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RED ARMY TAKES OFFENSIVE AGAINST BOCHE IN BUKOVINA
HITLER'S GREAT MISTAKE
Hitler's invading Russia has removed the spectre of a Nazi victory and has decided the issue of the declared Dr. Edouard war, Benes, former President of the Czechoslovak Republic, broadcasting to the Czechoslovak nation last night.
"mistake" in
Dr. Benes compared the Ger- and 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
BRITAIN AND AMONG THEMSELVES WHAT THEY OUGHT TO DO.
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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.
AUSSIES ADVANCE
IN SYRIA
Australian troops have
Battle In Black
Sea
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
the Bulgarian and Rumanian coasts but they BALTIC
are believed to have left a narrow channel at the mouth of the Bosphorus unmined.
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.
Russian sources
SEA BATTLE
A sea battle south of Helsinki was reported in tell of a huge Sea port of Constanza, states a the Swedish newspaper
Rome despatch to Vichy.
air battle all along the front, with the Soviets holding their own.
NOT DEFEAT made another important DEBATED advance in the coastal
Reports from Bucharest state that & Rumanian column from sector
the Syrian Galatz advanced eight kilometres
towards Tarutin, Kishinev.
of
on
The important Danube town
“Allehanda“
yesterday,
in
of Galatz has also been bomb- according to a Stockholm
despatch received One Soviet plane came down New York...
Rumanian territory,
ed.
due south
of
at
Russians in Ankara, however, not assert the Rumaniane aro participating in the fighting, be- ing held in reserve.
on
despatch adds.
These disputes led to the front. flight of Hess, who, because
This is revealed in a communi- 'his previous contact with British circles, believed he could per que issued from GHQ. in Cairo
which
that the last evening,
artillery is already in action
position against the Vichy Damour.
suade. the British to stop war which could only lead to a German defeât...
The German: leaders were par- ticularly anxious to end the war Russia : and, intended to attack
after Britain had been defeated. -Reuter.
BRITISH MISSION TO RUSSIA
IT IS UNDERSTOOD IN LON DON THAT PREPARATIONS FOR THE DESPATCH OF Α BRITISH MISSION TO RUSSIA ARE BEING. PRESSED FOR WARD AS QUICKLY AS POS SIBLE AND IT IS EXPECTED THEY WILL BE COMPLETED
SHORTLY:
says
•
the
is-
Gunfire has been heard off. Stockholm and the Swedish land of Gotland.
German aircraft are reported to have bombed Tallinn,
Not Informative
"The German ... Army's...‚ ‚opera-
Helsinki and other Finnish tions have proceeded very satis- coastal towne have heard dis- factorily, according to plan." This stant: explosions from the direc- across tho ..tion of Estonia is the only reference to the Rus-
Baltic. the slan campaign contained in
The Rumanians claim they On Monday, British troops crossed the River Pruth at Galatz. occupied Quetana, and Gagana, Jassy and Lippani. to the south-west of Damascus,
SAY THEY
"THE MOST and are now advancing towards | NORTHERLY COLUMN IS the Damascus-Beirut. road. HEADED IN THE DIRECTION German High Command com- Free French and Indian troops OF KIEV AND THE OTHER munique issued last evening. successfully attacked and occupied TWO TOWARDS*** ODESSA,
Reuter. high ground to the north of WHICH IS ABOUT 150 MILFS Parze. In the Merdj Ayoum area, FROM THE PRESENT FRON- our troops made further local TIER. gains and fighting is proceeding. -Reuter.
Merdj Ayoum Retaken
No further information is available in London of the Syrian situation and official confirmation has not yet been received of the Vichy communique stating that Merdi Ayoum has been captured by Allled forces.
Free French forces are known to be three miles north of Damas-: Sir Stafford Cripps, who is cus and British troops are in occupied with further consulta-position astride the Damascus- Lions, and discussions in London. Beirut road. hopes to be able to return to The column which, moving east- ward, captured Palmyra, started from Iraq about a week ago. British Wireless,
Moscow in a few days-Reuter-
JAPAN NOT
TO RENEW 1,000 ITALIAN
NEI TALKS
OFFICER PRISONERS
Over a thousand officers were INTERVIEWED IN BATAVIA among 1,800 Italian prisoners of ON THE GERMAN-RUSSIAN war, who arrived
“India in WAR, MR, YOSHIZAWAL WHO two | butches
says HEADED JAPAN'S. E
Reuter from Bom
<TION IN THE UNSUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC TALKS, TOLD THE NEWSPAPER JAVA BODE" YESTERDAY THAT THERE renewal of the negotiations; udded WAS NO LONGER ANY REA- Mr. Yoshizawa, as both part és SON FOR THE DUTCH CON- werd "quito satisfied" with the TENTION THAT NETnno, understanding reached and will DUCTS MIGHT GET TO GER- stick to the polfoy as described SMANY VIA JAPAN,
in the final joint communique.——
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German Boasts
Smoke and explosions are also reported to have been seen along the Estonian coast Reuter."
the
HAVE
AN H.B.
Germans in Ankara boast campaign will be over in six have occupied White Russia, the weeks when, they say, they will Ukraine and the Caucasus.
They say they need Russian Reich, since French prisoners of prisoners as labourers for the
war are useless because they are "tired and unruly."
Did They Lose It?
THE OFFICIAL GERMAN NEWS AGENCY REPORTS THAT THE GERMANS HAVE TAKEN THE INITIATIVE AFTER “DES- PERATE" RESISTANCE BY THE BOVIET ARMY IN SOME SEC- TORS ON THE FIRST TWO „DAYS OF THE, CAMPAIGN,
Moscow Claims
"The enemy's attacks are being successfully repulsed," "Moscow radio announced yesterday, ac- cording to the Columbia Broad- casting System, "
We congratulate the heroic Red Army on its first military successca," the Soviet announcer added.
Constanza Bombed Soviet planes have carried ont two raids on the Rumanian Blacke
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