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CHINA MAIL

FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST ESTABLISHED 1845.

No. 32,184

FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941

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HITLER KEEPS VEIL DOWN

Bombastic Claims But No Detail

UPSET BY GERMAN ANCESTRY

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

A German-born Ameri- can named Vetter tried to commit suicide in the Navy Y.M.C.A. in Shang- hai to escape an obsession that the world was per- secuting him as a Nazi.

the

Vetter was found bleeding profusely from a, slash in wrist and was sent to hospital in an effort to save his life. ON THE WALL OF HIS ROOM: VETTER WROTE WITH HIS OWN BLOOD "I'M NOT A NAZI."

It was reported earlier he had told a friend the whole world was against him, thinking he was a Nazi, and that "even ricksha coolies hate me." News Service.

International

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FLEET

Heavy Fighting

ACTIVITY IN In Minsk Sector

BLACK SEA

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

It was reported in Budapest yesterday that Russian warships have appeared off the Rumanian port of Constanzo, where large concentrations of German and Rymanian troops and ships are reported.

Great fleet activity is going on in the Black Sea, it was add- International

ed. News Service.

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)

HITLER'S HEADQUARTERS HAVE ISSUED ANOTHER BOM- |BASTIC COMMUNIQUE CLAIMING “SUCCESSES OF GREAT DIMEN- SIONS," WITH 38 RUSSIAN TRANSPORT TRAINS WRECKED BY AIR BOMBS, THE RUSSIAN AIR FLEET "CRIPPLED" AND RUSSIAN STAFF HEADQUARTERS BLASTED FROM THE, AIR.

The Germans claim continued swift pene-

tration by panzer divisions towards the Rus- American

sian "bread-basket” in the Ukraine.

Reason given for the complete lack of any specific details is that "the advance has been so swift."

Aid To

The real situation appears to be that the Russia

thrust towards the Ukraine has broken down, at all points and that the one real point of Nazi success has been in the zone south of ************* Vilna, where a Nazi break-through is now

STALIN UNDER

NO ILLUSION

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

AS LONG AGO AS MAY 6, Stalin realised that war with Germany was inevitable despite his desperate efforts at appeasement, Inter- national News is able to reveal.

[SPECIAL TO “CHINA_MAIL"] Mr. Sumner Welles, U.S. Under-Secretary of State, and M. Oumansky,

being stubbornly challenged in the neigh-Soviet Ambassador, last bourhood of Minsk.

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night discussed American In Rome, a Fascist announce-

Russian planes at-aid to Russia. It is considered significant that ment claims

The Ambassador called at the the German claims are all couch-tacked several points in Hungary

the yesterday Red 'planes are also State Department late last night led in general terms, while

Soviet

machine-gunned for the first time since President communiques mention alleged to have

Inernational Roosevelt promised to aid Russia place-names and give much Budapest streets. -- clearer picture

in the war against Germany. of the situation News Service.

Earlier it was authoritatively along the 2,000-mile front.

Indicated, that Amerloan ald for the present will consist chiefly of moral support of Russia in resisting the German military onslaught.

on

on

HUNGARY TAKES PRECAUTIONS

The Savlet communique the

of tanks great battle Napoleon's road to Moscow Indi- 19 cates that German pressure severe, and says that "Fighting | (SPECIAL TO."CHINA MAIL") is continuing." At the moment The Hungarian Defence Minis- the thrust towards Minsk la try yesterday ordered "stringent occupying the main attention of anti-air raid precautions," includ- of a'd to Russia but is the German High Command. ing the complete blacking-out of a position at present to turn over The general tone of the Soviet Budapest. International News any important defence materials.

that the Service. communique suggests.

International News, Service.

Russian High Command is not unduly alarmed by the

threat,

Minsk

MEANWHILE THERE HAS BEEN WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY FORCE DESPITE NAZI " CLAIMS THAT

BY THE SOVIET AIR

THE RED AIR FORCE HAD

Information from an International News correspondent who left the Soviet just before the outbreak of the Russo-German war, reveals that Stalin officially warned that the conflict was coming in an address to grad uates of the Red Army Military Academy.

Rumania has suffered heavily. The normal graduation cere- ment proposed the toast, "The Bucharest being one of the towns monies at the Kremlin were fol- Stalinist, peace policy."

raided. Constanza, chief Ruman- Stalin lowed by a State banquet at

ГОБО determinedly tan Black Sea port, has been re- which a member of the Govern- said "No" and brushed aalde duced to ashes and is still smould-

the toast-maker: with

th a wave ering from the heavy Russian oer-

ial pastings.

Japanese Parleys

SERVICE

of his hand

Stalin then said: "Not to the Stalinist peace policy. To the victory of the glorious Red Army in the great battle against Fas- cist Germany,"-.

The ceremonies were reported In the Russian press but no de- tails of the above incident were allowed to leaks out

BEEN CRIPPLED.

Finnish Frontier Battle

Powerful Russian raids were again staged on Turku and Hel- sinki, and bitter fighting raged for the second day along the Russo- Finnish frontier.

Some factories in the Helsiniti area were destroyed by bombing. Moscow announces that: the Red Air Force has struck af the heart of the Rumanian oll: pro- duction with a heavy raids on Ploesti and Bucharest.

(SPECIAL) TO “CHINA MAIL”) None Surprised

THE JAPANESE CABINET AND HIGH COMMAND ARE Diplomatic circles in Moscow, CONTINUING THEIR JOINT however, obtained accurate in MEETING WHICH IS DISCUSS= formation of what had occurred ING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS and none in official Moscow was CONFRONTING JAPAN unduly surprised when on the

Ploesti Fires INTERNATIONAL NEWS dawn of Sunday the Nazi legions

and Pro launched their Invasion.

Huge fires are raging in Two marelaison conferences Stalin talked for 40 minutes to around Ploesti, which is an indus between the Government and the the military graduates, emphasis trial centre and fountainhead of High Command are to be held in ing the importance of the re- the oil pipeline and nerve centra Tokyo this afternoon, to continue organisation and re-equipment of of the Rumanian railway net- the deliberations concerning the Army which in recent work: A Japan's attitude to the Russo-months has brought the Red German war, it was revealed in Army up to modern standards. Tokyo to-day, says Router, International News Service.

It la not statod in Mandow, whether the oil fields were dam- agod,

The U.S. Government is said, to be seeking all reasonable ways not in

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