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Nazi-Finn Armies Claim Penetration
FROM PAGE ONE
casualties to the minimum. Work in factorles, however, would be con- Unued until the Imminent donger signul was given.
A warning was sounded In Moscow us.soon as It was observed at the front that places were flying in the direction of the capital. The nearest point the German planes had got to Moscow was over 100 miles distant. Some recent warmings had only been testa
Lozovaly doubted whether the Germons would attempt any raid or Moscow.
Over-Confident Claims LONDON, July 21 (Reuter)—"The Soviet Armny have been compelled to throw in their fast reserves." salda message from the official German News Agency. The message also claims that the Germans are now 375 miles from the former Ru650- German demarcation line and "once more the vast battle of annihilation Is in progress," this time cast of the Stalin Line. "We shall not allow the enemy the breathing space" he so Intch desires,"
Military commentators In London point out that the penetration of 375 miles is most generously monsured and would put the German advance been at Smolensk which has long admitted, and that "the throwing in of the last reserves" by the Russians would be a mare convincing claim if Herfi had not thrown in the Soviets "Inst" reserves several times already. It also pointed out that the radio commentator speaking frontTM Beriln said, "Conditions on the Soviet front are much more difficuit thắm la France so that the required fine will necessarily be lenger."
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Latest From Berlin BERLIN, July 21 (UP).-The offeinl news agency states that during alc fighting on the eastern front on Sun- day, Germon planes shot down Ga Soviet machines. A
further 31 Soviet planes are alleged to have been destroyed on the prote ground. The news agency said that German bombers carried out low-level bomb- ing attacks on Soviet troop concen- trations in the uren north of Vitebsk. where a large number of trapped Soviet divisions carried out desperate
break-out attacks. These were re- pulsed with very heavy losses due to German bombing
it is stated. German bombers operating in the far North off the Arctic coast of Fin- Innd are stated to have sunk a war shlp of 3,400 tons near Poljarnoc, as well as a Soviet destroyer and a mere chantman of 2,000 tons.
Moscow Radio Jama LONDON, July 22 (Reuter) Moscow Radio went off the air at 1,15 am.. when the broadcast in English was suddenly suspended.
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Criticised Editor
Retires
Mi C. G. Grey has retired from the editorship of. Jane's "All the World's Alreraft." and is succeeded by Mr Leonard Bridgman, former joint cultor,
July 22, 1941-
Retention Of · U.S. Army
FROM PAGE ONE
Uhat-000,000. out of the authorised 000,000 kelecters were now in the service opserted, "It is obvious that if two-thirds of our present army re- turns to civilian life, it will be almost one year before the effective army strength again reaches one million Some months before publication men. As small as our army is in of the 1040 edition, Mr Bridgman, comparison to other armles it should who had been complier and font not suffer any form of disorganiza- editor for several years, resigned tion or
or disintegration." because of differences of opinion
urged Congress to Instruct with Mr Grey
employers to hold jobs open for the When the 1040 edition al thia men held in the army, and further standard reference work
ho would order the wan promised that
Di "offeers published exception was taken to a return to clvillán fo caption
photograph of and men whose retention on active Lockheed Hudson bomberk being duty would impose undue hardship drawn Across the American-and also that selectees, enlisted men and the National Guard who be- Canadian border by horses,
What Caption Said come 20 years of age will be trans- Mr Grey's caption aald: "Now ferred to the reserves as rapidly as the United States Juve decided possiblę." to support the war Anancially the last Engjshman, preparations are being made to fly Flying For tresses' direct to Britain."
under A
10
The book wan withdrawn by the publishers, and the offending phrase removed Air Grey explained that he was being ironical at the expense of American isolationists.
Action In Courts
that he Mr Grey stated talting iramediate action in the courts vindicate his position ibat
to
following the
announcement
the editor of the publication is now Mr Leonard Bridgman.
Tragic Error
The President declared that the elimination of men by their return to civilian life of "upproximately two- thirds of our training soldiers and about three quarters of the total officer personnel would be a tragic error. It is well nigh the unanimous and naval oflcers, as well as
| opinion of Government servants in
the
was the international field, dat
aggressor schemes, and plans of nutions
against American security is so evident that the United States and the rest of the Americas are de-
why fultely Imperiled Thal reluctantly, and only after careful weighing of all the facts, I recently unilmited national proclaimed an emergency."
Mr Grey siated that he was part proprietor of June's All the World's Afrcraft, and had been editor for 25 years,
Tobruk General
An Australian
Gen. Leslie James Morshead, who is commanding the British troops at Tobruk and is putting up a most
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He noted the sequence of the Nazi TOMORROW'DR. KILDARE'S STRANGE CASE” conquests in which each was pre- M-G-M Picture * LEW AYRES - LIONEL BARRYMORE
ceded by preliminary assurances of safety or non-aggression to the in- tended victim and said that each elimination of a victim brought the issue of Nazi domination closer to this hemisphere.
If Congress by legislative action stubborn and spirited defence there, recognises a state of emergency, the
President by proclamation
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con ar- the
He joined the Australian Expedi-range to keep the selectees in Honary Fores in the last war and service.
to be a rose
Heutenant- America's Responsibility quickly
"I do not think that any branch colonel,
In the words of the Australian of the Government of the United omcial history of the war, "In his States is willing to let America risk bume the
traditions of the British the fate which destroyed the inde- Army had been bottled like tight-pendence of other nations and disciplinarian and something of a with corked champagne. He was a strict Americans cannot afford to speculate the security of Amerien. martinet, but the result was that he. Furthermore, We have a definite turned out a battalion which was responsibility to every country in the
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branch
recognised is one of the very best
best Western Hemisphere-to old euch in the British Imperial Army and and every one in
,in case of
of nttnek from which did great work at Messines, without the -Hemisphere. Just before attacking the Germans "I do not believe that there Gen. Morshead told his men, of the American Government would
We
have no artillery to support us desire to-day to abrogate our Pan The transmission of this broadcast and we don't know where the British American pact or discard the policy was then very bad and almost unin-line 13. So, my lads, we are going which we have maintained for near- telligible.
ahesid."
The Soviet communique has, not yet been received in London.
Black-Out Criticism
FROM PAGE ONE
The General, who is $1, was at one time a schoolmaster.
U.S. DEFENCE
a century and a quarter. It we do not reverse this historic polley (the Monroe Doctrine) then it is our duty to maintain it. To weaken the Army at this particular time would, in my dament, break faith with Dur neighbours"
HIGHWAY BILL message was read WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuter) hour earlier, an unprecedented thing. in both Houses of Congress. An The House has passed the $287, the President at the While 600,000 defence highway bill, which read the message into the micropho
House has been sent to the Senate for con- nes for radio transcription through- out the United States, constituting a diree! appeal to the masses of the
shing, especially in Port Shelter and Lantau, made no attempt what-sideration and amendments. soéver
order.
to observe The black-out
From The Air
From the air there were a great many ghts showing from premises along the north side of the Island, and on the Mainland it was parti- cularly bad in Kowloon City and_in the whole are west of Nathan Road, The lights shown on rickshaws were ineffectively screened
Points For To-Night Sampons and junks must so obscure their lights that they cannot be seen from above or in any other direction. Cargo vessels leading and unload- Ing may use restricted lighting, but these lights must be screened so that no light is thrown above the horizon- tal, and the number and intensity of such lights must be reduced to the mialmum.
It is most important to sce that no reflection
cast upon the water by of all descriptions.
any
lights used on vessels
The general public are asked to intensity their efforts in blacking out their premises during the coming nights, und in particular to pay at- tention to the top storeys, roofs and backe ol their premleca The general publie can do a great assist the authorities by drawing the attention of offenders to any light which may have been inadvertently exposed, and if they are not then extinguished, by informing a Police- inan or an Air Raid Warden.
Starts At Sunret
deal to
It should be particularly noted that the period of the black-out siuris nt sunset, and the public must not wait for the sounding of the Air Kald Warning before obscuring their lights, The Director of Air Raid Precau- tions asks for the co-operation of the publle so that to-night's black-out muy by a success from every point of view.
HOSTEL FOR 2,000 GIRLS
Britain's biggest hostel for muni- tlon workers (planned to house 1.2,000) opened recently in the North
of England.
The hostel has its own tennis courts, netball pitches and hockey feld.
possesses flower gardens and allotments, where girls may grow their own vegetables.
It has also a reading room, writing room, fine dance hall, games room and library, and the kitchen is planned on cafeteria linea.
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Bedrooms are built in 20 blocks' of O rooms each-two girls will share a room.
Miss Seagar, the hostel warden, worked "on the bench". In a mual- lloris factory in the last war.
Women residents will be mostly between the ages of 18 and 30. They pay 258, a week for full board and lodging.
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people for the purpose of clearing
publle sentiment for a move which he holds to be imperative to national defence. The message will also bo brondenst to the world on short waves and later re-broadcast by beam radio in six foreign languages.
U.S. CAN FIGHT TWO WARS
FROM PAGE ONE
struggle and that any further Japan- ese moves would increase tension to the danger point.
Mr Ingersoll is bound for Chung- king where, following a brief stay, he expects to proceed to Moscow and interview M. Sisiln.
Mr Alsop who abandoned his Washington column and joined the Office of Naval Intelligence declined
comment
his destination though it is believed that he also la bound for Chungking,
to
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