THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 30, 1941.
GERMANY ENTERING A RACE AGAINST TIME Hitler Throws All Forces Into The
Struggle
THE GERMANS MADE IMPRESSIVE
MARRIED JUST!
CLAIMS YESTERDAY IN THEIR WAR ON 13TH AGAINST RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET COM- A chain of mishaps MUNIQUE WAS COMPLETELY NON-COM- MITTAL, WRITES "ANNALIST" IN LONDON COMMENTING ON THE RUSSIAN GERMAN MILITARY SITUATION.
If Tallinn has been captured as seems possible, it represents a considerable if local loss to the Russians. The town had already been cut off and there was little hope of re- lieving it but its fall will release a number of the German troops required for investment and should make the position of Hangoe, on the other side of the Gulf, somewhat precari-
ous.
But more serious is the German have been destroyed by our air -claim to have cut the railway be- craft in air combats and on enemy tween Moscow and Leningrad aerodromes between August 21 which is now being closely beset and 27. During the same period on three sides and threatened in we lost 262,"Reuter. the east.
It is obvious that the Germans here have entered into a race against time and are flinging very .considerable forces into the battle in the hope of securing a deci- sive victory before winter.
Test Ahead
The fortifications of Lenin. grad and Kronstadt cover a tremendous area and are very strong but whether they Wit prove another Verdun against modern Stukas and other up- to date methods of warfare re- mains to be seen.
The success of the Russian de- fence has been chiefly in its re silience rather then its immutabil- ity.
DUNKIRK WAR ARTIST IS DEAD
Eves,
Mr. Reginald Grenville R.A., an official war artist, who who went to France with the B.E.F. in 1940, died at Middleton in-Teesdale (County Durham) 'the other day, aged 65.
Ten years ago, Mr. Eves figured in one of the greatest sensations In the history of the Royal Aca- In the central sector the situa- demy. Three of his pictures which tion is very confused and the were hung were found to be Germans admit Russian counter- photographs painted over. They attacks but claim these were were subsequently withdrawn and Ineffective. The Russians make returned to him. no claims.
Dnieper Check
IN THE SOUTH THE GER- MAN OFFENSIVE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN HELD UP BY THE BROAD "WATERS OF THE 'DNIEPER,
made Corporal Robert! Alexander Doig, of the Scots Guards, eighty-five minutes late for his wed- ding yet he and his |bride walked under a lad-
der after the ceremony' |“just to show Friday the
13th that we are superstitious”
not
Bridegroom and bride - Miss Jean Sybil Bloomfield, a nurse In Hammersmith Hospital -- spent the morning together-buy- ing 'the ring.
But before he could be married, Corporal Doig, who had been on marroeuvres in Southern Englanti, had to report to his unit.
"The wedding was tired for 1.45, and Corporal Dolg went to catch
-a train from Victoria about eleven, He missed it by a minute or two.
"After reporting," he "fost "THO first train back to London, and when he got to "Lofidon 'ho mist- od the bus.
Finally he arrived at St. An- drew's Church, Primula Street, Westway, Shepherd's Bush, at 3.10, after a dash across ›Lʊndon In a taxi-with every traffic light showing red as he reach- ed it.
· Quarrelled – Made Up
Now Corporal and Mrs. Doig are unless they missed the train- well
Dunkeld
on their way to (Perthshire) for their honeymoon. Corporal Dolg met Miss Bloomfield in 1937, They tell in love, quarrelled, parted, and then made it up on his return from Norway.
Mrs. Doig comes from Jersey, Charmel Islands, where her par- ents had a farm. They are now safe in England after losing their home home through the German Two years later he was elected | occupation. and associate, and in 1939 elected an Academician,
Mr. Eyes was a protege of Sar- geant and a fellow student of Örpen and Augustus John. He was a member of the Royal So- ciety of Portrait and Royal In- stitute of Oil Painters,
The destruction of the great He has painted portraits of Dam at Zaparozche will, it is many prominent persons in the believed, make the current 50 Services, Literature, Law, and Berce in the lower reaches that Politics. One of his greatest suc- the use of pontoons will be more cesses was a portrait of Thomas or less ruled out for a period of Hardy. three weeks at least.
Red Counter-Attacks
V
Russian counter-attackeralong BARE-LEG
the Dnieper are the main süb.
Ject of an Hungarian communi.
que which reports the sending BAN OFF
of a large number of "Russlan
troops to the "Unloper arda
livious of all sacrifices.
number of Russian guns mounted 'silenced:
RATION BARS MOURNING
Unable to go into mourning be
cause they have too few clothes
coupons, relatives of miners killed
clothes must come first,
HE HAD JUST SHOT DOWN A GERMAN, 14 Whitết ôn patrol a Pifbt"Officer encountered a German alrcraft and, after a sharp fight, bucceeded Im shooting^lt ›down into the doa. Photo shows the Pilot Officer getting out of hip''plané ór arrival back at his Station after shooting down a Nazi airgraft.
BUDENNY FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ON
BANK OF ONIEPER
(By Reuter's Correspondent in Moscow),
THE SOVIET ADMISSION that Dniepro- Petrovsk has been abandoned to the Germans has hardened the bitterness in Moscow against the enemy, as the town stood for so much of what Russia has achieved in indus-
trial progress.
To millions of Russians the blown-up fac- tories and ruined Dniepro-Petrovsk Dam -
in the Whitehaven pit explosion Source of their power meant to Russians a have been told that working chance of increased material comfort for "We sympathize with bereav. future years when the war danger would be official told the "Daly Mirror removed and the country would be able to
ed people," a Board of Trade
"But “material is needed "for
working clothes, and they must
come~fitat. " "After all, mourning is worn
adopt a peace-time economy.
Ukraind.
"where they counter-attack ob- The ban on stockingless
only for a short pèrlód. I am sure Dniepro-Petrovsk has not been claims of a fortnight ago that "Their efforts to break through girls in Leicester hosiery people will not expect a relaxa- given up without a struggle and the main body of Marshal Southern were disastrous and they failed factories imposed when lion in rationing when they know the end of the battle for the Budenny's forces in to hinder the allied advance. the no-stocking craze Members of the Women's Moneeds to be regarded in the light or broken up and no longer cap, the material is needed elsewhere" tight bunko of The Dnieper elbow Ukraine were either surrounded along the Diloper have been threatened the prosperity tor Transport Corps, the WV.S. of the whole action in southern üble of fighting as organised
Funits. of the industry--has been and the YMCA are to get ra- It is now about a fortnight stuce. It is clear that a large propor- without coupons until further ar- the news came of the fall ortion of them had umple time to rangements are made, ved Kirovograd" atid, soon afterwards, withdraw across the Dnieper and
the fall of Krivorog,
establish themselves firmly They must sign a statement on: the back of the traders bill that it took the Germans the samo,the left bank Router.
wrest, from the Soviet:troops" bị [verstrip-of territory about:90 miles|| w/bronussing the rorook : the
Dnjeper.
"The allied air force in repeat. ed ralas demonstrated superior lifted. strength. Hungarian air losses do "Women will find it dimeult not exceed the average as hitherto now to avoid stockingless days," recorded.”
a leading manufacturer stated, the articles - represent their Wes-/perlodjinamglyb fortnight, sto "and the ban would be wrong.
"What used to be a craze has sential personal uniform require- become a necessity."
ments.
Red Communique The following is the text of the Soviet midnight communique issued by the Soviet Unformation Bureau:→→
"A request to the Government. In the case of non-commission- for one-coupon stockings la uned officers and drivers, of the dur" conaldoration,^^
M.T.C. the statement must be Exports estimate that British countersigned by their command- "During August 29 our troops women bought a yearly averageing officer, stubbornly fought the enemy along of twenty one pals forty-two Omcers of the YMCA can the whole front.
coupons) before the sheer silk gat: uniforms only with the sign- According to latest data now stockings booms, which nearly ed authority of National Women's available, over 500 German "plands"|"Udoviça "the" average,
Auxiliary headquarters."
German Claims Disproved
M. P. KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS
i
SMEIDA Frankel, | Labour - MP, for "Mlle End, was taken Junoon" scious to St. Mary's Hospital, Thadington, und detained, after itself dis-striking lile head in a fall on stairs sproves the extravagant German at a West End railway station,
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