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RUSSIA TAKING OFFENSIVE Recapture Of Smolensk Rumoured Roles Reversed
Roosevelt
Speech LEADERS TO CONFER
President Roosevelt yes- terday completed the ad- dress on foreign affairs which he is to deliver at 2 a.m. (G.M.T.) on Friday at the White House.
importance 'he attaches to the
and he will now speak for 25
FREEZING On Central Front ORDER
(By Annalist)
RUSSIA IS TAKING THE, OFFENSIVE. FROM SMOLENSK TO GOMEL, SOVIET TROOPS, FOLLOWING A SERIES OF CONCEN- TRATED BLOWS AT SPECIFIC POINTS, ARE BELIEVED TO BE DE- VELOPING A LARGE-SCALE OFFENSIVE ACTION.
The latest indication is the report that German attempts in the Gomel sector to as- sume the offensive were met by counter- attacks and followed up by a counter-offen- sive, which smashed one Ġerman motorised division and destroyed the headquarters of another.
Reports are circulating that Smolensk it- The President emphasised the self has been retaken or what is left of it speech by increasing its length but there is neither confirmation nor de- minutes instead of 15 as originally nial of this from Russian sources although President Roosevelt completed Confirmation of its recapture is expected
speech at his Hyde Park hourly.
planned.
the (N.Y.) home, just before leaving in a special train for Washington. HE ASKED HIS SECRETARIAT TO ARRANGE APPOINTMENTS IN. WASHINGTON LAST NIGHT OR TO-DAY WITH MR. COR- DELL HULL (SECRETARY OF
KNOX STATE), COL.
(NAVY SECRETARY) AND MR. STIM - SON (WAR SECRETARY).
When asked · whether these proposed talks had any connec tion with the radio specoh the President's secretary,' Mr. Has- sett, replied: “You might make your own deductions."
The President is accompanied by his wife. Mr. Harry Hopkins, Lease and Lend Supervisor, join-
ter...
Safe Passage Refused
It is probable in a few days there will be no Nazis anywhere east of the Dnieper, even in its upper reaches, and that the Soviet counter-offensive has resulted in the complete removal of the Ger- man threat to turn the defences of the upper Dnieper by an out- flanking movement from the north as was done with such near- disastrous effect in the Dnieper Bend.
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Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. IF THE NAZIS WANT THE OTHER" HALF OF THE
ed the train at New York Reu- Secretary of State, reveal- ORRAINE THEY WILL HAVE ed yesterday that the TO TRY A FRONTAL ATTACK Germans had refused to ACROSS THE LOWER DNIEPER AND WITH BETTER. SUCCESS assure safe passage to THAN THEY ARE AT PRESENT any American vessel pro- ACHIEVING, ceeding to Britain to fetch U.S. citizens.
TO ALLOW NO DELAY BY IRAN
Surging Masses
The State Department, he Fighting, as it has been develop- said, thorofore had, takenɛomer-led in the Russian campaign --- by gency measures to permit the Nazis, proceeds by enormous Americans stranded, in belliger, surging movements of vast masses ent countries to return home in of men and materials which gather planes and ships other than momentum as they go and are in- A American, Ma
capable of being stopped.
He emphasised that this was not The Foreign Secretary, gerent transport facilities but dually slow them to a temporary blanket authorisation to use bel- Superb fighting skill can gra- Mr. Anthony Eden, made would be limited to applications standstill by applying a breaking it clear in the House of marooned many months then only a matter of days or even to accommodate Americans action to their impetus. It is Commons yesterday, that There had been a terrific clam- hours before the movement res Great Britain would brook our among Americans in Britain, tarts, develops, is slowed and held: Europe and Asia to return, Mr. no delay in the imple- Hull explained, adding that be- THE
THREE TIMES HAVE THE menting of the Anglo- tween 7 and 100 in Britain alone RUSSIANS THUS HELD THE must return within a few weeks ENTIRE MIGHT OF THE NAZI Russian Agreement with or lose their citizenship. SURGES FORWARD AND Iran.
A large number of technicians THREE TIMES THEY FOUGHT In reply to a question. Mr. Eden who went to England in connec- THEM TO A STANDSTILL. said that the Anglo-Russian tion with the war now wished to
return Reut
Indications are that this time. It
is the Russians who will initiate the forward movement and it res
terms, which were accepted by the- Iranian Government, pro- vided that the German Minister and his staff must leave Iran that the four Legations have mains to be seen whether the Gor- Immediately, and the German been requested to comply forth-mans are as good at, opplying the Legation closed, *-
with, and the. Iranian Govern brake as they are at rolling, for→ This also applies to the Italian, ment are taking steps to handward by sheer weight of mossed Hungarian and Rumanian Lega-over the German community to metal and an incredible disregard tions.
the British and Soviet Govern- for wholesale massacre of their
Imanpower-Reutor vá
The Iranian Government statements:
Reuter
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CORDELL HULL DISCOURAGES OPTIMISM
The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, at his press con- ference yesterday, said he had no advices of any impending agree- ment or announce- ment concerning the Japanese - American talks, which had been under way for several months.
Mr. Hull added there was nothing new in the Japanese- Americon situation.- Reuter.
QUERIES
Asked in the House of Commons for a statement on the trade barter agree- ment with Japan, Mr. Dingle Foot, Parliamen- tary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, said no general barter arrangement nor anything inconsistent with the strict enforce- ment of the freezing order had ever been contem- plated.
The use of frozen funds for new, exports to Japan" was not permitted.
If it should be found. desirable exceptionally to license any par-. ticular imports from Japan it would-be a matter for considera- tion of what exports should be· allowed against such imports. and how payment should be effected.
JE was probable - that. this. could best be done by setting up a separate clearing account. If and when the need for it should' arise.--
At present however, no such imports have been licensed and consequently no question of pay- ment arises-Reuter.
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