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BERLIN GETS BAD SHAKE-UP
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It was a year to the day since the start of blitz raids on London that hun- dreds of British bombers subjected Berlin to the war's heaviest aerial
bombardment.
Neutral correspondents in Berlin state that it is admitted in the Ger- man capital that the R.A.F., after
Berlin's penetrating
defences, struck the heaviest blow yet.
YESTERDAY MORNING THERE WAS TREMENDOUS AC- TIVITY IN THE BATTERED AREAS, WITH RESCUE SQUADS DIGGING OUT VICTIMS FROM THE WRECKAGE, AND 27 FIRES WERE STILL GREAT BURNING.
of
The streets in the centre the city round the railway sta tion were pitted with craters. The German press devotes co- lumns
to stress
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RELIABLE SOURCES INDICATE THAT THE GERMANS HAVE VASTLY OVER-STATED, THE EXTENT OF THEIR PROGRESS IN THE ATTEMPT TO INVEST LENINGRAD, AND THAT A TERRIFIC BATTLE IS RAGING SOME CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE FROM THE MAIN DEFENCES.
****60000000000 NOT YET OUT OF DANGER
Mr. J. G. Campbell, P.W.D. Chartered Civil Engineer, suffer- ing from narcotic poi- soning in the Kowloon Hospital, is still not out of danger, it was indicated to the "China Mail" this
afternoon. the exemplary discipline of the Berlin populace under the mass of bombs, and brands the raid as "particularly detestable," while promising very heavy retaliation very soon.----In- ternational News Service.
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"He is progressing nicely and it is hoped that he will be out of danger soon," said Dr. K. H. Utley, Medical Officer of the Kowloon. Hospital.
COLONY WAR GAMES
Negotiations for the re- Termination of the mili- patriation of American tary exercises, described nationals from Japan officially as the longest have reached an advanced and most detailed yet held stage.
Meanwhile, according to the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” á smash-- ing Soviet victory near Smolensk has been fol- lowed by the launching of another massive counter-attack farther to the north.
Marshal Timoshenko, commander of the Army of the Centre, has begun this operation which is driving north-west from the Smolensk area, and is designed to take the Nazi army in the Novgorod area on the flank.
TO LEAVE AXIS?
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Washington quarters are predicting the an- nouncement by Japan of a major decision on inter- national policy which willTM transform the Pacific situation.
THE
ANNOUNCEMENT IS EXPECTED TO BE MADE THIS WEEK AND THE PROPHECY IS THAT JAPAN WILL BREAK....
AWAY FROM HER AXIS AL LIANCE.
Her adherence to the Axis is
reported to be at stake in im- portant political closed-door dis-
cussions in Tokyo and "mounting indications from private and di- anese, despite the bellicose mill- ∙a smashing tary clique, are veering from the
The scale of this thrust is des- place names in order to plomatic reports are that the Jap- cribed as "terrific" and the aim
's to relieve pressure upon Mar- announce shal Voroshilov in the Leningrad victory in the Smolensk Axis in favour of rapprochement area, which is now being subject-
with Britain and the United
ed to the concentrated weight or sector and the e recapture States.
the Luftwaffe,
been
Odessa Siege
All. German attempts to penc trate the defences of Odessa have shattered, says Tass, the official Soviet news agency.
The High Command says that further guerilla raids by. Cossack horsemen are spreading chams behind the German lines, One German battalion was routed after a pitched battle, leaving a Ger..." man general, and 1,200 dead;:;
"The Germans advancing on Leningrad are nowhere near the south-western approaches," says the High Command, which denies that the city is isolated, though the railways are subject to air attack and are put out of action temporarily from time to time. International News Service.
* Soviet Breaks Long
Silence
The Soviet High Com- mand in their midnight in Hong Kong, is ex- communique, broke their The State Department indicat ed that progress had been achiev-pected to-morrow.
long silence · regarding In - an- official communique ed on Japanese initiative sug- gesting that a thousand may wish issued at noon, Command H.Q. to return and that they may sall gives details of the operations in a Japanese ship, providing that as follows: about 300 Japanese wishing to re- turn from the United States are taken on the return trip. -
The Japanese have also suggest- ed the possibility of weekly sail ings between Japanese and American ports handling mail and passengers. The negotiations have been carried on apart from the exploratory talks. Interna itional News Service,
LAVAL IMPROVES
and were arrested, being releas ed as soon as they had estab- lished their identity,
On the night of September 7-8, unsuccessful, attempts wère made by the "enemy" to land. During During the early morning of September 9, certain roads were September 8, enemy, landing assumed to be cratered for the parties gained a footing on the purposes of the exercise. G Island. Heavy losses were sus
Detours were arranged at once tained by the enemy and those. and repairs put in hand by the troops which had succeeded in Royal Engineers and P.WD. landing were isolated and unable During the day, mock seditious to penetrate more than a few pal of a humorous type hundred yards inland,
were
killed or captured.
G
in areas where they A counter attack was launch were likely to be found by theed at once and the situation com- troops. All pamphlets so dis- pletely restored, all enemy who M. Laval, whose condition is tributed were found and reported had succeeded in landing being tapidly improving, was yesterday to Fortress Headquarters.pres questioned in hospital, by the Several persons, both British Versailles examining: magistrate and Chinese, who had been em who took depositions by M. Laval ployed by Headquarters in dis- and M. Deat on the shooting tributing these pamphlets were
fait -Router.
either caught in the act or traced
The exercises are the longest and most detailed yet, held in Hong Kong. They have been most successful and will probably end sometime on September 10,
of the railway town of "PRINCE KONOYE IS EX- Yelnya.
PECTED TO PRONOUNCE "A PRO-UNITED STATES-ATTI- TUDE AFTER AN AUDIENCE The following is the full text of WITH HIS IMPERIAL JAPAN- the communique which gives do ESE MAJESTY ON WEDNES- clue to the situation round Len-DAY INTERNATION - ingrad:
AL NEWS SERVICE...
"During September 8 (Monday) our troops fought against the enemy along the whole front.
“In the Smolensk direction, fighting for the town of Velnya, near Smolensk, which lasted for
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SPITTING FINE
For spitting in the street Yaumati yesterday. Wo Shiu, 33, was fined $1 by Mr. H. C. Macna- mara at Kowloon this morning.
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