were
as
the
biggest daylight blow of the kind International
yet delivered.
News Service.
Antonescu Rumour
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] Rumours reaching London al- lege that the Rumanian Dictator, General Antonescu, has resigned Rumanian the command of the
Ukraine forces fighting in the because Hitler has failed to fulfil
his promise to withdraw Ruman-
ian troops from the eastern front
when Bessarabia and had been reconquered. tional News Service.
Bukovina
Interna-
Demands On Vichy
can
Secondly, that the United States,
blockade, by a long-range strangulate a Japanese war effort. It is believed that Japan will make approaches for moderation of the embargo upon the first de-
GERMAN THRUST AGAINST KIEV COUNTERED
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RUSSIAN INFANTRY and tank forma- tions, launching determined counter-attacks in the fight to save Kiev, have stemmed the colossal double-pronged Nazi drive in the Moscow official Ukraine, according to
sources.
In the last 48 hours, the Germans have concentrated the main weight of their attack. Despite Vichy's denials regard in the Ukraine sector, in the hope of making ing the alleged purpose of the visit the fall of Kiev the much-needed Sunday
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of Count de Brinon to Vichy, the
Free French News Agency reports stimulus to waning German morale.
that the Reich served new de-
The Smolensk sector has been mands on Vichy including the
quiet, though transfer of the French Navy, and comparatively Axis" control of Daker and Casu-heavy localised fighting continues, noffensive of secondary blancap
W and an with Marshal. Petain and General Weygand standing firm, Vichy has rejected the German demands. International News Service,
Kiev Victory
the Ger
In the Kiev sector, the
TH
It is reported in New York that, importance has been launched by mans claim that the city is the Germans from Estonia to- threatened by imminent encircle- wards Leningrad to the north of Lake Peipus,
FIGHTING AGAIN BREAKS OUT
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A report from Lima brings the allegation that Ecuadorian troops have broken the recently signed
ment, while Moscow says that large Russian tank formations The German official com struck a heavy blow at the Ger munique, on the Estonia fight man flanks, destroying two regi- Ingadmits"," 'savage, Russian ments of crack motorised infan counter-attacks though it is try. claimed that they were repuls.
The victorious Red Army threw ed, and that a Naxl tank, divi- alon la holding its positions. the shattered German spearhead Germans claim to be into panicky confusion, and an Jantity of arms and "enormous.
International
The armistice, and that Bring has brok- - 'cleaning up pockets of Russian sabout all along the border-resistance in the rear of the ad ammunition was captured, International Nows Service
German: positions,
Worse Than immediately.
Bargain Day
THE
HOARDING OF SILK STOCKINGS BY AMERICAN WOMEN INCREASES AND FIFTH AVENUE SHOPKEEPERS SUMMED UP AS "MADHOUSE" YESTERDAY'S STAMPEDE OF WOMEN ANXIOUS TO GET AS MANY PAIRS AS POSSIBLE WHILE THEY ARE STILL OB. TAINABLE.
At the same time, says Reuter's.. Tokyo correspondent, it is ob- vious that Japan is stalling for time to complete their domestic preparations.
The quietude of the last few days has been given an ominous Prese tone by the continued hostility to the Democracies In- and
frenzied the almost vocation of the national gen. In eral
Jaw mobilisation hitherto untouched folda, The "Yomiuri Shimbun" to-day the assertion of Colonel The shop scenes were extraor-notes dinary. Women were kept waiting Knox that Japan has oil stocks to for their turn behind red plush last eighteen months of warfare ropes supervised by uniformed and reports: "So What?" guards, while extra counter-clerks The paper adds the allegation struggled to cope with the sales that Chungking has access to the which amounted to five times the vast but unpublicised jetrul re-
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