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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941
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INSIST ON
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Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
VON LEEB'S LENINGRAD BID Fighting Rages Night And Day
BRITISH
ENTER TEHERAN
Following a conference of the British and Rus- sian commanders, British and Russian Staff officers entered Teheran yester- day to arrange for billet- ing.
THE BRITISH ADVANCE CAME FROM THE SOUTH AND THE RUSSIAN FROM EAST AND WEST.
Those coming from the east travelled by train to within five miles of Teheran, whence
marched into the city.
ap
they
Most were armed with auto- matic rifics. Others drew
-heavy machine-guns
on small wheels.
They are now
mounted
encamped in
Iranian machine-gun factory.
New Shah's Decision
The new Shab has decided
to
A restore to the nation his father's |
property which includes much
wealth, according to
newspaper
reports published in Teheran yes- terday.
RUMANIAN CHIEF OF STAFF KILLED
General Yoanitiu, Chief of Staff of the Rumanian army, has been accidentally kill- ed in alighting from aeroplane Tignina, says a Buch- arest despatch receiv- ed in Vichy last night.
an
ot
He was decapitated by the propellor. His body has been brought to Bucharest. ter.
Fish
Reu-
Torpedo Attempt
The reports add that the new (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Shah conveyed this decision to his Congressman Hamilton
Violent Russian
Counter-Attacks
THE GERMAN COMMANDER, GENERAL RITTER VON LEEB, IS MAKING A DESPERATE NEW EFFORT TO SMASH HIS WAY INTO |LENINGRAD.
Day and night fighting is raging and it is admitted in Berlin that the Russian troops are striking back.
The Nazi official news agency yesterday Japanese
spoke of "obstinate Soviet resistance with constant counter-attacks in which heavy tanks are being used.”
The agency claims that despite this, new terri- torial gains have been made by the German forces in which a large number of Russians were cap- tured."
,
The actual situation is not clear as the official Soviet communíques continue to deal in general terms with the nature of the operations, merely stating that "the enemy whole were engaged along the front."
It seems clear, however, that intensification of the fighting in the Leningrad area is primarily
AMERICAN SHIP DETAINED
Leaving Malaya
Mrs. Ken Tsumuri, wife
of the Japanese consul-
general in Singapore,... is, among about 100 Japan- ese (mainly those affect- ed by the freezing orders) who are returning to
the outcome of violent Russian [SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"] Japan aboard the N.Y.K.
back at THE AMERICAN - OWNED liner "Hakone Maru."
som-VESSEL
"ZOELLA LYKES,"
Ministers Immediately after tak-J. Fish (Republican, New the thrusts north and south of the IN SHANGHAI REPORTEDLY
ing the oath.-Reuter.
JAPANESE PROTEST TO S.M.C.
in
from
Bombay
Japanese circles in Singapore maintain that Mr. Tsumuri's. trip was planned löng ago 'and' was accelerated owing to hor son's illness at home and is not due to the political tension.
counter-attacks, which have
Germans thrown the
The vessel arrived in Singapore one point, according to
Japanese official Moscow reports, for a OWNED BY LYKES BROTHERS yesterday bringing 77
and OF NEW ORLEANS AND evacuees distance of nine miles.
AMERI-Colombo, Little news has come from the OPERATED BY THE
LINES IS Ukraine front in the Kiev region, CAN PRESIDENT which is taken to indicate that UNDER CUSTOMS DETENTION INFRINGING LOCAL Ukrainian capital have been; FOR York) announced
checked and that the situation is HARBOUR REGULATIONS.
It is learned the ship is newly- Chicago that he plans to more or less stabilised.
built and this is her first trip to. It is expected that 600 Japanese introduce legislation in
|the Orient,.
evacuees from Malaya will sail in It is understood the U.S. con- the official evacuation ship "Fuzo Congress in a few days
London quarters are chieflysulate bas been notified.-Inter-Maru," expected in Singapore on calling for a declaration
anxious regarding the German national News Sérvice! of war against Germany. attack across the Lower Dnieper, which the Germans Mr. Fish, one of the leading iso- concerning lationists, said this was the only have made important claims, and way to reach a showdown with on which Moscow has, thus far. President Roosevelt and show preserved silence.
him he lacks the support of the nation for War and to expose the efforts to embroil the country in con-war, especially over the sinking of sulate-general in Shang-so-called American ships which
The Japanese
were actually Panaman:"-Inter- hai on Wednesday made national News Service. representations to the Municipal Council calling
V
that body's attention to BISMARCK
the recurrence of terroris-
tic activities recently, ac- BOMBING cording to the Japanese MISSION
press.
The press says the following were drawn to the attention of the Council authorities:
Dnieper Attack
The latest German clalm is that their troops have reached the
the Perekop neck of Crimea, which, if true, would probably involve the collapse of the Russian defences In the Crimea Peninsula.
No confirmation of the German. however, claims is forthcoming.
Reuter and International News Service.
TWO NEW STRIKES IN AMERICA
|(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
THE GERMAN BATTLESHIP BISMARCK CARRIED TWO The Increasing numbers of 'PLANES WHICH INTENDED Japanese who have fallen victims TO BOMB QUEBEC AND MON to armed attacks by terrorists who TREAL, ACCORDING TO MR. aimed at the indiscriminate as ROBERT DEMING, ASSISTANT sassination of Japanese military BTATE DEFENCE ADMINIS officers and men and policemen, TRATOR WHO QUOTES BRI as well as civilians;
TISH SOURCES. The Municipal Police should During a speech at Branford, (pay due consideration to mep Connecticut, Mr. Deming said a sures for preventing these tor-high British army officer told him rorist operations; "-
cach plane carried. 1.200- ther The machinery of the Muni-mite bombs. They intended to For the same reason workers in after the American Radiator and Stán- cipal Police should be revised on land in the United States the basis of Japanese considera- the Canadian raid, submitting to dard Sanitary Corporation walked tions and the position and au- internment, per
TWOK NEW STRIKES ARE BOTHERING AMERICA'S WAR EFFORT AS 3,000 WORKERS IN THE MCDONALD ROLLING MILLS IN NEW YORK STRUCK FOR MORE MONEY,
out This strike interrupts' am- thority of the Japanese Special "Does this bring war to our munition factories butput as the Deputy Commissioner should be door, or does it not?" he asked factory turns out moulds,Inter- consolidated,Reuter. The Router).
national News Service,
SundayReuter.
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