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HITLER TRYING NEW TACTICS Strong Attack In All Sectors
Attempt To Impose HUNS PAY New Strains On
HITLER
CLAIMS
VICTORY Russian Machine
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in Moscow) The German High Command reports from
THE GIGANTIC NATURE OF THE STRUGGLE ON THE RUSSIAN REALISED WHEN ONE CON- the Fuehrer's" Headquar~ BATTLEFRONT IS MOST EASILY ters that a "battle has SIDERS THAT NOW THE BATTLE IS RAGING NOT ONLY ON THIS taken place in the area OR THAT SECTOR, BUT ON HALF A DOZEN VITAL POINTS around and north of SIMULTANEOUSLY. Gomel which ended in a The most vital and, it may be, the most critical battle is stili heavy defeat for the So-
raging inside the bend of the Dnieper behind Nikolaiev and Krivoy- viet forces.
'Parts of 17 divisions of rifle- men, one mechanised division, two armoured divisions, five cavalry
ades have been defeated, annihil- ated or taken prisoner,
"A total of 78,000 prisoners, 144
concludes the special announce- ment. Reuter.
rog.
But their unfortunate - Smolensk experi-
divisions and two air-borne brig- ences seem to have taught the Germans to adopt somewhat different tactics and to use mobility which has un- tanks, 700 guns and two armoured their great mobility
or less trains have fallen into our hands," doubtedly increased with the more
successful consolidation of their lines of com- |munication to strike here, there and every- where, not necessarily with any precise im- mediate objective, but to impose on the Rus- sians the necessity to move about their troops.
RUMANIA FINDS NEW AMBITIONS
The Rumanian press is beginning to talk signi- ficantly about what it calls "Transnistria” on the other side, of its old frontier with Russia.
"The day of deliverance of our
Dollar
Exchange Relief
It is learned authorita
Rumanian brothers beyond the tively in Washington that
The battle along this vast area from the Gulf of Finland to the Black Sea may be described as a desperate German attempt to pre- vent that stabilisation at which the Russians aim.
Whether the Gomel drive is ul- timately intended to lend support to the troops in the Smolensk sec- tor, or on the contrary, in prepar- ation for a southward drive along the left bank of the Dnieper re- mains to be seen, but it is anyway part of the "all over the place" tactics the Germans are trying out, that is to say an attempt to pre- vent an effective concentration of the Russians on the front.
The Germans hope for dissern-
Dniester has arrived," the Ruman- the United States Trea-ination of the Russian defence. ian papers are
proclaiming, ac-
cording to a Bucharest message.
sury Department is co-
"Transnistria" is described as operating with
tor:
British
Big Offensive
A big German offensive is thus
fighting on a considerably straight- er line than a few days ago.
It
"old Rumanian land extending officials to relieve Bri-clearly in progress. They are from Dniester to Bug and Dniep- er," and the papers cite a maptain's dollar position. which is said to have been print- The Treasury is working on a runs roughly straight from the ed in Berlin in 1824 as proving plan whereby the United States Gulf of Finland to Smolensk, with that the Rumanian population had Government would assume out an eastward pocket to Novgorod.
and extended as far as Dnieper
standing payments under the South from Smolensk, the Ger beyond since the year 900-Reu-Lease-Lend Act on a certain permans are clearly trying to follow centage of orders contracted for roughly a line along the Doloper by the British before the adoption and for that purpose are attempt- of the Act.
Kos Ing to absorb the Russian pocket However, it is stressed that the proportion of such payments be taken over by the United States is not yet fixed and well- Informed quarters are inclined to feel that the report in the "Wall Street: Journal" that the United
Ambassador
In Disgrace
to
It is reported in Buenos Aires States would take over one-thirst
west of Gomel
to
Once established along the greater length of the Dnieper. the Germans clearly hope establish bridgahanda on the op-
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but without confirmation, that of such payments ds exaggerated, † PAYMENTS FOR... DEFENCE the German Ambassador, Herre
ORDERS CONTRACTED FOR |PRIOR TO THE - LEASE-LEND, ARRANGEMENTS COMING "INF
von Thermann, and the senior :: Beaverbrook Talks staff of the Embassy at Buenos AMERIKANER
ONE OF THE CHIEF POINTS TO. FORCE, E have been recalled by Aires
THAT LORD BEAVERBROOK The "Journal" says it is reli- Berlin.d
The Ambassador will be suc IS NOW DISCUSSING WITH ably reported that Lord Beaver- ceeded by Herr von Levetzow, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, AC-brook has asked that the United Counsellor in Rio de Janeiro, CORDING TO THE WASHING Staten should take over all, exist- TON CORRESPONDENT OF ing British contracts, understood THE "WALL STREET JOUR- to involve US$1,500,000,000; *** NAL CONCERNS BRITISH Reuter..
Herr von Thermann's recall is said to be due to recent blunders,
ICELAND AIR RAID ALARM
A 35-minute air raid alarm was sourid- ed at Reykjavik ̈ yes- terday when one Ger- man bomber flew low over the city but fighters chased it out to sea and no bombs Reu- were dropped.
ter.
TERRIFIC PRICE
In the first seven weeks of Germany's war with Russia she lost 1,500,000– men, 8,000 guns and 6,000 · 'planes, declared the Bcl- gian War and Finance Minister, H. Gutt, broad- casting from London last night.
"Defeat is on its way for Ger- many," he declared: "Not only will British and Russian bombers breathe disaster over Germany, but on an - appointed day... the British will throw men, guins and tanks onto a continent where the Germans, terrorised by the bom- and bardment of their towns, conscious of the hate of the oppressed nations, will lose faith in their leaders and themselves: as they did in 1918.”
The Battle of Britain, added M. Gut, in September last year, defeat, for caused Germany's until Hitler took Britain he had not won the war, "just as we shall not have won it until our tanks defile down the Unter den Linden and under the Branden- burger Gate."-Reuter.
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