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GERMANY'S CLAIMS MODIFIED
New Slant On Ukraine Drive No Decision Yet
GAYDA DROPS FAR EAST
A HINT
On Southern Front TO JAPAN
THE BERLIN CORRESPONDENTS OF STOCKHOLM NEWS- PAPERS CITE THE MILITARY OPINION THAT, FRESH GERMAN SUCCESS IN THE UKRAINE IS SO COMPREHENSIVE THAT A RUSSIAN ABANDONMENT OF THE GREAT CURVE OF THE DNIEPER, ODESSA AND THE BLACK SEA COAST IS CONSIDER- ED IMMINENT BY THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND.
GIGANTIC NAZI LOSSES IN RUSSIA
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
The N.B.C. in New York yesterday picked up a German broad- cast stating that Junkers transports ferried 281,000 wounded from the central Russian front.
This is considered to indicate the giant proportions of Nazi wounded since only a small percentage are brought by 'plane in- stead of by land. International Service.
News
BALANCE SHEET IN
THE AIR
The Germans are straining every effort to |reach Odessa and Nikolaiev whence it will be possible to threaten Russia's chief armament centre.
It is declared, however, that victories al- ready won do not mean that the decision has yet been achieved in these extentive opera- tions in the Ukraine.
to
As regards Gen. Timoshenko's
populations appeal to local destroy anything likely to be useful to the invader, it is point- ed out that the German military authorities do not assume the re- sponsibility for the feeding and the safely of where guerilla sabotage is prac- lised.
MODIFICATION
[SPECIAL TO "CHÍNA MAIL"]
American war sup- plies for Russia via Vladivostok "bring
the European war into the Japanese sphere," Virginio Gayda, Mus- solini's spokesman, declared in an
edi- torial yesterday.
"Russia has aggres- sive designs against Japan in collusion with Chungking in alliance with Anglo- Saxons,' declared.
"
POSITION
STEADIER
Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, who arrived in New York yesterday on the way to the Far East, where he will be Minister of State, said in an interview that British administration in the Far East would be centralised in Singapore.
Mr. Dulf-Cooper, who is ac companied by his wife, expires: the belief that the reaction of the the strong measures taken by Britain and, the United States as the re- sult of Japan's intrusion into Indo- China," had shown "a" distinctly steadying and healthy effect."
Japanese Government "to Gayda Interna- tional. News Service.
OF CLAIMS German
Following their recent
the populations claims of great military successes against the Russians in the Ukraine,
The Nyheter's Berlin
corres-
pondent says that reports show the Nazis yesterday fell guerilla bands are still active be- strangely
hind the
Germans, sabotaging.
Plot In
Chile
silent about IT WAS OFFICIALLY STAT-
To what he described as rum- ours that full use was not being made of Lense and Lend material, Mr. Duff-Cooper declared: "We are now getting a full flow of American production and materi- als-all of first-rate quality."
All had been utilised and were playing "a tremendous part" in Britain's war pro- gramme."
Mr. Duff-Cooper listened at La- Guardia Airport to the Queen's broadcast.
in He said he would remain
about a
holding farms and even villages. operations on the eastern ED IN SANTIAGO YESTERDAY the United States for
THAT A NAZI PLOT HAS fortnight. He would leave for
Appeal To Surrender
An appeal by Gorman soners of war captured by Russians to their comrades
front.
BEEN DISCOVERED, IN SOU-Washington shortly and from The German midday communi- THERN CHILE.
there would fly to San Francisco the well-worn Several German leaders have whence he would take the Clip- pri-que resurrected
"operations con- been arrested in the towns of the phrase: about
per east-Reuter. to tinuing according to plan" but Frutillas, Llanquihue, Puerto surrender is quoted in a sup-made no specific military claims. Mont and Puerto Varas. The ar-ter has been seized. The Chilean
Even Goebbels' officiai news rests followed house searches. Minister of Interior is to make, agency-usually so verbose A quantity of propagarida mat- a statement. Reuter.
plement to the Soviet Com- munique.
The supplement describes how the 307th German Regiment of the 63rd Division,
the
had little to say about progress of the fighting. According to the Moscow com- which was munique battles are still raging shipped to Finland from Narvik, in the same sectors of the front, where the attacked a Russian unit and was namely, Smolensk.
up repulsed with heavy losses from Nazis have now been held artillery and machine-gun fire for weeks after driving an ugly wedge into the Russian lines; and then was surrounded.
Korosten, important Ukrainian Many German soldiers, it says, railway town. 90 miles north trying to escape jumped into the west of Kiev, and the capture lake to swim to the
opposite of which the Germans recently
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The Axis powers lost 57 shore but were practically all claimed, and the Estonian sector. 'planes and the R.A.F. 52 drowned or shot by Russian where the Germans are trying snipers. The remainder surren-to-smash their way through to in western Europe and dered in large groups.
Leningrad. the Middle East during last week.
Fatal War
Indications of the intensive at- A number of prisoners' ad- tacks by the R.A.F. over Ger- dressed a letter to their comrades many compared with the slight of the 63rd Division urging them Luftwaffe activity over Britain to surrender. The letter says, Xare reflected in the fact that
27
at
British night losses over Germany "We were thrown from Nor ~and~occupied territory were
way into a senseless and.fatal bombers,
war for us against Boviet Rus
a to, the northern forests, and marshes. We do not wish to die to enable Mannerheim and his accomplices, to acquire the Karellan colonies.
Germany lost one bomber hight and two in daylight över Britain
Swins daylight sweeps
the Channel: 24" British -fight- Zorg":falled "to returns, and
German.
A message from Stockholm Tast night indicated the Ger" mana are now trying to modify their sonsational claima... they made on Saturday of trapping : Bovlet - forces: In the southern
Ukraine by an encircling move"" ment`alming at outting off the Black Sea port of Odessa and Nikolajev,
According to this message Ger- man military circles declared that while the German High Command considered that the Russian abandonment of Ukrai- nian territory, west of the great Dnieper bend was imminent, the victories already won did not mean
która were destroyed. The Finnish people hate, us, Another German fighter was the Russian people meet us with that a decision had been reached shot down by a British bombor deadly fire. Hitler will perish. In these extensive operations.
It is no use binding your destinies. In the far north the German at night. Britain lost only one machine with the destinics of a doomed and Finnish troops do not ap in the Middle East, where 16 adventurer. You have an oppor-pear to be making much pro- Axis aircraft were destroyed. The tunity of saving your lives for gress. A communique issued, by Navy accounted for another two your families, and liberating Ger-
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