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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1941.
MUD AND RAIN ENTER
AS ALLIES FOR SOVIET
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 that the Dnieper-Petrovsk Dam has been blown up no official statement has been re- ceived to that effect from the Russian Gov- ernment.
Fighting continues to be intense on the
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In the Smolensk-Gomel area it is known that the Russians are counter-attack- ing but no details have reached London. Reuter.
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The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Mr. Marriner Eccles, has intimated that the regulation of instalment buying and the further tigh- tening of credit facili- ties is essential in the interests of the tional welfare and of the Government drive against inflation.
na-
"Unbridled spend- ing," he said, "will precipitate inflation that will recoil ruin- ously on all of us." International News Service.
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Reuter's Moscow correspondent says that mention of fighting the Dniepro-Petrovsk region is the first official mention of the south- ern Ukraine front since the Soviet admission of the fall of Krivoyrog! and Kikolalev last week.
have
In the Interval, there been important new German
puchos in the Gomel and Nov. gorod sectors, but the southern Ukraine did not lose in impor tance.
THE FLOOR WILL BE DIRTY
"We shall wipe the floor with the Ger- mans."
The Belgian Ambas- sador said that in London to the Ameri- can Ambassador to the Governments alli- ed with Britain.
SEVEN-DAY
WEEK
PROPOSED
German insistence on the fact that the Russians were holding the Dnieper bridgeheads was clear in- dication that the Russians were methodically withdrawing and that the Germans had failed either encircle Marshal Budenny's army
A recommendation that or any large part of it, or to gain control of any of the crossings of British war factories the lower Dnieper.
should work a 7-days' Rearguard Action week is made by a sub- There is strong reason to believe committee appointed by that the mention of Dniepro the Select Committee on
Petrovsk in yesterday's communi-
que refers to a successful rear-National Expenditure,
however, guard action.
Workpeople should, The question arises: What have one day's rest in seven, the good to the Germans are the Committee states, and suggests
be of the Ukraine? that negotiations
conducted accupied parts
make They must reckon with the pas-with the trade unions to sive resistance of the peasants arrangements whereby a six-day and furthermore, in the long week for workpeople may be fitted week for a run, the Ukraine, with its almost into a seven-day completed tractorised agriculture, factory which should, as will be quite useless unless the possible, employ its plant Germans are able to provide vastinuously. quanties of petrol which ob- The desirability of the manage- viously they cannot.
ment taking workers completely peasants in their confidence is also under the Nazis is grievous, but phasised.
them will most of
doubt
The plight of the
manage to survive for a time ›00004] with clandestine stocks.
New Allies
RESTAURANT OPENED
A "British Restaurant" where a good meal may be obtained for 1ld, was opened at Edmonton yesterday.
Opening the
restaurant, Lon- don's divisional food officer said that stocks of food in London are larger now than ever before dur- ing the last twelve months and these stocks were distributed so
far as
con-
em-
to
as
relating Interesting facts the great increase in output im- of mediately following the fall France are given in the Commit- which tee's report
states that after that melancholy event, The important thing has hap-working hours increased to pened which, if it continues, may much as 72 a week and resulted have
increase effect in in a "remarkable
in slowing up German operations on output." At the end of a few all or many parts of the front.
weeks, output dropped and hours It is the entry into the war of
became shorter. Russia's alljes, Rain and Mud. It has been raining heavily for
an
enormous
The Committee reports that a 60-hour week is still worked by
24 hours and the roads, other some factories and recommends than the not very numerous main that the Industrial Health Re- roads, have become bogged.
search Board should consider the Movements of tanks across question of the "best length of country are unlikely for the pre-the working week for a wide range sent, either on the soft soil of the of different kinds Ukraine or in the marshy coun-British Wireless. try round Leningrad, Reuter.
Novgorod Falls
The evacuation of Novgorod is announced in the Soviet midnight communique which states: "Dur-
of work."
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ration six most important enemy along the commodities to all the population | front. After tenacious fighting, for two weeks should an emer- our troops left Novgorod, gency arise. British Wireless. "In the course of August' '24.'
40 enemy 'planes were brought A. M. Chapelain, Director of down in air combats and destroy- the Chinese Post Office in ed on aerodromes: We lost six Shanghai, has informed the U.S. 'planes. In the Black Sea, one Consulate-General that 750 bags of our warships sunk a German or U.S. mail, which have been submarine."--Reuter.
held up by the Japanese in Shanghai since the arrival of the "President Harrison" and the "Ruth Alexander," have...now been released and are being dis-- Agency messages from Singa-!
tributed immediately. The, Jup pore state that it is officially an-
The old school tie in future mayanese, authorities claimed that nounced there that the largest be second-hand, One school, the mall was held up "owing to single body of R.A.F. personnel to Worksop College, is to open a a misunderstanding." Interna- arrive in Malaya for more than a second-hand clothes shop.
tional News Service, year, landed in Singapore yesterday after an eight weeks' uneventful voyage in a luxury liner.
Arrivals Include air crews and ground staff.
Also aboard was a small barty'
of Royal Australian Air Force
SECOND HAND
"
The headmaster, announcing this at the recent Special Day, said Sunday sults would no longer be compulsory.
NAZI REPRISAL
SUB SINKS TRAWLER-
While returning from a fish- Hing trip off Cape Blanco, on the
porsonnel from the Middle East. Haiti consulates in Germany West African coast, a Portuguese There also arrived reinforcements have been ordered to close of the Indian Expeditionary Force September 5 in retallation completely equipped.' British Haiti's 'recent action closing Wireless.
man' consulates-Reuter,
on trawler from Lisbon was fired on for by an unidentified submarine and Ger-sank. Two of the crew were kill-
[ed.