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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 12, 1941.
NEW MURMANSK OFFENSIVE Little Change On
Timoshenko Attack Continues
(Military Commentary by “Annalist”)
A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIGHTING IN RUSSIA WAS REPORTED IN LONDON YESTERDAY WHEN IT WAS STATED IN AUTHORITATIVE CIRCLES THAT THERE WERE INDICATIONS THE GERMANS HAVE STARTED AN ATTACK IN THE MURMANSK DISTRICT, ON THE ARCTIC SEA, 600 MILES NORTH OF LENIN- GRAD.
How this attack is progressing, or whether It is it is on a very big scale, is not yet known. stated it seems to be coming from the direc- tion due west of Murmansk and Finnish troops are believed to be taking part.
There is a railway line running down to Lenin- grad from Murmansk which at one point skirts the western border of Lake Ladoga, on the eastern side of which the Finns recently claimed to have ad- vanced.
Pending further information this of the actions undertaken by development does not seem to af-shal Timoshenko's armies. fect the fighting in the main Rus- sian centres.
information on
the
In the Leningrad sector there is no news of any Important change.
Kiev Clash
DEATH OF
DEATH-RAY
MATTHEWS
The death was an- nounced from Swansea
Mar-Grindel 1 - Matthews,
Main Fronts
BACKWARD IN COMING FORWARD
Of the 10 Italian divisions which the Germans required on the Eastern Front, it is understood only three have been despatched and only one is in the fighting line operating behind German shock troops.
The remaining divi- sions are expected to be despatched shortly at the urgent request of the Germans. Reuter.
Valley yesterday of M. H. PRINCE known as "Death Ray CHICHIBU
Matthews."
it was.
IN SAIGON
Detailed
Among his researches, The Germans claim violent latest developments were not pro- fighting north of Kiev on Wed-reported, was the discovery of a vided by yesterday's middaynesday where, however, Moscow ray to kill disease germs, the de-
new method of aerial PRINCE CHICHIBU ARRIVED Soviet communique.
reports say the Nazi drive was sign of a checked and severe defeats in-defence and the design of a rocket IN SAIGON AT MIDDAY YES Ricted on two German infantry ueroplane that would travel at TERDAY IN A SPECIAL MILI
six miles a second and mightTARY PLANE FROM TOKYO divisions.
make a visit to the moon possible. AS THE PERSONAL EMISSARY To carry out his electrical re- OF THE EMPEROR TO “KEEP search work Matthews lived in UP THE SPIRITS OF JAPANESE a closely guarded bungalow on SOLDIERS IN EXILE."· the top of a Welsh mountain 700
Prince Chichibu formally visited
in Governor-General
the feet above sea level.
the
he afternoon, while presumably will start keeping up the soldiers' spirits to-day-Reuter.
The situation between Smolensk the Russians and Gomel, where are counter-attacking on a 200- mile front, has become somewhat confused.
No further reliable news has been recelved in London about Ukraine, the situation In the
where the Germans still appear to be trying to cross the Dhie- per.
REPORTS HAVE BEEN RE-
A supplement to yesterday's CEIVED OF A GERMAN COUN-midday Soviet communique says TER-ATTACK SOUTH EAST successful resistance is being OF GOMEL BUT THEŠE LACK made to the Rumanian troops on CONFIRMATION FROM SOVIET the approaches to Odessa. SOURCES.
Germans Pushed Back
If they are true, important de- velopments one way or the other may be expected in the next two or three days.
On the whole, therefore, there has been, apart from Murmansk, no significant change us yet on the Russian front in the last 24 hours.
"Sooner Or Later"
He had permission to tap the electric grid system for power.
An engineer by profession, Mat- thews was best known as a pioneer in radio and sound film production and as an inventor.
Radio Pioneer
wireless The possibilities of telephony early attracted him and in 1911, at Cardiff, he 'succeeded in establishing wireless telephonic communication with an aero- plane one and a half miles away and travelling at what then was:
At various points in the large central sector the Russians re- Leningrad holds out, as deter-considered the remarkable speed. port further advances and suc-mined 'as ever, and it is perhaps cesses. At one point General significant that Yeremenko on Wednesday push-paganda is now preparing ed the Germans back 12 miles German people not to expect its and recaptured 10 villages. rapid fall.
of 60 miles an hour. German pro- He also sent the first press mes- by radio telephone from the sage
Newport to the newspaper "West-: ern Mail" at Cardiff.
His researches, it was reported, to detect sub- included mean's
The Tass agency reports that during the last 24 hours, 12,000 The German radio in its latest Germans were killed at Vilikle talk said: "It makes no difference marinės 80 miles away. Luki, which is 125 miles north-whatever to the strategic sïtua- west of Smolensk.
He got his nickname of "death tion in general whether Lenin-ray" from an experiment with a or later." - ray that would stop aeroplane and These terrific losses on the part grad falls sooner
motorcar engines, of the Germans show the violence Reuter.
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His aerial defence scheme was to "mine" the air. Rockets that could reach a height of 30,000 feet in four and a half seconds would contain a number of para-
chutes to which, by means of thin steel wires, bombs would be at
tached.
He served throughout the South African War and was wounded twice. Reuter.
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WREN'S BANNS ON WARSHIP
A leading Wren has made naval history by be- ing the first in her service to have her marriage banns called on board a vessel afloat.
She is Daphne Dorothy Briand, 23, cook on H.M.S. Eaglet, anchor- ed in a Liverpool dock, where of- ficers attached to the naval base eat and sleep.
When
The tenfor chaplain called her banna -bhe was de- scribed
his as "Spinster, of Majesty's Ship Eaglet."
Leading Wren Briand, who works a twenty-four hour watch and 'sleeps on board when on duty, is to marry A/C Fitter Konald Float, 25. The wedding is to take place in the village of Oulwood, near Redhill, Surrey.
The couple have known tone another for two years.
Leading Wren Briand intends.. to return to duty after her wed- ding.
I have been in uniform for eighteen months now and I think the service is grand," she told 'the "Daily Mirror."
Wrenc* -fiving quarters ashore are referred to as "ships,” and trave galleys, cabins and mess rooms, but not · until recently have Wrens beer allowed: to sleep on real ships.
This was permitted blitzes on Liverpool.
after the
30,000 GERMANS LOST IN GREAT
BATTLE
AT KIEV
THIRTY THOUSAND Germans were lost before Kiev, according to the secretary of the Central Ukrainian Communist Party, writing in the Moscow newspaper "Pravda” yester- day.
The 44th, 95th and 299th Infantry Divi- sions and other big units were completely routed, he added.
German losses in armoured | equipment were not large. Soviet artillery destroyed some 23 Ger- man tanks, 72 lorries and 11 A.A. gums.
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Violent, fighting is reported: DUPES
...by 5. German news ragency to p
chauveloped von Wednesday a
which two German, divisions are said to be involved core)
P.
British subjects who Hans Betram, who crashed near One division is claimed by the Wyndham, on the west coast of Germans to have broken up Soviet broadcast under enemy Australia, after a flight from Ger-units in this battle into isolated auspices should be prose- many, din 1932, is again in the groups and captured a large-sized Commonwealth this time as a town, making 1,200 prisoners, cuted under the Trea- major in the Luftwaffe, among similar measures of success being prisoners of war from the Mid-attributed to the second German Chery Act as soon as they to dle East.
can be brought He and his companion landed at
justice being Singapore on April 28, 1982, in the course of the flight to Australia, They were reported missing after. Meanwhile the Italian news John Mellor, M.P. leaving Kupang, and a land and paper "Amrosiano' writes: "Odessa of a question to air search was organised in Aus-ig one of the most terrible battle- General tralia..
division.
Odessa Carnage
felds in history,
This
urged by Sir
In the form
the Attorney-
Captain L. F. Flugge (Con.,
A note" was found stating that "The ground is covered with Rochester) is to ask the Minis- the aviators were making for land, the bodies of horses and other tor of Information to watch broad- using a float from their seaplane animals, overturned lorries, aban-casts of British prisoners liberat- as a bout. They were subsequent doned guns and motionless tanks. ed in Germany to see if "the ly discovered by aborigines from The cries of the wounded are condition of liberation is depen- the Drysdale mission station and louder than machine-guns and dent on the astute adoption 10 rescued.
bomb explosions,Reuter,
propaganda methods."