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TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1941
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NEW ALLIES FOR THE SOVIET
Mud And Rain Enter Picture
LITTLE NEWS OF
IRAN
FIGHTING
Budenny. In Full MOSLEM
Control In
STATES
Southern Ukraine NOTIFIED
THERE IS STILL NO CONFIRMATION IN LONDON THAT THE GERMANS HAVE ANY BRIDGE-HEADS ACROSS THE DNIEPER AND THE MAIN PART OF THE FIGHTING THUS REMAINS ON THE WEST OF THE RIVER.
While circumstantial evidence shows news from Iran available | 2000*************** that the Dnieper-Petrovsk Dam has been
According to the latest
in authoritative circles in London yesterday after- noon, the British units which entered the coun- try encountered some re- sistance but it is not yet known where this occur- red or how serious the re- sistance was.
One British contingent made a landing from the sea in the Per- sian Gulf at Bandar Shapur. It Is believed that this contingent
met with some resistance but this is not definitely confirmed.
The British forces entering Iran Include both British and Indian troops but it is understood that no Dominion troops are involved.
Reuter.
THE
Russian Advance
SOVIET
TRADE BAN DECLARED
The Board of Trade in London yesterday made an order pro- hibiting all export of goods to Iron except under licence as from to-day--Reuter.
Japan And Mr. Churchill
OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY ANNOUNCES 'THAT RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE ADVANCED 40 KILOMETRES ĢINTO IRAN AND THAT THE "ADVANCE CONTINUES, WHILE "THE MOSCOW RADIO SAYS
Authoritative Japanese THAT SOVIET TROOPS ARE "ADVANCING IN THE DIREC Sources in Tokyo have re- jected Mr. Churchill's ac- |cusations, saying "Who is
menacing whom?
TION OF TABRIZ REUTER.
CONVOY ATTACKED
"Japan is not menacing any. body. Japan has not menaced anything."
Official Japanese reaction is not likely at least until the text is fully received.
blown up no official statement has 'been re- ceived to that effect from the Russian Gov- ernment.
Fighting continues to be intense on the Leningrad front but there has been no mark, ed move. In the Smolensk-Gomel area it is known that the Russians are counter-attack- ing but no details have reached London. Reuter.
Reuter's Moscow correspondent says that mention of fighting
in
New Allies
(BY REUTER'S DIPLOMATIC
CORRESPONDENT) The British
Govern- ment yesterday morning notified Iran's neighbours and two other Moslem states of the action taken in Iran and the reasons therefore.
The countries concerned are Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabfa.
The Turkish Government, in particular, have been assured ihat His Majesty's Government pledge themselves in all circum- stances to do nothing that would damage Turkey's interests.
The assurance given. Iran re- garding her political independ ence and territorial integrity was conveyed to the Turkish. Govern ment, The British Government specially has undertaken to inter- fere as little as possible with
the Dniepro-Petrovsk region is the The important thing has hap-domestic economy and · life... “in irst official mention of the south-pened which, if it continues, may Iran. ern Ukraine front since the Soviet have ап enormous effect in The United States Government admission of the fall of Krivoyrog slowing up German onerations on and Kikolaiev last week.
In the interval, there have been important new German purhes in the Gomel and Nov- gorod sectors, but the southern Ukraine did not lose in Impor-
tance.
German insistence on the fact that the Russians were holding the Dnieper bridgeheads, was clear in- methodically withdrawing and that dication that the Russians were the Germans had failed either to encircle Marshal Budenny's army control of any of the crossings of
or any large part of it, or to gain
the lower Dnieper.
Rearguard Action
There is strong reason to believe that the mention of Dniepro- Petrovsk in yesterday's communi- que refers to. a successful rear-
SEVEN SHIPS TOTALLING It has been reported only guard action. 10,000 TONS WERE LOST FROM | sketchily.
The question arises: What A-BRITISH CONVOY - WHICH Mr. Churchill's reference to good to the Germans are the WAS ATTACKED OFF THE alleged depredations of the Japan-occupied parts of the Ukralnie? SPANISH COAST LAST WEEK, ese military faction is labelled They must reckon with the pas- IT WAS LEARNED IN LISBON “just another attempt to depict a sive resistance of the peasants YESTERDAY.
division of Japanese opinion and and furthermore, in the long '. One corvette was the only ves thereby to disintegrate Japanese run, the Ukraine, with its almost sel lost by the escort comparing unity which is wholly impossible.".completed tractorised agriculture, the German claim to have sunl Japan's actions are said to be will be quite uscless unless the 25 ships; and also to have destroy-based upon the solid basis of Germans are able to provide vast
unanimous national, ∙ policy. - quanties of petrol. which ob
*T
warships—Reuter.
SABOTAGE ON FRENCH RAILWAYS Hundreds of cases of "Com unist" sabotage against the rail- nys, have been reported, accord- ig to the Count de Brinon, ichy envoy to Paris, in an in- view with American Journa
states Lyons Radio Reuter,
viously they cannot. - Alienating Thailand The
Mr. Churchill's speech is designed to alienate Thailand from Japan, says the "Kokumin Shim- bun"
plight of the peasants under, the Nazis is grievous, but most of them will no doubt manage to survive for a time "with clandestine stocks.
advance, agreed.freely and pence- fully by Vichy, whereas it is Bri- The early morning papers gen-tain who is, bearing pressure in orally follow the first reaction, South Asia, the paper claims.
Mr. Churchill's speech is de- Oficial circles deny knowledge vold of time and sense because of Japanese-American basic nego the China conflet preceded the tintiong which were hinted at by European war and therefore Ja- Mr. Churchill" although reports pan cannot be imitating Hitler," from Admiral Nomura," Japanese the "Kokumin Shimbun"; adds. Ambassador to Washington, have
China, reconstruction faco- not been received recently. M]öperative with the Indo-Ching: Router. g
It was announced in Berlin yes- erday that the German Consulates
Cuba have been closed.
all or many parts of the front.
It is the entry into the war of Russia's allies, Rain and Mud. It has been raining heavily for 24 hours and the roads, other than the not very numerous main roads, have become bogged,
Movements of tanks across country are unlikely for the pre- sent, either on the soft soil of the
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also has been kept fully inform- ed of the action ́ taken by the British and Soviet Governments.
Reuter.
JOINS ROOSEVELT CABINET
President Roosevelt has nomin- ated, Mr., Francis Biddle, the Soll- citor-General,: to "be
the new Attorney-General of the United States: Reuter,
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