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RED ARMY TAKES OFFENSIVE AGAINST BOCHE IN BUKOVINA

HITLER'S GREAT MISTAKE

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Hitler's "mistake" invading Russia has removed the spectre of a Nazi victory and has decided the issue of the war, declared Dr. Edouard Benes, former President of the Czechoslovak| Republic, broadcasting to the Czechoslovak nation last night.

and

Dr. Benes compared the Ger- man action to the howling raving of a wild beast in power- less rage.

FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS, HE SAID, THE GERMANS KNEW THEY COULD NOT DEFEAT BRITAIN

AND

THEY OUGHT TO DO.

DEBATED

to These disputes led flight of Hess who, because of his previous contact with British

BAKU OIL WORKERS ON WAR FOOTING

The vast army of oil workers in the Baku oilfields have been placed on a war foot- ing since the begin- ning of hostilities, states Moscow radio quoted by Reuter.

BALTIC SEA BATTLE

A sea battle south

of

Battle In

Sea

Black Reported

A SEA FIGHT IS REPORTED TO BE GOING ON OFF THE BULGARIAN COAST, ACCORDING TO RUMOURS FROM VARNA RECEIVED IN ANKARA YESTERDAY. SOVIET CRUI- SERS, DESTROYERS AND SUBMARINES ARE SAID TO BE FIGHTING GERMAN AIRCRAFT BUT THERE IS NO CON- FIRMATION.

The Germans are known to have mined BRITISH the Bulgarian and Rumanian coasts but they are believed to have left a narrow channel at the mouth of the Bosphorus unmined.

MISSION TO RUSSIA

Axis sources in Ankara admit that the Germans are meeting very strong opposition in. Bukovina and state the Russians are not fighting a defensive battle but are attacking. BRITISH MISSION TO RUSSIA

Russian sources tell of a huge Sea port of Constanza, states air battle all along the front, with Rome despatch to Vichy. the Soviets holding their own.

Reports from Bucharest state Rumanian column from Galatz advanced eight kilometren

AMONG THEMSELVES WHAT Helsinki was reported in that a

the the Swedish newspaper towards Tarutin. due south of

"Allehanda” yesterday, Kishinev, circles, believed he could per- according to a Stockholm despatch received in New York.

suade. the British to stop the war which could only lead to a German defeat, The German leaders were pår- | ticularly anxious to end the war and intended to attack Russia after Britain had been defeated.

-Reuter.

First

Moscow

Gunfire has been heard Stockholm and the Swedish land of Gotland.

to have bombed Tallinn,

Helsinki and other

Russians In Ankara, however, assert the Rumaniang are not participating in the fighting, be- ing hold in reserve.

The important Danube town of Galatz has also been bomb-

ed.

One Soviet 'plane came down on Rumanian territory, the despatch adds.

Not Informative

IT IS UNDERSTOOD IN LON- DON THAT PREPARATIONS FOR THE DESPATCH OF A

ARE BEING PRESSED · FOR- a WARD AS QUICKLY AS POS- SIBLE AND IT IS EXPECTED THEY WILL BE COMPLETED SHORTLY.

Sir Stafford Cripps, who is occupied with further consulta- ` . tions and discussions in London,

to 'be able to return hopes

to Moscow in a few days.-Reuter.

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1,000 ITALIAN

The Rumanians claim they off crossed the River Pruth at Galată. The German Army's opera- i-Jassy and Lippani.

tions have proceeded very satis- OFFICER PRISONERS THEY SAY THE MOST factorily, according to plan." This German aircraft are reported NORTHERLY COLUMN IS is the only reference to the Rus- Over a thousand officers were HEADED IN THE DIRECTION Slan campaign contained in the among 1,600 Italian prisoners of

Command Finnish OF KIEV AND THE OTHER German High

com-war who arrived in India coastal towns have heard dis- | TWO TOWARDS. ODESSA, muniqué issued last evening. two batches yesterday, tant explosions from the direc- WHICH IS ABOUT 150 MILES Reuter.

Reuter from Bombay, tion of Estonia · across the FROM THE PRESENT FRON- Baltic. Smoke and explosions are also reported to have been seen along the Estonian coast-Reuter.

Air Alert AUSSIES

Moscow's first air raid! alert lasted from 3 o'clock

ADVANCE

yesterday morning to 4.25 IN SYRIA

a.m. but it was later

officially announced that Australian troops have

TIER.

German Boasts

Germans in Ankara boast. the campaign will be over in six weeks when, they say, they will. haye occupied White Russia, the Ukraine and the Caucasus.“

They say they need Russian. prisoners. as labourers for the Reich, since French prisoners of war are useless because they are "tired and unruly."

Did They Lose It?

THE OFFICIAL - GERMAN

THE GERMANS HAVE TAKEN

in spite of a heavy and made another important NEWS AGENCY REPORTS THAT light anti-aircraft barrage advance in the coastal THE INITIATIVE AFTER "DES and the sound of shell sector on the Syrian PERATE" RESISTANCE BY THE bursts this was just front.

that

"realism" and the whole This is revealed in a communi- affair was a test of A.R.P1que issued from G.H.Q. in Cairo

The lost evening, which says precautions.

artillery is already:"in" action against the Vichy position at Damour.

The population went quickly to shelters while wardens and other defence personnel went to their stations and posts, and lorries distributed fire, fighting material."

SOVIET ARMY IN SOME SEC- TORS ON THE FIRST "" TWO DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN.

Moscow Claims

The enemy's attacks are being successfully repulsed, Moscow On Monday, British troops, radlo announced yesterday, ac- Rocoupled - Quòtana” and Gagana, cording to the Columbia Broad-

to the southwest of Damasous, casting System.

and are now advancing towards We congratulate the herole the Damascus-Boirut road.Red Army on its first militäry Free French and Indian troops successes, the Soviet announcer successfully attacked and occupied added. high ground to the north of

At this period of the year, the Moscow sky is dark for only a very short time and the sky was already clear when the "raiders" flow over and the sky was dotted with red and black bursts as Parze. In the Merdj Ayoum arch Constanza Bombed

our troops made further local lesíkmovan and observors noted the effect of gains, and, fighting is proceeding. the testReuter

ground defences went into action

Soviet planes have carried out two ralds on the Rumanian Bibele

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