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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941.
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WHITEAWAY'S
SOVIETS CLAIM DESTRUCTION The Huns Tried Twice
OF RUMANIAN OIL CENTRES
Port of Constanza
66 Ceases
To Exist"
Special to the "Telegraph"
NEW YORK, JULY 9. (UP).—ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, THE MOSCOW RADIO. TO-DAY ASSERTED THAT THE RUSSIAN AIR FORCE HAD "COMPLETELY DESTROYED ENEMY OIL CEN- TRES IN RUMANIA.” DAMAGE WAS PARTICULARLY HEAVY AT PLOESTI, ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL RUMANIAN OIL FIELDS.
THE REPORT ADDED THAT THE RUMANIAN BLACK SEA PORT OF CONSTANZA HAS “CEASED TO EXIST” AS A RESULT OF CONTINUAL BOMBARDMENT BY THE RUSSIAN FLEET AND AERIAL ATTACKS.
MOSCOW COMMUNIQUE
Nazis Hurl 10,000 Tanks Against The Soviet Army
Special to the "Telegraph"
MOSCOW, July 9 (UP).-The Germans have hurled 10,000 tanks against Russia in an attempt to repeat the experience of France, but, it is declared here, "for the first time they have encountered an opponent armed with similar weapons."
No-Pay Leave For H.K.N.V.F. Proclamation To Be Issued
ilowever, it is understood that this does not mean
It is stated that German artillerymen taken prisoner in the Borissov arca possessed documents revealing that they
LONDON, July 9 (Reuter).—A war communique issued by the Soviet Information Board and broadcast by the Moscow radio," states that throughout the |day of July 9 fierce fighting was continued against large enemy tank and mechanised
units trying to break through in Ostrov, Polotsk and Novograd-Volinsk directions.
"In the Ostrov sector our forces are engaged in a stubborn battle holding back the advance of superior enemy forces. In the direction of Polotsk, the enemy renewed his offensive this morning. Our troops met his offensive with deadly artillery and machinegun fire and with decisive counter-attacks.
Record U.S.
Aircraft Production
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
lind been transferred from the 1,476 Planes In June Cherbourg area just before the outbreak of the Russo-German hostilities, These prisoners "had
WASHINGTON, July 9 (UP), asserted that before they left-It is officially stated that du Cherbourg they set up wooden ring June, aeroplanes produced and delivered to the Army, Navy and to Britain totalled 1,476 Tass Communique The Tass Agency in a communique planes, the highest on record, stated that on the night of July 9 and exceeding the May figures by fighting took place in the direction | 112 planes.
shan guns.
In the direction of Ostrov Russian
HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES
"Fighting still continues, and the enemy is suffering heavy
⚫losses.
"In the direction of Lepel, our troops are making success- ful counter-thrusts against the enemy. In the Novograd- Volinsk aren there was fierce fighting throughout the day between our troops and large enemy mechanised forces. -
"In other directions, our troops are fighting stubbornly, maintaining their positions.
"Our aircraft operated against enemy mechanised units and destroyed enenly, aircraft on the ground. Our aircraft bombed Constanza. a port, and trade ports in Tulcea and Sulina, and the oil fields of Ploesti,
"During the raid on Constanza, nine of our bombers were met by 14 my aircraft. In the ensuing air buttle our alrcraft brought down seven enemy machines with the loss of one of ours."
Ostrov Claimed By Nazis LONDON, July 9 (Reuter)/Thej German offelul news agency says that German troops have occupied Ostrov
on the main -road 10 Leningrad which is 200 miles to the
The town was captured after
of Poloist, Lepel and Novograd- 100 Destroyers A Year A Proclamation is to be issuVolynsk.
Rear Admiral S. M. Robinson, ed, probably this week. calling! out all members of the Hong-trous consolidated occupied post-head of the Ships Bureau of the
tiens and conducted intense night Navy Department-asserted to-northeast.
day that the United States would attempts by Soviet troops to take up kong Naval Volunteer Force. patrol activities.
By the close of day on July 8 that every member fighting had developed in the direcbe. producing 100 destroyers per new defence positions on the Latvian |
front," adds the agency. tion of Sebezh where enemy tanks annum by the end of 1948.
He declared that the expansion In Extonia, says the agency. Nazi | will become actively mobilized.
and infantry endeavoured to break
captured the port of programme is proceeding so rapidly troops have The objects of the proclamation through to the cast. Fighting con-
it necessitates additional Con-Perninu and the town of Fellin, are two. Firstly, as a matter of con- tinued in the direction of Polotsk.hat
Struggle On Pruth and Ülla areas, present $585,000,000 bill now before venience to standardise the adminis- while stubborn fighting persisted ingressional authorisations; namely, the midway between Fernau and Dopit
to the Berkovichy
Congress with which to expand foel- tration of the Force; secondly,
VICHY, Illes. "Every combatant ship is
D July (Reuter),-A obviate the need for separate pro TURN to Back Page, Column 3
ahead of schedule," he said.
communique Issued to-day by the Hungarian High Command, accord- Appropriation Requests
ing to n Budapest dispatch to the Vichy news agency, states: "Our WASHINGTON, July 9 (UP). President Roosevelt, through his fast troops near the River Debrucz were engaged in combats with the disclosed Secretary Mr Stephen Early disease enemy for the crossing of the River. that two separate appropriation Our cyclist group by forced march made to Congress; and our engineers by their unceasing will be supplemental funds for
ex-work have
ve contributed in no small the multi-billion dollar ap measure to the successes."
already approved for the
The Debrucz is a tributary of the Dulester, which it joins just north of
clamations naming Individuals wher
It is desired to call out" additional! personnel for actual service.
In effect, the proclamation will not change the existing arrangements so for as the personnel of the HK. N.V.F., la concerned. ing actual service will continue their The
Those now do-
CHALLENGE TO ROOSEVELT
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ ·
WASHINGTON, July 9 (UP)
isolationist, Senator Burton
questa
re-
duties as hitherts; the remainder now Wheeler, to-day chalicnged President y and Maritime Commis-
War
formally "called out by this pro- Roosevelt to nsk Congress for a de clamation will immediately be put on claration of war, asserting that he: indefinite no-pay leave.
would personally fully support the Army.
elfart if Congress granted such sion; secondly, appropriations which are expected to extend materially the a request.
He declared that "the reason Mr seven billion dollar Lend and Lease is because he knows that he cannot
Sir Hubert Wilkins Donates To Fund
Roosevelt does not come to Congress programune.
The President conferred with the
get a declaration of war by Con- Budget Director, Mr Harold Smith to. gress. Instead, he is taking us step day, who submitted virtually com- by step by the back door into the plete figures for the dual request. The A donation to the Bomber European war. Why doesn't the President may make important revi President come to Congress and ask sions to the figures before sending the
That is requests to Congress. for a declaration of war? Hubert the honest thing to do, and it would He also spent a considerable part be the way to obtain national unity."of the morning with the Lend and Lease Co-ordinator, Mr Harry Hop- kins.
Fund of USG$20
received from
Wilkins.
has
Sir
been
Mr Willkie Urges U.S. VICHY TO FIGHT
Bases In N. Ireland
il.
RUSSIA?'
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“
Choth.
Battle of Three Rivers LONDON, July 0 (Reuter) —The. battle of the eastern front has deve- loped into the Battle of the Three Rivers-Dving, Dneister and Dnelper.
On Finnish Front
Salla Said Occupied ·
To Kill This Baby
Four-months-old Dorothy May Manson, pictured in her Granny's arms, after their Liverpool home had been bomb- ed. Little Dorothy May was born in a blitz and came through it without a scratch, though there was devastation on all aldes. And now, when the house was wrecked in a recent blitz, Dorothy was saved again by her Grandmother. This picture was taken in the wreckage of their home.
Anglo-Soviet Conferences Taking Place in London
Special to the "Telegraph" ·
LONDON, July 9 (UP)-During a series of intensive conferences with Mr Anthony Eden,-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Captain Margessen, Secretary of State for War, General Sir John Dill. Chief of the Imperial and General Staff, and high British officers who came and went at the Soviet Embassy to-day, the Russian military mission and their British opposites tried to substitute hard and rapid co-ordination for two years of Anglo-Russian mutual
Beirut Receives An Allied Ultimatum
Special to the "Telegraph"
suspicion and unfriendliness,
The Soviet Ambassador, M. Maisky participated in all of the consultations, while former Mili. tary Attaches of the British Embassy at Moscow served as liaison officers between the War Office and the Russians.
Army Co-operation To-day's talks between representa- tives at the two. General Staffs Is understood to have been devoted Comman-mainly to army co-operation and
CAIRO, July 9 (UP), ~General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces in Syria, has issued another ultimatum to General Dentz, the defending
der-in-Chief.
LATEST
RUSSIANS RETAKE LEMBERG
BUDAPEST, July 9 (Router). (UP).
It is to the effect that Beirut should surrender by 5.30 am, on Thursday (1.30 p.m. Hongkong time to-day).
This is revealed" by the Jerusalem Radio, which adde that according to the ultimatum, if the terms are not accepted, the Allied forces will take action against the city.
Damour Occupied HAIFA, July 0 ̧ (Reuter),—Imperial forces have now occupied Dumour.
preparing for more detailed strategic and tactical teamwork and possibly envisaged the dispatch of British, if TURN to Back Page. Column 5
12 Messerschmitts Destroyed
›
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH". LONDON, July 9 (UP)-It is suthpritatively learned that British Aghters, destroyed twelve Messer- schmitts over France to-day and bombers destroyed Д thirteenth. | Eight British; planes are misąing but
one pilot is safe.
British Forces Will Remain in Iceland
PANDAN.
LONDON, July 9 (British Wireless).—Replying ́to a ques- tion in the House of Commons to-day relating to the position in Iceland, the Prime Minister said that the military occupation, of Iceland by U.S. forces was one of the most important - things that had happened since the war began.
STOCKHOLM, July 10
An unidentified! -An advance on the castern Russian radio station an- frontier to a depth of five to 10 nounced to-day that the kilometres is claimed by the Russians had re-occupied PARIS, July 10 (UF)-Comte de Finns in a Finnish communique Lwow (Lemberg). Special to the "Telegraph”
Brinon, the Vichy Ambasandor in quoted to-day by the Budapest Parin, in an Interview here to-day wireless. conference with WASHINGTON, July 9 (UP).—After a
said that the formation of a French volunteer with the be
The communique adds that "our FOUR NAZI SHIPS President Roosevelt to-day, Mr Willkie announced that he was
Germons against the U.S.S.R. "might troops have occupied a few points by SUNK IN BALTIC in favour of the establishment of American bases in Northern
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" after President Roosevelt's dally be the beginning of military corepulsed the enemy. Our sir force Ireland.
carried out reconnaissance activity STOCKHOLM, July 10 (UP).] The President and Mr Willkie Press conference to-day, "there is no operation with Germany." had a luncheon conference which use in just giving u service to The legion is daily receiving re- and dropped bombs
Britain. We
either give her
Hungarian troops have reached the -The Swedish news agency
'The step had been undertaken | to close quarters with the American luated
Commander Named an hour and fifteen erective aid or it would be better
river Fruth and are fighting to force says that it has been reported, by the U.S.A. in pursuance of continent. SPECIAL TO:THE "TELEGRAPH" B crossing. states
ari official without confirmation, that n minutes, during which time not to try to give any aid at all.
the purely American policy of these American views althoughs I "It is not for me to comment on Hungarian communique. they reviewed the international He said that he favoured the United
combined Russian air and naval protecting the Western Hemis-may say, that they are fairly obvious Salla Occupied situation, particularly with re- States establishing military bases in Hassler, a 60-years-old veteran of
attack saak, four German shipsphere from the Nazi menance. BERLIN, July 0 (UP)—According gard to Iceland and the Russo-northern Ireland and Scotland.
The American occupation of Ice- last year has been named Technical to the official news agency, German in a convoy in the Balile. Gorman war.'
land, he declared, "is,in my judge-Commander of the French Volunteer troops on the Finnish front, after the "anti-avy fighting, have occupied the
strongly fortified town of Salla. then but the Art of similar steps Legion to fight that should be taken."
Communist Crusade
Helsinki Casualtion HELSINKI, July ℗ (UP) --The first semi-officiel Agures indicate that 14 persons were killed and 10 serfoùn-{ TURN,to Back Pago, Column 5
Mr Willkie later denied that there was any discussion about the possibi- lity of him being "drafted" into a Federal job.
Effective Aid Needed WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuter), Mr. Wendell Wilikle told the Press,
can
'cruits.
VICHY, July' 10' (UP),—General
both World War and the bllizkrieg of
Replying to questions, he said "It It is estimated that there are ea is vital to keep the sea-lanes open," ough volunteers already signed up to organize the frat battalion but it I will require at least a month to
organise and equip them.
and added that the British shipping Ionses were running far ahead any new constructions.
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to anyone who takes sufficient in- terest to understand what is going on."
In Harmony With Britain
"I understand that it is the view of the American technical authori tles, he continued, "that modern conditions of war, especially air war,
· Mr Churchill recalled that with the require forestalling, action, In this arsent of the Icelandle people, Bri caso especially in order to prevent tain had for some time maintained a the acquisition by Hiller of a jump strong garrison on the island and be ing-off ground from which it will be continued, "This measure of Ameri- possible, bound by bound, to comO TURN to Back Pago, Column 5