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September
1941.
Soviet Assault In
Shaken By Fires About Dinner Parties Front Of Leningrad QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
·FROM PAGE ONE
FROM PAGE ONE
No Lista of Guests Have you any lots of guests of the parties? No.
the southwest to northeast and Not yet. I believe these receipts dropped our bomba. Fires sprang were mixed with other, documents. up almost immediately and there was a very good fire too.in the centra of the city. Our rear gunner, could see it for fifteen minutes.afterwards. Somebody else must have bombed our fire because we saw zoveral more explosions in it. Then, after a time, we saw a hell of a great explosion
and a fire started."
FROM PAGE ONE
rossed an embankment towards a forest. A storm of mine-throwers and machine-gun are proved power- ess before the spirited drive of our men who reached the forest and disappeared from sight..
Why not?--I am afraid that duc
Enemy Flees "Soon a fight for the village 'N' to the removal of our office from the first to second floor these lists might began. Retreating hastily, the enemy ammunition and have been treated as wasto paper and abandoned. their thrown away d
equipment. Witness
that he sometimes
detachment under Senior Lieu-
Sukolov,
white-haired attended parties with his assistant teannt towns in western Germany which manager Lam Pat-chung. The last veteran, was ordered to reinforce the were attacked Included Mannheim | time was about a month ago, He allocking battalion. His detachment as well as the port of Ostend. Ninosuk he could not remember the British bombers are missing,
Mannheim And Ostend The communique stated that other
Other sources indicated that the R.A.F. largely used the new type of bomb and thousands of incendiary bumbs in the latest attack on Berlin, Regarding the new type of bomb, is noteworthy that reports have reached. Londonas during the recent attack on Duasvldort that one of the "beautiful shattered BOD houses.
bombs" ainus
reached the river bank and entrench- ed there for the night. Our troops then occupied the village throwing the Germans back about three miles.
"Thus day and night our troops ap-
names of the
the Euenta. Further questioned on this point, he then asked for a sheet of paper and wrote down the
nomes, which were as rend cut, Wang Wing-int, are heroically defending, the headmaster the Nom Wah pronches to Lenin's Academy,
LI Siu-ching, clerk in the Wing Kee Arm, Lau Sai-lat, a cians. man of witness living at Fung Fai Terrace, Li Chi-hi, clerk in the Chlap Woh Company.
Americans Display News Tie said that no Europeans were
W NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (Reuter)-present. The party was held at his Berlin's Inteal pounding from the residence and cost between $30 and RAF is described in the Amertem $40 including wind. Witness sald Press in front page stories with huge that he paid for the dinner himself. The chairman: Mr Lam told us that whenever he gave parties the firm pald for them. Is that correct? -Correct.
"full-width streamer headlines.
teavlest R.A.F. Raid Senasher At Derlin"
says the New York Journal and American.
"Berlin Shaken All Night Dy Ter- rific
Inc R.AF. Ruis" says the New York World-Telegram.
Storica describe
buildings and windows shaking and rattling "all night, and sunne papers express the belle! that Russian planes may have participated with Qie R.A.F, in the เฟ
ront
Kam Lung Party
Back
Germans Hurled B MOSCOW, Sept. 3 (Reuter).-The Germans have been hurled back 30 miles by the Russian counter-attacks In a ten-day battle, according to a report by Battalion Commissar Visolostrobsity, In the army organ "Red Stor." Twenty-two villages had been re-captured and the Ger- man salient "driven in.""
The scene of the battle was not disclosed but possibly it was the central sector.
population of the re-captured The villages are now re-building bridges and hastily harvesting, rye, which had stood too long during the Ger- scen man occupation. They can be busy in
in the. only a very few miles away.
felds while the front is An on shell drops in the re-
Do you remember any occasion when Mr Lan and yourself were present at a party when Wing-Com- mander Steel-Perkins was also present?--Three or four months ago at the Kam Lung Restaurant
Russian troops are searching for Were there any other Europenis Germans in the villages with of
the
It is reported that the planes was audible even above the
terrife" gunfire.
Cripps Encourages People Of Russia
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of
was so blinded by his own lust for power that he could not recognise the gallant strength the Red Army, Navy and Air Force; now with the flower of his areny stricken on Soviet land and thousands of his tanks and aeroplanes reduced to scrup, he must look with ever- growing fear at the mounting forces of the enemy whom he ance de. spised,
R.A.F. Attacks.
"In the west, too, night after night, and day after day an ever increasing force of British pinnes ruins dowr destruction on the industries of Germany In occupied territories, and he has encountered more and more dificulties as the peoples of those lands put up stubborn and courage- ous realstance to his domination.
"Arrayed against him now stund side by side two of the greatest na- tions of the world-Great Britain and the Soviet Union, backed by
Shie
gallant forces of their atties, by the hopes of tens of millions of Europeans, and by the almost in- exhaustible resources of the Ameri- can continent."
Violent Battles In Progress
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if the Germans had command of the coastline with bombers being based a few minutes flight away.
Authoritative quarters to-day did not know the position of the Eston ian islands of Dagos and Oosel which are also most valuable for control of the Gulf of Finland, or Valtisk!, the Baltic base which the claimed to have captured some time ago and whose loss the Russians have never admitted. All of these affect the Red ficct's position.
at the party? Yes, a few.
Con remember their names? No. There was a gentleman from Jardines.
Do you know his name?—No. Was he Mr Newbigging?—Yes. that is his name.
Hnd you
known any of these ins before? No. Europeans
Had you ever seen them before?— Not before this necusion.
Who
Invited
Wing-Commander Invitations Sicele-Perkins? The
were sent on printed cards issued free by the Kam Lung Restaurant in my name and Mr Lam's name.
Birthday Party
Witness was further asked whether he remembered any other occasions when he was at a party with Wing Commander Steele-Perkins. He said that on his birthday, April 10 of this year, he invited Wing Commander Steele-Perkins to his house for dinner. The Chairman: How did you come to invite him?-Because we were do- Ing some business and Wing-Com- mander Steele-Perkins was connected with the business, and he was there fore invited.
What was the business?-In con- nection with steel helmets,
·
Had you already got the Govern ment contract when you invited him to this dinner? It was after I had
got the contract.
taken
help of the villagers.
Nazi Claim Denied
LONDON, Sept. 3 (Router),—— "Reuter's" special correspondent st Morcow telegraphs that there is no basis for the German claim that they are within 15 miles of Leningrad. Nazis Admit Counter-Attacks
BERLIN, Sept. 3 (UP).-Heavy Soviet counter-attacks continued on the central front yesterday according to German reports, with the Russians again huring their heaviest tanks against the German lines.
Competent German quarters claim- ed that the Germans successfully repulsed these attacks, putting a large number of Soviet tanks out of action. They stated that in one corps sector a total of 02 Soviet tanks were shot up and wrecked. Between Au-
30 and September 2 Bust
total of 170 Soviet tanks were destroyed.
These quarters further clained that 1,400 prisoners, 107 guns and much other war material has fallen into German hands.
a
The officiul news agency claims that during the central front fighting yesterday, stro
strong Soviet forces were broken up and hurled back with new heavy tanks being destroyed. cording to the reports these included cleven of the heaviest type and one 40-ton amphibian tank,
Ac-
Part of the fighting was carried on the dense woodlands which the and ermoured
German infantry
Effects Of Economic War On Reich
Foreman's Evidence. Prior to Mr Cheng being reculled forces had to comb out in the face for questioning This
It is claimed morning, of bitter resistance. evidence was given by Lam Wal, that in these operations 2,000 prison- foreman of Messrs Sang Lee's Coners were taken together with con- crete Blockmaking Yard, He said siderable war material, including that he had been with the firm for three Soviet tanks and nine guns. about 20 years, but before this con- tract he had never before made con- crete blocks. He had no experience in making them and his experience consisted of doing cement concrete work regarding floorings for
Asked by the Commission If any specifications were supplied for mak ing A.R.P. concrete blocks witness replied in the affirmative. The specifications were one part cement, two and a half parts sand, and five parts broken stones.
The chairman: Who supplied these specifications? They were supplied by the Government and given to me by my employer.
Were these specifications in En- glish? Yes.
A wil my master.
лел
Yes.
can
tex- 1300- oil
FROM PAGE ONE
pre-occupations. Oil, rubber, tiles, some ferro-alloys and
ferrous metals
and vegetable are European, not only German, de- ficiencies, No amount of Germans
prepara- experts. tion or ingenulty, say the can get round that fact though in zome cases the Germans
In- crense European production or syn- Finnish Claims
thetic capacity, thereby making their HELSINKI, Sept. 3 (UP)—To-
Do you understand English?-No. problems ones of labour and ad- day's communique says there were
who told you what to do?ministration as much as of supply.
In this connection too, the Russian air battles on the eastern front yes- terday in which Finnish fighters and
Mr U knew the speelflcations? campaign is of great importance. It anti-aircraft guns brought down
and other raw materials; it eleven Soviet planes and captured
Witness proceeded in answer to rubbering German stocks of oil. trans- two on the ground on the Karellan questions to explain the method of emphasises the dimculty of
making the blocks. They had ort which is among Germany's most Isthmus, There were no Finnish wooden moulds, then concrete was serious problem in the economic mixed and poured into the moulds
ulds exploitation of blockaded Europe and pounded by an electric vibrator. and above nil, it is draining German When they were made they were manpower the full strength of which
is put aside and when they were dried
required not only to maintain the the next day were taken out of the armies of occupation in Europe but which Europe imould. The blocks were then stack- also to grow food cd up.
cannot import and mine coal to make synthetic oil and rubber.
Manpower And Transport Summing up, the experts say that the effects of the blockade are at: present seen most clearly in the German difficulties with regard to manpower, transport and administra- tion, but these are only the outcomes of Germany's supply dimeuitics which will rapidly increase if their present rate of material expenditure la maintained.
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LATE NEWS
The chaltman: Did anybody come to the yard to test the blocks?---No Nobody came.
Testing Blocks
Did anybody from the Government P.W.D., come to test these blocks?— No one frem the P.W.D.
Witness said that the blocks were sent away without being tested.
The chairman: It is sald that on Melat came to take the blocks away for test? There Is a Government foreman on the premises who gave me instructions every Monday to get a female coolie to take a block to a room in the P.W.D. where there were architects. The Government fore- man's name is Tum Hon,
The most striking evidence of the blockado's effectiveness comes from a German source, the economist Tosef Winschuh, who wrote in the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" on Did any European come to the May 14, 1941: “Our ability to con- vard
to see the making of these tinue the war lies not only in contine blocks? Yes, once or twice a week
In the production reserves and a European, came.
"apacity of Europe but also in Russia's natural possibilities of supply o us. At present we are already using our reserves and we must see so it that they are replaced and en- arged. Everything must be done not to lose the advantage we had at the outbreak of war.“
Do you know who he was?-His name in Hobbs.
How did he inspect your work?- He came to see if the work wng all, right and that the stones and con- er 1 were properly mixed.
Witness said that sometimes after the moulds were removed the blocks were found to be cracked. There were reveral tens of such cracked blocks each day, Thesa, he said, were broken up with a hammer.
Mir
was lamy: When the concrete!
mixed was the Govern-
ment foreman present to see that the
right amount of cement was being ured?Yes, he was always present,
You never mixed any concrete until he arrived?--No, but sometimes
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