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NAZIS LINES
OF ATTACK
FROM PAGE ONE
Smolensk, and Moscow; This is the route Napolean look.
ITALIAN PRISON BRUTALITIES
Brutal treatment of British prisoners by their Italian The territory here is also suitable gaolers has been described by a rescued seaman. He to major operations and mechanized is Mr A. Bates, of Regent Street, Mayfield (near New- vehicles as far south as Bialystok castle), who arrived recently in Sydney.
Owing to the Pripet marshes, thei Germans can hardly make the thrust
Bates was a member of the crew of a British ship
until inking the point where the sunk by the German raider. Atalantis near Mauritius, in river Bug leaves the frontier near the Indian Ocean on Sept. 9 last. Sokol. From this point, along a line. some * hundred miles southwest
For six months he was afternåtive- (
through Prezen.yal to the river Sanya prisoner of the German Navy appears to be the danger spot for und. the Italian Army, until he was the Russians as there is no natural dramatically rescued by a Southi
African motorlved patrol. line of defence.
The German aim would be a cap turo Lvov (Lemberg) and make their way on to Klev. They may to expected to launch a minor line of attack in a southwesterly direction.
Although this seems to be the obvious line for the Germans, it has not yet been strongly developed and the Russians now claim the recapture of Prezemysl.
Fourth Line
A fourth line of attack- may be expected along the rivers Pruth and Dreister Into Southern Ukraine and
North
line of this
the fun
Carpathians, and it is unlikely that the Germans will attempt any major operations over this dimcult and mountainous terrain.
from the prison camp at Mogadiscu,
Once Dates attempted to escape) capital of Italian Somaliland.
He had travelled 50 miles, towards the South Afrienn lines when he was
caught by an Italian patrol and taken. back to the campi.
"On the ralder I was one of 104 British seamen taken from nine of the Nazis' victims," said Bates.
"There were also a few, Yugoslava.
FEAT THAT WON V. C.
Indian Dated Death
To Clear Minefields LONDON, June 11-The story be-
hind the Brat-award of the Victoria' Cross to an Indian soldier Intin war is told in London to-day. The recipient, Second-Lieutenant Premin- dra Singh Bhagat, of the Corps of Indion Engineers, serving with the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners, won the award "for most conspicuous gallantry on active service in the Middle East."
-Life Not: Pleasant
"Life on the wider was not pleas- on to Odessa. The German andant, Wo were huddled together Rumanian attack here, however, #P-under hotelies, but the crew was Bhagat detected and supervised the pears to be held.
humane, There was plenty to eat, clearing of 15 minefields over 4 too.
period of four days and over a dis "We were two months on the raid-lance of 55 miles following the fall of or before we were transferred into Melemma (Abyssinin) and in pursult Italian hands at Mogadiscu. Then of the enemy. began a period of hell on earth. He was in the leading Bren gun
The treatment handed out by the carrier with a column of mobile
were Italians
utterly brutal. Men troopa and twice his currier was died through sheer neglect.
blown up and once ambushed but he "For four
we ate nothing| months
still carried on his work at high but macaront, rice, and crushed pressure from dawn to dusk each maize. We saw neither ment nor day. vegetables, except for
"Although one eardrum was plerced few odd; scraps the men managed to smuggle by the explosion and he worn out through with the aid of the Askarls. with strain and fatigue, he refused relief on, the grounds that he was now better qualified to continue his task to the end.
The country in the north of Bucovina is also hardly suitable for military operations on a large scale as it is hilly and wooded, but given good weather the Russians will parti- cularly have to look out for attacks the Dniester from
north Bessarabin, which, successful,
IL would cut off their troops Aghting to the northwest.
Mutiny Did Not Pay "Once we mutinled. We were so The Dalester, however, is usually only fordable after July, and the sick at heart that most of us pre- only bridge Is near Tiraspol Inferred risking a firing squad. middle Bessarabia,
"The Italian officers were cruelly patient. They Just kept us ut the sand pits a few hours longer each day to teach us that mutiny did not;
Finland's Position one night I slipped under the
In Baltic Line-Up
FROM PAGE ONE
selves in considerable numbers on Finnish soil and the Germans had thus placed themselves in a position gravely to compromise Finnish neutrality.
Russian Measures
wire.
I was well on the way into the
• jungle before my escape was dis- covered.
For
days I lay low, lodging patrols. I ate sparingly of the small amount of food I was able to carry. had covered more than 50 miles
the South towards
African lines when I was found by an Italian out- post patrol,
"They took me back to the prison
camp.
"There are no words to describe Just as the British Government has what life was like for me from then reserved the right to attack the Ger- on. mans wherever they may be found,
Miracle Came so it must be assumed that the Rus-] slans feel it necessary to take all
"I spent seven days In o pest- measures to prevent the Germans infested dungeon. There was barely from further establishing themselves room for me to move. The air was in Finland.
foctid and almost unbreathable. My
It will be noticed that in yester-daily ration was reduced to erude day's air attacks, the Russians bread and a small can of water.
"Then came the miracle for which specifically sought out military ob- jectives and areas where Germans we had prayed. might be expected to be found.
Thin End of Wedge
It was the thin end of the wedge for Finland when she gave the Ger- mans permission to allow forces to pass through Finland from Northern Norway, for the Germans immediate ly exploited the original concessions until German concentrations assumed proportions of an alarming character.
"A South African armoured car! unit rescued us.
"Before we could fully realise it: we were mounting guard over the Italians who, a short time before, had been our guolers."
Four Australian seamen from the sunken Commissaire Ramel shared Bates' experiences in the prison ship and Italian camp.
The men were: Messrs M. J. Keely, The British Government had full of Melbourne, and C. F. Bolingforde, "knowledge of what was going on and (-5. Creagh, and F. Harris, of Sydney-
it is understood that Mr Eden in- formed M. Malaky of the British information on this subject a week before the Germans launched their attack on Russia.
Swedish Concession
The Swedes gave the Germans aj similar concession regarding the pas
sage of troops through to Northern
Sir Victor Sassoon's Interview
-> FROM PAGE ONE
Norway, and the present agreement to patrol the country which is much
is
slon was likely to be made.
a further extension of this The too large for the German troops." original concession by the Swedes However, If Russia gives In, both was greatly deprecated by the Bri-Britain and the United States would tish Government as further
ther conces be in grave danger. Should Russia hold out, however, It will prolong the war in any event. Hitler has vast resources except oil. It must be a war where. England and America hang on."
In well-informed circles in London, It is
is considered that the basic fact remains that the Finnish people, as A whole, arc most reluctant to parti- cipate in the war and are only doing so under necessity.
Should Germany win, he believed pressure and geographleal that their power would last no more than two generations which, would The Finnish attitude, coupled with be necessary for their police work to the Swedish decision to permit a destroy the mornle of their German division through Sweden, minded armies. He asserted that shows clearly, that the line-up re-Hitjer would never be satisfled until sulting from the German-Russian ho conquered the United States be- war is based on Power politics rather cause' American and Nazi ideologies than on ideology,
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