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NAZI CLAIMS
FROM PAGE ONE
strategle location on the Central Front, directly on the route Moscow.
Syrian Armistice Of 22 Points
FROM PAGE ONE
supervised by a Commission of Cen- Camouflaged Fortifications trol which will have its scat at The D.N.B. report stated that the Beirut und will be composed of five Vitebsk fortifications were camau-members, three appointed by flaged to an extent completely un- British and two by the French; recognisable and was fitted with revolving cupolas.
shooter contented in lices provided The advance action and poured a hall of
fre ироп
the advancing German soldiers from the closest range."
•
the
will
July 16, 1941,
BUDAPEST BOMBED
HOME, July 15 (Reuter)—An air raid on Budapest on Monday, night Ikunnosneed in an. official corn- munique Issued in the Rumanian apital, says #1 Allspatch to the official Italian news agency.
The communique_reads: "enemy aircraft dropped a large number of Incendiary bombs on Bucharest Just night" bút adds that fres that were started were extinguished. One person was killed and öne was in- jured, concludes the communique.
America Building Up Great Army
FROM PAGE ONE
tnt legislation lo accomplish these objects had President Roosevelt's approval.
Basis of Nazi Reasoning "The sequence of German con- quests which continued without interruption from Austin to Russla has been based on the anticipated failure of the countries concerned to be property prepared against invasion," Mr Patterson wrote.
Tim
"In each case, they launched overwhelming force against an un- prepared army. We cannot specu- late with the security of this nailon." Mr Pallerson added that to do. mobilise the army now would be to "court disaster."
MEXICO CLOSER
TO AMERICA Agreement On Exports
WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuter), i -As part of its programme, to build up vital defence supplies, the United States has guaranteed to buy from Mexico all exportable surplus of arc nol strategie materials which sold to private industries in the western hemisphere in the next 18 months, announced Mr Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator.
The Mexican Government have decreed that these commodities may be exparted daly within the hemis phere..
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WASHINGTON, July 15 (22) The present agreement
not be drawn up in English and French| (Reuter).—"There_is and in case of disagreement the single strike in the United States English text shall be binding.
that is troubling the Office of Moderation of Terms JERUSALEM, July 15 (Reuter) Production Management," The Germans succeeded in dis The Syrian Armistice, it is generally Sidney Hillman, Director of the abling the armoured cupolas with fell here, is an extremely moderate Office, told the House of Repre- the support of heavy howitzers, field one which goes no further than neces-sentatives' Committee which is guns, mortars and infantry,
sary to achieve the objects with which, despite very strung fire from which the Allies started the cam investigating migratory labour. the neighbouring bunkers, they
after
paign.
carried explosive charges to the These were to put on end to Ger- loopholes of the fortifications.. "The
man infiltration and the use of mighty explosions collapsed the con- crete walls and killed the crews", Syrian air bases by Germün aircraft, and to ensure that Syria would re- the report ends.
sume the place she held prior to the collapse of France as a strategic bulwark of the Allies in the castern Mediterranean.
oil-fields of Ploesti.".
Chance of Freedom
Russian Raids LONDON, July 15 (Reuter).The Soviet High Command communique
Satisfaction is expressed here that broadcast by the Moscow Radio
full honours of war have been states: "During the night of July 14, stubborn fighting continued in the accorded to the French in view of northwestern and western directions their courageous and skilful fight- of the front. In other dircetions and however misguided from the Allied sectors of the front, no important point of view, their action may have fighting took place and no substan- been. tial changes occurred in the positions of the troops.
It is noted that the terms of the "Our air force during the night of Armistice permit soldiers and civili- July 14 bombed mechanized units of ans-to-choose between rallying to the enemy and raided refineries and the Allied cause or being repatriated. Hope is expressed that many will Reda Slow Panzers
choose the former cause now that LONDON, July 15 (Reuter).-The they are free from Nazi Influence and Russian ofr force, according to a propaganda, which reached such Moscow report, has taken the "blitz" pitch that some of the captured Vichy troops stated that they were out of the "blitzkrieg."
the Impression they were It has forced new "U slow" under
on the Nazi policy
Oghting Italians. panzer divisions g which, instead of crashing on far
Berlin On Syria. ahead and alone regardless of what LONDON, July 15 (Reuter) --- oppostion
they leave behind, are now "With the Armistice agreement in being protected against heavy casual-Syria, a campaign of the British ties caused by Rússlan ale attacks. Army comes to conclusion with They are being escorted by slow which not Berlin but Vichy will have anti-aircraft units which reduce their to, deal more closely," says
Wilhelmstrasse statement to-night.
The statement adds: "The end of
that France is not in a position
pace by more than half and com-
*
pllente transport and supply, and they the battle for Syria does not prove are also constantly protected. by swarms of Messerchmilt fighters. defend her colonies."
to
the
Hungarian Forces
Berlin political circles, adds ROME, July 15 (Reuter).-Soviet German news agency, said that it parachute troops have been dropped was a matter of course that "certain in Hungary in order to destroy rail- lessons have been learned from the ways, states a Budapest dispatch to case of Syria. Whether by the meial Italian news agency. many or by both is a matter that is
The lempt
by Soviet parachute] troops to destroy the Hungarian rail-
Ine was frustrated by vigilance ante entretic action of Hungarian troops."
made claimed that an at-left open."
Hungarian forces on the
Soviet
front were stated to be advancing in Podolia in western Ukraine, despite the lack of roads and difficultles of terrain.
Ger-
U. S. MID. EAST MISSION LEAVES
GIBRALTAR
מ! .
“GIBRALTAR, July 15 (Reuter),—— The situation
the western Mediterranean was the subject of
STOCK EXCHANGE conferences between General Lori
་
Gort, Governor and Commander-in- Chief here, and the United States
Some Irregularity Government Mission to the Mudic
East and Mediterranean, which has LONDON, July 15 (Reuter).—The now
proceeded to England after Stock Exchange to-day encountered three days'
stay. some Irregularity. Glit-edged hold- The Commission flew to the Middle ings, oils and industrial stocks re-East and remained there five weeks. eeded slightly on profit-taking, but It is headed by Mr W. G. Harriman there were signs of renewed provin- and other members are Brigadier cinl
General N. Boyce, of the United Support, Most Industrial stocks, especially States Air Force, and Colonel A. breweries and textiles, were at lower Green, a tank expert.
levels.
Rubber and tea shares were firmly
held, Kamra responded well to Cape Churchill's Words Find
and local support but diamonds met proft-taking.
Japanese bonda receded but were! subsequently supported.
Wall Street wak Irregular.
·
Favour In Russia
MOSCOW, July 15 (Router)—Mr Churchill's speech at the County Holl on Monday is published verbatim by all the leading Sovlet newspapers to-day. The text of the Anglo- Soviet
agreement Is prominently
WILKINS LEAVES printed on the front pages of all
FOR KUNMING
papers which did not have editions yesterday.
It is accompanied by leading CHUNGKING, July 15 (Central articles by Soviet scientists and News)Ending a five-day visit in academicians expressing satisfaction Chungking, Sir Hubert Wilkins, Aus at the pact, and lengthy accounts of 'tralian Arctic explorer, left for Kun-factory meetings at which unanim Iming by plane to-day on route to ous resolutions in favour of the
Rangoon via the Burma Road. -------- grament were
hgrcement -were-pussod.......
He sald that production was greater than that of the totalitarian states. "The weakness of the totall- Larian system is the loss of workers' co-operation."
Mr Hillman declared that 2,700,000 were now employed in deferice in- dustries, compared with 400,000
year ago.
He estimated that the total a year hence would be 5,700,000.
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