THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 13, 1941.
RED TANKS CRUSH BRITISH GENERAL
TRAPPED
GERMAN VEHICLES
THE GERMAN propaganda machine is angrily accusing Stalin of "the greatest tank bluff since tanks were introduced into warfare."
The Russians displayed only old model tanks at manoeuvres and parades at which foreign mili- tary attaches were present, the Germans declare. But secretly they built up a great force of improved machines.
OFFICERS IN HOTEL SCENE
An R.A.F.
officer was stated at a Plymouth in quest to have smashed in the bedroom door panel of| a Free French Navy lieut- enant after a scene with a married woman.
The lieutenant fell to death from
Reporting this, the "Daily Ex- press" correspondent at Stockholm (Sweden) says:-
"The Germans say that when the Russians appeared in battle they had types of tanks of which the German High Command had
never even heard.
"At the outbreak of the war the Germany officially stated that the Russians had 9,000 tanks, in 40 brigades.
"The Germans now say that they have captured or destroyed 9,000 tanks, but the Russlan have many left.
IN POLICE RAID
British general and a Free French offi- cer were found in on expensive. New York apartment raided by police.
This was revealed when "the former Rus- .sian Princess Olga
Proute!zhov 'a'n'd three other women were released on bail at a women's court.
CLEVER
RUSE BY
RUSSIANS
How a Russian Officer, Lieut. Zhabin, lying in a "This was discovered by Germans in the much-advertised
the dense copse, spent several thrust to Vyazma, 100 miles along days with 25 men behind the Moscow road from Smolensk.the Nazi lines, killing a infantry reached Vyazma but could number of men and then for reinforcements, and the 137th not hold the village. They called escaping unscathed, is German infantry division joined told in a story from the Russian front by Alexie
"German tanks and motorised
them.
"The Russians let this division
the fourth storey. His skull was reach Vyazma practically unhin-Tolstoy.
fractured,
It was denied that the RAF. man had gone into his room.
The coroner recorded an open vardičt, there being insufficient evidence to show how the in- juries occurred.
Discussing a theory that the| Frenchman, Fordinand Loula Charles Garnler, 28, swung from the window ledge, a police pathologist said that there was "a good deal loft unexplained." Garnier, a well-built, muscular man, would have given a good account of himself if attacked, he added.
dered, but closed in behind.
"Then the Russians launched a crushing artillery and tank attack against the German tanks and in- fantry.
"I found myself surrounded," Zhabin told Tolstoy. "Towards the evening two German motor trucks, packed with Fascists suspecting nothing, drove Into Dubki,
"Heavy Russian tanks charg- ed straight at German tanks "We calmly let the Germans which had escaped the artiljery through, and then began pepper- fire. The Soviet monstera climbing them with our machine-guns. ad on the smaller German ma- chines, crushing them.
Our fire was so intense that they had to come out-and then we went at them with our bayonets.
Scapegoats Sought "The Gemnans did not like it! Same managed to get away. Their "The Panzer force and the 137thofficer, dashed into a clump of division were destroyed. At Vyaz-reeds, and hid himself in the ma alone, 3,000 German dead were water with only his nostrils show- counted."
ing.
The "Daily Express" correspon- "We found important documents dent says that, with Germans dy-in his bag. We started up some ing by the thousand in this man-German trucks and I and my 25 ner, the German public is begin-men piled into them, and drove ning to seek scapegoats.
along the front behind the Nazi
"He Got Angry” The two officers and
the married woman had adjoining rooms, and the woman said the R.A.F. officer suspected her ot going in the Frenchman's room scape-goats," he adds. and
was angry because ho thought she spent too much time
with him.
Mrs. Eva May Ermen, wife of
officer, an R.A.F.
said she met Pilot-Officer Stevens by arrange- ment at Plymouth, and they went to the Grand Hotel.
They and the Frenchman had been drinking in the lounge, Gar- nier went to bed about 2.30 a.m.
Soon after she went to the ladies' room opposite her bedroom and was returning to the lounge when she met Stevens on the stairs.
"He thought I had been in the Frenchman's room." she continued. "He got angry und began swear- ing. Then he went to the door of, room 115 and banged 'the panel with his flst, breaking it in. I did not hear anybody speak.
Attentions "Marked”
"I asked him not to be so silly and to come away from the door. He did not enter-"-
Mrs Ermen said Garnier's at-
asked:
"The Nazis will produce the lines.
BIRTH
STATISTICS
During the
first
half year of 1941, only 17,703 births were re- gistered, as compared with 20,636 during the same period of 1940.
The Registrar-General of Births and Deaths points out that the re- gistration of the births of all chil- days of birth- is dren within 14 compulsory and failure to regis-
"The Germans showed a blue light, the signal for us to stop. but we dashed through. "As we
approached a wooden bridge we heard a German call out. We sat in silence with rifles and hand grenades ready. The figures of two sentries moved out of the darkness.
"One stopped, the other pressed his nose against our glass cabin. Our eyes met. Suddenly he made in broken a sign and whisperd Russian, 'Don't cross the bridge; the Germans there will shoot.''
V.
AIR RAID MAKE-UP
ter is punishable by law. IN BERLIN
Such failure is, in most cases, due to the ignorance of the par- ent or guardian of the provision
the Births and. Ordinance. It is more frequently
of
The accuracy of R.A.F. Deaths bombing of Berlin has the case in the births of baby girls, forced the Germans to use Many members
of the Chinese
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tentions were "at least sufficiently community are under the mis-every trick of camouflage marked for me to notice it" apprehension that registration is declares Mr. Lincoln Mac- When Thelma Patton, a bar- not necessary until after the first Veagh, formerly Ameri maid; told how, Mrs. Ermen had full moon feast" has passed, This asked her for a nail file and Gar- necessity may not appear to be can Minister to Greece, nier had taken it and filed one of important at the time the birth who spent some time in Mrs. Ermen's nails, the coroner of the baby takes place, but in Berlin on his way home., mány walks of life a certificate of Was there anything in the British birth is a very definite. He explained that desperate way in which Garnier filed the asset, especially in a British attempts to disguise landmarks in- finger hall to suggest that he was Colony, the holder being entitled cluded the planting of full-grown -making up to Mrn. Ermon-Noto many privileges which are trees, the tops of buildings were The Coroner: Was he caressing barred to the non-holder of such painted white, and bicycle paths her finger?-No
a birth certificate. #be a drab, green, Nets hung above Pilot Officer Arthur Stevens, a The Registrar-General appeals lakes make other lakes resemble married man, of Richmond. Sur to all to enlighten parents who traffic roundabouts, rey, said when he came down-are Ignorant of the need for and Those rudes, they added, Talled stairs for his key and found Gar-value of registration of the child'sta confure the RIA.F, which did: nier's room next to Mrs, Ermen's birth and points out that the vast damage to Berlin, but he lost his tempory 420
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Greeks Go Hungry
NAZIS FRENCH
WORKERS
Up to the end of June, 62.000| Frenchmen went to work in Ger-
PENSION FOR OLD ILLNESS
Mr. MacVeagh said that the Grecks were rapidly heading for a famine owing to German plunder and the disorganisation of agricul 300 Men suffering from an old ill-ture.. many, according to the Swiss ness that has been brought back The Germans, he said, forced Radio.These workers have an by war service are to be granted 300,000 Greek troops; to walk agreement for six months, whicht alsability pensions on their dis-home from Albania, causing hun can be extended rea
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