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STUBBORN ROUND-THE-CLOCK Moscow Three-Power Talk To
FIGHTING GOING ON CABLE NEWS ON EASTERN FRONT
Slight Nazi Advances Are
Recorded Between Kingisepp And Novograd
LONDON, Aug. 21 (Reuter) - Another 24 hours of stubborn fight- ing along a greater part of the eastern front has been marked by sligh; German advances in the sector between Kingisepp and Novo- grad, but with no result either spectacular or decisive, writes AN- NALIST in a military commentary.
"The Russians are everywhere fighting with stubbornness and tenacity, and their morale seems completely unsbaken by nearly two Whether the vigour of the German menths of continuous strain. offensive is unimpaired after the same strain is known only to the German High Command and the German soldier, but it would be more than human nature for the ordinary hifantryman to display the same zest for Aghting, for he knows now that he is up agains enemies as elusive as he is hard-hitting.
IN BRIEF
BOMBAY,
Aug. 21 Router) — For six days this month no bread was sold in Japan, butter and ghee are available only in most limited quantities and at a stiff price. while there is already rationing of rice and bread, according to an Indian who arrived here yester- day from Japan on board kone Marn. Forty other
on also arrived
passengers same boat.
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Discuss Best Means To
Expedite All Aid To Soviet
LONDON, Aug. 21.-The man issue before the anti-Axis front is to get help to, Soviet Russia in the fullest possible mer- sure with the least possible teiny, writes Renter's Diplomatio Correspondent..
This was one of the principal subjects discussed at the his- toric meeting in the Atlantic between Mr. Churchill and Presi- dent Roosevelt, and it will be the task of the Three-Power meeting shortly to be held in Moscow to tackle the task from a practical and businesslike standpoint.
The fact that no atrounce- the Ha-ment has yet been made regard. Indian ing the Britun and American re- thepresentatives who are to attend the meeting would seem to con- firm the bellof that Lord Beaver- JERUSALEM, Aug 21 (Reuterbrook will be the principal British The Military Academy at Baghdad delegate as soon as he can leave Iraq) bis "hustle" campaign in America, win be reopened by the Government, according to a sage received here
mes-
BOMBAY, Aug. 21 (Reuter).The Bombay Air Gifts Fund has so far remitted £150,000 to the Ministry for Aircraft Production
His vigorous energetic person- ailty will undoubtedly be excep- tionally well adapted for dealing with special problema of supply and distribution Involved. As the discussions will be practically con- fined to questions of material and supply. It is not !lkely that any but service representatives Wul ha
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE
Mr.
DAMASCUS, Aug. 21 (Reuter) "Despite the admitted efficiency Germans clearly hope to establish
the bridgeheads on the opposite bank The value of the Palestine Pound present. of the German organisation.
surprise tactics which has been fixed in Syrian money at growing strain of increasing dis- through
80 successfully the 88.3 piastres and 125 centimes by tance and wear and tear must also worked
It is understood that the Ameri- the Director-General of Economie can
representative will be Somme and other French rivers. be having a cumulative effect.
In other words, the Germans. Services. It recently had been over Averell Harriman, who has been itself Syrian Pounds in the onen helping forward the working of whose blitzkrieg smushed against Smolensk, are re-trying the market. blitzkrieg in other directions, es pecially the Ukraine, despite heavy
'Nothing new is reported in the and Smolensk and Kley sectors the German claims in the Ukraine do not carry one any further than what they asserted yesterday Damely that Russian bridgeheads losses in tanks west of the Dnieper were assalled.
beinu!
"It is significant that Hus- xian aviation is still able to carry out raids on Berlin and Rumanian oil-fields in addition
to co-operational work in spite of repeated German elaims, Over and Oper not once but again. to have established complete supremacy air,"
in the
COLOURFUL CLAIMS
the Lease-Lend Act so far as it concerns Britain. BOMBAY. Aug. 21 (Reuter) → Already there are indications of Vallabhi Palele, chlef Heutenant speeding up of American supplies of Gandhi, has been released from to Russia in the suggestion that Poona Gaol on medical grounds, American bombers should be flown from Alaska to Siberia and by long stages to the castern front.
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NEED FOR PLANES
Although the Russian armles are doing wonders and have not WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 (Reuter) lost air control to the Germans-President Roosevelt will be the This would not only save days
in vital spots, the dispatch from week-end host of the Duke of in transportation but the planes England and America of hundreds Kent at Hyde Park whither the would arrive
tuned in for im- effect of
of planes is a matter of urgent, President is going today. Return-mediate service. The necessity.
ing with President Roosevelt this contribution to the Russian Washington on Monday, the Duke air offensive is too patent to need
emphasia.
tu
The position in the Dnieper bend is at present obscure. The Germans clearly have а vast ambition "trap" the Budenny army. The Russians The German High Command are aware of these German de- signs. It is certain that the from the Fuehrer's headquarters
preservation of the army wil reports: A battle has taken place
north of be the Russians' Arst consi- In an area around and
of deration even at the loss heavy Gomel which ended in a
important but not undispens- defeat for the Soviet forces.
Parts of seventeen divisions riflemen, one
ان
able industrial areas,, but more reliable news fy necessary de- fore the lower Dnieper position becomes cleared,
mechaniseû divi- slon. two armoured divisions, five: cavalry
air- divisions and two borne brigades have been defeated. It is interesting to observe that annihilated or taken prisoner. In the Germans are making a thrust
faller
Odessa Lo our hands have
78,000 against
which suggests prisoners, 144 tanks. 700 guns and that they greatly dislike the idea two armoured trains,
of a Russian Tobruk
GIGANTIC STRUGGLE MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (Reuter- The gigantic nature of the eastern
In the north section of Novo gorod direction a night communi- que shows that the Germans,
struggle is best realisable when while prevented from pushing
to
one considers that now the battle the Leningrad-Moscow Railway 40
of Kent will stay at White House and will then Inspect defence plants in Norfolk and Baltimore
Victory Will Be Gained Through Air
MONTREAL. Aug. 21 (Route) "Å road to vietory must be blazed through the air. Men who open that road and journey along it must be the best, bravest and braintest of this and other Commonwealth of Nations,"
Thus the Canadian Air Minister. Mr. C. G. Power, referred to the
Empire Training Scheme in 2
Is raging not only on this or that miles east of Lake Omen, are try-speech at a luncheon in Montreal
sector but on half a dozen points simultaneously, writes Reu- ter's Special correspondent,
Without giving figures, Mr. Power Ing the next best thing, namely #tal
said: "It has been found that a northward enveloping pash to
given the originally planned num-' Leningrad, doubtless with the hope of reaching the railway fur-ber of schools, aircraft and staff, ' ther north.
The most vital and may be the mast eritical battle is still raging
In the meantime the push from higher Inside the Dnieper bend behind
anticipated." cor Nikolaley and Krivotrog. But their the Estonian direction also
unfortunate Smolensk experience
seems to have taught the Germans to adopt somewhat different tac- tics and to use their
great
טלמ
blity mobility which undoubted ly increased with more or less successful consolidation of their communications-to strike here,
tinues.
ABORTIVE RAID ON MALTA
Ju
there and everywhere not neces-Three Italian Planes
sarily with any precise immediate objective but to impose on the Raslans me ecessity to move their troops about
The battle along this vast area from the Gulf of Finland to the Black Sea may be des- cribed as a desperate German. attempt to prevent that stabi- lisation at which the Russians -afm.
AMERICAN LOAN? WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (Reuter) --M Jesse Jones, the Federal Loan Administrator, stated that be was. ready to lend money to Russia to finance
the purchases in United States.
Mr.
WAT
Jones told reporters: "If the administration policy is to help Russia and she is unable pay cash, I think we can find some way to help. 7. think that it would be a loan rather than Lend- Lense."
He said that Russia had not applied formally for a loan but apparently has hinted.
BRITISH, DUTCH
EMPIRES
Community Of Interest Stressed By Minister
LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter)—The community of interest between we can produce a 30 per cent. the British and Netherlands Em.
output than originally
pires was the theme of an address given by Dr. J. M Welter, the first (When the plan was
an- Netherlands
the Minister for nounced in autumn, 1939, it was Colonies, at a luncheon in London unofficially estimated that the to Lard Moyne, the British output mig be 25,000 airmen, Colonial Minister. ejte a year).
Dr. Welter Said! "It is as well. GIGANTIC ENTERPRISE that we two great colonial. Fowers should stand together and face Mr. Power described the plan aa
the future shoulder to shoulder, the "most gigantic enterprise ever attempted by a people with for it is a sure thing that even a poptilation of 12,000,000 and de-our well-tempered experience in clared that a thousand Canadian fulness will be severely taxed by
colonial affairs and our resource
Brought Down airmen were overseas now and the exigencies of post-war econo-
CAIRO, Aug 21 (Beuter)-Amany times more" would be sent mic and other problems which are R.A.F. Middle East communique overseas before the war was ended, bound to follow in the wake of
"Canada's share of the air war this world-wide conflict, states: "A number of Macchi-
200's which approached the islands heavy one. Our people's bur- "We cannot at this juncture of Malta yesterday turned back den will be greater as more crews even anticipate the extent or the when engaged by RAF Hurri-of Canadian youth come forward exact nature of these problems, | cunes. The fighters, chased the to be trained to blast their way to but in my opinion no two nations enemy aircraft, shooting down victory."
three over the south coast "of
Whether the Gomel drive is ul-Bicily..
timately intended to lend support Heavy R.A.F bombers attacked
to the German troops in the the harbour at Tripcil during the CHINA SEVERS
Smolensk sector or on the contrary night of
August 18-19. Bursts
for the southward drive along the were seen on and near the Spanish DIPLOMATIC TIES
left bank of the Dnieper remains quay and a number of fires were
to be seen, but it is anyway part, startett.
of the "all over the place" tactics
"Marylands of the South African
the Germans are trying out, that Air Force bombed, and machine-
WITH DENMARK
could be better fitted for the task of solving them than ours. Our traditions, our sense of modera tion, our code for what is fair and reasonable and our capacity to five, and let live" have in the past
de us the guardians of exten-
alve territories and have fitted us
for the position of leading millions
of our fellow-men to a better and
CHUNGKING. Aug. 21 (Central), more enlightened future */
is to say, an attempt to prevent gunned an enemy camp and trans-Dr. Quo Tal-chi, Minister of
"I am sure, therefore, that how-
effective concentration of the port at Ras el Mils yesterday. Foreign Affairs issued a declara: ever exacting the challenge of the Bombs burst among the tents and tion yesterday, severing diplomatic future for our two nations may be, a number of vehicles were set on relations with Denmark for her we shall meet it with a confidence recognition of the bogus Nanking inspired by the history of our past |fire,
regne and “Manchukuo.”
achievements."
front.
BIG OFFENSIVE
Dr. Quo's declaration reads:: "Following the footsteps" and
FUTURE OF EIRE AT STAKE
The Germans instead hope to "Reconnaissance aircraft report dissemination of the Russian de- that the 9,000 ton enemy mer- fence. A big German offensive 18 chant vessel beached at Lam- thus clearly in progress pedusa after being damaged by Presumably under the pressure of Tüs, Germans are now fighting alreraft of the Meet Air Arm and Germany and her partners. Den- on'a 'considerably straighter line the R.A.F. on August 18 was still mark recognland the puppet re-
wines in "Nanking and 'the' | Tour |
NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (Reuters) than some days ago. It rung blazing yesterday. roughly straight from the Gulf of "Aircraft of the South African North-eastern provinces In tak Mr. Frank McDermott, Bre Bana Finland to Amolensk with an east Air Force made a heavy attack on ing this unjustified step Denmark tor, who arrived here by Clipper, ward pocket to Novogorod, Bouth enemy positions in the Gondar has not. It is highly to be regret-declared that it was essential for from Smolensk, the Gormans are aren, Abyssinia, on August 18 tod, hesitated to forfeit her the future of Ireland that Britain clearly trying to follow roughty Direct hits were made on the fort friendship of long standing with should not be defeatedA line along the Dnieper and for that at Debarech, where a number of China The Chinese Government purpose are attempting to absorb fires were started and on a hangar, in line with ita fixed poller here the Russian pocket wart of Comel, and depots at Gondar
by declares that diplomatie rek Onco-established along the From all these operations, our tions between thig country and router length of the Daleper the aircraft returned sately."
Denmark are forthwith movered
He added: "Lack of air and naval basca in Ireland might and must make a difference between victory and defeat for Britain in the Battle of the Atlanti
SPORE HARD
TO CRACK
SINGAPORE Aug. 21 (Cen tral)—Broadcasting from Sin- gapore yesterday evening. Senator H. 8. Foll, Australian Minister of Interior, declared: "My visit is enough to con- vince me of two things. First, anyone who is thinking of taking a crack at Singapore should think again. Second, the firmer the attitude we and our Allies take the less likell- hood will there be war in the Pacific."
Mr. Foll was giving a fare well broadcast. He and the party of Australian journalists are leaving to return to Aus- tralia today.
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