THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941
LENINGRAD DEFENCE
PIERCED,
RESTORED
Heavy Fighting In North And In Crimea
ISLE OF MAN INCIDENTS
,
Bottleneck
Isthmus
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL””)
DUKE AND
DUCHESS OF STOP PRESS WINDSOR
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL" THE GRAVE INTERNATION- AL SITUATION AND THE SE- COND PERSONAL TRAGEDY WITHIN THE WHITE HOUSE' (THE DEATH OF THE PRESI- DENT'S BROTHER – IN - LAW) BECLOUDED THE VISIT OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WIND-
APPARENTLY THROWING FOUR The disturbance at the MECHANISED DIVISIONS INTO THE 'F RAY, Peel (Isle of Man) intern-THE GERMAN FORCES "HAVE LAUNCHED ment camp which follow- THE ANTICIPATED ATTACK AGAINST THE ed the recapture of three men who had escaped, is CRIMEAN PENINSULA, ACCORDING TO THE the subject of an official BRITISH MILITARY AUTHORITIES IN LON- House luncheon for the Royal inquiry by the Home DON LAST NIGHT. Office.
pletion and it is that
SOR YESTERDAY.
Because of the death of G. Halli Roosevelt, the scheduled White
couple was cancelled. Instead, the Duke and his American-born Duchess had a 27-minutes talk
his
"
A statement issued yesterday It was stated the Germans are trying to with President Roosevelt in stated the inquiry is nearing com- force a way through the "bottleneck" Pere- some of the accounts of the in- nop isthmus joining the Crimea with the
Russian mainland.
cident were exaggerated.
There was much shouting and disorderly conduct but no de- eauty directed at any person and only two were slightly injured The Home Secretary, however, takes a serious view of the distur- bance and appropriate measures will be taken to prevent a recur- rence of this state of affairs when the inquiry is completed.-Reuter.
U.S. MISSION FOR VATICAN TALKS ``(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"
Washington diplomatic sources yesterday stated that a three-man American mission is leaving
German drives along the Sea of¡ If the Nazis do manage to break Azov towards Stallno and Rostov through to the Crimea they W on the Don, will, it is believed, be propably follow up with a drive Russian flanking attacks. enough consolidated to prevent against the Russian naval base at Sebastopol with a heavier force than the four divisions employed in the present, attack.`
use
Leningrad Battle
was
|
oval study
The Duke and Duchess were in vited back to lunch upon their re- turn from the Duke's Alberta (Canada) ranch in a fortnight's time. International News Service.
MANILA MINEFIELD
INCIDENT (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL
Although no information has reached London to confirm the
It was unconfrmably reported of German air-borne or
in Manila yesterday that a United parachute troops in the offen-
States warship stopped and board sive against the, Crimea, it is
In Moscow yesterday, it
ed a fishing sampan, which ignor- belleved this, form of assault,
stated that Red Army troops are ed warning shots and tried to en- luftwaffe, is supported by the
advancing after beating off power-ter the mined area of Manila Bay. ful German mechanised blows International News Service. which pierced one sector of Lenin-
RATE OF RUPEE grad's defences.
RAISED
likely, since Russia dominates
the sea routés. The attack indicates that the Germans have consolidated the southern.line east of the Dnieper River.
the War Of Attrition US. by Clipper to-day to con- tinue the talks with the Vatican The Germans may intend only begun by Mr. Myron Taylor, Pre- a war of attrition against sident Roosevelt's personal emis- Crimea, to protect the Nazi flank cury--International News Service. to the east.
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On the Odessa front two Ru- manlan divisions, were cut off and then forced into a costly: Indian exchange banks to-day retreat as the Russian defonce raised the rupee rate by 1/32 to lines advanced around the Black | 1/6d as the improvement in Indian Sea port..
exports has strengthened the The Germans, in addition to worldwide demand for rupees. claiming a "tightening of the ring The Indian Reserve Bank's buy round Leningrad" and "fierce ing rate for sterling from banks. house-to-house, fighting" in one remains at 1/6d.--Reuter." sector, allege that German heavy artillery set on fire a 10,000-ton ship in Leningrad harbour.
"Doomed""
Mr. Koh Ishil, deputy spokes- man at to-day's Tokyo press con- ference, indicated the Government is considering the possibility of a restoration of trans-Pacific ship- ping services, p
He was replying to a question whether the Post Office's accep- tance of mail matter bound for Hawaii and the U.S. up to Nov. 3 implied the Government was plan- ning to arrange shipping services.
"Such a possibility is being con- sidered," Mr. Ishii said.
When asked whether such ves-
sels would carry passengers he re- plied: "Of course, otherwise it would be meaningless." He indi cated, however, that the ships may not carry cargo-Reuter
The Chinese teahouse strikte in Shamshulpo has been settled,
The men returned in time to cope with the lunch hour rush
QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL MISHAP Paymaster Lieutenant J. C. Brown, Residing at No, 64, Mac- One of the best-known British donnell Road, Was fined $5 this lawyers in Shanghal, Mr. Ken- morning for driving without due neth Edward Newman, died sud- care and caution at the: Quee
He was 53 "Leningrad," trumpets Goeb- Mary Hospital approach road on denly last night.
Reuter. bels, "is doomed to a fate as tragic September 1.
Other guns, it is added, silenced the guns
of Russian warships which shelled the German post tions.
as Warsaw."-International News It was stated that he collided Service.
"with an ambulance.
RUMANIAN TROOPS ROUTED AT ODESSA
THE POSITION of the Odessa garrison has been greatly improved by an action in which the 13th and 15th Rumanian Infantry Divisions were routed for the second time, it was announced in Moscow yesterday.
These troops, after an earlier mauling at the hands of the Russians, were reformed and |flung against the defences in an effort on which their commanders evidently pinned high hopes, says the "Red Star.
After day-long fighting the Ru manians broke through the Soviet lines at the of several hun-
| dred dead. AMARAN
Undismayed the Rusalang re- grouped their forces and attack- ed the flank of the Rumanian troops" and "isolated them from the main-army-before tho broach "could be exploited, ve
When on the other flank a sur- prise attack was made with the aid of Soviet naval units landed from the sea, the Rumanfans.broke and fed...
An a result," the "Red Star" concluded, the defence line of Odessa was pushed forward a con-- siderable distance?”—Neuter.-
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