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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1941
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GERMAN ADVANCE STEMMED
Panzer
TYPHOON DAMAGE IN MACAO
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Houses collapsed, win- dows were shattered, trees uprooted, several junks overturned and a Por- tuguese sloop grounded at Macao on Monday during a typhoon gale which swept the Colony from Sunday night until yesterday morning.
His Excellency the Governor of Maçao personally toured the Colony vesterday to obtain first hand knowledge of the damage suffered.
Several people have been ad- mitted to hospital suffering from minor injuries but so far no r?- ports of deaths have been made.
On
communica-1 Monday ali tions in the Colony ceased, the streets being strewn with shatter- ed glass, wood, branches of trees and other debris.
Many junks are belleved o have been sunk. — Our Own Cor- respondent.
Cheungchau Escapes
Our Cheungchau correspondent says that as far as can be ascer- tained none of the foreign houses were damaged in the typhoon to any extent, though trees and gar- dens are in a bad way. We have been cut off from the outer world, newspapers, letters and food sup- plies being absent, as the ferry
telephone connection did. not. function. Ice was obtainable, as the supply for fish was not need- ed. We have not heard of any
Formations
POSSIBLE JAPANESE VOLTE FACE
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The London "Daily Sketch" says the the Japanese Anibassa- dor to Berlin has asked the German Foreign
Minister for a defini- tion of the Nazi aims in Russia and the Far East in the event of a Nazi conquest.
The paper says Japan is so nervous over the possibility of a Russian defeat that Tokyo may execute a "complete foreign policy somersault," and perhaps come closer to Washington. -International News Service.
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Halted In
Minsk Sector
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RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF CONTROL OVER THE. SITUATION. IN THE MINSK SECTOR IS CLAIMED IN MOSCOW, WHICH DENIES THE GERMAN CLAIMS OF SWEEPING SUCCESSES ON ALL FRONTS, WHILE CONCEDING THAT THE GERMANS HAVE ACHIEVED`SOME SUCCESS IN THE MURMANSK REGION AND HAVE CAPTURED THE FORTRESS OF LWOW (LEMBERG), THE “GATEWAY TO KIEV.”
German gains in the Minsk sector, to the south of the city are also admitted, but it is stated that the main thrust of the Germon panzer columns has been stemmed.
M. Stalin, who has virtually taken over supreme command of the Red Army, in his first communique, emphasises that the Ger- mans have suffered heavy losses in some in- tense fighting in the Minsk-Bobruisk sectors.
in
of
As the result of the tenacious man claim to the capture of Ruga,
fighting is still defence of the Red Army, how- stating that ever, the German tank formations progress in the city, and along the
Dvina River, at the mouth have been halted.
"Occasional break-throughs have which Riga stands.
countered by the been swiftly hurling in of Russian mobile units which have broken up every at--
any temporary tempt to exploit advantage.
Moscow also denies
Parachute Troops
in It was claimed Radio announcement
a Moscow last night the Ger- that German parachute troops
have been
Baltic active in the States and in the Riga area. Ger-
SOVIET SOLDIER PUTTING UP
A GRAND SHOW
"THE SOVIET SOLDIER HAS OFTEN- did not make the trip. Even our SHOWN A GREATER CONTEMPT FOR DEATH THAN HIS ADVERSARY DURING THE PRESENT FIGHTING,'' SAYS THE BERLIN CORRESPONDENT OF THE ZURICH NEWS- PAPER, “NATIONAL ZEITUNG,”- QUOTING GERMAN PRESS REPORTS.
loss among the fishing fleet.
Navy Inquiry The correspondent adds: "His tenacity,
Demanded
combined with a certain fatalism, enables him to hold out until he is blown up together SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL". with his pillbox.
"Thus fighting, as all the Ger- A motion, calling the Senate
"The Russians have shown man reports underline, is every- Naval Affairs Committee to investigate the rumours that cleverness, as in the last war, in where desperate and stubborn,
The Russian Air Force attacks the United States navy fought laying out fortifications, trenches and sank a German naval craft, and underground communications, with the greatest pluck, but ac- often adopt curate bombing, it is reported, is was
Introduced in the House of The Russians
ambush tactics formerly used rare owing to faulty aiming and Senate by the Isolationist, Senu-
In the civil war, consistont in technique.Reuter. tor Wheeler-International News
allowing the first waves of any Service.
enemy attack to pass through and then exposing it to cross fire between the first and second. lince:
SHANGHAI FIRE
** DISASTER
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JAPANESE POLICY TO BE DEFINED? Losses totalling a million | riso LASTEA Shanghai dollars are feared as the (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAILME result of a fire in the Inter- In London it is stated, hat national Savings Society godown Tokyo dispatches Indicate tha which gutted the building desplie how Japanese policy towa a-three-hour battle, by the cfly's Russo-German war
to-morrow. pre brigade International News nounced Service,
Tiational News Service,
a
Gen. Dentz" Home Bombed
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} Extremely heavy British raids
on Beirut, during which five were reported killed and the home of General Henri Dentz, French High Commissioner | way destroyed, are reported from VichyInternational News Ser
vice
BREAKS OFF RELATIONS
The Foreign Office
has in Chungking cabled Mr. Chen Chieh, Chinese Am- bassador to Berlin, and Mr. Hsu Tao lin, Chinese Charge d'Affaires in Rome, instructing the Chin- ese diplomatic repre- sentatives in Germany and Italy, to return to China..
The Foreign Minister, man parachutists who landed in Mr. Quo Tai-chi, will the Baltic port of Paldiski were
annihilated, after children spotters issue a statement to-day had made a report of the invaders. announcing ____ the sever-
The parachutists were trying to
set fire to factories and the radio ance of relations with station, and the reports add that Germany and Italy, and Amazon battalions of women
fighters in Estonia and Latvia have the withdrawal of diplo- been formed to combat them.matic and consular repre- commanded by middle-aged Com-
Reuter. sentatives. munists.
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