Battle
For Leningrad Has Started
NAZIS MAKE WORLD'S
USUAL CLAIMS
WELL - INFORMED BERLIN CIRCLES “BELIEVE THE BATTLE FOR LENINGRAD HAS ALREADY BEGUN," SAYS THE BERLIN CORRESPONDENT OF THE STOCKHOLM "DAGBLADET.”
The Nazis claim their troops have al- ready penetrated the "outer defences” of the city at several points, he said, and their ad- vanced troops are "in the vicinity of the city."
The "final assault" may be ex- pected at any moment, he adds.
These claims are not mentioned
by the Berlin correspondents of the "Dagens Nyheter" and the Stockholmi **Tidningen," who merely report incessant rain ham- pering the operations and further Russian forces "annihilated" south of Lake 1lmen,
The Germans claim, accord-
ing to these correspondents, that a great encircling move
ment is proceeding successful. ly north of Novgorod.
The Germans
SHIP LEFT
IN FLAMES
BEST FOR THE R.A.F.
{By A Cafrespondent) During one day at the two big fighter aircraft factories of Curtiss- Wright and the Bell Air- craft Corporation in Buf- falo we have seen plenty to cheer about and almost too much to report in a hurry.
I should Foremost, perhaps, mention the fighter acroplane now
in production which experts gen-
erally believe to be better than have got.
anything the Germans
IRAN REPLY TO PEACE TERMS
The Iranian Gov- ernment has handed to the representatives of Britain and Russia its reply to the armis- tice proposals, says a Teheran despatch to the Vichy new S agency.
Details of the reply will be published shortly. Reuter.
This is Bell's Airacobra P.39, a 0000 terrifically powerful, heavily arm- oured flying arsenal,
It is the only pursuit 'plane in the world which carries a 37 mm. It also carries cannon in its nose,
six machine-guns in its wings.
By virtue of its revolutionary design, with the engine behind the pilot, it affords greater freedom than any fighter plane in exist- British bombers escort-ence. The first shipment of these fighters has already been sent to ed by fighters yesterday R.A.F., and the United States morning made a low level Army has 60 of them.
fac-
in
Amazing
Scene In
Uruguay
NAZIS FACE THE MUSIC
As the third year of war opens the German press appears to be preparing the nation to swallow. some hard facts. No long- er is the war a "blitz- krieg," it is a "battle of life and death."
Damning admissions are becom- ing frequent, and the widely read "Frankurter Zeitung," for in- stance, states: "Every German should have known at the begin- ning of the war that this meant a battle for life and death and that it would not be an easy task beat England.
to
"WE FIGHT NOT ONLY THE BRITISH ARMIES BUT ALSO BRITISH PROPAGANDA, WHICH HAS SUCCEEDED IN CREATING A DEVILISH HATRED AGAINST. NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND ITS REPRE- SENTATIVES.
"We do not, deny this fact
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We saw the 3/4-inch armour REPORTS:REACHING LON attack on an enemy sup-plate which protects the Airucobra DON FROM MONTEVIDEDO OF ply ship off Dunkirk. cockpit and engine, together with WHAT THE LEADING OPPOSI
The vessel, which was protect-the 21⁄2-inch bullet-proof glass TION PAPER DIA" DESCRIBES obviously, the majority of the Bri-
as which shields the pilot. A.A. ships, as well
AS UNPRECEDENTED SCENES tish and American people, includ- admit counter-ed by six
was hil twice Two new Curtiss-Wright
members of the OF PRO BRITISH ENTHUSIASM ing leading attacks on the central sector, the flyingboats,
tories will be completed before WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE Church, approve the support given correspondents add, but claim and left enveloped in flames.
and
DEPARTURE OF THE BRITISH | to Stalin in were des- the year ends in Columbus
his fight against they
reached have "not
their Two Messerschmitts
St. Louis, and will employ 24,000
MINISTER, HAVE CAUSED Hitler." goal," neither have the Russians troved by British Oghters.
plant
GREAT INTEREST AND SATIS- The "Muenchner Neueste Nach- succeeded in regaining the west One Blenheim is missing, says workers. A big new
Air Ministry communique. Buffalo has also been constructed FACTION IN LONDON.
richten," bank of the Dnieper despite con- un
" taking part in the cam- in less than eight months.
Mr. Millington-Drake, after be-paign to convince the German tinued efforts.
Reuter.
ing escorted through the town by people that war was unavoidable a torchlight protession containing a striking admission of doubt- representatives of all pro-Demo-states: "Hitler assured England he cratic and sporting associations, did not wish to continue the war was seen off by a crowd of some if England would agree to Ger- 60,000 people.
many's right to form her own liv- Portraits of Churchill, Roosevelt ing space. England's refusal has and Stalin were carried by the forced us now to fight for life or cheering crowd.
death.
Karelian Sector
Swedish correspondents in Fin- land say the Russians are now holding the Stalin Line across the Karelian Isthmus.
The Finns claim they have cap- tured Sakkola, about 50 miles south-east of Viborg, and reached Taipale, just east of Sakkoja.
It is claimed Russian prisoners reported the death of Major- General Sellentsov, commanding |
ter.
BOLD RAIDS BY GUERILLAS IN BESSARABIA
These scenes, says the paper “Dia," afford "yet another proof of the complete spiritual unity of Britain and Uruguay magni-
of victory for the cause of jus- tice."
THE SUCCESSES of Soviet guerilla de-cent reassuring the certainly
the 88th Russian Division-Reu-tachments operating in the Bessarabian dis- trict, now occupied by the German and Rumanian armies, are described in a supple- ment to the Soviet midday communique yes- terday.
HOLIDAY
ROUSES CRITICS
Thousands of London people who ignored the Government's request to "stay put" in their homes for the August bank holi- day, and instead packed trains and other trans- port services, earned a severe rebuke from the London "Daily Express."
:
British Minister
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Considerable Time
"We must keep aware of the fact that many battles and con- siderable time will be necessary before the complète destruction of glant Russia is possible," Mr. Millington-Drake has been
The influential "Kolnische Zei- at Montevideo tung" warns its readers:-"The Ger- since 1934, and is succeeded by man people must not indulge in Mr. R. C. S. Stevenson, British dangerous hopes. The war in the west is fundamentally different to the war in the east.
"The Red Army has offered.re- (Continued from Next. Col.)sistance which is still surprising- portance, as announced by the ly tough and tenacious. The
Wireless.
"By bold raids, blowing up the enemy's in- High Command, but this does not battles of Minsk, Smolensk and stallations, guerillas are systematically sap-mean the complete destruction of Gomel are surely of historical im ping the forces of the enemy and destroying his ammunition and supplies," it says.
"During August guerillas des-
troyed 14 enemy tanks and arm-. ALL I WANT
oured cars, 32 lorries with am- munition, 44 wagons with supplies and over 40 petrol dumps.
**
During the past three days bombers of the Black Sea air arm carried out several raids on ports and enemy troops. "In the Smolensk direction our troops crushed an infantry regi ment of the 101st Division. Only eight to ten men remained in the "London," says the newspaper, regiment's companies." "which showed the big cities of
IS AN HEIR
M.P. Told Wife
"""You bore me an heir- that's all I want or expect. Marriage is a device to shackle a man to a wo- man he is tired of. Modern women are useless to
the world how to take bombs, set "Direct hits put one enemy vessel the worst holiday example, with out of action and our pilots also themselves or their hus- trains leaving the city in seven destroyed over 50 armoured cars bands." directions. Coal was stoked into and many automatic weapons,? Locomotives, while miners gave adds the supplement,
up their free time to dig, and
petrol, bought at the cost of many
lives, was burnt on the roads
Prisoner's Statement
Lady Patricia Latham, who has been granted a divorce: in Miami, Florida, U.S., from her husband, Sir Herbert-Paur Latham, M.P., told the Court that ho used these words to her.
the Red Army."--British Wireless. (Continued at foot of preceding (Gol)
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"The next time the Govern. The supplementary communique ment wants the public to stay attributes to a German officer, put' on a holiday; it must ishuo Ludwig Robert, who was taken an order, not an appeal.",
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