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WHITEAWAY'S
Hanover SOVIETS REPORT HEAVY British Motorised Army,
Set On Fire By
FIGHTING IN SMOLENSK
The R.A.F. AND LENINGRAD AREAS
Damaging Raids On Corinth Canal
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Aug, 15 (UP), — The Air Ministry has announced devastating raids over Prussia
SPECIAL TO the "telegrĄPH"
MOSCOW, Aug. 15 (UP).—Official Russian dispatches from the fighting areas refer to constant heavy fighting near Smolensk, which the Soviet defenders abandoned to the Germans "a few days ago", as well as at three points near Leningrad, which the Nazis are attempting to
and Sicily by R.A.F. Bombera encircle, but they make no reference to the bitter struggle in the Ukraine.
last night.
It is understood that about 200 planes were concentrated over Hanover.
The R.A.F. flew in great force `over manufacturing cities in Prussia, declares the Air Minis- try, The planes included Man- chesters and four-engined Sterl- ings and Halifaxes.
Triangle of Fires
"A great triangle of raging dres over Hanover could be seen from 50 miles away. The fires were also sun by the crews of plenes en route
from other places."
The
communique added that not
only were heavy fres started at Hanover, but also at Brunswicit and Magdeburg, although the conflagra tions at Hanover were especially large.
A Cairo communique states that the Fleet Air Arm railed the sub- marine base at Augusta, Sielly on the night of August 13-14. Two hits
were
NAZIS TALK OF NEW DUNKIRK
Claim Big Ukraine Successes
Special to the "Telegraph"
BERLIN, Aug. 15 (UP)—An authorised German military spokesman to-day announced that only shattered remnants of the Russian south Ukrainian armies remain active west of the Dnieper bend, with a new Dunkirk developing at Odessa.
DECISIONS ON BIG ISSUES
observed on the submarine What Rooseveit And Churchill Discussed
Jetty and large Area broke out on the
The Fleet Air Arm nlso bombed the barracks and docks at Syracuse, Firea were started which spread over a large area and caused heavy explosions.
Canal Damaged
BY "REUTER'S" "DIPLOMATIC,
It was revealed earlier that General Budenny's armies are retreating in orderly fashion after a German advance of more than 60 miles towards the Russian industrial centres in the Dnieper River bend,
The dispatches declare that the German army was forced to abandon its frontal assault in the direction of Moscow, east of Smolensk after losing "hundreds of thousands of men in a ferocious 30-day battle."
Changed Tactica
General A. I. Yeromenko, reporting officially from the Smolensk front said that the Germans have changed. their The spokesman conceded that tactics because of the heavy the Ukrainian operations were losses. not yet completed, but asserted] He nsserted that at first the that while the Russian command Germans showed consistency in their is trying to withdraw towards altered. A whole month was spent thetics which are now fundamentally Wey across the Dniaster, their vainly in an offensive, attacking one troops are enclreled at. Odessa hector and the anther, often losing and Nikolaev.
German Stukes are
blasting
Very
the shipping in
heavily which compelled them to take up the defence under the blows of netive the Red army. Fascist calculations south of a blitzkrieg have collapsed and
Ukraine and the Black Sea, as well their driving power is losing force."
ng knocking out crossings across the Dniester to foll the Russian retreat Russian Tank Losses In both directiona and hammering the marching columns, troop concen- LONDON, Aug. 15 (UP).The trations, ronds and tanks.
oMelal Tass agency reports that The "Voelkischer commenting on the significance of the corps,
Beobatcher" Major General Suyskoy of the tank writing in the "Pravdu” toss of Odessa, Nikolaev and asserted that the Russians bave lost) Krivolrog to Russia added that the fifteen tank divisions so far. Industrial centre of Dnieropetrovsk The General said that the 2011
CORRESPONDENT, LONDON, Aug. 15.—Although the most spectacular feature of the meeting between President Roosevelt and Mr Churchill was On the night of August 8-9 and the eight-point programme of again on August 13-14; bombers heavily attacked the Corinth Canni peace aims of the two great to a large extent is lost. The Im- German tank corps was annihilated with a view to preventing enemy democracies, other momentous portant mouth of the Nieper is held by Soviet tanks and the air force, shipping from using it,
questions believed to have been by German troops."
while the 20th tank division was Photographs revealed considerable
The spokesman announced that destroyed by Soviet tanks, supported
-fundslides-in-the-canal-banks-sun-thoroughly_discussed...conceri soviet troops to the west of the by arilliery und Intantry.
elent to prevent the passage shipping for a considerable time.
AIR RAID
of
(1) the Battle of the Atlantic, southern area of the Bug river has (2) aid to Russia, and (3) the now been completely wiped out. situation in. the Far East.
In regard to the first point, it
is predicted that the whole system of the present methods
London Summary LONDON, Aug. 15 (Reuter)—A milltary commentary by "Annalist" (UP).The states that only Hitler and the Ger- 32 lanks, the thrust in Southern Ukraine is a
Germans Advance BERLIN, Aug. official news
15
it
Then and Now
The first move to motorise the British army was made at Luc know in 1912, when a .405 water-cooled Maxim Gan was drawn by a motor cycle and sidecar as shown in this picture. Incidentally the the driver is Mr O, A. §. Smith of Hongkong, who was then a per- geant in the Lucknow Rides. To llustrate the steps made in the motorisation of the army, a picture is given below showing the pre- sent type of armoured cars now in use. The contrasting ploturen.
tell the story.
8-Points Will Speed War to a Climax
Special to the "Telegraph” ·
APPEAL TO JAPANESE MASSES
CHUNGKING, Aug. 16 (Reu ter).-Japan's internal crisis is approaching a most critical stage, declared the influential Chinese newspaper "Ta. Kung Pao," commenting on the attack on Baron Hiranuma.
Japanese extremists are becoming impatient with the status quo tactics of the Konoye Cabinet and are de- manding positive action.
Japan's previous tactles to use external didiculties to forestall domestle upheaval Dre becoming futile, it is stated. No amount of Police
lice or military pressure can hold down the dissatisfaction among the Japanese Deople towards the present
ment
pointing out that the coming crisis in Tokyo will merely give an opportunity for the Japanese military authorities to restrict further the rights of the Japanese people, the "Ta Kung Pao urges the Japanese People
to rise and overthrow the present regimo and establish a now com-Japan, thereby ensuring the contruc- tion of peace, mutual co-operation *This and co-prosperity between China and
wir Jopan.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (UP), The Foreign Editor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, Mr William Phillip Simms, menting on the Roosevelt-Churchill eight points said.
WARDENS Naturally, how they will be captured in the southern sector of seems a fairly substantial operation incit Anglo-American alliance is expected to speed the
Position Clarified
are
20,000 Soviet prisoners,
agency reports that man High Command know whether of defence will be revised. 85 guns and one armoured train were full-blown offensive. Certainly modified is n
The eastern front yesterday during secret, but 110 a thrust forward by German troops, considerable advance of the German doubt the Germans will soon which, crushed the strong Soviet right wing. learn to their cost of the increas-forces together in a very Burrow
measured in miles, indicates a
ed efficiency of dispositions area where, it is claimed, the Ger- fallen back from Pelrvomask taken.
mana destroyed them. The Soviet; casualties were very high.
and
The Russians admit that they have
Kirovograd 120 miles north of Nikolajev. They seem to be retiring behind the bend of the River
Members of the A.R.P. now more clearly defined as the result of an amendment to the
Aid To Russta Hongkong Corps of Air Raidi
Collapse of Front Regarding aid to Russia, it seems Wardens Ordinance, 1940, { likely that consultations with the Rus-
Dnieper which forms a formidable DERLIN. Aug. published in the Government slan authorities may be undertaken Voelkischer Beobachter" to-day car to suggest that their retreat has been 15 (UP)The natural obstacle. There is nothing and the passibility of a conference ries a bannerline reading, "Collapse anything but orderly and there is no Gazette to-day.
between high representatives of Brl of Soviel Front in the west Ukraine. Indication that the Germans have "Members" includes officers, sub-tain, America and the Governnent of Odessa encircled. New Dunkirk in forced the Dnieper.. ordinate officers, Alr Raid Wardens, the Soviet Union is not ruled out Warden Telephonists,
out to the making," Wardens ensure speedy decisions, and proper (Tunnels), apportionment of their joint
(Communications),
Air Action
Exaggerated Importance
the
Besiegers
Of Tobruk
Harassed
towards a climax.
If Berlin and Tokyo ever doubted Roosevelt's intention to fight, if need be in order to help put an end tc their ambitions to dominate the world, they would be foolish to do so any longer.
The familiar Rooseveltlan phrase short of war is now out the win- dows. If the rendezvous in the Atlantic meant anything whatever,
war alma."
neces
Australians
. In Malaya
SINGAPORE, Aug. 15 (Reu- it signified the determination on ter)-"Our enemies CAIRO. Aug. 15 (Reuter)-Roosevelt's
may, part that the United Successful patrol activities round States shall use armed force if
measure their armles (Motor Cyclists), (Fire Watchers sources. It is understood that Mr BERLIN, Aug. 15 (UP)-Accord- and Fighters) and oure Wardens Harry Hopkins has already furnished lng to the official news agency, Ger- Krivolrog, an important mining town in a Middle East communique
The Germans claim to have taken the Tobruk area are announced sary to attain the jointly announced millions: we measure ours in and Honorary Air Raid Wardens, valuable information on Russia's dire TURN to Page 8, Column Four southeast of Kirovograd. This may
spirit and determination. It is necessities, and it is not "improbable,
Supplies To Vladivostok be due to the confusion of two like-issued here this afternoon.
not so much the size of the dog sounding numes but it true,
LONDON, Aug. 15 (UP)-Com-in the fight as the fight in the The communique says: "Dur-menting upon the possible interrup-dog." possession of Krivokrog cannot be of ing the night of August 13-14, nilon of the democracies' supplies to any service to the definans.
What they want is not ore but oil fighting patrol from Tobruk authoritative circles to-day stated Commanding the Australian Imperiat Russia via Viallivostok by Japan, Major General Gurdon Bennett, and they will find precious little of surprised an enemy strong point; that "Britain will do
her best to Force in Malaya, made these remarks TURN to Pago 8, Column Four
"Following up this success, the secure the fulfilment of the polley when he broadcast to Austrnila to- patrol penetrated still further and adopted regarding aid to Russis." engaged strong working parties of Nothing was added, however, re- day. the enemy, with grenades and light garding the measures contemplated machine-gun fire,
Italians Resigned To
Decade Of Fighting
It is felt, that n'proposal will be made
to M. Stalin on these lines.
Far East
Regarding the Far East, the arrival of further British reinforcements ZURICH, Aug. 15 (Reuter),—"One, tells a tale of precautions being should spread the conviction that the adopted, but there is no tendency to war may last ten years," says Signor take any steps that would be regarded Bottol the Italian Education Minister, by Japan 'as directly provocative, so writing in the "Critica Sociale" re-long as the Nippon Government are commending Italians to prepare for equally considerate.
a long war.
Meanwhile, the arms production This view is supported by Count programme is being speeded up both Clano's_paper "Telegrapho" and the in Great Britain and the United Milan Catholic newspaper "Italino." States.
Fears For
Safety Of
U.S. Newspaperman
Fliers Burnt To Death
Ferry Plane Details
LONDON, Aug. 15 (Reuter)-- More details of the Trans-Atlantle Ferry air crash yesterday are อพ available.
LATEST
Typhoon Havoc In Western Japan
of
the
from
enemy
:
He declared: "The tension in this case Japan tries to blockade part of the world is grave and the "In the other sector, our artillery Vladivostok.
presence of now reinforcements of- brought heavy effective fire to bear. Mr Hull's Hopes on two other working parties of the
well Arpined and well-equipped unlis WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UP). gives us added confidence that we "Although heavy dust
At the press conference to-day, Mr. shall be able to dent effectively with storms Cordell Hull, yesterday interfered with our move- said that he hopes that all civilised
of Secretary Stato, any enemy. ments outside Tobruk, our patrols
"The units will concentrate on nations in the were again active in the frontier ni
world, including training realising that they have no will Ruszin, aren,"
rally around the time to lose, but they will soon reach Roosevell-Churchill
programme for the same standard of emclancy as the destruction of Nazi tyranny and the earlier arrivals."
Russo-Polish
The
to
new world order.
His remarks constituted on answer
A question as to whether or not
he would welcome a Russian endorse
Senator Foll
Senator II. S, Foll, Australian
Agreement ment of the Anglo-American eight Minister of the Interior and Informa
tion who arrived in Singapore to-day delegation of editors of Aus- announcement with
point peace alms, it was subsequently Indiented that
an
One man was actually got out ulive from the blazing plane and taken to hospital, but he died there during tho night. He Was
Wellington Earl Watson of Los Angeles, California.
An eye-witness described how he
TOKYO, Aug. 15 (Domel)While noticed a change in the beat of the Tokyo escaped the effects engines as he
watched the plane typhoon, incomplete reports taking dit. It was not many feet Western Japan indicated that storh off the ground when it began to drop. damages had been. the heaviest on was horrided to see the machine hit shipping with more than 30 small the road before It hurtled into a harbour craft capsizing within Kobe Grave fears are now felt for the safety of Mr A. T. Steele,cornfeld."
Harbour. It was understood that famous foreign correspondent of the "Chicago Dally News,"
Heavy Petrol Load one of the ships which capsized was
LONDON, Aug. 10 (Reuter)--The whose plane, en route from Chungking to Moscow, is five days load was a big obstacle to successful Japan fron Works Company loaded was signed in Moscow
It appears that the heavy petrol the 8,000-ton Ryujih Muru of the Polish-Russian military agreement might be made Inter to-day regard-on newspapers at the invitation this aftering the reports that a committee of ed the, reinforcements as the "best
of the Malayan Government, deperib overdue.
neeldent, and there has been com-rescue work. A series of fires broke with a full cargo of coal.
noort. The agreement, which American, British and Russian: ex possible representation Mr. Steele, loft with Mr Ralph plete allence as to its whereabouts for out and although three fire brigades Reports from Okayama Prefecture based on the principles worked out perts convene for the
Australla with rescue parties of airmon Ingersoll, editor of the New the past ave days.
Mr Siecle is an especially well soldiers tried to get at the trapped ed away, 2,000 houses dooded, Polish military mission, provides in
and sald that 200 houses had been wash-in London by General Sikoraki and making tripartite collaboration more York "PM" by plano from known foreign correspondent for me but we impossible to extricate fured. It was reported from Kobe detall for the formation of a Pollsh
13 his staff and taken to Moscow by the effective. missing and ten in- Chungking to Alma Ata, which China where he has been working any but one man.
Beaverbrook Going is the first plane stop inside some years. He is rated as one of
Funeral
that up to Friday night, four per army in Soviet Russia. the best of the American foreign Russian territory.
sons were killed in Hyogo Prefecture,
To Canada natable stories of the Shanghai war Twenty-two vicums of the arst ins and over 18,000 houses destroyed Dublin Opens Fire Journalists, and filed · particularly LONDON, Aug 13 (Reuter)ten injured and more than 100 miss
OTTAWA, Aug. 15 Reuter) Mr poper men separated, Mr. Ingersoll In 1937. He has also covered special trans-ocean air crash last Saturday or damaged. deciding to go on to Moscow by train, assignments on political conditions in were buried to-day with naval where he has since arrived, while Mr the south Pacifc including the N.E.I.. honours. The Stars and Stripes up to 9 pm on Friday, 50 houses unidentified aircraft flew over Dublin problems,
is leaving for Washington during the Reports from Tokushima sald that
DUBLIN, Aug 18 (Router)AB week-end for consultation on supply. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (Reuter).... Steele elected to continue by plane and Malaya. He has many times draped the coffins of the men from were destroyed over 300 damaged this morning and was fired upon by Lord Beaverbrook," it is stated, approved the revised Defence Appro Indications are that after leaving visited Hongkong in the course of his America and a Union Jack, for each and one person was killed in the ground defences, states the Etre will probably accompany him when priation Bill amounting to $1,5755 The House of Representatives, has. Alma Afa, his plane met with an journalistic duties.
Government information Bureau he returns, la Oltaway 03 000,000, binnen de
There the two prominent nows-
of the others.
pagnaträklushima Prefecturem
*
purpose
of
could have hero."
. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions.
Senator Foll described the Roose- valt-Churchill declaration ns. most Valuable Inasmuch as it defines certain war aims. I regard it as the forerunner of still more momentous future. declarations of our war alms of the