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GENERAL
TRAMPLE ON P.I. SHORES, SAYS
SOVIET MIDNIGHT COMMUNIQUE NEVER AGAIN SHALL INVADERS REPORTS. EVACUATION ABORTIVE AXIS OF DNIEPROPETROVSK AIR ATTACK ON
SHIPPING IN
DNIEPER DAM BLOWN UP MEDITERRANEAN BY THE
CAIRO, Aug. 29 (Reuter
CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF
Never again shall invaders trample Philippine shores, de- clared MAJOR GEN. BASILIO VALDES, chief of staff of the Philippine Army, in a stirring speech at a convocation of the Ateneo de Manila honoring students drafted in the army recent- ly at the Aleneo auditorium.
RUSSIAN TROOPS Fighters of the Royal Air Force rible may be the task assigned to serve the armed
MOSCOW, AUG. 29 (REUTER) --- M. LOZOVSKY STATED THAT THE DNIEPEK DAM HAS BEEN BLOWN UP AND ALSO DENIED THE CAPTURE OF UNIEPROPETROVSK,
The following is the text of a Soviet midnight communique. issued by the Soviet Information Bureau:
"During August 28 aur troops stubbornly fought the enemy along the whole front. After fierce fighting our troops
Our Air Force affected a successful raid cualed Dalepropetrovsk.
on Koenigsberg.
eva-
According to precise data now available, 37 German planes were destroyed on August 26 and not 17 as previously announced. In the course of August 27, forty one German planes were brought down in air combat. We lost 23 planes
"In the Baltic Sea our aircraft the question of price must be the sank two transports **
engaged
2
of
"No matter how hard and ter- honour Ateneo students called to forces of their and the Fleet Air Arm on Tuesday us," he asserted. "let us meet our country and of whom the Ateneo Gurnber German obligation with a resolute deter- is very proud because they have fighters which attempted to at-ination to achieve not partial readily and unhesitatingly answer- tack our shipping in the Mediter- but the total annihilation of the ed their nation's call to duty. Ile ranean, says a communique issued totalitarian system. To that end, stated that there could yesterday. Three enemy aircraft and to that alone, and at what
ever sacrifica, we must dedicate were shot down,
Dar lives."
be no
more tting tribute to President Quezon's i birthday than the patriotism which these Ateneo During Tuesday night our heavy
students have shown by willingly bombers attacked duck areas at
HEROIC STRUGGLE
call to answering their nation's Tripoll and Benghazl. About 1-
General Valdes pointed out that
arins, teen tons of high explosive and
the outcome of the present, con-
Dr. Manuel Lun, dean of the incendiary bombs were dropped at nict shall determine whether the Ateneo college of law, expressed Tripoil and several violent explo-Filipino people's herote struggle the desire of the Ateneo-its sions occurred and many
fres for liberty and the gains they faculty and student body-lo en- were started in the docks and have made for it shall be secured
operate wholeheartedly with the neAr the wireless station. One in the full fruition of an indepen United States and the Philippines, determining factor and Soviet particularly large bluze at the dent Philippines or shall be lost and if the present emergency
certainly bigger re-military stores WHS visible 120 Torever.
becomes more acute, the nation manoower than Ger miles away.
"Until the threats against demo- can depend on everybody in this TRANSPORTS BOMBED cratic institutions and principles institution to fight ID the Jast Besides a very large percentage Medium bombers of the South, have been removed from this part man to uphold the principles of of German troops are required to African Air Force attacked a con- of the globe, and the respect for justice, Liberty and democracy." maintain the uneasy yoke of the centration of enemy mechanical the rights of nations great and UNFOUNDED CLAIMS
New Order upon the
conquered transport near Has Uenna yester-snall to exist have been restored. LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuter-countries How uneasy this hold day. Boints were seen falling there shall be no peace, nu as There ishing in the Ruslan is becoming is evidenced by the jamong the vehicles.
surance that our sacred institu- connunqur to confirm the claims attempt upon the two Vichy Quis- I wo indentified enemy air-lons will continue to flonrish un of the German High Command to lings, Laval and Deat This un craft dropped Incendiary bombs molested." have captured Vuiki, Lug! and rest is much more general andon Malts during Tuesday night. General Valdes explained that Dnepropetrovsk. stales ย war widespread in Norway Holland Both aircraft were illuminated by the present call to Fillplus youth
A supplement to the midnight Russia has
admits that the serves of communiqué Ukranian Lown "N' had be many. evacuated, the enemy losing 5,000 officers
me killed wounded
and
!
active On the and Belgium, not to mention the searchlights and attacked by our for
of more recently subjugated Balkan fighters. of, states.
commentary by Auraust contrary, the Russians speak heavy fighting in the sectors
for
LOYAL AND BRAVE Major Jose Gonzalez, P.A., com- mandant of the Alereo cadet corps, gave a farewell speech to the student body, because he has been assigned to the 8th milltary district. Major Gonzalez also ad vised the draftees to behave like true Ateneans in their respective training cadres, and to be "cour
brave at all
Kingisepp, Gomel. smolensk and The chances of Germany achiev- jou fire. One was losing belght Far East "gives the Philippines ageous loyal and
1
the
times."
military service
Into Both were hit and one final incorporation
the *ngine of each of them was set | United States Army forces in the
Odessa, which would suggest that ing a decision before the advent rapidly and the other had its un- once again
opportunity to
The programme was solemn and There has beyl no important of winter which is now almost at dercarriage down
they flew show that the Filipino people are
impressive and was concluded the gates
ready to stand side by side with with the playing of the national Northern Russia variation in the front.
towards the Italian coast. have seem very near to vanishing point The Hungariası claim to
In Iran HAF. bombers aircraft the democracies in
antheris by the Ateneo ROTC erussed the lower reaches of the and the prospect of a winter dropped pamphlets o
Hamadan effort to stop the advance of dic-
band. Raul S. Manglapus acted to fight Dnieper is not borne out by the campaign, unrelieved by any hope and Sultanabad and other south-tatorial ideologies and
as master-of-ceremontes. Antonio Russian cominunique and hardly ful outlook, must be weighing ern towns.
against the barbarous onslaught.
Aragon, a draftes, delivered а upon the spirits
farewell speech in behalf of those seems consistent with the general heavily scope of the
opera- Germans,
tions
Hungarian
On the whole, therefore, there
Justification for Seeing Home
optimistic
slightly mure
on the situatio It would tainly look
CENTRAL SECTOR
of all
From all these operations of our fighters are missing.
by M. LAVAL HAS
The successful Russian counter a attack in the central sector outlook General Kontey is still continuing.
information cer- according to
as though the thre on Moscow radio yesterday even-
had passed sing. German offensive peak without any decisive result
casualties except heavy sides
During the
Herce fighting of
on both the last few days, one German
division
its artillery captured and head-
34
supreme
two of totalitarian nations in the at- tempt to enslave free, peaceful and liberty-loving people.**
thel
General Valdes affirmed with President Manuel Quezon's pledge of full and complete co-
BULLET WOUND operation with the United States NEAR HEART
called into the army. At the end and beginning of the programme the audience sang God Bless the
Philippines (Manila Bulletin)
CABLE NEWS
IN BRIEF
LONDON, Aug. 29 (Reuter)
forces in the Far East under the able and brilliant leadershilp of Lieut. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, LONDON, Aug. 29 (Reuter}
"goes not only the utilization of last night reported all our natural resources and our Lyons radio has been annihilated, that the Versailles Prefect of Po-manpower, but also the unflinch- DETERMINING FACTOR Although German spokesmen, quarters destroyed, the announcer lice called at the civilian hospital ing loyalty of our people whose.
M Plesman, managing director making a virtue of necessity have stated He added that 3.000 Ger-where Laval with one bullet wound traditions of bravery and courage said that 11 is more Important man officers and my were killed, his heart" and Deat, who has in combat shail agam, in case of of the K.L.M. Dutch Airline, is now now active hostilities within our shores in prison at a eamp bear Schi- that they should destroy the Rus- 130 tanks and 100 automobiles a perforated stomach and is stan armles than capture
were destroyed.
running a high temperature. are have an opportunity to be rewrit-veningen where a number of other
ten in the new German
pazes of our prominent Dutchmen are reinforcements have receiving treatment.
soned, says the Free Dutch The announcer said that it was glorious history. rushed forward but have KONOYE SENDS falled to recapture lost ground,
paper Mrlj Nederland hoped to save Deal's life but made
DEATH STRUGGLE no mention about Laval's
"The background of this con-
HAVANA, Aug. 29 (Reuter› --
towns
PERSONAL NOTE
TO ROOSEVELT
ENVOY RETICENT ON CONTENTS WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 Reuter) The Japanese Ambassador, Ad- miral Nomura, has delivered to Pres'dent Roosevelt
personal
Admiral mier, Prince Konoye. Nomura declined to give any in- formation regarding the contents.
When the Japanese Ambassador was asked whether the Note President Roosevelt related
been
lines.
ODESSA FIGHTING
it was described by
endi-
the Vichy
Savage
un-
..a
*
*
impri- news-
an
Admitting that fierce fighting tion, which was described earlier vocation," said General Valdes. Two Germans, Henrick Kohl and is going on around Odessa. the in Vichy as 'satisfactory" following "is a world engaged in a death Kurt, charged with activities announcer stated that not only an operation.
straggle for principles. Civilized are Russian units there heroically
TRIPLE GUILLOTINE nations are locked in a grim fight harmful to Cuba, have been sen- months imprison- tenced to six defending their positions but that A triple guillotine in the court-to death in the battlefield of
ment to be followed by expulsion the entire population has railled yard of Sante Prisco, Paris. yes-Europe, Africa and Asia in de
from Cuba. Six other Germas to the defence of their city.
of those terday morning ushered in the new 'fense
same principles
arrested on similar charges were Workers, employers and protes- "terror" laws by which the Ger- which the savage and primitive
acquitted. units and are acting with energy. to stem the increasing unrest sional people have formed special mans and French Quislings hope man knew were his own birth- in rights and for which he fought
CAIRO. Aug. 29 (Reuter) — The and died. skill and courage. Among other France.
"The activities, the workers have con-
subjected of the Suez Cauai area was ferocity unchanged and
to another air raid during Wednes- structed two armoured trains and news agency as the first step in struggle Is message from the Japanese Pre-it is one of these which has car- the application of laws depressing mitigated. This therefore, shonla day night. The communique
nouncing this says that bomas rled terror far behind the German Communist and anarchist activi. be a day of consecration.
day in which to pledge our eter were dropped, killing seven
per- ties in France." NORTHERN FRONT
Three men, described as Com-nal devorton and loyalty to those sons and injuring 30 and causing On the Karellan Isthmus omunists whose names are given principles which democracy alone slight damage tween Lake Ladoga and the Gulf as Abraham Ingebrughe, Briche has proved to be the most con- of Finland, the Finnish thrust is and Bastard, were sentenced
ducive to a lie of true Hberty shipments to Russia, he replied continually gaining ground mak- death. They were sentenced by
and justice."
ing the defence of Lentugrad in- special Court and it was emphasis- creasingly difficult. Viipuri (VI- :
Fr. Henry Irwin, SJ; regent of from Mombasa and was welcomed ed in Vichy that these were the borg) is already encircled.
first executions to be carried out the Ateneo college of law, by the Crown Prince, who had The Italian official news agency
flown from Addis Ababa for her- arrival, The Empress and her Zone of Operations" in a long statement dated "The says that
son are leaving by air for the
Russia's continued resistance is due to the fact that the Soviet High Command "w fears itself faced with the alternatives of or- dering a general retreat or forcing
to
to
that he did not think so. Ad- mirai Nomura conferred with both Mr. Cordell Hull and President Roosevelt at the White House,
SERIES OF TALKS Mr. Corde Hull indicated that the United States may hold series of conferences with the Japanese on the differences tween the two countries.
be-
Mr. Hull said that there may be
under the new laws.
to
a
the
CALLED TO SERVE
convocation
WELS held
to
NO ALLIED ENCROACHMENT ON IRANIAN INDEPENDENCE
another conference similar to rests troops to be massacred where LONDON, Aug. 29 (Benter) There is no question of any per-
terday's between President Roose- velt and Admiral Nomura,
Mr. Hull toki reporters that the reason for such a conference was to discuss in a more intimate and personal way United States and Japanese problems.
they stand."
The statement declared
manent Allied encroachment upon Iranian independence or territorial Once the needs of the present exceptional circumstance that integrity,
Stalin's scorched earth polley is have been met, both the British and Russian Governments have not being fulfilled because it would pledged themselves to withdraw, writes Reuter's Diplomatic corres Involve mass evacuation of Bus-pondent,
sta's richest regions,
+
NAIROBI, Aug. 29 (Reuter, The Empress of Abyssinia arrived here yesterday by special train
Abyssinian capital todas
*
CANBERRA AUR. 29 (Reuter) --
Mr. R. G. Menzies indicated that under pressure from his colleagues he might go to London as Austra lian Minister there
*
LONDON, Aug. 20 (Router) Government contrul of British rail- ways is announced last night.
.
LONDON, Aug. 29 (British Wire-
This is not an idle promise like speech, free movement and even "Thus a general retreat is not German promises to gain their free thought are not tolerated. Mr. Hull declined in any way to possible that is why the 80-purpose and then cast aside the In the case of Syria and Iraq, less-On Saturday all women Indicate the contents of Prince viet troops have been altered to promise. It represents the settled British occupation has brought born in the year 1915 will be re- Konove's Note to President Roose allow themselves to be kleed where policy of the governments pro-liberty to the peoples and aquired to reglater at the local office velt but said that he assumed
they stand."
claimed in a most solemn manner. trade and growing prosperity 85 of the Ministry for Labour that President Roosevelt would
The tranfan government realise well as abundance of food. answer it.
In Iran, ng doubt, the Alles wi PRIVATE FORTUNES that they will not be betrayed
No doubt the negotiations which confer the same benefits upon the OF NAZIS
will now open with the Government population. They have entered as
a complete friends and already in their wake | of Iran will lead to understanding that will only help are pouring in tons of wheat and the war effort of the Allies but other necessities of which the spell checkmate to German Intrl-Axis was deliberately robbing the from South America to Switzer. gucs in this part of the world country.
No comparison is possible be
(Router)
LONDON: Aug. (British Wire-
CHINA RECOGNISES
GENERAL EXCHANGE Asked whether he thought that
CZECH GOVT. Prince Konoye's message would!
LONDON, Aug. 20 easp the situation in the Far East,
CHUNGKING, Aug. 20 (Reuter) Mr. Huli replied that it dealt with Several high Nazi. personages, in a general exchange of views re- cluding Dr. Robert Ley, have
China has recognised the new lating to affairs pending between transferred their private fortunes
Czechoslovak Government under President Edouard Benes in Lon- the two governments,
don. Admiral Nomura evaded all land, says a dispatch from the
China's recognition was cabled questions from reporters whether German frontier, in their alarm tween the Allied action and the his visit had resulted in any im-at the recent events in South German occupation of smaller less) Nearly 500 disabled vete on August 20 by. Dr. Quo Tal-chi, provement of Japanese-American America-particularly the expul states which have been incorporat-rans of the last war attended the Minister of Foreign Affairs, ter the relations
alon of the German Minister to, ed in the "New Order," The coun- annual garden party at Bucking-Canchoslovak Foreign Minister, One reporter asked: "Does thi Bolivia,
tries that Germany has occupied ham Palace given by the "Not Meanwhile, the Chinese Dovern meeling bridge the gap between Swiss banking circleany that ither by conquest or as in the Forgotten Association." They were ment appointed Mr. Wunss King. the two countries?”
the Naale pretor Bise to Bwedish case of Rumania and Bulgaria by entertained to tea and a concert Chinese Minister to the Nethor Admiral Nomura slapped the banks because they fear that the the weak-kneed acquiescence of at walon a number of well-known lands, to take charge of the affairs reporter's shoulder and smilingly latter may one day be controlled their governments have been re- artists gave their service. The of the Chinese Legation in Czecho. answered Ask the Secretary" by the Russians,
quced a role of servitude. Free King and Queen' were represented slovákia,
by Colonel Packe.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941.
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